2021 $700 Budget Gaming PC Build Guide! [FULL Tutorial w_ Drivers, Windows & 15+ Benchmarks!]
**Testing the AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT Gaming Performance**
Let's have a look and see how this system performs once all those drivers have been installed kicking off with Death Stranding at 1080p medium to high settings you're looking at 113 fps on average with 106 and 101 for the 90th percentile results, which are the measures used to report frame rates. Next up is GTA V 1080p normal so kind of medium settings in the game's inbuilt benchmarking mode yielded some incredible results - 185, 162, and 139 fps respectively for the average, 90th percentile results.
You can also compare this to my other systems as well because the benchmark mode gives you a really consistent result. Next up then is Apex Legends at 1080p high settings with our frame rate unlimited in the Origin client to stop us hitting the 140 fps ceiling gives us 163, 151, and 143 frames per second.
Next up today then is the first of two Call of Duty games - First up we've got Call of Duty Warzone here at 1080p once again you look in 135, 112, and 102 frames per second with Call of Duty's new Black Ops Cold War given a similar result - 142, 124, and 106 respectively so around about a 10 increase across the board in Black Ops Cold War which is a nice improvement.
Next up then is Forza Horizon 4 the game's inbuilt benchmarking mode is still a popular one to this day at 1080p high settings gives you 154 on average with 145 and 141 for the 90th and 99th percentile results proven that 1080p is a breeze for this card but I wouldn't really recommend 1440p gaming on a system with a Ryzen 3 3100.
Next up then is Overwatch at 1080p high settings we're getting kind of esports level frame rates - 164, 155, and 152 for the average 90th and 99th percentile results respectively. CSGO then is a personal favorite of well everybody's - 1080p with kind of tuned down medium settings to give us that competitive edge gives you an average of 421 frames per second I mean say no more really.
Next up then is Doom Eternal here at 1080p ultra settings we're seeing some crazy craziness we're seeing here an average frame rate of 140, 131, and 126 which followed for those 90th and 99th percentile results. Visually the game looked pretty stunning if I do say so myself and ran a breeze on this system talking of running a breeze Rainbow Six Siege that kind of rhymed whoa - at 1080p high settings you're looking at 258 fps with 231 and 214 for the 90th and 99th percentile results meaning the game stayed pretty much all times above that 214 frames per second mark.
Next up today then is Valorant at 1080p medium settings gives you 316 fps on average with 295 and 283 being very respectable for those lower end percentiles once again the game looked really really great and valerian's pretty easy to run if I do say so myself. Talking to games that aren't easy to run Cyberpunk 2077 then again - at 1080p medium settings using some of the fidelity scaling options at the bottom of the settings menu which AMD cards do support unlike DLSS unfortunately.
And although DLSS is a proprietary NVIDIA technology they haven't got their own alternative yet it's kind of what I'm getting at you're looking 61 fps on average with 57 and 51 for the 90th and 99th percentile results my preference with Cyberpunk at the moment is definitely to go the NVIDIA route not only do you get ray tracing which isn't for everybody but you do get DLSS so you get the best of both worlds AMD cards you currently get well you get kind of neither really although it's interesting to see whether or not NVIDIA's GTX cards which arguably compete with the 5600 XT will support those features anyway.
But that pretty much wraps it up not only for the gaming benchmarks today but for the whole video if you enjoyed this 2021 Gaming PC build let me know in the comments down below give this video a like if you will it really does help us out make sure you get subscribed I think that notification about if you aren't already once again really helps us out.
"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enin today's video i'm going to be showing you how to build a 700 gaming pc build for 2021 i'm going to run you through all the parts i selected and why the build process step by step including all the cables wiring drivers and installation before booting this machine up to see exactly how it performs in loads of the most popular aaa titles let's do this now as always i'm going to kick things off by installing as many components into the motherboard today as possible this is the asus tough b550m plus and this motherboard also has wi-fi on board asus's tough range is a really really great budget lineup that still gives you pretty much all the features that you've come to expect from b550 and other relevant chip sets including support for the latest ryzen 5000 cpus up to four round dimm slots as well as plenty of m.2 and pcie or graphics card expandability i'm going to be coupling our motherboard today with a cpu from amd the ryzen 3 3100 amd may bring out some new ryzen 5000 chips this year but at about a hundred dollars this quad core eight thread chip is perfect it's got more single threaded muscle than something like an intel core i3 and with four cores and eight threads is a multi-threaded beast for the price find the golden triangle on the bottom left corner of your cpu today and you just need to go ahead and line this up with the corresponding triangle on our motherboards socket today the chip is then gonna drop pretty nicely into place and the retention arm goes back down no force no pressure and as you can see the cpu is in i'm not really going to fall out we're next going to install the cpu cooler today this is the free stock cooler that comes included with most ryzen chips especially the budget ones and while it's not the quietest or coolest call out out there it isn't going to thermal throttle your cpu and it's actually a really great option especially for those of you on a budget normally this will come with pre-applied thermal paste on the bottom of the cooler but because i've used this one before i just need to pop on a touch of my own once we've done this we're going to line up these four black screws that are pre-attached to the cooler and don't come off with the corresponding four holes around our cpu today it's then simply a case of taking that four pin fan header and popping that to the grey cpu fan header on the motherboard go ahead and talk the cable out the way today to make things look that little bit tidier the next step then is to install the ram today this memory here is a great budget option from team group it's their 16 gigabyte tforce delta rgb kit and it's actually cheaper than a lot of non-rgb kits out there this is a 3600 megahertz kit which is about as low as you want to go don't opt for a 2666 kit to save a little bit of money because you'll lose out with ryzen performance here installing the ram is pretty simple find the notch on your ram dim today and line this up with the corresponding notches on your ram dim slots and then it is simply a case of lining that ram up having pulled back those retention clips and applying even pressure to both sides the ram is going to slot super nicely into place and just like that the ram the cpu and the motherboard are all pretty much ready to go let's work this over to one side today and grab our case and get that bit all salted talking a witch here it is this is the aero cooler atomic case and it's a really really great value chassis from aerocool aerocool are known for making some budget case options out there and this one is a great bet with a tempered glass side panel on one side a steel side panel on the other with ventilation up front and a 200 millimeter fan for super high airflow all built inside a compact form factor which as you can see fits quite nicely on a desk today it's the perfect choice plus the rgb integration never hurt anybody and the great value nature of this chassis means we've got more money to spend elsewhere and you can get that extra frame rate for your dollar we're gonna come back to some of the features in this case a little bit later but first it's about time to install the motherboard simply find each of the holes through your motherboard and this is where the board's going to secure down into the case and make sure you've got a corresponding motherboard stand off installed in your case if they're in the wrong place or you've got some missing don't worry you'll get extra ones included with your chassis and they can be moved with either the included tool or a pretty basic set of pliers in this instance all the standoffs are in the exact right place for us to go ahead and slide the motherboard into place if you've got an io shield that will need clipping in as well though some motherboards nowadays do have them built into the rear i o so depending on kind of what products you go for your mileage is gonna vary here make sure you've moved kind of all the cables and all that sort of stuff out the way and then you can simply go ahead and slide the motherboard nicely into place and it's then a case of screwing the motherboard down a little something like so with the screws that come included with your case with the motherboard installed today i'm next gonna pop our power supply in and do some of our cables and wiring i'm also gonna plug up some of our front panel connectors in just a moment's time but first this is the power supply unit i've selected it's the aerocool aero bronze 600 watt it's an 80 plus bronze certified pretty reliable and budget-oriented power supply it's gonna be more than enough for today's build and although it is non-modular it does have some pretty nice black cables as you can see yeah now installing the power supply is pretty simple this case actually has a power supply shroud which is going to be great for kind of system aesthetics today and we're going to mount it fan facing downwards so just make sure you've got some room under your case you're not mounting on a really thick carpet or a thick rug the psu is then just going to slide into the rear of the case and secure into place through these four holes at the rear of the chassis this uses the largest hexagonal screws that you'll touch today and that's going to mount our power supply really securely into place with the power supply installed then we're just going to plug up a couple of the cables today the 24-pin motherboard power cable is first up this goes to the right-hand side of the motherboard and gives power to you guessed it the motherboard next up is our four plus four pin cpu power connector goes to the top left of our motherboard today and gives you guessed it our cpu plenty of juice the front panel cables are next up hd audio is first for the headphone and mic jacks which goes to the bottom left of the motherboard today and makes our headphone mic jacks work usb 3 is next up then that goes to the bottom of our motherboard and it's notched so we'll only go in one way around finally then jfp1 otherwise known as your front panel connectors for the power and reset leds and buttons they go to the bottom right of the motherboard they can be fiddly but the diagram on your screen now should help you out and make sure you get these the right way around first time all right then the build is now starting to come together and we're almost ready to install the graphics card first off though is our storage today this is a seagate barracuda two and a half inch ssd it's not the fastest ssd drive around in an m.2 drive if you can before the price increase is probably a nice upgrade but it's still a lot lot quicker than any hard drive option on the market and it's going to make sure you get those speedy reliable game boot times i'm going to spin our chassis around today and you'll then actually be able to see we've got an ssd mount at the rear of the case ssds aren't particularly fussy about where they mount they've got no moving parts so for all they care you could basically just salitate them onto the back of the motherboard but for extra peace of mind this is going to keep things that little bit tidier we're going to slot this ssd into place and here you'll see four screw holes which will make it much much easier to secure that drive down into place follow along a little something like so and the cage can then go back onto the rear of the case okay then it's now about time to install the graphics card that never gets old this is the gigabyte rx 5600 xt now i know gpu pricing at the moment is all over the place amd and nvidia are both kind of subject to the same issues but that aside this is a great card it tops out something like a 1660 super and even kind of gets close to something like a 2060 super all at a really affordable price point it of course costs a lot less than something like a 30 60 ti as well over a hundred dollars less so for up-to-date pricing and availability check out the affiliate links in the description below this 5600 xt from gigabyte is a really great value oriented card you've got two large fans one of course on either side a singular 8-pin power connector and although it's a bit plastic fantastic you do get a back plate as well and that's going to help keep your gpu looking nice and fresh installing the graphics card in any system is pretty easy line up this gold strip with the corresponding connector on your motherboard and make sure you've popped that retention clip back you may need to remove a couple of your pcie bracket covers in our case we do need to remove the one on the third slot with this being a cheaper chassis you don't actually unscrew it you just kind of give it a wiggle and the cheap thin metal will just pop nicely out of place you will get some screws included though to actually secure the graphics card back down even though the pcie slots themselves don't need them so make sure you take these out before going ahead and sliding that graphics card into place that's going to clip in pretty securely and then that screw is going to fasten the graphics card nice and securely into place we then just need to remember to give it a six plus two pin gpu power so it's all powered up and ready to go but i think on that front we're almost finished for today's system we do need to plug up our sata and data connectors both to our drive on one side with the other end of that sata data cable going to our motherboard and they plug in really simply a little something like this but i think that pretty much wraps up not only the cabling and the wiring for today's build but the actual whole build process itself hang tight because i'm going to cover exactly how you install drivers as well as booting this machine up to see how it performs in loads of the most popular and latest aaa titles first though let's see how good it looks when it's all powered up in the customary glam gigawatt montage roll the clip all right then now we've seen just how good this system looks when it's all powered up and the process of putting it together let's take a dive and see exactly how it performs after of course we've installed windows and all the drivers and stuff we need to make sure our pc is running optimally in order to do this you first want to grab a working laptop or windows computer and download the tool link below this is the official microsoft windows boot creation media tool and what this does is takes a spare usb flash drive that you've got or you can pick one up for seven or eight dollars and turns it into a bootable windows drive make sure you've got no important files on here because this drive will wipe out anything that's already on there when it kind of formats it through this process what you then want to do is plug this into your newly built pc ideally at the rear i o panel just in case you've not plugged the front ones up quite right to avoid any panic and then with a keyboard mouse monitor all plugged in turn the system on and you'll boot into this purple windows environment you can then go through and install windows it may ask you for a product key but you can select i don't have a product key and you should be fine in some cases for a few years anyway moving swiftly on once you've done that it's going to run you through the process ask you which drive you want to install windows on i always recommend you put it on the ssd as that's going to be a lot lot quicker for your system and if you've got an ssd it's likely to be the smaller lower gigabyte capacity drive once you've done this and it can take a little while plug up an ethernet or your wi-fi and then we can install our drivers today the first of those is like any lan or ethernet drivers you also want any motherboard software utilities and all of these can be found by simply searching for the name of your motherboard followed by drivers i'll link the official acer site for this b550 motherboard down in the description below with that done though let's have a look and see how this system performs once all those drivers have been installed kicking off with death stranding at 1080p medium to high settings you're looking at 113 fps on average with 106 and 101 for the 90 and 99th percentile results which are the measures are used to report frame rates next up is gta 5 1080p normal so kind of medium settings in the game's inbuilt benchmarking mode yielded some incredible results 185 162 and 139 fps respectively for the average 90 and 99th percentile results you can of course compare this to my other systems as well because the benchmark mode gives you a really consistent result next up then is apex legends apex legends can say that properly 1080p high settings with our frame rate unlimited in the origin client to stop us hitting the 140 fps ceiling gives us 163 151 143 frames per second next up today then is the first of two call of duties first up we've got call of duty warzone here at 1080p once again you look in 135 112 and 102 frames per second with call of duty's new black ops cold war given a similar result 142 124 and 106 respectively so around about a 10 increase across the board in black ops cold war which is a nice improvement next up then is forza horizon 4 the game's inbuilt benchmarking mode is still a popular one to this day 1080p high settings gives you 154 on average with 145 and 141 for the 90 and 99th percentile results proven that 1080p is a breeze for this card but i wouldn't really recommend 1440p gaming on a system with a ryzen 3 3100 next up then is overwatch 1080p high settings we're getting kind of esports level frame rates 164 155 and 152 for the average 90 and 99th percentile results respectively csgo then is a personal favor of well everybody's 1080p with kind of tuned down medium settings to give us that competitive edge gives you an average of 421 frames per second i mean say no more really next up then is doom eternal here at 1080p ultra settings i know crazy craziness we're seeing here an average frame rate of 140 131 126 which followed for those 90 and 99th percentile results visually the game looked pretty stunning if i do say so myself and ran a breeze on this system talking of running a breeze rainbow six siege that kind of rhymed whoa 1080p high settings you're looking 258 fps with 231 and 214 for the 90 and 99th percentile results meaning the game stayed pretty much all times above that 214 frames per second mark next up today then is valorent 1080p medium settings gives you 316 fps on average with 295 and 283 being very respectable for those lower end percentiles once again the game looked really really great and valerian's pretty easy to run if i do say so myself talking to games that aren't easy to run cyberpunk 2077 then again 1080p medium settings using some of the fidelity scaling options at the bottom of the settings menu which amd cards do support unlike dlss unfortunately and although dlss is a proprietary nvidia technology they haven't got their own alternative yet it's kind of what i'm getting at you're looking 61 fps on average with 57 and 51 for the 90 and 99 percentile results my preference with cyberpunk at the moment is definitely to go the nvidia route not only do you get ray tracing which isn't for everybody but you do get dlss so you get the best of both worlds amd cards you currently get well you get kind of neither really although it's interesting to see whether or not nvidia's gtx cards which arguably compete with the 5600 xt will support those features anyway but it's something to keep in mind fortnight then is the final game on the list today here at 1080p medium settings kind of a bit more of a competitive edge you're looking 258 frames per second with 232 and 216 for the 90 and 99th percentile results with that being said though that pretty much wraps it up not only for the gaming benchmarks today but for the whole video if you enjoyed this 2021 gaming pc build let me know in the comments down below give this video a like if you will it really does help us out make sure you get subscribed i think that notification about if you aren't already once again really helps us out thank you very much for watching though i'll be quiet now because we'll see you in the next one\n"