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so recently two tech YouTube has made videos on why it sucks to get into PC gaming at the moment and Greg from science studio made a video on the economics involved in that and why GPU prices are the way they are Paul from Paul's hardware however made a video on just in general why it sucks in relation to ddr4 pricing and also GPU pricing and why it's not really gonna come down anytime soon the video in ways was a negative outlook and I completely agree with both videos it does indeed suck to get into PC gaming at the moment if you are buying new PC parts so today I'm here to give you guys an alternative to that and we're gonna look at some use price performance and deals that you can get so strap yourselves in and let's jump aboard the yes libido welcome back to tech yes City this brand coming to you guys today with not just an alternative to the hostile market for new PC buyers but also an alternative to the way we think about economics now in Greg's video he showcases a model on perfect competition and this is a fantastic objective model but the problem here is that humans are anything but objective a lot of the times we are very subjective and this relates to our emotions and in turn that relates to consumer behavior and now with consumer behavior it's a very tricky thing and this relates to what we're prepared to pay for an item which in ways is directly related to demand for an item however what we're prepared to pay and what we actually pay for an item are two separate things have you ever seen someone in an electronic store for instance being not prepared to pay something but eventually being conned by a salesman and then ended up paying more than not they'll prepared to pay this is because the subjective or the emotional side of the human allowed him to be conned into paying extra money than what he was prepared to pay and also ironically enough what were prepared to pay for an item is also directly correlated to the innovation in that particular field for instance if we were prepared to pay more money for a CPU or a GPU and also more people were getting into enthusiast technology you would see higher gains year-over-year than what we're currently seeing however you look at the GPU market for example what we are seeing is a substantial increase year-over-year in terms of graphical performance this is because the increase in enthusiast PC gamers has increased a lot in the past few years however I won't just stop there this next part segues perfect into the rest of this video and now with consumer behavior and what we're prepared to pay for an item is sometimes overshadowed by supply or how much of an item is in stock for instance if there's too much of an item in stock we as humans will perceive that as not being a good deal and we can procrastinate and then sometimes check back and the items completely out of stock so this is a factor that can stop you from getting good deals when I hunt for deals I leave out human emotion I'm prepared to pay a price if I don't get it for that price I go on to the next deal however unless that's a gtx 690 then i went crazy in one of my recent parts for that though another example of this is the first reason of my 4 points that i'm gonna make here today and this is motherboards in the use price performance sector on aliexpress you can currently get AP 55 gigabyte motherboard for 55 US dollars shipped anywhere in the world it's incredible value for money when you couple it with a Xeon X 30 for 50 for example this is just over $30 it's a 4 core 8 threaded CPU with decent IPC and at overclocks really well now ddr4 prices although they're ridiculously expensive in a moment ITX build I did rant about the prices there are three hundred and fifteen dollars for a 32 gig kit and I paid 115 dollars for that same kit a year ago but with ddr3 memory which is a generation beforehand the prices are a lot less costlier for instance you can get a 4 gigabyte stick going on Amazon for $20 delivered to your door so that's 40 dollars for an 8 gigabyte kit this will serve you really well in a budget gaming PC and here's reason number to grab his cards yes cryptocurrency miners are snapping up a lot of the new graphics cards however cryptocurrency miners also demand efficiency if something is not power efficient and there is one better graphics card out there there's more power efficient for mining they will generally take that grab a scar and that graphics card will be in high demand so with the older generation graphics cards they're not as power efficient as the newer graphics cards and a lot of people want to upgrade to the latest and greatest and with that we can get some really good deals on gravis cards for instance I just took a quick look I could get a gtx 960 4 gigabytes for probably around 100 Australian dollars if I put in an offer that's around 80 USD for gigabyte model that will serve me really well for gaming if I want to play pub G at 1080 P overwatch or some other competitive titles this gravis card will serve me really nicely a lot of my other budget bills as well I've looked at graphics cards spanning from r9 290x is the GTX 780 s and they're all really good grammars counts for the money I'll put some links in the description below for you guys and here we are with reason number three everything else new is actually pretty good for the money and in fact since there's a lower demand due to ddr4 memory prices storage for instance cases power supplies and coolers are actually pretty cheap at the moment for instance if you're in Australia you can get a cougar power supply in case for $69 and actually the included power supply the 500 watt power supply I've tried this in the past and it's exceptionally good value for money for what you're getting so if you guys are in the market you can pick up some new parts and just know that you're getting very good value for money you get a one terabyte hard drive for just over $40 you can get coolers for $25 and also you can sometimes get decent 430 white power supplies for $20 and now we're gonna get into the final reason on why it's a good thing to get into the used PC market and this is quite simply overclocking when we look at a brand new 8700 k just tested this cpu out it went to five gigahertz however out of the box it will turbo up to 4.7 gigahertz in a lot of cases so you're not even getting a 10% boost in performance from your factory clock settings however let's rewind it back to the older generations that I've talked about here today the p55 and in particular one of my favorites the x58 sometimes we can get a 40% boost in performance by overclocking so if you guys do have a bit of time and you want to learn how to overclock you can gain some serious benefits from overclocking on the older gear and with that it will make it a very good experience for instance the Xeon x34 50 that I mentioned you can sometimes overclock these to 4 gigahertz on 25-dollar coolers and couple that with a gtx 1060 for example and not only will you be at no detriment on this cpu versus a new cpu but you also have a really good experience for the price and performance that this thing will offer anyways before I get on out of here I went on good old gam tree and I pulled up some deals this literally only took me ten minutes to do and what I found was a whole PC that I could piece together if I called up all these people so we had a build here for theoretically around about 400 Australian dollars it cost you around 300 US dollars and we've got a motherboard cool and CPU for around 80 Australian dollars now we can change the CPU over 2 and Z on X 56 70 which costs around 50 Australian dollars and then there was a gratis Carter GTX 960 for gigabyte they're asking $120 but I sure could have dropped in an offer of a hundred since they're negotiable and I reckon I would have got it and now for memory there's one guy selling to different sales of ddr3 memories selling 14 gigabytes in total and since the x58 motherboards have six slots we could put in 12 gigabytes of memory and would be kitted out and ready for gaming I reckon I could get this memory for at least $70 a strand really good deal now k some power supply $69 brand-new from Newmont we don't have to waste any time their hard disk drive someone selling one for $30 brand-new we could probably even get one of these for a little bit cheaper if we tried and then that brings the total to 402 Australian dollars that's if I just went out hunted this I could build this PC and then start overclocking it today and that's about it for today if you guys enjoyed today's video then be sure to hit that like button and let me know in the comments section below if you agree or disagree with today's video also if you're new to tech yes City then there are a lot of people in the comment section that can help you out if you need tips on getting into use price-performance well you want to buy some new parts and you've got to build list a lot of people in the comments are very friendly around here and with that said I'll catch you in another tech video very soon peace out for now bye