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4 Gaming PC Builds for Black Friday! $400, $700, $1100 and $1250

2018-11-21
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but these are parts lists so if you want to see a tutorial on how to build a computer check out my most recent how to build a computer video and if you'd like more builds videos of me actually putting builds together check out my builds playlists which I will link down in the description now all the builds today share some similarities but they scale up and price starting at 400 bucks then 700 dollars then around $1,100 and finally my best all-around system that includes a monitor for 1250 these are all mainstream systems so I'm not looking at crazy high core counts or really expensive parts I'm just trying to give you guys parts lists that I would legitimately recommend if I had friends who had 400 bucks or 700 bucks so what have you I'm not carrying too much at all about aesthetics it's more about performance and then I'm also going to start out by going down sort of some conceptual things about the PC parts in general so the parts lists include the seven main components for a computer which includes a CPU and you will also need a heatsink fans sometimes that's included with the CPU sometimes you can buy it separately you also need a graphics card that is very important the only way you wouldn't need that is if you have integrated graphics which the lowest end $400 build has you're also going to need a motherboard the socket for the motherboard should match the CPU that you choose and then the form factor for all today's builds we're looking at ATX form factor builds should also match your case so if you want a smaller case like micro ATX mini-itx make sure the motherboard you choose is mini-itx and then also get a case that matches and then for the most part you should be able to use the same other components that I'm sharing with you guys today you also need memory it's also called a RAM random access memory the current memory standard is ddr4 so all the systems I'm talking about today use ddr4 and then my recommended memory configuration right now is 16 gigs to 8 gig sticks so you can run them in dual-channel mode and that is what all of these systems I have put together today are going to be using as well moving on from there you will need a case to put everything in you'll need a power supply to provide power and then you will need storage via a SSD you can also use a hard drive but I always always recommend right now if you're building a computer use an SSD at least for your operating system other than that you might need some few other parts you will need a monitor to plug into you'll need a keyboard and mouse you'll need an internet connection and a router the router is often provided by your internet service provider and you'll need an operating system such as Windows 10 or Linux I'm not including these for the most part in the costs of the builds I'm putting together today except for the final one that does include a monitor and then for an operating system if you want Windows 10 check out the video I posted about getting Windows 10 on the cheap and that will get you off and running without too much expense finally the core components I'm using for all the builds today can be summarized as such this is 5 of the 7 items excluding the CPU and GPU you can get a solid case for 50 bucks so that's kind of you're starting off standard for a case you can get a solid power supply for 30 to 50 dollars you can get a motherboard for about 90 to 110 dollars you can get a 2 by 8 gig kit of memory for $100 right now and for an SSD you could get a 250 gig one for 30 bucks you can get a 500 gig one for 55 dollars and then if you need a CPU cooler you can get that for about $20 so that's kind of your baseline costs and then beyond that you'll need a CPU and GPU which will add significantly to this total in some cases but this is your starting off point and if you're shopping for these parts this is kind of the ballpark price you should be looking at so starting off with my first build here which is only $400 features a risin risin 320 200g APU which includes a CPU and a GPU in the same thing so for this build we don't need a discrete graphics card so that list I was showing you that ends up at 300 bucks for the low end at 100 to that for your risin 320 200 G and you get a full fully functional system for about $400 all these parts lists I am using PC part picker to put together but I'll have links to all the individual parts down in the video's description as well as the full lists if you want to check them out so let's run down this real quickly our CPU is the 2200 G I've talked about this apu many times before it's just a great starting out product because it's only 100 bucks it's a 4 core cpu it doesn't have hyper threading or as SMT so you only get 4 cores and 4 threads but that's perfectly adequate for gaming and it's got integrated vedic vega 8 graphics i did a video on this so check that out if you want to get an idea of what kind of performance you can expect but for 1080 gaming this is an excellent excellent solution for a motherboard I have the gigabyte be 450 horas elite ATX this is an AM 4 motherboard and a nice thing about boards that are am 4 on this platform is that you have an upgrade path you're starting off with a $100 CPU you could upgrade that to a 6 core or an 8 core in the future via the risin and risin two offerings AMD has available so I love having an upgrade path and I chose this motherboard not because it's the cheapest because there are cheaper be 450 boards out there but it's got solid power delivery a nice feature set and if you do decide to upgrade the system in the future then this you won't need to necessarily upgrade your motherboard as well so for ninety bucks that's a great choice I'm using the same memory kit for pretty much every single build today and that is because it's a hundred bucks its ddr4 3000 and you do want faster memory if you're going with an AMD build in particular I recommend three thousand or 3200 speed memory this kit will work with AMD or Intel setups including rise and set ups and it's only $100 at least for the next four days so jump on that while you can 16 gigs 3000 speed memory for a hundred bucks again that's why I stuck with it for the entire build for storage we have a team l5 lights this is just a really basic entry-level SSD but it's 240 gigs which is enough for your operating system in some games you would want to supplement this with another SSD or a hard drive so bear that in mind for the future but for 30 bucks that gets you off and running and from there you can choose a case for a case there's lots of $50 options I chose the Phantom 410 because it's on sale right now this usually costs a bit more but any $50 full sighs ATX case should do you just fine of course there's lots of reviews and stuff you should check out I like this case since it's got a side panel viewing window it's got plenty of ventilation it comes with some built-in fans so you have air flow right out of the gates and again $50 but the case is the place where I would say there's the many so many different choices you can you can choose that's why I'm saying the $50 price is what you want to go for here and this is just an example of a case that works for that price but of course choose any full-size ATX case that you like the reviews of and like the look of as well for a power supply we have a 550 watt 80 plus bronze certified power supply and again for most single GPU configurations this will work just fine no need to upgrade it no need to worry about it in the future and it's 30 bucks with a $20 meal and rebate from Newegg right now my requirements for power supplies are one that they're from a reputable manufacturer of course there is definitely that's - I like all black cables because we don't like the look of non all-black cable power supplies and then beyond that if it's got modularity that's helpful and then we do want at least 80 plus bronze certification for efficiency you can of course upgrade to a gold certified power supply that will save you a little bit in the long run when it comes to your power bill so these six parts are all you'll need to put the system together the raisa 320 200 G does include a heat sink fan in there so no need to worry about that and $400 I think is a great starting out price for a very capable 1080 gaming PC but what if you have maybe just a couple hundred more bucks to spend where would you go from there for that I have build number two here which is only $700 but has some significant upgrades so we've gone from an APU that has integrated graphics to a CPU but not just any CPU the eight core rise in seven 1700 X so this has eight cores and 16 threads massive jump up and CPU processing capability from the hundred dollar 2200 G and this is only 150 dollars it doesn't come with a heat sink fan though so I've included the hyper 212 Evo which isn't the prettiest but it gets the job done it's only 20 bucks again I'm not considering aesthetics very much for these parts lists at all beyond that we have the highly rated and recommended be 450 tomahawk motherboard from MSI which he can get for one hundred and two hundred and ten dollars same kit of memory same SSD we've added a gtx 1066 gig thanks to the glut of inventory that nvidia is suffering through right now you can get these for actually $200 for a six gig version of a 1060 that's a great deal they're same case and then same power supply as well and that gives our total to six hundred eighty eight dollars and forty six cents if you deal with all the mail and rebates of course so sub $700 for this build and I just I'm so happy that AMD has done what they've known us rising because an eight-core sixteen thread processor for a hundred and fifty bucks it's just ah that's that's so awesome this is a great deal even though it's not second-generation like the twenty seven hundred and twenty seven hundred ex it still has a good out of the box frequency three point four gigahertz and you can overclock it since these are all unlocked for overclocking as well we got to have a cooler so this is the hyper 212 Evo I only chose this because it's 20 bucks there are other coolers you can get that are gonna be a lot prettier than this one like there's even a black version of the hyper 212 Evo but it's $35 so twenty to thirty five I was like I'll just stick with this one this will get the job done just fine for any risin processor but of course if you want to spend an extra ten or fifteen or twenty bucks on something that may cool a little bit better and look a little bit better than you're totally welcome to do that that's the beauty of the flexibility that's building your own PC choose your own parts spend your money where you want to the B 450 tomahawk motherboard from MSI I've recommended a few times now it's just got really solid power delivery for about a hundred bucks so this is a good sort of entry-level but also will take you through to the mid-range and even towards the high end if you get a higher end CPU and start dabbling in overclocking four dimm slots so you can expand your memory in the future it's got USB 3 and it's even got a couple MDOT two slots in there as well so if you decide to add some high-speed storage you can do that too and then again the power delivery on this motherboard is just really solid for the price so if you get into overclocking that's something you're going to want to have graphics card is the geforce gtx 1066 gig from EVGA this is basically the least expensive gtx 1066 gig that they have on pc part picker but being $200 when these were selling for 250 to 300 or more just a few months back is a pretty good price if you ask me of course they ramped up from there if you didn't want to get something that has a bit better cooling solution since this is the small version that just has the mini cooler on it but functionally it's just fine and it's 200 bucks with $20 mil and rebates so there's my choice for your graphic card and there is the entire system with the low low price of $700 I think this would be a great system for anyone who wants to get in there get it put together of course here as well you'd probably want to add some additional storage beyond the 240 gig SSD or you could just mix and match some of the parts from these couple higher-end builds that I've put together here next build is the $1,075 80 build and this has an 8700 K and a gtx 1070 total price here is 1070 481 that includes a few mil in rebates 8700 k is my choice right now if you want to build on the Intel platform and you want a high end CPU and you don't want to pay way too much money for it like you'd have to pay for the 99 hundred K right now the 8700 can get for 340 bucks that's a little bit on the expensive side when you compare it to what AMD can get you for six core processors but this will overclock you should be able to get at least four point eight to five gigahertz on this CPU without too much trouble and it's going to give you better overall gaming performance just got better single thread performance so for people who are still into the Intel side of things that's why I included this build as well but again I paired that up with a cooler master hyper 212 evil evo just goes for 20 bucks you can't beat the price to performance and you do need an air cooler to go along with the CPU beyond that our motherboard is the EVGA z3 70 for the win this is actually a really solid motherboard from EVGA used to go for well over 200 bucks now on sale for 150 it's got three MDOT two slots it's got surface mounted power and reset buttons as well as a debug led it's got a real solid power to power delivery setup as well so I think for anyone who just wants a again a motherboard that's going to get the job done handle overclocking get you the most performance out of your 8700 K that you wants for a hundred fifty bucks I think you're gonna have a hard time getting a much better deal than that moving on for storage I've just upgraded our 240 gig SSD to afford an 80 gig SSD team on their l5 light series has some pretty good deals going on right now but 55 bucks like I mentioned though there's lots of SSD sales going on so right now I'm just looking at SSDs in the 240 gig up to the one terabyte range and sorting them by price per gigabytes 11 cents per gigabyte is what you're getting as far as the deal on that 480 gig team drive but you can get anywhere on the 11 250 cent range down here and you can even get some screaming deals right now in some one gig drives like this a day to su 654 a hundred and twenty bucks Samsung 860 Evo for 130 dollars that's another great deals well guys what I'm gonna be doing on Friday when Black Friday actually hits is another follow-up video to this and that one won't be like here are builds I'm just gonna look at deals that I find that are really good so I'll be collecting those and if you find any leave them in the comment section down below maybe I'll scoop them up to talk about on Friday moving on from there though we have our graphics card the GTX 1078 gig for the wind this is from EVGA so it's an aftermarket version of it three hundred and ten dollars Wow GTX 10 70s thank you finally it only took like over two years for your prices to actually get get good but I'm glad that they're finally goodness so this is available on new way again with the $20 man rebate $310 so that is the option that I chose for this one but you should very much be considering especially with this builds GPU upgrades so for instance on PC part picker I'm just looking at 10 70s 1070 TI's and 10 80s I would include 1080 T eyes but stock on those has gone away so they're really overpriced but 1070 you can get for three hundred and ten dollars entry-level 1070 TI 40 bucks more for three hundred and fifty dollars so if you got 40 more bucks that's a nice upgrade right there and finally entry level for our 1080 is a little little disappointing at $440 I feel like if you guys keep an eye out in the next day or two these are gonna be gone for 400 that's my expectation so keep an eye out for those as well for now I think the best bang for your buck in this range of graphics cards is going to be a 1070 or a 1070 TI beyond that though we've got a power supply and here I've upgraded to an 80 plus gold rated power supply I would normally have jumped up to a 650 watt but if you can get a 750 watt for the same price then you might as well still 80 plus gold $50 this is a really solid see sonic unit see sonic makes really good power supplies and again it meets all the criteria of all black cables it's partially modular and 80 plus gold is kind of the big upgrade here so for 50 bucks I think that's a really solid deal and there you have it for my rundown of the just under $1,100 build here featuring of course the 8700 k and this system I think again has the most potential for upgrades so if you wanted to tack on 40 bucks or 100 bucks upgrading the graphics card in this system it will handle no problem but again if you're looking for bang for the buck I'd say you can't get too much better than that right now final system here is the Black Friday builds full monty I don't know exactly what to call this I've been talking about PC gaming and the things that make PC gaming desirable and I think those things include high refresh rate monitors so going above 60 Hertz high resolution so going above 1080 and then adaptive refresh rate so g-sync if you have an Nvidia graphics card or freesync if you have an AMD graphics card g-sync monitors almost always costs a hundred to two hundred dollars more than free sync monitors so for that reason and this build I've gotten with a really nice assortment of parts that I think will get you a very nice PC gaming experience all for about twelve hundred and fifty dollars twelve twenty three according to the prices right now so here I've gone with a risin 526 hundred and this is one hundred and sixty dollars this is versus the 1700 X that I used in the second build I talked about this one will get you a bit higher frequency out of the box it's two less cores so it is a trade-off there although it does come with the heat sink fan included so all that $460 a good choice there same motherboard same memory kit same SS the same case same power supply so the main differences here compared to our $700 build is going to be the different CPU we upgraded the GPU a little bit and then of course graphics card and monitor and for the graphics card we want a fast card that's capable of doing 2560 by 1440 and it's got to be an AMD Radeon card so that gives us the Vega 60 mega 64 or the Vega 56 so right now I'm looking at just Vega 56 and 64 is on PC part picker and I'm sorting by price and we can find a really good price on a Vegas 6 Vega 56 right now this is over at new egg and it is three hundred and forty dollars you might also note it note that says get three games with purchase for a limited offer as well so that adds a little bit more bonus to you get the free AMD gift that includes the Division two Resident Evil 2 and Devil cry 5 so this is a fantastic deal for a Vega 56 the one thing you should keep in mind is that it is a reference design the blower style design which isn't the best cooler in the game but for 50 or 60 bucks cheaper than any other comparable Vega 56 it's worth going with you can remove this and add an aftermarket cooler if you want to there are various solutions for that that's just something I would keep in mind these aren't terrible by any stretch but you might consider something for the cooling solution in the future or just take a second look at this list of graphics cards I'm talking about here and consider maybe like a Vegas 64 that you can get for $400 although that's still lean blower style fan yes it is here we go you can get an aftermarket cooler design with the Vegas 64 for five hundred five dollars still get your free games but again that's a pretty big jump up over the three hundred and forty dollar price so I guess that is really kind of what you have to do sometimes when you find a great bargain like that and maybe that's why they're selling that for so cheaply then lastly is gonna be the monitor so using PCP part picker again just looking at 2560 by 1440 resolution and I have turned on the tick the tick-box here for free sync support sorted by price and you can find again some pretty good deals here's an AOC model it is a 31 point five inch monitor which is a really nice size that's that's quite large reviews on this are quite good as well so you do get freesync refreshed rate goes up to 75 Hertz and it's got a very large size and the price is quite reasonable there but you're not getting the full range I think of like gaming let the high refresh rate with this this would be a nice in-between and also a good bang for the buck choice I'll link it in the video description but the one I actually chose to go with this build is this viewsonic model it's still 31.5 inches 2560 by 1440 it's about a hundred bucks more so you are paying more but it does have a much higher refresh rate so refresh rate on this one goes up to 144 Hertz so this would be my pick to get you kind of all of the bonus features that you'd want to have with PC gaming high refresh rate higher resolution but not necessarily requiring the graphics horsepower that you'd need to push a 4k monitor and then of course free sync and and all that good stuff but guys that pretty much is gonna wrap it up for this video so I want to say a big thank you for watching and I will post links to as much of this stuff I possibly can down in the description below I will be coming back with another video on Friday talking about some Black Friday deals more content coming up through the weekend as well so hit the thumbs up button if you enjoyed this video and subscribe for more of those videos when they come out thanks again for watching and we'll see you next time
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