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Build a Gaming PC for $1500 - October 2012

2012-10-06
hey guys this is Austin and today I'm here with a gaming bill for $1,500 now for this kind of money you're going to be getting some serious performance now like you played pretty much any game you throw at it at 1080p or even 1440p you're also going to be able to get some very high frame rates probably at least 60 on most games and you can also turn pretty much any kind of graphic setting you want all the way up if you're interested more I have built all blade from $400 for 3000 and you guys can check them out right here and on top of that if you've never built a computer before I've done a full series showing you exactly step-by-step how to do it so even if this is your first computer build shouldn't be any problem to get your build off win be using an Intel Core i5 35 70 K processor now a lot of people think that if you're doing a gaming build you have to have a core i7 however that's not the case at all in fact the core i7 really isn't going to give you any better performance in games sure you may get a couple frames here and there but considering it's about $100 more you can get a lot more performance if you put that money in other places the Core i5 is a quad core chip clocked at 3 point 4 gigahertz however since it's a K series part that means overclocking is gonna be super easy so 42 Hertz is something that absolutely anyone can get and with this build you're probably gonna be looking something more like 4.5 converts once you get fully overclocked for about $220 this is an excellent start for our build for CPU cooler we're going to be using a corsair hae liquid cooler now water cooling in computers that a lot of times really expensive and really complicated so you're going to have to get a reservoir you're gonna have to get a pump we're going to get tubing you have to forget all the fittings you have to figure out where everything goes and there's kind of a bit of a mess however this is gonna be a lot simpler as it's a fully contained unit so basically all you need to do is put it on your CPU and go ahead and mount it in the back of your case it's gonna be no problem and on top of that of course since it is a water cooling you're gonna get some really really nice performance out of your CPU for about $80 this is going to be a great way to go for a graphics card we're going to be using an EVGA GTX 680 superclocked now in my opinion the GTX 680 is the best single GPU card that you can buy now you could go with an AMD Radeon 7970 gigahertz Edition which will give you similar levels of performance however the 680 is going to run cooler it's going to run quieter it's gonna take up less power while doing it as the heart of our billet you're going to find two gigabytes of gddr5 memory which going to be plenty for any game out there right now and on top of that it is the super clocked Edition which means that it's overclocked right out of the box so the core clock is going to be around 1,100 megahertz and even the memory is going to be slightly overclocked but of course if you want to push it farther have a dual fan design what you kind of get rid of all that heat and dissipate a little bit better so for about four hundred eighty dollars is gonna be a perfect solution for our build for a motherboard we're going to be using a gigabyte gaz 77 xu d3h now phantasm aside this is a really solid motherboard so typically I like to use gigabyte boards in my builds in fact I've got one in the build right behind me here and there's a good reason it's a really nice-looking board with a black PCB and blue accents which personally I think look awesome but of course it does have all the other features that you would expect including SATA 3 USB 3 up to 32 gigabytes of RAM and one other thing is it does support SLI so if you want you can add another gtx 680 to this build whether you want to do it immediately or you want to do it six months from now and it will work in this motherboard and it will give you insane performance if you want to like game on maybe three monitors or something like that it will work just fine about $155 is gonna be really really awesome from memory we're going to be using a gigabytes of course interventions ram now this stuff i've used in quite a few different builds before and that's because it's really solid so it is ddr3 ram clocked at 1600 megahertz now I can feel it that's the sweet spot for Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge you can't get faster clocks Ram but generally gonna be paying a lot more for really a very very minor performance increase overall though $40.00 is gonna be enough RAM to handle pretty much anything you throw at it when SSD will end up using a 128 gigabyte Samsung 830 series drive now in my opinion an SSD is the number one way to increase performance in your computer now on top of that since SSDs have gotten a lot cheaper lately there's really no reason not to include one now the 830 is a bit of an older drive however don't let that put you off at all in all ways it's still just as fast it's pretty much the best SSDs out there right now it's also going to be quite a bit cheaper and most importantly it's going to be very very reliable I use one myself and had zero problems with it for about ninety dollars this is gonna be a great way to go for a hard drive one be using a two terabyte Western Digital caviar black now as much as I love SSDs to get something like 1 or 2 terabytes in an SSD is gonna be ridiculously expensive so the best way to do is to pair with a normal mechanical hard drive and that's what we've done here so the caviar black is definitely the number 1 way to go as far as hard drives go for gaming computers it's going to be quite a bit faster than a normal hard drive nothing on SS Steve it's still a pretty good improvement and with 2 terabytes you're going to be able to have all the kind of music movies games all the kind stuff that you want to put on there it's gonna be no problem about sixty dollars is going to be perfect for our build for power supply we're going to be using a Corsair TX 750 watt this is the same power supply they using my own build I have absolutely no complaints about it so for starters you're going to get 750 watts of capacity which is actually overkill for the system however you want to do some future upgrades you're not gonna have any problem with that now what is a modular supply which is definitely a good thing what it allows you to do is only plug in these certain cables that you need so otherwise you would have a cold mess of cables inside your case that you got to kind of tuck everywhere with a modular supply just plug in what you're gonna need you're gonna be good to go buy one hundred five dollars it's gonna work perfectly for a case we're going to be using a fractal design refine our for now recently used the little brother to this case the core 1000 in my $400 bill I gotta say I was really impressed so I decided to go with the bigger brother for this one this is a quiet cool case which gets a big thumbs-up for me we're going to find some noise dampening material built into the case it's also really designed to kind of get rid of all the little vibrations and whatnot which can well be vibrating and annoying and all that kind of stuff but you do have plenty room for all kinds of larger graphics cards tons of hard drives and just pretty much anything that you could throw in this system for about 110 dollars this is well worth it for an optical drive we wouldn't be using the sony DVD burner now this is very optional in fact a lot of people don't even bother to put DVD or blu-ray or any kind of drives in their systems these days I don't blame you at all however it is gonna be really cheap and the big thing is that for example when you're installing windows or maybe you have a DVD or some kind of game that you want to install it can't come in handy considering it's only about 20 dollars it's generally worth it for most people however again if you want to upgrade this to a blu-ray or just get rid of it altogether absolutely feel free last but not least we have a copy of Windows 7 home premium now this is very very optional in fact I did not even include it in this build main reason is is that there are quite a few other ways of getting Windows right now for starters you may already have a version of it in which case of course it's free or you may want to hold out to Windows 8 which comes out about a month or so if you want to recording this video regardless though if you do want to go with Windows 7 it'll add about $100 to the system cost so there you guys have it a fifteen hundred dollar bill which will handle pretty much anything you throw at it of course prices are constantly fluctuating so I'll have links to all the current prices in the description of this video since this is a custom gaming PC feel free to customize it however you like so I'll have some links in the description for some options so for example if you want to go with AMD on the graphics side you want to get more you go with a core i7 or anything else I'll add some other additional options that will work just fine if you guys want to see any of my other builds feel free to check them out right here and if you want to see the full tutorial on how to put together a computer it will be right here anyway guys if you enjoyed this video definitely be sure to leave it a thumbs up and if you're interested more videos like this be sure to subscribe
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