**Upgrading Your PC: A Guide to Building a High-Performance Computer**

When it comes to upgrading your PC, there are several components that you can focus on to improve its performance. In this article, we will discuss the different parts of a computer and how to upgrade them to create a high-performance machine.

First, let's talk about the CPU (Central Processing Unit). The CPU is the brain of the computer and is responsible for executing instructions. When it comes to upgrading your CPU, you can look at options like the AMD Ryzen 5 5600X or the Intel Core i7-11700K. These CPUs offer better performance and more cores than their predecessors, making them ideal for tasks that require a lot of processing power.

Another important component of a PC is the motherboard. The motherboard is the main circuit board of the computer and connects all of the other components together. When it comes to upgrading your motherboard, you can look at options like the ASRock B450M Steel Legend Micro ATX or the ASUS PRIME Z590-A. These motherboards offer high-quality components and advanced features like Wi-Fi and USB 3.2 Gen 2.

Memory (RAM) is also an important component of a PC. RAM is what allows your computer to access data quickly, so having more RAM can improve performance. When it comes to upgrading your RAM, you can look at options like the Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 3200MHz or the HyperX Fury RGB 32GB (4x8GB) DDR4 3200MHz.

Storage is another important component of a PC. Storage refers to where your computer stores data, such as files and programs. When it comes to upgrading your storage, you can look at options like the Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB NVMe SSD or the Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD.

The graphics card is also a crucial component of a PC, especially if you plan on playing games or running video editing software. When it comes to upgrading your graphics card, you can look at options like the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 or the AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT.

Finally, there are some additional components that can improve the performance and aesthetic of your computer. These include a high-quality power supply, such as the EVGA SuperNOVA 650 GA, 80+ Gold 650W, or the Corsair RM750x, which offers high efficiency and flexibility. Additionally, a good case, like the Cooler Master H500, can improve airflow and make it easier to upgrade your computer.

**The Cost of Upgrading**

One of the biggest questions when it comes to upgrading your PC is how much money you want to spend. While there are many affordable options available, some upgrades may require a bigger budget.

If you're looking to upgrade your entire system, you can expect to pay around $900 or more. However, if you only want to upgrade specific components, you can often find more affordable options. For example, adding an 80 Plus Gold power supply to your existing build could cost as little as $50.

**Budgeting Your Build**

Ultimately, the decision of how much money to spend on your PC depends on your budget and what you want to achieve. If you have a fixed budget that you can't budge from, you may need to make some compromises when it comes to upgrading individual components. However, if you're looking to upgrade multiple components at once, you may be able to stay within your budget.

**Building Your Dream PC**

So, how do you build your dream PC? Here are some tips:

* Start by identifying what you want to use your computer for. If you're going to be using it for gaming or video editing, you'll need a more powerful system.

* Research different components and read reviews to find the best options for your budget.

* Consider upgrading individual components rather than buying an entire new system.

* Make sure to plan your build carefully and measure your case before purchasing any components.

**Conclusion**

Upgrading your PC can be a great way to improve its performance and extend its lifespan. By researching different components and understanding what you need to upgrade, you can create a high-performance machine that meets your needs. Whether you're on a budget or have a flexible budget, there are many affordable options available to help you build the perfect computer.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello and welcome to tech deals do you want to play all current games at 1080p 60 frames per second high detail are better do you want to play most current games at 1440p or even 4k do you want a computer with future upgrade ability built with parts that you chose that are fit to your needs then you've come to the right place this is a $900 custom build featuring the Rison 520 600 X CPU 6 cores 12 threads up to 4.2 gigahertz we have an X 470 motherboard great today and great for future upgrade ability we have the awesome new gtx 1660 TI featuring GD d r 6 memory great for higher resolutions i have tested this at 1440p and 4k and in some games it actually does quite well there we have 16 gigabytes of ddr4 32 hundred megahertz ram a nearly 1 terabyte SSD 450 watt 80 plus bronze certified power supply and then we have a very nice cooler master masterbox 500 case mesh in the front mesh on the top mesh well exhaust in the back three RGB fans included 6 drive mounting points it's a really nice case for under $100 if you're a regular watcher of my videos you might have seen these parts before i've previously covered a $900 pre-built computer from CyberPower now that's an Intel build with an i5 9400 but it has the same video card in a similar case not quite as nice similar components not quite as nice but it does come preassembled and ready to run this is a better deal if you don't mind building the computer yourself there will be benchmarks coming in the future between that $900 pre-built and this 900 our custom build basically saying if you have $900 how much more do you get for your money how much faster does it really run to build this as opposed to that that'll be coming up in a future video if you're not subscribed to my channel well that's what the big huge red button is there for be sure to hit the bell notification icon next to it because frankly if you don't YouTube doesn't notify you of my future videos anyway as much I appreciate the sub there will be a link to a playlist down in the video description below that has all the videos that I do on this bill there will be multiple videos coming up I'll have a detailed overhead camera build video putting all these components together it's not in this video this is a parts overview and an option selection because this is a custom PC you don't have to use this motherboard or this specific video card you can change the storage around you can change the power supply around and that's what we're going to talk about we're gonna go through each component I'm gonna offer you a couple of different options for example rise in 520 600 X it's a great deal at under $200 when I'm filming this video for a little under $300 or $100 more you can get a rise in 720 700 X very similar clock speed maybe a hundred megahertz faster on the rise in seven a little bit nicer cooler with the Wraiths prism but it's $100 more for two more cores and for more threads do you need a risin 7 most of you don't some of you do but some of you will grow into a risin 7 for $100 now you don't have to mess around with your CPU 2 or you two or three years from now you can instead just get 8 course today and you will grow into it I'm firmly of the belief that 8 cores is the future for mainstream desktop computers just the way 4 cores has been the mainstream for 10 years now the six core processors will certainly be viable for at least the next three years and if you plan it upgrade in that time sure horizon 5 is just fine but if you want a 5 year lifespan or more than I think arisin 7 makes more sense that's an example of the kind of options that I want to talk about the pros and cons of spending the extra hundred dollars versus saving it or maybe putting that extra $100 somewhere else after all instead of the rise in 7 you could get a faster graphics car or more RAM or more storage or a nicer case or a nicer power supply everything is options unless you have a $3,000 budget to build an ultimate gaming PC in which case you could just buy the best of everything everything is a series of compromises and choices and so build guides like this are meant to help you make choices of components do you buy a premium factory overclock video card or do you just buy the base card that sort of thing now at the beginning of the video I said this computer will play everything on the market at 1080p high details 60 frames per second I know that because I know what a rise in five can do and I know what this gtx 1660 TI can do and so I'm very comfortable making that statement it will play most games better than that either higher frame rates at low resolution at 1080p I call 1080p low these days some of you do some of you don't but at 1440p you might be surprised quite a few games will play between 60 to 100 frames per second with no issues at 1440p even a 1440p ultra wide it will even do some gaming at 4k spoiler alert grand theft auto 5 high detail 4k plays very nicely on this level of hardware granted that game is a couple of years old now so it's not exactly Assassin's Creed Odyssey but that's what the future benchmarks comparing this and that CyberPower I mentioned coming out linked in the description below when they publish r4 so the first thing we're gonna talk about today in your build choice is your CPU now I frankly already covered this minute ago when I gave it to you as an example I do believe that a rise in seven has more future proofing in it but that may or may not matter depending upon whether or not you want to upgrade to one of those n2 chips that are coming either this summer or does n 2 plus chips coming in the summer of 2020 you will be able to install those on the existing three or 400 series motherboards with BIOS updates whether or not all the boards support over a course is an open question the current rumors are that AMD is preparing 12 and 16 core chips for the consumer a.m. for desktop platform but they may or may not work in all existing boards thee the future eight core chips will but whether all the the 12 and 16 core high-power chips will is open to debate if you have a super premium expensive motherboard they will but you're not gonna have such a motherboard in the 900 are built I would not go below this chip right now what I'm filming this video in March of 2019 the 2600 X is $20 more expensive than the 2600 what's the difference you ask about 300 megahertz clock speed out of the box and a better cooler this is the Wraith spire cooler and it is far superior to the Wraiths stealth that comes with the 2600 at launch there was a much larger price difference between sand and onyx chip but right now if there's only a 20 or $30 price difference get the X chip all day long system memory ddr4 3200 is the ideal choice for risin three thousands okay 2666 is alright it's not a huge difference but there's currently also not a large price difference between them either on the day I film in this video there was like an $11 price difference between those three Ram speeds once you've chosen your CPU then you need to pick your motherboard to install it on now the 900 our budget for this build is actually the B 450 version of the MSI gaming plus I don't have a B 450 MSI gaming plus I have an X 470 MSI gaming plus y MSI was nice enough to send this to me Who am I to argue this is about $30 more expensive if you think you will upgrade to an eight or maybe twelve core chip when Zen tours end to plus comes out and you want to have a little bit more future proofing in your system spend the extra $30 get the x4 70 it does support SLI but I don't think that's the important part the more important part is better power delivery better features and this is true of any board that you've on you spend an extra thirty or forty dollars you're gonna get better sound better land more USB ports more SATA ports etc having said that if you plan to buy a rise in 520 600 X and you plan to keep it for the next three to five years maybe you don't care about playing every latest in greatest game that comes out get the B 450 version that's a great place to save $30 that you will not notice on a CPU like this and speaking of motherboards while M assault was nice enough to send this to me I love all the four major brands seuss asrock MSI and gigabyte any of their hundred dollar B 450 boards are great choices for a system build like this I would not go down to the $70 ports I think you give up too much at the $70 unless it's on sale but at the hundred dollar price point you get good audio good land good power delivery good expansion options good USB options good they're nice well-rounded boards at the $70 price point they just they strip all the stuff off the board it doesn't affect performance but it does affect what you can do with the system in the future it affects the quality of life with the board and frankly I think $100 is a good price to spend on a motherboard for a 900 our system I don't think it makes sense to spend a lot more than that some people say well should I buy a better board won't that help the system run faster it will not you can spend $200 on a board it really is wasted on a system like this with the CPU and motherboard picked out next up we need some system RAM in my opinion right now in 2019 there is one choice and one choice only 16 gigabytes of ddr4 3200 it is slightly more expensive than 3,000 and you if you have 3,000 laying around don't go buy 3200 use your 3000 frankly if you have 16 gigs of DDR 4 2666 laying around use that don't go out and change your RAM for that but if you're buying new the price difference is very small the cost of lunch between the various Ram speeds right now and 3200 is now very well supported on all the boards with updated current biases any RAM speed issues that Rison had yeah those were back closer to launched in 2017 and early 2018 they are long gone now in 2019 do not go with 8 gigs of ram if you're buying a 6 core 12 thread processor and you have a 900 our budget in 2019 16 gigs of ram is just under $100 you say $40 by going to 8 don't your system by trying to save yourself $40 get 16 gigs it'll last you a good long while likewise I don't think 32 gigs is needed either if you actually need 32 gigs of RAM you also need a rise in seven and your whole budget needs to come up a bit 32 gigs is useful for people who live stream using one computer from people who also want to do content creation video editing 3d animation and if you're doing all that you could be on Horizon 7 so it's 16 gigs and that's pretty much it next up we have our system storage I firmly believe that at the current price of SSDs a very wise choice is one terabyte of boot SSD space you can currently by several different one terabyte SSDs for about $100 yes you can save yourself about 40 or 45 dollars by going to a 500 drive and then you can buy a second hard drive to store your games and programs on and that's an option some people will take but games are getting bigger and games run and update faster and everything is just much nicer on SSDs if you've got a nine hundred hour build yes it's a hundred dollars but if you're spending nearly two hundred dollars on your CPU you're spending a hundred dollars on your motherboard nearly three hundred dollars in your graphics card spend the hundred dollars on the SSD get a big 1 terabyte bood SSD put your most used games applications programs windows everything on it it'll be a quick snappy responsive system that you'll enjoy for many years to come and of course you could always add more if you need more space in the future the alternative option to this is to get a 500 gig SSD in the $60 price range and then spend 50 or $60 on a two or three terabyte hard drive if you really need more than one terabyte of space now you can buy this plus a hard drive but we're trying to stay within budget so we'll talk about alternatives I do not believe that you should go smaller than a 500 gig drive you only save about 30 dollars going from 500 gigs to 250 gigs those drives are slower between 500 and a terabyte the speed is about the same but when you go below 500 on modern drives your speed and performance starts to drop off and don't even think about going to a 120 on a system like this those drives legitimately are slower they have less life in front of them and nothing fits on a 120 anymore except for basic pcs and if you're building this it's not a basic PC so in my opinion your choice is between a 500 gig and a one terabyte drive and whether or not you add a hard drive to that is personal preference at this price point I wouldn't worry too much about nvme it's nice but unless you find a really good deal or perhaps go with one of the new qlc drives such as the Intel 660 P those cost 50% more for the same capacity and that money is better put elsewhere such as your graphics card so I would go with the SATA Drive there's several available I'll link all those down below I would go for capacity more than speed at this price point that brings us to perhaps the most important part of any gaming PC the video card the new gtx 1660 TI with the faster G DDR 6 which will helped tremendously with larger textures coming in future games or running at higher resolutions you don't need the GDR six today necessarily for 1080p gaming although in the future with larger games larger textures you might and even today for larger resolutions it certainly comes and helpful you can save a little bit of money by going down to the non TI version i don't really think it's worth it it the price to performance is a little bit better for the non TI version but you're not saving much and you're giving up the faster ram which you might wish you had in the future you could also step up to the RT x 2060 if you want one of the free games that Nvidia is currently offering on the RT x 2060 then that's an easy decision there's about a $70 price difference between this card and an RT x 2060 price to performance this is a little bit better not tremendously so but it's a bit better however when I'm filming this video the RT X cards come with your choice of metro Exodus battlefield 5 or anthem those games are 50 ish dollars the $70 price difference is almost completely eaten up by that so if you want one of those games run don't walk again in RTX 2016 in talking about graphics cards this brings up a point which I'm sure many of you are either thinking about or already down in the comment section wanting to say wait a minute with a $900 budget you can buy a much better graphics card than a gtx 1660 TI you are absolutely correct you could if you want to fit in RTX 2070 into this build you'd have to make a lot of sacrifices to do it but you could fit it in here you'd have to give up RAM storage motherboard quality case quality maybe power supply quality you give up a lot to get there probably going to the non X chip to save 20 bucks here 20 bucks there 20 bucks there but you could fit in RTX 2017 here performance wise that legitimately would be faster than this in most situations however the graphics card is the easiest thing to change outside of maybe system RAM in your computer you can in a year or two if you're fixed at 900 our budget you can always upgrade you graphics card he just undo two screws take it out put a new card in and you're good to go if you buy a super cheap case and a super cheap power supply and a bottom-of-the-barrel motherboard and a bottom-of-the-barrel SSD or worse no SSD at all which as far as I'm concerned isn't even an option but if you do that yes you'll have a faster graphics card yes your games will be a little bit faster today although watch the benchmarks I think you'll be impressed in just how fast this really is for most games when you will want to upgrade your graphics card in the future you have a really crappy computer with it built around putting a $500 video card around a bunch of super cheap bottom-of-the-barrel components that just seems wrong to me somehow I know some people do it people go all I care about is how fast is my graphics card and I don't care about the rest of my computer well custom pcs are custom you build this however the heck you want to build it I personally think that's a crying shame build a nice balanced computer with good quality mid-range components all the way around and you'll have a solid foundation for future growth and expansion you could easily keep this case through your next two or three computer upgrades you could easily keep this motherboard through your next CPU upgrade getting a Zen tours and plus CPU maybe twelve potentially even 16 cores you can add more storage in this well we'll talk about the power supply in a minute but you could take this computer with you a long long way you could always change your graphics card but you can't change the foundation of your computer now that's going the graphics card ill what about going down one of the questions some of you may be asking is why not just get an rx 580 aren't those great for 1080p gaming maybe you don't care about 1440p or 4k maybe you don't care about ultra detail you just want something inexpensive that works today maybe you want to go ahead and get a better power supply or a better CPU or something else or maybe you want to cut the budget by one or two hundred dollars no problem for nearly a hundred dollars less than the 1660 ti you can get an Rx 580 an Rx 580 is not as fast as this card it has gddr5 instead of GDD are 6 so the memory is slower so as games get larger and larger textures yes it has eight gigs a VRAM but it's slower vram and that's gonna eat into the card going forward this is an old design dating back multiple years it's basically a shrink of an r9 290x that was launched more than five years ago at this point although this card obviously isn't that old it is under $200 and it does come with a couple of games it's a great card and there's nothing wrong with it it will need an upgrade sooner than this will so spend more get more we'll talk about the case laughs cases are very personal choices let's talk about the power supply this power supply has often been available for under $30 it is a 450 watt three-year warranty 80 plus bronze certified EVGA unit if you've watched my channel for a while you've seen me use several of these they're great great values for budget - mid range builds if there's anything in this build that I personally would recommend changing first it actually might be the power supply the only reason for that is in terms of noise and power efficiency this is an 80 plus bronze and it's not going to be an ultra silent power supply and while it has plenty of power for this build excessive power for this build if you do want to upgrade to say a 12 or 16 core chip if you want to upgrade to a higher-end 500-700 our card in the future add some more drives you're starting to push what this power supply is really appropriate for depending upon what kind of deal you find these are absolutely wonderful I have used these several times in the past these are g3 80 plus goals from EVGA they are more expensive typically twice the price of this although they've been on sale several times I got a couple of these for really cheap back on Black Friday if you can find something like a g3 or even a g2 from EVGA or something similar Corsair for example there are MX power supplies would be very similar to this if you get something like this you have more reserve for the future you have 0 fan speed noise so basically unless the computer is under load the fan doesn't turn it completely silent it's fully modular it's got a much longer warranty it's a much higher quality unit this is overkill for this unless you want the ability to upgrade it substantially in the future if you buy this wanting to grow it dramatically maybe your goal is to start with a thousand dollar computer today and end up with a two thousand dollar computer two years from now because you're going to go to a 12 or 16 core chip you're gonna go to a higher-end 70 or 80 series video card you're gonna add more stuff to it yet this makes total sense otherwise I wouldn't that simply brings us to the case choice this is a $75 case and for a thousand dollar computer it's all you need to buy anything more than this is overkill now if you don't like coolermaster for whatever reason or you don't like the design or you want more glass on it or something else fair enough I absolutely understand this does have a very nice mesh front these are to RGB fans in the front they can be turned off if you want but there are two RGB fronts there's one in the back there are places for six drives inside both two-and-a-half and three-and-a-half inch drives very nice there's no five to a quarter inch bay but you got your front panel controls mesh on the top for exhaust out the top you can install liquid coolers in this it's a nice $75 case but there are many other choices from fractal design and NZXT and so many other companies it's just not even funny it is worth noting that the advice that I gave you on the power supply applies to your case if you plan on building and 900 to $1,000 build and keeping it that way for a while and maybe just upgrading in place maybe you'll keep the video card for three years and then you'll upgrade to whatever is the then-new $300 video card this is fine you don't need any more case than this if that's your goal if on the other hand your goal is to grow it to a two thousand dollar bill to go to the higher core count chips to go to the higher level five seven hundred our video card yeah then spending a hundred 150 dollars on a case makes sense the upgrade from this would be for example the cooler master h 500 it's not the master box line it's just the H 500 it has two hundred millimeter fans in the front ETA's straight mesh all the way down there is more ventilation the case is physically thicker leaving more room behind the motherboard it's longer it's taller it's nicer all the way around I did the rise in 520 600 build in that last year absolutely love that case very very nice but it costs more in order to fit all of this into the $900 price point you kind of find compromises to make things make sense this does fit within that budget go to an H 500 and there's an extra $25 that you've got to pull out of something else unless you increase your budget speaking of budgets spending $1,100 get you a lot more computer than $900 does if you take this as a base point $30 more for this motherboard arise in 720 700 X instead of a 2600 X gets you eight core 16 threads the H 500 case for $25 more gets you better airflow larger thicker wider taller everything the 80 plus gold fully modular power supply for future upgrade ability an RT X 2060 instead of a gtx 1660 TI you can upgrade little pieces of it all over for 20% of the price your computer everything's just a bit nicer it isn't necessarily gonna make it monstrously faster and our TX 2060 is 15 to 20 percent faster than the 16 60 TI which in itself is plenty fast for most people horizon 7 today isn't gonna make a difference over horizon 5 for most people but it's future proofing italy gives you something to grow into a nicer motherboard same thing a nicer case that's perfect these are personal choices you ultimately have to decide do you have a fixed firm budget that you can't budge from and you've got to move basically rearrange the deckchairs to figure out what am I gonna be able to buy within this budget what do I want to give up here or give up there or do you have a flexible budget are you looking at maybe $900 but once you look at it you go wait a minute for an extra 100 or $200 I didn't kind of really upgrade everything and uplift this entire bill to make it very very nice that's only that's a decision that only you can answer linked down in the description below I'm going to put all these parts that I've been discussing as well as several alternatives down there just add in all of my videos if you've watched this long into this and this is not your first video you've watched then you know this already about me those are affiliate links down there they support the channel at no extra cost to you I don't do a lot of sponsored spots I do get sent part examples from time to time speaking of which this motherboard this Ram this SSD and this case were all sent to me by the companies involved I bought the CPU I bought the video card and I bought the power supply none of this is sponsored it's there just samples that company sent me to including videos like this however I have been buying this stuff since before I got sent samples if you go back in 2016 to watch my original videos as I did when my channel was small I was using Coolermaster cases back then I built an i7 7700 K in a cooler master case back then long before they ever sent me anything EVGA power supplies I got a whole video comparing eight different power supplies from them back then so I get samples sent to me from companies that I would spend and have spent my own money on so that being said like this video if you liked it share it with your friends if you loved it remember to subscribe to my channel with a big huge red button directly below questions comments thoughts feedback suggestions polite criticism always welcome let me know what you would build how would you spend $900 it's alright if you disagree with me tell me what you think put put what you would build down in the comment section below I don't respond to every comment down there but I promise you I do read them all links in the video description of the full playlist on this build next video on this will be the overhead camera in fact when I stopped recording this the first thing I'm gonna do is turn the overhead camera on and build the thing I'll edit them and obviously publish them on separate days but it'll be coming up very very soon and then my social media links down below as well thank you all so much for watching hopefully this has been helpful for you and I will see you next timehello and welcome to tech deals do you want to play all current games at 1080p 60 frames per second high detail are better do you want to play most current games at 1440p or even 4k do you want a computer with future upgrade ability built with parts that you chose that are fit to your needs then you've come to the right place this is a $900 custom build featuring the Rison 520 600 X CPU 6 cores 12 threads up to 4.2 gigahertz we have an X 470 motherboard great today and great for future upgrade ability we have the awesome new gtx 1660 TI featuring GD d r 6 memory great for higher resolutions i have tested this at 1440p and 4k and in some games it actually does quite well there we have 16 gigabytes of ddr4 32 hundred megahertz ram a nearly 1 terabyte SSD 450 watt 80 plus bronze certified power supply and then we have a very nice cooler master masterbox 500 case mesh in the front mesh on the top mesh well exhaust in the back three RGB fans included 6 drive mounting points it's a really nice case for under $100 if you're a regular watcher of my videos you might have seen these parts before i've previously covered a $900 pre-built computer from CyberPower now that's an Intel build with an i5 9400 but it has the same video card in a similar case not quite as nice similar components not quite as nice but it does come preassembled and ready to run this is a better deal if you don't mind building the computer yourself there will be benchmarks coming in the future between that $900 pre-built and this 900 our custom build basically saying if you have $900 how much more do you get for your money how much faster does it really run to build this as opposed to that that'll be coming up in a future video if you're not subscribed to my channel well that's what the big huge red button is there for be sure to hit the bell notification icon next to it because frankly if you don't YouTube doesn't notify you of my future videos anyway as much I appreciate the sub there will be a link to a playlist down in the video description below that has all the videos that I do on this bill there will be multiple videos coming up I'll have a detailed overhead camera build video putting all these components together it's not in this video this is a parts overview and an option selection because this is a custom PC you don't have to use this motherboard or this specific video card you can change the storage around you can change the power supply around and that's what we're going to talk about we're gonna go through each component I'm gonna offer you a couple of different options for example rise in 520 600 X it's a great deal at under $200 when I'm filming this video for a little under $300 or $100 more you can get a rise in 720 700 X very similar clock speed maybe a hundred megahertz faster on the rise in seven a little bit nicer cooler with the Wraiths prism but it's $100 more for two more cores and for more threads do you need a risin 7 most of you don't some of you do but some of you will grow into a risin 7 for $100 now you don't have to mess around with your CPU 2 or you two or three years from now you can instead just get 8 course today and you will grow into it I'm firmly of the belief that 8 cores is the future for mainstream desktop computers just the way 4 cores has been the mainstream for 10 years now the six core processors will certainly be viable for at least the next three years and if you plan it upgrade in that time sure horizon 5 is just fine but if you want a 5 year lifespan or more than I think arisin 7 makes more sense that's an example of the kind of options that I want to talk about the pros and cons of spending the extra hundred dollars versus saving it or maybe putting that extra $100 somewhere else after all instead of the rise in 7 you could get a faster graphics car or more RAM or more storage or a nicer case or a nicer power supply everything is options unless you have a $3,000 budget to build an ultimate gaming PC in which case you could just buy the best of everything everything is a series of compromises and choices and so build guides like this are meant to help you make choices of components do you buy a premium factory overclock video card or do you just buy the base card that sort of thing now at the beginning of the video I said this computer will play everything on the market at 1080p high details 60 frames per second I know that because I know what a rise in five can do and I know what this gtx 1660 TI can do and so I'm very comfortable making that statement it will play most games better than that either higher frame rates at low resolution at 1080p I call 1080p low these days some of you do some of you don't but at 1440p you might be surprised quite a few games will play between 60 to 100 frames per second with no issues at 1440p even a 1440p ultra wide it will even do some gaming at 4k spoiler alert grand theft auto 5 high detail 4k plays very nicely on this level of hardware granted that game is a couple of years old now so it's not exactly Assassin's Creed Odyssey but that's what the future benchmarks comparing this and that CyberPower I mentioned coming out linked in the description below when they publish r4 so the first thing we're gonna talk about today in your build choice is your CPU now I frankly already covered this minute ago when I gave it to you as an example I do believe that a rise in seven has more future proofing in it but that may or may not matter depending upon whether or not you want to upgrade to one of those n2 chips that are coming either this summer or does n 2 plus chips coming in the summer of 2020 you will be able to install those on the existing three or 400 series motherboards with BIOS updates whether or not all the boards support over a course is an open question the current rumors are that AMD is preparing 12 and 16 core chips for the consumer a.m. for desktop platform but they may or may not work in all existing boards thee the future eight core chips will but whether all the the 12 and 16 core high-power chips will is open to debate if you have a super premium expensive motherboard they will but you're not gonna have such a motherboard in the 900 are built I would not go below this chip right now what I'm filming this video in March of 2019 the 2600 X is $20 more expensive than the 2600 what's the difference you ask about 300 megahertz clock speed out of the box and a better cooler this is the Wraith spire cooler and it is far superior to the Wraiths stealth that comes with the 2600 at launch there was a much larger price difference between sand and onyx chip but right now if there's only a 20 or $30 price difference get the X chip all day long system memory ddr4 3200 is the ideal choice for risin three thousands okay 2666 is alright it's not a huge difference but there's currently also not a large price difference between them either on the day I film in this video there was like an $11 price difference between those three Ram speeds once you've chosen your CPU then you need to pick your motherboard to install it on now the 900 our budget for this build is actually the B 450 version of the MSI gaming plus I don't have a B 450 MSI gaming plus I have an X 470 MSI gaming plus y MSI was nice enough to send this to me Who am I to argue this is about $30 more expensive if you think you will upgrade to an eight or maybe twelve core chip when Zen tours end to plus comes out and you want to have a little bit more future proofing in your system spend the extra $30 get the x4 70 it does support SLI but I don't think that's the important part the more important part is better power delivery better features and this is true of any board that you've on you spend an extra thirty or forty dollars you're gonna get better sound better land more USB ports more SATA ports etc having said that if you plan to buy a rise in 520 600 X and you plan to keep it for the next three to five years maybe you don't care about playing every latest in greatest game that comes out get the B 450 version that's a great place to save $30 that you will not notice on a CPU like this and speaking of motherboards while M assault was nice enough to send this to me I love all the four major brands seuss asrock MSI and gigabyte any of their hundred dollar B 450 boards are great choices for a system build like this I would not go down to the $70 ports I think you give up too much at the $70 unless it's on sale but at the hundred dollar price point you get good audio good land good power delivery good expansion options good USB options good they're nice well-rounded boards at the $70 price point they just they strip all the stuff off the board it doesn't affect performance but it does affect what you can do with the system in the future it affects the quality of life with the board and frankly I think $100 is a good price to spend on a motherboard for a 900 our system I don't think it makes sense to spend a lot more than that some people say well should I buy a better board won't that help the system run faster it will not you can spend $200 on a board it really is wasted on a system like this with the CPU and motherboard picked out next up we need some system RAM in my opinion right now in 2019 there is one choice and one choice only 16 gigabytes of ddr4 3200 it is slightly more expensive than 3,000 and you if you have 3,000 laying around don't go buy 3200 use your 3000 frankly if you have 16 gigs of DDR 4 2666 laying around use that don't go out and change your RAM for that but if you're buying new the price difference is very small the cost of lunch between the various Ram speeds right now and 3200 is now very well supported on all the boards with updated current biases any RAM speed issues that Rison had yeah those were back closer to launched in 2017 and early 2018 they are long gone now in 2019 do not go with 8 gigs of ram if you're buying a 6 core 12 thread processor and you have a 900 our budget in 2019 16 gigs of ram is just under $100 you say $40 by going to 8 don't your system by trying to save yourself $40 get 16 gigs it'll last you a good long while likewise I don't think 32 gigs is needed either if you actually need 32 gigs of RAM you also need a rise in seven and your whole budget needs to come up a bit 32 gigs is useful for people who live stream using one computer from people who also want to do content creation video editing 3d animation and if you're doing all that you could be on Horizon 7 so it's 16 gigs and that's pretty much it next up we have our system storage I firmly believe that at the current price of SSDs a very wise choice is one terabyte of boot SSD space you can currently by several different one terabyte SSDs for about $100 yes you can save yourself about 40 or 45 dollars by going to a 500 drive and then you can buy a second hard drive to store your games and programs on and that's an option some people will take but games are getting bigger and games run and update faster and everything is just much nicer on SSDs if you've got a nine hundred hour build yes it's a hundred dollars but if you're spending nearly two hundred dollars on your CPU you're spending a hundred dollars on your motherboard nearly three hundred dollars in your graphics card spend the hundred dollars on the SSD get a big 1 terabyte bood SSD put your most used games applications programs windows everything on it it'll be a quick snappy responsive system that you'll enjoy for many years to come and of course you could always add more if you need more space in the future the alternative option to this is to get a 500 gig SSD in the $60 price range and then spend 50 or $60 on a two or three terabyte hard drive if you really need more than one terabyte of space now you can buy this plus a hard drive but we're trying to stay within budget so we'll talk about alternatives I do not believe that you should go smaller than a 500 gig drive you only save about 30 dollars going from 500 gigs to 250 gigs those drives are slower between 500 and a terabyte the speed is about the same but when you go below 500 on modern drives your speed and performance starts to drop off and don't even think about going to a 120 on a system like this those drives legitimately are slower they have less life in front of them and nothing fits on a 120 anymore except for basic pcs and if you're building this it's not a basic PC so in my opinion your choice is between a 500 gig and a one terabyte drive and whether or not you add a hard drive to that is personal preference at this price point I wouldn't worry too much about nvme it's nice but unless you find a really good deal or perhaps go with one of the new qlc drives such as the Intel 660 P those cost 50% more for the same capacity and that money is better put elsewhere such as your graphics card so I would go with the SATA Drive there's several available I'll link all those down below I would go for capacity more than speed at this price point that brings us to perhaps the most important part of any gaming PC the video card the new gtx 1660 TI with the faster G DDR 6 which will helped tremendously with larger textures coming in future games or running at higher resolutions you don't need the GDR six today necessarily for 1080p gaming although in the future with larger games larger textures you might and even today for larger resolutions it certainly comes and helpful you can save a little bit of money by going down to the non TI version i don't really think it's worth it it the price to performance is a little bit better for the non TI version but you're not saving much and you're giving up the faster ram which you might wish you had in the future you could also step up to the RT x 2060 if you want one of the free games that Nvidia is currently offering on the RT x 2060 then that's an easy decision there's about a $70 price difference between this card and an RT x 2060 price to performance this is a little bit better not tremendously so but it's a bit better however when I'm filming this video the RT X cards come with your choice of metro Exodus battlefield 5 or anthem those games are 50 ish dollars the $70 price difference is almost completely eaten up by that so if you want one of those games run don't walk again in RTX 2016 in talking about graphics cards this brings up a point which I'm sure many of you are either thinking about or already down in the comment section wanting to say wait a minute with a $900 budget you can buy a much better graphics card than a gtx 1660 TI you are absolutely correct you could if you want to fit in RTX 2070 into this build you'd have to make a lot of sacrifices to do it but you could fit it in here you'd have to give up RAM storage motherboard quality case quality maybe power supply quality you give up a lot to get there probably going to the non X chip to save 20 bucks here 20 bucks there 20 bucks there but you could fit in RTX 2017 here performance wise that legitimately would be faster than this in most situations however the graphics card is the easiest thing to change outside of maybe system RAM in your computer you can in a year or two if you're fixed at 900 our budget you can always upgrade you graphics card he just undo two screws take it out put a new card in and you're good to go if you buy a super cheap case and a super cheap power supply and a bottom-of-the-barrel motherboard and a bottom-of-the-barrel SSD or worse no SSD at all which as far as I'm concerned isn't even an option but if you do that yes you'll have a faster graphics card yes your games will be a little bit faster today although watch the benchmarks I think you'll be impressed in just how fast this really is for most games when you will want to upgrade your graphics card in the future you have a really crappy computer with it built around putting a $500 video card around a bunch of super cheap bottom-of-the-barrel components that just seems wrong to me somehow I know some people do it people go all I care about is how fast is my graphics card and I don't care about the rest of my computer well custom pcs are custom you build this however the heck you want to build it I personally think that's a crying shame build a nice balanced computer with good quality mid-range components all the way around and you'll have a solid foundation for future growth and expansion you could easily keep this case through your next two or three computer upgrades you could easily keep this motherboard through your next CPU upgrade getting a Zen tours and plus CPU maybe twelve potentially even 16 cores you can add more storage in this well we'll talk about the power supply in a minute but you could take this computer with you a long long way you could always change your graphics card but you can't change the foundation of your computer now that's going the graphics card ill what about going down one of the questions some of you may be asking is why not just get an rx 580 aren't those great for 1080p gaming maybe you don't care about 1440p or 4k maybe you don't care about ultra detail you just want something inexpensive that works today maybe you want to go ahead and get a better power supply or a better CPU or something else or maybe you want to cut the budget by one or two hundred dollars no problem for nearly a hundred dollars less than the 1660 ti you can get an Rx 580 an Rx 580 is not as fast as this card it has gddr5 instead of GDD are 6 so the memory is slower so as games get larger and larger textures yes it has eight gigs a VRAM but it's slower vram and that's gonna eat into the card going forward this is an old design dating back multiple years it's basically a shrink of an r9 290x that was launched more than five years ago at this point although this card obviously isn't that old it is under $200 and it does come with a couple of games it's a great card and there's nothing wrong with it it will need an upgrade sooner than this will so spend more get more we'll talk about the case laughs cases are very personal choices let's talk about the power supply this power supply has often been available for under $30 it is a 450 watt three-year warranty 80 plus bronze certified EVGA unit if you've watched my channel for a while you've seen me use several of these they're great great values for budget - mid range builds if there's anything in this build that I personally would recommend changing first it actually might be the power supply the only reason for that is in terms of noise and power efficiency this is an 80 plus bronze and it's not going to be an ultra silent power supply and while it has plenty of power for this build excessive power for this build if you do want to upgrade to say a 12 or 16 core chip if you want to upgrade to a higher-end 500-700 our card in the future add some more drives you're starting to push what this power supply is really appropriate for depending upon what kind of deal you find these are absolutely wonderful I have used these several times in the past these are g3 80 plus goals from EVGA they are more expensive typically twice the price of this although they've been on sale several times I got a couple of these for really cheap back on Black Friday if you can find something like a g3 or even a g2 from EVGA or something similar Corsair for example there are MX power supplies would be very similar to this if you get something like this you have more reserve for the future you have 0 fan speed noise so basically unless the computer is under load the fan doesn't turn it completely silent it's fully modular it's got a much longer warranty it's a much higher quality unit this is overkill for this unless you want the ability to upgrade it substantially in the future if you buy this wanting to grow it dramatically maybe your goal is to start with a thousand dollar computer today and end up with a two thousand dollar computer two years from now because you're going to go to a 12 or 16 core chip you're gonna go to a higher-end 70 or 80 series video card you're gonna add more stuff to it yet this makes total sense otherwise I wouldn't that simply brings us to the case choice this is a $75 case and for a thousand dollar computer it's all you need to buy anything more than this is overkill now if you don't like coolermaster for whatever reason or you don't like the design or you want more glass on it or something else fair enough I absolutely understand this does have a very nice mesh front these are to RGB fans in the front they can be turned off if you want but there are two RGB fronts there's one in the back there are places for six drives inside both two-and-a-half and three-and-a-half inch drives very nice there's no five to a quarter inch bay but you got your front panel controls mesh on the top for exhaust out the top you can install liquid coolers in this it's a nice $75 case but there are many other choices from fractal design and NZXT and so many other companies it's just not even funny it is worth noting that the advice that I gave you on the power supply applies to your case if you plan on building and 900 to $1,000 build and keeping it that way for a while and maybe just upgrading in place maybe you'll keep the video card for three years and then you'll upgrade to whatever is the then-new $300 video card this is fine you don't need any more case than this if that's your goal if on the other hand your goal is to grow it to a two thousand dollar bill to go to the higher core count chips to go to the higher level five seven hundred our video card yeah then spending a hundred 150 dollars on a case makes sense the upgrade from this would be for example the cooler master h 500 it's not the master box line it's just the H 500 it has two hundred millimeter fans in the front ETA's straight mesh all the way down there is more ventilation the case is physically thicker leaving more room behind the motherboard it's longer it's taller it's nicer all the way around I did the rise in 520 600 build in that last year absolutely love that case very very nice but it costs more in order to fit all of this into the $900 price point you kind of find compromises to make things make sense this does fit within that budget go to an H 500 and there's an extra $25 that you've got to pull out of something else unless you increase your budget speaking of budgets spending $1,100 get you a lot more computer than $900 does if you take this as a base point $30 more for this motherboard arise in 720 700 X instead of a 2600 X gets you eight core 16 threads the H 500 case for $25 more gets you better airflow larger thicker wider taller everything the 80 plus gold fully modular power supply for future upgrade ability an RT X 2060 instead of a gtx 1660 TI you can upgrade little pieces of it all over for 20% of the price your computer everything's just a bit nicer it isn't necessarily gonna make it monstrously faster and our TX 2060 is 15 to 20 percent faster than the 16 60 TI which in itself is plenty fast for most people horizon 7 today isn't gonna make a difference over horizon 5 for most people but it's future proofing italy gives you something to grow into a nicer motherboard same thing a nicer case that's perfect these are personal choices you ultimately have to decide do you have a fixed firm budget that you can't budge from and you've got to move basically rearrange the deckchairs to figure out what am I gonna be able to buy within this budget what do I want to give up here or give up there or do you have a flexible budget are you looking at maybe $900 but once you look at it you go wait a minute for an extra 100 or $200 I didn't kind of really upgrade everything and uplift this entire bill to make it very very nice that's only that's a decision that only you can answer linked down in the description below I'm going to put all these parts that I've been discussing as well as several alternatives down there just add in all of my videos if you've watched this long into this and this is not your first video you've watched then you know this already about me those are affiliate links down there they support the channel at no extra cost to you I don't do a lot of sponsored spots I do get sent part examples from time to time speaking of which this motherboard this Ram this SSD and this case were all sent to me by the companies involved I bought the CPU I bought the video card and I bought the power supply none of this is sponsored it's there just samples that company sent me to including videos like this however I have been buying this stuff since before I got sent samples if you go back in 2016 to watch my original videos as I did when my channel was small I was using Coolermaster cases back then I built an i7 7700 K in a cooler master case back then long before they ever sent me anything EVGA power supplies I got a whole video comparing eight different power supplies from them back then so I get samples sent to me from companies that I would spend and have spent my own money on so that being said like this video if you liked it share it with your friends if you loved it remember to subscribe to my channel with a big huge red button directly below questions comments thoughts feedback suggestions polite criticism always welcome let me know what you would build how would you spend $900 it's alright if you disagree with me tell me what you think put put what you would build down in the comment section below I don't respond to every comment down there but I promise you I do read them all links in the video description of the full playlist on this build next video on this will be the overhead camera in fact when I stopped recording this the first thing I'm gonna do is turn the overhead camera on and build the thing I'll edit them and obviously publish them on separate days but it'll be coming up very very soon and then my social media links down below as well thank you all so much for watching hopefully this has been helpful for you and I will see you next time\n"