Talk about a long time coming, not only has it been almost three years from our last Lunchbox build, but I’ve been planning and working on this build for a good portion of the year. If you follow our coverage, you will see breadcrumbs of comments all the way back to January of me mentioning potentially using components in Lunchbox 4. The problem is how exactly do you follow up our last build, it fit the bill perfectly, was easy to take to events, and had more than enough power for everything we tossed at it. I mean I could do the same thing again but with a few upgraded components but we have always tried to go smaller and faster with every Lunchbox build and frankly going much smaller has a few major limitations. So today I’m going to sit down and run through our new build. A lot of the components have been covered in their own reviews but today I’m going to go over why I picked each part. Then tomorrow I will dive into a few of the customizations I did to the build, benchmark everything, and then talk about how the build turned out.
Project Name: Lunchbox 4
Review Samples Provided by: Raijintek, Noctua, Silverstone, Gigabyte, Crucial, Intel, Corsair, NZXT, and Zotac
Written by: Wes
Pictures by: Wes
Components Used | Live Pricing | |
Case | Raijintek Metis | Live Pricing |
Motherboard | Gigabyte Z170N-Gaming 5 | Live Pricing |
CPU | Intel i7-6700K | Live Pricing |
Video Card | Zotac GTX 1060 AMP! Edition | Live Pricing |
RAM | Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB (2x16B) | Live Pricing |
Heatsink | Noctua NH-L9x65 | Live Pricing |
Case Fan | NF-F12 industrialPPC-3000 PWM | Live Pricing |
Power Supply | Silverstone SFX Series 600W SST-SX600-G | Live Pricing |
Lighting | NZXT Hue+ | Live Pricing |
Storage |
Crucial MX200 1TB SSD Crucial MX200 M.2 500GB SSD |
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Handle | MNPCTech Black Billet Grooved Handle | Live Pricing |