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welcome back to hardware unboxed today we're building the best value 1440p gaming PC you can get right now in separate videos we've looked into what CPUs are the best value today and what GPUs are the best value right now so basically for today's video we're going to take our recommendations from those past analysis videos slepping the rest of the components for a budget oriented PC and then take a look at everything is shaping up and what sort of cost you're looking at for a 1440p gaming rig in 2018 so let's start with the CPU pretty obvious choice here you can't go past the Rison v 2600 which is currently retailing for a hundred and fifty dollars through Amazon absolute steal at this price particularly for 1440p gaming which won't run into any cpu bottlenecks but it's also a highly capable productivity tip at this price when you're not gaming basically it's just ridiculous value at 150 dollars actually don't have a 2600 on hand right now so we're being a bit sneaky we're going to use a 2600 X instead but if you're playing to emulate this build just grab the 2600 it's better value at at the moment for the motherboard there are so many options on the market for a m4 systems but the obvious choice for the horizon 520 600 was to go with something be for 50 you can still overclock on P 450 and they're basically the best suited boards for risin 5 you really don't need to go with X 470 unless you're after risin 7 or any of its additional features but for our budget build be 450 is what we want anyway backing out be 450 motherboard review roundup we found that the MSI be 450 motherboards are the best from a vrm perspective so the vrm design and cooling solution allows us to get the most out of our CPU and overclocking so MSI it was the natural choice in this build and we've gone with the B 450 M mortar which is basically the m ATX equivalent of the be 450 tomahawk we found to have the best variant performance of all the boards we tested the be 450 M mortar is available for around 95 dollars so it's a mid TB 450 board and provides some features MSI's dirt-cheap p 450 boards don't provide like USB C and 6 channel analog audio if you're really on a budget you could probably go as low as the $80 B 450 a but I love what the mortar provides at $95 plus with this sort of vrm solution there's room to upgrade to rising seven down the line and even dabble in some risin seven overclocking without needing to go X 474 the GPU again the best value option at the moment for 1440p gaming is the nvidia geforce gtx 1070 TI several other GPUs are also decent value like in Vega 56 the gtx 1070 and gtx 1080 but right now the gtx 1070 TI is the sweet spot we're using here the basic gigabyte gtx 1070 TI this one is currently selling for $319 in fact this exact model here making it the cheapest 1070 TI on the market and therefore the best values hard to go past this exact card here from gigabyte in terms of memory in the past we've discovered the sweet spot for 1440p gaming is 16 gigabytes and it also tends to be the best value currently a 2 by 4 gigabyte kit of Corsair Vengeance lpx ddr4 3000 will set you back 92 dollars while a 2 by 8 gigabyte kid is one hundred and fifty dollars three thousand speeds also really good sweet spot value wise for rise and systems 3200 is about 10 dollars more for small gains but the much slower 2666 is $10 less so we've opted for a 16 gigabyte kit of some course a good stuff at $150 we actually have a box for an 8 gigabyte kit here we threw out of the box with a 16 gigabyte kit will actually be using you could probably get away with 8 gigabytes in some situations saving yourself $60 but again 16 gigabytes is the sweet spot for just the ability to play a wide variety of games without any performance issues as for the CPU cooler for budget builders we honestly just recommend using the Wraith stealth box school that comes with the horizon 520 600 MB didn't provide a box cool with that a tray review sample so I got this cheap cryo rig m9 a which costs all of $20 and it's probably a bit more effective than this stuff although large we should be equivalent if you want to overclock consider spending maybe $35 on something like the cryo rig h7 or Arctic freezer 33 but we'll see how the m9a handles and overclock later if you're interested for storage every budget system needs at least an SSD we're using here the corsair 4 le 200 in a 240 capacity but really any $50 or so base excited SST like this will be fine for a budget builds boot drive then of course you can add in hard drives our other storage later for the case we have here in this big box ii the corsair carbide spec oh six see that a bit better there spec oh six this base cost $80 tempered glass side panel lighting on the front comes with two 120 millimeter fans and supports up to a three sixty millimeter radiator if you want to go liquid cooling in the future basically we ask for a budget case from corset this is what they provided but of course there are plenty of great budget cases in the fifty to eighty dollar range so you can always choose something that better fits what you want visually if you're not pleased with the spec oh six and finally we have a power supply really you cannot go past this this is the corsair CX 550 m this thing can be found for as low as 55 dollars it's 80 plus bronze certified and semi modular making it basically the perfect psu for budget builders so everything you see here these are the components that are going into this build grand total comes to 970 us or just a touch over 1600 ozzie dollars and yes that conversion is pretty painful right now for us all these still a 1440p gaming rig for under one thousand US dollars without cutting significant corners is pretty darn good of course we could have gone absolutely dirt cheap and chucked in the Rison 320 200 G on a 320 board with eight gigabytes of RAM and saved around 150 dollars but what we've put into this build is going to deliver the best bang for your buck and is hitting all the sweet spots for 1440p gaming without being bottlenecked by RAM or CPU and thanks to Amy's aim for platform and MSI solid beef for 50 offerings this sort of bill is setting you up with a great platform for future upgrades things like you know rise in 7 CP of course GPU upgrades while still delivering great performance today and I've talked about the components and pricing let's get into the build okay so everything is now done you've seen the build it looks great it's working really well probably gonna use this as a barrel system for our monitor reviews or something along those lines but really if you're looking to build a 1440p system we have around a thousand US dollars to spend what I've built here is going to give you excellent bang for your buck if you're interested in what sort of overclocking performance I was able to achieve with this fairly basic air-cool I'm just about to go do that once I wrap up filming so I'll put the results on the screen now when I'm editing hopefully you there around the screen here somewhere did I get a good result well hopefully anyway that's it for this build video if you want to check the prices for any of the components we used in the build we have links to them in the description below give it a thumbs up if you enjoyed it consider supporting us on patreon to get access to our exclusive discord chat and I'll catch you in the next one