**The Perfect Time to Build a Gaming PC**

Hey guys, this is Austin. Now is the time to build a gaming PC. 2019 has been a great year for gaming, however I think things are about to get worse. Much worse.

So, beside me here I have two of budget builds from last year, one $300 system, as well as a $550 system. Today though, let's show you exactly why now is such a good time to build a PC by replacing some of our 2018 builds for some stuff which is much, much better.

Alright, so today I'm going to be building two gaming PCs. Or, well, more specifically, one and a half. So there won't be any fancy camera angles because I'm by myself. I miss Ken. With third gen Ryzen around, I mean, there's a huge amount of value in the high end, but interestingly a lot of that has actually trickled down to low end.

Now, not necessarily because you should buy a third gen Ryzen system at five $600, but instead, it's pushed the last generation of Ryzen way down. So, as you'll see in a second here, we're taking advantage of second gen Ryzen 5, which is only $130 right now. Seriously, this is a six core processor, twelve threads, overclockable, and it's 130 bucks.

I mean, not that long ago, you would have had to pay five $600 easily to get this kind of performance. Now, it's in my $500 budget build. Something that I think a lot of people are overlooking is the fact that memory prices, as well as things such as SSDs, graphics cards, a lot of stuff has actually come down.

The price of memory has dropped significantly over the past year, and you can get 16 GB of DDR4 RAM for under $50. That's a huge deal. And now we're talking about getting into a budget build with a solid mid-range GPU. This is going to make games run so much smoother.

Now, let's talk about SSDs. Right now, an SSD costs like $100 for 256 GB of storage. That's crazy cheap. Now, you can actually play new games without having to wait for the loading screens to finish. You can switch between different games instantly, which is just awesome.

And what about graphics cards? Well, prices have dropped a lot too. Now you can get a mid-range GPU that will give you smooth gameplay at high resolutions.

So, with these drops in price, we're talking about getting into a budget build with a solid mid-range GPU. This is going to make games run so much smoother.

Alright, so while Ken was moving this PC the other day, he dropped it, (clears throat) dropped it, and so now the front panel is very slightly loose. Don't make something that looks like a handle. (laughs)

The new systems are a lot faster. So it comes to CPU, while the new budget build is a decent step up, it's absolutely nothing compared to the new $570 system, which completely wipes the floor with all of these systems thanks to Ryzen 5 2600.

Even bigger of a jump is going to the graphics side, where, yes, the budget build again is a little bit faster, but because we now have the budget for a pretty decent dedicated graphics card, the budget boy, well, it's budget no longer. Benchmarks are one thing, though, but the real test is how do these PCs actually game?

Well to start out with, we have CS:GO on the $300 system. Did you just hit it? I did hit it. It's fine, don't worry about it.

With maxed out settings at 1080p, we're at 45, 50 frames per second. So, I might want to turn the settings down a little bit. This is very playable, though. Literally, just by turning the anti-aliasing down a little bit, where it's 75, 80 frames per second, and we can easily, if I just crank things down a little bit more, get up to something like 100, 120 FPS.

But realistically, with a $300 system, 75 FPS is probably going to be just fine. To the surprise of exactly no one, what? What? Why can't I shoot? Are you serious right now? No, no! Well, I was gonna say performance is better, except shooting at me was nice.

How'd they do that?

Okay, so after fixing my control settings, this is a much better experience. So, right now we're at 200 frames per second. And this is with fully maxed out, 1080p. We've got anti-aliasing on, literally everything. This is a more expensive system, but considering that we're only paying about twice as much, you're getting three, four times the graphics performance.

We've got more RAM, we've got literally everything. Oh wait, why am I playing with the keyboard? Okay, so next we have Rocket League.

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: en- Hey guys, this is Austin.Now is the time to build a gaming PC.2019 has been a great year for gaming,however I think thingsare about to get worse.Much worse.So beside me here I havetwo of budget builds from last year,one $300 system, as well as a $550 system.Today though, let meshow you exactly why nowis such a good time to build a PCby replacing some of our 2018 buildsfor some stuff which is much, much better.Alright, so today I'm goingto be building two gaming PCs.Or, well, more specifically,one and a half.So there won't be any fancy camera anglesbecause I'm by myself.I miss Ken.So, with third gen Ryzen around, I mean,there's a huge amount ofvalue in the high end,but interestingly a lotof that has actuallytrickled down to low end.Now, not necessarilybecause you should buya third gen Ryzen system at, you know,five, $600, but instead,it's pushed the lastgeneration of Ryzen way down.So, as you'll see in a second here,we're taking advantageof second gen Ryzen 5,which is only $130 right now.Seriously, this is a six core processor,twelve threads, overclockable,and it's 130 bucks.I mean, not that longago, you would've hadto pay five, $600 easily toget this kind of performance.Now, it's in my $500 budget build.Something that I think a lotof people are overlookingis the fact that memoryprices, as well as thingssuch as SSDs, graphicscards, a lot of stuff hasactually come down a lot since last year.If you're looking atsomething like 16 gigs of RAM,it's nearly half the price that it wasthis time last year.SSDs have come even farther.So it feels like it was not that long agothat you were looking at three, four, $500for a 120 gig SSD, whereas now, you couldpick up one for $20.I've got a 240 gig BX500 here which was $31.$31 for a 240 gig SSD.Like, what are you doing man?Like, it absolutely makesso much sense right now.And then of course there arethe graphics to talk about.So this year we've seenpretty major launchesfrom both AMD as well as NVIDIA,but, what I really care aboutis the actual budget side.So, this has actually reallydriven a lot of prices down.So, take this RX 570 for example.Now this is a couple year old card.However, for only about $120,it is absolutely incrediblebang for the buck.In fact we did an entirevideo rounding up budget GPUs,and this is my ultimate favorite.You just can't beatthis priced performance.Not only are memory priceslikely to go up soonbecause there is a huge oversupplyon the market right now,which is a big reasonwhy we've seen such cheap prices,but, there's also thelooming threat of tariffsespecially here in the U.S., which couldvery easily drive upthe price of pretty mucheverything on the table right now.I mean, yeah, sure, thingsgenerally do get betterover time, but they alsotend to get more expensive.And this is historicallyan incredibly good timeto build a gaming PC justbecause so many componentsare so good and especially so cheap.(upbeat music)Alright, so the firstsystem is all preppedand ready to go.In fact, let me give you alittle bit of a closer look.So, the nice parts about this is that forjust under $600, you're gettinga lot of bang for the buck.You've got the six core Ryzen processor,16 gigs of RAM, you've gotthe 500 gig NVMe drive,we have our RX 570.Now at 570 bucks, this ispretty much in the realmof what most people would considera budget gaming PC,however, we can go cheaper,and we most certainly will.So, one of our mostpopular videos last yearwas on this, the $300 gaming buildwhich was surprisinglysolid, especially giventhat small budget.However, today, well today, we can do itjust a little bit better.Okay, so I have my systems done.It's been a couple days.However, we now have our new budget$300 build, as well as our $570 system.So, last time I built this one,you guys are fairlyfamiliar, but this one,this one's actually pretty cool.So, inside we're takingadvantage of Ryzen 3 2200G.It's a little bit older,however, at only $80for an unlocked quad core processorwith pretty decent integrated graphics,this is a killer deal.So, this entire systemwith eight gigs of RAM,we've got a 256 gig SSD around back.We've got a 430 watt power supply.Everything here is just under $300.I think last I checked,it was like 285 on Amazon.Just don't mind the lack of IO shield.I lost it.Oh, so, while Ken was movingthis PC the other day,he dropped it, (clears throat) dropped it,and so now the front panelis very slightly loose.- Don't make somethingthat looks like a handle.- (laughs) That actually does come offa little too easy, doesn't it?Surprising exactly no one, the new systemsare a lot faster.So it comes to CPU, whilethe new budget buildis a decent step up, itis absolutely nothingcompared to the new $570 system,which completely wipes the floorwith all of these systemsthanks to Ryzen 5 2600.Now, even bigger of a jump isgoing to the graphics side,where, yes, the budget build,again, is a little bit faster,but because we now have the budget fora pretty decent dedicated graphics card,the budget boy, well,it's budget no longer.Benchmarks are one thing, though,but the real test is howdo these PCs actually game?Well to start out with, we have CS:GOon the $300 system.- Did you just hit it?- I did hit it.It's fine, don't worry about it.With maxed out settings at 1080p,we're at 45, 50 frames per second.So, I might want to turn the settings downjust a little bit.This is very playable, though.Literally, just by turningthe anti-aliasing downa little bit, where it's75, 80 frames per second,and we can easily, if Ijust crank things downa little bit more, get up tosomething like 100, 120 FPS.But, realistically, with a $300 system,75 FPS is probably going to be just fine.To the surprise of exactly no one, what?What?Why can't I shoot?Are you serious right now?No, no!Well, I was gonna sayperformance is better,except shooting at me was nice.(laughs)How'd they do that?Okay, so, after fixingmy control settings,this is a, well, it's amuch better experience.So, right now we're at200 frames per second.And this is with fully maxed out, 1080p.We've got anti-aliasingon, literally everything.This is a more expensive system,but considering that we're only payingabout twice as much, you'regetting three, four timesthe graphics performance.We've got more RAM, we'vegot literally everything.Oh, wait, why am Iplaying with the keyboard?Okay, so, next we have Rocket League.I forgot to plug in a controller.I'll be right back.(laughing) I need a controller.I literally made it likehalf a second into the video,I was like, "Oh, wait, no, this is bad."So, next we have Rocket League.Again, we're playing at 1080p,but this time we areplaying on quality settings.However, 60 frames persecond is not too bad.I mean, for a $300 system,I am legitimately impressed.Okay, yeah, this is significantly better.We're literally cappedat 250 frames per second.And meanwhile, we're alsohaving the actual settingspretty much all the way set up to quality.Yeah, there's no contest here.I mean, it's a more powerful system,but when you jump upto having that RX 570,it's not the most powerfulgraphics card in the world,but you're still getting acompletely solid performanceat 1080p, especially in moreesports titles like this.Next up, we have everyone'sfavorite, Fortnite.Which, actually should be pretty playable,even on the $300 budget system.So, we do have to turn thesettings down a little bit here.So, right now I'm runningat 720p on medium.However, we're fairlyclose to a 60 FPS lock.Well, frame rate's great.Not having a gun, not great.Yeah, this is totally playable,and in fact, I actuallycould probably turnthe resolution up just a little bitbecause right now I'm actually averagingaround 75, 80 frames per second.Dude, this system istotally solid for 1080.So, Fortnite, just immediately jumping in,we're in the 70 frame per second range,and this is with fullepic settings at 1080p.I knew we already went over the 570in our budget GPU video,but this is a lot of cardfor 1080p gaming.I mean, the fact that we'reable to get 60-ish FPSin pretty much anything we play,even with maxed out settings,is a really nice feature.Oh, no, that's bad,that's bad, that's bad.That's bad, that's bad, that's bad.I'm running, I'm running,running, running, running.Nope, nope.Okay, all right.Well, that's unfortunate.Wait, wait.- Go, go, go, go, go, go, go!Get him, get him!- Okay, what?- Oh, no.- There was nothing there!He was just shooting me!- No, I mean, yeah.- We at some point need just a montageof me sucking at Fortnite.No, why?Oh!Oh, no, no you don't, no you don't.I got shot in the back.Kind of speaks for itself, I guess.I really do think that now isa great time to build a PC.So, if you look at the budget end atthe $300 option, you're actually gettinga pretty decent level of performance.So, you can play a lot of games,at least reasonably well, and importantly,it is actually fairlyeasy to not only build,but you also can do someupgrades later on down the line.Great for a first system.However, if you've got alittle bit more money to spend,I do think the mid-range optionis well worth it.I mean, you're getting a lot here, right?Six core processor, 16 gigs of RAM,a decent graphics card, 512gig SSD, or 500 gig SSD.I mean, there's a lot going for this,and for the bang for the buck, I mean,it's hard to beat.But, regardless, if you're consideringbuying or building a new gaming PC,I really do think now is a good time.Especially once prices start to creep up,we'll look back on late 2019 and think,ah, right, back whenyou could get a systemwith super cheap RAM and a budget CPU.And not like, oh no.I miss the days of $35 RAM.(chill music)