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the new arc 90 chassis by deep cool is a case and CPU cooling solution in one featuring an integrated captain series liquid cooling system with a 280 millimeter radiator and to RGB fans that's tied to a distinct external flow indicator combine this with high-end features like tempered glass side panels dat ex support and tasteful RGB lighting and the new arc 90 could house your next epic PC build click the sponsor link in the description to learn more you should be able to buy an absolutely amazing gaming PC for about eleven hundred dollars right now a rig that could handle VR 4k high refresh rate gameplay live streaming and video editing without breaking a sweat so why can't we the short answer is that a few components are ridiculously overpriced system memory graphics cards and to a lesser extent SSDs we should also have seen a new generation of graphics cards by now from Nvidia at least but lack of competition and the fact that current gen cards launched in 2016 are still selling for more than they did two years ago provides team green with little motivation to actually do so but there is hope for the future as we are now seeing legal action against DRAM manufacturers for possible price fixing and GPU prices are trending downward so today rather than discuss the why of all this I'm going to go over the PC that you should be able to put together right now if various factors hadn't caused all these horrific pricing bubbles and know the purpose of this video isn't just to frustrate you it's to remind you that there has been a nefarious long-term push going on in the tech industry for higher prices and we shouldn't just accept it we shouldn't accept GPU prices that are only 30 to 50 bucks over MSRP because they were a hundred or two hundred bucks overpriced a couple months ago and we shouldn't think to ourselves Wow a 16 gig Ram kit for $150 that's way better than 200 when they were easily able to still sell that kit for $100 and still make a profit two years ago actually hold on I'm double-checking my July 2016 monthly build and here is a 16 gig Ripjaws kit for $70 so this has affected me too I look at the prices of PC components all the time and this creeping normalcy of high prices has also affected me the norm right now shouldn't be this it should be the PC I'm about to describe to you that system I'm going to be using as a base for comparison is my July 2016 build a $1,200 build for my monthly builds series and 1200 bucks is kind of the baseline price I've been going for for a higher-end gaming system not like super high-end crazy expensive but a reasonable price that someone might invest in a computer that they're going to use for gaming as well as other tasks to everything on this parts list is still available and if you buy it right now this is the price one thousand five hundred and fifty dollars two years later I'm going with ballpark dollar amounts for my theoretical $1100 build and I'm not choosing specific parts for the most part but I wanted to start out with three components that's not much blame can be cast upon the case the power supply the motherboard really haven't seen too much price fluctuation over the past couple years so a reasonable layout of parts for a case power supply and motherboard can be seen in my parts list for my May 2018 nine hundred dollar build about 50 bucks for a power supply can get you a decent 550 watt job that will handle just about any graphics card you can throw at it's a $70 case we'll get you a nice case of course you can get cases cheaper but 70 bucks is a good price range for something that has a nice set of features and also looks pretty finally for a motherboard and I'm basing this on current prices of x4 70 motherboards that just launched about a hundred and forty bucks you can get a decent entry-level overclocking motherboard not gonna have all the bells and whistles but will get the job done just fine so now let's talk about the parts that have actually changed and made a pretty big difference over the past couple years in 2016 we all had to be happy with a fork or four thread CPU from Intel like the 6600 K for about 230 dollars they had a fork or eight thread option for about a hundred bucks more than that but who wants to pay all that money when you're trying to get by with a reasonably priced PC success story from the past couple years is the AMD risin launch which started with the rise in seven CPUs in March 2017 followed up with risin 5 launched in April 2017 and one year later April 2018 we have rise in two CPUs launched just last month and for your 230 bucks you now get six cores and twelve threads 12 threads versus four threads is a really nice jump in raw compute performance for your CPU and it's a perfect new thing to happen since the rise of game streaming and the necessary video transcoding and editing that might go along with it people are using their computers for more than just gaming these days you can even get a 6 core CPU from Intel now on their main stream platform in the form of an 80 400 or an 80 600 K but you still need to pay $100 premium on top of that if you want your hyper threading the next component is storage and fortunately storage pricing has been recovering much more quickly than RAM or GPU pricing and I'm happy to say that you can once again get a 500 gig class SATA SSD for just over $100 even just under under $100 if you go for this team drive right here and you can even get a 250 gig class drive for about 60 to 70 ish dollars flipping back to 2016 my SanDisk SSD plus 480 gig was 110 dollars so this is pretty much back where it was two years ago so there hasn't been a whole lot of progress but it is still good next up is system memory so let's take a cold hard look at what memory has been up to recently keep in mind that memory is inelastic it is absolutely a requirement for a modern gaming PC you could get by without a GPU temporarily if you use an APU for example you can even limp your system along with a mechanical hard drive rather than an SSD although you might vomit everywhere every time you boot up but for now you've got to have memory PC part picker keeps trends lists for memory as well as other components so if we go down here to take a look at some ddr4 2400 this is the average price for a 4 by 4 gig kit an average price listed here tends to be a little bit more than you can actually buy it for because it's looking at the whole range of memory options but even though this isn't going back far enough it's only going back to about November 2016 we can see the gradual steady rise of this kit getting well over 200 bucks before settling back down just a little bit to around the $200 range fortunately though we can reference back to my monthly builds video from a couple years ago to see that this g.skill ripjaws 5 series kit was available for only $70 how much does it cost now one hundred and eighty dollars a one hundred and ten dollar price jump for this same kit of memory so in my theoretical build I have theoretical really cheap memory - I'm gonna take this base price of $70 figure you probably want some RGB Ram as well so let's knock it up to $80 we'll do a generous $80 premium for your 16 gig RGB memory kits I really hope that the lawsuits or whatever other factors are going on right now take effect soon and prices drop further than what they have right now because what we're seeing right now is a bit of a drop but nowhere near down to where they should be and now on to the GPU and here's where we're talking about not just what's available and overpriced right now but what should have been and we should have had an Nvidia next-gen GPU launch in mid to late 2017 based on their historical launch cadence now when the 1000 series of GPUs launched from Nvidia back in 2016 the shiny new gtx 1070 was just about on par performance wise with the 980 TI from the previous generation and it cost about $400 so if nvidia kept up with their normal launch schedule it's reasonable to expect that we should or we could buy a next-gen card right now a gtx 980ti performance ballpark equivalents GPU for about $400 of course it would be called in GTX 1170 or GTX 2070 but that was my expectation for what we should have saw launched this year and I'm pretty sad that it actually didn't come to pass hopefully later this year but that's about a year too late in my opinion so if you add all this up you have what should be a really really nice build for about $1100 epic gaming performance tons of cores and threads for CPU heavy workloads and even more possible performance via CPU and RAM upgrades instead you have this my build from July 2016 all parts still available by the way coming in for the low low price of one thousand five hundred and fifty dollars instead of twelve hundred dollars that it costs two years ago and that's kind of sad I also consider how this pricing situation may have affected other PC parts 4k HDR high refresh rate gaming monitors have been teased for two years now but they keep delaying the launch my suspicion is because there's nobody to buy them because no one has high-end gaming PC's because they're so expensive I also have to imagine that sales of stuff like VR headsets and even other components like the motherboards in the cases may have suffered as well but my final advice to you guys is this vote with your wallet and be patient do everything you can to hold off and not buy any of these components while they're overpriced and maybe just maybe in the summer of 2018 we'll be able to build this PC until then hit the thumbs-up button if you enjoyed this video subscribe if you'd like to see more just like it and thank you guys so much for watching