BY REQUEST - Awesome Gaming PC for about $750 - November 2018 Builds
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### Introduction to Paul's Monthly Build Video
Welcome back to Paul’s Hardware channel! In this month’s video, Paul dives into his November 2018 build, where he breaks down two gaming PC configurations: a budget-friendly $750 system and a more high-end $1,400 setup. The focus is on helping viewers choose the right parts for their builds, whether they’re new to PC building or looking to upgrade.
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### **The $750 Build: A Balanced Gaming System**
Paul starts by showcasing his $750 build, designed to provide a powerful gaming experience within a tight budget. Here’s a detailed breakdown of the components:
1. **CPU**: The AMD Ryzen 2600 is at the heart of this system, offering six cores and twelve threads for excellent multitasking and gaming performance. Priced at $160, it’s a standout choice in its price range compared to Intel alternatives.
2. **Cooling**: An affordable Hyper 212 Black air cooler is paired with the CPU, providing efficient cooling while keeping costs low. Paul notes that skipping this cooler for the included stock heatsink could save money, but at the expense of quieter and cooler operation.
3. **Motherboard**: The MSI B450 Tomahawk motherboard is selected for its reliable power delivery and essential features. While it lacks some higher-end functionalities like USB 3.1 Gen2 front-panel support (due to case compatibility), it remains a solid choice for the price.
4. **Memory**: A 16GB G.Skill Ripjaws V DDR4 kit is included, ensuring adequate memory for gaming and multitasking. Running at 3200MHz, this setup delivers good performance without breaking the bank.
5. **Storage**: The build includes a 240GB Toshiba SSD as the primary drive, which Paul acknowledges might need additional storage in the future. He suggests upgrading to a larger SSD or adding a secondary mechanical hard drive for more space.
6. **GPU**: The RX 578 is chosen for its balance of performance and affordability at $170. While it’s slightly less powerful than an RX 580, it offers excellent value for gaming within the budget.
7. **Case**: The Cooler Master MasterBox case provides a sleek design with good airflow, despite being on the smaller side. Paul adds Corsair ML fans to enhance cooling and improve system aesthetics.
8. **Power Supply**: A 550W Corsair Bronze PSU is used to keep costs down, though he notes that upgrading to an 80 Plus Gold option could be beneficial for efficiency and future-proofing.
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### **The High-End $1,400 Build: Upgrades and Features**
For those willing to spend more, Paul cranks up the specs with his high-end build:
1. **CPU Upgrade**: The AMD Ryzen 2700X is swapped in for an eight-core experience, offering a noticeable performance boost over the six-core Ryzen 2600.
2. **Motherboard**: To support overclocking and additional features like USB 3.1 Gen2 Type-C, Paul upgrades to the MSI B450 Taichi motherboard.
3. **Cooling System**: A Cooler Master Master Liquid ML360 RGB all-in-one liquid cooler is added for better thermal management. Its dual-chamber pump and addressable RGB fans provide a premium cooling solution that enhances both performance and aesthetics.
4. **GPU Upgrade**: The build features an AMD Radeon Vega 56, offering a significant performance leap compared to the RX 578 while remaining competitive in price.
5. **Case**: Paul opts for the more expensive Cooler Master SL600M case, which offers improved airflow and space for high-end components.
6. **Storage and Power Supply**: The SSD is upgraded to a larger capacity, and the power supply is increased to a 650W 80 Plus Gold PSU for better efficiency and headroom.
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### **Considerations: Storage and Monitors**
Paul emphasizes the importance of storage in any build. While a 240GB SSD is sufficient for the budget setup, he recommends upgrading to a larger drive or adding a secondary hard drive for additional space. For monitors, he highlights the benefits of 1440p displays with high refresh rates and variable sync technologies (FreeSync for AMD, G-Sync for Nvidia). These features provide smoother gaming experiences without requiring top-tier graphics cards.
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### **Final Thoughts**
Paul’s video concludes with a reflection on his $3,000 build from the previous month, which featured an Intel Core i9-9900K and RTX 2080 Ti. He questions whether the additional cost of such a high-end system justifies its performance gains over more affordable builds. His ultimate goal is to help viewers find a balance between price and performance for their needs.
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### **Conclusion**
Paul’s November build video provides valuable insights for anyone looking to assemble a gaming PC, whether on a tight budget or willing to invest in higher-end components. By breaking down the pros and cons of each part choice, he offers practical advice that helps viewers make informed decisions about their builds. Stay tuned for more detailed comparisons and future builds as Paul continues his journey into PC hardware!
"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthe master liquid ml 360 our RGB is a new all-in-one by Coolermaster that sports seat 360 mm meter radiator addressable RGB fans and a low-profile dual chamber pump the nicely sleeved FTP tubing has a premium feel and you can use the included RGB control unit to customize the addressable LEDs on the fans and pump or plug directly into your motherboard for more on the master liquid ML 360 our RGB click the sponsor link in the video's description what's up guys welcome back to Pauls hardware this is my monthly builds video for November 2018 every month I part out a couple pcs so what we're looking at today are parts lists I'm not actually building anything so if you guys want to see a computer put together feel free to check out my builds list because I have lots of actual PC builds there today is more about choosing the parts before you build a PC so if you're building for the first time or if you're just not quite sure what you should put together I do get feedback every month so last month I asked people what PC builds they wanted to see this month in November so we have a Black Friday deals PC it's a little too early for Black Friday although there are some deals coming up but I did do a $750 build for you and then I tried to do $1,000 bill but it came up more than that what I'm actually gonna be building in my follow up video to this is gonna be something akin to the $1,000 build and then I have a $1,400 version that's a little bit more high-end I did note that there was next to zero interest in the really high core counts unlock Zeon's or skylake X's so we are gonna skip those and we're sticking with mainstream AMD builds in the meantime I will be doing this again next month in December so feel free to click the strawpoll link in the description and vote on that so you can give me your feedbacks so let's jump right into the first build these seven hundred and fifty dollar build or as close to that as I could get it honestly this was seven hundred and fifty dollars yesterday now it has crept up and priced a little bit to seven hundred and sixty two dollars but what we have here is a balanced PC and a PC that honestly I could say if someone came to me and said I have 750 bucks to spend I want a gaming PC this is probably what I would tell them to get it's based around a six core AMD Rison two processors so the 2000 series there's a little bit faster they're based on the 12 nanometer manufacturing process instead of 14 so it's a nice little step up it's only hundred and sixty bucks - and you get six cores and twelve threads Intel has nothing near the CIM the performance of the CPU at price range I've paired it with an air cooler here the hyper 212 black which is only $35 although you could easily save that 35 bucks and get away with the air cooler that's included with this processor the motherboard I've chosen is a B 450 tomahawk and I've already got this right here because I will be building this system I chose this largely based on Steve from hardware unboxed recommendation because he tested a bunch of B 450 motherboards and look at their power delivery as well as features power delivery can be limited on B 450 motherboards especially the less expensive ones but the tomahawk actually has a pretty good configuration for that beyond that we have a 16 gig memory kit not an 8 gig kit so I was happy that I was able to include that it's still hundred and thirty-five bucks but this kit should work just fine with Rison 240 gig SSD so you will want to add some more storage to this in the future or hopefully soon maybe if you have an old hard drive lying around and rx 578 get graphics card a forty seven dollar cooler master master box case 550 watt power supply from Corsair this is a basic one but it's got all black cabling and then a couple Corsair ml fans these are Maglev fans so they're nice fans add these to the case which only ships with one case fan and you will have a much better cooling situation so here's the CPU available from a wide variety of retailers so this isn't just like some quick like sale price it's always 160 you probably be able to get the 2600 I'm guessing if sales this year anything like last year for even less than this so keep an eye on the 2600 it's already a good price at 160 bucks but I imagine you might even be able to find it cheaper this is the hyper 212 black from cooler master and I printed 12 is very popular cooler I am glad they decided to make it in all black because often when we see the hyper 212 if we complain that like wow it's a good cooler but it doesn't look that great this one's just all black and clean and it isn't even that much more expensive 35 bucks again you can go without this if you want to save a few dollars but this will run cooler and quieter than the stock heatsink fan motherboard is the MSI B 450 tomahawk are you mentioned why I chose this but it's only about 100 bucks I don't have good pictures right here but oh there's been one I already explained why I chose this one but here's a quick closer look at the picture of it at least it has all the basic features for a system that you'd want to put together it's missing some of the higher-end motherboard features and the one main thing it's gonna be missing for the system I put together a USB 3.1 gen2 front panel port but that's because I'm going with a weird configuration with the case I chose but more on that in just a minute memory kit is again the g.skill ripjaws 5 is just a standard all-black kits which does work with Rison so you should be able to plug in X and P values and run this at ddr4 3200 speed SSD is a 240 gig Toshiba although you can spend just about 20 bucks more to get yourself a 500 gig SSD again more on that in just a minute but if you are on a budget 40 bucks for a 240 gig of main operating system Drive will get you up and running but again I recommend keeping an eye out for additional storage because you'll fill that 240 gigs pretty fast if you have an old hard drive from an old computer that you can repurpose or just spend another 40 or 50 bucks on another 1 or 2 terabyte spinning mechanical hard drive 4 graphics card the RX 578 gig version only $170 this is quite a bit cheaper than the rx 580 although if you can afford an RX 580 it is a decent little step up in performance from this but how much these prices have come down compared to what they were just a few months ago but the good news is that that's available and in stock and not too expensive finally a case we got the master box this is a solid all-around case it's got a good airflow it's got a nice layout it's got a shredded power supply area at the bottom it's only 4650 from new angle with a $10 promotional gift card that's a good deal power supply actually had a different power supply chosen but I again was trying to keep this under budget bear in mind if you're gonna spend $50 on an 80 plus bronze 550 watt power supply you can spend 10 or 15 dollars more for an 80 plus gold power supply and even 650 watt versions so keep a close eye on the power supply ranges I feel like this power supply you should be able to get for about 40 bucks and when it comes to efficiency ratings power supplies you will pay more in the long term with a bronze rated power supply than a gold rated power supply just because it's going to waste more energy via waste heat and that for that reason a gold rated power supply might be something that you're interested in finally I did add fans because the case only comes with a single fan you definitely wanted to add some more in the ML series is a very nice one these have no lights or anything like that and you get two of them for $27 you can't get cheaper fans in this two but these are just ones that I'd recommend so there you have it a about 750 dollar actually more like 765 right now if you include the mail and rebates and a very good system a very powerful gaming system but you can go up from there so what I have is a system that's like the high end version of the $750 system and actually cranked up the price pretty quickly so this is about a one thousand four hundred and fifty dollar system with a bunch of upgrades and of course you could swap in some of these upgrades or none of them or all of them depending on how much money you wanted to save I do want to point out that a big reason why the price is pretty high is because the case I'm building with is the cooler master SL 600 M and that's the $200 case I am building in this case because I have it here and I wanted to try it out and give you guys an idea of what the case is like but you can save probably about a hundred bucks and get away with a much less expensive case you could also save money by not going with an all-in-one liquid cooler but based on the gamers nexus reviews of the master case SL 600 mm yesterday which has very good cooling for the graphics card because it draws air in from the bottom CPU cooling was not so good and they used an air cooler a standard air cooler for that but if you had a liquid cooler at the top it would go along with the airflow and I'm imagining it would work a little bit better so for that reason I paired this up that is why the price is a little bit more but of course you can mix and match to swap things in and out between these two system builds and you'd still end up with a powerful system just depending on whether you wanted the eight core processor with the 2700 versus the six core version from before I upgraded the motherboard specifically to have better power delivery for overclocking but also to be compatible with the front panel USB 3.1 gen2 type-c port that is on the case I feel bad having a case that has that without actually pairing it up with the motherboard that has the same I did upgrade the SSD but it was only about 15 bucks more again 17 dollars more for a 480 gig version and then we have a Vega 56 which I also have right here and I already bought anticipating doing a comparison between this build which is much less expensive and the super high-end 3000 ish dollar build that I did last month and a Vega 56 for $400 is actually somewhat reasonably priced of course after I bought this like I literally just bought it with my own funds for $400 and two days later like a day and a half ago the price is increased by $75 so for that reason I used a parametric filter on this parts list to pair you up with a Vega 56 but it's not the same one I'm using for $405 right now you can still get the asrock blower version of the Vega 56 which probably wouldn't do quite as well as this one but it's in keeping with the price and it's hard to deal with price fluctuations sometimes also worth noting that you do get a 3-game bundle right now the games are Assassin's Creed Odyssey Strange Brigade and star control origins so if you're interested in those games and that's maybe an additional value to but if you're not then that doesn't matter but you'd have some free games to hand off to friends or something like that back to the rest of the parts though we have a rise in 720 700 which you can get for about 40 or 50 bucks less than the 2,700 X overclocked this and it's basically the same as the 2700 X which you should be able to do with an aftermarket cooler 264 also worth noting again that this is a hundred bucks more than the six core version so if you don't need the two extra cores just use the six core version if all you're worried about is gaming or maybe some gaming and streaming this is a six core version will still do you just fine again I'm using a 240 millimeter all-in-one liquid cooler for this it's a hundred and twenty dollars it's a solid on one liquid cooler with addressable RG B's but it does cost a bit more than an air cooler so if you wanted to save money then consider that as rock x4 70 Taichi I again mainly chose because of this little port right here the USB 3.1 gen2 but it's also got good power delivery so if you wanted an upgrade over the B 450 motherboard that I chose then this would be a suitable one for this rig use the same memory kit so nothing to mention there I did want to quickly talk about storage I'm looking at SSDs with this breakdown between the 250 gig and the 500 gig range if you sort them by price per gigabyte you'll find the best deals right now are on 500 gig Class SSDs first 240 gig one that comes in here for thirty-six dollars and 44 cents is this adlink one but just again something to point out that you should reality check these prices because you might find a better deal on an SSD that has higher capacity and a 500 gig SSD is a really nice thing to start out with there's the graphics card again we already mentioned that's there's a graphics card I'm actually using I wish the price didn't jump up so much that's but you got to deal with it here's the case SL 600 M which I didn't realize was a $200 case I have not built with this case yet but initial reviews that I've seen that came out yesterday were pretty positive again 200 bucks so you got to take that into consideration you could get by with a much less expensive case but I'm gonna build in this case and try it out so all that you guys know what I think and finally a power supply this is a 650 watt 80 plus gold certified rather than the 550 watt 80 plus bronze rated power supply used in the first build but again look at the price here we're only talking $66 versus the $50 price of the first one so if you want a little bit more power and you want a little bit more efficiency definitely worth the 15 bucks or so that you can upgrade to this one and again easily swap this in to that first build if you wanted to finally though my entire intent here was to try to do an A to B comparison last month I built the fastest PC you can build with a ninety nine hundred K which costs over five hundred dollars and an RT X 20 80 TI which costs 1200 bucks if you can even find them in stock right now what I wanted to build was a bang for the buck PC on the AMD platform with Rison and with a Vega 56 assuming the prices stayed reasonable and then show a comparison between the two pcs in their performance because I think the amount of extra performance you get spending $3,000 or so on that super high-end PC versus what you get spending say 750 or even $1400 on the pcs I'm looking at today it's not going to be all that much especially depending on the monitor that you pair it with and that is the final part for today's video is pairing this stuff up with the monitor the monitors I like right now are 2560 by 1440 high refresh rate monitors that also have variable refresh rate technology that means free sync on AMD side or g-sync on the Nvidia side the reason I like this resolution and those technologies is because you don't need to spend an exorbitant amount of money on a graphics card in order to push say a 4k resolution 1440 is also step up from console resolution which for the most part is 1080 yes there are games that play at 4k but they're capped at 30 Hertz so going for the high resolution high refresh rate and then the variable refresh rate all ties into those things that make PC gaming special and something that you can be like yes that's that's why I spent this extra money on that is for these features but do you need to spend the amount of money that I spent on the system last month or can you get by with something like this to that end here a couple monitors because I'm going to take the entire cost into consideration not just the price of the computer itself but the monitor price too and when you're talking freesync you can get some much better deals than you can with g-sync unfortunately for 2560 by 1440 I didn't find as many good deals as I was hoping for but this is actually a 31 point five inch ALC monitor for two hundred and eighty dollars it's a free sync monitor but it's also IPs and it's got one point zero seven million colors so it's at least got 10-bit color representations so if you want an inexpensive monitor that's larger that's 2560 by 1440 and freesync up to 75 Hertz this is a solid choice for you this would be a little bit better as a dual purpose monitor for gaming and also content creation or something like that if you wanted strictly a gaming monitor then I will point you towards this Acer which I found the best prices on as well as having this feature set it's a 27-inch 2560 by 1440 this one goes up 244 hurts so much higher refresh rate combine that with freesync and you're gonna have a very nice smooth gaming experience and this is available for three hundred and fifty-six dollars three hundred fifty-five dollars the cheapest g-sync 2560 by 1440 27-inch monitors you can find are all around $500 in up so that's a decent savings when you compare the freesync monitors to the g-sync monitor and also be comparing gameplay between the two once I get this system all built and put together but that is coming in a future video that is all the time I have for this video thank you guys so much for watching hit the thumbs up button if you enjoyed it and I have links to all the parts I've discussed today in the description down below as well as links to PC Park pecker part Packer as well as links to PC part picker as well as links to my store where you can buy shirts mugs pint glasses and lots of other cool merchandise thank you guys so much for watching though and we'll see you next timethe master liquid ml 360 our RGB is a new all-in-one by Coolermaster that sports seat 360 mm meter radiator addressable RGB fans and a low-profile dual chamber pump the nicely sleeved FTP tubing has a premium feel and you can use the included RGB control unit to customize the addressable LEDs on the fans and pump or plug directly into your motherboard for more on the master liquid ML 360 our RGB click the sponsor link in the video's description what's up guys welcome back to Pauls hardware this is my monthly builds video for November 2018 every month I part out a couple pcs so what we're looking at today are parts lists I'm not actually building anything so if you guys want to see a computer put together feel free to check out my builds list because I have lots of actual PC builds there today is more about choosing the parts before you build a PC so if you're building for the first time or if you're just not quite sure what you should put together I do get feedback every month so last month I asked people what PC builds they wanted to see this month in November so we have a Black Friday deals PC it's a little too early for Black Friday although there are some deals coming up but I did do a $750 build for you and then I tried to do $1,000 bill but it came up more than that what I'm actually gonna be building in my follow up video to this is gonna be something akin to the $1,000 build and then I have a $1,400 version that's a little bit more high-end I did note that there was next to zero interest in the really high core counts unlock Zeon's or skylake X's so we are gonna skip those and we're sticking with mainstream AMD builds in the meantime I will be doing this again next month in December so feel free to click the strawpoll link in the description and vote on that so you can give me your feedbacks so let's jump right into the first build these seven hundred and fifty dollar build or as close to that as I could get it honestly this was seven hundred and fifty dollars yesterday now it has crept up and priced a little bit to seven hundred and sixty two dollars but what we have here is a balanced PC and a PC that honestly I could say if someone came to me and said I have 750 bucks to spend I want a gaming PC this is probably what I would tell them to get it's based around a six core AMD Rison two processors so the 2000 series there's a little bit faster they're based on the 12 nanometer manufacturing process instead of 14 so it's a nice little step up it's only hundred and sixty bucks - and you get six cores and twelve threads Intel has nothing near the CIM the performance of the CPU at price range I've paired it with an air cooler here the hyper 212 black which is only $35 although you could easily save that 35 bucks and get away with the air cooler that's included with this processor the motherboard I've chosen is a B 450 tomahawk and I've already got this right here because I will be building this system I chose this largely based on Steve from hardware unboxed recommendation because he tested a bunch of B 450 motherboards and look at their power delivery as well as features power delivery can be limited on B 450 motherboards especially the less expensive ones but the tomahawk actually has a pretty good configuration for that beyond that we have a 16 gig memory kit not an 8 gig kit so I was happy that I was able to include that it's still hundred and thirty-five bucks but this kit should work just fine with Rison 240 gig SSD so you will want to add some more storage to this in the future or hopefully soon maybe if you have an old hard drive lying around and rx 578 get graphics card a forty seven dollar cooler master master box case 550 watt power supply from Corsair this is a basic one but it's got all black cabling and then a couple Corsair ml fans these are Maglev fans so they're nice fans add these to the case which only ships with one case fan and you will have a much better cooling situation so here's the CPU available from a wide variety of retailers so this isn't just like some quick like sale price it's always 160 you probably be able to get the 2600 I'm guessing if sales this year anything like last year for even less than this so keep an eye on the 2600 it's already a good price at 160 bucks but I imagine you might even be able to find it cheaper this is the hyper 212 black from cooler master and I printed 12 is very popular cooler I am glad they decided to make it in all black because often when we see the hyper 212 if we complain that like wow it's a good cooler but it doesn't look that great this one's just all black and clean and it isn't even that much more expensive 35 bucks again you can go without this if you want to save a few dollars but this will run cooler and quieter than the stock heatsink fan motherboard is the MSI B 450 tomahawk are you mentioned why I chose this but it's only about 100 bucks I don't have good pictures right here but oh there's been one I already explained why I chose this one but here's a quick closer look at the picture of it at least it has all the basic features for a system that you'd want to put together it's missing some of the higher-end motherboard features and the one main thing it's gonna be missing for the system I put together a USB 3.1 gen2 front panel port but that's because I'm going with a weird configuration with the case I chose but more on that in just a minute memory kit is again the g.skill ripjaws 5 is just a standard all-black kits which does work with Rison so you should be able to plug in X and P values and run this at ddr4 3200 speed SSD is a 240 gig Toshiba although you can spend just about 20 bucks more to get yourself a 500 gig SSD again more on that in just a minute but if you are on a budget 40 bucks for a 240 gig of main operating system Drive will get you up and running but again I recommend keeping an eye out for additional storage because you'll fill that 240 gigs pretty fast if you have an old hard drive from an old computer that you can repurpose or just spend another 40 or 50 bucks on another 1 or 2 terabyte spinning mechanical hard drive 4 graphics card the RX 578 gig version only $170 this is quite a bit cheaper than the rx 580 although if you can afford an RX 580 it is a decent little step up in performance from this but how much these prices have come down compared to what they were just a few months ago but the good news is that that's available and in stock and not too expensive finally a case we got the master box this is a solid all-around case it's got a good airflow it's got a nice layout it's got a shredded power supply area at the bottom it's only 4650 from new angle with a $10 promotional gift card that's a good deal power supply actually had a different power supply chosen but I again was trying to keep this under budget bear in mind if you're gonna spend $50 on an 80 plus bronze 550 watt power supply you can spend 10 or 15 dollars more for an 80 plus gold power supply and even 650 watt versions so keep a close eye on the power supply ranges I feel like this power supply you should be able to get for about 40 bucks and when it comes to efficiency ratings power supplies you will pay more in the long term with a bronze rated power supply than a gold rated power supply just because it's going to waste more energy via waste heat and that for that reason a gold rated power supply might be something that you're interested in finally I did add fans because the case only comes with a single fan you definitely wanted to add some more in the ML series is a very nice one these have no lights or anything like that and you get two of them for $27 you can't get cheaper fans in this two but these are just ones that I'd recommend so there you have it a about 750 dollar actually more like 765 right now if you include the mail and rebates and a very good system a very powerful gaming system but you can go up from there so what I have is a system that's like the high end version of the $750 system and actually cranked up the price pretty quickly so this is about a one thousand four hundred and fifty dollar system with a bunch of upgrades and of course you could swap in some of these upgrades or none of them or all of them depending on how much money you wanted to save I do want to point out that a big reason why the price is pretty high is because the case I'm building with is the cooler master SL 600 M and that's the $200 case I am building in this case because I have it here and I wanted to try it out and give you guys an idea of what the case is like but you can save probably about a hundred bucks and get away with a much less expensive case you could also save money by not going with an all-in-one liquid cooler but based on the gamers nexus reviews of the master case SL 600 mm yesterday which has very good cooling for the graphics card because it draws air in from the bottom CPU cooling was not so good and they used an air cooler a standard air cooler for that but if you had a liquid cooler at the top it would go along with the airflow and I'm imagining it would work a little bit better so for that reason I paired this up that is why the price is a little bit more but of course you can mix and match to swap things in and out between these two system builds and you'd still end up with a powerful system just depending on whether you wanted the eight core processor with the 2700 versus the six core version from before I upgraded the motherboard specifically to have better power delivery for overclocking but also to be compatible with the front panel USB 3.1 gen2 type-c port that is on the case I feel bad having a case that has that without actually pairing it up with the motherboard that has the same I did upgrade the SSD but it was only about 15 bucks more again 17 dollars more for a 480 gig version and then we have a Vega 56 which I also have right here and I already bought anticipating doing a comparison between this build which is much less expensive and the super high-end 3000 ish dollar build that I did last month and a Vega 56 for $400 is actually somewhat reasonably priced of course after I bought this like I literally just bought it with my own funds for $400 and two days later like a day and a half ago the price is increased by $75 so for that reason I used a parametric filter on this parts list to pair you up with a Vega 56 but it's not the same one I'm using for $405 right now you can still get the asrock blower version of the Vega 56 which probably wouldn't do quite as well as this one but it's in keeping with the price and it's hard to deal with price fluctuations sometimes also worth noting that you do get a 3-game bundle right now the games are Assassin's Creed Odyssey Strange Brigade and star control origins so if you're interested in those games and that's maybe an additional value to but if you're not then that doesn't matter but you'd have some free games to hand off to friends or something like that back to the rest of the parts though we have a rise in 720 700 which you can get for about 40 or 50 bucks less than the 2,700 X overclocked this and it's basically the same as the 2700 X which you should be able to do with an aftermarket cooler 264 also worth noting again that this is a hundred bucks more than the six core version so if you don't need the two extra cores just use the six core version if all you're worried about is gaming or maybe some gaming and streaming this is a six core version will still do you just fine again I'm using a 240 millimeter all-in-one liquid cooler for this it's a hundred and twenty dollars it's a solid on one liquid cooler with addressable RG B's but it does cost a bit more than an air cooler so if you wanted to save money then consider that as rock x4 70 Taichi I again mainly chose because of this little port right here the USB 3.1 gen2 but it's also got good power delivery so if you wanted an upgrade over the B 450 motherboard that I chose then this would be a suitable one for this rig use the same memory kit so nothing to mention there I did want to quickly talk about storage I'm looking at SSDs with this breakdown between the 250 gig and the 500 gig range if you sort them by price per gigabyte you'll find the best deals right now are on 500 gig Class SSDs first 240 gig one that comes in here for thirty-six dollars and 44 cents is this adlink one but just again something to point out that you should reality check these prices because you might find a better deal on an SSD that has higher capacity and a 500 gig SSD is a really nice thing to start out with there's the graphics card again we already mentioned that's there's a graphics card I'm actually using I wish the price didn't jump up so much that's but you got to deal with it here's the case SL 600 M which I didn't realize was a $200 case I have not built with this case yet but initial reviews that I've seen that came out yesterday were pretty positive again 200 bucks so you got to take that into consideration you could get by with a much less expensive case but I'm gonna build in this case and try it out so all that you guys know what I think and finally a power supply this is a 650 watt 80 plus gold certified rather than the 550 watt 80 plus bronze rated power supply used in the first build but again look at the price here we're only talking $66 versus the $50 price of the first one so if you want a little bit more power and you want a little bit more efficiency definitely worth the 15 bucks or so that you can upgrade to this one and again easily swap this in to that first build if you wanted to finally though my entire intent here was to try to do an A to B comparison last month I built the fastest PC you can build with a ninety nine hundred K which costs over five hundred dollars and an RT X 20 80 TI which costs 1200 bucks if you can even find them in stock right now what I wanted to build was a bang for the buck PC on the AMD platform with Rison and with a Vega 56 assuming the prices stayed reasonable and then show a comparison between the two pcs in their performance because I think the amount of extra performance you get spending $3,000 or so on that super high-end PC versus what you get spending say 750 or even $1400 on the pcs I'm looking at today it's not going to be all that much especially depending on the monitor that you pair it with and that is the final part for today's video is pairing this stuff up with the monitor the monitors I like right now are 2560 by 1440 high refresh rate monitors that also have variable refresh rate technology that means free sync on AMD side or g-sync on the Nvidia side the reason I like this resolution and those technologies is because you don't need to spend an exorbitant amount of money on a graphics card in order to push say a 4k resolution 1440 is also step up from console resolution which for the most part is 1080 yes there are games that play at 4k but they're capped at 30 Hertz so going for the high resolution high refresh rate and then the variable refresh rate all ties into those things that make PC gaming special and something that you can be like yes that's that's why I spent this extra money on that is for these features but do you need to spend the amount of money that I spent on the system last month or can you get by with something like this to that end here a couple monitors because I'm going to take the entire cost into consideration not just the price of the computer itself but the monitor price too and when you're talking freesync you can get some much better deals than you can with g-sync unfortunately for 2560 by 1440 I didn't find as many good deals as I was hoping for but this is actually a 31 point five inch ALC monitor for two hundred and eighty dollars it's a free sync monitor but it's also IPs and it's got one point zero seven million colors so it's at least got 10-bit color representations so if you want an inexpensive monitor that's larger that's 2560 by 1440 and freesync up to 75 Hertz this is a solid choice for you this would be a little bit better as a dual purpose monitor for gaming and also content creation or something like that if you wanted strictly a gaming monitor then I will point you towards this Acer which I found the best prices on as well as having this feature set it's a 27-inch 2560 by 1440 this one goes up 244 hurts so much higher refresh rate combine that with freesync and you're gonna have a very nice smooth gaming experience and this is available for three hundred and fifty-six dollars three hundred fifty-five dollars the cheapest g-sync 2560 by 1440 27-inch monitors you can find are all around $500 in up so that's a decent savings when you compare the freesync monitors to the g-sync monitor and also be comparing gameplay between the two once I get this system all built and put together but that is coming in a future video that is all the time I have for this video thank you guys so much for watching hit the thumbs up button if you enjoyed it and I have links to all the parts I've discussed today in the description down below as well as links to PC Park pecker part Packer as well as links to PC part picker as well as links to my store where you can buy shirts mugs pint glasses and lots of other cool merchandise thank you guys so much for watching though and we'll see you next time\n"