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video's description where you can actually see me putting some stuff together speaking of putting some stuff together I have actually already built one of the two systems I'm going to be talking about today so follow-up video will come becoming later this week with a how to build tutorial on this system and of course I need your feedback as well so check the video description for a strawpoll where you can tell me what builds you want to see in March there's a few options there hopefully prices will be somewhat more reasonable by that time who knows though we've been talking about that for a while but for today's first build I have a build that no one should buy and that is because we're dealing with some really difficult pricing issues in the PC component world right now memory is very expensive and graphics cards are very expensive so I want to do a throwback actually to about a year ago January 2017 I did this sensible RGB build with a 7600 K and a gtx 1070 and that total system price was one thousand two hundred and thirty six dollars and 81 cents at least according to pc part picker at the time i will be using pc part picker for my builds today and links to everything is down in the description by the way but this was a 7600 k based system with a z2 70 motherboard and a gtx 1070 one year ago for just under one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars so I took the same base list of components swapped out a couple things to make it a bit more current and here's where you get my first build for today's video 20:18 a stupid overpriced PC that nobody should buy there's only a single upgrade to this system compared to last year's system that's an eighty six hundred K instead of the seventy six hundred K which is a six core processor instead of a four core processor still not hyper studying on this one so six cores and six threads and at $250 it is a very capable gaming processor but there's plenty of competition now from Rison and on the rise inside you can get six core 12 thread processors or even eight core 16 thread processors as well as less expensive motherboards so this is why I'm less enthused about the 8600 k overall although if you're willing to spend the money and your focus is on gaming it is a very very good processor for that now the CPU cooler is about the same price the cryo a gauge seven is still 35 bucks that's not too bad at all this is prime Z 370 a solid mid-range hundred and fifty dollar motherboard and about hundred fifty dollars is about what you should be spending for a system that's gonna cost overall about this much the g.skill ripjaws four series memory kit is currently a hundred and eighty six dollars free shipping though if you compare that to one year ago that same kit was $85 it has literally gone up 100 freaking dollars since last year which is absolutely ridiculous and I do not recommend to buying this memory or indeed any memory that's ridiculously overpriced unless you absolutely have to and I still went with a 480 gig SSD I used a PC part pickers parametric filter option here just to choose a 480 to 512 gig SSD and sort it by price and that's what we're coming up with about 125 to 135 dollars for a reasonable 480 gig SSD and that actually is also about the same price it was 120 dollars for the 480 gig last year in our case is the fantex Eclipse P 400 very solid case $60.00 that's actually $10 less than it was last year and then finally of course we have the gtx 1070 itself again here i have used a parametric filter in order to just choose gtx 10 70's and sort them by price and according to pc park picker you can get one for six hundred and twenty dollars right now however those are all lies damned lies and if we looked at the actual page over here we see it's supposed to be on sale four and five 50 to $600 this is supposed to cost about $400 again by the way so we're looking at prices that are two to three hundred dollars over what they should be but even the outlet PC listing here is out of stock and if we go over to new a gets out of stock and I just wanted to check like are there any 10 70s that you can actually buy so over on new egg if we're sorting by price and looking just the 1070 it does look like you've gotten a $700 1070 in stock or a $750 1070 in stock and this is all just stupid and lame and nobody should buy them for these prices so so don't don't don't buy any of this stuff really so yeah this is a stupid overpriced PC nobody should buy it I'm gonna can like it puts me in a strange position being a person who makes YouTube videos about building computers and recommending you guys what parts to buy to just be saying like don't buy any of this stuff until we have reasonable graphics cards and memory prices but that's that's really where I'm at right now don't spend money on a computer right now that's my advice but if you have to if you really need to or if you're just really excited if you were like saving up money all last year to build an entry level gaming PC and you got to get off the ground somehow you're tired of console gaming or you've got a game you really want to play here is what I would recommend you purchase and this is a sub $500 gaming PC and this is using the new risin 320 200 G that just launched which is an APU which includes both the CPU and the graphics processor in the same chip this is a $99 for the 2200 G and yes it is not a discrete graphics card no it is not gonna perform equivalent weights like a 1050 or a 1050 TI or anything above that but it does perfectly adequate 1080p gaming especially if you're willing to play on medium or low settings depending on the game of course and you can check out my video where I already did a review with some benchmarks on that's if you want to see some actual performance numbers now apart from the 2200 G which is $100 we have a $100 motherboard we have a just over $100 memory kit and I'm torn about this but you got a half memory for your price for your computer to work we have a 240 gig SSD a little $50.00 Thermaltake case and a corsair 500 you want power supply altogether four hundred and seventy dollars is the price that you would pay right now assuming of course that everything is in stock I do want to point out if you're looking at the rise in 320 200 G and using my links their affiliate links down in the description just so you know double check and make sure that you're actually buying from Amazon right now Amazon has it for $99 but they're temporarily out of stock you probably can't see that temporarily out of stock so checking the auto notify options there to make sure you're not paying an extra twenty or thirty dollars for your APU too because we're all about not overpaying for stuff this time of year now the motherboard that I've chosen is the a B 315 gaming Wi-Fi from gigabyte it is the motherboard that I already had that I used for my testing it's about a hundred dollars and it's a mini ITX so this is a mini ITX system now once you've chosen your motherboard go over to your motherboards website this is the gigabyte support page and they'll have downloads and stuff for drivers to go over to the support list and then they'll usually have memory support lists that you can pull up here so I downloaded that as a PDF and it's a little bit difficult to read but this basically just lists all of the memory kits that gigabyte has directly tested with this motherboard and verified to work because you want faster memory with Rison it improves the performance of the CPU and since you're usually an integrated GPU you want decently fast memory for that as well so all I really did here was I skip to 3200 mega Hertz speed memory that's all a little bit more expensive ddr4 3000 is a good kit to run with over here you can tell you that they verified that the XMP settings have been plugged in and worked so all you want to do is highlight the actual SKU the model part number for each one and depending on your browser whatever you can just search for Google or whatever and it should hopefully pull up a listing for that based on the actual model number and then maybe you can pull that up over on Amazon now this is Amazon Canada for some reason I don't know why it did that but the Corsair Vengeance lpx kit is still a solid kit as long as you get the right SKU there's also some team options here so this is the one that I actually chose and the listing done and the parts list down below it's an 8 gig kit 2 by 4 gigs and I opted to go with to four gigs sticks versus a single a gig stick largely based on the video that Brian from tech yes city posted earlier today and he actually compared dual channel versus single channel mode I'll link this video in the description as well but with the 2200 G in dual channel mode having two sticks of memory versus a single 8 gig stick was a pretty big difference in your integrated GPUs performance so for that reason if you're going the budget route here get the 2 by 4 gig kits rather than a single 8 gig kit and that will make sure that you get the most out of the memory that you choose and the most out of your eye GPU now of course that list goes on and if you should have chosen a different motherboard you might have a different list if you go with ASUS motherboard for example they usually have a lot of different types of memory listed there but you can go down that list and just find the memory that's you know matches your build if that's what you're looking for or just has the best price or the best kind of combination of price and performance and you can get a 16 gig kit to buy 8 gigs which is a nice step up a data has their xpg gamax d-10 kit which is compatible and there's a few different varieties of that ddr4 3000 speeds so that's another option there a Teta also has xbg spectryx d40 which is on the list and that's that's RGB that's got RGB lighting on it if you're into that and that's 190 dollars so we do have some options again all of this ddr4 memory is still really overpriced if you compare it to about a year ago hopefully that will continue to come down but whereas with this build you can get by without it graphics card you do still need system memory other than that though I've got the SanDisk 240 gig SSD for 70 bucks and then for the case actually went over to Fry's because I didn't have a mini ITX case on hand here that I could just build in and Thermaltake core v1 here it was 50 bucks and also like the only mini ITX case that they had on hand there Fry's so that's what I went with there and that is my build for about $470 right now you can actually get yourself a nice entry level gaming PC and the beautiful thing about this is that if graphics card prices do come down you can drop a graphics card in here it's got a full PCI Express x16 slot and a decent amount of space in there for most reasonably sized graphics cards too so you've got an upgrade path available for you not to mention that the CPU could be upgraded too if you switch to a discreet graphics card you could go with like an 1800 X or something like that in the future then guys again all the links to everything I've talked about today is done in the video description below thank you so much for watching this video and if you want hit the thumbs up button on your way it is very very much appreciated again I have a how to build a PC tutorial for this system coming out to in just a couple days so subscribe as well if you're not already thanks again for watching guys and we'll see you in the next video