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what's up guys jsut cents here and it's the holidays which means a ton of you are building new computers or building your first computer building computer for someone else or upgrading an existing rig and instead of just buying parts on Black Friday or Cyber Monday and going here's what I got in the deals that are by the time you guys see the videos they've already passed by you can't take advantage of them they're out of stock I'm gonna show you guys how I approach building a system with budgets and I'm going to hopefully arm you guys with information on how to spend your money more wisely that will apply to any time of the year the holidays have arrived at mass drop the community driven commerce site dedicated to finding the best products in over 15 user driven communities mass drop is a great place to get high quality products at amazing prices and this year for the holidays they're making it even easier to find that perfect gift this year mass drop is introducing new flash sales that will be live on the site for a limited time of 12 hours or until the item sells out sign up is free and these deals won't last get the perfect gift for your loved one or even yourself this holiday season by heading a mass drop by clicking the link in the description below so what you see right here are just different categories represented by parts that are required to build a system if you're going to be upgrading your system then obviously only the parts that are in that category are going to matter to you but you're going to need a CPU right you've got to have a processor you gotta have your memory your storage cooling power delivery a motherboard to plug it all into and of course your graphics card now the approach we're gonna take today is that we are building a gaming system because gaming systems also make great workstations because typically they're a lot more powerful than you would find out like a typical web browsing machine obviously now it doesn't matter if you're talking about 500 bucks or 5,000 bucks the word budget simply means that there is a cap that cannot be exceeded often way too often the word budget is confused with the word cheap now although they are interchangeable and the board budget typically can refer to something as being less expensive or lesser of the amount of money available the word budget in my particular vocabulary it's a capped amount that we can't spend so it could be $500 or $500,000 it's still a budget so that's the way we're approaching the word today don't confuse it with the word cheap graphics cards are single-handedly the most expensive part you typically will put in your system you could spend a hundred dollars on a graphics card or you could spend twelve hundred dollars on a graphics card for just one then of course if you're going sli it just scales up from there although it doesn't scale great in SLI you get the point I tend to spend right around twenty-five percent if it's a low-end budget like a $500 bill I'd put about 25% of that into the graphics card otherwise I'll go as high as 50% because this is the single most important part when it comes to gaming when it comes to determining your gaming performance now the type of graphics card you're gonna buy has to do with a couple of different factors one what games are you playing do you need high FPS like csgo players right the more FPS the better for those guys if you are doing role-playing games and stuff they tend to not require as much high FPS like 60fps will get the job done but also what resolution are you playing at if you're playing at 1080p you don't need super high-end graphics cards anymore because 1080p is getting really easy from water and graphics cards to push the amount of advancement we've made with GPUs with the amount of time 1080s been the norm is very good actually in fact if you look at the Steam survey you can see that most players like 9 out of 10 are still on a 1080p or lesser panel but if you want to go with 4k or 1440p then obviously the more graphics power you can get the better in my opinion there's no cap I'd go with 2 of the most powerful graphics card you could possibly buy if you're going for 4k or a nice mid-range to high-end if you're going 1440 but you know what can affect the performance of your graphics card your CPU because if you go with a real high-end graphics card and you go with a real low-end CPU you're gonna get what's called bottlenecking a term that's thrown around a lot and often misunderstood but you can indeed impact the performance of your GPU if your CPU can't handle the task of your GPU if the GPU is sending tons of frame rates to the to the computer and the CPU can't actually handle that then you get what's called bottlenecking where the GPU will slow down you get stutters and in FPS which is not a good gaming experience so if you're gonna go with a high end GPU especially if you're going going for high frame rate 1080p gaming like 1440 a 14 or 144 Hertz or hire 200 Hertz even then you're gonna want to get a nice powerful CPU now overclocking can obviously help so if you're going with like an i3 right this is actually a 2 core hyper-threading CPU I wouldn't personally pair an i3 with something like a 1070 TI I would probably pair it with something more like a 1050 TI because we're not going to be exceeding the CPUs capability with the GPU and the GPU for 1080p gaming is still more than enough to get the job done if you're after that mythical magical 60fps number but if you're going for higher FPS then you would definitely want to go with a higher end GPU and something like maybe horizon 7 or like a 6700 K or 7700 K from Intel talking about CPUs now that's the other controversy or the hard part right Intel or AMD well the nice part of AMD all and AMD CPUs are pretty much unlocked all the Zen core architecture whether it be rise in whether it be thread Ripper they are overclockable so overclocking is basically like free performance if you already have the cooling necessary if you have to beef up your cooling to get the overclocking then it's not necessarily free you'd spend money on that so that's the way I approach budgeting as well but it's really an interesting time because 2017 was when AMD really made a splash in the CPU market they actually changed the landscape a little bit and took some market share away from Intel which made Intel respond by launching X 299 early and pulling coffee lake all the way into summer of 2017 now speaking of overclocking you obviously are gonna have to have motherboards that can take advantage of that so you're not gonna take something like an Intel 6700 K or a 7700 K or an 80 700 K and stick it on like an h2 70 or whatever the 370 version of this is because the H basically means that it's not overclocking it still has a lot of features on there right still has all of your fan headers it still has two PCI Express slot so you can run SLI or crossfire but it's really a stripped down it takes away a lot of the features you don't care about it's just bare-bones designed to put a CPU in there and get up and running and for most gamers that's gonna be good enough but if you're an enthusiast and you want to overclock then you definitely are going to want to get you know like an X 370 or even a B 350 for R for AMD which will allow for some overclocking and stuff and same thing on Intel right you're not going to take that I three down there and stick it in a Maximus motherboard because that is just a gross negligence an imbalance of money being spent so you're just putting money in a motherboard that you're getting no performance benefit out of it so if you're not overclocking doesn't matter if you go with a high-end motherboard and a low-end motherboard you're not going to notice the difference the difference is build quality right how good is the vrm engineered how good's the cooling how good is the you know the metal used in the socket and all that stuff so you do get what you pay for with the motherboard it's definitely easy to have diminishing returns so parent overclocking CPU with an overclocking motherboard and vice versa I mean you just don't want to mix and match all that right so you wouldn't put an i3 on this Maximus with a 1050 Ti do that put it on Reddit watch what happens but the thing I absolutely hate shopping for especially in 2017 with what's happened to prices is Ram because both of these Intel and AMD CPUs that have come out well rise in 2017 and anything 2016 or newer with Intel pretty much requires ddr4 it's like it's like precious metals in the stock market it's always fluctuating and unfortunately we've been on an upward trend for quite a while I like to recommend 16 gigabytes of memory for gaming pcs in fact I even asked that on Twitter and you guys all agreed well most of you agreed 16 gigabytes are go home eight gigs is just not enough anymore these days especially with modern titles some modern titles are even recommending 16 gigs with eight gigs being the minimum requirement so you don't want to create a future-proof problem for yourself if you scrimp now now you could get eight now and add more later but yeah it's just unfortunate when you can spend a hundred bucks on eight gigs of memory back in the day you could spend a hundred bucks and get 16 gigs or you could spend 45 50 bucks and get eight gigs no problem whatsoever but that kind of died with ddr3 and ddr4 is unfortunately an upward trend we're hoping for a crash where it comes back down but who knows now storage this is another area where I get a lot of questions on Twitter what kind of storage do I need for my gaming rig you don't technically need anything more than spinning mechanical Drive the problem with these is they have slow boot times they're very slow seek times and load times in your games and booting for your system is going to be painfully slow if you've ever experienced an SSD but there's a lot of people that are ok with that and you want to save money so you could get a 2 terabyte hard drive 7200 rpm 64 Meg cache hard drive and you can get that for about 50 60 bucks no problem and that saves money for everywhere else the problem is this becomes in my opinion the bottleneck of the overall experience of your PC you could spend a lot and go with em - the problem with em - is a lot like memory it's very volatile it's same thing with SATA drives we'll talk about that in a second but MDOT - you're getting less per dollar less gigabytes per dollar with MDOT - that's because this direct this goes on the motherboard directly it can go to a PCI Express slot it's not limited by the bandwidth of SATA it's very very fast and because of it it's also very sought-after now prices have come down significantly since it first came out but you could still bet spend five six hundred bucks on a say MDOT to drive no problem that's why I recommend SATA I mean every gaming system I build is gonna have a SATA SSD you guys have even complained this on my budget builds that I'm putting SSDs in there when it's not necessary but I'm sorry I don't want to wait two minutes for my system to build III could see a brand new built system fresh install of windows take over two minutes to boot it's just painful so I will always recommend SATA drives even if you have to scrimp a little bit elsewhere in your system because they're fast they get the job done the amount of gigabytes per dollar that you can get with these now is very very good in fact this 500 gig 850 Evo actually bought two of these they're actually for the camera that you're watching this on but technically they I got this for a hundred and forty nine dollars a drive the sales are always happening on Amazon so I think the performance per dollar of SATA is definitely where it's at right now now another place that's really easy to overspend and get diminishing return is your power supply the only time I would recommend going with that beefy high you know 80 plus rating power supply is if you were overclocking high-end hardware new like AMD CPUs the x2 99 stuff from Intel Nvidia graphics cards especially AMD graphics cards that are overclocking friendly that you can push really far like the new Pascal stuff can exponentially draw power so you could take a graphics card like the 1070 TI that's like a hundred and eighty watts or whatever it is 190 watts and push it to like 350 watts I mean I'm just throwing numbers out there but like 1080 si you could push almost as high as 400 watts 1080 Ti is no problem can hit 400 watts if you're overclocking so you definitely are gonna want to get a power supplied that's gonna be friendly for that so you don't want to have a power supply that's barely on the limit of being able to handle your hardware and then try overclocking you'll get random blue screens and crashes and restarts and shutdowns which could be your power supply now if you got a PC part picker they actually have a really good power meter calculator so you can put in your parts say if you're gonna be overclocking or not and it will give you a very good recommendation of how much you power is gonna be drawing and what size power supply to go with so I think that's a really good place to go to figure out what size power supply but the ratings on here the higher the metal preciousness precious my patient whatever that was really cringey huh the higher the metal the more efficient it's going to be which means it takes less power from the wall to deliver the rated power of the power supply I would rather save a little money and go with like a 750 watt bronze than paying for like a 750 watt platinum because then it saves more money elsewhere and the difference in power being drawn from the wall is actually not that much affected did a video about power draw and how much it actually cost you to run your computer it's worth checking out now that I said that brings us to cooling because depending on the type of cooling we need depends on whether or not we're overclocking or not and what kind of CPU we have working with like a low wattage I three CPU you could save some money and probably go with the Box cooler if you're not planning on overclocking it'll be more than enough to get the job done but I like to err on the side of insurance by over cooling stuff is obviously with all the water cleaning stuff I like to over cool my parts but if I'm going to be overclocking the box cooler not going to get it done so you need to go with some sort of an air cooler at the very minimum now I don't have it on display right here but one of the most epic air coolers that has ever lived is the cooler master hyper 212 if you guys look at any review of it thousands and thousands of reviews on Newegg and amazon and all of that probably one of the best bang for buck coolers that you can boss possibly buy I mean it just doesn't really get any better than the price of performance on that it's about 25 to 30 bucks depending but you can scale up from there right you can go all the way up to giant Noctua coolers you got big push-pull air coolers like right here you can push pull on the evo highly recommended air cooler if you want better than stock cooling I recommend it that's not sponsored or anything that's just my opinion but you could also step it up even farther by going with a AIO water cooler like the Celsius right here on the bottom because it's gonna give you the cooling efficiency of water on a smaller scale of than a custom loop really probably putting water in your system is if you've never done it before it's probably gonna be a little bit scary because everyone's afraid of leaks it's a risk it could happen personally it's only happened to me twice in like the last 15 years of water cooling but it's a it's just it's an enthusiast thing I like to do it I'm going to continue to do it if you want to step up from an AI oh you could go with a full custom loop in a box like we have right here with the fluid gaming series from ek comes with all the parts you need all the fittings even the jumper to jump your power supply to believe the system so depending on how far you want to overclock or how far how many cores and all that is gonna depend on the type of cooling you'll go with but I highly recommend air if you want maintenance-free operation just blow out some dust every now and then I that might surprise some people hearing me say I recommend air but that's a situation that makes a lot of sense and then of course water cooling now what you don't see on the table here obviously is cases that's because I tend to see what I have left over after I've chosen the parts that actually affect performance because cases only do two things they're box to put your parts in and then they create a cooling environment because when you have a case and you have intake fans and exhaust fans you're promoting directional airflow which is going to blow air over the RAM and the motherboard and the back plate of the grab card which helps take heat out of your system now that's how you're going to determine what kind of case you need if your air cooling decent amount of air flow will get the job done if your water cooling you want to make sure that you can fit your radiator of course if you buy a 360 ride you get a case it only supports 240 rads that's obviously a problem you also want to make sure that if you're going with a very tall air cooler that your case is large enough to actually fit the air cooler with and still close the side panel something else forgot to mention with coolers though too is you also want to make sure that if you go with a big cooler and you have tall Ram this actually isn't tall Ram right here this is tall Ram if you go with tall Ram anyone picture it's gonna clear underneath your air cooler most modern air coolers now are better about offsetting in such a way that they'll fit definitely something worth keeping in mind though so it really comes down to aesthetics and personal taste and size constraints because if you have a limited space that can go in you're not gonna go with like a giant like EVGA case like what's behind me right here and if you've got a big space that you want to fill in with a big case because you're like big cases mean I've got a big gaming addiction then you're not gonna want to put a tiny little ITX case in there so you also have to look at it if it's ugly and you don't like the case sure you could switch it later but try get something that at least appeals to your taste the confusing part about building a new system especially for first-timers is which cooler do I go with and which power supply and which this and which that and then all the way down to ok I picked that one at 1070 t I do I get an EVGA doing it at Asus and MSI do I get a girl acts what do I do for the most part guys it's all gonna perform pretty much the same all 1070 Ti is performing roughly the same Alton 80s so go with the one you think looks best and has good reviews for cooling and stuff like that if you think I missed something put it down in the comments below there's a wealth of information behind my behind me with my followers there's a lot of people down there that are always willing to help and I'm proud of my viewers for offering up the help so keep it civil guys have some good conversation down there let me know if you think I missed anything I'm gonna go thanks for watching and as always I'll see you in the next one