**Choosing the Right Fans for Your PC**

If you're building or upgrading your PC, one of the most important decisions you'll make is choosing the right fans to power your system. There are many options available, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. In this article, we'll explore some of the best fan options on the market, including our top picks for silent and high-performance fans.

**The Fantex T30: A Fantastic but RGB-Less Option**

One of our favorite fans is the Fantex T30, which is a fantastic option if you're not too worried about aesthetic. These fans are very tunable, can be very quiet, and have loads of performance. However, they do lack RGB lighting, which may put some people off.

On the other hand, if aesthetics are important to you, we recommend looking at fans from companies like Lean Lee. Their Uni fans are a great option, particularly the Al2s model, which we think look quite pretty without being over-the-top. Another popular option is the SL Infinities series from Lean Lee, which offers interlockable fans that make it easy to connect multiple fans using just two cables.

**The Benefits of Interlockable Fans**

One of the key benefits of interlockable fans like those offered by Lean Lee is that they eliminate the need for separate cables for each fan. This makes it much easier to build a system, as you only need to plug in one cable to control all of your fans. The SL Infinities series also features addressable RGB lighting, which can be controlled using a single USB hub.

**Other Options and Considerations**

If you're not ready to invest in interlockable fans, there are many other options available. One popular alternative is the CorRGB fan from Corsair, which offers addressable RGB lighting at an affordable price. These fans are also daisy-chain compatible, making it easy to connect multiple fans together.

However, while these fans may be cheaper than their interlockable counterparts, they lack some of the features and flexibility that make them so desirable. Additionally, they may not offer the same level of performance or quiet operation as more expensive options.

**Budgeting for Fans**

One of the most important things to consider when choosing fans is budget. £30 a fan may seem like a lot, but it's actually relatively affordable compared to other PC components. We recommend setting a budget and looking for fans that offer great value for money.

We also recommend avoiding cases with fans as standard, as these are often not as good quality as separate fans purchased separately. Instead, look for cases that offer high-quality fans or consider building your own system without fans altogether.

**Recommendations and Further Reading**

For further reading on PC parts and builds, be sure to check out our in-depth guide to building a PC, which covers everything from choosing the right components to assembling the system itself. If you're interested in watching more videos on PC builds, we recommend checking out our top round corner feature section.

We also have a list of recommended PC parts and accessories available below, including some of our favorite fans and other components. Be sure to check these out for further information and recommendations.

**Recommended Fans**

* Fantex T30: A great option if you're not too worried about aesthetic.

* Lean Lee Uni Al2s: A popular choice for those who want a fan that looks pretty without being over-the-top.

* Lean Lee SL Infinities: Interlockable fans with addressable RGB lighting and daisy-chain compatibility.

**Recommended Cases**

* Corsair 3500 series: A great option for builders who want high-quality support and calling potential for even the most high-end rigs.

* Mighty case: A great option for those who want a system that's both stylish and functional.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enladies and gentlemen if you want to build yourself a gaming PC then first things first you need to understand what all of the gaming PC parts are in a system what they do what you should be buying and ultimately what are the things to go for and what are the things to definitely avoid and the good news is that in this video we're going to get hands on with literally everything that goes into a gaming PC we're going to look at things like Intel AMD Nvidia sizes compatibility price value all of these things and we're going to help you to understand every single one of them so if you going to build yourself a gaming PC or at least get someone else to build it for you then you know exactly which parts you should actually be going for and the good news is this is part one of a three-part maybe a four-part series where we actually show you how to build a gaming PC from scratch it's going to be really exciting so let us walk you through absolutely everything you need to know about every single gaming PC component right after a short word from this video sponsor cor says 3500 series of cases have arrived and they offer a whole new view into PC gaming with temper on both the side and the front this affordable chassis lets your PC sing and thanks to its modest footprint it will fit on most desks without compromise cooling is no problem either with the ability to f a whopping 10 fans and two radiators when using 120s or 740s if that's more your bag learn more about this incredible case today with the link down below well then everyone first things first if you are watching this video then congratulations because clearly you do have an interest into getting into PC gaming or at least getting handson with the components yourself and let me just say it is the best Hobby in the world as you can probably guess I absolutely love it and if you are seriously considering making the switch from console to PC or just getting back into it you're not going to regret it it is fantastic but having said that it is more complicated than console gaming partly really because you need to understand what it is that you're buying and yes obviously the asking price on some of these components can get quite expensive but the good news is there are loads of budget friendly components you can get to and obviously if you are willing to go on the used Market you can buy secondhand things for a real bargain so don't worry about it too much just plan your build properly and what I always say to people is to look at the graphics card first so you can buy pretty much one of three brands and they almost have sub Brands as well so this is an AMD radon graphics card this is an Nvidia GeForce graphics card and in my magic pile over here we also have one from Intel and these are quite new the last time I did this video they didn't exist so it's nice to see that we have three choices now this is an Intel Art card but as you probably noticed there's another brand on the box so this one it says azrock this one says pallet and this one says power color and essentially what happens is the GPU the graphics processing unit is manufactured by your amd's nvidia's Intel and then it's actually shipped off to the vendor that will then manufacture the card and sell it to you so this is why it's made by pallet but it is an Nvidia graphics card cuz they make the GPU and then as I say palet or whoever decides to actually make the graphics card and they come in various different shapes and sizes and compatibility is pretty much twofold really firstly you need to make sure that it can physically fit in your case this is a smaller one here so if you go for a massive graphics card obviously this isn't going to work properly you also need to make sure that you can power it properly there is a power supply recommendation somewhere on the back of your system here look it says minimum 800 watts this is going to be your best guide but you can use online calculators to work out exactly how much power you need but then also you do need to make sure that your motherboard is up to date enough that it can actually accept the p CCI speed of the graphics card you're buying and this actually isn't usually an issue if you're buying a new system but if you're wanting to upgrade an older one this is more where it comes into account so you know what actually let's make this really messy and do a horrible jump C I will grab the card in question really that we're talking about as a good example this is an RTX 460 and it uses a PCI Gen 4 like Graphics PCI slot and if you put this inside a motherboard that has P gen 3 the speed of this card will be reduced it won't be able to operate at its full speed it's not really something that most people as I say need to worry about mainly if you're upgrading from an older system or buying used but just essentially look at the motherboard that you're getting check the P version and then check the PCI version on the graphics card and then just make sure they are the same and you won't have any issues but of course the question really that I get ask more than anything else when it comes to Graphics is what brand is best and when it comes to the sub Brands so your Asus your msis pallet gigabyte it's more or less on a card by card basis and I would always read the reviews and if I was sort of torn between a couple the main things really that I would look for was a card that ran quietly had a long warranty and obviously was more affordable there's no point spending loads of money on a graphics card that is essentially going to be the same because when you look at the numbers uh these are the main things really that you need to look at the model name so this is the RX 7800 XT this is a upper mid-range graphics card so you can go higher than this and generally speaking the higher the number the better the card is but you do also need to pay attention to this one here which is the amount of vram it his it is this is the amount of vram that it has so 16 GB is great generally speaking for a budget friendly cards you're looking at 8 gig for mid-range 12 gig and then highend 16 or more it's going to depend on the resolution you play as I say you should be looking at getting the highest number really that you can afford but the biggest question really is going to come down to whether you want to go for AMD Nvidia or Intel and actually it's very easy because I've literally just made a video all about the best combinations for this you can find that in the top right corner of your screen and we go through the best cards at the best price points but I'm aware that it's better to give you knowledge on how to work this out for yourself especially if this video is going to age and not be redundant as soon as new cards come out essentially at the time of filming I would say Nvidia is the best allrounder because they have some exclusive features like DSS better R tracing and then their DSS frame generation feature and they lock this behind a Nvidia payable so if you have an Nvidia graphics card you can use it if you have an Intel or you have an AMD graphics card these features are locked and it will not work if you buy those cards whereas if you go for Intel card or you go for AMD they have their own Technologies so Intel has xcss AMD has quite a few different ones but their main one really is FSR and FSR frame generation but these are open source so you can actually use these regardless of the graphics card that you go for so if you go for a Intel card you can use FSR if you go for AMD card you can use xcss if you're going for an Nvidia card you can use both of them so for that reason Nvidia tends to charge a little bit of a premium on their card s which for some people is definitely going to be worth it but for others not so much general rule of thumb if you're looking to play multiplayer games I'd say actually AMD graphics cards usually offer the best bang for buck if you're going for a budget friendly GPU then actually something like this Arc a580 or Ark a750 is a great option but because Intel is newer you can run into issues with certain titles or they don't run as well now it is a lot better with Intel than it was at launch but this is something I would still be aware of really am is typically a bit of a safer option but Intel typically depending on the price that you get it for can offer the best value at the more budget friendly side of things if you're looking at something super high-end so maybe like a RTX 4070 4080 4090 then Nvidia pretty much have the best cards available they will run games better than AMD but again this is only when you take the Nvidia exclusive features into account so if you're running things like rate tracing which will give you better visuals if you're running their up skting Technologies like dlss their frame gen Nvidia will typically offer the best experience but as I say if you're running like a pure game uh without any of these extra settings on then actually AMD tends to work better they offer more vram for the same price a lot of the time and they just offer better value for money if you want to see as I say the best graphics cards you can buy I've also done that video in the top right corner of your screen so that is the graphics card then and this is definitely the most important part of your gaming PC because it is going to dictate your frame rate in most games that you play the better the graphics card the smoother it will be the higher the FPS the higher you can turn up the settings always prioritize that above AB above pretty much anything really however don't forget that your other components are still really important and you can't cut Corners too much or you will run into problems and there's this little battle going on all of the time when you fire up a game really and essentially it's called the bottleneck so your performance in game will be dictated by the weakest component and typically speaking it's a dog barking as I was saying Postman aside essentially the weakest part of your PC will dictate the frame rate that you get now usually this comes down to three sometimes four components and the most important one is the graphics card but then in the second place is actually our CPU so this one is an Intel chip this one is an AMD ryzen chip but at the time of filming it's pretty much the case that Intel uses the highest amount of power so you're going to have to spend more money on a better cooler to keep this running cool the chips are already quite expensive as well so in combination with the cooler is going to mean that you're going to be paying a little bit more money but the benefit actually with Intel is that you typically get more cores while still having some of the best gaming performance you can get and more cores are going to be better for multitasking or some of the latest and greatest titles that properly utilize them we've spoken about CPU cores before you can find my full video in the top right corner of your screen that actually shows how CPU cores impact gaming performance but the cheat sheet really is that you need eight eight is ideal any more than eight it doesn't really make much difference like six is absolutely fine if you're on a real budget then four will suffice but 6 or eight is pretty much the sweet spot at the moment however if you are going to be doing other things as I say like creating videos or I don't know using Photoshop or anything really that can properly utilize more cores efficiently things like blender Photoshop actually isn't too bad for core usage but anyway if you're doing productivity having a larger amount of CPU cores is going to be more beneficial but it doesn't always translate into better gaming performance however again when you're playing a game and it says preloading textures if this is something that annoys you if you have more cores this is typically going to be completed faster but you usually only need to do this once or twice per game over the course of its lifetime so it's not really that important to be honest but of course alternatively you can go for the other option which is going for team red which is AMD with their ryzen CPUs the main differences really between the two is obviously as I say these have more cores these typically have less and as a result they don't generate as much heat but the way that it actually works on Intel is that they split their cores into what they call efficient cores which are much smaller and don't have as much performance and then the real big thirsty boys sounds a bit weird their performance Calles so typically you have six or eight performance Calles and then a load of efficient Calles so this is an I9 obviously very highend typically most people need an i5 or an i7 really for gaming and when it comes to AMD you're looking at a ryzen 5 or a ryzen 7 so this is actually the Best alland CP you can buy at the time of filming it will soon be replaced by the 9800 x3d and as I say the new Intel Ultra chips but essentially ryzen CPUs have always been well they were typically the underdog and at the moment these tend to be the best all round chips for gaming which is great because obviously it means that you're going to get better performance for Less something like the ryzen 7600 is a six score chip it's an amazing gaming CPU as is the ryzen 77700 and this which is the 7800 x3d this is an8 core chip but it has what they call their 3D vcash technology which essentially just has more cach on the CPU which actually results in better frame rates for gaming which is fantastic but AMD seem to have got a little bit lazy with their most recent launch of ryzen 9000 and at the time of filming which is when they've just come out they tend to be a lot more expensive and they don't offer that much more performance but if you're watching this in 2025 then hopefully the prices will have sort of like matured a little bit and we can start to recommend them but yes the ryzen chips are very good is typically what I recommend at the moment and typically what I use in my personal systems but it's going to be exciting to see what Intel do now one of the most important things when it comes to a gaming PC specifically though is to not over or unders speec your CPU a mistake a lot of people make with their gaming PC is that they spend loads of money on their CPU so maybe they spend £400 or dollars on a CPU and then £400 on a graphics card but that wouldn't actually be the right way of doing it because you need to match the performance levels of the two and they are not priced equally so as a general rule I would say if you're spending around about3 400 on a graphics card you probably only need to be spending about 220 225 that's how much the ryzen 7600 is I realized that's a bit of a random number on your chip don't spend the same amount on both it's always worth looking at benchmarks because as I say the more you spend on a graphics card usually the more your performance goes up but if you have a really good CPU but your graphics card is arguably weaker remember what I said about the bottlenecking the lowest performance number will dictate what you actually get in game and quite often or more often than not this is going to be down to the graphics card so you could put an 800 CPU with a 200b graphics card and your performance will be all the way down here despite spending loads of money on a processor so don't get carried away with this but as I say we've done more videos on this that explain it in much better detail but of course once you have chosen your CPU you will then need to start thinking about a motherboard and this essentially is the base for everything else to sit upon you don't need to spend masses on this and this is where companies like Asus I think can make a lot of money because they stack all of these features on top of boards and again especially if you're new to PC gaming you might be thinking well if I spend 4500 of dollars on a motherboard it will be better I'll get more performance but actually unless you're overclocking most motherboards tend to offer the same level of performance really unless you're looking at something really cheap this is actually a video that I've been wanting to make for ages where we can sort of showcase the real differences but once you've spent over $200 $250 that sort of Mark most of the time the performance is pretty similar and what you then start buying are more features more future proofing more ports like Wi-Fi USB 4 things like this this is actually a brand new one from AMD and again we have two different vendors remember it's AMD that kind of like license the socket AMD obviously make the chip so these two are cross compatible but then you have a different brand that will make the board so this one is Asus Republic Gamers but you can get ones from MSI gigabyte ASRock NZXT colorful even make motherboards now like a load of different motherboards anyway from loads of different vendors the most important thing is to make sure that the socket is the same for both of the chips like as long as you do that generally speaking it should be compatible as long as the BIOS on the board is up to date and what used to happen is that motherboard manufacturers would bring out new motherboards every single year and people would just buy the new board and the new chip together but what's happening now really is that people buy a motherboard they keep it for a while and then as long as you're buying something that has USB bios flashback utility sometimes it's called Q flash plus essentially on the back of the board I mean actually we can open this one up and show you as long as it has that USB flashback utility then you can keep using this for ages and if you do get a new chip you don't have to have an existing CPU to flash the motherboard and update it because it's quite simple really if you think if you buy a motherboard that came out in 2024 but then you buy a chip that comes out in 2025 how is that motherboard supposed to know what it is and why is it going to work it's not so if you look on the back of this you should see we have this little USB port that says bios and then there's a button on it as well that says bios flashback so you get the new bios you put it on a USB flash drive whack it in this get it powered on don't turn the system on but obviously get it like plugged in and then you press this button you hold it down for a few seconds it will Flash the motherboard then you can put a new chip inside this so when AMD come out with their 10,000 chips or whatever they're going to be called there's a very strong chance that this motherboard is going to be compatible with it but you will have to do the motherboard update in order to get it to work but the reason I bring this up is because if you're buying like a older generation motherboard so something like a b650 motherboard from AMD and you buy a ryzen 9000 chip you will have do this it's quite common the main things really that you need to know at the top end motherboards so AMD call them their X Series so as to say this is x870 whereas over on Intel you have their Z series but I realized I've actually picked up a B series board and these sit below the Zed and then the X Series obviously they're not cross compatible but they sound quite similar so this is a b760 motherboard and we also have an AMD bbard this one is a b650 and typically speaking these are what we'd recommend the main differences really on the Intel side of things that the Z series can overclock the CPU the B series at least at the time of filming cannot whereas on AMD you can overclock on all of them but you'll have potentially better support on the X Series but both of them will have more bandwidth which just usually means they have more features they add more things onto the board things like Thunderbolt for instance could be on a higher end board and this is when I say if you need any of these features things like 10 gig ethernet for example you should already know that you need it so look for a board that has those features whereas for most people I would say just buy a solid B Ser motherboard for around about £200 of dollars or so depending on your budget and that's a real good Bedrock actually to build a gaming system but the reason I have these three boards is because you also need to bear in mind the size of the motherboard also bear in mind whether it has Wi-Fi if you need Wi-Fi buy a board that has Wi-Fi but this is a fullsize motherboard this is ATX if you go for a really high-end one again performance is probably not going to be different but with more features you can get with called eatx which is just slightly wider it has the same hole structure so when we put it inside a case you'll still have the same holes but there's just more on the board so it's slightly wider so you will need to check your case compatibility we also have Micro ATX and these motherboards are obviously a little bit smaller which means that they will go in smaller size chassis you can put a MCX motherboard inside an ATX case but you can't do it the other way around obviously compatibility so this for example is an ITX chassis they have brought out a revision of this that does take microatx motherboard but this is one of the early ones this would not physically fit in there you couldn't do that and even if you could as we discovered when we actually tried it you wouldn't want to because it's too big and instead You' want to go for an ITX motherboard which when we put over the overhead you shall see is pretty Diddy they're really quite cute aren't they and I always think it looks quite funny when you pick up a really big GPU and this is quite literally what it would look like when you put it inside your system the graphics card is way way bigger than the main board but I mean to be fair most of that is just a cooler anyway right because it generates a lot of heat but yes those are the main motherboard features really that you need to be aware of just make sure you're buying one that has the same socket as the CPU make sure that the BIOS is up to date generally speaking you want to have some cooling around the vrms just to make sure that it can withstand a decent amount of power but again if you read reviews they should summarize this for you and then also note how many RAM slots it has because if you go for a board like this which is ITX you typically only have two which is fine for most people but when you want to upgrade your RAM at a later date if you have four slots it makes it easier because you don't have to swap out the ram you've got just buy two more identical sticks whack it in and then you should be fine the only other thing really that you need to think about to be fair all right there's a few things to think about you need to again remember that PCI speed of the motherboard and make sure that's the same as the graphics card but then also with ssds you need to make sure that it has the right amount of SSD slots for your personal needs so the more storage you're going to have the more drives obviously you need a larger board really and one that can actually take those drives because if you go for an ITX and you want to put like six P ssds inside this obviously not going to work only other thing really to bear in mind is also to make sure that it has all the headers that you need so if you're putting loads of fans inside your system more fan headers are better these are your addressable RGB pins so if you want to have loads of RGB devices obviously you want more of these those are your fan headers these are SATA ports we don't really use these those are for older hard drives and ssds this one is quite important USB 3.1 typically speaking most cases have a port for this and most boards that you're going to buy have one of these now this is to get USBC on the front panel but if you buy particularly an am4 motherboard quite often it won't have one of these and then if your case has one you're out of luck you have to buy adapters and you don't get the full speed if you're going for like a water cooling system but you probably wouldn't be watching this video make sure it also has some thermal sensors on it where you can actually plug your probes in and then you can put this into like a water cooling Loop and monitor the temperature but most people don't need to worry about that oh the power of editing everyone nice and tidy but let's now make a mess again and actually talk to you about memory and obviously there's two different kinds really that you're going to have in your system one being random access memory and the other one being the nand flash your SSD the solid state drive if you are carrying over an older system then you're probably going to have either one of these or one of these and the good news is all boards pretty much are entirely cross-compatible so you can still put these inside your system hard drives they still sell and these are great really for like storing pictures and music and any large files you don't need but where possible I would keep these away from from a modern day gaming PC cuz they vibrate and it's quite annoying especially if you're going to have it on your desk if you can invest in a Nas like I do that is going to be better you can have multiple hard drives for redundancy you know most Gamers I think a lot of them will still have a hard drive in their system but do be aware that a lot of modern games now won't actually work if you run it from this or at least that they will run but they're stutter a lot of the time and then it will catch up with itself just because the assets kind of can't stream in quick enough moving up from that we have our SATA SSD those have the SATA ports that we talked about earlier on the motherboard they connect with the Sata cable we need to power them as well but generally what you want is to go for a SSD that's pis Gen 4 cost around about £60 or dollars or so and you'll probably notice that some of them will come with what we call a heat sink like this one it's a NM 790 from Lexar this is going to be good for putting in like a PlayStation 5 or if you have a motherboard that doesn't actually already have a heat sink cover for your SSD this is just going to obviously help to dissipate the heat whereas if you you well to be honest if you buy a motherboard most motherboards now have so many different heat sinks especially the higher end ones that you actively want to buy one that doesn't come with a heat sink cuz it will look cleaner and tidier to be honest with you but it depends on price they're usually a little bit more expensive instead you can go for something like this this one is the Samsung 990 Pro I'd always recommend buying one that's high-end but on sale is you usually get the best value and technically this label is a heat sink but I mean not really to be honest with you you definitely want to make sure that you do put this in some kind of cooling solution just to keep it in check there's a few different speeds P Gen 3 is absolutely fine if you're on a real budget but Gen 4 drives are faster and you can typically find them for a really good price to the point where they are worth buying P Gen 5 ssds they're still too expensive really to recommend for gamers because you're not going to properly be able to utilize that speed round about 5,000 on the reads and rights is ideal anything more than that you're not really going to notice that much but if you can buy one that actually has cash on it that is going to help with everyday performance as well but it depends what you use your PC 4 I would also advise going for a terabyte or larger just because games these days the real big ones can be between like 120 150 gig so if you have a 500 gig SSD especially if you got slower internet you're going to have to delete games a lot of the time it's going to be really annoying 500 Define on a budget but a terabyte or two is definitely the way I would go so that is what your storage looks like and the beauty as well of those is that they literally just Connect into the motherboard they don't require any sort of power or anything like separate no cables you literally just whack them in and then the motherboard takes care of everything including the power but obviously the main difference between going for storage and going for Ram you will of course need both is that what you store on your SSD is permanent or at least as uh permanent as you can get these days obviously failures and Things Can Happen whereas Ram tends to be quite a lot faster has lower latency but obviously it's refreshed every single time you turn your PC on and off when you put your PC to sleep that is actually like saving your PC state in Ram and then it's loading it back in and actually a good analogy to like think about how your PC works is the cash and we spoke about this earlier you can get extra cash on one of those ryzen x3d chips the cash is kind of like stuff that you're holding in your hands so the CPU it's got everything it needs here whereas if I need to say pick something up from the table this is the ram so still pretty quick it's not as quick as holding it in my hand but I pick that up that's for my Ram whereas stuff that I have on a drive that's the equivalent of me going behind me going into my cupboard and taking a fan out now I'm not sure that many CPUs are literally going to turn around and get a fan out there covered but that is quite a good idea of showing you that even though that that's still pretty fast and I didn't have to wait very long if I need something right now which your CPU does to run all of the instructions that's why having larger cach can help because it's got more stuff it can work with quickly you don't have that latency for actually to sort of fetch everything that it needs cuz it's already got it obviously I'm simplifying but essentially that's the way it works but that was kind of a little bit of a tangent really cuz we were talking about the random access memory and it's come along quite a long way really in the last few years the main thing really to bear in mind is ddr5 versus ddr4 now pretty much all new motherboards is probably Again by the time you're watching this are going to be ddr5 only so am5 the AMD boards they're all ddr5 Now intel most boards are ddr5 some of them are ddr4 if you go for an older generation am4 motherboard those are all ddr4 and the reason I say you need to be aware of this is cuz they're not cross-compatible they physically will not fit in the same slots which I'm sure has caught loads of you guys out watching this let me know in the comments if that's happened to you and you can do a little bit of a cheat sheet as well cuz the faster and the lower latency the memory in theory the better your performance is going to be but remember we spoke about bottlenecks well Ram is also a bottleneck and if you don't have fast KN memory and you've got a really fast CPU and GPU this can hold you back but generally speaking it's more likely going to be your graphics card or your CPU that will restrict your performance but the performance between these two are quite closely tied because don't forget the faster a CPU runs is kind of dependent on how quickly it can access everything that it needs so if you've got loads of cash then the memory is arguably less important whereas if you don't have loads of cach on your CPU then fast memory and low latency memory obviously is going to make more sense but the cheat sheet is that you're typically looking at 6,000 MHz really uh with a latency of maybe 32 36 do I mean 32 or do I mean 30 as close to 30 as possible is typically going to be your best bet for the best performance if you're on in however feel free to go above 6,000 MHz it's not a problem but it's kind of a game of diminishing returns really because whilst you can get more performance from faster and lower latency memory it starts to get really expensive because most people will buy a kit around about 6,000 MHz so the yields on those will be higher CU they sell more and the price of those can be lower whereas when you have like a a skew that's sold less like a 7,400 MHz kit or something like that as I say the price goes up and then it's not really worth it because you'd be better better off putting that money towards a better graphics card or a better CPU rather than spending all of that on memory so yes generally speaking look for 6,000 maybe a cast of 30 36 that's going to be your best way to go oh and capacity we probably should say about that as well 16 gig is fine if you're on a real budget especially on DDR 4 systems but if you're on a ddr5 system then 32 is going to be pretty much the best bang for your buck really looking at between 90 and 110 or dollars really for most kits and obviously if you go for RGB that is going to cost you more but it looks better whereas if you go for this one which is a non RGB kit they tend to be lower profile I would go with a non-rgb kit uh so one that doesn't have lighting if you don't know what RGB is and these will sit better underneath air coolers and to be honest they look better if you're using a system that has an air cooler because like it's weird to have like a bar of light coming from underneath a cooler so I go with a lower profile kit and save yourself some money if you're going for an air cooler but probably a RGB kit if you're going for like a allinone liquid cooler but we'll talk about those in just a second but more importantly than that memory does have to be it doesn't have to but in order to get the performance that it actually says so to get this 6,000 MHz you would have to overclock the RAM on most systems out today this is very easy so on AMD this has an expo profile on this particular Ram kit if you buy the Expo version and you go into your motherboard software and you just enable that and then the system will restart and as long as the motherboard is up to date and it is fully compatible with the memory then everything will work but you can find that overclocking Ram can cause some system some system instability and then your PC won't boot which means you'll have to manually change the settings or just leave it at the default if you run into any issues but yes if you're buying a AMD CPU I'd go for an expo kit if you're going for Intel I'd go for what they called XMP extreme memory profile but the two for the most part are cross-compatible you're just more likely to run into issues if you use XMP on AMD and uh Expo on Intel boards but generally speaking most systems I build are absolutely fine well everyone tell you what we're making progress we're getting there and by the way don't throw your components in the air it's not big and it's not clever but it does make great entertainment what we're doing now today we're talking about parts today what we're doing at this point in this video is now talking about CPU callers and they're more interesting than they sound because they actually have quite a big impact on your overall system and what most people think that they do and obviously you're right in thinking this is that they bring the temperature of your CPU down and the like lower temperature your CPU is the more stable it can be the more you can overclock it but for most people I guess it just means you get better longevity so you're happier if your components in general not just your CPU but your processor in particular if that's running at a lower temperature people are happier that it's going to last longer that's not the way I think about it though because I'm more thinking about it as what do you need how much money can you save by going for a inferior uh CPU Cooler and then putting that money towards a better graphics card or better CPU again because something like this cost around about on like a bad day £200 or so if you buy the one that has an LCD so screen inside it this one can go over £200 of do and you just think well you don't actually need this level of cooling performance and a lot of chips and instead you could buy something like this which is an air cooler this is from Arctic Frieza 36 it's my favorite Air coer at the moment and on a good day you can get this for under £30 or dollars massive difference yet the thing as well is that this can still run ridiculously quiet because it all comes down to the TDP of the chip that you using so how much power this uses obviously dictates how much heat it's going to generate and then the CPU caller job is to get rid of that and the reason we've got this one on the table is because if you go for a low powerered or low wattage CPU it will come with one of these which is a stock cooler and this sorry is absolute crap it's awful it will suffice but I mean look at the size of it it is Tiny it makes a racket even when you're not gaming you're just sitting the desktop it's really annoying however as long as you get inside the box it is free so what I often say is that if you're on a budget just use this for a month or so until you get your next paycheck and then buy something like this and then swap it out because obviously that's going to save you a decent chunk of change but if you're only talking about $ 20 to $30 anyway it's not really the end of the world to invest in something like this from the off and you don't have to know that much about PCS to work out that you're going to get better performance from this than you are this and also this looks terrible doesn't it like look at the size of it whereas this actually has RGB and it's big and it's powerful and you know that this is going to be good and because you've got two fans on this particular one and they're much larger than this the overall effect is it's going to run quieter and for me that's the most important thing about my system other than the gaming performance I wanted to do it as quietly as possible so you can tune your fans in the motherboard bias and once you've tuned your fans your system will essentially only ramp up when it needs to your fans will only get loud when it needs to and the rest of the time everything can be pretty cool and quiet but I mean yes when you can get something like this for about £30 of dollars it is definitely worth doing but this will get you byy I also say that whilst the AMD stock caller still isn't great it is a lot better than the Intel one so I'm more inclined to say use the stock ryzen one for a bit if you want than I am with the Intel one but yes you can also go for what most I don't know about most people but certainly a large chunk of people are going for which are one of these they are aios or allinone liquid coolers and the way they work is pretty straightforward actually this is obviously quite a high-end one so it's got quite a big pump on it and it also has some RGB inside this little block as well so it looks nice and pretty but it has this little contact plate on the back this touches your CPU you will use some thermal paste if it doesn't come pre-applied to bridge the air gap essentially between your CPU and then the cooler and then the heat will go into this it will be pumped through the fluid that's not normal I'm just bad at packing it will go through these little tubes with the fluid into this radiator here at the top you'll Mount this to the top of your case and then these fans will blow the heat out of your case and obviously you will have to have more room inside your chassis to mount this but if you went for an air coer you've got to make sure you have enough clearance inside your case to actually fit that in the first place something like this which is quite small most chassis should be absolutely fine but it does go to show that regardless of the coer that you go for do check the specifications on both your case and the coer to make sure that they are fully compatible make sure you've got enough headers as well for all the fans and things to plug in I would advise that most people do go for an air cooler to save yourself some money but if you do want to go for something that looks better or you're going to ship it around and transport it a lot more often then these Allin ones are actually better for that and I would advise that you go for one of those but you don't need to spend more than like11 1220 of dollars or so on this unless you actively want like an LCD or something like that they come in different sizes as well so you've got 120 uh 240 360 because they have 120 fans on 120 mil or obviously if you're going for like a 280 or a 420 then those are wider fans they're 140 but you want to make sure that those will fit on your cases so most cases will do a 240 some will do most will probably do a 36 if they're large enough but certainly not a lot of them will do 420 Reds so again always check the sizes before buying a CPU caller and don't spend too much money on it but while CPU callers are surprisingly cool let's be honest the same really can't be said for power supplies but they are very much an essential part of the puzzle if you don't have one and you don't have the right one your rig is potentially not going to work properly and there are a fewu a fuel there's no fuel well there's electricity that counts there's a few rules of thumb really with this and the most important one is please don't buy like a real dirt cheap power supply I know it's very tempting to sort it from low to high which is fine we do that on best builds you can find best builds right now on the top right corner of your screen but literally don't go for the first one on the list because you know it depends on the unit but generally speaking you want to buy from a repal brand and there's something that's called the PSU list that's really helpful we'll leave that link down below that can help you find the right one but when it comes to actually choosing one that's appropriate for your system essentially you just need to make sure that it's the right size so this is a standard ATX uh power supply we do have another one here this one an sfx power supply you can also get sfx L which is like a midsize one and essentially the sfx ones go into the smaller ITX chassis whereas pretty much all other cases most of them will take a fulls sizee ATX if you go for a really highend high wattage one then they can start to get quite a bit longer you might find that you don't have that much room around the back of the case but for most people again if you're watching this chances are you're not going to run into a problem because you're not going to be buying like a 1200 watt uh power supply or something like that anyway but do bear it in mind we'll take this one out of the box just to show you what we're talking about this is the main number that you need to pay attention to so this is the RM but then this 750 is the wattage so it's a 750 watt power supply and it's pretty much a simple math so you get all of the components that you're using you add up how much power they're going to cons assume at their maximum and then you buy a power supply that can actually output that so that your PC doesn't shut off because that is something that will quite happen I'm giving you warning I'm going to do it now this is not a mistake this is what will happen if you are I got you didn't not you didn't expect that anyway that is genuinely what will happen if your PC has a problem with the power supply it will usually just black screen entirely sometimes you might be lucky and you get a little warning uh the game will crash and you'll say like the drive is gone or something and if it happens consistently across different games that's actually probably as well because your power supply is not outputting enough power to your graphics card whereas if it's trying to consume too much your power supply can just shut down you get a black screen so yes you need to make sure you've got enough wattage you can use a PSU calculator to work this out or the dirtiest way of doing this is just to look at your graphics card and see what the minimum recommended is and buy that that's not always essential though because that's assuming you're using like high-end components whereas if you're using like a 50 or 60 watt CPU rather than one that's consuming 150 watts you've obviously got that extra 100 watts of power there before you take anything else into account but it's a good rule of thumb to buy the minimum that's on your GPU I would also overs speec it slightly if you do have it in the budget CU if you are going to upgrade your rig in the future you might want to go for more powerful GPU and you probably don't want to have to replace the power supply but yes you probably noticed that this doesn't actually have anything attached to it and this is what we call a modular power supply I'd argue most of them probably are but certainly at the budget end most of them aren't it's just a money thing in order to like pre-attached cables uh that saves you and the manufacture money whereas actually making them all separate costs more money but the advantage of having it modulate are pretty much twofold firstly it means that you can just have a tidier build you don't have to plug all of them in because I can almost guarantee you will not use every single connection on this you'll probably use half sometimes like a third of the connections it depends what you put inside your PC but then the other thing little bit more Niche but if you do want upgrade the cables for any reason usually because you want something that looks fancier like custom cable mod cables or something like that it's just a little bit easier you don't have to use extensions but sometimes in the case of like ATX 3.1 PCI Gen 5 they've actually got new replacement cables for some modular power supplies so you don't have to swap the power supply out entirely because what happened was when Nvidia moved from the 30 series of gpus to the 40 they've actually adopted this new standard and it's called 8x3 ATX 3.1 or P Gen 5 and it's this one cable solution that does up to 600 wats of power so you get one cable rather than needing two three sometimes four different PSU connections to your graphics card so it's a lot tidier and easier but if you do go for a connection like this do make sure that you plug it in properly by pushing it as far as it will go CU it is a little bit fiddly and would be a risk if it's not plugged in properly I realize I'm rambling but yes just make sure you have enough power make sure that is actually rated decently for efficiency so bronze or higher I wouldn't worry about it too much to be honest with you it save you a bit of money if it's more efficient but like bronze is fine obviously gold and like titanium Platinum all of those are better but yeah I don't worry about that too much main thing is just that you're getting enough power and if you are going for an Nvidia GPU you're buying one that does support ATX 3.1 or PCI generation 5 but actually with that I think that leads us on to the final two components and I'm going to class them together because they are obviously very much related we have our case fans and our case now it's actually quite simple really because first r a thumb where possible try and make sure you have a fair bit of mesh on it so most cases will be mesh or glass now just make sure you're buying a decent combination of the two if you want the best thermals go for mesh but as I say most cases that come out now pretty much have decent thermal I'm not too worried about it but obviously make sure you're buying one that has the right size and right form factor for you so this was my icx rig for quite a few years and I really liked this because it was flexible so I could have this on my desk I could work off of it the side was that obviously it's right next to me so it was louder than a fullsize rig the larger it is the more air you actually physically have inside the case and as long as you're ventilating it properly the lower the noise will be because you've got less hot air inside your system the fans don't have to work as hard and typically an ITX rig is going to go on top of your desk whereas if you wanted the quietest system possible you'd have it underneath honestly I don't really care what you do a lot of people are has to be on the disc but like it's your rig do what you want if it's on carpet it's not ideal cuz obviously you're going to pick up cat hair and stuff like that so you have to clean it more often but yeah do what you want don't let anyone tell you desk is good but obviously you need a larger sized desk but ITX is good for portability if you live across different addresses or you like want to take your rig downstairs into your living room something like that that's what I did good for that but most people I'd recommend you go for Micro ATX or fulls sizee ATX if you're on a budget Micro ATX is good you can buy a smaller chassis it's less material won't cost you as much and you can buy a smaller motherboard which is the same principle ITX tends to get quite expensive because the tolling requires is more complex and to actually build the motherboard again is more complex so it it's kind of small as good for Micro ATX but as soon as you get to ITX it's more complicated will cost you more money ATX is best if you want the largest amount of features because you don't have to worry about them cramming everything on the motherboard if you go for Micro ATX you lose the bottom bit of the motherboard but you keep four Ram slots whereas if you go for ITX as we saw earlier you only have two Ram slots whereas most micro ACX motherboards do have the four four Ram slots so you can as I say upgrade Ram a little bit later it's kind of up to you though there's not really that much to think about other than just compatibility like do you like the way it looks does it have decent enough air flow is it built right like does it feel good read the reviews cuz obviously you can't test this around the back you've got cable management as well so the larger the Gap around the back the easier it's going to be to actually get all of the cables in place and shut the side panel you've got two different classes of cases really in this day and age you've got like a jeel chamber or your standard Tower and jeel Chambers is very popular I do like it a lot whether I would have it for my personal rig probably not to be honest with you because they're a lot wider so it's the same volume a lot of the time but it's spread out across a wider portion rather than height and if you're going to put this on your desk and I have my rig on my desk it just takes up too much room so I prefer like a more normal case my favorite at the moment is the lanol 216 love that thing definitely highly recommended if you want to check out a case recommendation and then I suppose you could also go for what I would call the nulear option which is one of these like gigantic enormous cases something like the Corsair 1000d although they've just replaced it's the 9000d now fantex nv9 anything that is huge I would very very cautiously tell you to stay away from those because if you're someone that knows you need a massive case again you don't need me to tell you this whereas when you're looking at things online it's very easy to order something and then it turns up and it'll be completely the wrong size now the only other thing really that we need to discuss how many times I that this video is actually to talk about fans and calling but this is a good example actually like third party fans this is a fantex T30 it is fantastic but it doesn't have any RGB which does put people off but these are probably my favorite overall fans if you're not too worried about aesthetic because they're very tunable they can be very quiet and they also have loads of performance but if you want to go for something more RGB then I would say my favorites are probably from lean Lee these are the uni fans the ones I like are the al2s cuz I think they just look quite pretty without being over the top these are a lot more over the top these are the SL Infinities but crucially the reason that I like these is because they're interlockable fans so rather than requiring two different cables for every single fan in your system you just slot them all together they have these little contacts here and then you just plug them into a hub so instead of requiring six cables for a block of three you now only require two cables which is pretty good and then you control this over USB and it works out and the reason I bring this up is because there are loads of different systems that do similar things the coret one is very good as well but it's quite expensive but if you do want to go for a much cheaper system then just have a look at like the base fans that corses sell their new RGB ones that will just use addressable RGB they're daisy chain it's a lot harder to build it's annoying but once you've built it it's done obviously it's less of a problem so for context these are around about £30 or $30 or so per fan whereas if you buy a set of three cor RGB fans now you can get them for £30 for three quite a big difference but you won't get the controller and stuff if you go down that rout so there's loads of different RGB fans I'll leave some recommendations down below but then also when you're installing them obviously make sure that the air flow is going the way you want cuz they only blow in One Direction so if you're using them as an exhaust you want them going out the back if they're at the top you want them going out the top depends what you're going to do but generally speaking you go with the natural way that air rises when it gets hotter so that's the best way of doing it but also make sure you have enough fan headers and enough addressable RGB headers on your motherboard so you can actually plug all of these in so yes that is pretty much everything really I think we need to talk about when it comes to Parts obviously don't overspend on fans either £30 a fan I would much rather put that into a better graphics card and cases do come with fans as standard or at least most of them do and usually the more expensive the case the better fans that come with those but it's not always the case so do check to see what fans come with your system how many there are one of the best ways of getting a better value system really is either to buy one that has no fans at all and then buy the ones you want or if you're not that fast just buy one that comes with some decent RGB fans of standard and then don't add any third party ones keep it how it is and you should be set that is everything I think you need to know about PC parts if you have any questions let us know down in the comment section below cuz I've tried to cover as much as I possibly can but I'm aware it's probably not going to be literally everything so ask away we'll do our best to get back to you but smash the like button if you enjoyed this get yourself subscribed we'll do that full proper in-depth how to build a PC video that will go through literally everything in minute detail the best we've ever done but in the meantime if you do want to watch a PC builds maybe an ITX one like this you can find that in the top round corner of your screen where we'll walk you through everything but thank you so much for watching this video and don't forget that if you do want to check out current pricing on literally anything that was featured in this video and all of our favorite and best PC parts you can find those listed down below with our affiliate links and while you're down there why not indulge yourself with a new Corsair 3500 series available in both black and white with and without fans this Mighty case packs the support 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video then congratulations because clearly you do have an interest into getting into PC gaming or at least getting handson with the components yourself and let me just say it is the best Hobby in the world as you can probably guess I absolutely love it and if you are seriously considering making the switch from console to PC or just getting back into it you're not going to regret it it is fantastic but having said that it is more complicated than console gaming partly really because you need to understand what it is that you're buying and yes obviously the asking price on some of these components can get quite expensive but the good news is there are loads of budget friendly components you can get to and obviously if you are willing to go on the used Market you can buy secondhand things for a real bargain so don't worry about it too much just plan your build properly and what I always say to people is to look at the graphics card first so you can buy pretty much one of three brands and they almost have sub Brands as well so this is an AMD radon graphics card this is an Nvidia GeForce graphics card and in my magic pile over here we also have one from Intel and these are quite new the last time I did this video they didn't exist so it's nice to see that we have three choices now this is an Intel Art card but as you probably noticed there's another brand on the box so this one it says azrock this one says pallet and this one says power color and essentially what happens is the GPU the graphics processing unit is manufactured by your amd's nvidia's Intel and then it's actually shipped off to the vendor that will then manufacture the card and sell it to you so this is why it's made by pallet but it is an Nvidia graphics card cuz they make the GPU and then as I say palet or whoever decides to actually make the graphics card and they come in various different shapes and sizes and compatibility is pretty much twofold really firstly you need to make sure that it can physically fit in your case this is a smaller one here so if you go for a massive graphics card obviously this isn't going to work properly you also need to make sure that you can power it properly there is a power supply recommendation somewhere on the back of your system here look it says minimum 800 watts this is going to be your best guide but you can use online calculators to work out exactly how much power you need but then also you do need to make sure that your motherboard is up to date enough that it can actually accept the p CCI speed of the graphics card you're buying and this actually isn't usually an issue if you're buying a new system but if you're wanting to upgrade an older one this is more where it comes into account so you know what actually let's make this really messy and do a horrible jump C I will grab the card in question really that we're talking about as a good example this is an RTX 460 and it uses a PCI Gen 4 like Graphics PCI slot and if you put this inside a motherboard that has P gen 3 the speed of this card will be reduced it won't be able to operate at its full speed it's not really something that most people as I say need to worry about mainly if you're upgrading from an older system or buying used but just essentially look at the motherboard that you're getting check the P version and then check the PCI version on the graphics card and then just make sure they are the same and you won't have any issues but of course the question really that I get ask more than anything else when it comes to Graphics is what brand is best and when it comes to the sub Brands so your Asus your msis pallet gigabyte it's more or less on a card by card basis and I would always read the reviews and if I was sort of torn between a couple the main things really that I would look for was a card that ran quietly had a long warranty and obviously was more affordable there's no point spending loads of money on a graphics card that is essentially going to be the same because when you look at the numbers uh these are the main things really that you need to look at the model name so this is the RX 7800 XT this is a upper mid-range graphics card so you can go higher than this and generally speaking the higher the number the better the card is but you do also need to pay attention to this one here which is the amount of vram it his it is this is the amount of vram that it has so 16 GB is great generally speaking for a budget friendly cards you're looking at 8 gig for mid-range 12 gig and then highend 16 or more it's going to depend on the resolution you play as I say you should be looking at getting the highest number really that you can afford but the biggest question really is going to come down to whether you want to go for AMD Nvidia or Intel and actually it's very easy because I've literally just made a video all about the best combinations for this you can find that in the top right corner of your screen and we go through the best cards at the best price points but I'm aware that it's better to give you knowledge on how to work this out for yourself especially if this video is going to age and not be redundant as soon as new cards come out essentially at the time of filming I would say Nvidia is the best allrounder because they have some exclusive features like DSS better R tracing and then their DSS frame generation feature and they lock this behind a Nvidia payable so if you have an Nvidia graphics card you can use it if you have an Intel or you have an AMD graphics card these features are locked and it will not work if you buy those cards whereas if you go for Intel card or you go for AMD they have their own Technologies so Intel has xcss AMD has quite a few different ones but their main one really is FSR and FSR frame generation but these are open source so you can actually use these regardless of the graphics card that you go for so if you go for a Intel card you can use FSR if you go for AMD card you can use xcss if you're going for an Nvidia card you can use both of them so for that reason Nvidia tends to charge a little bit of a premium on their card s which for some people is definitely going to be worth it but for others not so much general rule of thumb if you're looking to play multiplayer games I'd say actually AMD graphics cards usually offer the best bang for buck if you're going for a budget friendly GPU then actually something like this Arc a580 or Ark a750 is a great option but because Intel is newer you can run into issues with certain titles or they don't run as well now it is a lot better with Intel than it was at launch but this is something I would still be aware of really am is typically a bit of a safer option but Intel typically depending on the price that you get it for can offer the best value at the more budget friendly side of things if you're looking at something super high-end so maybe like a RTX 4070 4080 4090 then Nvidia pretty much have the best cards available they will run games better than AMD but again this is only when you take the Nvidia exclusive features into account so if you're running things like rate tracing which will give you better visuals if you're running their up skting Technologies like dlss their frame gen Nvidia will typically offer the best experience but as I say if you're running like a pure game uh without any of these extra settings on then actually AMD tends to work better they offer more vram for the same price a lot of the time and they just offer better value for money if you want to see as I say the best graphics cards you can buy I've also done that video in the top right corner of your screen so that is the graphics card then and this is definitely the most important part of your gaming PC because it is going to dictate your frame rate in most games that you play the better the graphics card the smoother it will be the higher the FPS the higher you can turn up the settings always prioritize that above AB above pretty much anything really however don't forget that your other components are still really important and you can't cut Corners too much or you will run into problems and there's this little battle going on all of the time when you fire up a game really and essentially it's called the bottleneck so your performance in game will be dictated by the weakest component and typically speaking it's a dog barking as I was saying Postman aside essentially the weakest part of your PC will dictate the frame rate that you get now usually this comes down to three sometimes four components and the most important one is the graphics card but then in the second place is actually our CPU so this one is an Intel chip this one is an AMD ryzen chip but at the time of filming it's pretty much the case that Intel uses the highest amount of power so you're going to have to spend more money on a better cooler to keep this running cool the chips are already quite expensive as well so in combination with the cooler is going to mean that you're going to be paying a little bit more money but the benefit actually with Intel is that you typically get more cores while still having some of the best gaming performance you can get and more cores are going to be better for multitasking or some of the latest and greatest titles that properly utilize them we've spoken about CPU cores before you can find my full video in the top right corner of your screen that actually shows how CPU cores impact gaming performance but the cheat sheet really is that you need eight eight is ideal any more than eight it doesn't really make much difference like six is absolutely fine if you're on a real budget then four will suffice but 6 or eight is pretty much the sweet spot at the moment however if you are going to be doing other things as I say like creating videos or I don't know using Photoshop or anything really that can properly utilize more cores efficiently things like blender Photoshop actually isn't too bad for core usage but anyway if you're doing productivity having a larger amount of CPU cores is going to be more beneficial but it doesn't always translate into better gaming performance however again when you're playing a game and it says preloading textures if this is something that annoys you if you have more cores this is typically going to be completed faster but you usually only need to do this once or twice per game over the course of its lifetime so it's not really that important to be honest but of course alternatively you can go for the other option which is going for team red which is AMD with their ryzen CPUs the main differences really between the two is obviously as I say these have more cores these typically have less and as a result they don't generate as much heat but the way that it actually works on Intel is that they split their cores into what they call efficient cores which are much smaller and don't have as much performance and then the real big thirsty boys sounds a bit weird their performance Calles so typically you have six or eight performance Calles and then a load of efficient Calles so this is an I9 obviously very highend typically most people need an i5 or an i7 really for gaming and when it comes to AMD you're looking at a ryzen 5 or a ryzen 7 so this is actually the Best alland CP you can buy at the time of filming it will soon be replaced by the 9800 x3d and as I say the new Intel Ultra chips but essentially ryzen CPUs have always been well they were typically the underdog and at the moment these tend to be the best all round chips for gaming which is great because obviously it means that you're going to get better performance for Less something like the ryzen 7600 is a six score chip it's an amazing gaming CPU as is the ryzen 77700 and this which is the 7800 x3d this is an8 core chip but it has what they call their 3D vcash technology which essentially just has more cach on the CPU which actually results in better frame rates for gaming which is fantastic but AMD seem to have got a little bit lazy with their most recent launch of ryzen 9000 and at the time of filming which is when they've just come out they tend to be a lot more expensive and they don't offer that much more performance but if you're watching this in 2025 then hopefully the prices will have sort of like matured a little bit and we can start to recommend them but yes the ryzen chips are very good is typically what I recommend at the moment and typically what I use in my personal systems but it's going to be exciting to see what Intel do now one of the most important things when it comes to a gaming PC specifically though is to not over or unders speec your CPU a mistake a lot of people make with their gaming PC is that they spend loads of money on their CPU so maybe they spend £400 or dollars on a CPU and then £400 on a graphics card but that wouldn't actually be the right way of doing it because you need to match the performance levels of the two and they are not priced equally so as a general rule I would say if you're spending around about3 400 on a graphics card you probably only need to be spending about 220 225 that's how much the ryzen 7600 is I realized that's a bit of a random number on your chip don't spend the same amount on both it's always worth looking at benchmarks because as I say the more you spend on a graphics card usually the more your performance goes up but if you have a really good CPU but your graphics card is arguably weaker remember what I said about the bottlenecking the lowest performance number will dictate what you actually get in game and quite often or more often than not this is going to be down to the graphics card so you could put an 800 CPU with a 200b graphics card and your performance will be all the way down here despite spending loads of money on a processor so don't get carried away with this but as I say we've done more videos on this that explain it in much better detail but of course once you have chosen your CPU you will then need to start thinking about a motherboard and this essentially is the base for everything else to sit upon you don't need to spend masses on this and this is where companies like Asus I think can make a lot of money because they stack all of these features on top of boards and again especially if you're new to PC gaming you might be thinking well if I spend 4500 of dollars on a motherboard it will be better I'll get more performance but actually unless you're overclocking most motherboards tend to offer the same level of performance really unless you're looking at something really cheap this is actually a video that I've been wanting to make for ages where we can sort of showcase the real differences but once you've spent over $200 $250 that sort of Mark most of the time the performance is pretty similar and what you then start buying are more features more future proofing more ports like Wi-Fi USB 4 things like this this is actually a brand new one from AMD and again we have two different vendors remember it's AMD that kind of like license the socket AMD obviously make the chip so these two are cross compatible but then you have a different brand that will make the board so this one is Asus Republic Gamers but you can get ones from MSI gigabyte ASRock NZXT colorful even make motherboards now like a load of different motherboards anyway from loads of different vendors the most important thing is to make sure that the socket is the same for both of the chips like as long as you do that generally speaking it should be compatible as long as the BIOS on the board is up to date and what used to happen is that motherboard manufacturers would bring out new motherboards every single year and people would just buy the new board and the new chip together but what's happening now really is that people buy a motherboard they keep it for a while and then as long as you're buying something that has USB bios flashback utility sometimes it's called Q flash plus essentially on the back of the board I mean actually we can open this one up and show you as long as it has that USB flashback utility then you can keep using this for ages and if you do get a new chip you don't have to have an existing CPU to flash the motherboard and update it because it's quite simple really if you think if you buy a motherboard that came out in 2024 but then you buy a chip that comes out in 2025 how is that motherboard supposed to know what it is and why is it going to work it's not so if you look on the back of this you should see we have this little USB port that says bios and then there's a button on it as well that says bios flashback so you get the new bios you put it on a USB flash drive whack it in this get it powered on don't turn the system on but obviously get it like plugged in and then you press this button you hold it down for a few seconds it will Flash the motherboard then you can put a new chip inside this so when AMD come out with their 10,000 chips or whatever they're going to be called there's a very strong chance that this motherboard is going to be compatible with it but you will have to do the motherboard update in order to get it to work but the reason I bring this up is because if you're buying like a older generation motherboard so something like a b650 motherboard from AMD and you buy a ryzen 9000 chip you will have do this it's quite common the main things really that you need to know at the top end motherboards so AMD call them their X Series so as to say this is x870 whereas over on Intel you have their Z series but I realized I've actually picked up a B series board and these sit below the Zed and then the X Series obviously they're not cross compatible but they sound quite similar so this is a b760 motherboard and we also have an AMD bbard this one is a b650 and typically speaking these are what we'd recommend the main differences really on the Intel side of things that the Z series can overclock the CPU the B series at least at the time of filming cannot whereas on AMD you can overclock on all of them but you'll have potentially better support on the X Series but both of them will have more bandwidth which just usually means they have more features they add more things onto the board things like Thunderbolt for instance could be on a higher end board and this is when I say if you need any of these features things like 10 gig ethernet for example you should already know that you need it so look for a board that has those features whereas for most people I would say just buy a solid B Ser motherboard for around about £200 of dollars or so depending on your budget and that's a real good Bedrock actually to build a gaming system but the reason I have these three boards is because you also need to bear in mind the size of the motherboard also bear in mind whether it has Wi-Fi if you need Wi-Fi buy a board that has Wi-Fi but this is a fullsize motherboard this is ATX if you go for a really high-end one again performance is probably not going to be different but with more features you can get with called eatx which is just slightly wider it has the same hole structure so when we put it inside a case you'll still have the same holes but there's just more on the board so it's slightly wider so you will need to check your case compatibility we also have Micro ATX and these motherboards are obviously a little bit smaller which means that they will go in smaller size chassis you can put a MCX motherboard inside an ATX case but you can't do it the other way around obviously compatibility so this for example is an ITX chassis they have brought out a revision of this that does take microatx motherboard but this is one of the early ones this would not physically fit in there you couldn't do that and even if you could as we discovered when we actually tried it you wouldn't want to because it's too big and instead You' want to go for an ITX motherboard which when we put over the overhead you shall see is pretty Diddy they're really quite cute aren't they and I always think it looks quite funny when you pick up a really big GPU and this is quite literally what it would look like when you put it inside your system the graphics card is way way bigger than the main board but I mean to be fair most of that is just a cooler anyway right because it generates a lot of heat but yes those are the main motherboard features really that you need to be aware of just make sure you're buying one that has the same socket as the CPU make sure that the BIOS is up to date generally speaking you want to have some cooling around the vrms just to make sure that it can withstand a decent amount of power but again if you read reviews they should summarize this for you and then also note how many RAM slots it has because if you go for a board like this which is ITX you typically only have two which is fine for most people but when you want to upgrade your RAM at a later date if you have four slots it makes it easier because you don't have to swap out the ram you've got just buy two more identical sticks whack it in and then you should be fine the only other thing really that you need to think about to be fair all right there's a few things to think about you need to again remember that PCI speed of the motherboard and make sure that's the same as the graphics card but then also with ssds you need to make sure that it has the right amount of SSD slots for your personal needs so the more storage you're going to have the more drives obviously you need a larger board really and one that can actually take those drives because if you go for an ITX and you want to put like six P ssds inside this obviously not going to work only other thing really to bear in mind is also to make sure that it has all the headers that you need so if you're putting loads of fans inside your system more fan headers are better these are your addressable RGB pins so if you want to have loads of RGB devices obviously you want more of these those are your fan headers these are SATA ports we don't really use these those are for older hard drives and ssds this one is quite important USB 3.1 typically speaking most cases have a port for this and most boards that you're going to buy have one of these now this is to get USBC on the front panel but if you buy particularly an am4 motherboard quite often it won't have one of these and then if your case has one you're out of luck you have to buy adapters and you don't get the full speed if you're going for like a water cooling system but you probably wouldn't be watching this video make sure it also has some thermal sensors on it where you can actually plug your probes in and then you can put this into like a water cooling Loop and monitor the temperature but most people don't need to worry about that oh the power of editing everyone nice and tidy but let's now make a mess again and actually talk to you about memory and obviously there's two different kinds really that you're going to have in your system one being random access memory and the other one being the nand flash your SSD the solid state drive if you are carrying over an older system then you're probably going to have either one of these or one of these and the good news is all boards pretty much are entirely cross-compatible so you can still put these inside your system hard drives they still sell and these are great really for like storing pictures and music and any large files you don't need but where possible I would keep these away from from a modern day gaming PC cuz they vibrate and it's quite annoying especially if you're going to have it on your desk if you can invest in a Nas like I do that is going to be better you can have multiple hard drives for redundancy you know most Gamers I think a lot of them will still have a hard drive in their system but do be aware that a lot of modern games now won't actually work if you run it from this or at least that they will run but they're stutter a lot of the time and then it will catch up with itself just because the assets kind of can't stream in quick enough moving up from that we have our SATA SSD those have the SATA ports that we talked about earlier on the motherboard they connect with the Sata cable we need to power them as well but generally what you want is to go for a SSD that's pis Gen 4 cost around about £60 or dollars or so and you'll probably notice that some of them will come with what we call a heat sink like this one it's a NM 790 from Lexar this is going to be good for putting in like a PlayStation 5 or if you have a motherboard that doesn't actually already have a heat sink cover for your SSD this is just going to obviously help to dissipate the heat whereas if you you well to be honest if you buy a motherboard most motherboards now have so many different heat sinks especially the higher end ones that you actively want to buy one that doesn't come with a heat sink cuz it will look cleaner and tidier to be honest with you but it depends on price they're usually a little bit more expensive instead you can go for something like this this one is the Samsung 990 Pro I'd always recommend buying one that's high-end but on sale is you usually get the best value and technically this label is a heat sink but I mean not really to be honest with you you definitely want to make sure that you do put this in some kind of cooling solution just to keep it in check there's a few different speeds P Gen 3 is absolutely fine if you're on a real budget but Gen 4 drives are faster and you can typically find them for a really good price to the point where they are worth buying P Gen 5 ssds they're still too expensive really to recommend for gamers because you're not going to properly be able to utilize that speed round about 5,000 on the reads and rights is ideal anything more than that you're not really going to notice that much but if you can buy one that actually has cash on it that is going to help with everyday performance as well but it depends what you use your PC 4 I would also advise going for a terabyte or larger just because games these days the real big ones can be between like 120 150 gig so if you have a 500 gig SSD especially if you got slower internet you're going to have to delete games a lot of the time it's going to be really annoying 500 Define on a budget but a terabyte or two is definitely the way I would go so that is what your storage looks like and the beauty as well of those is that they literally just Connect into the motherboard they don't require any sort of power or anything like separate no cables you literally just whack them in and then the motherboard takes care of everything including the power but obviously the main difference between going for storage and going for Ram you will of course need both is that what you store on your SSD is permanent or at least as uh permanent as you can get these days obviously failures and Things Can Happen whereas Ram tends to be quite a lot faster has lower latency but obviously it's refreshed every single time you turn your PC on and off when you put your PC to sleep that is actually like saving your PC state in Ram and then it's loading it back in and actually a good analogy to like think about how your PC works is the cash and we spoke about this earlier you can get extra cash on one of those ryzen x3d chips the cash is kind of like stuff that you're holding in your hands so the CPU it's got everything it needs here whereas if I need to say pick something up from the table this is the ram so still pretty quick it's not as quick as holding it in my hand but I pick that up that's for my Ram whereas stuff that I have on a drive that's the equivalent of me going behind me going into my cupboard and taking a fan out now I'm not sure that many CPUs are literally going to turn around and get a fan out there covered but that is quite a good idea of showing you that even though that that's still pretty fast and I didn't have to wait very long if I need something right now which your CPU does to run all of the instructions that's why having larger cach can help because it's got more stuff it can work with quickly you don't have that latency for actually to sort of fetch everything that it needs cuz it's already got it obviously I'm simplifying but essentially that's the way it works but that was kind of a little bit of a tangent really cuz we were talking about the random access memory and it's come along quite a long way really in the last few years the main thing really to bear in mind is ddr5 versus ddr4 now pretty much all new motherboards is probably Again by the time you're watching this are going to be ddr5 only so am5 the AMD boards they're all ddr5 Now intel most boards are ddr5 some of them are ddr4 if you go for an older generation am4 motherboard those are all ddr4 and the reason I say you need to be aware of this is cuz they're not cross-compatible they physically will not fit in the same slots which I'm sure has caught loads of you guys out watching this let me know in the comments if that's happened to you and you can do a little bit of a cheat sheet as well cuz the faster and the lower latency the memory in theory the better your performance is going to be but remember we spoke about bottlenecks well Ram is also a bottleneck and if you don't have fast KN memory and you've got a really fast CPU and GPU this can hold you back but generally speaking it's more likely going to be your graphics card or your CPU that will restrict your performance but the performance between these two are quite closely tied because don't forget the faster a CPU runs is kind of dependent on how quickly it can access everything that it needs so if you've got loads of cash then the memory is arguably less important whereas if you don't have loads of cach on your CPU then fast memory and low latency memory obviously is going to make more sense but the cheat sheet is that you're typically looking at 6,000 MHz really uh with a latency of maybe 32 36 do I mean 32 or do I mean 30 as close to 30 as possible is typically going to be your best bet for the best performance if you're on in however feel free to go above 6,000 MHz it's not a problem but it's kind of a game of diminishing returns really because whilst you can get more performance from faster and lower latency memory it starts to get really expensive because most people will buy a kit around about 6,000 MHz so the yields on those will be higher CU they sell more and the price of those can be lower whereas when you have like a a skew that's sold less like a 7,400 MHz kit or something like that as I say the price goes up and then it's not really worth it because you'd be better better off putting that money towards a better graphics card or a better CPU rather than spending all of that on memory so yes generally speaking look for 6,000 maybe a cast of 30 36 that's going to be your best way to go oh and capacity we probably should say about that as well 16 gig is fine if you're on a real budget especially on DDR 4 systems but if you're on a ddr5 system then 32 is going to be pretty much the best bang for your buck really looking at between 90 and 110 or dollars really for most kits and obviously if you go for RGB that is going to cost you more but it looks better whereas if you go for this one which is a non RGB kit they tend to be lower profile I would go with a non-rgb kit uh so one that doesn't have lighting if you don't know what RGB is and these will sit better underneath air coolers and to be honest they look better if you're using a system that has an air cooler because like it's weird to have like a bar of light coming from underneath a cooler so I go with a lower profile kit and save yourself some money if you're going for an air cooler but probably a RGB kit if you're going for like a allinone liquid cooler but we'll talk about those in just a second but more importantly than that memory does have to be it doesn't have to but in order to get the performance that it actually says so to get this 6,000 MHz you would have to overclock the RAM on most systems out today this is very easy so on AMD this has an expo profile on this particular Ram kit if you buy the Expo version and you go into your motherboard software and you just enable that and then the system will restart and as long as the motherboard is up to date and it is fully compatible with the memory then everything will work but you can find that overclocking Ram can cause some system some system instability and then your PC won't boot which means you'll have to manually change the settings or just leave it at the default if you run into any issues but yes if you're buying a AMD CPU I'd go for an expo kit if you're going for Intel I'd go for what they called XMP extreme memory profile but the two for the most part are cross-compatible you're just more likely to run into issues if you use XMP on AMD and uh Expo on Intel boards but generally speaking most systems I build are absolutely fine well everyone tell you what we're making progress we're getting there and by the way don't throw your components in the air it's not big and it's not clever but it does make great entertainment what we're doing now today we're talking about parts today what we're doing at this point in this video is now talking about CPU callers and they're more interesting than they sound because they actually have quite a big impact on your overall system and what most people think that they do and obviously you're right in thinking this is that they bring the temperature of your CPU down and the like lower temperature your CPU is the more stable it can be the more you can overclock it but for most people I guess it just means you get better longevity so you're happier if your components in general not just your CPU but your processor in particular if that's running at a lower temperature people are happier that it's going to last longer that's not the way I think about it though because I'm more thinking about it as what do you need how much money can you save by going for a inferior uh CPU Cooler and then putting that money towards a better graphics card or better CPU again because something like this cost around about on like a bad day £200 or so if you buy the one that has an LCD so screen inside it this one can go over £200 of do and you just think well you don't actually need this level of cooling performance and a lot of chips and instead you could buy something like this which is an air cooler this is from Arctic Frieza 36 it's my favorite Air coer at the moment and on a good day you can get this for under £30 or dollars massive difference yet the thing as well is that this can still run ridiculously quiet because it all comes down to the TDP of the chip that you using so how much power this uses obviously dictates how much heat it's going to generate and then the CPU caller job is to get rid of that and the reason we've got this one on the table is because if you go for a low powerered or low wattage CPU it will come with one of these which is a stock cooler and this sorry is absolute crap it's awful it will suffice but I mean look at the size of it it is Tiny it makes a racket even when you're not gaming you're just sitting the desktop it's really annoying however as long as you get inside the box it is free so what I often say is that if you're on a budget just use this for a month or so until you get your next paycheck and then buy something like this and then swap it out because obviously that's going to save you a decent chunk of change but if you're only talking about $ 20 to $30 anyway it's not really the end of the world to invest in something like this from the off and you don't have to know that much about PCS to work out that you're going to get better performance from this than you are this and also this looks terrible doesn't it like look at the size of it whereas this actually has RGB and it's big and it's powerful and you know that this is going to be good and because you've got two fans on this particular one and they're much larger than this the overall effect is it's going to run quieter and for me that's the most important thing about my system other than the gaming performance I wanted to do it as quietly as possible so you can tune your fans in the motherboard bias and once you've tuned your fans your system will essentially only ramp up when it needs to your fans will only get loud when it needs to and the rest of the time everything can be pretty cool and quiet but I mean yes when you can get something like this for about £30 of dollars it is definitely worth doing but this will get you byy I also say that whilst the AMD stock caller still isn't great it is a lot better than the Intel one so I'm more inclined to say use the stock ryzen one for a bit if you want than I am with the Intel one but yes you can also go for what most I don't know about most people but certainly a large chunk of people are going for which are one of these they are aios or allinone liquid coolers and the way they work is pretty straightforward actually this is obviously quite a high-end one so it's got quite a big pump on it and it also has some RGB inside this little block as well so it looks nice and pretty but it has this little contact plate on the back this touches your CPU you will use some thermal paste if it doesn't come pre-applied to bridge the air gap essentially between your CPU and then the cooler and then the heat will go into this it will be pumped through the fluid that's not normal I'm just bad at packing it will go through these little tubes with the fluid into this radiator here at the top you'll Mount this to the top of your case and then these fans will blow the heat out of your case and obviously you will have to have more room inside your chassis to mount this but if you went for an air coer you've got to make sure you have enough clearance inside your case to actually fit that in the first place something like this which is quite small most chassis should be absolutely fine but it does go to show that regardless of the coer that you go for do check the specifications on both your case and the coer to make sure that they are fully compatible make sure you've got enough headers as well for all the fans and things to plug in I would advise that most people do go for an air cooler to save yourself some money but if you do want to go for something that looks better or you're going to ship it around and transport it a lot more often then these Allin ones are actually better for that and I would advise that you go for one of those but you don't need to spend more than like11 1220 of dollars or so on this unless you actively want like an LCD or something like that they come in different sizes as well so you've got 120 uh 240 360 because they have 120 fans on 120 mil or obviously if you're going for like a 280 or a 420 then those are wider fans they're 140 but you want to make sure that those will fit on your cases so most cases will do a 240 some will do most will probably do a 36 if they're large enough but certainly not a lot of them will do 420 Reds so again always check the sizes before buying a CPU caller and don't spend too much money on it but while CPU callers are surprisingly cool let's be honest the same really can't be said for power supplies but they are very much an essential part of the puzzle if you don't have one and you don't have the right one your rig is potentially not going to work properly and there are a fewu a fuel there's no fuel well there's electricity that counts there's a few rules of thumb really with this and the most important one is please don't buy like a real dirt cheap power supply I know it's very tempting to sort it from low to high which is fine we do that on best builds you can find best builds right now on the top right corner of your screen but literally don't go for the first one on the list because you know it depends on the unit but generally speaking you want to buy from a repal brand and there's something that's called the PSU list that's really helpful we'll leave that link down below that can help you find the right one but when it comes to actually choosing one that's appropriate for your system essentially you just need to make sure that it's the right size so this is a standard ATX uh power supply we do have another one here this one an sfx power supply you can also get sfx L which is like a midsize one and essentially the sfx ones go into the smaller ITX chassis whereas pretty much all other cases most of them will take a fulls sizee ATX if you go for a really highend high wattage one then they can start to get quite a bit longer you might find that you don't have that much room around the back of the case but for most people again if you're watching this chances are you're not going to run into a problem because you're not going to be buying like a 1200 watt uh power supply or something like that anyway but do bear it in mind we'll take this one out of the box just to show you what we're talking about this is the main number that you need to pay attention to so this is the RM but then this 750 is the wattage so it's a 750 watt power supply and it's pretty much a simple math so you get all of the components that you're using you add up how much power they're going to cons assume at their maximum and then you buy a power supply that can actually output that so that your PC doesn't shut off because that is something that will quite happen I'm giving you warning I'm going to do it now this is not a mistake this is what will happen if you are I got you didn't not you didn't expect that anyway that is genuinely what will happen if your PC has a problem with the power supply it will usually just black screen entirely sometimes you might be lucky and you get a little warning uh the game will crash and you'll say like the drive is gone or something and if it happens consistently across different games that's actually probably as well because your power supply is not outputting enough power to your graphics card whereas if it's trying to consume too much your power supply can just shut down you get a black screen so yes you need to make sure you've got enough wattage you can use a PSU calculator to work this out or the dirtiest way of doing this is just to look at your graphics card and see what the minimum recommended is and buy that that's not always essential though because that's assuming you're using like high-end components whereas if you're using like a 50 or 60 watt CPU rather than one that's consuming 150 watts you've obviously got that extra 100 watts of power there before you take anything else into account but it's a good rule of thumb to buy the minimum that's on your GPU I would also overs speec it slightly if you do have it in the budget CU if you are going to upgrade your rig in the future you might want to go for more powerful GPU and you probably don't want to have to replace the power supply but yes you probably noticed that this doesn't actually have anything attached to it and this is what we call a modular power supply I'd argue most of them probably are but certainly at the budget end most of them aren't it's just a money thing in order to like pre-attached cables uh that saves you and the manufacture money whereas actually making them all separate costs more money but the advantage of having it modulate are pretty much twofold firstly it means that you can just have a tidier build you don't have to plug all of them in because I can almost guarantee you will not use every single connection on this you'll probably use half sometimes like a third of the connections it depends what you put inside your PC but then the other thing little bit more Niche but if you do want upgrade the cables for any reason usually because you want something that looks fancier like custom cable mod cables or something like that it's just a little bit easier you don't have to use extensions but sometimes in the case of like ATX 3.1 PCI Gen 5 they've actually got new replacement cables for some modular power supplies so you don't have to swap the power supply out entirely because what happened was when Nvidia moved from the 30 series of gpus to the 40 they've actually adopted this new standard and it's called 8x3 ATX 3.1 or P Gen 5 and it's this one cable solution that does up to 600 wats of power so you get one cable rather than needing two three sometimes four different PSU connections to your graphics card so it's a lot tidier and easier but if you do go for a connection like this do make sure that you plug it in properly by pushing it as far as it will go CU it is a little bit fiddly and would be a risk if it's not plugged in properly I realize I'm rambling but yes just make sure you have enough power make sure that is actually rated decently for efficiency so bronze or higher I wouldn't worry about it too much to be honest with you it save you a bit of money if it's more efficient but like bronze is fine obviously gold and like titanium Platinum all of those are better but yeah I don't worry about that too much main thing is just that you're getting enough power and if you are going for an Nvidia GPU you're buying one that does support ATX 3.1 or PCI generation 5 but actually with that I think that leads us on to the final two components and I'm going to class them together because they are obviously very much related we have our case fans and our case now it's actually quite simple really because first r a thumb where possible try and make sure you have a fair bit of mesh on it so most cases will be mesh or glass now just make sure you're buying a decent combination of the two if you want the best thermals go for mesh but as I say most cases that come out now pretty much have decent thermal I'm not too worried about it but obviously make sure you're buying one that has the right size and right form factor for you so this was my icx rig for quite a few years and I really liked this because it was flexible so I could have this on my desk I could work off of it the side was that obviously it's right next to me so it was louder than a fullsize rig the larger it is the more air you actually physically have inside the case and as long as you're ventilating it properly the lower the noise will be because you've got less hot air inside your system the fans don't have to work as hard and typically an ITX rig is going to go on top of your desk whereas if you wanted the quietest system possible you'd have it underneath honestly I don't really care what you do a lot of people are has to be on the disc but like it's your rig do what you want if it's on carpet it's not ideal cuz obviously you're going to pick up cat hair and stuff like that so you have to clean it more often but yeah do what you want don't let anyone tell you desk is good but obviously you need a larger sized desk but ITX is good for portability if you live across different addresses or you like want to take your rig downstairs into your living room something like that that's what I did good for that but most people I'd recommend you go for Micro ATX or fulls sizee ATX if you're on a budget Micro ATX is good you can buy a smaller chassis it's less material won't cost you as much and you can buy a smaller motherboard which is the same principle ITX tends to get quite expensive because the tolling requires is more complex and to actually build the motherboard again is more complex so it it's kind of small as good for Micro ATX but as soon as you get to ITX it's more complicated will cost you more money ATX is best if you want the largest amount of features because you don't have to worry about them cramming everything on the motherboard if you go for Micro ATX you lose the bottom bit of the motherboard but you keep four Ram slots whereas if you go for ITX as we saw earlier you only have two Ram slots whereas most micro ACX motherboards do have the four four Ram slots so you can as I say upgrade Ram a little bit later it's kind of up to you though there's not really that much to think about other than just compatibility like do you like the way it looks does it have decent enough air flow is it built right like does it feel good read the reviews cuz obviously you can't test this around the back you've got cable management as well so the larger the Gap around the back the easier it's going to be to actually get all of the cables in place and shut the side panel you've got two different classes of cases really in this day and age you've got like a jeel chamber or your standard Tower and jeel Chambers is very popular I do like it a lot whether I would have it for my personal rig probably not to be honest with you because they're a lot wider so it's the same volume a lot of the time but it's spread out across a wider portion rather than height and if you're going to put this on your desk and I have my rig on my desk it just takes up too much room so I prefer like a more normal case my favorite at the moment is the lanol 216 love that thing definitely highly recommended if you want to check out a case recommendation and then I suppose you could also go for what I would call the nulear option which is one of these like gigantic enormous cases something like the Corsair 1000d although they've just replaced it's the 9000d now fantex nv9 anything that is huge I would very very cautiously tell you to stay away from those because if you're someone that knows you need a massive case again you don't need me to tell you this whereas when you're looking at things online it's very easy to order something and then it turns up and it'll be completely the wrong size now the only other thing really that we need to discuss how many times I that this video is actually to talk about fans and calling but this is a good example actually like third party fans this is a fantex T30 it is fantastic but it doesn't have any RGB which does put people off but these are probably my favorite overall fans if you're not too worried about aesthetic because they're very tunable they can be very quiet and they also have loads of performance but if you want to go for something more RGB then I would say my favorites are probably from lean Lee these are the uni fans the ones I like are the al2s cuz I think they just look quite pretty without being over the top these are a lot more over the top these are the SL Infinities but crucially the reason that I like these is because they're interlockable fans so rather than requiring two different cables for every single fan in your system you just slot them all together they have these little contacts here and then you just plug them into a hub so instead of requiring six cables for a block of three you now only require two cables which is pretty good and then you control this over USB and it works out and the reason I bring this up is because there are loads of different systems that do similar things the coret one is very good as well but it's quite expensive but if you do want to go for a much cheaper system then just have a look at like the base fans that corses sell their new RGB ones that will just use addressable RGB they're daisy chain it's a lot harder to build it's annoying but once you've built it it's done obviously it's less of a problem so for context these are around about £30 or $30 or so per fan whereas if you buy a set of three cor RGB fans now you can get them for £30 for three quite a big difference but you won't get the controller and stuff if you go down that rout so there's loads of different RGB fans I'll leave some recommendations down below but then also when you're installing them obviously make sure that the air flow is going the way you want cuz they only blow in One Direction so if you're using them as an exhaust you want them going out the back if they're at the top you want them going out the top depends what you're going to do but generally speaking you go with the natural way that air rises when it gets hotter so that's the best way of doing it but also make sure you have enough fan headers and enough addressable RGB headers on your motherboard so you can actually plug all of these in so yes that is pretty much everything really I think we need to talk about when it comes to Parts obviously don't overspend on fans either £30 a fan I would much rather put that into a better graphics card and cases do come with fans as standard or at least most of them do and usually the more expensive the case the better fans that come with those but it's not always the case so do check to see what fans come with your system how many there are one of the best ways of getting a better value system really is either to buy one that has no fans at all and then buy the ones you want or if you're not that fast just buy one that comes with some decent RGB fans of standard and then don't add any third party ones keep it how it is and you should be set that is everything I think you need to know about PC parts if you have any questions let us know down in the comment section below cuz I've tried to cover as much as I possibly can but I'm aware it's probably not going to be literally everything so ask away we'll do our best to get back to you but smash the like button if you enjoyed this get yourself subscribed we'll do that full proper in-depth how to build a PC video that will go through literally everything in minute detail the best we've ever done but in the meantime if you do want to watch a PC builds maybe an ITX one like this you can find that in the top round corner of your screen where we'll walk you through everything but thank you so much for watching this video and don't forget that if you do want to check out current pricing on literally anything that was featured in this video and all of our favorite and best PC parts you can find those listed down below with our affiliate links and while you're down there why not indulge yourself with a new Corsair 3500 series available in both black and white with and without fans this Mighty case packs the support and calling potential for even the most high-end rigs it tempered glass looks stunning fans can be fitted on the top side rear and bottom and thanks to support for rear-facing motherboards like BTF and project zero your next rig can be virtually cable free learn more about corsair's 3500 series today with a link down below but thank you guys so much for watching this video we'll catch you in the next one\n"