**The Cost of Building a High-Quality PC**

When it comes to building a high-quality PC, the cost can be overwhelming. Many people are hesitant to spend upwards of $2,000 on a single system, but the truth is that this amount is not unreasonable for a well-built machine. In fact, as I'll demonstrate in this article, a $1,200 to $1,400 budget can get you a really nice system.

**A Nice Build for Under $1,400**

I recently built a PC using a few different components, and I'd like to share the breakdown of the cost with you. The total bill came out to be around $1,300, which is well within our target range. This build includes a high-quality motherboard, a powerful graphics card, a fast processor, and plenty of storage and RAM.

The motherboard alone was worth over $200, but it's worth noting that this is a premium component that will provide years of reliable service. The graphics card is also top-of-the-line, with a custom cooling system that keeps the temperatures down even under heavy load. This thing is quiet as can be, and I've got to give credit where credit is due - the triple fan cooler design on this particular card is some of the best I've seen.

Of course, no high-quality build would be complete without plenty of storage and RAM. In this case, we're looking at a solid 1TB SSD and 16GB of DDR4 RAM, which should provide more than enough space for most users. And let's not forget about the case - it's a beautiful thing with plenty of room for future upgrades.

**The $500 Storage Option**

One of the things that really surprised me when building this PC was how much storage we ended up needing. With a 1TB SSD, you'd think you'd have plenty of space to spare, but it turns out that most users need more than that. And that's where the cost comes in - with an extra $500 worth of storage, I could've easily added another drive or two for even more space.

But here's the thing: do you really need that much storage? If you're a casual user, 1TB might be plenty. And if you're not willing to spend that kind of money on additional drives, then maybe $500 is not a bad investment either. After all, it's always better to have more space available for your files and programs.

**Fan Cooling: A Cost-Effective Option**

One of the other things that surprised me when building this PC was how much I ended up spending on fans. With two high-end aftermarket fans, we're looking at a total bill of around $80, which is a pretty penny. But let me tell you - these fans are worth every bit of it.

Not only do they keep the system running cool under load, but they also provide a significant amount of airflow, which can help to reduce noise levels and improve overall performance. And the best part? They're not too expensive compared to some of the other cooling solutions on the market.

**Do You Want Cheap or Premium?**

Ultimately, the cost of building a high-quality PC comes down to your personal preferences. Do you want cheap, reliable components that will get the job done, or do you want premium parts that are top-of-the-line and will provide years of service? The answer is simple: if you want premium parts, be prepared to spend more money.

And that's okay - because at the end of the day, it's your computer and you should build it exactly how you want it. I mean, who says you have to follow every trend or recommendation on social media? If you're happy with a budget build and don't need all the bells and whistles, then go for it. You won't be missing out on anything.

**The Role of Fan Noise**

Another thing that I'd like to address is fan noise. Now, I know some people are super sensitive about fan noise - they want to build their system so quietly that you can barely hear the fans running at all. And I get it, there's nothing worse than a loud computer that's disturbing your peace and quiet.

But let me tell you - with this particular PC, I think I've struck a great balance between noise levels and performance. The fans are not too loud, but they're not so quiet that you can't hear them either. And besides, when you're gaming or running demanding software, the fans actually help to keep things cool - which is what matters most.

**Gaming Performance**

Of course, one of the main reasons we built this PC was for gaming performance. And I'm happy to say that it delivers. The graphics card is a beast, and with the custom cooling system in place, temperatures are kept under control even at high frame rates.

But the real surprise here is how quiet everything runs - there's no loud buzzing or whining from any of the components. Just pure, smooth performance. And I think that's what makes this build so great - it's a solid all-around performer that won't break the bank either.

**Conclusion**

So there you have it - a high-quality PC for under $1,400. It may not be the cheapest option out there, but trust me when I say that it's worth every penny. With plenty of storage and RAM, top-of-the-line components, and a beautiful case to boot, this build is a solid choice for anyone looking to upgrade their gaming rig or just need a reliable workhorse.

And remember - if you're not willing to spend the money on premium parts, that's okay too. There are plenty of budget-friendly options out there that can still deliver great performance and features at a lower price point.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello and welcome to tech deals and the Intel i7 at 9700 KF PC build guide if you are interested in 1080p 1440p or perhaps 4k gaming and a hundred and forty four plus frames per second if you want a pure gaming machine none of that content creation and live streaming stuff you want something with maximum frame rates at a reasonable value then you've come to the right place this is part one of a three-part video guide on this $2,000 premium PC build this is as I said in the intro geared for gaming performance yes you could do content creation and live streaming on it to a point but that's not the focus maximum gaming performance for the money with a nice premium experience is the goal now this is not top of the line you can of course absolutely spend more money the i99 to 900k yes we'll get there and talk about that however you can $100 yourself to $3,000 if you're not very careful so this provides amazing performance and a great build quality without breaking the bank part 2 of this video series will be the detail build itself the camera will be overhead and will go step by step to the build process including some of the challenges and even mistakes that occur during the build process we livestream this build and if you've seen it already well then you know what to expect but that live stream was 4 hours long and it willing to bet that most people don't want to watch a four-hour long build video so we're gonna condense that down just to the part of installing all the components and make it much more watchable part three will be the performance testing where we actually benchmark it we do power temp noise and of course performance testing how well does this Hardware actually play games how many frames per second can we get at some different resolutions if you are not subscribed to the channel that's what the subscribe and the Bell notification icon are for to be notified when those videos come out but in this video it's all about the parts overview we're gonna go through all of these components and parts and talk about what benefit they provide and what you could do to increase or decrease the budget should you for example get the I $9.99 hundred K how much RAM should you have how much storage is it we're spending more or less on your video card we're gonna talk about that step by step in today's video thank you very much to gigabyte for sponsoring this video without their support these would be much harder to do they provided the RAM the motherboard and the video however they did not have a say in the editorial content of this video and they did not get a preview of it before published so everything I have to say here is my own opinion links to all the products in today's video as well as some of the suggested alternatives will be down in the video description below those links are to Amazon Newegg and eBay they are affiliate links using them supports the channel at no extra cost to you if you like this content and you want to see more of it please consider using those when shopping it's greatly appreciated whenever we do these build guide video series inevitably somebody goes down to the comment section and says I'd pick it for case or I wouldn't use that cooler or I prefer XYZ brand of SSD great custom PCs are custom build it your way one a different case one a different SSD want a different cooler no problem that's the whole point of a custom PC consider this to be a starting build guide if you're looking at building a premium Intel based system maybe you stick with the i7 maybe you get the I nine ninety nine hundred K maybe you prefer Amazon a soos or asrock as opposed to gigabyte not a problem they all make very nice motherboards those are personal choices based upon your brand preferences but within any given price category generally get what you pay for so swap the parts out but a two thousand dollar Intel build is generally going to be a very premium experience with amazing performance and tons of future in front of it now it's time to go through all the components step by step and discuss their pros and cons and what you can upgrade to or maybe downgrade to depending upon how you want to move the pieces around on this particular chessboard you'll already notice we've got the first piece of the puzzle on the desk right now now this build at two thousand dollars is being done with the i7 9700 kf8 cores eight threads turbos up to 4.9 gigahertz it's a very nice CPU and you can pick it up for just over $300 these days it's starting to get pretty reasonably priced however you may very well notice the I $9.99 hundred K on the desk to be completely blunt if it were my money and I was spending $2,000 on computer it would have an ion in it but that's not what we're building today so if you've got the extra a hundred and sixty ish dollars that it costs to go to the i9 by all means you'll get eight cores and 16 threads it's hyper threaded whereas the i7 9700 KF is not and the i9 9900 K has Intel integrated graphics built into it which the F does not that's what the F at the end of KF means now you can also buy an i7 9700 K without the F and then you get the Intel integrated graphics who cares you say who in the world's building this and remotely cares about Intel integrated graphics well you can use those for Quick Sync video transcoding and even live-streaming especially with the i9 you can use your video card for playing the game and you can use the Intel integrated graphics to live stream to twitch or mixer and put 0 load on your main video card just turn on the integrate in integrated graphics in the BIOS which all the major motherboards support and then you can run both quick sync on the CPU and your video card if you want a live stream however if you don't give two hoots about live streaming then you don't need Intel's Quick Sync and then the F processor and especially if it saves you money it makes a lot of sense now when I go down to the i5 9600 K at this price point not on your life I didn't even bother putting the processor on the desk that's just a big fat No Deal it's cheaper currently it's really close to $200 and it's six cores and 6 threads but if you've got $2,000 I hope you're not building a 6 core machine at the end of 2019 regardless of which CPU choice you make you're going to need a cooler because neither the i7 or the i9 include one and frankly if Intel gave you one you'd want to replace it anyway you're generally going to be looking for either a top-of-the-line air tower cooler or a top-of-the-line liquid cooler and I have two good examples of those right here the be quiet dark rock pro 4 at about $90 absolutely fits the bill and will run either of those CPUs at 5 gigahertz on all the cores and threads on the other hand do you want all the RGB do maybe push beyond 5 gigahertz or run at lower ambient temperatures for longer life or run in a hotter environment maybe with a little bit less airflow take a look at the gigabyte or a 360 millimeter all the RGB liquid cooler it is more expensive you're looking at something in the hundred and $50 plus range for a good 360 versus ninety ish dollars for a good tower cooler however if you don't want to really cramp to install watch part two of this video to see how that installs in there if you want more space around your motherboard space for your video card space for your RAM the benefit to a liquid cooler as you mount the radiator on the top or the front and then you just have the pump itself on the CPU freeing up the installation and of course RGB out the just everything there's more RGB on this than you can shake a stick at on the other hand not a produ wants to put liquid in their computer and that's fine because well this exists so either one of these is a reasonable option for either of those Intel CPUs what is not a reasonable option is to go substantially below either of these choices can you use a 240 millimeter liquid cooler you can but you may have problems running at 5 gigahertz I have tried that I have a 240 millimeter liquid cooler on the previous generation i7 8700 K and it'll do the 5 gigahertz but it's really hot I don't recommend it 360 is ideal for 5 gigahertz on especially 8 cores and 16 threads now as far as that Noctua n HD 15 of the be quiet they're fine but if you go below those if you go to the $50.00 air tower cooler range you start to lose direct contact heat pipes you lose fins you often lose the second fan it's possible and doable but let me ask you this question is it worth saving $30 in your $2,000 build to potentially have heat and / temp issues I say no so spend the 90 dollars or spend 150 dollars and build your system write your CPU needs a motherboard and in this case we've gone with a mid-range model the gigabyte or SPRO Wi-Fi one and $70 it's got a lot of features for the money and it's a relatively good value all things considered if you're going with a 300 ish dollar I 790 700 K or K F then that's about where you want to be 200 would be the absolute most you'd want to spend on a motherboard now you'll notice that the gigabyte Oris master is on top six months ago I built an I 999 hundred K with a three thousand dollar budget the Cadillac platinum build and I used that premium board but that's closer to $300 it makes sense for a $500 CPU but it doesn't make sense for a 300 ish dollar CPU so if you want to go that way you can spend more money but the hundred and seventy dollar or is pro Wi-Fi actually has it where really counts and that's power delivery twelve plus one digital power delivery on the VRMs that's plenty for all the overclocking you could ever want to do on this motherboard 2m about two slots lots of RGB plenty of USB ports frankly even for the Einon it's not a bad choice if you're looking to save money but still get hyper threading that leads us to our system memory and in terms of capacity of memory there's really only one choice 32 gigabytes of RAM 16 is not even an option if you're spending $2,000 on your system going from 32 gigs to 16 gig saves you about 2% of the total system price however games are already starting to use up to 16 gigs of ram with windows of course even games that are a year old like the division 2 will use 11 to 12 gigabytes of system ram with nothing running in the background I mean completely clean system I'm seeing several other games in that 10 to 12 gigabyte range now you could kind of get away with it seriously that's not the place to save money here 64 gigabytes is not necessary for a gaming PC and won't for the foreseeable future if 24 were reasonable we do 24 but it's not sorting 32 now if you do an I $9.99 hundred K and content creation and live streaming of anything with lots of programs open is important to you maybe 64 gigs isn't crazy it's only another 120 dollars which is about 5% of the system build and it might be something to consider but for like 98% of you watching this video it's 32 gigabytes or bust now let's talk about RAM speed we have 32 gigs of DDR 430 200 megahertz at CL 16 in here you can buy faster Ram and it's not much more expensive but it isn't much faster despite the fact that the number looks more impressive ddr4 3200 CL 16 in the real world is very very close and performance to ddr4 3600 CL 19 now at the moment it's only about 10 or 15 dollars more to get 3600 CL 19 over 3200 CL 16 and if that all sounds confusing just buy the 3200 and don't worry about it but you can buy the 3600 if you want it just it doesn't really make a real-world difference I've tested this I've done a video on it and they're pretty close you can buy ddr4 4000 and 4000 CL 19 can be quite impressive in certain benchmarks when you're looking for it it doesn't make that big of a real-world difference and you will spend a pretty premium premium trying to get up to that 4000 in memory speed save your money there's a lot of other places to put it in a $2,000 build honestly 3200 to 3600 is where it's at if we're going to be playing games we need a graphics card and in this $2,000 build we have a very nice one gigabytes gaming overclocked r-tx 2070 super it is a very nice card for 1440p gaming it will play any game on the market today at 14:40 P now will not play every game at 1440p at 144 frames per second but it will play the games where it matters Rainbow six siege fortnight overwatch call of duty modern warfare battlefield 5 it will play those games at high detail at a hundred and forty four ish frames per second some 200 plus some up to 144 but it will absolutely do that at 1440p it will not play Ghost Recon breakpoint at 1440p at 144 frames per second frankly an RT X 20 ATT I won't do that so keep in mind that it does have its limitations but you don't need to play Ghost Recon breakpoint at 144 frames per second it's not that sort of game where's battlefield 5 is but it will do battlefield 5 at those high frame rates at 1080p it's much more capable of a hundred and forty-four frames per second across the board and it's an option to consider the Intel CPU provides all the horsepower needed to drive those frames to the graphics card and that's certainly a benefit now the inevitable question is going to come up why not an RT X 2060 super or why not a 2080 super the 2060 super in a two thousand dollar bill just doesn't belong in my opinion it saves you $100 it cuts back on your performance you can but if you're trying to save money like that and say it's really only a hundred dollars difference then you're probably cutting other things back in your building maybe you're building a 1500 hour machine instead of a $2,000 machine as far as the r-tx 2080 super it's a lot more money for a relatively small additional boost in performance and frankly we're probably six months away from when I'm filming this video in December of 2019 from the 30 series don't spend seven or eight hundred dollars on a video card at this point in the current gen had you done so a year ago that would have made more sense but this is kind of the top level price to performance you can go before the numbers just get absolutely crazy and of course there's the RT X 20 ATT on well if you have all the money in the world rock on do that I put a 20 atti in my $3,000 Cadillac Platinum bill but that's a lot of money in rarified air the next question somebody's gonna ask is why not an rx 5700 XT those are $400 and aren't they almost as fast as this yeah kinda sorta sometimes it depends even in December of 2019 even with the newest adrenaline 2020 drivers AMD's Navi drivers for the RX 5700 XT are no equal of Nvidia's now Nvidia and the past has had its issues with drivers and I understand that but that's then not now right now in 2019 and videos drivers are cleaner and better work across the board in more games than AMD's newest drivers do and these fine line technology will fix them over time after all this happened with the RX 480 and 580 those were a little bit rough at launch but they smoothed out and right now I would absolutely use an rx 580 in a machine that drivers are mature the cards are very mature everything works very nicely on those they haven't gotten there yet on Navi so saving $100 or 5% to get a video card with almost as good a performance and troubled drivers that might take three months six months or a year to work out is no deal in my opinion so for this budget it's our TX 2070 super whenever you build a computer you generally need a case to put it into unless of course you're reusing something that you already have this is the be quiet pure base 500 it is a new design from them and honestly I like it in general but not necessarily for this build I used it because it's what I had available and in terms of everything on the shelf its slotted in but as you'll see in part two of this build video series or if you watch the livestream of it it wasn't my first choice I would love to have their 700 series case I think their 700 series would be ideal for this level of build I don't have one so I had to use this in fact that's why the cooler got changed midway through the process because it just didn't quite fit right now don't misunderstand me the quality of be quiets cases is wonderful the panel material the thickness of the metal the quality of the mesh the mounting points the metal in the back the mesh on the top the interchangeable panel on the top the power supply shroud everything's built really well it's got the acoustic paneling inside to muffle the sounds this is a very quiet build I like this machine it's a lot of computer for a $79 case I would go up a notch or two a hundred maybe a hundred and twenty dollars is probably the right price point to spend on a case for a two thousand dollar build five ish percent of your total system price so it's a little bit under cased nice maybe more appropriate for a 1500 hour build as opposed to this now that's just be quiet there are so many other manufacturers that you could choose the list is absolutely endless Corsair Coolermaster fractal design NZXT be quiet and others and they all make sometimes dozens of cases it's a very personal choice what I will say is that it may look like there's not enough airflow up here but there is I I've already done all the benchmarking I've already done the build I've already tested this and run it five gigahertz on all the cores and threads is not a problem in here temperatures are not an issue you'll see that in part three when I do the game performance and non game performance benchmarks for this but it really it isn't a problem there is enough airflow in here to make it work just fine it's just maybe a little bit bigger would have been nice following along from the case you need a power supply I genuinely have to say I was pleasantly surprised with this power supply it was easy to install the cables were easy to work with it's extremely quiet it has a silent wings fan inside if you don't know what the silent wings fans are they're not cheap they're like 20-ish dollars apiece they're worth every penny my main production workstation downstairs has five of them in there and it's absolutely worth that it cut the noise level years later I did those two years ago they're still working great no noise no problems whatsoever this is a 650 watt fully modular power supply you can spend less this is just over a hundred dollars at the moment prices vary all the time naturally you can spend 50 60 70 dollars on a 600 watt or 700 watt 80 plus bronze non-magic modular power supply and it will certainly do the job but just like the case should be about 10 percent of the build price I think the power supply should be as well so about a hundred dollars for a two thousand dollar build is about the right place to be you can keep that through multiple builds and multiple upgrades this power supply should easily last you 10 to 12 years without any issue you could go through three complete builds and upgrade processes without any problem so spend a little bit extra and get a really nice power supply and then you just never have to worry about it no gaming PC would be complete without some storage to put your games on and we have some very nice storage in this build in fact 25% of the entire budget of this computer is going to storage so if you sit there going how in the world is this computer two thousand dollars this is where part of it went we have four terabytes of SSD space here we have a one terabyte boot drive and it is frankly the best Samsung's 970 Evo plus one terabyte nvme SSD yes I know the Gen four drives are out I'd take this over those any day of the week it's just a superior Drive all the way around it's not cheap two hundred dollars it's double the price of some of the cheap one terabyte nvme SSD options but if you want the best and you want something that's gonna last you a very long time well you might want to consider going with the Samsung option but one terabytes not nearly enough for games these days call of duty modern warfare looking at you over one hundred and fifty gigabytes that's nuts where is all that storage going so we have a two terabyte intel 660 p nvme SSD installed in our second slot i have reviewed this drive I've covered it extensively and it's ironically the exact same price at the moment as the one terabyte Samsung if you're okay with slightly slower storage and the limitation of not being able to do full drive writes and amazing performance you might consider just putting two 660 peas in and having four terabytes of nvme and skipping the Samsung although I think if you're going Intel you probably want your boot drive to be a little bit nicer and be a TLC drive instead of a qlc drive but this provides this room to put games like call of duty modern warfare which are somehow over a hundred and fifty gigabytes how did that happen so you don't want just a one terabyte SSD as a bonus we have a third SSD in here it is a data's su 800 one terabyte SATA drive and that's actually mounted here on the side and one of the two and a half inch drive bays you need a drive for maybe play games maybe personal files your onedrive or Dropbox or G Drive sync or anything else that you may be working on that gives you some additional storage now I actually did build the computer with another SSD but it's not in the budget because it gets a little bit silly at that point there is a a 2 terabyte micron 1100 SATA SSD nobody should buy one those are a little bit slower and a little bit old at this point I've had it for a couple of years it used to be on one of my test benches until it got replaced with an Intel 6 6 DP 2 terabyte drive but it's in there for personal use because this is actually gonna be a personal machine so I wanted the Institute terabytes of space but I thought $500 of storage was sufficient for this build so I left it off of the build list even though you'll see it in the actual build video itself one question some of you may ask is what about hard drives you can get an 8 terabyte hard drive for under 150 dollars and that's much bigger than this for far less money have you used our hard drive lately they're tall have you played a game off hard drives lately yeah you can and yes the frame rates are fine but there's more to using a computer than frame rates I mean yes you're buying an Intel system you want amazing frame rates but level load times and especially in open-world games you get in a game where you're traversing a large amount of terrain they'll be skips and stutters as the game is pulling data off of the hard drive games like call of duty modern warfare 157 gigabytes in size it's not loading all that into RAM I mean at times it will but anytime it has to go back to the drive you're just suffering through relatively slow performance so put all that on SSDs if you need a hard drive well that's what external USB drives for backup are for how much storage do you need scale it to your size you've got m dot 2 slots you've got two and a half inch mounting drive bays and even a couple of three and a half inch drive trays down there spend more get more when it comes to storage an often overlooked item whenever you are building or budgeting a bill on a PC our system fans you can buy hundred and twenty millimeter case fans for four or five dollars or less in bulk they are generally loud they are generally cheaply made and they generally don't last very long these are none of those the silent wings 3 or the Noctua fans are amazing quality I have them in a variety of my machines I've covered them numerous times before they're not inexpensive you will generally pay twenty dollars plus per fan you get what you pay for if you've got a two thousand dollar budget spend some of it on fans I ended up due to the fact that I didn't have enough spares on the shelf putting both knocked - what and be quiet fans in this case there is a silent wings three exhaust fan in the back there are two knock to a 140 millimeter fans in the front there really should have been three 120 s but I didn't have three 120 so we put two 140 s you'll see that in the build video they are quiet they are wonderful airflow and they will last I don't we're safe forever but effectively forever if you've seen my previous builds my Cadillac $2,000 build with my 8700 K and if you've seen my skylake X build for example those have Noctua and be quiet fans in them respectively they are so much nicer than the stock fans those cases come with so spend some money on fans get a better computer all of those parts combined give or take is about two thousand dollars or at least it was when I initially planned this build the change of the cooler and a few other things adjust to that downward somewhat and prices vary constantly when you watch this video these components will almost certainly cost some other number besides $2,000 and these are American based prices if you live somewhere else in the world then prices are going to vary by region and you may pick different components based upon that this is a premium build designed for a premium experience one of the first things I'm sure people are gonna say is what are you talking about an i7 9700 KF and an RT X 2070 super you can build a much less expensive computer than $2,000 you don't have to spend 2,000 you can get closer to $1,000 for that bill maybe 1,200 maybe 1,400 dollars to build you a really nice system what is this $2,000 budget nonsense I understand but this is why I do these Parts guides it's been so long talking about all these components there's five hundred dollars of storage in this bill you may not want five hundred dollars of storage that's fine custom pcs are custom build it however you want you may not want a hundred and ten dollar power supply maybe a sixty or seventy two our power supply is fine for your preference or you'll spend less on a cooler or less on a case or you'll change something else there is $80 worth of fans in this case not cooler fans if you add up the noctua and the be quiet aftermarket fans that I put in this case that's like a whole nother cooler or another assist you can practically by another terabyte of SSD space for just the cost of the fans how nice do you want your build how long do you want it to last with no maintenance required except maybe blowing some dust out how quiet do you want your build to be do you just care about dollars two frames per second or do you care about how nice your computer is this is a nice build in a quality case with quality fans with quality motherboard with a silent video card I've got to give gigabyte credit these gaming cards with the triple fan cooler design this thing is quiet as can be it may not look as pretty with as much RGB as maybe some of the fancier cards out there I do use some of these cards in my machines because they are legit very very quiet and of course there's a lot of other very nice components in here but it comes down 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course simply watching this video and sharing it not like button is support all on its own and we do greatly chitta thank you so much for watching I will see all of you next timehello and welcome to tech deals and the Intel i7 at 9700 KF PC build guide if you are interested in 1080p 1440p or perhaps 4k gaming and a hundred and forty four plus frames per second if you want a pure gaming machine none of that content creation and live streaming stuff you want something with maximum frame rates at a reasonable value then you've come to the right place this is part one of a three-part video guide on this $2,000 premium PC build this is as I said in the intro geared for gaming performance yes you could do content creation and live streaming on it to a point but that's not the focus maximum gaming performance for the money with a nice premium experience is the goal now this is not top of the line you can of course absolutely spend more money the i99 to 900k yes we'll get there and talk about that however you can $100 yourself to $3,000 if you're not very careful so this provides amazing performance and a great build quality without breaking the bank part 2 of this video series will be the detail build itself the camera will be overhead and will go step by step to the build process including some of the challenges and even mistakes that occur during the build process we livestream this build and if you've seen it already well then you know what to expect but that live stream was 4 hours long and it willing to bet that most people don't want to watch a four-hour long build video so we're gonna condense that down just to the part of installing all the components and make it much more watchable part three will be the performance testing where we actually benchmark it we do power temp noise and of course performance testing how well does this Hardware actually play games how many frames per second can we get at some different resolutions if you are not subscribed to the channel that's what the subscribe and the Bell notification icon are for to be notified when those videos come out but in this video it's all about the parts overview we're gonna go through all of these components and parts and talk about what benefit they provide and what you could do to increase or decrease the budget should you for example get the I $9.99 hundred K how much RAM should you have how much storage is it we're spending more or less on your video card we're gonna talk about that step by step in today's video thank you very much to gigabyte for sponsoring this video without their support these would be much harder to do they provided the RAM the motherboard and the video however they did not have a say in the editorial content of this video and they did not get a preview of it before published so everything I have to say here is my own opinion links to all the products in today's video as well as some of the suggested alternatives will be down in the video description below those links are to Amazon Newegg and eBay they are affiliate links using them supports the channel at no extra cost to you if you like this content and you want to see more of it please consider using those when shopping it's greatly appreciated whenever we do these build guide video series inevitably somebody goes down to the comment section and says I'd pick it for case or I wouldn't use that cooler or I prefer XYZ brand of SSD great custom PCs are custom build it your way one a different case one a different SSD want a different cooler no problem that's the whole point of a custom PC consider this to be a starting build guide if you're looking at building a premium Intel based system maybe you stick with the i7 maybe you get the I nine ninety nine hundred K maybe you prefer Amazon a soos or asrock as opposed to gigabyte not a problem they all make very nice motherboards those are personal choices based upon your brand preferences but within any given price category generally get what you pay for so swap the parts out but a two thousand dollar Intel build is generally going to be a very premium experience with amazing performance and tons of future in front of it now it's time to go through all the components step by step and discuss their pros and cons and what you can upgrade to or maybe downgrade to depending upon how you want to move the pieces around on this particular chessboard you'll already notice we've got the first piece of the puzzle on the desk right now now this build at two thousand dollars is being done with the i7 9700 kf8 cores eight threads turbos up to 4.9 gigahertz it's a very nice CPU and you can pick it up for just over $300 these days it's starting to get pretty reasonably priced however you may very well notice the I $9.99 hundred K on the desk to be completely blunt if it were my money and I was spending $2,000 on computer it would have an ion in it but that's not what we're building today so if you've got the extra a hundred and sixty ish dollars that it costs to go to the i9 by all means you'll get eight cores and 16 threads it's hyper threaded whereas the i7 9700 KF is not and the i9 9900 K has Intel integrated graphics built into it which the F does not that's what the F at the end of KF means now you can also buy an i7 9700 K without the F and then you get the Intel integrated graphics who cares you say who in the world's building this and remotely cares about Intel integrated graphics well you can use those for Quick Sync video transcoding and even live-streaming especially with the i9 you can use your video card for playing the game and you can use the Intel integrated graphics to live stream to twitch or mixer and put 0 load on your main video card just turn on the integrate in integrated graphics in the BIOS which all the major motherboards support and then you can run both quick sync on the CPU and your video card if you want a live stream however if you don't give two hoots about live streaming then you don't need Intel's Quick Sync and then the F processor and especially if it saves you money it makes a lot of sense now when I go down to the i5 9600 K at this price point not on your life I didn't even bother putting the processor on the desk that's just a big fat No Deal it's cheaper currently it's really close to $200 and it's six cores and 6 threads but if you've got $2,000 I hope you're not building a 6 core machine at the end of 2019 regardless of which CPU choice you make you're going to need a cooler because neither the i7 or the i9 include one and frankly if Intel gave you one you'd want to replace it anyway you're generally going to be looking for either a top-of-the-line air tower cooler or a top-of-the-line liquid cooler and I have two good examples of those right here the be quiet dark rock pro 4 at about $90 absolutely fits the bill and will run either of those CPUs at 5 gigahertz on all the cores and threads on the other hand do you want all the RGB do maybe push beyond 5 gigahertz or run at lower ambient temperatures for longer life or run in a hotter environment maybe with a little bit less airflow take a look at the gigabyte or a 360 millimeter all the RGB liquid cooler it is more expensive you're looking at something in the hundred and $50 plus range for a good 360 versus ninety ish dollars for a good tower cooler however if you don't want to really cramp to install watch part two of this video to see how that installs in there if you want more space around your motherboard space for your video card space for your RAM the benefit to a liquid cooler as you mount the radiator on the top or the front and then you just have the pump itself on the CPU freeing up the installation and of course RGB out the just everything there's more RGB on this than you can shake a stick at on the other hand not a produ wants to put liquid in their computer and that's fine because well this exists so either one of these is a reasonable option for either of those Intel CPUs what is not a reasonable option is to go substantially below either of these choices can you use a 240 millimeter liquid cooler you can but you may have problems running at 5 gigahertz I have tried that I have a 240 millimeter liquid cooler on the previous generation i7 8700 K and it'll do the 5 gigahertz but it's really hot I don't recommend it 360 is ideal for 5 gigahertz on especially 8 cores and 16 threads now as far as that Noctua n HD 15 of the be quiet they're fine but if you go below those if you go to the $50.00 air tower cooler range you start to lose direct contact heat pipes you lose fins you often lose the second fan it's possible and doable but let me ask you this question is it worth saving $30 in your $2,000 build to potentially have heat and / temp issues I say no so spend the 90 dollars or spend 150 dollars and build your system write your CPU needs a motherboard and in this case we've gone with a mid-range model the gigabyte or SPRO Wi-Fi one and $70 it's got a lot of features for the money and it's a relatively good value all things considered if you're going with a 300 ish dollar I 790 700 K or K F then that's about where you want to be 200 would be the absolute most you'd want to spend on a motherboard now you'll notice that the gigabyte Oris master is on top six months ago I built an I 999 hundred K with a three thousand dollar budget the Cadillac platinum build and I used that premium board but that's closer to $300 it makes sense for a $500 CPU but it doesn't make sense for a 300 ish dollar CPU so if you want to go that way you can spend more money but the hundred and seventy dollar or is pro Wi-Fi actually has it where really counts and that's power delivery twelve plus one digital power delivery on the VRMs that's plenty for all the overclocking you could ever want to do on this motherboard 2m about two slots lots of RGB plenty of USB ports frankly even for the Einon it's not a bad choice if you're looking to save money but still get hyper threading that leads us to our system memory and in terms of capacity of memory there's really only one choice 32 gigabytes of RAM 16 is not even an option if you're spending $2,000 on your system going from 32 gigs to 16 gig saves you about 2% of the total system price however games are already starting to use up to 16 gigs of ram with windows of course even games that are a year old like the division 2 will use 11 to 12 gigabytes of system ram with nothing running in the background I mean completely clean system I'm seeing several other games in that 10 to 12 gigabyte range now you could kind of get away with it seriously that's not the place to save money here 64 gigabytes is not necessary for a gaming PC and won't for the foreseeable future if 24 were reasonable we do 24 but it's not sorting 32 now if you do an I $9.99 hundred K and content creation and live streaming of anything with lots of programs open is important to you maybe 64 gigs isn't crazy it's only another 120 dollars which is about 5% of the system build and it might be something to consider but for like 98% of you watching this video it's 32 gigabytes or bust now let's talk about RAM speed we have 32 gigs of DDR 430 200 megahertz at CL 16 in here you can buy faster Ram and it's not much more expensive but it isn't much faster despite the fact that the number looks more impressive ddr4 3200 CL 16 in the real world is very very close and performance to ddr4 3600 CL 19 now at the moment it's only about 10 or 15 dollars more to get 3600 CL 19 over 3200 CL 16 and if that all sounds confusing just buy the 3200 and don't worry about it but you can buy the 3600 if you want it just it doesn't really make a real-world difference I've tested this I've done a video on it and they're pretty close you can buy ddr4 4000 and 4000 CL 19 can be quite impressive in certain benchmarks when you're looking for it it doesn't make that big of a real-world difference and you will spend a pretty premium premium trying to get up to that 4000 in memory speed save your money there's a lot of other places to put it in a $2,000 build honestly 3200 to 3600 is where it's at if we're going to be playing games we need a graphics card and in this $2,000 build we have a very nice one gigabytes gaming overclocked r-tx 2070 super it is a very nice card for 1440p gaming it will play any game on the market today at 14:40 P now will not play every game at 1440p at 144 frames per second but it will play the games where it matters Rainbow six siege fortnight overwatch call of duty modern warfare battlefield 5 it will play those games at high detail at a hundred and forty four ish frames per second some 200 plus some up to 144 but it will absolutely do that at 1440p it will not play Ghost Recon breakpoint at 1440p at 144 frames per second frankly an RT X 20 ATT I won't do that so keep in mind that it does have its limitations but you don't need to play Ghost Recon breakpoint at 144 frames per second it's not that sort of game where's battlefield 5 is but it will do battlefield 5 at those high frame rates at 1080p it's much more capable of a hundred and forty-four frames per second across the board and it's an option to consider the Intel CPU provides all the horsepower needed to drive those frames to the graphics card and that's certainly a benefit now the inevitable question is going to come up why not an RT X 2060 super or why not a 2080 super the 2060 super in a two thousand dollar bill just doesn't belong in my opinion it saves you $100 it cuts back on your performance you can but if you're trying to save money like that and say it's really only a hundred dollars difference then you're probably cutting other things back in your building maybe you're building a 1500 hour machine instead of a $2,000 machine as far as the r-tx 2080 super it's a lot more money for a relatively small additional boost in performance and frankly we're probably six months away from when I'm filming this video in December of 2019 from the 30 series don't spend seven or eight hundred dollars on a video card at this point in the current gen had you done so a year ago that would have made more sense but this is kind of the top level price to performance you can go before the numbers just get absolutely crazy and of course there's the RT X 20 ATT on well if you have all the money in the world rock on do that I put a 20 atti in my $3,000 Cadillac Platinum bill but that's a lot of money in rarified air the next question somebody's gonna ask is why not an rx 5700 XT those are $400 and aren't they almost as fast as this yeah kinda sorta sometimes it depends even in December of 2019 even with the newest adrenaline 2020 drivers AMD's Navi drivers for the RX 5700 XT are no equal of Nvidia's now Nvidia and the past has had its issues with drivers and I understand that but that's then not now right now in 2019 and videos drivers are cleaner and better work across the board in more games than AMD's newest drivers do and these fine line technology will fix them over time after all this happened with the RX 480 and 580 those were a little bit rough at launch but they smoothed out and right now I would absolutely use an rx 580 in a machine that drivers are mature the cards are very mature everything works very nicely on those they haven't gotten there yet on Navi so saving $100 or 5% to get a video card with almost as good a performance and troubled drivers that might take three months six months or a year to work out is no deal in my opinion so for this budget it's our TX 2070 super whenever you build a computer you generally need a case to put it into unless of course you're reusing something that you already have this is the be quiet pure base 500 it is a new design from them and honestly I like it in general but not necessarily for this build I used it because it's what I had available and in terms of everything on the shelf its slotted in but as you'll see in part two of this build video series or if you watch the livestream of it it wasn't my first choice I would love to have their 700 series case I think their 700 series would be ideal for this level of build I don't have one so I had to use this in fact that's why the cooler got changed midway through the process because it just didn't quite fit right now don't misunderstand me the quality of be quiets cases is wonderful the panel material the thickness of the metal the quality of the mesh the mounting points the metal in the back the mesh on the top the interchangeable panel on the top the power supply shroud everything's built really well it's got the acoustic paneling inside to muffle the sounds this is a very quiet build I like this machine it's a lot of computer for a $79 case I would go up a notch or two a hundred maybe a hundred and twenty dollars is probably the right price point to spend on a case for a two thousand dollar build five ish percent of your total system price so it's a little bit under cased nice maybe more appropriate for a 1500 hour build as opposed to this now that's just be quiet there are so many other manufacturers that you could choose the list is absolutely endless Corsair Coolermaster fractal design NZXT be quiet and others and they all make sometimes dozens of cases it's a very personal choice what I will say is that it may look like there's not enough airflow up here but there is I I've already done all the benchmarking I've already done the build I've already tested this and run it five gigahertz on all the cores and threads is not a problem in here temperatures are not an issue you'll see that in part three when I do the game performance and non game performance benchmarks for this but it really it isn't a problem there is enough airflow in here to make it work just fine it's just maybe a little bit bigger would have been nice following along from the case you need a power supply I genuinely have to say I was pleasantly surprised with this power supply it was easy to install the cables were easy to work with it's extremely quiet it has a silent wings fan inside if you don't know what the silent wings fans are they're not cheap they're like 20-ish dollars apiece they're worth every penny my main production workstation downstairs has five of them in there and it's absolutely worth that it cut the noise level years later I did those two years ago they're still working great no noise no problems whatsoever this is a 650 watt fully modular power supply you can spend less this is just over a hundred dollars at the moment prices vary all the time naturally you can spend 50 60 70 dollars on a 600 watt or 700 watt 80 plus bronze non-magic modular power supply and it will certainly do the job but just like the case should be about 10 percent of the build price I think the power supply should be as well so about a hundred dollars for a two thousand dollar build is about the right place to be you can keep that through multiple builds and multiple upgrades this power supply should easily last you 10 to 12 years without any issue you could go through three complete builds and upgrade processes without any problem so spend a little bit extra and get a really nice power supply and then you just never have to worry about it no gaming PC would be complete without some storage to put your games on and we have some very nice storage in this build in fact 25% of the entire budget of this computer is going to storage so if you sit there going how in the world is this computer two thousand dollars this is where part of it went we have four terabytes of SSD space here we have a one terabyte boot drive and it is frankly the best Samsung's 970 Evo plus one terabyte nvme SSD yes I know the Gen four drives are out I'd take this over those any day of the week it's just a superior Drive all the way around it's not cheap two hundred dollars it's double the price of some of the cheap one terabyte nvme SSD options but if you want the best and you want something that's gonna last you a very long time well you might want to consider going with the Samsung option but one terabytes not nearly enough for games these days call of duty modern warfare looking at you over one hundred and fifty gigabytes that's nuts where is all that storage going so we have a two terabyte intel 660 p nvme SSD installed in our second slot i have reviewed this drive I've covered it extensively and it's ironically the exact same price at the moment as the one terabyte Samsung if you're okay with slightly slower storage and the limitation of not being able to do full drive writes and amazing performance you might consider just putting two 660 peas in and having four terabytes of nvme and skipping the Samsung although I think if you're going Intel you probably want your boot drive to be a little bit nicer and be a TLC drive instead of a qlc drive but this provides this room to put games like call of duty modern warfare which are somehow over a hundred and fifty gigabytes how did that happen so you don't want just a one terabyte SSD as a bonus we have a third SSD in here it is a data's su 800 one terabyte SATA drive and that's actually mounted here on the side and one of the two and a half inch drive bays you need a drive for maybe play games maybe personal files your onedrive or Dropbox or G Drive sync or anything else that you may be working on that gives you some additional storage now I actually did build the computer with another SSD but it's not in the budget because it gets a little bit silly at that point there is a a 2 terabyte micron 1100 SATA SSD nobody should buy one those are a little bit slower and a little bit old at this point I've had it for a couple of years it used to be on one of my test benches until it got replaced with an Intel 6 6 DP 2 terabyte drive but it's in there for personal use because this is actually gonna be a personal machine so I wanted the Institute terabytes of space but I thought $500 of storage was sufficient for this build so I left it off of the build list even though you'll see it in the actual build video itself one question some of you may ask is what about hard drives you can get an 8 terabyte hard drive for under 150 dollars and that's much bigger than this for far less money have you used our hard drive lately they're tall have you played a game off hard drives lately yeah you can and yes the frame rates are fine but there's more to using a computer than frame rates I mean yes you're buying an Intel system you want amazing frame rates but level load times and especially in open-world games you get in a game where you're traversing a large amount of terrain they'll be skips and stutters as the game is pulling data off of the hard drive games like call of duty modern warfare 157 gigabytes in size it's not loading all that into RAM I mean at times it will but anytime it has to go back to the drive you're just suffering through relatively slow performance so put all that on SSDs if you need a hard drive well that's what external USB drives for backup are for how much storage do you need scale it to your size you've got m dot 2 slots you've got two and a half inch mounting drive bays and even a couple of three and a half inch drive trays down there spend more get more when it comes to storage an often overlooked item whenever you are building or budgeting a bill on a PC our system fans you can buy hundred and twenty millimeter case fans for four or five dollars or less in bulk they are generally loud they are generally cheaply made and they generally don't last very long these are none of those the silent wings 3 or the Noctua fans are amazing quality I have them in a variety of my machines I've covered them numerous times before they're not inexpensive you will generally pay twenty dollars plus per fan you get what you pay for if you've got a two thousand dollar budget spend some of it on fans I ended up due to the fact that I didn't have enough spares on the shelf putting both knocked - what and be quiet fans in this case there is a silent wings three exhaust fan in the back there are two knock to a 140 millimeter fans in the front there really should have been three 120 s but I didn't have three 120 so we put two 140 s you'll see that in the build video they are quiet they are wonderful airflow and they will last I don't we're safe forever but effectively forever if you've seen my previous builds my Cadillac $2,000 build with my 8700 K and if you've seen my skylake X build for example those have Noctua and be quiet fans in them respectively they are so much nicer than the stock fans those cases come with so spend some money on fans get a better computer all of those parts combined give or take is about two thousand dollars or at least it was when I initially planned this build the change of the cooler and a few other things adjust to that downward somewhat and prices vary constantly when you watch this video these components will almost certainly cost some other number besides $2,000 and these are American based prices if you live somewhere else in the world then prices are going to vary by region and you may pick different components based upon that this is a premium build designed for a premium experience one of the first things I'm sure people are gonna say is what are you talking about an i7 9700 KF and an RT X 2070 super you can build a much less expensive computer than $2,000 you don't have to spend 2,000 you can get closer to $1,000 for that bill maybe 1,200 maybe 1,400 dollars to build you a really nice system what is this $2,000 budget nonsense I understand but this is why I do these Parts guides it's been so long talking about all these components there's five hundred dollars of storage in this bill you may not want five hundred dollars of storage that's fine custom pcs are custom build it however you want you may not want a hundred and ten dollar power supply maybe a sixty or seventy two our power supply is fine for your preference or you'll spend less on a cooler or less on a case or you'll change something else there is $80 worth of fans in this case not cooler fans if you add up the noctua and the be quiet aftermarket fans that I put in this case that's like a whole nother cooler or another assist you can practically by another terabyte of SSD space for just the cost of the fans how nice do you want your build how long do you want it to last with no maintenance required except maybe blowing some dust out how quiet do you want your build to be do you just care about dollars two frames per second or do you care about how nice your computer is this is a nice build in a quality case with quality fans with quality motherboard with a silent video card I've got to give gigabyte credit these gaming cards with the triple fan cooler design this thing is quiet as can be it may not look as pretty with as much RGB as maybe some of the fancier cards out there I do use some of these cards in my machines because they are legit very very quiet and of course there's a lot of other very nice components in here but it comes down to do you want cheap or do you want premium that's a personal choice but I think this is a very nice build all things considered it looks nice it feels nice it's a sweet gaming PC did you like this video and you want to see more be sure to be subscribed to our Channel and hit the bell notification icon in order to be notified when part 2 and part 3 of this video series come out don't want to wait and want to see them right now not a problem there's a link in the video description below to floatplane for $5 a month you can subscribe to floatplane and support the channel directly you get to watch videos early part two and three will definitely be up there early for you to watch no ads so support the channel no ads early access plus fifty exclusive videos that are not available to the general public some behind the scenes some stuff with our 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