**Building a Budget Gaming PC with the Aorus RTX 3060**

We've got one here, one here, they are no bueno, senor, wrong location, they need to move down to the bottom here to match up perfectly if they don't, you can cause some major damage. So grab yourself a pair of pliers and begin unscrewing your stand off this could take some time but once you've loosened them off, your thumb will finish the job nicely. Once the motherboard's in, we can slide the case to one side and take a look at the graphics card.

**Choosing the Right Graphics Card**

This right here is the Aorus RTX 3060, a fantastic GPU for gaming at 1080p maximum settings and always achieving 60 frames or more in reality. You're likely to be hitting the 100 frames per second or above mark more than you are the six. This is one of NVIDIA's finest GPUs ever, yes, it's not as powerful as a 3080 obviously but it's a lot cheaper and with prices starting to rocket downwards and in some regions especially here in the UK MSRP levels already being achievable. This is actually a system you can build on budget something I never thought I'd be able to say just six months ago.

**The Aorus RTX 3060**

Now, if we go ahead and unbox the card, you'll see that our unit today comes in on Gigabyte's higher-end Aorus range. Now this is arguably a little bit overkill for what we're doing today but I think the card looks phenomenal and all the extra RGB and gizmos here and there are certainly going to do a good job of adding a unique aesthetic edge to the system. Plenty of video memory support for ray tracing, DLSS, you name it, this card has got it.

**Benchmark Numbers**

Take a look at some of the benchmark numbers we've run on your screen now it shows that across the latest titles at 1080p this card has got it covered. Games like Fortnite in particular work incredibly well here we achieved an impressive 222 frames per second on average when tested out in competitive settings to get the maximum possible frame rate. The good news continued in Forza Horizon 5 where we picked up 85 frames per second on average tested at 1080p high settings using the game's inbuilt benchmarking mode. Games like Apex also perform well more than 150 frames per second at 1080p high in this popular EA title.

**Installing the Graphics Card**

When it comes to installing the GPU, there are a couple of things you need to check. You'll notice here we've got this nice gold slot that's what's going to connect up to the PCI lane on the motherboard. Always want to use the first X16, the first large form factor slot. Hover the card over the slot don't go ahead and install it just yet as doing so will actually show us that we've got an extra PCI slot in the way and that we don't need the top one to be removed. What we're going to do is swap those around then slot the GPU into place with a satisfying sound and secure it in with the included thumb screws.

**Powering Up the PC**

We'll add our power cables in just a moment when we round things off with the power supply. The power supply I've selected is this nice little Corsair CX750F unit, it's actually white with white cables which I think will look quite nice in the build today and provides plenty of wattage for our current setup and any configurations later on down the line. It's easy to install as well just pop it in the back of the case and screw it into place remember to install the modular cables that we need, that includes the motherboard CPU GPU and a SATA power harness for this build.

**Cable Management**

Once your power supply's in these can all go to their respective areas on the motherboard starting with the CPU in the top left, motherboard on the right-hand side, GPU to the middle of our Aorus RTX 3060, and finally a SATA power connection to the back panel of the motherboard to power up the RGB controller for the fans and lit-up logo. It's not looking awful but I think I might add some custom sleeve cable extensions, I'll leave these easy DIY fab cable options linked below as well as I think they'll just look a bit better than the white ones that come included.

**Final Touches**

Remember to plug in your front panel cables comprised of your JFP1's, they're the fiddly pins but we'll pop a diagram on your screen now. Your USB and of course your HD audio to power up the headphone and mic jacks and with that we're pretty much done.

**Boot Up and Enjoy**

To finish things off we're gonna boot the PC up and see just how good it looks, ending with an awesome glam montage. Thanks for tuning in and enjoy that montage I just uh\n

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enin this video i'm going to be showing you how to build the best 1 000 gaming pc you can put together right now with gpu prices crashing at a tremendous rate there hasn't been a better time to build a gaming pc in ages i'll be running you through all the components i've selected for this build and of course why showing you how to assemble it step by step from start right through to finish before booting the pc up at the end and seeing just how well it performs let's go ahead and dive right into it the latest range of zotac zbox mini pcs allow you to get gaming right away in a super compact form factor with the latest rtx 3060 3070 and 3080 notebook gpus these certainly pack a punch and their bare bones nature means you can spec them up with whatever storage and memory you see fit check out our dedicated video featuring one of the zbox pcs or learn more at the links below as with all of our builds we're going to kick things off by looking at some of the core components first up this includes our motherboard our cpu or processor the m.2 ssd storage and the ram or the memory let's begin specifically though with of course our motherboard and cpu first of all as you've probably guessed already we've gone for an intel approach in this build utilizing the brand new intel 12th gen cpu platform the new intel 12 gen processors are phenomenal and the performance you're able to achieve is quite frankly miles better than what we've seen before it's nice to see intel make such a big comeback and the rumor are that amd aren't too far behind when they launch their next gen ryzen 7 000 chips but these intel processors they've got one key upside no one's really talking about these chips actually support ddr4 and ddr5 memory the new ryzen cpus won't making them a bad bet for budget gamers at least for now ddr4 memory is so much cheaper so pick yourself up a 12 gen chip like the i312 100 f or for some more performance and i5 12 400 f both are gonna work relatively well for this build one saving you a little more money than the other and as always we'll link all the various options for parts and all that good stuff in the description below these chips also come with a great stock cooler which we can install nice and easily by just clicking in each corner and adding in the fan header obviously an aftermarket cooler is gonna be way better for temperatures and allow you to overclock but our chip is not overclockable anyway and it saves us some money which you can port into the gpu a little bit later now we're not going to look at the gpu yet we still need of course to cover off our ram and our ssd this is a 16 gigabyte kit of corsairs vengeance rgb rt they also do an rs and a normal pro kit either gonna work fine it's 16 gigs eight gig dimms in total giving us room for upgrades later and up to 32 gigs of memory and the white aesthetic is gonna match quite nicely with our build the two-tone black and white design is always a pleasant addition we'll be using the gray slots on our gigabyte b660 ds3h motherboard today to install the ram into place which we can do nice and easily make sure your corsair logos are facing away from the cpu click your memory in with a bit of pressure on either side and that's all there is to it your ram is now going to receive data and pass power through the ram dimm slot on the motherboard the final part of the motherboard assembly is adding in the storage this is the samsung ssd 980 not the 980 pro the 980 evo just the normal bog standard 980 with read speeds up to three and a half gigabytes a second though it's gonna perform admirably well and with it being an m.2 drive it's very very easy to go ahead and install no complicated sata cables or any of that business what you need to do is you need to take a look out for the m.2 slot on your motherboard first it's just here below the stock cooler slide the drive in at sort of a 45 degree angle like so and then push it down into place we're going to use one of the included teeny tiny screws to secure it down and once you've done that the motherboard assembly is basically complete we can then go ahead and take a look at the pc case choice for the build now picking a great case is not always the easiest decisions but luckily we've made a guide rounding up our favorite chassis of 2022. this is the lanco 215 it's available in black or white i've gone for white for something just a bit different it's got loads of mesh on the front hence the name two large fans a bit of rgb and a tempered glass side panel make sure the case you go for supports fairly long graphics cards full size atx motherboards and of course any liquid cooling radiators you might want to install at a later date this case is a personal favorite of mine though given this affordability and great value price tag what i'm gonna do is i'm gonna go ahead and unbox the case strip all the side panels back and lay it flat on the table as that will make installing the motherboard which is the next step today so much easier once we're in this position we can then go ahead and locate all of the standoff holes on the motherboard that's these holes that go through the motherboard and allow for the installation of the board itself you'll notice we've got nine and these need to match up exactly i cannot stress this enough exactly with the standoffs in the case if i grab my handy pointer of doom aka scissors you'll see we've got one two three at the top three along the middle and then whoa whoa whoa whoa there's some in the wrong spot this could be bad we've got one here one here they are no bueno senor wrong location they need to move down to the bottom here to match up perfectly if they don't you can cause some major damage so grab yourself a pair of pliers and begin unscrewing your stand off this could take some time but once you've loosened them off your thumb will finish the job nicely once the motherboard's in we can slide the case to one side and take a look at the graphics card choice for this build which i think we can install with the case laid flat this right here is the aorus rtx 3060 a fantastic gpu for gaming at 1080p maximum settings and always achieving 60 frames or more in reality you're likely to be hitting the 100 frames per second or above mark more than you are the 6d this is one of nvidia's finest gpus ever yes it's not as powerful as a 3080 obviously but it's a lot cheaper and with prices starting to rocket downwards and in some regions especially here in the uk msrp levels already being achievable this is actually a system you can build on budget something i never thought i'd be able to say just six months ago now if we go ahead and unbox the card you'll see that our unit today comes in on gigabyte's higher end aurus range now this is arguably a little bit overkill for what we're doing today but i think the card looks phenomenal and all the extra rgb and gizmos here and there are certainly going to do a good job of adding a unique aesthetic edge to the system plenty of video memory support for ray tracing dlss you name it this card has got it take a look at some of the benchmark numbers we've run on your screen now it shows that across the latest titles at 1080p this card has got it covered games like fortnite in particular work incredibly well here we achieved an impressive 222 frames per second on average when tested out in competitive settings to get the maximum possible frame rate the good news continued in forza horizon 5 where we picked up 85 frames per second on average tested at 1080p high settings using the game's inbuilt benchmarking mode games like apex also perform well more than 150 frames per second at 1080p high in this popular ea title while cod warzone also pulled in some great numbers 112 frames per second to be precise when testing with our beautiful 3060 ti when it comes to installing the gpu there are a couple of things you need to check you'll notice here we've got this nice gold slot that's what's going to connect up to the pci lane on the motherboard you always want to use the first x16 the first large form factor slot hover the card over the slot don't go ahead and install it just yet as doing so will actually show us that we've got an extra pci slot in the way and that we don't need the top one to be removed what we're going to do is we're going to swap those around then slot the gpu into place with a satisfying sound and secure it in with the included thumb screws we'll add our power cables in just a moment when we round things off with the power supply the power supply i've selected is this nice little corsair cx750f unit it's actually white with white cables which i think will look quite nice in the build today and provides plenty of wattage for our current setup and any configurations later on down the line it's easy to install as well just pop it in the back of the case and screw it into place remember to install the modular cables that we need that includes the motherboard cpu gpu and a sata power harness for this build once your power supply's in these can all go to their respective areas on the motherboard starting with the cpu in the top left motherboard on the right hand side gpu to the middle of our aorus rtx 3060 and finally a sata power connection to the back panel of the motherboard to power up the rgb controller for the fans and lit up logo it's not looking awful but i think i might add some custom sleeve cable extensions i'll leave these easy diy fab cable options linked below as well as i think they'll just look a bit better than the white ones that come included to wrap things up remember to plug in your front panel cables comprised of your jfp1 they're the fiddly pins but we'll pop a diagram on your screen now your usb and of course your hd audio to power up the headphone and mic jacks and with that we're pretty much done to finish things off we're gonna boot the pc up and see just how good it looks ending with an awesome glam montage thanks for tuning in and enjoy that montage i just uhin this video i'm going to be showing you how to build the best 1 000 gaming pc you can put together right now with gpu prices crashing at a tremendous rate there hasn't been a better time to build a gaming pc in ages i'll be running you through all the components i've selected for this build and of course why showing you how to assemble it step by step from start right through to finish before booting the pc up at the end and seeing just how well it performs let's go ahead and dive right into it the latest range of zotac zbox mini pcs allow you to get gaming right away in a super compact form factor with the latest rtx 3060 3070 and 3080 notebook gpus these certainly pack a punch and their bare bones nature means you can spec them up with whatever storage and memory you see fit check out our dedicated video featuring one of the zbox pcs or learn more at the links below as with all of our builds we're going to kick things off by looking at some of the core components first up this includes our motherboard our cpu or processor the m.2 ssd storage and the ram or the memory let's begin specifically though with of course our motherboard and cpu first of all as you've probably guessed already we've gone for an intel approach in this build utilizing the brand new intel 12th gen cpu platform the new intel 12 gen processors are phenomenal and the performance you're able to achieve is quite frankly miles better than what we've seen before it's nice to see intel make such a big comeback and the rumor are that amd aren't too far behind when they launch their next gen ryzen 7 000 chips but these intel processors they've got one key upside no one's really talking about these chips actually support ddr4 and ddr5 memory the new ryzen cpus won't making them a bad bet for budget gamers at least for now ddr4 memory is so much cheaper so pick yourself up a 12 gen chip like the i312 100 f or for some more performance and i5 12 400 f both are gonna work relatively well for this build one saving you a little more money than the other and as always we'll link all the various options for parts and all that good stuff in the description below these chips also come with a great stock cooler which we can install nice and easily by just clicking in each corner and adding in the fan header obviously an aftermarket cooler is gonna be way better for temperatures and allow you to overclock but our chip is not overclockable anyway and it saves us some money which you can port into the gpu a little bit later now we're not going to look at the gpu yet we still need of course to cover off our ram and our ssd this is a 16 gigabyte kit of corsairs vengeance rgb rt they also do an rs and a normal pro kit either gonna work fine it's 16 gigs eight gig dimms in total giving us room for upgrades later and up to 32 gigs of memory and the white aesthetic is gonna match quite nicely with our build the two-tone black and white design is always a pleasant addition we'll be using the gray slots on our gigabyte b660 ds3h motherboard today to install the ram into place which we can do nice and easily make sure your corsair logos are facing away from the cpu click your memory in with a bit of pressure on either side and that's all there is to it your ram is now going to receive data and pass power through the ram dimm slot on the motherboard the final part of the motherboard assembly is adding in the storage this is the samsung ssd 980 not the 980 pro the 980 evo just the normal bog standard 980 with read speeds up to three and a half gigabytes a second though it's gonna perform admirably well and with it being an m.2 drive it's very very easy to go ahead and install no complicated sata cables or any of that business what you need to do is you need to take a look out for the m.2 slot on your motherboard first it's just here below the stock cooler slide the drive in at sort of a 45 degree angle like so and then push it down into place we're going to use one of the included teeny tiny screws to secure it down and once you've done that the motherboard assembly is basically complete we can then go ahead and take a look at the pc case choice for the build now picking a great case is not always the easiest decisions but luckily we've made a guide rounding up our favorite chassis of 2022. this is the lanco 215 it's available in black or white i've gone for white for something just a bit different it's got loads of mesh on the front hence the name two large fans a bit of rgb and a tempered glass side panel make sure the case you go for supports fairly long graphics cards full size atx motherboards and of course any liquid cooling radiators you might want to install at a later date this case is a personal favorite of mine though given this affordability and great value price tag what i'm gonna do is i'm gonna go ahead and unbox the case strip all the side panels back and lay it flat on the table as that will make installing the motherboard which is the next step today so much easier once we're in this position we can then go ahead and locate all of the standoff holes on the motherboard that's these holes that go through the motherboard and allow for the installation of the board itself you'll notice we've got nine and these need to match up exactly i cannot stress this enough exactly with the standoffs in the case if i grab my handy pointer of doom aka scissors you'll see we've got one two three at the top three along the middle and then whoa whoa whoa whoa there's some in the wrong spot this could be bad we've got one here one here they are no bueno senor wrong location they need to move down to the bottom here to match up perfectly if they don't you can cause some major damage so grab yourself a pair of pliers and begin unscrewing your stand off this could take some time but once you've loosened them off your thumb will finish the job nicely once the motherboard's in we can slide the case to one side and take a look at the graphics card choice for this build which i think we can install with the case laid flat this right here is the aorus rtx 3060 a fantastic gpu for gaming at 1080p maximum settings and always achieving 60 frames or more in reality you're likely to be hitting the 100 frames per second or above mark more than you are the 6d this is one of nvidia's finest gpus ever yes it's not as powerful as a 3080 obviously but it's a lot cheaper and with prices starting to rocket downwards and in some regions especially here in the uk msrp levels already being achievable this is actually a system you can build on budget something i never thought i'd be able to say just six months ago now if we go ahead and unbox the card you'll see that our unit today comes in on gigabyte's higher end aurus range now this is arguably a little bit overkill for what we're doing today but i think the card looks phenomenal and all the extra rgb and gizmos here and there are certainly going to do a good job of adding a unique aesthetic edge to the system plenty of video memory support for ray tracing dlss you name it this card has got it take a look at some of the benchmark numbers we've run on your screen now it shows that across the latest titles at 1080p this card has got it covered games like fortnite in particular work incredibly well here we achieved an impressive 222 frames per second on average when tested out in competitive settings to get the maximum possible frame rate the good news continued in forza horizon 5 where we picked up 85 frames per second on average tested at 1080p high settings using the game's inbuilt benchmarking mode games like apex also perform well more than 150 frames per second at 1080p high in this popular ea title while cod warzone also pulled in some great numbers 112 frames per second to be precise when testing with our beautiful 3060 ti when it comes to installing the gpu there are a couple of things you need to check you'll notice here we've got this nice gold slot that's what's going to connect up to the pci lane on the motherboard you always want to use the first x16 the first large form factor slot hover the card over the slot don't go ahead and install it just yet as doing so will actually show us that we've got an extra pci slot in the way and that we don't need the top one to be removed what we're going to do is we're going to swap those around then slot the gpu into place with a satisfying sound and secure it in with the included thumb screws we'll add our power cables in just a moment when we round things off with the power supply the power supply i've selected is this nice little corsair cx750f unit it's actually white with white cables which i think will look quite nice in the build today and provides plenty of wattage for our current setup and any configurations later on down the line it's easy to install as well just pop it in the back of the case and screw it into place remember to install the modular cables that we need that includes the motherboard cpu gpu and a sata power harness for this build once your power supply's in these can all go to their respective areas on the motherboard starting with the cpu in the top left motherboard on the right hand side gpu to the middle of our aorus rtx 3060 and finally a sata power connection to the back panel of the motherboard to power up the rgb controller for the fans and lit up logo it's not looking awful but i think i might add some custom sleeve cable extensions i'll leave these easy diy fab cable options linked below as well as i think they'll just look a bit better than the white ones that come included to wrap things up remember to plug in your front panel cables comprised of your jfp1 they're the fiddly pins but we'll pop a diagram on your screen now your usb and of course your hd audio to power up the headphone and mic jacks and with that we're pretty much done to finish things off we're gonna boot the pc up and see just how good it looks ending with an awesome glam montage thanks for tuning in and enjoy that montage i just uh\n"