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has it been a year already apparently so it's holiday PC buyer's guide time again as usual we'll be targeting three different price points in US dollars before operating system under five hundred dollars nine hundred to a thousand ish and about two thousand dollars I'll be using pricing from Newegg u.s. and amazon.com and I'll have a where to buy link in the video description let's go G fuel is having a buy one get one free deal event this Black Friday on there forty serving tubs check it out now at the link in the video description so first up is our decent quality 1080p gaming box we won't be sweating small stuff like upgradability or future-proof Ness or this one we've got five hundred bucks to spend so if it doesn't make the FPS number go up it's out so there are a hundred and forty five CPUs on newegg.com from fifty to seventy-five dollars too bad that when you filter out the dual cores you're left with a whopping one option at the price we paid last year the athlon x4 845 non overclockable and slower than the 860 k we chose last year that goes for $78 now I mean if I'm going to spend that much I might as well go with the no no no there's nothing bloody hell is it a bad time to be a budget cpu buyer but at least I get AMD's Wraith stock cooler for my extra eight dollars right oh wait I don't that part number costs an extra twenty dollars on top so 860 K with a normal cooler and paying more for it it is anyway shopping for RAM is easy I opted for a single stick trading a little bit of performance for the option to upgrade to 16 gigs down the road and last year for the motherboard I went with a super basic MSI board for forty seven dollars cheap right this year asus has one for 40 bucks sold moving on to the case after two years of dominance the cooler Master Elite 350 has finally been dethroned in my $500 system by Coolermaster the elite 342 drops compatibility with full ATX motherboards and you get a 400 watt instead of a 500 watt power supply but just save a few bucks and from Hardware secretss review the included 400 watt unit made by FSP can actually deliver its rated output as long as you're not concerned with efficiency and I will definitely be using that six dollars I saved to get a ball and out video card the Radeon rx 484 gig has double the frame buffer but more importantly is way faster than the GTX 960 2 gig that I recommended for this system last year and it costs only 20 bucks more for the cheapest variant I could find on Newegg with civilization 6 included to boot our storage is going to be a lot faster - scrolling past some of the very random cheap SSD options Hyundai really reveals 240 gig products from a handful of reputable brands for as little as 65 bucks we can always add a hard drive for more storage later so I chose a SanDisk Z 410 so in summary we spent about 20 dollars more than last year for the same CPU and RAM loadout but we are deep into double-digit gains when it comes to GPU performance at 1080p and ditching the mechanical hard drive will make a huge difference to the day-to-day usability even if it means we might need a storage space upgrade in a little while for our next system at $1000 future expandability features and usability beyond gaming are much bigger considerations but instead of spending extra on chasing overclocking Headroom I'll be focused on the best out-of-the-box performance I can get so we'll start with an Intel quad core and this year for the same price we get a big up into a skylake core i5 6400 that wait a minute this thing is only marginally faster than the core i5 4460 we used last time I get it the i5 6500 is the sweet spot this year much faster and only fifteen dollars more oh and tell you devious little scoundrels oh well at least for our lunch money we also get a faster DM I support for 64 gigs of DDR for RAM and some power savings speaking of RAM the best deals I found while writing this we're on a vex here.or Corsair 2 by 8 gig kits of ddr4 I didn't stress about speed for the reasons I outlined in this video and I picked the Asus be 150 m a MDOT to to install them on no USB 3.1 support but it's got four dimm slots for ram expansion and with all the SSD innovation moving forward on the MDOT 2 slot I consider that a must-have for a storage upgrade down the road the EVGA b1 500 watt power supply held its crown this year it's even a few bucks cheaper and so is our case it was a toss-up for me between the NZXT source 210 and the thermal take versa h25 both at 40 bucks but the Versa has free shipping with prime so that put it over the top storage got a big shake-up at this price point this year SSDs are cheaper so I got 750 gigs for what I paid for 500 gigs last year but I actually ditched the 4 terabyte hard drive so you'll have to add one later if 750 gigs isn't enough for you bringing us finally to the video card the reason that I pinched every penny in $1000 build up until this point I managed to squeeze a gtx 1070 in here making this rig a perfect match for a cheap 1440p or even ultrawide monitor off ebay or high-end vr gaming and I even threw in a DVD drive just to show off BAM so compared to last year's model we spent marginally less but we gained some CPU horsepower go out a bigger SSD but sacrificed our hard drive and we added anywhere from forty to eighty percent to our gaming performance depending on the game and resolution not too bad for a year later note that our Amazon build-out includes an OEM CPU since even with a hyper t2 thrown in it's cheaper there and CPUs rarely fail anyway our our last system assumes a buyer who is willing to pay more for creature comforts like sleeved cables RGB lighting overclocking and quiet operation it also assumes that a buyer who requires high performance outside of purely gaming applications let's say video editing or 3d modeling well it sure is easy to choose a CPU when you have $2,000 to spend isn't it actually no it kind of gets harder while I could drop a thousand dollars on an eight core sixty nine hundred Kay unless I am heavy into content creation and unlocked six core is going to do me just fine and that money would be better spent elsewhere so I'm going to go with the 6800 Kay a slightly faster six core than last year the 68 50k would be strongly recommended as an upgrade if you're adding a lot of PCI Express storage or expansion cards along with the same SLI support solid build quality for overclocking and USB 3.1 the U dot 2 slot LED lighting and type C port on the x99 a2 for an extra 15 bucks put it over the top versus the older board we chose last year then for RAM thanks to falling prices we make up that 15 bucks and get a slightly faster 32 gig kit a vengeance lpx quad channel ddr4 then we did last year plenty for the time being with the option to upgrade to 64 gigs down the road for case and cooling I went for a slightly different strategy this year I downgraded my case to an NZXT s340 which is basically as small as you can get while still fitting my upgraded cooling a knock to a 10 HD 14 compared to last year it won't be as roomy to work in but should yield a significant improvement in CPU clock speeds for overclocking power comes courtesy of an EVGA supernova g2 850 watt fully modular unit 80 plus gold a hundred watts more than last year's our MX series and a few bucks cheaper nice on to storage the only real difference is that instead of a bargain-basement one terabyte SSD and a four terabyte hard drive we're getting a Samsung 850 Evo one terabyte SSD and a four terabyte hard drive I went with a two and a half inch SSD even though it's the same price as one that would go in an m2 slot because in a tower case we don't really need the space savings and that will leave my MDOT two slots open for an nvme drive upgrade in the future right now that MDOT to drive unless you want to pay a lot for it is going to be running over the SATA interface anyway also I checked a DVD drive in there woohoo video card time last year I actually downgraded the 3d gaming performance of the $2,000 system to make room for that six core CPU double the memory and double the SSD storage compared to the 2014 edition this year I'll be able to keep all of those things with the faster CPU and SSD better cooling and better i/o and get better gaming performance thanks to the GTX 1080 all of this while staying about $80 cheaper than the 2015 edition which brings us then to the end of this year's holiday buyer's guide remember as always these aren't hard and fast rules and daily pricing fluctuations especially on categories like RAM or video cards can affect the exact part that I would recommend a lot but if you follow these guidelines I'm sure you'll end up with a kick-ass system that you'll enjoy for years to come interesting fact this is the first year that all three systems come out cheaper on Amazon than Newegg if you buy Windows 10 and have prime for free shipping so be sure to check out our prime membership link below and 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