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how's it going guys welcome back to the channel hope you're all doing fantastic today we are doing something a little quick and dirty but it should be kind of fun essentially my cousin the good cousin of mine I'm actually my wife's first cousin so technically my cousin in law is in need of a new gaming PC so he approached me recently and asked if I could help him out and I said sure of course so I was just going to do this on the side without filming anything for the channel and I decided now you know it'd be kind of cool if I parted out the list in front of you guys brought you along for the ride so that maybe you can provide some feedback of your own and we can sort of together assemble the perfect rig for his needs so this is part one of the little mini series so we're just going to be parting out a parts list essentially for him today and then we're going to do a follow-up video hopefully with all the parts and then we're going to assemble it for him right here on the channel so on that note Brandon's kind of looking for a sort of a mid-range to high-end sort of on the high-end scope of a gaming PC he's looking to play like things like rocket League csgo and a couple indie games like Binding of Isaac and while these are not very taxing games at all I kind of want to prepare him for several years down the line I don't want to just give him the bare minimum so and especially given his budget which is around a thousand to three hundred thousand of thirteen hundred dollars with the potential to go even beyond that up to fifteen hundred I believe he said if it's if the value is going to pay off I think we can do a lot more than just run those few games and he is sort of interested in showing some interest in potentially playing you know other games in the future obviously if he does want to jump in to the foray of Triple A games that are out there right now then I want him to be equipped for that so I'm not going to skim too much I'm really going to try to maximize his budget also he doesn't really have a monitor right now I think he said that he's going to wait to see what kind of specs that the computer has and then he'll sort of base his resolution off of what the system can handle which i think makes a lot of sense he's not too familiar with overclocking and he was kind of a little skeptical at first saying like well does it you know shorten the lifespan of your of your components and while it can with really aggressive overclocks you know if you're sustaining the same high voltage 24/7 that way then yeah it can be harmful but I'm planning to overclock his system myself with more like moderate overclock I don't want to go too aggressive on it so I think we're going to squeeze a little bit extra performance out of his system without really any of the negative drawbacks with overclocking so that should be good now the other thing that he mentioned in terms of just the overall style that he'd like his system to be he did say that he would prefer a white cakes or he really likes the aesthetic of white chassis so I'm going to bear that in mind for as we go about picking out the parts and as far as LEDs he says they're more or less optional we'll see what we can do and if we have any extra expense or any extra wiggle room once we've picked out all the more important parts so on that notes we can just go ahead and dive into the the desktop here we're going to be using two websites here Newegg for all of the browsing we're going to be window shopping with Newegg because they have a really powerful search feature and we're going to be plugging that into PC part picker to see what kind of deals we can score on said components so starting with the case heard let's just type in white case here the search on Newegg see what comes up here now for $1,300 13 to $1,500 you really can get a really nice case for that sort of money but the cases these days have also become increasingly more competitive and you can get a really good case these days for around 100 bucks sometimes even less so I'm going to bear that in mind I want to go to all-out on the chassis here but I was I was I am this actually had this in the back of my mind the s340 elite which is a in matte whites got a really nice tempered glass side panel I did my RGB build in December in that chassis so that's that's a consideration the Eclipse P 400 from fan text is also a fantastic case it's what I used for a system config about a year ago or so and then we've also got the H 440 a tried-and-true classic of course and inland 303 oh yeah that's a pretty nice case I don't know I feel I feel a little bit conflicted with the the 303 not so hot on the feet the feet look kind of silly to me look that my wife said that they look like duck feet and now I can't unsee it so and then there's just a bunch of other some other cases that are a little bit older but I'm going to say tentatively right now let's go for the s3 40 elites in that and of course I'm going to be sending this parts list to brandy after it's all done and he's going to look it over and either give his approval we might tweak it so by no means is this like set in stone here this is all subject to change so we're going to go ahead and plug that in choose a case there it is so you can get it on for 90 bucks at the super biz that's cool all right let's move on to our CPU now this is kind of could be a little bit interesting because of course now we have a bunch more options now with Verizon now available so but because he's not doing any sort of like live streaming or video editing the most he said in terms of like workstation stuff is maybe some photoshop some like photoshop which is really nothing a you know a four core intel kb lake chip cannot handle so I think if just for pure gaming performance and getting the most bang for our buck here just in terms of frames I'm going to go for the 7600 K let's see how much it is on new egg here 240 bucks see if we can get that down even lower the 7600 K obviously is overclockable so we can squeeze additional performance out of it it does outperform the the current stack of like Verizon 5 CPUs you can take it quite far if you have a nice cooler on it which I plan to put in this build as well so 7600 K we've got one right here for 230 bucks this also superb is no that's Amazon beautiful okay now let's take a look at motherboards of course we're going to want a z2 70 board so that we can overclock our chip maybe I should just do I love how I said new eggs great for its power search feature and I'm not using it at all you're just typing in randomly you know I want to I want to hook them up with an Asus board because I personally like the UEFI with Asus the most I find it the most reliable and it's like the least finicky so just in case he's got to troubleshoot something and I'm not there to help them obviously it won't be won't be too bad we let's see we've got here let's street sort this by lowest price if you don't need anything crazy he's not going to have a whole lot of he's not going to need too much connectivity this prime ok 160 bucks for the ACS prime Z 217 which is a white board which would match with the case this is nice our ROG Strix to the Z - 7 th I look at that PCB holy moly looks pretty wicked this is this is good I'm going to say 170 bucks that's reasonable for for a gaming rig of this particular price point so I'm going to go ahead and see what we can get so you can shave that down z - 7 th here it is for 155 I'll take it let's do a CPU cooler now let's see okay obviously I want to look nice and it should sort of match with the overall theme I think that's motherboard sort of provides a base of that and let's just look at CPU coolers you know I built with a be quiet dark rock 3 recently and I still love that cooler till this day 75 bucks 65 bucks yes I'm doing it ok this is a supports LGA 1151 it's all black it looks fantastic it's super quiet and it performs well so this is kind of a no-brainer for me next step let's do some RAM let's do the Rams RAM ddr4 oh no I said RAM let's do mammary memory ddr4 will do 16 gigs it's sort of the sweet spot for most gamers these days most games don't maximize that now I can also overclock his memory for him as well so we don't necessarily need a super-fast kit this is only 120 for $225 and it is 3200 I'm going to go with the riptides 5 here that looks pretty good for 125 bucks g.skill really does have some good deals on memory right now especially with the the price hike in ddr4 it's kind of insane but let's see if we can find it even cheaper here force ddr4 of C g.skill ripjaws v 3200 that turns up nothing because I forgot the period in G scale yes it is alright it is period sensitive let's see 3200 this is a 2 by 16 gig kit of ddr4 for 120 dollars yes so ok we're looking good we're in good shape right now so let's do storage really quick or now let's do the graphics card first so for a rig of his budget I would say GTX seven D like a good 1070 you could go a 1080 that would be almost that would be more than a third of the cost of the rig and I feel like we'd probably have to cut a few corners to make that happen and especially with the games that he's playing right now or that he plans to play he doesn't really need a gtx 1080 as good a value as it is I think the GTX and somebody still provides the overall better frames per dollar or value so let's see GTX 10 70s what do we got here I kind of already have my eye on asus strix depending on the price 420 so it's about in line with like the EVGA ACX 3.0 card there are cheaper GTX 10 70s no doubt like there's the zotac gtx 770 mini for 360 bucks that is quite a bit cheaper 40 50 $60 off but it doesn't look as cool it doesn't look nearly as badass as the Strix so this is and it also performs excellently just really really well received cooler all around from multiple tech review sites okay so no price discount on the PC part picker for a hundred four hundred and twenty dollars here let's see what's the difference here Oh one's the OSI model okay well the OSI model looks like it's about the same price so I'm just gonna add that let's look at power supplies I think if 650 watt sounds great not too much not too little offers some additional Headroom for overclocking there is this one supernova g2 for 90 bucks let's just get him a Lodge assist let's turn this $40.00 Lodge assists and then his whole computer will just melt see Sonic oh that's $150 I really do like see sonic power supplies this one the SSR 650 RM is $80 which is $10 cheaper than the EVGA supernova 650 see Sonic's a great brand they make some really good power supplies and it's Johnny guru comm recommended nine point eight out of ten okay let's let's see what we can do here see sonic here we go for $77 okay yeah and I think that just leaves storage so start off with an SSD he's going to need one of those to boot off of maybe store some applications he doesn't need nvme honestly that's a little overkill for what he would use it for Samsung 850 Evo I mean it's it works it's fast and it's a pretty decent dollar per gig there is the crucial MX 300 525 good capacity is kind of interesting or 275 huh 275 gigs compared to 250 gigs on the 850 Evo the agency Evo is a little bit faster but I don't know you get an additional 25 gigs whatever on this Drive and it's $10 cheaper I'm gonna pick this one just just for now if you guys think let me know in the comments with you but your opinions are on the matter or if you have a third a third candidate in mind okay that's good and then we'll just do for storage let's do for a hard drive one terabyte WD black I doubt he'll be needing more than that he can always add more storage in the future if he needs done okay oh you know what that see sonic power supply let's go back to that it has ugly cables here they are Oh God oh they're hideous oh no we can't do that that is a no-go oh boy the whoo-hoo so here's what we could do we could spend a little bit more on a power supply of the same wattage like the supernova 650 g2 that has black cables okay or we could just buy an extension kit just like a pure simple black extension kit to hide to mask all the sea Sonic cables those ketchup and mustard bastards so it's $30 for the spandex kit that's around what I was expecting it to be then again these do look a bit nicer even than the EVGA stock cables right because they're kind of fabric II and nice and sleepy let's let's just just let's just do these at accessories at a custom part perfect and updates with the price okay I think the part list is complete are we missing anything did we get check all the boxes OLEDs LEDs I mean man how much how much does a NZXT hue plus go for these days $60 yeah that's a little bit much for some LEDs at least four for Brandon to need because that wasn't really on his is like must-have list so maybe we'll just go with something like let's just factor in fifteen to twenty dollars maybe fifteen dollars for an LED strip it should we get to that point and granted there are already LEDs on the video card and I believe on the motherboard so there is going to be a bit of bling shining through that tempered glass panel on the s340 elite so let's see what our total cost comes out to with all these parts added drumroll please thirteen hundred and forty nine dollars that is right within our price range obviously it's a bit on the high end of what what what Brandon's budget is but for now I think this is a pretty solid list but you guys let me know what you think of the parts list so far if you think it's awful if you think some of it works but could be improved why is this g.skill kit red what the hell that all right so the RAM kits been updated to black we spelled the same price at the end of the day and we what the hell why is there why is it freaking SSD I'm done - ah good lord I should not be allowed to part out people systems let's take a look at this really really quick MX 300 M - it's not as $100 $100 here but the two and a half inch drive was what also $100 okay I don't know it might look kind of ugly it's not it's not the prettiest m to drive it's a little nasty little nasty is there let's take a look the motherboard really quick to see if there's a got to cover on it no there's not all right so I'm thinking just based on cosmetics alone I'm going to opt for the two-and-a-half inch model of the MX 300 because it won't look like crap so there's our new total price at thirteen hundred and fifty four dollars and sixty-five cents again this is using PC part picker great websites everyone should go check it out if you haven't heard of it but that is going to conclude this parts list for Brandon's new gaming PC altogether I think he's going to be thrilled with it there might be one or two things that he might change it's completely up to him but overall I think it's a pretty solid build that we have here yeah that's pretty much going to wrap it up for this part 1 video part 2 is going to be me getting all the parts in building the damn thing and potentially you know doing some testing on it if you guys are interested in that but that's going to do it for this video guys so thank you so much for tuning in I told is going to be quick and dirty I told you so hopefully you guys don't mind too much if you enjoyed the video be sure to toss me a like before you go and be sure to get subscribed to the channel for more tech stuff coming at you really soon have it going guys I'll see you in the next