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gigabytes X $2.99 motherboard lineup features a range of options with support for Intel's Core x-series CPUs boards like the Auris X 299 gaming 7 are packed with useful features and support obtain memory Thunderbolt 3 and USB 3.1 gen2 click the link in the description for more information what's up guys how's it going and welcome to my monthly builds video for December 2017 every month I come out with a couple parts lists that I share with you guys give you my suggestions for what I think are good choices when it comes to building a PC if you're choosing your own parts and that is what the series is all about I typically build one of the systems every month as well so check out my builds playlist if you want to see me actually assembling some stuff for today we're just going to be going over parts lists and I wanted to point out that we're actually going to be going over a couple of last month's part lists I did them at the towards the end of November and it's changed it shifted around just a little bit I also want to point out that I usually have a strawpoll for you guys to get feedback in and I'm not doing that this month simply because next month in January there's still a lot of stuff up in the air that I'm not really sure about so I'm gonna delay things will do reset when we come back to that but fear not your feedback will again be part of my multi build series when that's when that happens now last month I had two builds a 650 dollar and a $1,150 builds and they were both AMD based and they both had like swappable parts so you could take some of the more expensive parts from their more expensive build and some of the less expensive parts and less expensive build swap around to kind of find yourself a mid-range now because my recommendations this month haven't changed that much since last month but some prices have I'm gonna re I'm gonna go over those two builds one more time we'll take a look at what has happened to pricing since then and also maybe some suggestions for those of you who are maybe a little disillusioned with the with the PC filling a PC and how much money it's costing right now so here is my six hundred and fifty dollar build which is now crept up to seven hundred ish dollars and that's due to some of these products that were on sale for the Black Friday and Cyber Monday timeframe not being on sale anymore so the risin 312 hundred for example was less than a hundred dollars in fact you were able to get the 1300 X 499 dollars a week or so ago that's backed up to 109 the be 350 motherboard that I had chosen for around 80 bucks is now up to 102 you can still find very viable be 350 motherboards for around $80 so I would definitely check that out rather than going with this in fact let's see if I can swap that out real quick look real quick and see what's going on here with the be 350 motherboard landscape oh no there's a three 20s in there we have to filter those out so here's you be 350 boards starting at around 60 bucks going up Tyrande 8090 creeping up into the hundred dollar range just a little bit here I would personally recommend checking out the asrock order to go with a be 350 a be 350 M pro 4 or the be 350 M Pro from asrock are both pretty solid boards when it comes to overclocking as well as not being crazy over crazy expensive again rising three prices have just crept back up a little bit again I'd like to see these back under $100 but keep your eye out for deals on those there's that gigabyte motherboard it was a solid deal for the discount that it was that it had still a good board but it's just a little bit more money now so if you're on a strict budget you might not be able to afford that this course my memory kit is one that I've recommended a lot simply due to its easy compatibility with Rison systems and definitely double check your memory and your motherboards memory compatibility list before you choose your memory I have been recommending memory that's 3,000 or 3,200 rated for Rison because you do get some added performance out of that but you want to make sure it's compatible this kit definitely is but when we get to the next build the kit that it actually updated that one with isn't so more on that in just a second after storage if you've been watching these videos I typically recommend a 250 gig SSD to get yourself started to get your operating system loaded on and then find yourself a inexpensive or a hand-me-down used hard drive pull one from an old system to add some more storage and thankfully this price has come down a bit you can get a 256 gig SanDisk or a 240 gig a data for about $70 that's about 10 or 15 dollars cheaper than we were seeing a week or two ago so that's not too bad at all barring of course some individual sales it might have sold out quickly so maybe we're seeing the end prices come down just a little bit who knows for a video card I still feel like the aim cards are just a tad overpriced so if you're in the $200 to $250 range the gtx 960 is a good choice in there but bear in mind that the three gig you can get for about fifty bucks cheaper for about two hundred the six gig the cheapest you can get is around two hundred and sixty dollars definitely worth it for the six gig if you're considering anything beyond 1920 by 1080 gameplay if you're thinking about 1440 or that kind of thing but for 1080 either of those cards will work just fine for a case we have about a $45 ish case and the master box five is a good option for that it's all a case still fairly inexpensive that's after a $10 rebate of course and there's other cases in the $55 range that you could argue about that might be better but pick whichever one you think looks best because aesthetics that's kind of where you can choose your aesthetics is when you're picking out your case for a power supply we have an 80 plus bronze rated unit from corsair it's only about fifty dollars looks like it's out of stock at Amazon but you can get it at nu a grant now and it shows this one simply because it's 550 watt which should cover the jobs that the vast majority of computers need right now when it comes to the amount of power that's required and then it's also got it's not modular but it does have all black cabling that's attached so you're not gonna have any ugly looking ketchup and mustard cables that's all for that initial build again it was about $650 last month a little bit more expensive this month but there are still some deals going on since the beginning of December and you know people are still buying stuff for that of the holidays and Christmas so keep your eye out for deals I guess what I'm saying and lament the fact that you didn't purchase stuff last week if the thing that you wanted that was on sale is no longer on sale next up again a rehash of November's is the $1,150 build and that has crept up to 1215 dollars so about 65 ish dollars more some of these are still the same price so the surprise five sixteen hundred one hundred and ninety dollars well it did dip down a little bit below that in the past week or two but that's still very good price for your six core 12 red rise in five this asrock actually 70 board still the same price so that's still pretty good deal for it X 370 at 130 bucks here's the parametric filter I used for the Corsair memory so let's jump over to that first off look there's your 1600 only 190 dollars maybe that'll be go to micro Center if if you really want to deal on a CPU they have a CPU and motherboard combos you can get usually 20 or 30 bucks off with there's that asrock motherboard look it's got a $20 million rebate if you get it at new way and here's my parametric filter which is one of the features from PC part faker perk picker which is where I just told it hey I want Corsair memory I want it to be either 3000 or 3200 speed and I want a 16 gig kit to buy eight gigs if you filter those down you might get the Corsair Vengeance lpx kits or you might get those for instance the Vengeance led kit this kid is not at least in my experience you might want to double check again your motherboard compatibility this this is not as compatible with Rison as the other stuff the standard Vengeance lpx kits so do double check that and make sure if you're using the parametric filter or if you're gone by my lists always do a little bit of reality checking to make sure that your memory is gonna be compatible moving right along we have storage again I was looking at storage based on price per gigabytes as well as seeing what you could get if you're spending a little bit more now that 250 gig one was about $70 you got to pay about 50 bucks more to get yourself into that double that that storage range 480 to 500 gigs but 430 dollars at a price per gig of 27 cents the SSD plus 480 gig is a pretty good deal right now but again you know if you're on the budget you might not be able to afford that but if you're spending a little bit more on your system and then definitely keep that in mind but a little bit better price per gigabyte on the 500 gig versions for video card for this particular build of just just in a gtx 1070 and i've chosen to get the cheapest one possible and unfortunately they're 420 dollars which might make you reconsider like if you're looking at a 10 78 for $420 definitely might be worth it to pay 30 bucks more for a $450 gtx 1070 TI which is closer in performance to a gtx 980 then at 1070 so yeah the 1070 deals might not be your best bang for the buck right now umm but still I guess maybe check a bag at 56 as well you can see if they get 56 for 400 bucks and then go for that rounding out this builds the case I had chosen with the was the Eclipse P 400 but $80 was the price budget for the case then finally the power supply which was about $65 and that is an 80 plus gold unit since this is a little bit more expensive of a system and again the price for this entire system coming in at 1215 dollars at least right now according to PC part picker so you do have compatibility there but again if you're looking for example at the more budget build the 700 issue dollar builds and you're like oh I want that but I want I want the risin 5 1600 instead of the risin 3 1200 then you can pay an extra $80 and get that and swap it in part of the reason why I've recommended am four and why I've been recommending AMD builds right now is simply because they have an upgrade path they have an upgrade path going into next year AMD as promised and four is gonna stick around we're probably gonna season 2 CPUs launched on the same platform I can't promise you that but everything we've been told seems to indicate that and when you're comparing right now the actual raw CPUs performance that you get with rise ins 6 core and 8 core processors compared to what you get on the mainstream Intel side that's just kind of no contest when it comes to bang for your buck ok I've got one more build for you guys and this one is definitely a gaming focused build if you are gonna do other stuff besides gaming which includes maybe video editing or if you're gonna do three at a 3d animation or if you're gonna be gaming and streaming at the same time this might not be the most viable build I would recommend to go into that rise in 1600 build that we just covered moments ago but this is actually a Intel 7700 K based system and that is solely due to the fact that 7700 K can be had for a pretty decent discount if you compare it to what it was selling for before this most recent launch of the coffee like stuff so combine that with some reasonably priced z2 70 boards and you can't get yourself a pretty powerful gaming system you're gonna have a quad core 8 thread CPU and then the graphics card I've chosen for this is a gtx 1070 TI of course you could swap that for a 1070 or a 1080 if you wanted to spend a little bit less or a little bit more money and then also gets a little bit less or a little bit more GPU performance but overall cost of this is around 1200 and 50 dollars so it's a little bit more expensive than that our five sixteen hundred build that we just came across but it does feature the i7 seventy seven hundred K which is really good overclocker and an excellent excellent gaming processor so if you're going to pair this with a high-end graphics card in most situations you're going to be getting the most you can out of that high-end graphics card and it's good to see that whereas the typical price of this is somewhere in the 340 to $350 range now you can get it for around two hundred and ninety dollars right now again less of a bargain when you compare it to some of the AMD stuff that's out there but for Intel hardcore Intel users or people who again are just purely focused on gaming it's still good option the cry ring h7 is a very good CPU cooler it's pretty simple to install does a very good job and looks nice to boot so less than $30 at nigga please right now ESU's prime z - 70 - a motherboard really solid motherboard just just look at them readings available for less than one hundred and fifty dollars right now you can even get a couple mil and rebates for it and it's got support for like all the good things including a couple MDOT two slots on there as well as one-time dot two slot that is also compatible with SATA and about two devices more on that in just a second and with the two by eight gig of memory kit for this it's a little bit lower slower speed memory because that's not going to impact your performance on an Intel platform as much as it will on the AMD platform at least with Rison and memory prices are probably the main thing that's keeping these overall prices of these builds really high right now so a hundred and forty five dollars is a good deal right now for a two by eight gig kit of ddr4 two hundred twenty four hundred memory that's a team kits and you know it's a very small picture there but it's black and silver so it'll look okay and then we have our storage of course this is a native premiere SP 550 240 gig it is an MDOT to drive but it is SATA so we have to make sure that our MDOT two slot on the motherboard is compatible estate a lot of them will have legacy backward compatibility with SATA as well as compatibility with the nvme so just double check that the as are the asus motherboard that we're using does so for $70 you know you don't have to worry about plugging in SATA and power cables from your motherboard just slot it into your motherboard and you're good to go 1070 TI's you can actually get for MSRP right now at least $450 is what those were told to be selling for and that's what they actually sell for so there you go you can save 30 bucks by getting a regular 1070 or you can spend 50 dollars more and get a 1080 the NZXT s340 really solid case for a couple years now and just won that for $60 it's hard to pass up when I'm choosing cases I know a lot of it comes then to aesthetics and what you like but I tried to choose cases that I know are reasonably well built and have good features to make the the build process fairly simple sv40 is definitely one of those and for 60 bucks with the $10 million rebate from Newegg I think you probably can't go wrong I chose the all-black version but it comes in a few different colors as well finally our power supply again the course here is cxm semi modular this is the same well not exactly the same unit but partially modular all black cables 650 watts and it's 80 plus bronze rated and it's only $60 on Amazon so there you go a nice solid power supply for your power delivery needs and the last thing I wanted to do really quick was compare this build at $1,250 - two years ago two years ago in November 2015 I posted this video my bang for the buck gaming rig and $200 mom-and-pop system my November builds about two years ago and in here my $1200 bang for the buck gaming PC featured a I 560 600 K a hyper 212 plus a gtx 980ti amp from ZOTAC as e170 pro 4 SS roc motherboard eight gigs two by four gig kit of memory 120 gig SSD and a cooler master case and a 650 watt power supply so for about $1,200 a couple years ago that's what we were looking at if you're comparing that to like right now here's here's that actual build and the price is wrong because a lot of these things aren't available anymore but if you're comparing that to right now it's a good example of why it kind of feels like the PC market with as exciting as it's been with all the product launches this year has overall remained somewhat stagnant when it comes to the actual price that you're paying compared to this system you're comparing this system to the $1,250 system right now you're getting a 70 600k instead 7700 k instead of a 6600 k so we've jumped up to hyper-threading you're getting roughly the same caliber of cpu cooler motherboard you're getting twice as much memory but it's for almost twice as much money so that's not much of a difference and you're getting a bit more capacity on the SSD and you getting a 10-7 TTI instead of a 980ti for a bit less money so there are some advancements that have happened that have made things a little bit more affordable here and there but hopefully you come 2018 we'll see an and prices start to come down a bit more so we'll actually get better pricing on both SSDs as well as memory I think that combined with the competitive marketplace that the introduction of Verizon has created will get us to a point where we're gonna have some really good budget PC options next year for now if you're buying in 2017 for the end of the year definitely keep a close eye out for any of those last-minute deals because there will be vendors trying to clear some stuff out and then of course leave any comments in the comments section you have down below if you found good deals or if you have other suggestions for variations of parts lists like the ones I've shared today share those with the people read in the comments and maybe you'll help them out a little bit but guys thank you so much for watching this video if you enjoyed it the domes up button of course links to all the products and pretzels that I've talked about in the video's description down below and we'll see you next time