Keiichi

They are using the ASUS P8Z77-V LX motherboard. Which I believe is the more budget board, that was more mass produced and (last time I looked) was the only consistent ASUS board you could find on the internet anymore for building a 3rd gen i7 system. Its overclocking capabilities and overall features are not as great, compared to what gamer systems were actually being built during this time (2012).

I remember both Steven from GamersNexus and Jay from JayzTwoCents were wanting to get a hold of 3rd gen system like this and make a similar video, and as well have it in the overall data charts for comparing.
 
Maybe if they were able to build/acquire a better example build of a 3770K system, this video would of made more sense to everyone on what they are trying to convey.
I feel like I know exactly what they are getting at, as I actually have the "gamer system" from 2012 and how its still rock solid overall to this day. The only real upgrades I've needed to do have been storage and GPU.

My specs:
ASUS P8Z77-V Pro MB
3770K overclocked to 4.5GHz
2x8GB G.Skill 2400MHz DDR3 RAM CL 10-12-12-31
ASUS ROG Strix RX480
 
I originally built the system in October 2012, but had an AMD HD7870 GHz edition GPU that I stayed on until AMD launched their Polaris cards. I upgrade my GPU and also did the NVMe BIOS mod to add support and use an NVMe SSD. My system is still doing fine and if I were to upgrade the GPU again, it would still be going strong with it being the carry with off loading a lot of things these days from the CPU to GPU.
I also bought the ASUS MG279Q 1440p monitor when it came out and this further put more onto GPU over the CPU. I've even streamed some games (although with some caveats). I can play any new game that comes out, generally with medium-ish graphic settings and I've yet to run into CPU bound issues. I do see it getting up there from time to time though and CPU spikes happen.
I'm pretty happy with how well my system has lasted and handled itself over the years.
 
If Anthony had the Pro or Deluxe version of the ASUS Motherboard, then the video might be different on how they went about it. The Pro board comes with 4 USB 3.0 on the back and 2 USB 2.0, it also came with an expansion card that gives you 2x USB 2.0 slots+eSata, as well as front OI support to plug in 4x more USB 3.0 and 8x USB 2.0.
It also came with WiFi on the Pro board and WiFi+Bluetooth on the Deluxe.
 
Linus had actually done an unboxing of the Pro board too lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KahcVIGl3tc
 
There is still many little things that do add up and some annoying odds and ends that I could avoid if I were on a newer system. I'd love a new one of-course, but I can still keep going if I upgrade my GPU.
 
Interesting tidbit with my 3770K CPU when I was overclocking some years ago. I could get it to post 5.0GHz but it wouldn't boot windows, I could get Windows to boot 4.8GHz but wasn't stable. I could do 4.7GHz but didn't like how hot it would get even for my Corsair AIO H100.
so I settled on 4.5GHz for 24/7 use and I feel like I might of won on the silicon lottery for it as I could do 4.5GHz with a lower voltage that was a lot cooler. 1.25V

I spent the last week and some change looking up how DirectX 12 and Vulkan work and how NVIDIA and AMD are handling it. Most of it was that I felt there was a lot of misconception going on with people thinking how the APIs are supposed to work. So here’s what I found out:
What does “low-level” API even mean?
What is this “asynchronous compute” I keep hearing about?
I heard NVIDIA doesn’t have “hardware scheduler”, what’s that about?
I heard NVIDIA’s can’t do asynchronous compute
Maybe it's just a semantics game
Let’s go back to DirectX 12 and Vulkan and talk about some caveats
Two more points I want to dump
Also you're free to chime in, but I felt like digging into this topic was like walking into a toxic waste land on the hope that there was some gold stashed away in there, and I'm still expecting this.

Picture showing the internal of the GPU's cooling.
This is from WCCFTechs article http://wccftech.com/amd-radeon-pro-duo-announced-worlds-fastest-graphics-card-16-teraflops-compute/

I wouldn't stress over it, the 970 is great, I recommended it to my friend who loves Nvidia and wanted they best he could get for the $400ish CAD price point.ASUS is making a Gsync version of this monitor. I'm guessing it might have a July release date.
And the money you would lose selling 2x of them used to switch almost makes up for the cost of Gsync.
Since you've already invested into 2 of them seems like your better off not selling them, it would be less of a hassle. I'd just wait for the Gsync one and pay they small difference.
Remember too that this ASUS monitors Freesync capabilities stop at 90Hz. Gsync can do to the full 144Hz.
This however is all based on if ASUS sells the Gsync one for the same price + $200 for the module. Maybe they do $250 more not sure.
Maybe wait (as hard as it is to lol) to find out more about it from ASUS.

Sure thing. Can't wait for it to arrive!
 
Atm I have an older Radeon HD7870 GHz Edition, I've been waiting for AMD to stop delaying their new cards and release the R9 300 series already.
I'm very interested in their Fury X water cooled one, specially about it potentially beating Nvidia's new Titan and being cheaper at the same time.
 
Edit: I see Newegg on their Canadian site has already changed their price, I don't know if it was a mistake to begin with or not, but it is now listed for $749.99 CAD to better reflect the exchange rate, I got my order in and shipped while it was at $679.99 CAD ($556 USD at current exchange rate) Woot! LOL.

Oh I've been beyond tempted lol. As soon as I found out it was officially up for sale (after having the whole mess of recalling for firmware updating). I went searching around for the best price on many sites.I have one on its way hopefully I get it in the mail by Friday but might be Monday.
Newegg is really competitive with its pricing right now as they are eating part of the exchange rate for Canadians and we are getting it for cheaper then the $599 USD price for Americans.
I'm excited for this as I've wanted a 120/144Hz monitor for sometime but also wanted an IPS panel and a resolution bump to 1440p.