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what's up guys how's it going and welcome to my monthly builds video for February 20 19 month at the beginning of the month I'd do a couple parts lists for you guys at home who might be building your own computer especially if you're doing it for the first time choosing the parts to put in the PC is usually the first thing you need to figure out if you're looking for a video where I actually put a PC together check out my builds playlist I will link that in the video's description and of course every month I ask you guys for your feedback on what builds I shouldn't put together for the next month so last month I asked you when you want to see in February the winner was $1,500 all I was asking for was price points last month close runner-up was a $400 price point don't worry I've actually got three builds for you guys today at three different price points and I think you'll be happy with them but also don't forget to vote for next month's builds straw polls link in the description and I tried to give you guys some more abstract or potentially different types of build options there like an audio or a video PC or other options check it out before I dive into the parts list though and an unprecedented act of foresight I actually have already assembled actually all the systems that I'm gonna be talking about today and I'm putting together a new updated how to build a PC guide for 2019 where I assemble the systems including an intro video where I talk about the theory of what parts are what and what they do hopefully just to give you guys more confidence as you're choosing your own parts to build your own PC that said though let's dive into today's builds I have three of them starting with a less than 500 dollar gaming PC for starters coming in at about 480 dollars right now we have an upgrade to that PC which is going to come in at about 900 dollars upgrading to a discrete graphics card actually about 882 as of today's pricing and then of course the $1500 build as requested with an Intel processor this is gonna be a really high-end system coming in actually just a little over $1500 but I'll explain how I came to those decisions when I get to that build so here's the sub 500 dollar gaming PC and this one is featuring the Rison 320 200 G which is an APU which means it's got a quad core 4 core 4 thread processor as well as integrated Vega graphics so that means you can get away without having your graphics card this is perfectly fine for gaming at 1080p of course you're gonna get a nice benefit by upgrading the processor and the graphics card in the future which you can do but before we get into that let's talk about the rest of the parts for the motherboard I'm still recommending this MSI Arsenal gaming B 450 tomahawk which comes in it usually about 105 205 Dean dollars it is an am for socket motherboard it has 4 memory slots and it actually has pretty decent power delivery so you can start out with a low-end entry-level CPU like the sub $100 2200 G and then you can potentially upgrade to something else in the future and the motherboard will still be able to handle it there aren't a lot of fancy bells and whistles on this board but it does have video outs at the back so it will work with an APU memory prices thankfully have come way down when you're talking about horizon system you want to make sure you have compatible memory and also faster memory 3000 or 3200 speed is what I usually go for this is a 16 gig kit 2 by 8 gigs in it you can get it for about 115 dollars that's a solid option and their jaws 5 you know it's all black no fancy RGB or anything but it's gonna match with most builds for storage right now for just about anyone you should spend about 50 bucks on a 2.5 inch SSD and you can get quite a few at that range you can spend a few dollars more on one that maybe is a little bit faster this team l5 light is definitely pretty entry-level there's nothing to fake crazy or fancy about it it does have a black housing so you can remove the sticker if you wanted to actually put it on display but chances are you're gonna tuck it away back in the case somewhere and then it will just function as an SSD 50 bucks 500 gig SSD that's what most people should be going for for any build right now but the case I actually have my editor Joe go to micro Center and pick out the cases so I wouldn't be tainted by my prior knowledge of cases I told him to get about a sixty to eighty dollar case for this entry-level build he chose the master box light 5 RGB because that's what they had at micro Center it's about $70 you can actually get it without the RGB for about 5 bucks less than this but with the RGB version it actually comes with 4 case fans 3 in the front and one in the back so like you're totally fine for airflow they're not crazy fancy fans or anything but I've already built in this case and it's perfectly adequate a good deal for about 65 dollars for a power supply in this range you should be looking for an 80 plus bronze rated units and I recommend about a 550 watt power supply you can go a little bit higher than that if you want but thanks to the rebate on this one you can get it for 40 bucks it's a Corsair power supply so it's well-built it's partially modular so you can remove the cables if you're not going to use them and the cables themselves are all black those are kind of all the basics that you want in a power supply 40 bucks you should be able to get a good deal on that so assemble those six components you're coming in at less than $500 I think you're off and running with a very solid gaming PC and you could potentially up created so moving on to the upgraded version this one's about $900 and this one we've upgraded the CPU to a risin 520 600 so you're going from a four core four thread processor to a six core 12 thread processor since this one does have SMT enabled and the CPU is usually 165 dollars but you can actually get it for a hundred and fifty bucks from Amazon right now apparently which is a great deal and if you're trying to compare it to other CPUs that you might get in this range I feel like the next step up would be the 2600 X that's $50 more though beyond that you could look at something like a 1700 X which gives you more cores and threads but xfr with the 2000 series of Rison processors or extended frequency range kind of the automatic overclocking works a little bit better and single core performance is going to get you better gaming performance overall so that's why I'd tend to lean towards the 2000 series CPUs especially with this deal in the 2600 the one drawback for the 2600 is it comes with the Wraith stealth cooler which is a little bit smaller it's not going to be as good for overclocking in the future so you might consider upgrading that down the line you could easily get something like a hyper 212 to drop in there instead and you'd have much better cooling performance and maybe get yourself a little bit more overclocking too now the 2600 is not an APU it does not have any graded graphics so we need a graphics card as well and the r-tx 2060 from Nvidia is the best bang for the buck at about a 350 dollar price point right now there's even some price Wars going on that are taking them down to a few dollars less than $350 but an aftermarket version like this one from gigabyte is going to be a solid choice for you unless you want to of course upgrade it I will admit that when I actually built this system I totally had a brain fart and I installed the wrong graphics card it's got an RT X 2080 or in it right now so stay tuned for the video where I sort of explain how I got that wrong and of course with any graphics card like this it's easier to swap in or swap out so you could put in RTX 2080 with this build but this is probably a little bit more suited for the high end intel build that I'm going to show you next so here's the $1500 build I went with an i7 8700 K rather than the 9000 series simply because it's a little bit less expensive at 360 dollars and it has hyper-threading so you get six cores and twelve threads if you compare this to like the 9700 K it is an 8 core processor but it's about 50 bucks more and it have hyper-threading and in either case you're going to need an aftermarket CPU cooler as well more on that in just a second but I also want to point out that with this price at $1500 this is with an RT X 2070 which you can get for about $500 right now if you were to upgrade that to an RT X 2080 you would want to get an aftermarket version that you keep for about $700 and it would raise the entire price of this build up to about $1,700 which is totally up to you it's just a matter if you want to spend an extra 200 bucks for a bit more graphics performance but let's go over the parts individually we have the i7 8700 K which you can get for about 360 bucks right now on Amazon you probably do want a reality check the prices on the 9700 K before you drop your cash on this the 9700 K is going for about four hundred and ten dollars right now so I think for a $50 savings the 8700 K is worth it and you'll get about equivalent gaming performance especially if you overclock the 8700 K but you should be able to do because I've dropped in and aftermarket all in one liquid cooler any aftermarket 240 millimeter all-in-one liquid CPU cooler that costs around hundred dollars should serve you just fine here as long as it's well reviewed of course make sure it's not one of those budget variants I have used this specific cooler before and it comes with you know some fancy addressable RGB LEDs and everything it's a good cooler so that's why I chose it I totally forgot to point out this is a mini ITX bill but this is a mini ITX build I wanted to make this one a little bit different since it is a little bit higher end so I chose this motherboard the asus rog Strix z 390 - i gaming this is about a $200 motherboard it's very small but it packs a lot of features like you get both addressable and non addressable RGB LED headers you get a USB 3.1 gen2 front panel connector you get dual MDOT two slots one on the front that has a heatsink as well as one on the back and it's got a fixed IO shield which I really like for memory I was trying to keep some parity between this build and a less expensive one so still have 16 gigs 2 by 8 gig sticks ddr4 3200 memory but I went with the team Nighthawk memory which is fancy and includes RGB lighting so you're spending about an extra 15 bucks for that fancy RGB lighting and look but it's a fancier higher-end build so that's why I chose that I still stuck with a 500 gig $50.00 SATA SSD for this build although I was very torn between that and spending something like 30 bucks more or so on a 500 gig nvme SD that might have much faster read and write speeds in the end I was trying to hit the $1500 price point so that's why I decided to go with what I did but definitely keep nvme SSDs in mind because they will be a little bit faster for you for a graphics card I went with the GeForce r-tx 20 78 gig gaming this should cost about $500 but you can get it on sale right now 10% off at Newegg this is an aftermarket card from gigabyte with a triple fan cooler and for about 500 bucks it's hard to get anything better than this at the moment rounding things out our case is the NZXT h 200 i which is a little on the large size for a mini ITX case but only about 130 dollars so for a nicer case it's not going in the 150 or $200 range it's also well designed well built it's not terribly difficult to build in and it looks pretty cool this is the white version finally for a power supply the EVGA supernova g3 and this is pretty much the same as the less expensive builds power supply it's just 650 watts instead of 550 a + gold-certified instead of bronze it is fully modular rather than partially modular and for all of those upgraded features you're probably gonna spend about 30 or 40 bucks more so shoot you should be able to find this for about $70 so guys that's my monthly builds video for February 2019 and whether you want to spend 500 bucks 900 bucks 1500 bucks or more pick your poison hopefully these builds lets you choose the parts that you want to use and of course feel free to swap things out and make it more personalized to you if you so desire and of course stay tuned for my three-part series on how to build a PC which is coming out like very soon thank you again for watching this video thumbs up button on your way out we'll see you guys next time