two years ago when we built our first most average gaming PC the GTX 1060
is the most pop for gamers finally all of that has
changed
that's right the great price raising has taken its toll and for the first time
that I can remember the average gaming rig has actually gotten worse and since
game developers are always going to Target the lowest common denominator for
their low graphic settings does this mean that game realism could actually
take a step back to find out we're going to be building a
new most average gaming PC because gpus
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to make a proper comparison we started by reassembling our last unexceptional
winner and we re-ran all of our benchmarks driver updates can make a big
difference over such a long period of time and then we poured over the latest
team Hardware survey along with the Amazon bestsellers list to fill in the
gaps for items like power supply case and Storage
so without further ado build it
with our motherboard the b660mg from MSI
and I know what you're thinking really I 12th gen chip Yes actually but I don't
want to talk about that yet we chose this board because the top selling v660
on Amazon right now is a hundred and ten dollar Gigabyte board that we don't have
but we do have this similarly priced guy from MSI with pretty much the same
features and no matter which one of them you end up with it's enough to make you
question why anybody needs a 500 motherboard it doesn't have some of the
latest bells and whistles no support for front USB type c and it only has two
memory slots which can make upgrading less economical but it's got two gen 4
m.2 slots support for two and a half gig Lan and of course an upgrade path to the
latest 13th gen CPUs with that out of the way now we can talk about the CPU
the problem with the steam Hardware survey is that it doesn't report
specific model numbers only the brand average base clock frequency average
core count and an indicator for how many people have hyper threading or smt on
that note eighty percent of You by the way have hyper writing now meaning that
two threads per core is now overwhelmingly the norm the average core
count has also gone up moving us from quad cores into the hexacore class but
wait the average base clock is now just 2.3 to 2.7 gigahertz uh I mean even if
Intel didn't still have two-thirds of the market AMD's recent chips pretty
much all the way in at around 3.6 gigahertz base our suspicion is that
this is due to a couple of converging Trends first of all older CPUs that have
low IPC but extremely high clock speeds have really reached the end of their
useful gaming lifespan and are likely being retired on mass the second is that
we know that laptops are a growing segment particularly in gaming and they
tend to have high boost clocks but very low base clocks we were able to find
some Modern desktop chips that closely fit the build though and we settled on
the core i5 12 400 since it doesn't have
have any efficiency cores only performance course it should be fairly
representative of either a current gen Intel or AMD gaming experience and it
also happens to be a great bang for the buck choice at its last gen discounted
price for CPU cooling the hyper 212 lineup of heat sinks from Cooler Master
must be mentioned due to its obvious popularity however some other great
value options have hit the market in recent years so it's not really the
Clear Choice that it once was as for our build well rcpu comes with a stock
cooler and since it can't be overclocked due to restrictions on the motherboard
chipset and CPU we're going to go ahead and use that which also makes our
installation a little bit simpler storage was a tough one I think I'm
going to fire an email over to valve and ask them if maybe in the future they can
split it out by interface so that we can see the share of NVMe versus SATA drives
that could become a really important data point down the road depending on
how direct storage plays out for now though the hardware survey
doesn't give us much in the way of granularity with only one terabyte Plus
for guidance then we aired on the side of plus given that so many modern games
will occupy 50 gigs or more of storage
and we felt that with the popularity not to mention affordability of m.2 NVMe
drives it made sense to go for the not the best but far from the worst Samsung
970 Evo plus two terabyte if Amazon reviews are anything to go by you guys
are on the same page here it's only PCI
Express gen 3 which might not be as f
word as a Gen 4 Drive Monster X storage hits the scene for real if it does but
this thing has over 44 000 reviews maintaining a Solid 5 star rating and
the best part is that if you don't need two terabytes for 165 dollars the one
terabyte version is only 90 bucks that's incredibly affordable for this kind of
performance though it is still over double of what a retro polar fleece us
from lttstore.com and this is this is much less comfortable to wear like
how cool is it that affordable motherboards are coming with simple
tool-less SSD installation mechanisms now love to see it now for memory
ah it hasn't really changed most of you
are still rocking 16 gigs which is good
but one thing did change we went with ddr4 rather than DDR3 this time around
we settled on a middle of the road kit from Corsair a two by eight gig 3200
Mega transfer per second cl-16 kit all
three top spots on Amazon are variants of this Vengeance lpx kit with 72 000
reviews no RGB just straight performance
is what the people want so that's what we're going to give them moving on to
the case what can I say this thing is still on
top despite the new variants that massively improve on its performance at
over 30 000 reviews it eclipses every other case
in the top 10 list right now I mean it's almost never the worst choice to just
pick what's popular and the h510 is no
exception it's got good looks a user-friendly layout and it's fairly
priced I just think that a savvier shopper would venture
the Box and maybe grab the flow variant in hopes that it will better handle
future GPU upgrades as we continue to March towards the industry goal of
creating gaming processors that double as space heaters this is the kind of
thing I'm talking about with quality of life features there's a little nubbing
on the center motherboard standoff that allows you to just rest the motherboard
there I'm not saying I recommend doing this I'm just saying that
um you could by the way the Keen item you might have noticed that I am missing
an i o Shield someone put this board back in inventory without it it doesn't
affect performance but it could affect the amount of Emi that's coming out of
the back of the case not that the sheeple shopping approach is always the
best I'm about to contradict a lot of what I just said please do not just buy
the most reviewed power supply on Amazon the thermal takes
I will almost lean not light on fire we actually really
included its little brother in our entry-tier holiday shopping guide but we
only did that because we were trying to fit in a very aggressive budget we would
never actually recommend that you skimp on power supply so we're going to put a
couple of better Options under the video that don't cost much more for the
purposes of this build though majority rules so we grabbed a close enough
equivalent off our Shelf complete with ketchup and mustard cables and no 80
plus efficiency badge whatsoever now let's talk about the big change the GPU
it costs anywhere from 170 all the way up to 250 dollars for a 1650 brand new
it wasn't very good when it launched and it's not very good right now but with a
new 3050 which would be the closest current gen equivalent going for at
least three hundred dollars it's easy to see why over the last few years
especially but even now most people have
opted for the save about option and gone for one of these it's got only a 128 bit
bus four gigs of gddr5 memory that is
two gigs fewer than our 1060 from our
last most average gaming PC and a booth
clock speed of up to 1665 megahertz the
problem with this card and the reason that I would not recommend picking one
up even if your budget constrained is that you can get a used 3050 for about
the same price off of eBay or Facebook Marketplace
if you have one of these guys though don't feel bad about it because I'm
about to game on it and I think our Benchmark results might surprise you or
maybe it won't surprise you since we already said that game developers tend
to Target the hardware that's out there and a whopping six percent of gamers are
using this GPU oh moving on to what we're going to
connect it to we've got this the scepter
24 inch 75 Hertz does it even have a
model name the point is it's not actually the most popular monitor this
21.5 inch 1080p beast from Acer but it
is the silver medalist and both of them have the same Core specs 1080p
resolution a slightly higher than standard 75 Hertz refresh rate which
makes a huge difference over 60 by the way and a very attractive price point on
that note the wired version of the g502 from Logitech might seem like a bit of
an odd choice on the most average gaming PC given that it's priced at 80 dollars
but there's a method to this madness nobody actually pays eighty dollars for
it it's currently 34 on sale which is a
whole lot of bang for the buck and if the 50 plus thousand reviews are
anything to go by almost always on sale don't buy it for
80. for keyboard realistically anything is probably fine like I would take a
good mouse and a six dollar keyboard over the opposite eight days of the week
so I grabbed this s101-3 from Red Dragon uh its membrane
it's super popular and it'll get the job done if you just need a keyboard though
this actually comes as part of a keyboard mouse combo there are a lot of
options out there around this price point or you could just see if your aunt
and uncle uh really need that one that's sitting there collecting dust and just
use that almost complete absence of RGB
just as nature intended it the first thing you'll probably notice now that
we're fired up other than that hey it worked is that despite us being able to
install Windows 11 we're still on Windows 10 just like 65 percent of you
out there the top five games on Steam right now are CS go Dota 2 lost ark
Warzone 2 and Pub G naturally we benchmarked all of them and honestly I
mean look at this we've got 220 230 FPS in CS go
all of them run pretty okay on either
system but whether it's the fewer CPU
cores or the outdated DDR3 memory our previous system simply didn't keep up
quite as well in our two Battle Royale titles we noticed more hitching and our
one percent lows were much well lower
which results in a noticeably degraded experience particularly in intense
firefights in Dota 2 we got about 150 FPS with Lost Art hovering around 60
meaning that either of these systems the most popular from now or two years ago
is going to be perfectly fine with the most popular titles and we did all of
our testing at very high details so if you want more FPS you can just turn down
the settings and you should be good to go for another year or two at least all
for the reasonable price of 735 dollars
which could fairly easily be cut down if you went for like a second hand case or
something like that it's still a fair bit more than a console but it's also a
fair bit more useful than a console since you can do so much more on PC like
emulating older games browsing the web chatting on Discord
Etc but unlike a console our computer isn't even
sort of 4K ready Halo infinite defaulted
to low so obviously if we're going to
want strong frame rates we're going to have to expect to turn details down a
little bit but whether it's Halo infinite or whether it's other AAA
titles at 1080p we found that everything
was very playable and with no odd bugs
to speak of so if you target for your Hardware what pretty much everyone else
is running game studios are sure to at
least consider your system as they develop their upcoming titles
the bar does look like it's about to jump up by the way with the RTX 3060
gunning for the top spot but that's another story for another day just like
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