**Choosing Between AMD and Intel Systems: A Cost-Benefit Analysis**

In this article, we'll delve into the world of computer hardware and explore the cost-benefit analysis of choosing between AMD and Intel systems. With the rise of PC gaming and content creation, it's essential to understand the pros and cons of each option to make an informed decision.

**Assessing Gaming Performance**

When it comes to gaming performance, both AMD and Intel offer impressive results. However, the AMD system takes the lead in this department. By adding a powerful graphics card like the 5700 XT or a high-end GPU from Nvidia, the AMD system can deliver better frame rates and smoother gameplay.

For example, if you're considering an Intel 9600 K overclocked with all core enabled, you might see slight improvements in gaming performance, but these gains are largely offset by the AMD system's overall superiority. In fact, some titles may only see a 10 FPS difference between the two systems, which is negligible in most cases.

**Multitasking and Computing Performance**

In addition to gaming, the AMD system excels when it comes to multitasking and computing performance. With more cores and threads available, you can run multiple applications simultaneously without experiencing significant slowdowns or lag.

Furthermore, the x5 70 chipset on the AMD system provides faster storage options through NVMe, making it ideal for content creators, developers, and anyone who needs to work with large files. While Intel's offerings may be faster in certain areas, the overall computing experience is significantly better with AMD.

**Budget Considerations**

One of the most significant advantages of the AMD system is its lower cost compared to Intel. By adding a powerful graphics card like the 5700 XT or a high-end GPU from Nvidia, you can create an incredibly powerful system without breaking the bank.

In this author's experience, building a gaming PC with an AMD system came in at $1197, which is only $6 cheaper than the Intel build. This difference may seem negligible, but it's essential to consider when making a purchase decision.

**System Specifications**

To illustrate the specifications of these systems, let's take a closer look at the author's setup:

* CPU: AMD Ryzen 3600 or Intel Core i9-9600 K

* Motherboard: ASRock X570M Steel Legend Micro ATX or ASUS PRIME Z390-A

* Graphics Card: AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT or Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Super

* Storage: 512GB SSD (such as the Barracuda) and 2TB Hard Drive (such as the Western Digital Caviar Blue)

* Power Supply: EVGA 650 GS, 80+ Gold 650W

**Conclusion**

In conclusion, when it comes to choosing between AMD and Intel systems, the AMD option offers significant advantages in terms of gaming performance, multitasking, and computing capabilities. While the cost difference may seem negligible at first, the overall value proposition is substantial.

By spending $1200 on an AMD system, you can create a powerful PC that delivers exceptional performance, smooth gameplay, and fast storage options. Whether you're a gamer, content creator, or simply someone who needs a reliable computer, the AMD system is an excellent choice.

**Final Thoughts**

Ultimately, the decision between AMD and Intel systems depends on your specific needs and priorities. If gaming performance is your top concern, Intel may still offer advantages in certain areas. However, for most users, the AMD system provides a better overall computing experience, making it an attractive option for those who want to get the most bang for their buck.

As always, we appreciate your feedback and suggestions. Check out the links below for more information on these systems and other PC hardware components.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's up guys Jays two cents here and I've been asked to do a video like this quite a bit now over about the last week a lot of people asked me to put together twelve hundred dollar build guide because a lot of people are looking at taking that stimulus money and stimulating the PC economy by building a new twelve hundred dollar machine so if you're gonna find yourself potentially twelve hundred dollars fatter in your bank account well I'm gonna help you try and spend that money today you know what guys I got new merch it's available now karma calm /jc cents we got zip up hoodies we got tri-blend we got a new logo I digress since 2012 it's at the wrist logo you guys been asking for that anyway well guys if up hoodies have beanies polos don't take my word for it cuz obviously I can't do this ad so just look in the description below and you guys will find the link Thanks okay so rather than do two videos of one for Intel and one for AMD I'm gonna go ahead and give you guys two guides in a single video now for the most part these parts are going to be the same when it comes to the peripherally peripherals but the extra parts the accessory parts if you will at the power supply the case graphics card stuff like that is gonna pretty much be the same because to understand how I do my build guides you have to understand the way I kind of budget out the money and then it will sort of make sense I also want a caveat this and saying that I haven't really been watching a lot of YouTube tech videos lately so I have no idea other youtubers have done this particular content piece already with guides on how to spend twelve hundred bucks so if someone has then doing a favor just take this video and use it for food for thought on how I would spend the twelve hundred bucks depending on Intel or AMD and then compare it with other people and maybe doing the same type of build guides and then maybe mix and match and see what you guys can come up with I think those fifty thousand different ways you could build a $1200 PC and these are just the ways that I would do it if I were building let's say for someone that said I have a twelve hundred dollar budget and I want either an Intel or an AMD rig these are the parts that I would actually purchase and build so let's go ahead and start with Intel and the reason why you I'm going to start with Intel know I'm not into Schewel as much as many of you may believe that it's because I find Intel to the harder brand right now to shop for because quite honestly the value isn't there and even though $1200 may seem like a lot of money believe it or not over the last month or so there has been a rise in cost and a reduction and availability of certain parts of the PC build that is making it a little bit more difficult than it would have been say a month ago to build these systems there's a slight amount of cost inflation power supply specifically seem to be expensive and out of stock across the board on many many brands things are a little bit more inflated than they were now I see a little bit I've had to make a guess here I'd say things are going to be 1012 percent more expensive than they would have been prior to all of this stuff going on now when it came to the CPU and and that's kind of the first thing I try to decide is what's the point of the system gaming productivity general use whatever in this case we're gonna stop gaming because it's gaming computers also make great productivity computers but general-purpose computers generally make terrible gaming computers and let's face it if you're stuck inside you're gonna want to play some games maybe this is your first gaming computer I have no idea when it comes to Intel i7 and I 9 were completely out of the question in terms of cost the only is 7 I would personally recommend would be a 9700 k Intel's come up with some lower versions like the 9700 F and I feel like my audience is gonna be interested in potentially tinkering with the core clocks so having a case Q would kind of be the only one I'd be interested in but to be honest at 379 dollars for that CPU makes it a terrible terrible value at an 8 core 8 thread 9 hyper threading CPU that is still gonna need approximately 150 to 200 all our motherboard to get full value out of so that already made it very difficult so if we're going to the idea of gaming I chose an i-5 9600 K for the same reasons I just said you can overclock it you can tinker with it it's got six cores 6 threads no hyper-threading which means temperatures will be in check I am almost positive he can get the CPU to 5 gigahertz and it comes in at just under $200 at well $1.99 9 that's still under 200 technically so it's a coffee Lakes it score 3.7 gigahertz 4.6 kicker base clock 4.6 gigahertz turbo clock that's a single core by the way I think up to two cores but for the motherboard that's the other thing is a motherboard is an easy place to throw away money and we don't want to do that so I chose the Asus tough Z 390 pro now there is also a Z 390 gaming Wi-Fi which is the same cost one's Wireless ones pro but at the same price I just threw the pro in the in the cart you could choose between which motherboard you want Wireless or the additional pro features which is very very little but at 160 $9.99 it's gonna it's gonna give you I think a really good value in terms of getting you Z 390 chipset features as well as overclock ability now we could have gone with like an H 370 or whatever the nomenclature is but again we are pairing this with a case Q which means you are going to want to you go at least with a Z series motherboard now if you did go with an H series motherboard you can do a 9600 non K save a few bucks on both the motherboard and the CPU but you're not going to get the fun of tinkering and overclocking and if you want to really maximize your FPS in your games you're gonna want to overclock at least a little bit now when it comes to memory this is what's kind of exciting and I keep looking down at my list on my phone obviously memory has gone down significantly in price for instance for both of these build guides I chose the a data XP G Series gam mix GA MMI XD 30 memory and the reason for that it's a dual eight gigabyte dual channel kit oh and by the way the motherboard I chose does have four dimm slots which means expandability in the future a lot of cheaper motherboards only have two DIMM slots which means if you want more memory you've gotta switch out all your modules with larger modules neither of these builds would have that problem but this is ddr4 30 600 megahertz memory CL 18 now you could tighten those timings if you want it but you really don't have to we kind of did a video recently showing how just going with faster memory clock yielded us a pretty decent amount of FPS with a 2080 ti my you 3,600 megahertz is is pretty fast for mainstream desktop and considering the fact that it's only coming in at what $74.99 or seventy-five bucks getting thirty six hundred megahertz memory at CL 18 is a very good value you're gonna find a lot of other brands were more expensive than that with slower memory probably tighter timings but slower memory and what we're doing here I think this is gonna be a great value kit it's got a nice-looking heatsink on it it's got no RGB it comes in black or red on the top trim but it looks nice it's gonna run cool it is overclockable it's compatible with both intel and AMD and so it's not going to give you any problems there now when it comes to power supply I feel this is an area some people might give some pushback on my lists I have an 87 dollar power supply in here which is the corsair CX series CX 650 now you might be looking this going already J why a 650 watt power supply well one you know let's grab his car we've chosen yet but two because power supplies are a component that can last you a long time and they can they can mature with your system you can upgrade your system go with a bigger graphics card or a bigger CPU and then you don't have to change out the power supply I feel a lot of people will buy a power supply that is perfect for the system they've built with no room for improvement in the future which means if you're going to upgrade anything you need a better power supply also to build quality a lot of people really underestimate how important a quality power supply is when it's single-handedly powering all of your components and if that part fails it can take problems or components with it when it dies if let's say the three volt rails some something goes wrong there with the voltage regulator and suddenly it's shooting five or 12 volts god forbid down here 3 3 3.3 volt 3.3 volt rail you're gonna have a bad day and yes it's happened I've had plenty of people message me telling me that their power supply took out everything in their system it's unfortunate but if you go with the right quality of power supply then you're gonna find that that's not gonna be something you have to deal with a whole lot now this isn't 80 plus bronze our supplier and 80 plus white is the minimum I would go with because it still adheres to the 80 plus standard which means better quality components but you can obviously scale up or scale down the power supply as you see fit the problem is power supplies right now seem to be something that has gone up in price over the last year consistently with like the hold embargo or not the embargo but the the tariff stuff power supplies really seem to get hit hard on that now let's go on talk about the graphics card this is interesting because we've talked about graphics cards in the past there is a huge overlap there is a massive overlap in terms of graphics cards I mean until my AMD Intel alone you've got 20 60 s that cost more than 20 60 supers you've got 20 60 supers I cost more than 20 70 supers in some instances and you've got regular 27 T's that cost more than 20 80s depending on the brand you go with so it's like what the hell is going on here now because of the parts that we chose when we decided not to go with an i7 it saved us some money to get us a better power or power supply tube but graphics card so I went with the zotac gaming geforce r-tx 2070 super twin fan it's a pretty no-frills card it doesn't have a custom name it's not like a you know the arctic freezer and blah blah blah it's a pretty basic card that I believe even has limited overclocking available to it with very limited powers of limit slider on there but I would much rather go with a fairly bare-bones 2070 super at the cost that's on this particular chart which is five hundred and nine dollars it's not a cheap graphics card by any means over a similarly priced 2060 Super even an overclocked 2060 Super on its best day is not gonna be as strong as a 2070 Super and yes this card does still have some overclocking available to it just because the power limit slider might be very limited doesn't mean you can't still add more core clock until you start to get crashing and stuff it's a dual fan it's gonna be quiet it doesn't have gaudy RGB all over it which means it's gonna be it's just a black dual fan with a backplate it looks nice it's clean and I'll match any build and it's a 27 new Super which we already know will decimate 1440p gaming as r-tx features the LSS 2.0 all that's so it's gonna get you a better gaming experience than a twenty sixty or twenty sixty super but J what about the 5700 XT or the 5700 well if you go and user benchmarks and compare those graphics cards to the twenty seven is super you're gonna find the twenty seventy super is pretty much faster across the board only by a few percent some instances by a lot of percent and others but my issue with AMD still at this point is it's driver issue with the 5700 XT it has improved and the video seven higher as well it's improved over the last few months but there was a while there where it got rough or even the AMD subreddit was full of people talking about why they're ditching their AMD graphics cards because of how bad the drivers were driver updates that would completely break games and make them unplayable that was games that were working just fine on their previous versions so I'm still adopting the wait-and-see before I start saying 5,700 XT or 5700 is worth it we're also kind of waiting to see what happens a big navvy later on this year but it's kind of been the same story with AMD in terms of making great hardware and software support so I'm still still hesitant to recommend it until I see the drivers no longer filling up Reddit and Twitter and everything else when people telling me and even my own youtube comments telling me how bad they've been that's gonna talk about storage this is another area seem to get a lot of pushback 1200 bucks is a decent budget and if you don't do an SSD at $1200 budget you are doing yourself a disservice I've showed a million times the fastest way and the quickest way and the cheapest way to wake up a system and make it feel faster is get off a spinning hard drive and get onto an SSD even a 2.5 inch SATA 6 gigabits per second SSD is gonna decimate and dominate any spinning Drive whether it be a hybrid or not so that's why in this instance I've chosen the team group GX to 512 gigabyte SSD now you can actually get a 1 terabyte for under $100 but the problem is we're starting to go over budget so I would take the 512 gigabyte SSD but your OS on it and your favorite couple of games and then leave some Headroom on the SSD and then get yourself a two terabyte Seagate Barracuda hard drive a lot of people go oh I don't like the Barracuda well you can kind of take that budget and apply it wherever you want but for 50 bucks a two terabyte 7200 rpm 64 megabyte cache hard drive that isn't responsible for running the operating system will handle all your games just fine you would just want to put your larger games that take a long time to load on the SSD and that's the way I would handle the storage a single SSD with a big hard drive to back it up it's it's kind of been a foolproof plan that I've used and all of my customer builds on friends and family that built CPUs or systems for I've never had them complain and even a few people that I did do like some paid builds back in the beginning of my youtube career I did the same thing no one ever had a problem with it the thing is once you're running an operating system on a spinning drive with other programs after loading it has to seek all over the platter when the operating systems running as well as loading those programs once you have the system on an SSD everything wakes up even the hard drive and then last but not least the case it doesn't leave us a huge budget for a case but I chose the fractal design focus G and the reason for that is it has a decent aesthetic it's available in multiple colors no they didn't sponsor me to say this it's I spent a while looking around on Newegg to try and find exactly what case would work or the toner dollar budget that doesn't take away from money available to the rest of the build but still gives us a decent case to look at because you've if you spent 1200 bucks on the system you're looking at some bare beige box which is now black these days but a bare beige box you're so gonna you're gonna be a little bit depressed do you want to look at your computer and feel proud like hey that's my PC I play games on that I do all sorts of cool things on there I'm excited to look at it I walk in the room and it makes me happy the case doesn't do that for you no matter what's inside I think most people would agree with me that looking at it and seeing the awesomeness is just as important as knowing it's awesome inside so yeah there are people out there obviously they're like I don't care put in a cardboard box and that's perfectly fine too but at $49 the fact that you get to led fans in it already most basic cases at this price point won't only come with a single fan plenty of mesh ventilation it's gonna fit all of our stuff in there it's a full ATX case but it's a mid towers that's not too big and plenty of expandability for extra fans for cooling then that means we're gonna be able to get the job done now let me tell you what going with Intel didn't allow us to do it didn't allow us to add an additional CPU cooler although the Box cooler for 9600 K would be fine for some minimal overclocking and even some decent overclocking on the stock fan should be okay it didn't give us money for additional case fans and it didn't allow us to go with a bigger SSD and we still are technically three dollars over because it's two one thousand two hundred and three US dollars now I didn't include tax or shipping or any of that stuff because I don't know what the situations are everyone's tax situation is different this is just the listed MSRP price of the components that add up to twelve hundred bucks so you're probably gonna have to add a few bucks here and there but if you found 1200 extra dollars of stimulus money I'm sure you can find an extra 50 bucks or a hundred bucks to put into this to cover those extra things alright so when it comes to AMD though what do you get well in my opinion when it comes to AMD you're gonna get an extreme value see back in the day we used to say AMD is a great value but you know at the cost of performance that's not the case anymore so this system is fairly identical with only a handful of things one I was gonna change the RAM out but I couldn't get any other brands of RAM that were this fast for anything cheaper so there was no point in changing it out and although it doesn't say risin on it it will still work with the latest generation resin CPUs this isn't first gen risin we're only a few handful of dims or validated with Rison this is this is this is not your Grandpa's rise in so we went one with the same power supply we want the same Ram we went with the art risin 530 600 it's a 6 quart 12 thread CPU which means you're gonna be able to do all sorts of multi-threading tasks it's got twice the amount of processing threads that Intel does when it comes to multi-threaded performance it's going to absolutely mop the floor with the 9600 K that we used an Intel build and for the motherboard I want the MSI Pro X 570 a pro the cool thing about that it's a $159 motherboard that still is an x5 70 chipset which is really cool because when x5 70 first came out they all were like 300 bucks enough so finally we've got some more mainstream affordable x5 70 motherboards giving you the chipset features that you would want to use to expand in the future specifically Gen 4 PCIe giving you access to extremely fast storage well over 4,000 megabytes per second fast worth of storage so in the future if you wanted to add more nvme storage you can get yourself they're kind of expensive right now but maybe by the time you're ready they'll be cheaper some jet PCIe gen 4 nvme SSDs and then you would get an insane amount of throughput when it comes to your storage i left the same barracuda to a 2 terabyte hard drive on there with the same 512 gigabyte SSD the same graphics card i looked at doing a 5,700 xt just to make it a full AMD build i already explained why i'm not very comfortable with doing that in the previous section with the intel but if you wanted to go with the 5700 xt you would actually save yourself approximately $100 over the 27 t super and then that would open things up for maybe getting an nvme SSD instead of a SATA SSD you could potentially even get yourself a big tower cooler 330 600 or upgrade your 3600 to a 3700 and get even more cores more threads and then you would still stay within your budget there's a lot of ways that you could you know kind of be flexible here but we left the same case as well with the Focus G but this gave us some money to actually add another fractal fan in there that gives us a little bit more additional cooling but really all we changed was the motherboard in the cpu because all the other parts are what I would leave the same in terms of gaming performance so between these two it's possible in certain titles with the Intel 9600 K overclocked you would get a better higher average fps by if by maybe up to 10 FPS depending on the title so now that I've so now that I've showed you how it would spend approximately twelve hundred bucks on an Intel in an AMD system which one do I recommend at the end of the day I'm gonna be honest if you haven't already heard in the tone the AMD system is gonna give you way more for your money more cores more threads more performance more multitasking faster available storage to you through x5 70 chipset it's one of those things where I kind of wish that they had an AMD graphics card right now that truly was a competitor for the upper tiers of Nvidia because then having just a full AMD system would be awesome but what's the trade-off here in some titles with Intel you might find a slightly higher average FPS with this graphics card and a very fast clock speed of Intel if you like enabled the all core on Intel when you were getting like four seven four eight all core overclocking on 9600 K on some titles you might find better average FPS but what you're going to get with AMD is a much more rounded better computing experience as well as gaming that you're not even going to be able to pass the blind taste test of witches in tell them which is AMD if they're 10 FPS different the 27 is super at 1080p or even 1440 is going to give you enough FPS to max out your refresh rate on almost any gaming monitor even 144 FPS for 1080p panels would be very capable with the 3600 and a 2070 super you're not gonna bottleneck either CPU with that graphics card but if you're one those people that's like I want to try live streaming and I want to try folding at home and I want to try all these things like I want to read render and edit videos you're gonna get a better experience with AMD system they are with the Intel and at the end of the day it's actually a little bit cheaper the AMD system even by adding the extra fan came in at $1197 just six dollars cheaper so guys that's the way I would spend my stimulus money if I were getting any but that's fine it needs to go to people who need it and that's where I kind of asked you guys now where would you spend 1200 bucks would you change anything in this list do you think overspent somewhere or under spent elsewhere so sound off in the comments below which you would spend twelve hundred bucks on on either an AMD or an Intel system and also to you guys can check the links down below would be some Amazon links as well that help us out here through our associate links and such there changing things and trying to pay people less than but that's fine I mean we do alright I'm not complaining but if you feel like looking down below and checking out those links you can and then it will help us out either way but guys thanks for watching hope you guys are feeling well and being safe I hope everyone is doing okay up here being stuck in your home when you're being told to it's not the same or being stuck in your home because you're recluse and you just hate people you want you want to be you want to be there because you want to be now cuz people are making you that's my problem with this whole thingwhat's up guys Jays two cents here and I've been asked to do a video like this quite a bit now over about the last week a lot of people asked me to put together twelve hundred dollar build guide because a lot of people are looking at taking that stimulus money and stimulating the PC economy by building a new twelve hundred dollar machine so if you're gonna find yourself potentially twelve hundred dollars fatter in your bank account well I'm gonna help you try and spend that money today you know what guys I got new merch it's available now karma calm /jc cents we got zip up hoodies we got tri-blend we got a new logo I digress since 2012 it's at the wrist logo you guys been asking for that anyway well guys if up hoodies have beanies polos don't take my word for it cuz obviously I can't do this ad so just look in the description below and you guys will find the link Thanks okay so rather than do two videos of one for Intel and one for AMD I'm gonna go ahead and give you guys two guides in a single video now for the most part these parts are going to be the same when it comes to the peripherally peripherals but the extra parts the accessory parts if you will at the power supply the case graphics card stuff like that is gonna pretty much be the same because to understand how I do my build guides you have to understand the way I kind of budget out the money and then it will sort of make sense I also want a caveat this and saying that I haven't really been watching a lot of YouTube tech videos lately so I have no idea other youtubers have done this particular content piece already with guides on how to spend twelve hundred bucks so if someone has then doing a favor just take this video and use it for food for thought on how I would spend the twelve hundred bucks depending on Intel or AMD and then compare it with other people and maybe doing the same type of build guides and then maybe mix and match and see what you guys can come up with I think those fifty thousand different ways you could build a $1200 PC and these are just the ways that I would do it if I were building let's say for someone that said I have a twelve hundred dollar budget and I want either an Intel or an AMD rig these are the parts that I would actually purchase and build so let's go ahead and start with Intel and the reason why you I'm going to start with Intel know I'm not into Schewel as much as many of you may believe that it's because I find Intel to the harder brand right now to shop for because quite honestly the value isn't there and even though $1200 may seem like a lot of money believe it or not over the last month or so there has been a rise in cost and a reduction and availability of certain parts of the PC build that is making it a little bit more difficult than it would have been say a month ago to build these systems there's a slight amount of cost inflation power supply specifically seem to be expensive and out of stock across the board on many many brands things are a little bit more inflated than they were now I see a little bit I've had to make a guess here I'd say things are going to be 1012 percent more expensive than they would have been prior to all of this stuff going on now when it came to the CPU and and that's kind of the first thing I try to decide is what's the point of the system gaming productivity general use whatever in this case we're gonna stop gaming because it's gaming computers also make great productivity computers but general-purpose computers generally make terrible gaming computers and let's face it if you're stuck inside you're gonna want to play some games maybe this is your first gaming computer I have no idea when it comes to Intel i7 and I 9 were completely out of the question in terms of cost the only is 7 I would personally recommend would be a 9700 k Intel's come up with some lower versions like the 9700 F and I feel like my audience is gonna be interested in potentially tinkering with the core clocks so having a case Q would kind of be the only one I'd be interested in but to be honest at 379 dollars for that CPU makes it a terrible terrible value at an 8 core 8 thread 9 hyper threading CPU that is still gonna need approximately 150 to 200 all our motherboard to get full value out of so that already made it very difficult so if we're going to the idea of gaming I chose an i-5 9600 K for the same reasons I just said you can overclock it you can tinker with it it's got six cores 6 threads no hyper-threading which means temperatures will be in check I am almost positive he can get the CPU to 5 gigahertz and it comes in at just under $200 at well $1.99 9 that's still under 200 technically so it's a coffee Lakes it score 3.7 gigahertz 4.6 kicker base clock 4.6 gigahertz turbo clock that's a single core by the way I think up to two cores but for the motherboard that's the other thing is a motherboard is an easy place to throw away money and we don't want to do that so I chose the Asus tough Z 390 pro now there is also a Z 390 gaming Wi-Fi which is the same cost one's Wireless ones pro but at the same price I just threw the pro in the in the cart you could choose between which motherboard you want Wireless or the additional pro features which is very very little but at 160 $9.99 it's gonna it's gonna give you I think a really good value in terms of getting you Z 390 chipset features as well as overclock ability now we could have gone with like an H 370 or whatever the nomenclature is but again we are pairing this with a case Q which means you are going to want to you go at least with a Z series motherboard now if you did go with an H series motherboard you can do a 9600 non K save a few bucks on both the motherboard and the CPU but you're not going to get the fun of tinkering and overclocking and if you want to really maximize your FPS in your games you're gonna want to overclock at least a little bit now when it comes to memory this is what's kind of exciting and I keep looking down at my list on my phone obviously memory has gone down significantly in price for instance for both of these build guides I chose the a data XP G Series gam mix GA MMI XD 30 memory and the reason for that it's a dual eight gigabyte dual channel kit oh and by the way the motherboard I chose does have four dimm slots which means expandability in the future a lot of cheaper motherboards only have two DIMM slots which means if you want more memory you've gotta switch out all your modules with larger modules neither of these builds would have that problem but this is ddr4 30 600 megahertz memory CL 18 now you could tighten those timings if you want it but you really don't have to we kind of did a video recently showing how just going with faster memory clock yielded us a pretty decent amount of FPS with a 2080 ti my you 3,600 megahertz is is pretty fast for mainstream desktop and considering the fact that it's only coming in at what $74.99 or seventy-five bucks getting thirty six hundred megahertz memory at CL 18 is a very good value you're gonna find a lot of other brands were more expensive than that with slower memory probably tighter timings but slower memory and what we're doing here I think this is gonna be a great value kit it's got a nice-looking heatsink on it it's got no RGB it comes in black or red on the top trim but it looks nice it's gonna run cool it is overclockable it's compatible with both intel and AMD and so it's not going to give you any problems there now when it comes to power supply I feel this is an area some people might give some pushback on my lists I have an 87 dollar power supply in here which is the corsair CX series CX 650 now you might be looking this going already J why a 650 watt power supply well one you know let's grab his car we've chosen yet but two because power supplies are a component that can last you a long time and they can they can mature with your system you can upgrade your system go with a bigger graphics card or a bigger CPU and then you don't have to change out the power supply I feel a lot of people will buy a power supply that is perfect for the system they've built with no room for improvement in the future which means if you're going to upgrade anything you need a better power supply also to build quality a lot of people really underestimate how important a quality power supply is when it's single-handedly powering all of your components and if that part fails it can take problems or components with it when it dies if let's say the three volt rails some something goes wrong there with the voltage regulator and suddenly it's shooting five or 12 volts god forbid down here 3 3 3.3 volt 3.3 volt rail you're gonna have a bad day and yes it's happened I've had plenty of people message me telling me that their power supply took out everything in their system it's unfortunate but if you go with the right quality of power supply then you're gonna find that that's not gonna be something you have to deal with a whole lot now this isn't 80 plus bronze our supplier and 80 plus white is the minimum I would go with because it still adheres to the 80 plus standard which means better quality components but you can obviously scale up or scale down the power supply as you see fit the problem is power supplies right now seem to be something that has gone up in price over the last year consistently with like the hold embargo or not the embargo but the the tariff stuff power supplies really seem to get hit hard on that now let's go on talk about the graphics card this is interesting because we've talked about graphics cards in the past there is a huge overlap there is a massive overlap in terms of graphics cards I mean until my AMD Intel alone you've got 20 60 s that cost more than 20 60 supers you've got 20 60 supers I cost more than 20 70 supers in some instances and you've got regular 27 T's that cost more than 20 80s depending on the brand you go with so it's like what the hell is going on here now because of the parts that we chose when we decided not to go with an i7 it saved us some money to get us a better power or power supply tube but graphics card so I went with the zotac gaming geforce r-tx 2070 super twin fan it's a pretty no-frills card it doesn't have a custom name it's not like a you know the arctic freezer and blah blah blah it's a pretty basic card that I believe even has limited overclocking available to it with very limited powers of limit slider on there but I would much rather go with a fairly bare-bones 2070 super at the cost that's on this particular chart which is five hundred and nine dollars it's not a cheap graphics card by any means over a similarly priced 2060 Super even an overclocked 2060 Super on its best day is not gonna be as strong as a 2070 Super and yes this card does still have some overclocking available to it just because the power limit slider might be very limited doesn't mean you can't still add more core clock until you start to get crashing and stuff it's a dual fan it's gonna be quiet it doesn't have gaudy RGB all over it which means it's gonna be it's just a black dual fan with a backplate it looks nice it's clean and I'll match any build and it's a 27 new Super which we already know will decimate 1440p gaming as r-tx features the LSS 2.0 all that's so it's gonna get you a better gaming experience than a twenty sixty or twenty sixty super but J what about the 5700 XT or the 5700 well if you go and user benchmarks and compare those graphics cards to the twenty seven is super you're gonna find the twenty seventy super is pretty much faster across the board only by a few percent some instances by a lot of percent and others but my issue with AMD still at this point is it's driver issue with the 5700 XT it has improved and the video seven higher as well it's improved over the last few months but there was a while there where it got rough or even the AMD subreddit was full of people talking about why they're ditching their AMD graphics cards because of how bad the drivers were driver updates that would completely break games and make them unplayable that was games that were working just fine on their previous versions so I'm still adopting the wait-and-see before I start saying 5,700 XT or 5700 is worth it we're also kind of waiting to see what happens a big navvy later on this year but it's kind of been the same story with AMD in terms of making great hardware and software support so I'm still still hesitant to recommend it until I see the drivers no longer filling up Reddit and Twitter and everything else when people telling me and even my own youtube comments telling me how bad they've been that's gonna talk about storage this is another area seem to get a lot of pushback 1200 bucks is a decent budget and if you don't do an SSD at $1200 budget you are doing yourself a disservice I've showed a million times the fastest way and the quickest way and the cheapest way to wake up a system and make it feel faster is get off a spinning hard drive and get onto an SSD even a 2.5 inch SATA 6 gigabits per second SSD is gonna decimate and dominate any spinning Drive whether it be a hybrid or not so that's why in this instance I've chosen the team group GX to 512 gigabyte SSD now you can actually get a 1 terabyte for under $100 but the problem is we're starting to go over budget so I would take the 512 gigabyte SSD but your OS on it and your favorite couple of games and then leave some Headroom on the SSD and then get yourself a two terabyte Seagate Barracuda hard drive a lot of people go oh I don't like the Barracuda well you can kind of take that budget and apply it wherever you want but for 50 bucks a two terabyte 7200 rpm 64 megabyte cache hard drive that isn't responsible for running the operating system will handle all your games just fine you would just want to put your larger games that take a long time to load on the SSD and that's the way I would handle the storage a single SSD with a big hard drive to back it up it's it's kind of been a foolproof plan that I've used and all of my customer builds on friends and family that built CPUs or systems for I've never had them complain and even a few people that I did do like some paid builds back in the beginning of my youtube career I did the same thing no one ever had a problem with it the thing is once you're running an operating system on a spinning drive with other programs after loading it has to seek all over the platter when the operating systems running as well as loading those programs once you have the system on an SSD everything wakes up even the hard drive and then last but not least the case it doesn't leave us a huge budget for a case but I chose the fractal design focus G and the reason for that is it has a decent aesthetic it's available in multiple colors no they didn't sponsor me to say this it's I spent a while looking around on Newegg to try and find exactly what case would work or the toner dollar budget that doesn't take away from money available to the rest of the build but still gives us a decent case to look at because you've if you spent 1200 bucks on the system you're looking at some bare beige box which is now black these days but a bare beige box you're so gonna you're gonna be a little bit depressed do you want to look at your computer and feel proud like hey that's my PC I play games on that I do all sorts of cool things on there I'm excited to look at it I walk in the room and it makes me happy the case doesn't do that for you no matter what's inside I think most people would agree with me that looking at it and seeing the awesomeness is just as important as knowing it's awesome inside so yeah there are people out there obviously they're like I don't care put in a cardboard box and that's perfectly fine too but at $49 the fact that you get to led fans in it already most basic cases at this price point won't only come with a single fan plenty of mesh ventilation it's gonna fit all of our stuff in there it's a full ATX case but it's a mid towers that's not too big and plenty of expandability for extra fans for cooling then that means we're gonna be able to get the job done now let me tell you what going with Intel didn't allow us to do it didn't allow us to add an additional CPU cooler although the Box cooler for 9600 K would be fine for some minimal overclocking and even some decent overclocking on the stock fan should be okay it didn't give us money for additional case fans and it didn't allow us to go with a bigger SSD and we still are technically three dollars over because it's two one thousand two hundred and three US dollars now I didn't include tax or shipping or any of that stuff because I don't know what the situations are everyone's tax situation is different this is just the listed MSRP price of the components that add up to twelve hundred bucks so you're probably gonna have to add a few bucks here and there but if you found 1200 extra dollars of stimulus money I'm sure you can find an extra 50 bucks or a hundred bucks to put into this to cover those extra things alright so when it comes to AMD though what do you get well in my opinion when it comes to AMD you're gonna get an extreme value see back in the day we used to say AMD is a great value but you know at the cost of performance that's not the case anymore so this system is fairly identical with only a handful of things one I was gonna change the RAM out but I couldn't get any other brands of RAM that were this fast for anything cheaper so there was no point in changing it out and although it doesn't say risin on it it will still work with the latest generation resin CPUs this isn't first gen risin we're only a few handful of dims or validated with Rison this is this is this is not your Grandpa's rise in so we went one with the same power supply we want the same Ram we went with the art risin 530 600 it's a 6 quart 12 thread CPU which means you're gonna be able to do all sorts of multi-threading tasks it's got twice the amount of processing threads that Intel does when it comes to multi-threaded performance it's going to absolutely mop the floor with the 9600 K that we used an Intel build and for the motherboard I want the MSI Pro X 570 a pro the cool thing about that it's a $159 motherboard that still is an x5 70 chipset which is really cool because when x5 70 first came out they all were like 300 bucks enough so finally we've got some more mainstream affordable x5 70 motherboards giving you the chipset features that you would want to use to expand in the future specifically Gen 4 PCIe giving you access to extremely fast storage well over 4,000 megabytes per second fast worth of storage so in the future if you wanted to add more nvme storage you can get yourself they're kind of expensive right now but maybe by the time you're ready they'll be cheaper some jet PCIe gen 4 nvme SSDs and then you would get an insane amount of throughput when it comes to your storage i left the same barracuda to a 2 terabyte hard drive on there with the same 512 gigabyte SSD the same graphics card i looked at doing a 5,700 xt just to make it a full AMD build i already explained why i'm not very comfortable with doing that in the previous section with the intel but if you wanted to go with the 5700 xt you would actually save yourself approximately $100 over the 27 t super and then that would open things up for maybe getting an nvme SSD instead of a SATA SSD you could potentially even get yourself a big tower cooler 330 600 or upgrade your 3600 to a 3700 and get even more cores more threads and then you would still stay within your budget there's a lot of ways that you could you know kind of be flexible here but we left the same case as well with the Focus G but this gave us some money to actually add another fractal fan in there that gives us a little bit more additional cooling but really all we changed was the motherboard in the cpu because all the other parts are what I would leave the same in terms of gaming performance so between these two it's possible in certain titles with the Intel 9600 K overclocked you would get a better higher average fps by if by maybe up to 10 FPS depending on the title so now that I've so now that I've showed you how it would spend approximately twelve hundred bucks on an Intel in an AMD system which one do I recommend at the end of the day I'm gonna be honest if you haven't already heard in the tone the AMD system is gonna give you way more for your money more cores more threads more performance more multitasking faster available storage to you through x5 70 chipset it's one of those things where I kind of wish that they had an AMD graphics card right now that truly was a competitor for the upper tiers of Nvidia because then having just a full AMD system would be awesome but what's the trade-off here in some titles with Intel you might find a slightly higher average FPS with this graphics card and a very fast clock speed of Intel if you like enabled the all core on Intel when you were getting like four seven four eight all core overclocking on 9600 K on some titles you might find better average FPS but what you're going to get with AMD is a much more rounded better computing experience as well as gaming that you're not even going to be able to pass the blind taste test of witches in tell them which is AMD if they're 10 FPS different the 27 is super at 1080p or even 1440 is going to give you enough FPS to max out your refresh rate on almost any gaming monitor even 144 FPS for 1080p panels would be very capable with the 3600 and a 2070 super you're not gonna bottleneck either CPU with that graphics card but if you're one those people that's like I want to try live streaming and I want to try folding at home and I want to try all these things like I want to read render and edit videos you're gonna get a better experience with AMD system they are with the Intel and at the end of the day it's actually a little bit cheaper the AMD system even by adding the extra fan came in at $1197 just six dollars cheaper so guys that's the way I would spend my stimulus money if I were getting any but that's fine it needs to go to people who need it and that's where I kind of asked you guys now where would you spend 1200 bucks would you change anything in this list do you think overspent somewhere or under spent elsewhere so sound off in the comments below which you would spend twelve hundred bucks on on either an AMD or an Intel system and also to you guys can check the links down below would be some Amazon links as well that help us out here through our associate links and such there changing things and trying to pay people less than but that's fine I mean we do alright I'm not complaining but if you feel like looking down below and checking out those links you can and then it will help us out either way but guys thanks for watching hope you guys are feeling well and being safe I hope everyone is doing okay up here being stuck in your home when you're being told to it's not the same or being stuck in your home because you're recluse and you just hate people you want you want to be you want to be there because you want to be now cuz people are making you that's my problem with this whole thing\n"