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One thing you'll see in each of my videos is a beer on the table or in my hand.  In this case, I'm drinking a 2016 Armée Secrète (Belgian Secret Army) from Begian Underground (Silverton, OR).  It is a Belgian-Style Golden Strong Ale, and at 9.7%, it is indeed strong.

Now, on to the video description.  I needed a new workstation in my studio for video editing and VR gaming.  I had a GTX 1070 already, and didn't want to throw down the cash on a new Ryzen system, especially with DDR4 memory being so expensive right now.

The complete parts list and prices are below:

Chinese mATX x79 Motherboard v3.5A - $117 - eBay
Intel Xeon E5-2667 6-Core 2.9GHz (3.5GHz Turbo) - $55
nVidia GTX 1070 Founder's Edition - $275 - Purchased used.  Find GTX 1070s on Amazon - http://amzn.to/2z9R1p4
4x8GB Samsung DDR3 ECC @1,333MHz - $75 - eBay
OWC 60GB 6G SSD - $25 - Purchased used
1TB Western Digital Black - $40 - Purchased used
ThermalTake Smart 500W 80+ - $35 - http://amzn.to/2z9ul8G
CoolerMaster Hyper 212 Evo - $25 - http://amzn.to/2iQK0nb
Swiftech 8-Fan PWM Splitter - $13 - http://amzn.to/2z40Anq
4x AsiaHorse 120MM LED PWM Fans - $39 - http://amzn.to/2xMPtOt
CoolerMaster MasterBox Lite 3.1 - $40 - http://amzn.to/2zoTopa

Total build cost of $739.

Stay tuned to the channel, as I'll be posting full benchmarks from this build, as well as some individual component reviews, with the MasterBox Lite 3.1 at the top of my list.

I originally planned on using a Scythe BIG Shuriken 2, purchased new from Amazon, but it was missing the screws to attach the mounting brackets to the cooler.  I've contacted Scythe, and they are sending out a replacement set of screws, so you'll be seeing that cooler in this system before too long (possibly with a review).

In early benchmarks, the components are performing exactly as they should.  As this video mainly focused on the "could you" instead of "should you", I'm leaving the jury out until further benchmarking and long term use are factored in.  But the early results are quite good.

Upon getting into Windows, I began running checks on the hardware.  The RAM is indeed running at 1,333MHz at 9-9-9-24 timings, but only in Dual-Channel mode.  I'm unsure if that is due to the memory I purchased (unlikely) or something to do with the board not supporting Quad Channel (much more likely).  HWiNFO was unable to determine if ECC was enabled or not.  I'll be doing more research on this while running benchmarks.

The PCIe slots are v3.0, not v2.0 as I had feared.  HWiNFO reported the GTX 1070 at full 16x v3.0 connection.

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