The Quest for the Perfect Power Supply

As I began my search for the perfect power supply to accompany my new build, I knew it wouldn't be easy. I had a clear idea of what I wanted - at least 650 watts of power with an 80+ rating. But as I delved deeper into the world of power supplies, I realized that finding a unit that met my requirements would be no easy feat. I decided to play it safe and go by the book, opting for an 80+ Bronze rated unit with a wattage of at least 650 watts.

I started my search online, scouring through websites and forums to find the perfect power supply. I wanted something that was reliable, efficient, and had good reviews. As I browsed through various options, I found myself drawn to certain brands - Thermaltake, Corsair, and Silverstone. Each of these brands has a reputation for producing high-quality power supplies, and I knew that choosing one of them would be a safe bet.

After hours of browsing, I finally came across a few options that caught my eye. A 50-80+ Bronze unit from Thermaltake seemed like a good starting point, but it was priced at $65 - which was slightly above my budget. Undeterred, I continued my search and found another option - a 750-watt 80+ Bronze power supply from Corsair. This one was priced under $70, making it an attractive option.

However, as I dug deeper into the specifications of this power supply, I realized that it might not be the best choice for me. The unit had ketchup and mustard cables - which seemed like a gimmick to me. But more importantly, it didn't have any 80+ ratings beyond Bronze, which made me question its reliability.

Next, I came across an 80+ Platinum power supply from Evga, but it was priced at $65. The packaging seemed sleek, and the unit had flat black cables - which caught my eye. However, upon closer inspection, I realized that the power supply didn't have any 80+ ratings beyond Bronze. This seemed like a case of false advertising to me.

As I continued my search, I stumbled upon another option - an 80-Plus Gold Apéria Prestige power supply. This one was priced at $65 and had impressive specs. But as I looked deeper into the specifications, I realized that it was slightly overkill for my build. I didn't want to go above 650 watts, and this unit had a higher wattage than I needed.

Just when I thought that I couldn't find any other options, I came across an 80-Plus Titanium power supply from Corsair. This one was priced at $65, but it seemed like it might be too good to be true. The reviews for this unit were glowing, and it had all sorts of bells and whistles - including ketchup and mustard cables.

But as I looked closer into the specifications, I realized that this power supply didn't have any 80-Plus ratings beyond Bronze. This seemed like a case of mislabeling to me. I decided to move on and look for other options.

Next, I came across an 80-Plus Gold Apevia Prestige power supply from Corsair again. This one was priced at $65 and had impressive specs. But as I looked deeper into the specifications, I realized that it was a bit overkill for my build. I didn't want to go above 650 watts.

As I continued my search, I stumbled upon an EVGA 750-watt power supply with flat black cables. This unit seemed like a great option - but as I looked closer at the packaging, I realized that it didn't have any 80-Plus ratings beyond Bronze. It seemed like another case of false advertising.

But then, I came across something interesting. An EVGA power supply had all-black flat cables and was priced under $70. However, upon further inspection, I realized that this unit didn't have any 80-Plus ratings beyond Bronze. This seemed like another case of mislabeling to me.

Just when I thought that I couldn't find any other options, I stumbled upon a Silverstone power supply with all-black flat cables. This unit was priced at $65 and had impressive specs - including an 80-Plus rating. I knew that this was the kind of power supply I wanted for my build.

As it turned out, there weren't many power supplies available in the market that met my requirements. But eventually, I found a Silverstone unit that fit the bill. This unit was priced at $65 and had all-black flat cables. It also had an 80-Plus rating, which made me confident in its reliability.

After hours of searching, I finally settled on a Silverstone power supply as the perfect addition to my build. The total cost of this system came out to be just under $1000 - but it was worth every penny. With this system, I knew that I had found the perfect combination of power and efficiency.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enso nvidia dropped some pretty exciting news on us the other day revealing the first three skus of their rtx 3000 series gpus on the new ampere architecture including the rtx 3090 that's the flagship at 1499. the rtx 3080 which is allegedly faster than two rtx 2080s that'll retail for 6.99 and the rtx 3070 priced at 499 and is allegedly faster than an rtx 2080 ti these are some insane claims that understandably have gotten a lot of people including myself pretty excited about this launch now of course there's always something to be said about taking manufacturers claims with a grain of salt until reviews come out third-party unbiased reviews that can verify and validate these claims but even if the rtx 3070 is in the ballpark in terms of performance with an rtx 2080 ti the fact that it's selling for a fraction of the price is still just insane so what i wanted to do today is actually build a system well not build a system part out a system pick all the parts for a gaming pc using the rtx 3070 for a thousand dollars we'll try to get it under a thousand but i'm just gonna say ballpark a thousand bucks and the reason why i'm choosing the 3070 as the focus for today is because i did a twitter poll right after the live event from nvidia ended and i asked you guys out of the three cards which one would you consider buying the most and not too surprisingly most you guys voted for the rtx 3070 because it is the cheapest card and if it can perform on par with the 2080 ti that's an insane amount of value that's giving you a lot of gpu for the money the 3070 isn't slated to release until october which is about a month away from now but i think even if you were to reference this parts list a month later as a sort of guide that the prices of the other components shouldn't fluctuate that much from today until then because the month just isn't a tremendous amount of time for that to happen of course everything's a bit subject to change but i don't think it's going to be super drastic or anything on that note i'm just going to start picking out parts on pc part picker here i already kind of have a pretty good idea of what core components i want to use but there's going to be there are some other parts that i really just need to do some price checking in order to figure out uh how we're going to make this work for a thousand dollars without cutting too many corners that would you know be detrimental to the usability or the functionality of the system so let's start with the cpu very top of the list i think pc part picker is already sort of predicting what i'm thinking it's in my head right now because i was i had my eye on the ryzen 5 3600 it looks like it went up in price slightly i remember it being maybe 180 185 on amazon let's see is this is this an amazon price that we're getting yeah it is an amazon price let's just take a look really quick here in stock october 24th wow they're sold out on amazon let's see if it's available on newegg and for what price okay 199 so it's about the same price couple bucks more not a huge difference and it looks like it's in stock yeah it's in stock so okay thank god i thought there might have been some zen 2 shortage that i didn't know about so you can buy that you know availability is important you want to make sure that the parts that we're choosing are uh are in supply so we're going to go ahead and add that i think that this is just a good sweet spot cpu for this build it's six cores 12 threads i'm going with the am4 platform with amd because i still think it has more benefits than what intel's offering right now on their mainstream uh platform the first one obviously being full pcie gen4 support that's available now not with the release of some future generation cpu this obviously makes sense because all the rtx 3000 series gpus are supporting pcie gen 4 so we want to be able to match up that protocol and have full support for this new graphics card on the platform that we choose and of course there's several other advantages to the am4 platform right now that we've talked about at length on the channel so i'm not going to get too much into that also the resin 5 3600 does include a stock cooler i believe it's a wraith stealth not a spire yeah it's definitely a stealth and obviously it's adequate to cool the 3600 if you're not doing any crazy overclocking with it um otherwise amd wouldn't have included it in the box it's rated for the 65 watt tdp chip that it comes with so you shouldn't have a problem there and it's a great way to save some dollars because our rtx 3070 is already eating up literally half of our budget of a thousand dollars so we really have to sort of be frugal here when we can um so i'm not going to choose the cpu cooler since it's included with the cpu for our motherboard after everything i just talked about we obviously want to go with the platform that supports pci gen 4 for our graphics card and also it opens up the doors to very fast nvme storage so we're gonna go with b550 because that's the more cost effective uh of the two between that and x570 which are the only two amd platforms that support pci gen four at the moment so we're going to narrow down our search to am4 let's do micro atx and atx uh boards the mini itx ones are usually not very available and can be kind of pricey b550 and we're going to sort by lowest price all right so the absolute cheapest b550 board we could go with is an asrock b550m hdv let's just see what this looks like let's just entertain ourselves for a minute so very basic board only has two dimm slots which for me i'm i'm already out if it's if it's not a mini itx board i really don't i really don't bother with uh with boards like that so the next one up is a b550m ds3h from gigabyte and this looks a little bit better it does have four dimm slots it's 95 dollars and has really good reviews 4 out of 5 stars or eggs and it looks like it's also got you know a bit of a little heat sink on the vrm assembly there it's also got two m.2 slots that's actually kind of surprising let's see what the rear i o looks like fingers crossed okay not too bad um you do have video outs if you ever did drop a cpu with a integrated graphics on it you could leverage that there's two four usb 3.0 ports very basic audio i o as you'd expect but overall not too terrible so let's see what the next step up is beyond that msi okay now we're getting a little bit more pricey this is 15 more for the b550m pro vdh and this board so micro atx this board looks pretty good too it kind of looks very similar actually to the one we just looked at from gigabyte but it's 15 or 10 to 15 more uh it does have wi-fi so depending on if that's important to you you know we're sort of splitting hairs here it's going to sort of boil down to the end user what their needs are a lot of people who are gaming are just plugging in directly so you know what just to save some bucks and because it looks like a pretty decent board with really good reviews i'm going to go with the b550m ds3h for 94 bucks for memory now we want 16 gigs this is pretty straightforward i think i'm gonna leave all the manufacturer options open keep an open mind there we're gonna want ddr4 of course two by eight gig sticks and let's just sort by lowest again okay so we we could go dirt cheap and get uh a guile evo potenza such a weird name um for fifty dollars but it's ddr4 3000 i'd like to get 3200 speed if possible i feel like that's sort of the sweet spot where you want to be for ryzen 3000 so i'm just going to look at this column right here until we find 3200 right here this is the lowest priced 3200 16 gig kit it's also from guile evo spear phantom gaming at least it has less of a weird name and it's cash latency 16 so not the greatest cast latency but the price is right and it looks like okay it doesn't have like the super hideous heat sinks that a lot of guile sticks have i thought it was gonna be this one the potenza which i know we're not going for aesthetics whatsoever here but it's still a hard pill to swallow putting something like that in one of my builds uh if i'm speaking honestly so i think i'm gonna go with this one i'm just gonna buy it or not buy it i'm gonna add it to our list i don't know why i feel so like stressed that we're not gonna make it under a thousand dollars but i believe i believe i have faith we can do it not worried at all for storage let's check out our ssd options here we wanna boot off of an ssd for a thousand dollars absolutely even for like a 500 build these days i feel like you should just always boot off an ssd you know what i'm going to do like 500 we'll see what 500 gig ssds are going for right now on the cheap so lowest we've got is 44.99 45 bucks for uh what is this team is this oh yeah team group team group um and these are these are going to be like the dram like the dram ssds that use dram on board which are not quite as high quality but the dram technology in ssds has come a long way they used to be just garbage really awful i would never recommend them but the budget ssd space has gotten so competitive that manufacturers have really been working on making the dram perform better and have more right endurance than they used to so we'll be sure to keep an eye on user reviews and that sort of thing silicon power i really do like their a55 series 512 gigs for one i like that they do 512 and not 480. it just gives you that extra bit of capacity it's a 2.5 inch drive of course say to rev 3 6 gigabit per second we're not going to get any fancy nvme drives in here for the budget that we're trying to target um considering that we have a really high-end gpu going in here 46.99 that's a really good price it's only a couple bucks more than the gx2 which is also 512 gigs but i have more personal experience using silicon power drives these exact ssds actually and they've they've always been great crucial bx 500 that's probably one of the more popular kind of budget entry level ssds if you're looking at two and a half inch drives but it's 480 gigs it's also using a dram chip i think but it's a little bit more expensive as well so i don't really see the value in going with that option and it just gets more expensive from there so silicon power it is and the thing is here we're only getting 500 gigs if you want to get a terabyte in here you'd probably you know roughly double that price so you're looking at maybe 85 85 to 90 on a one terabyte ssd and i think this is one of the corners that we're gonna have to cut here is we're gonna have to start this build off with just a single 500 gig drive but that's still going to allow you to install a handful of games on it you know your mileage may vary i mean call of duty war zones over 100 gigs now but you should still be able to play some games you know have a decent sized library on there to start with and then down the line if you save up 40 50 bucks pop in a one or two terabyte hard drive and you're good to go let's move on to well i guess we can just manually create our rtx 3070 part right now fun okay we're gonna go it's a video card and uh it's gonna be 4.99 and this is you know of course we'll we'll see how things shake out in october if you can actually get them for 4.99 if you'll be able to get them for cheaper than that we'll see what the board partners have on in store for us as well with new gpu family releases i generally have more confidence that the lower end or mid-range cards are going to be able to uh be purchased for around the msrp more closely than the higher end cards because usually the yields of those aren't quite as high so there's really low supply very high demand and that can really jack up the prices but we should be able to see a pretty good availability of these uh 30-70 cards once they launch just speculation of course but that's the way that i've seen it in the past now we are at oh we're getting close we're at 890 dollars there uh we have to really be conscious of how we're parting this out from here on out so for a case we have a micro atx motherboard which is a good thing because generally micro atx cases you can find pretty cheap i'm going to select micro micro micro let's just do all the micros and i think there's a motherboard yeah micro atx there okay those are the only criteria that i'm putting in so we could just go with like the crappiest case ever the diy pc chassis that are just super super cheap but you get what you pay for and if we're sticking a card that's about as fast as an rtx 2080 ti in here it just doesn't feel right we can still get a decent quality case for not too much money we have a lot of options here i want to go with one that has like a mesh front panel if possible like there is the thermaltake versa the versa h18 i've used this case before and the thermals are actually pretty impressive considering that this is just a really really economical case because it's just all mesh at the front i think it only includes one fan though yeah it looks like there's only one fan and it's at the rear so yeah it's a bummer i want more fans in the system if possible at least two because i really want to give as much fresh air flow to the rtx 3070 as possible so if we go a little bit further down here is that a mesh front panel silverstone what is this the ps15 let's check you out looks nice like i just like how simple it is okay very very budget as you can see on the interior uh what is that is this just one fan as well i think we only got one fan pre-installed one silent 120 millimeter exhaust fan included that's all you get so that's a no-go come on we've gotta we've gotta find something that's that ticks all the boxes is this is this mesh is cooler master box mb 311 thing oh my gosh it might be is that mesh that is definitely mesh yo did it say it elsewhere in the yeah but it was right here kyle read the read the words ko 50 or 60 that's still really good okay it's got two fans two 120 i mean rgb cool if you like rgb sure if you don't just turn it off but it's got two fans at the front let's see what the inside looks like okay you get a psu shroud looks like you know typical run-of-the-mill cable management the cutouts are nice and smooth at least looks like they like rounded the edges not going to cut your fingers and the inside actually doesn't look too bad for for this price 60 bucks i'm doing it we don't have a lot of wiggle room left so i think this is a pretty good option locking it in all right we have we have fifty dollars left for a power supply can we do it this is this is gonna be the uh this is the wild card sort of because power supplies have been really hard to find they've been pretty scarce and the ones that are available the rates have been pretty jacked up because low supply again so let's see what's available i'm gonna do oh you know what what we should do is check out the uh minimum psu for rtx 3070 i believe it's 650 okay yeah this is from gamespot i'm assuming that gamespot has their information correct so rtx 3070 is 650 watts recommended now that's not to say that you couldn't get away with a lower wattage psu for this card uh you know i know a lot of people are recommending 650 watt units for the rtx 2080 ti and i've been able to run one on a 550 watt psu that's you know 80 plus gold or 80 plus even bronze um without issue of course i wasn't going crazy with overclocked or anything but you get the idea that being said until we actually get the data and we get the numbers we get the reviews to find out how much power this thing's gonna draw from the wall i'm gonna play it safe and i'm gonna go by the book here and try to get at least a 650 watt 80 plus rated unit let's just do 650 or 635 whatever oh also i'm gonna check 80 plus bronze why not yeah give me that 50 80 plus titanium psu and okay thermaltake sure okay for 65 dollars so we're at this point we're definitely gonna go over a thousand dollars not by much not buy a lot but it looks like we're not gonna make it under unless we do some extreme corner cutting with the other components but i feel like i'm i'm about as low as i want to go right now i feel i feel good about the current build i don't want to skip it anymore so let's see hey these are all 80 plus bronze there is an 80 plus gold apevia prestige this is a 800 watt unit okay let's just try to stay in the 60s what do we got in the 60s anything anything nothing okay i wonder if i unchecked some of these if more options pop up a evga is this not 80 plus is a 750 watt for 65 buckaroos this has to be 80 plus this is not 80 plus oh this is like their 80 plus white i think that's the w right okay no wonder it's so cheap okay never mind maybe not that one corsair cv all right this could work 650 watts for under 70 bucks it's got ketchup and mustard cables no no are any of these so there's the evga one that has all black flat cables but it's not 80 plus thermal take looks like it might have all black cables and it's 80 plus is this it why don't you just show me the connectors what are you trying to hide let's see it let's see did anyone post a picture of it no of course they didn't it's a power supply okay well if this is all oh here we go okay confirmed black cables right that means they're black right if not it's false advertising so this is one potential option again if we're trying to get as close to a thousand dollars as possible if you're okay with spending 40 50 60 more than that then consider getting a better power supply than this one not that this is bad or anything but this is definitely in the budget realm and with a rtx 3070 it would be nice to get something with a little bit more something that instills a bit more confidence you know if it were me i would forego the thermaltake unit and probably get a silverstone power supply silverstone makes really good power supplies 80 plus bronze this is they're essential so again it's a budget unit but it's from a really reputable psu maker and black black cables yay so yeah uh you know this is uh this is what i want so this is actually more than we need technically it's 750 watts but i don't see any other silverstone units that are less than that for cheaper so we're gonna go with this locking it in 75 that brings our total to a thousand and 25 bucks that's that's still around a thousand dollars i would say i think i think we've met our quota just fine in terms of budget and look at this system let's just take a cl a quick look here you've got a six core 12 thread ryzen processor on the latest am4 platform b550 with pcie gen4 support for our fancy pants rtx 3070 we've got 16 gigs of ddr4 3200 speed a 500 gig ssd to boot off of and add some games too a very nice looking cooler master chassis mid tower micro atx case with two included addressable rgb fans and a full mesh front panel for healthy intake and a 750 watt 80 plus rated silverstone power supply for a thousand bucks i think this is a very viable parts list let's bear in mind that this entire system costs less than a single rtx 2080 ti and it's including a gpu that's allegedly faster than an rtx 2080 ti it's just crazy so you guys let me know what you think let me know if you'd like to see me do another parts list with an rtx 3080 or 3090 or whatever whatever you guys want to see let me know i'll be reading your comments and uh thank you for watching toss a like on the video if you enjoyed it get subscribed to more tech content on the way and i will see you guys in the next videoso nvidia dropped some pretty exciting news on us the other day revealing the first three skus of their rtx 3000 series gpus on the new ampere architecture including the rtx 3090 that's the flagship at 1499. the rtx 3080 which is allegedly faster than two rtx 2080s that'll retail for 6.99 and the rtx 3070 priced at 499 and is allegedly faster than an rtx 2080 ti these are some insane claims that understandably have gotten a lot of people including myself pretty excited about this launch now of course there's always something to be said about taking manufacturers claims with a grain of salt until reviews come out third-party unbiased reviews that can verify and validate these claims but even if the rtx 3070 is in the ballpark in terms of performance with an rtx 2080 ti the fact that it's selling for a fraction of the price is still just insane so what i wanted to do today is actually build a system well not build a system part out a system pick all the parts for a gaming pc using the rtx 3070 for a thousand dollars we'll try to get it under a thousand but i'm just gonna say ballpark a thousand bucks and the reason why i'm choosing the 3070 as the focus for today is because i did a twitter poll right after the live event from nvidia ended and i asked you guys out of the three cards which one would you consider buying the most and not too surprisingly most you guys voted for the rtx 3070 because it is the cheapest card and if it can perform on par with the 2080 ti that's an insane amount of value that's giving you a lot of gpu for the money the 3070 isn't slated to release until october which is about a month away from now but i think even if you were to reference this parts list a month later as a sort of guide that the prices of the other components shouldn't fluctuate that much from today until then because the month just isn't a tremendous amount of time for that to happen of course everything's a bit subject to change but i don't think it's going to be super drastic or anything on that note i'm just going to start picking out parts on pc part picker here i already kind of have a pretty good idea of what core components i want to use but there's going to be there are some other parts that i really just need to do some price checking in order to figure out uh how we're going to make this work for a thousand dollars without cutting too many corners that would you know be detrimental to the usability or the functionality of the system so let's start with the cpu very top of the list i think pc part picker is already sort of predicting what i'm thinking it's in my head right now because i was i had my eye on the ryzen 5 3600 it looks like it went up in price slightly i remember it being maybe 180 185 on amazon let's see is this is this an amazon price that we're getting yeah it is an amazon price let's just take a look really quick here in stock october 24th wow they're sold out on amazon let's see if it's available on newegg and for what price okay 199 so it's about the same price couple bucks more not a huge difference and it looks like it's in stock yeah it's in stock so okay thank god i thought there might have been some zen 2 shortage that i didn't know about so you can buy that you know availability is important you want to make sure that the parts that we're choosing are uh are in supply so we're going to go ahead and add that i think that this is just a good sweet spot cpu for this build it's six cores 12 threads i'm going with the am4 platform with amd because i still think it has more benefits than what intel's offering right now on their mainstream uh platform the first one obviously being full pcie gen4 support that's available now not with the release of some future generation cpu this obviously makes sense because all the rtx 3000 series gpus are supporting pcie gen 4 so we want to be able to match up that protocol and have full support for this new graphics card on the platform that we choose and of course there's several other advantages to the am4 platform right now that we've talked about at length on the channel so i'm not going to get too much into that also the resin 5 3600 does include a stock cooler i believe it's a wraith stealth not a spire yeah it's definitely a stealth and obviously it's adequate to cool the 3600 if you're not doing any crazy overclocking with it um otherwise amd wouldn't have included it in the box it's rated for the 65 watt tdp chip that it comes with so you shouldn't have a problem there and it's a great way to save some dollars because our rtx 3070 is already eating up literally half of our budget of a thousand dollars so we really have to sort of be frugal here when we can um so i'm not going to choose the cpu cooler since it's included with the cpu for our motherboard after everything i just talked about we obviously want to go with the platform that supports pci gen 4 for our graphics card and also it opens up the doors to very fast nvme storage so we're gonna go with b550 because that's the more cost effective uh of the two between that and x570 which are the only two amd platforms that support pci gen four at the moment so we're going to narrow down our search to am4 let's do micro atx and atx uh boards the mini itx ones are usually not very available and can be kind of pricey b550 and we're going to sort by lowest price all right so the absolute cheapest b550 board we could go with is an asrock b550m hdv let's just see what this looks like let's just entertain ourselves for a minute so very basic board only has two dimm slots which for me i'm i'm already out if it's if it's not a mini itx board i really don't i really don't bother with uh with boards like that so the next one up is a b550m ds3h from gigabyte and this looks a little bit better it does have four dimm slots it's 95 dollars and has really good reviews 4 out of 5 stars or eggs and it looks like it's also got you know a bit of a little heat sink on the vrm assembly there it's also got two m.2 slots that's actually kind of surprising let's see what the rear i o looks like fingers crossed okay not too bad um you do have video outs if you ever did drop a cpu with a integrated graphics on it you could leverage that there's two four usb 3.0 ports very basic audio i o as you'd expect but overall not too terrible so let's see what the next step up is beyond that msi okay now we're getting a little bit more pricey this is 15 more for the b550m pro vdh and this board so micro atx this board looks pretty good too it kind of looks very similar actually to the one we just looked at from gigabyte but it's 15 or 10 to 15 more uh it does have wi-fi so depending on if that's important to you you know we're sort of splitting hairs here it's going to sort of boil down to the end user what their needs are a lot of people who are gaming are just plugging in directly so you know what just to save some bucks and because it looks like a pretty decent board with really good reviews i'm going to go with the b550m ds3h for 94 bucks for memory now we want 16 gigs this is pretty straightforward i think i'm gonna leave all the manufacturer options open keep an open mind there we're gonna want ddr4 of course two by eight gig sticks and let's just sort by lowest again okay so we we could go dirt cheap and get uh a guile evo potenza such a weird name um for fifty dollars but it's ddr4 3000 i'd like to get 3200 speed if possible i feel like that's sort of the sweet spot where you want to be for ryzen 3000 so i'm just going to look at this column right here until we find 3200 right here this is the lowest priced 3200 16 gig kit it's also from guile evo spear phantom gaming at least it has less of a weird name and it's cash latency 16 so not the greatest cast latency but the price is right and it looks like okay it doesn't have like the super hideous heat sinks that a lot of guile sticks have i thought it was gonna be this one the potenza which i know we're not going for aesthetics whatsoever here but it's still a hard pill to swallow putting something like that in one of my builds uh if i'm speaking honestly so i think i'm gonna go with this one i'm just gonna buy it or not buy it i'm gonna add it to our list i don't know why i feel so like stressed that we're not gonna make it under a thousand dollars but i believe i believe i have faith we can do it not worried at all for storage let's check out our ssd options here we wanna boot off of an ssd for a thousand dollars absolutely even for like a 500 build these days i feel like you should just always boot off an ssd you know what i'm going to do like 500 we'll see what 500 gig ssds are going for right now on the cheap so lowest we've got is 44.99 45 bucks for uh what is this team is this oh yeah team group team group um and these are these are going to be like the dram like the dram ssds that use dram on board which are not quite as high quality but the dram technology in ssds has come a long way they used to be just garbage really awful i would never recommend them but the budget ssd space has gotten so competitive that manufacturers have really been working on making the dram perform better and have more right endurance than they used to so we'll be sure to keep an eye on user reviews and that sort of thing silicon power i really do like their a55 series 512 gigs for one i like that they do 512 and not 480. it just gives you that extra bit of capacity it's a 2.5 inch drive of course say to rev 3 6 gigabit per second we're not going to get any fancy nvme drives in here for the budget that we're trying to target um considering that we have a really high-end gpu going in here 46.99 that's a really good price it's only a couple bucks more than the gx2 which is also 512 gigs but i have more personal experience using silicon power drives these exact ssds actually and they've they've always been great crucial bx 500 that's probably one of the more popular kind of budget entry level ssds if you're looking at two and a half inch drives but it's 480 gigs it's also using a dram chip i think but it's a little bit more expensive as well so i don't really see the value in going with that option and it just gets more expensive from there so silicon power it is and the thing is here we're only getting 500 gigs if you want to get a terabyte in here you'd probably you know roughly double that price so you're looking at maybe 85 85 to 90 on a one terabyte ssd and i think this is one of the corners that we're gonna have to cut here is we're gonna have to start this build off with just a single 500 gig drive but that's still going to allow you to install a handful of games on it you know your mileage may vary i mean call of duty war zones over 100 gigs now but you should still be able to play some games you know have a decent sized library on there to start with and then down the line if you save up 40 50 bucks pop in a one or two terabyte hard drive and you're good to go let's move on to well i guess we can just manually create our rtx 3070 part right now fun okay we're gonna go it's a video card and uh it's gonna be 4.99 and this is you know of course we'll we'll see how things shake out in october if you can actually get them for 4.99 if you'll be able to get them for cheaper than that we'll see what the board partners have on in store for us as well with new gpu family releases i generally have more confidence that the lower end or mid-range cards are going to be able to uh be purchased for around the msrp more closely than the higher end cards because usually the yields of those aren't quite as high so there's really low supply very high demand and that can really jack up the prices but we should be able to see a pretty good availability of these uh 30-70 cards once they launch just speculation of course but that's the way that i've seen it in the past now we are at oh we're getting close we're at 890 dollars there uh we have to really be conscious of how we're parting this out from here on out so for a case we have a micro atx motherboard which is a good thing because generally micro atx cases you can find pretty cheap i'm going to select micro micro micro let's just do all the micros and i think there's a motherboard yeah micro atx there okay those are the only criteria that i'm putting in so we could just go with like the crappiest case ever the diy pc chassis that are just super super cheap but you get what you pay for and if we're sticking a card that's about as fast as an rtx 2080 ti in here it just doesn't feel right we can still get a decent quality case for not too much money we have a lot of options here i want to go with one that has like a mesh front panel if possible like there is the thermaltake versa the versa h18 i've used this case before and the thermals are actually pretty impressive considering that this is just a really really economical case because it's just all mesh at the front i think it only includes one fan though yeah it looks like there's only one fan and it's at the rear so yeah it's a bummer i want more fans in the system if possible at least two because i really want to give as much fresh air flow to the rtx 3070 as possible so if we go a little bit further down here is that a mesh front panel silverstone what is this the ps15 let's check you out looks nice like i just like how simple it is okay very very budget as you can see on the interior uh what is that is this just one fan as well i think we only got one fan pre-installed one silent 120 millimeter exhaust fan included that's all you get so that's a no-go come on we've gotta we've gotta find something that's that ticks all the boxes is this is this mesh is cooler master box mb 311 thing oh my gosh it might be is that mesh that is definitely mesh yo did it say it elsewhere in the yeah but it was right here kyle read the read the words ko 50 or 60 that's still really good okay it's got two fans two 120 i mean rgb cool if you like rgb sure if you don't just turn it off but it's got two fans at the front let's see what the inside looks like okay you get a psu shroud looks like you know typical run-of-the-mill cable management the cutouts are nice and smooth at least looks like they like rounded the edges not going to cut your fingers and the inside actually doesn't look too bad for for this price 60 bucks i'm doing it we don't have a lot of wiggle room left so i think this is a pretty good option locking it in all right we have we have fifty dollars left for a power supply can we do it this is this is gonna be the uh this is the wild card sort of because power supplies have been really hard to find they've been pretty scarce and the ones that are available the rates have been pretty jacked up because low supply again so let's see what's available i'm gonna do oh you know what what we should do is check out the uh minimum psu for rtx 3070 i believe it's 650 okay yeah this is from gamespot i'm assuming that gamespot has their information correct so rtx 3070 is 650 watts recommended now that's not to say that you couldn't get away with a lower wattage psu for this card uh you know i know a lot of people are recommending 650 watt units for the rtx 2080 ti and i've been able to run one on a 550 watt psu that's you know 80 plus gold or 80 plus even bronze um without issue of course i wasn't going crazy with overclocked or anything but you get the idea that being said until we actually get the data and we get the numbers we get the reviews to find out how much power this thing's gonna draw from the wall i'm gonna play it safe and i'm gonna go by the book here and try to get at least a 650 watt 80 plus rated unit let's just do 650 or 635 whatever oh also i'm gonna check 80 plus bronze why not yeah give me that 50 80 plus titanium psu and okay thermaltake sure okay for 65 dollars so we're at this point we're definitely gonna go over a thousand dollars not by much not buy a lot but it looks like we're not gonna make it under unless we do some extreme corner cutting with the other components but i feel like i'm i'm about as low as i want to go right now i feel i feel good about the current build i don't want to skip it anymore so let's see hey these are all 80 plus bronze there is an 80 plus gold apevia prestige this is a 800 watt unit okay let's just try to stay in the 60s what do we got in the 60s anything anything nothing okay i wonder if i unchecked some of these if more options pop up a evga is this not 80 plus is a 750 watt for 65 buckaroos this has to be 80 plus this is not 80 plus oh this is like their 80 plus white i think that's the w right okay no wonder it's so cheap okay never mind maybe not that one corsair cv all right this could work 650 watts for under 70 bucks it's got ketchup and mustard cables no no are any of these so there's the evga one that has all black flat cables but it's not 80 plus thermal take looks like it might have all black cables and it's 80 plus is this it why don't you just show me the connectors what are you trying to hide let's see it let's see did anyone post a picture of it no of course they didn't it's a power supply okay well if this is all oh here we go okay confirmed black cables right that means they're black right if not it's false advertising so this is one potential option again if we're trying to get as close to a thousand dollars as possible if you're okay with spending 40 50 60 more than that then consider getting a better power supply than this one not that this is bad or anything but this is definitely in the budget realm and with a rtx 3070 it would be nice to get something with a little bit more something that instills a bit more confidence you know if it were me i would forego the thermaltake unit and probably get a silverstone power supply silverstone makes really good power supplies 80 plus bronze this is they're essential so again it's a budget unit but it's from a really reputable psu maker and black black cables yay so yeah uh you know this is uh this is what i want so this is actually more than we need technically it's 750 watts but i don't see any other silverstone units that are less than that for cheaper so we're gonna go with this locking it in 75 that brings our total to a thousand and 25 bucks that's that's still around a thousand dollars i would say i think i think we've met our quota just fine in terms of budget and look at this system let's just take a cl a quick look here you've got a six core 12 thread ryzen processor on the latest am4 platform b550 with pcie gen4 support for our fancy pants rtx 3070 we've got 16 gigs of ddr4 3200 speed a 500 gig ssd to boot off of and add some games too a very nice looking cooler master chassis mid tower micro atx case with two included addressable rgb fans and a full mesh front panel for healthy intake and a 750 watt 80 plus rated silverstone power supply for a thousand bucks i think this is a very viable parts list let's bear in mind that this entire system costs less than a single rtx 2080 ti and it's including a gpu that's allegedly faster than an rtx 2080 ti it's just crazy so you guys let me know what you think let me know if you'd like to see me do another parts list with an rtx 3080 or 3090 or whatever whatever you guys want to see let me know i'll be reading your comments and uh thank you for watching toss a like on 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