**Building a Reliable Gaming PC**

I recently decided to build a new gaming PC and after researching and testing various components, I've found a reliable and satisfying setup that meets all my needs.

For the motherboard, I chose Crucial's Ballistic Sport LT, which is one of the cheapest DDR4 options available. It comes in at 2400 MHz, but it can be easily overclocked in the BIOS to reach higher speeds. Although I would have preferred to go for two 8GB DIMMs to give a total of 16GB of memory, RAM prices have recently doubled over the past year and a half due to increased demand for DDR4 RAM with the rise of Ryzen CPUs and Intel's X299 Thread Ripper. As a result, I've opted for the cheapest option available.

For storage, I've chosen Barracuda's 1TB hard drive, which comes in at 7200 RPM and is as fast as mainstream consumer hard drives. It also fits into a standard 32mm form factor, making it easy to install in my case. With 1000GB of capacity, I think it will be more than enough for most people's games, Origin, Steam libraries, documents, applications, and Windows installation.

**Gaming GPU**

For the graphics card, I've chosen MSI's GeForce GTX 1060, which is one of the best-rated options available. I opted for the 6GB model, but before proceeding with the build, make sure to check the stock levels and prices on websites such as Amazon, as they can fluctuate rapidly.

Recently, GPU stock levels and prices have skyrocketed due to a surge in demand from Ethereum mining, which is currently at its peak. The situation may stabilize by the time you're watching this video, but it's essential to keep an eye on GPU pricing and availability before making any purchases. For more information, please refer to the description below for links to Amazon Prime, where you can get free one or two-day delivery on most of the items mentioned in this build.

**Case**

For the case, I've chosen Corsair's Carb On4, a new entry into my PC build lineup. This case features good airflow and is easy to upgrade, with support for full-size ATX power supplies and up to 240mm liquid cooling systems. The black and red model I chose looks fantastic, but it's essential to check out reviews from other builders, such as Dino PC, which reviewed the white and red version of this case.

**Power Supply**

Finally, for the power supply, I've chosen EVGA's 600B 600W unit, which is an 80+ Bronze certified, 600W power supply that should provide plenty of headroom for future upgrades. With a power output of around 270-280 watts at 100% load, this power supply is well-suited for most gaming builds.

**Conclusion**

This build has come together to form a reliable and efficient gaming PC that I'm excited to use for gaming and other activities. If you enjoyed watching this video, please smash that like button and consider subscribing for more content like this in the future. Don't forget to turn on notifications so you can stay up-to-date with my latest videos.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwelcome back to another geek video and today I'm taking you over the best $700 gaming PC build for 2017 make sure to smash that like button and to subscribe let's get straight into it with what kind of performance numbers you can be expecting from this build this system is going to give you really really good performance at 1080P and be VR ready you're going to see in excess of 100 range per second even in the latest AAA titles uh and you crank it up to high settings you're going to sustain well over that 60 FPS Mark games like OverWatch and CSO you're even going to be able to see 1440p and 4K gaming at good frame rates uh given to just how easy those games are to run and just how powerful this build is so let's kick it off with the parts I chosen why as always starting with the CPU in terms of the CPU went for amd's ryzen 5400 it's a quadcore CPU with a base clock of 3.2 GHz and a boost of 3.4 GHz the CPU in my opinion provides much better value than Intel's I5 uh counterparts uh with really nice clock speeds good overclocking support and a fantastic stock cooler having such a good stock cooler is going to prevent you from needing to buy an aftermarket third party CPU coer don't get me wrong later down the line if you want some really good overclocking leverage or slightly quieter operation a third party CPU caller such as caller mass as HP 12 Evo or hyper T2 it is going to be a great option but for now that stock call out will do you absolutely fine in terms of the motherboard I went for msi's b350m pro vdh it's a Micro ATX am4 motherboard the am4 socket is needed for these ryen lineup of CPUs and provides a really good upgrade path you can go right from this ryzen 5400 chip and possibly these future ryzen 3 releases all the way up to the topend ryzen 7 CPU which is going to be more than adequate for even the the most uh sort of professional content creators whilst the motherboard isn't going to directly affect your gaming performance you do want something that looks good this motherboard tick that box has a good feature set this has got good USB 3 uh and iio and overclocking uh capability and you also want something that's known to be pretty reliable and this motherboard uh sort of satisfies all of those needs which is why I went for it in terms of ram crucial's ballistic sport LT uh is some of the cheapest ddr4 you can get this comes in clock at 2400 MH the speed of which can of course be increased very very easily indeed in the Motherboard BIOS preferably I would have gone for 2 8 gig dims to give 16 gigs of total memory however RAM prices at the minute are absolutely unbelievable they've literally doubled over the past sort of 18 months to two years and that's basically because of a massive increase in uh ddr4 Demand with these new riseon CPUs Intel's x299 uh thread Ripper on the horizon and amd's new server chips ddr4 Ram really is in demand and of course these companies are going to capitalize on that in terms of storage seates Barracuda is a 1 TB hard drive which comes in at 7200 RPM which is as fast as your mainstream consumer hard drives are going to get it comes in at 32 in uh form fat T which is you pretty standardized size uh for hard drives nowadays and 1,000 GB of capacity is more than enough for most people's uh games your origin and steam libraries if few documents and applications and windows that kind of thing you can of course go for a 2 TB drive if you do want to but 1 TB will be enough for most people now a quick note before I move on to the GPU all of the items I've mentioned which I'll link uh down in the description below for Amazon a roll on Amazon Prime in the US anyway and I'll even leave a link in the description below to get a free Amazon Prime trial which will give you free one or 2 day delivery on most of the stuff I've mentioned which is going to be really really good cuz at the end of the day you buy a new gaming PC who wants to wait a week for it to arrive moving on to the GPU I've gone for msi's GeForce GTX 1060 I went for the 6 GB model and this is actually the best rated GTX 1060 you can buy now before you go and click that link in the description and see that it's out of stock and destroy your keyboard in the comments section below GPU prices and stock and availability I've shot through the roof uh and just sort of vanquished in the past uh few weeks now that's because of a rise in ethereum mining which is a cryptocurrency like uh when people were mining Bitcoin for example now this is just a wave and by the time most people are watching this GPU stock levels and prices should settle back down to where they were ethereum is only a temporary issue which is why graphics card demand is so high and why the prices on gpus have skyrocketed recently nevertheless I'll link it in the description below so do keep your eye on GPU pricing stock and availability in terms of the case I've gone for it's a new entry into my PC build lineup it's corsair's car spec o4 now of course there spec2 and3 cases have featured in many of my builds previously and this spec o4 looks fantastic I went for the black and red model but I've actually reviewed a PC from Dino PC which I'll link in the cards now uh which includes the white and red model and it's just a fantastic looking case it's quite barebones inside and isn't going to give you anything too special but looks fantastic nevertheless it has good support fulls sizee ATX power supplies and up to ATX motherboard without being a huge full tower Affair and finally to wrap this build up is EVGA 600b 600 watt it's an 80 plus bronze certified 600 wats power supply which is going to give you more than enough Headroom this build is rated at about 270 280 wats at 100% load uh so you've got an excessive amount of room left on this so even if you added another GPU in upgraded the CPU put more round or storage in you are going to be good you want a reliable power supply that fits in at a nice price and this EVGA unit certainly ticks that box but that basically wraps up for this build if you did enjoy it you want to buy it smash that like button if you do build this PC tweet me photos at geek I love receiving photos of you guys having built these new PCS that perform really really well and look absolutely fantastic if you did enjoy this video subscribe for more content like this and turn on the notifications hit that little bell down below so you never miss another geeka video follow my Twitter if you like at geeka for behind the scenes look and what's going on but I'll start rambling and instead I'll see you in the next geeka videowelcome back to another geek video and today I'm taking you over the best $700 gaming PC build for 2017 make sure to smash that like button and to subscribe let's get straight into it with what kind of performance numbers you can be expecting from this build this system is going to give you really really good performance at 1080P and be VR ready you're going to see in excess of 100 range per second even in the latest AAA titles uh and you crank it up to high settings you're going to sustain well over that 60 FPS Mark games like OverWatch and CSO you're even going to be able to see 1440p and 4K gaming at good frame rates uh given to just how easy those games are to run and just how powerful this build is so let's kick it off with the parts I chosen why as always starting with the CPU in terms of the CPU went for amd's ryzen 5400 it's a quadcore CPU with a base clock of 3.2 GHz and a boost of 3.4 GHz the CPU in my opinion provides much better value than Intel's I5 uh counterparts uh with really nice clock speeds good overclocking support and a fantastic stock cooler having such a good stock cooler is going to prevent you from needing to buy an aftermarket third party CPU coer don't get me wrong later down the line if you want some really good overclocking leverage or slightly quieter operation a third party CPU caller such as caller mass as HP 12 Evo or hyper T2 it is going to be a great option but for now that stock call out will do you absolutely fine in terms of the motherboard I went for msi's b350m pro vdh it's a Micro ATX am4 motherboard the am4 socket is needed for these ryen lineup of CPUs and provides a really good upgrade path you can go right from this ryzen 5400 chip and possibly these future ryzen 3 releases all the way up to the topend ryzen 7 CPU which is going to be more than adequate for even the the most uh sort of professional content creators whilst the motherboard isn't going to directly affect your gaming performance you do want something that looks good this motherboard tick that box has a good feature set this has got good USB 3 uh and iio and overclocking uh capability and you also want something that's known to be pretty reliable and this motherboard uh sort of satisfies all of those needs which is why I went for it in terms of ram crucial's ballistic sport LT uh is some of the cheapest ddr4 you can get this comes in clock at 2400 MH the speed of which can of course be increased very very easily indeed in the Motherboard BIOS preferably I would have gone for 2 8 gig dims to give 16 gigs of total memory however RAM prices at the minute are absolutely unbelievable they've literally doubled over the past sort of 18 months to two years and that's basically because of a massive increase in uh ddr4 Demand with these new riseon CPUs Intel's x299 uh thread Ripper on the horizon and amd's new server chips ddr4 Ram really is in demand and of course these companies are going to capitalize on that in terms of storage seates Barracuda is a 1 TB hard drive which comes in at 7200 RPM which is as fast as your mainstream consumer hard drives are going to get it comes in at 32 in uh form fat T which is you pretty standardized size uh for hard drives nowadays and 1,000 GB of capacity is more than enough for most people's uh games your origin and steam libraries if few documents and applications and windows that kind of thing you can of course go for a 2 TB drive if you do want to but 1 TB will be enough for most people now a quick note before I move on to the GPU all of the items I've mentioned which I'll link uh down in the description below for Amazon a roll on Amazon Prime in the US anyway and I'll even leave a link in the description below to get a free Amazon Prime trial which will give you free one or 2 day delivery on most of the stuff I've mentioned which is going to be really really good cuz at the end of the day you buy a new gaming PC who wants to wait a week for it to arrive moving on to the GPU I've gone for msi's GeForce GTX 1060 I went for the 6 GB model and this is actually the best rated GTX 1060 you can buy now before you go and click that link in the description and see that it's out of stock and destroy your keyboard in the comments section below GPU prices and stock and availability I've shot through the roof uh and just sort of vanquished in the past uh few weeks now that's because of a rise in ethereum mining which is a cryptocurrency like uh when people were mining Bitcoin for example now this is just a wave and by the time most people are watching this GPU stock levels and prices should settle back down to where they were ethereum is only a temporary issue which is why graphics card demand is so high and why the prices on gpus have skyrocketed recently nevertheless I'll link it in the description below so do keep your eye on GPU pricing stock and availability in terms of the case I've gone for it's a new entry into my PC build lineup it's corsair's car spec o4 now of course there spec2 and3 cases have featured in many of my builds previously and this spec o4 looks fantastic I went for the black and red model but I've actually reviewed a PC from Dino PC which I'll link in the cards now uh which includes the white and red model and it's just a fantastic looking case it's quite barebones inside and isn't going to give you anything too special but looks fantastic nevertheless it has good support fulls sizee ATX power supplies and up to ATX motherboard without being a huge full tower Affair and finally to wrap this build up is EVGA 600b 600 watt it's an 80 plus bronze certified 600 wats power supply which is going to give you more than enough Headroom this build is rated at about 270 280 wats at 100% load uh so you've got an excessive amount of room left on this so even if you added another GPU in upgraded the CPU put more round or storage in you are going to be good you want a reliable power supply that fits in at a nice price and this EVGA unit certainly ticks that box but that basically wraps up for this build if you did enjoy it you want to buy it smash that like button if you do build this PC tweet me photos at geek I love receiving photos of you guys having built these new PCS that perform really really well and look absolutely fantastic if you did enjoy this video subscribe for more content like this and turn on the notifications hit that little bell down below so you never miss another geeka video follow my Twitter if you like at geeka for behind the scenes look and what's going on but I'll start rambling and instead I'll see you in the next geeka videowelcome back to another geek video and today I'm taking you over the best $700 gaming PC build for 2017 make sure to smash that like button and to subscribe let's get straight into it with what kind of performance numbers you can be expecting from this build this system is going to give you really really good performance at 1080P and be VR ready you're going to see in excess of 100 range per second even in the latest AAA titles uh and you crank it up to high settings you're going to sustain well over that 60 FPS Mark games like OverWatch and CSO you're even going to be able to see 1440p and 4K gaming at good frame rates uh given to just how easy those games are to run and just how powerful this build is so let's kick it off with the parts I chosen why as always starting with the CPU in terms of the CPU went for amd's ryzen 5400 it's a quadcore CPU with a base clock of 3.2 GHz and a boost of 3.4 GHz the CPU in my opinion provides much better value than Intel's I5 uh counterparts uh with really nice clock speeds good overclocking support and a fantastic stock cooler having such a good stock cooler is going to prevent you from needing to buy an aftermarket third party CPU coer don't get me wrong later down the line if you want some really good overclocking leverage or slightly quieter operation a third party CPU caller such as caller mass as HP 12 Evo or hyper T2 it is going to be a great option but for now that stock call out will do you absolutely fine in terms of the motherboard I went for msi's b350m pro vdh it's a Micro ATX am4 motherboard the am4 socket is needed for these ryen lineup of CPUs and provides a really good upgrade path you can go right from this ryzen 5400 chip and possibly these future ryzen 3 releases all the way up to the topend ryzen 7 CPU which is going to be more than adequate for even the the most uh sort of professional content creators whilst the motherboard isn't going to directly affect your gaming performance you do want something that looks good this motherboard tick that box has a good feature set this has got good USB 3 uh and iio and overclocking uh capability and you also want something that's known to be pretty reliable and this motherboard uh sort of satisfies all of those needs which is why I went for it in terms of ram crucial's ballistic sport LT uh is some of the cheapest ddr4 you can get this comes in clock at 2400 MH the speed of which can of course be increased very very easily indeed in the Motherboard BIOS preferably I would have gone for 2 8 gig dims to give 16 gigs of total memory however RAM prices at the minute are absolutely unbelievable they've literally doubled over the past sort of 18 months to two years and that's basically because of a massive increase in uh ddr4 Demand with these new riseon CPUs Intel's x299 uh thread Ripper on the horizon and amd's new server chips ddr4 Ram really is in demand and of course these companies are going to capitalize on that in terms of storage seates Barracuda is a 1 TB hard drive which comes in at 7200 RPM which is as fast as your mainstream consumer hard drives are going to get it comes in at 32 in uh form fat T which is you pretty standardized size uh for hard drives nowadays and 1,000 GB of capacity is more than enough for most people's uh games your origin and steam libraries if few documents and applications and windows that kind of thing you can of course go for a 2 TB drive if you do want to but 1 TB will be enough for most people now a quick note before I move on to the GPU all of the items I've mentioned which I'll link uh down in the description below for Amazon a roll on Amazon Prime in the US anyway and I'll even leave a link in the description below to get a free Amazon Prime trial which will give you free one or 2 day delivery on most of the stuff I've mentioned which is going to be really really good cuz at the end of the day you buy a new gaming PC who wants to wait a week for it to arrive moving on to the GPU I've gone for msi's GeForce GTX 1060 I went for the 6 GB model and this is actually the best rated GTX 1060 you can buy now before you go and click that link in the description and see that it's out of stock and destroy your keyboard in the comments section below GPU prices and stock and availability I've shot through the roof uh and just sort of vanquished in the past uh few weeks now that's because of a rise in ethereum mining which is a cryptocurrency like uh when people were mining Bitcoin for example now this is just a wave and by the time most people are watching this GPU stock levels and prices should settle back down to where they were ethereum is only a temporary issue which is why graphics card demand is so high and why the prices on gpus have skyrocketed recently nevertheless I'll link it in the description below so do keep your eye on GPU pricing stock and availability in terms of the case I've gone for it's a new entry into my PC build lineup it's corsair's car spec o4 now of course there spec2 and3 cases have featured in many of my builds previously and this spec o4 looks fantastic I went for the black and red model but I've actually reviewed a PC from Dino PC which I'll link in the cards now uh which includes the white and red model and it's just a fantastic looking case it's quite barebones inside and isn't going to give you anything too special but looks fantastic nevertheless it has good support fulls sizee ATX power supplies and up to ATX motherboard without being a huge full tower Affair and finally to wrap this build up is EVGA 600b 600 watt it's an 80 plus bronze certified 600 wats power supply which is going to give you more than enough Headroom this build is rated at about 270 280 wats at 100% load uh so you've got an excessive amount of room left on this so even if you added another GPU in upgraded the CPU put more round or storage in you are going to be good you want a reliable power supply that fits in at a nice price and this EVGA unit certainly ticks that box but that basically wraps up for this build if you did enjoy it you want to buy it smash that like button if you do build this PC tweet me photos at geek I love receiving photos of you guys having built these new PCS that perform really really well and look absolutely fantastic if you did enjoy this video subscribe for more content like this and turn on the notifications hit that little bell down below so you never miss another geeka video follow my Twitter if you like at geeka for behind the scenes look and what's going on but I'll start rambling and instead I'll see you in the next geeka video\n"