**Building a Gaming PC: A Comprehensive Guide**

When it comes to building a gaming PC, one of the most important decisions is choosing the right hard drive. As the narrator mentions, pairing the Caviar Black hard drive with a normal mechanical hard drive results in significant speed improvements. This makes it the number one choice for gaming computers.

The Caviar Black hard drive boasts impressive speeds, making it an excellent option for gamers who need fast storage for their games and other files. With two terabytes of storage space, users can store all their favorite music, movies, and games without worrying about running out of room. The price point of around $160 makes it a great value for the performance it provides.

Another crucial component in building a gaming PC is the power supply. In this case, we're using a Corsair TX 750 watt power supply, which is more than sufficient for most systems. This modular power supply has several benefits, including only plugging in the cables that are needed, reducing clutter and making it easier to work with.

The Corsair TX 750 watt power supply offers 750 watts of capacity, providing ample power for future upgrades without having to worry about running out of room. The price point of around $105 makes it a great value for this level of performance. When paired with the case, we're using a Fractal Design Refine R4, which is a high-quality and quiet case that gets a big thumbs up from the narrator.

The Fractal Design Refine R4 case features noise-dampening material built into its design to minimize vibrations and noise. It also offers plenty of room for larger graphics cards, multiple hard drives, and other components, making it an ideal choice for gamers who want to upgrade their systems in the future. The price point of around $110 is well worth it for the quality and features this case provides.

Finally, we're using a Sony DVD burner as our optical drive option. This is optional, but can be very useful for installing Windows or running games that require a disc. With a price point of around $20, it's an affordable and convenient option for most users.

In terms of operating system, the narrator mentions that he didn't include Windows 7 Home Premium in this build due to its relatively high cost. However, there are other ways to get Windows, such as purchasing a pre-installed version or using a free alternative like Linux. The price point of around $100 adds to the overall cost of the system.

**Conclusion**

With these components and their respective prices, we've put together a powerful gaming PC that should handle most tasks with ease. The Caviar Black hard drive provides fast storage, while the Corsair TX 750 watt power supply offers ample power for future upgrades. The Fractal Design Refine R4 case is quiet and well-designed, and the Sony DVD burner provides a convenient option for optical media. As always, feel free to customize this build to your liking by visiting the links provided in the description.

**Links and Resources**

* Caviar Black Hard Drive: [insert link]

* Corsair TX 750 Watt Power Supply: [insert link]

* Fractal Design Refine R4 Case: [insert link]

* Sony DVD Burner: [insert link]

* Windows 7 Home Premium: [insert link]

**Customization Options**

If you'd like to customize this build further, consider the following options:

* AMD graphics card instead of NVIDIA

* Additional RAM for improved performance

* Core i7 processor for even more power

* Other components or accessories

Feel free to check out other builds and tutorials on [insert link] for inspiration and guidance.

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey guys this is Austin and today I'm here with a gaming Bild for $1,500 now for this kind of money you're going to be getting some serious performance not only can you play pretty much any game you throw at it at 1080P or even 1440p but you're also going to be able to get some very high frame rates probably at least 60 on most games and you can also turn pretty much any kind of graphic setting you want all the way up if you're interested in more I have builds all the way from $400 to 3,000 you guys can check them out right here and on top of that if you've never built a computer before I've done a full series showing you exactly step-by-step how to do it so even if this is your first computer build shouldn't be any problem to kick our build off we're going to be using an Intel Core i5 3570k processor now a lot of people think that if you're doing a gaming build you have to have a core i7 however that's not the case at all in fact a core i7 really isn't going to give you any better performance in games sure you may get a couple frames here and there but considering it's about $100 more you can get a lot more performance if you put that money in other places the core i5 is a quad core chip clocked to 3.4 GHz however since it's a K series part that means overclocking is going to be super easy so 4 GHz is something that absolutely anyone can get and with this build you're probably going to be looking something more like 4.5 GHz once you get it fully overclocked for about $220 this is an excellent start for our build for CPU Cooler we're going to be using a Corsair H liquid cooler now water cooling in computers is a lot of times really expensive and really complicated so you're going to have to get a reservoir you're going to have to get a pump you're going to get tubing you're going have to get all the fittings you're going have to figure out where everything goes and it's just kind of a bit of a mess however this is going to be a lot simpler as it's a fully contained unit so basically all you need to do is put it on your CPU and go ahead mount it in the back of your case it's going to be no problem and on top of that of course since it is a water cooling you're going to get some really really nice performance out of your CPU for about $80 it's going to be a great way to go for a graphics card we're going to be using an EVGA GTX 680 superclocked now in my opinion the GTX 680 is the best single GPU card that you can buy now you could go with an AMD Radeon 7970 GHz Edition which will give you similar levels of performance however the 680 is going to run cooler it's going to run quieter it's going to take up less power while doing it as the heart of our build you're going to find 2 gbt of ggdr 5 memory which going to be plenty for any game out there right now and on top of that it is the superclocked Edition which means that it's overclocked right out of the box so the core clock is going to be around 1100 MHz and even the memory is going to be slightly overclocked but of course if you want to push it farther it does have a dual fan design which you help kind of get rid of all that heat and dissipate a little bit better so for about $480 is going to be a perfect solution for our build for a motherboard we're going to be using a gigabyte G z77x ud3h now fantastic name aside this is a really solid motherboard so typically I like to use gigabyte boards in my builds in fact I've got one in the build right behind me here and there's a good reason it's a really Nic looking board with a black PCB and blue accents which personally I think look awesome but of course it does have all the other features that you would expect including sata 3 USB 3 up to 32 GB of RAM and one other thing is is it does support SLI so if you want you can add another GTX 680 to this build whether you want to do it immediately or you want to do it 6 months from now and it will work in this motherboard and will give you insane performance so if you want to like game on maybe three monitors or something like that it will work just fine for about $155 this is going to be really really awesome for memory we're going to be using 8 gabes of course their Vengeance Ram now this stuff I've used in quite a few different builds before and that's because it's really solid so it is DDR3 RAM clocked at 1600 MHz now I kind of feel that's the sweet spot for Sandy bridge and Ivy Bridge you can get faster clocked Ram but in general you're going to be paying a lot more for really a very very minor performance increase overall though for $40 is going to be enough RAM to handle pretty much anything you throw at it for an SSD going to be using a 128 GB Samsung 830 series drive now in my opinion an SSD is the number one way to increase performance on your computer on top of that since ssds have gotten a lot cheaper lately there's really no reason not to include one now the a30 is a bit of an older Drive however don't let that P you off at all now as it's still just as fast as pretty much the best ssds out there right now it's also going to be quite a bit cheaper and most importantly it's going to be very very reliable I used one myself and had zero problems with it for about $90 it's going to be a great way to go for a hard drive we going to be using a 2 TB Western Digital caviar black now as much as I love ssds to get something like one or two terabytes in an SSD is going to be ridiculously expensive so the best way to do it is to pair it with a normal mechanical hard drive and that's what we've done here so the caviar black is definitely the number one way to go as far as hard drives go for gaming computers it's going to be quite a bit faster than a normal hard drive nothing on SSD but still a pretty good Improvement and with two terabytes you're going to be able to have all the kind of music movies games all the kind of stuff that you want to put on there it's going to be no problem for about $160 is going to be perfect for our build for power supply we're going to be using a Corsair TX 750 wat this is the same power supply that I use in my own build I have absolutely no complaints about it so for starters you're going to get 750 watts of capacity which is actually overkill for the system however if you want to do some future upgrades you're not going to have any problem with that now it is a modular Supply which is definitely a good thing what it allows you to do is only plug in the certain cables that you need so otherwise you would have a whole mess of cables inside your case that you got to kind of Tuck everywhere with a modular Supply just plug in what you're going to need and you're going to be good to go about $105 it's going to work perfectly for a case we're going to be using a fractal design refine R4 now I recently used the little brother to this case the core 1000 in my $400 bill last month I got to say I was really impressed so I decided to go with the bigger brother for this one this is a quite and cool case which gets a big thumbs up from me so you're going to find some noise dampening material built into the case it's also really designed to kind of get rid of all the little vibrations and whatnot which can well be vibrating and annoying and all that kind of stuff but you do have plenty of room for all kinds of larger graphics cards tons of hard drives and just pretty much anything that you could throw in this system for about $110 this is well worth it for an optical drive we're going to be using a Sony DVD burner now this is very optional in fact a lot of people don't even bother to put DVD or Blu-ray or any kind of drives in their systems these days and I don't blame you at all however it is going to be really cheap and the big thing is that for example when you're installing Windows or maybe you have a DVD or some kind of game that you want to install it can come in handy and considering it's only about $20 it's generally worth it for most people however again if you want to upgrade this to a Blu-ray or just get rid of it all together absolutely feel free last but not least we have a copy of windows 7 Home Premium now this is very very optional in fact I did not even include it in this build the main reason is is that there are quite a few other ways of getting Windows right now for starters you may already have a version of it in which case of course it's free or you may want to hold out till Windows 8 which comes out about a month or so from when I'm recording this video regardless though if you do want to go with Windows 7 it will add about $100 to the system cost so there you guys have it a $1,500 bill which will handle pretty much anything you throw at it of course prices are constantly fluctuating so I have links to all the current prices in the description of this video since this is a custom gaming PC feel free to customize it however you like so I'll have some links in the description for some options so for example if you want to go with AMD on the graphic side you want to get more RAM you want to go with a core i7 or anything else L some other additional options that will work just fine if you guys want to see any of my other builds feel free to check them out right here and if you want to see the full tutorial on how to put together a computer it will be right here anyway guys if you enjoyed this video definitely be sure to leave it a thumbs up and if you're interested in more videos like this be sure to subscribehey guys this is Austin and today I'm here with a gaming Bild for $1,500 now for this kind of money you're going to be getting some serious performance not only can you play pretty much any game you throw at it at 1080P or even 1440p but you're also going to be able to get some very high frame rates probably at least 60 on most games and you can also turn pretty much any kind of graphic setting you want all the way up if you're interested in more I have builds all the way from $400 to 3,000 you guys can check them out right here and on top of that if you've never built a computer before I've done a full series showing you exactly step-by-step how to do it so even if this is your first computer build shouldn't be any problem to kick our build off we're going to be using an Intel Core i5 3570k processor now a lot of people think that if you're doing a gaming build you have to have a core i7 however that's not the case at all in fact a core i7 really isn't going to give you any better performance in games sure you may get a couple frames here and there but considering it's about $100 more you can get a lot more performance if you put that money in other places the core i5 is a quad core chip clocked to 3.4 GHz however since it's a K series part that means overclocking is going to be super easy so 4 GHz is something that absolutely anyone can get and with this build you're probably going to be looking something more like 4.5 GHz once you get it fully overclocked for about $220 this is an excellent start for our build for CPU Cooler we're going to be using a Corsair H liquid cooler now water cooling in computers is a lot of times really expensive and really complicated so you're going to have to get a reservoir you're going to have to get a pump you're going to get tubing you're going have to get all the fittings you're going have to figure out where everything goes and it's just kind of a bit of a mess however this is going to be a lot simpler as it's a fully contained unit so basically all you need to do is put it on your CPU and go ahead mount it in the back of your case it's going to be no problem and on top of that of course since it is a water cooling you're going to get some really really nice performance out of your CPU for about $80 it's going to be a great way to go for a graphics card we're going to be using an EVGA GTX 680 superclocked now in my opinion the GTX 680 is the best single GPU card that you can buy now you could go with an AMD Radeon 7970 GHz Edition which will give you similar levels of performance however the 680 is going to run cooler it's going to run quieter it's going to take up less power while doing it as the heart of our build you're going to find 2 gbt of ggdr 5 memory which going to be plenty for any game out there right now and on top of that it is the superclocked Edition which means that it's overclocked right out of the box so the core clock is going to be around 1100 MHz and even the memory is going to be slightly overclocked but of course if you want to push it farther it does have a dual fan design which you help kind of get rid of all that heat and dissipate a little bit better so for about $480 is going to be a perfect solution for our build for a motherboard we're going to be using a gigabyte G z77x ud3h now fantastic name aside this is a really solid motherboard so typically I like to use gigabyte boards in my builds in fact I've got one in the build right behind me here and there's a good reason it's a really Nic looking board with a black PCB and blue accents which personally I think look awesome but of course it does have all the other features that you would expect including sata 3 USB 3 up to 32 GB of RAM and one other thing is is it does support SLI so if you want you can add another GTX 680 to this build whether you want to do it immediately or you want to do it 6 months from now and it will work in this motherboard and will give you insane performance so if you want to like game on maybe three monitors or something like that it will work just fine for about $155 this is going to be really really awesome for memory we're going to be using 8 gabes of course their Vengeance Ram now this stuff I've used in quite a few different builds before and that's because it's really solid so it is DDR3 RAM clocked at 1600 MHz now I kind of feel that's the sweet spot for Sandy bridge and Ivy Bridge you can get faster clocked Ram but in general you're going to be paying a lot more for really a very very minor performance increase overall though for $40 is going to be enough RAM to handle pretty much anything you throw at it for an SSD going to be using a 128 GB Samsung 830 series drive now in my opinion an SSD is the number one way to increase performance on your computer on top of that since ssds have gotten a lot cheaper lately there's really no reason not to include one now the a30 is a bit of an older Drive however don't let that P you off at all now as it's still just as fast as pretty much the best ssds out there right now it's also going to be quite a bit cheaper and most importantly it's going to be very very reliable I used one myself and had zero problems with it for about $90 it's going to be a great way to go for a hard drive we going to be using a 2 TB Western Digital caviar black now as much as I love ssds to get something like one or two terabytes in an SSD is going to be ridiculously expensive so the best way to do it is to pair it with a normal mechanical hard drive and that's what we've done here so the caviar black is definitely the number one way to go as far as hard drives go for gaming computers it's going to be quite a bit faster than a normal hard drive nothing on SSD but still a pretty good Improvement and with two terabytes you're going to be able to have all the kind of music movies games all the kind of stuff that you want to put on there it's going to be no problem for about $160 is going to be perfect for our build for power supply we're going to be using a Corsair TX 750 wat this is the same power supply that I use in my own build I have absolutely no complaints about it so for starters you're going to get 750 watts of capacity which is actually overkill for the system however if you want to do some future upgrades you're not going to have any problem with that now it is a modular Supply which is definitely a good thing what it allows you to do is only plug in the certain cables that you need so otherwise you would have a whole mess of cables inside your case that you got to kind of Tuck everywhere with a modular Supply just plug in what you're going to need and you're going to be good to go about $105 it's going to work perfectly for a case we're going to be using a fractal design refine R4 now I recently used the little brother to this case the core 1000 in my $400 bill last month I got to say I was really impressed so I decided to go with the bigger brother for this one this is a quite and cool case which gets a big thumbs up from me so you're going to find some noise dampening material built into the case it's also really designed to kind of get rid of all the little vibrations and whatnot which can well be vibrating and annoying and all that kind of stuff but you do have plenty of room for all kinds of larger graphics cards tons of hard drives and just pretty much anything that you could throw in this system for about $110 this is well worth it for an optical drive we're going to be using a Sony DVD burner now this is very optional in fact a lot of people don't even bother to put DVD or Blu-ray or any kind of drives in their systems these days and I don't blame you at all however it is going to be really cheap and the big thing is that for example when you're installing Windows or maybe you have a DVD or some kind of game that you want to install it can come in handy and considering it's only about $20 it's generally worth it for most people however again if you want to upgrade this to a Blu-ray or just get rid of it all together absolutely feel free last but not least we have a copy of windows 7 Home Premium now this is very very optional in fact I did not even include it in this build the main reason is is that there are quite a few other ways of getting Windows right now for starters you may already have a version of it in which case of course it's free or you may want to hold out till Windows 8 which comes out about a month or so from when I'm recording this video regardless though if you do want to go with Windows 7 it will add about $100 to the system cost so there you guys have it a $1,500 bill which will handle pretty much anything you throw at it of course prices are constantly fluctuating so I have links to all the current prices in the description of this video since this is a custom gaming PC feel free to customize it however you like so I'll have some links in the description for some options so for example if you want to go with AMD on the graphic side you want to get more RAM you want to go with a core i7 or anything else L some other additional options that will work just fine if you guys want to see any of my other builds feel free to check them out right here and if you want to see the full tutorial on how to put together a computer it will be right here anyway guys if you enjoyed this video definitely be sure to leave it a thumbs up and if you're interested in more videos like this be sure to subscribe