1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,400 two years ago when we built our first most average gaming PC the GTX 1060 2 00:00:09,420 --> 00:00:16,160 is the most pop for gamers finally all of that has 3 00:00:13,679 --> 00:00:16,160 changed 4 00:00:16,980 --> 00:00:24,060 that's right the great price raising has taken its toll and for the first time 5 00:00:21,420 --> 00:00:28,800 that I can remember the average gaming rig has actually gotten worse and since 6 00:00:27,180 --> 00:00:33,180 game developers are always going to Target the lowest common denominator for 7 00:00:30,840 --> 00:00:36,540 their low graphic settings does this mean that game realism could actually 8 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:41,700 take a step back to find out we're going to be building a 9 00:00:38,700 --> 00:00:43,620 new most average gaming PC because gpus 10 00:00:41,700 --> 00:00:47,040 aren't the only thing that's changed in the last two years 11 00:00:44,940 --> 00:00:52,140 for instance we've got a completely new sponsor it's you green ugreen is taking 12 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:56,699 your charging to the next level with their new 100 watt charger it's a four 13 00:00:54,300 --> 00:01:00,180 in one charger that has three USBC ports and a USB a port while still fitting in 14 00:00:58,620 --> 00:01:03,500 the palm of your hand get yours today using the link down below 15 00:01:10,100 --> 00:01:17,820 to make a proper comparison we started by reassembling our last unexceptional 16 00:01:15,540 --> 00:01:22,020 winner and we re-ran all of our benchmarks driver updates can make a big 17 00:01:20,580 --> 00:01:26,280 difference over such a long period of time and then we poured over the latest 18 00:01:24,240 --> 00:01:30,119 team Hardware survey along with the Amazon bestsellers list to fill in the 19 00:01:28,080 --> 00:01:35,159 gaps for items like power supply case and Storage 20 00:01:32,820 --> 00:01:41,460 so without further ado build it 21 00:01:36,659 --> 00:01:43,979 with our motherboard the b660mg from MSI 22 00:01:41,460 --> 00:01:48,840 and I know what you're thinking really I 12th gen chip Yes actually but I don't 23 00:01:46,979 --> 00:01:53,520 want to talk about that yet we chose this board because the top selling v660 24 00:01:51,180 --> 00:01:58,079 on Amazon right now is a hundred and ten dollar Gigabyte board that we don't have 25 00:01:55,799 --> 00:02:01,799 but we do have this similarly priced guy from MSI with pretty much the same 26 00:01:59,939 --> 00:02:05,880 features and no matter which one of them you end up with it's enough to make you 27 00:02:03,420 --> 00:02:09,899 question why anybody needs a 500 motherboard it doesn't have some of the 28 00:02:08,039 --> 00:02:14,040 latest bells and whistles no support for front USB type c and it only has two 29 00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:18,840 memory slots which can make upgrading less economical but it's got two gen 4 30 00:02:16,440 --> 00:02:24,599 m.2 slots support for two and a half gig Lan and of course an upgrade path to the 31 00:02:21,900 --> 00:02:28,800 latest 13th gen CPUs with that out of the way now we can talk about the CPU 32 00:02:26,580 --> 00:02:33,300 the problem with the steam Hardware survey is that it doesn't report 33 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:38,700 specific model numbers only the brand average base clock frequency average 34 00:02:35,819 --> 00:02:43,080 core count and an indicator for how many people have hyper threading or smt on 35 00:02:41,340 --> 00:02:47,160 that note eighty percent of You by the way have hyper writing now meaning that 36 00:02:45,300 --> 00:02:52,319 two threads per core is now overwhelmingly the norm the average core 37 00:02:49,620 --> 00:02:57,840 count has also gone up moving us from quad cores into the hexacore class but 38 00:02:55,080 --> 00:03:04,140 wait the average base clock is now just 2.3 to 2.7 gigahertz uh I mean even if 39 00:03:02,099 --> 00:03:08,940 Intel didn't still have two-thirds of the market AMD's recent chips pretty 40 00:03:06,420 --> 00:03:13,620 much all the way in at around 3.6 gigahertz base our suspicion is that 41 00:03:11,159 --> 00:03:19,200 this is due to a couple of converging Trends first of all older CPUs that have 42 00:03:16,739 --> 00:03:23,580 low IPC but extremely high clock speeds have really reached the end of their 43 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:28,860 useful gaming lifespan and are likely being retired on mass the second is that 44 00:03:26,459 --> 00:03:33,959 we know that laptops are a growing segment particularly in gaming and they 45 00:03:31,319 --> 00:03:38,879 tend to have high boost clocks but very low base clocks we were able to find 46 00:03:36,480 --> 00:03:43,860 some Modern desktop chips that closely fit the build though and we settled on 47 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:46,200 the core i5 12 400 since it doesn't have 48 00:03:43,860 --> 00:03:50,280 have any efficiency cores only performance course it should be fairly 49 00:03:48,360 --> 00:03:55,799 representative of either a current gen Intel or AMD gaming experience and it 50 00:03:53,700 --> 00:04:01,680 also happens to be a great bang for the buck choice at its last gen discounted 51 00:03:58,739 --> 00:04:06,060 price for CPU cooling the hyper 212 lineup of heat sinks from Cooler Master 52 00:04:03,140 --> 00:04:10,680 must be mentioned due to its obvious popularity however some other great 53 00:04:09,060 --> 00:04:15,840 value options have hit the market in recent years so it's not really the 54 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:20,760 Clear Choice that it once was as for our build well rcpu comes with a stock 55 00:04:18,180 --> 00:04:24,660 cooler and since it can't be overclocked due to restrictions on the motherboard 56 00:04:22,380 --> 00:04:28,020 chipset and CPU we're going to go ahead and use that which also makes our 57 00:04:26,639 --> 00:04:31,800 installation a little bit simpler storage was a tough one I think I'm 58 00:04:30,180 --> 00:04:35,699 going to fire an email over to valve and ask them if maybe in the future they can 59 00:04:33,900 --> 00:04:40,740 split it out by interface so that we can see the share of NVMe versus SATA drives 60 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:44,400 that could become a really important data point down the road depending on 61 00:04:42,479 --> 00:04:47,400 how direct storage plays out for now though the hardware survey 62 00:04:46,199 --> 00:04:52,740 doesn't give us much in the way of granularity with only one terabyte Plus 63 00:04:50,639 --> 00:04:58,380 for guidance then we aired on the side of plus given that so many modern games 64 00:04:55,320 --> 00:05:01,259 will occupy 50 gigs or more of storage 65 00:04:58,380 --> 00:05:06,540 and we felt that with the popularity not to mention affordability of m.2 NVMe 66 00:05:03,720 --> 00:05:12,120 drives it made sense to go for the not the best but far from the worst Samsung 67 00:05:09,300 --> 00:05:17,639 970 Evo plus two terabyte if Amazon reviews are anything to go by you guys 68 00:05:14,220 --> 00:05:21,000 are on the same page here it's only PCI 69 00:05:17,639 --> 00:05:23,520 Express gen 3 which might not be as f 70 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:28,440 word as a Gen 4 Drive Monster X storage hits the scene for real if it does but 71 00:05:25,740 --> 00:05:33,180 this thing has over 44 000 reviews maintaining a Solid 5 star rating and 72 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:38,759 the best part is that if you don't need two terabytes for 165 dollars the one 73 00:05:36,060 --> 00:05:42,720 terabyte version is only 90 bucks that's incredibly affordable for this kind of 74 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:47,160 performance though it is still over double of what a retro polar fleece us 75 00:05:44,699 --> 00:05:51,780 from lttstore.com and this is this is much less comfortable to wear like 76 00:05:49,979 --> 00:05:55,320 how cool is it that affordable motherboards are coming with simple 77 00:05:53,160 --> 00:06:02,039 tool-less SSD installation mechanisms now love to see it now for memory 78 00:05:58,280 --> 00:06:05,300 ah it hasn't really changed most of you 79 00:06:02,039 --> 00:06:08,220 are still rocking 16 gigs which is good 80 00:06:05,300 --> 00:06:13,620 but one thing did change we went with ddr4 rather than DDR3 this time around 81 00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:19,560 we settled on a middle of the road kit from Corsair a two by eight gig 3200 82 00:06:16,139 --> 00:06:21,720 Mega transfer per second cl-16 kit all 83 00:06:19,560 --> 00:06:29,520 three top spots on Amazon are variants of this Vengeance lpx kit with 72 000 84 00:06:26,039 --> 00:06:32,100 reviews no RGB just straight performance 85 00:06:29,520 --> 00:06:35,580 is what the people want so that's what we're going to give them moving on to 86 00:06:33,539 --> 00:06:41,280 the case what can I say this thing is still on 87 00:06:38,819 --> 00:06:45,180 top despite the new variants that massively improve on its performance at 88 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:50,400 over 30 000 reviews it eclipses every other case 89 00:06:47,880 --> 00:06:57,000 in the top 10 list right now I mean it's almost never the worst choice to just 90 00:06:53,280 --> 00:06:59,280 pick what's popular and the h510 is no 91 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:04,440 exception it's got good looks a user-friendly layout and it's fairly 92 00:07:01,560 --> 00:07:09,900 priced I just think that a savvier shopper would venture 93 00:07:07,080 --> 00:07:14,220 the Box and maybe grab the flow variant in hopes that it will better handle 94 00:07:11,460 --> 00:07:18,060 future GPU upgrades as we continue to March towards the industry goal of 95 00:07:15,900 --> 00:07:21,479 creating gaming processors that double as space heaters this is the kind of 96 00:07:20,099 --> 00:07:25,139 thing I'm talking about with quality of life features there's a little nubbing 97 00:07:23,220 --> 00:07:28,440 on the center motherboard standoff that allows you to just rest the motherboard 98 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:32,759 there I'm not saying I recommend doing this I'm just saying that 99 00:07:30,419 --> 00:07:36,419 um you could by the way the Keen item you might have noticed that I am missing 100 00:07:34,440 --> 00:07:40,620 an i o Shield someone put this board back in inventory without it it doesn't 101 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:44,819 affect performance but it could affect the amount of Emi that's coming out of 102 00:07:42,660 --> 00:07:49,620 the back of the case not that the sheeple shopping approach is always the 103 00:07:47,340 --> 00:07:55,199 best I'm about to contradict a lot of what I just said please do not just buy 104 00:07:53,280 --> 00:08:00,180 the most reviewed power supply on Amazon the thermal takes 105 00:07:57,240 --> 00:08:03,479 I will almost lean not light on fire we actually really 106 00:08:01,800 --> 00:08:07,740 included its little brother in our entry-tier holiday shopping guide but we 107 00:08:05,940 --> 00:08:12,960 only did that because we were trying to fit in a very aggressive budget we would 108 00:08:10,199 --> 00:08:16,740 never actually recommend that you skimp on power supply so we're going to put a 109 00:08:14,940 --> 00:08:21,599 couple of better Options under the video that don't cost much more for the 110 00:08:19,020 --> 00:08:26,639 purposes of this build though majority rules so we grabbed a close enough 111 00:08:24,840 --> 00:08:32,219 equivalent off our Shelf complete with ketchup and mustard cables and no 80 112 00:08:29,460 --> 00:08:37,680 plus efficiency badge whatsoever now let's talk about the big change the GPU 113 00:08:34,740 --> 00:08:45,000 it costs anywhere from 170 all the way up to 250 dollars for a 1650 brand new 114 00:08:42,300 --> 00:08:50,180 it wasn't very good when it launched and it's not very good right now but with a 115 00:08:47,640 --> 00:08:55,320 new 3050 which would be the closest current gen equivalent going for at 116 00:08:52,860 --> 00:09:00,060 least three hundred dollars it's easy to see why over the last few years 117 00:08:56,760 --> 00:09:02,760 especially but even now most people have 118 00:09:00,060 --> 00:09:09,720 opted for the save about option and gone for one of these it's got only a 128 bit 119 00:09:05,700 --> 00:09:12,720 bus four gigs of gddr5 memory that is 120 00:09:09,720 --> 00:09:16,019 two gigs fewer than our 1060 from our 121 00:09:12,720 --> 00:09:19,800 last most average gaming PC and a booth 122 00:09:16,019 --> 00:09:22,080 clock speed of up to 1665 megahertz the 123 00:09:19,800 --> 00:09:26,339 problem with this card and the reason that I would not recommend picking one 124 00:09:24,180 --> 00:09:31,140 up even if your budget constrained is that you can get a used 3050 for about 125 00:09:29,100 --> 00:09:34,080 the same price off of eBay or Facebook Marketplace 126 00:09:32,519 --> 00:09:37,800 if you have one of these guys though don't feel bad about it because I'm 127 00:09:36,120 --> 00:09:41,880 about to game on it and I think our Benchmark results might surprise you or 128 00:09:40,260 --> 00:09:45,360 maybe it won't surprise you since we already said that game developers tend 129 00:09:43,740 --> 00:09:51,000 to Target the hardware that's out there and a whopping six percent of gamers are 130 00:09:49,019 --> 00:09:56,519 using this GPU oh moving on to what we're going to 131 00:09:52,980 --> 00:09:59,700 connect it to we've got this the scepter 132 00:09:56,519 --> 00:10:02,220 24 inch 75 Hertz does it even have a 133 00:09:59,700 --> 00:10:08,339 model name the point is it's not actually the most popular monitor this 134 00:10:04,920 --> 00:10:10,200 21.5 inch 1080p beast from Acer but it 135 00:10:08,339 --> 00:10:14,640 is the silver medalist and both of them have the same Core specs 1080p 136 00:10:12,540 --> 00:10:18,839 resolution a slightly higher than standard 75 Hertz refresh rate which 137 00:10:16,740 --> 00:10:24,660 makes a huge difference over 60 by the way and a very attractive price point on 138 00:10:22,019 --> 00:10:29,519 that note the wired version of the g502 from Logitech might seem like a bit of 139 00:10:26,700 --> 00:10:34,620 an odd choice on the most average gaming PC given that it's priced at 80 dollars 140 00:10:32,060 --> 00:10:40,920 but there's a method to this madness nobody actually pays eighty dollars for 141 00:10:37,920 --> 00:10:43,019 it it's currently 34 on sale which is a 142 00:10:40,920 --> 00:10:46,800 whole lot of bang for the buck and if the 50 plus thousand reviews are 143 00:10:45,300 --> 00:10:52,140 anything to go by almost always on sale don't buy it for 144 00:10:49,380 --> 00:10:57,779 80. for keyboard realistically anything is probably fine like I would take a 145 00:10:55,019 --> 00:11:02,959 good mouse and a six dollar keyboard over the opposite eight days of the week 146 00:11:00,480 --> 00:11:09,779 so I grabbed this s101-3 from Red Dragon uh its membrane 147 00:11:06,839 --> 00:11:13,680 it's super popular and it'll get the job done if you just need a keyboard though 148 00:11:12,300 --> 00:11:17,160 this actually comes as part of a keyboard mouse combo there are a lot of 149 00:11:15,899 --> 00:11:21,839 options out there around this price point or you could just see if your aunt 150 00:11:19,800 --> 00:11:26,579 and uncle uh really need that one that's sitting there collecting dust and just 151 00:11:23,339 --> 00:11:28,740 use that almost complete absence of RGB 152 00:11:26,579 --> 00:11:32,040 just as nature intended it the first thing you'll probably notice now that 153 00:11:30,060 --> 00:11:36,660 we're fired up other than that hey it worked is that despite us being able to 154 00:11:34,680 --> 00:11:41,640 install Windows 11 we're still on Windows 10 just like 65 percent of you 155 00:11:39,420 --> 00:11:48,300 out there the top five games on Steam right now are CS go Dota 2 lost ark 156 00:11:45,420 --> 00:11:53,880 Warzone 2 and Pub G naturally we benchmarked all of them and honestly I 157 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:58,440 mean look at this we've got 220 230 FPS in CS go 158 00:11:55,380 --> 00:12:01,440 all of them run pretty okay on either 159 00:11:58,440 --> 00:12:04,380 system but whether it's the fewer CPU 160 00:12:01,440 --> 00:12:09,000 cores or the outdated DDR3 memory our previous system simply didn't keep up 161 00:12:06,660 --> 00:12:15,540 quite as well in our two Battle Royale titles we noticed more hitching and our 162 00:12:12,180 --> 00:12:17,760 one percent lows were much well lower 163 00:12:15,540 --> 00:12:22,560 which results in a noticeably degraded experience particularly in intense 164 00:12:19,620 --> 00:12:27,540 firefights in Dota 2 we got about 150 FPS with Lost Art hovering around 60 165 00:12:24,839 --> 00:12:31,860 meaning that either of these systems the most popular from now or two years ago 166 00:12:29,579 --> 00:12:36,660 is going to be perfectly fine with the most popular titles and we did all of 167 00:12:34,019 --> 00:12:40,200 our testing at very high details so if you want more FPS you can just turn down 168 00:12:38,880 --> 00:12:45,779 the settings and you should be good to go for another year or two at least all 169 00:12:42,360 --> 00:12:48,540 for the reasonable price of 735 dollars 170 00:12:45,779 --> 00:12:52,500 which could fairly easily be cut down if you went for like a second hand case or 171 00:12:50,639 --> 00:12:56,760 something like that it's still a fair bit more than a console but it's also a 172 00:12:54,899 --> 00:13:01,139 fair bit more useful than a console since you can do so much more on PC like 173 00:12:59,100 --> 00:13:04,500 emulating older games browsing the web chatting on Discord 174 00:13:02,820 --> 00:13:11,579 Etc but unlike a console our computer isn't even 175 00:13:08,339 --> 00:13:14,579 sort of 4K ready Halo infinite defaulted 176 00:13:11,579 --> 00:13:16,620 to low so obviously if we're going to 177 00:13:14,579 --> 00:13:19,980 want strong frame rates we're going to have to expect to turn details down a 178 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:25,620 little bit but whether it's Halo infinite or whether it's other AAA 179 00:13:22,500 --> 00:13:29,579 titles at 1080p we found that everything 180 00:13:25,620 --> 00:13:31,620 was very playable and with no odd bugs 181 00:13:29,579 --> 00:13:37,019 to speak of so if you target for your Hardware what pretty much everyone else 182 00:13:33,899 --> 00:13:39,180 is running game studios are sure to at 183 00:13:37,019 --> 00:13:43,440 least consider your system as they develop their upcoming titles 184 00:13:40,920 --> 00:13:48,420 the bar does look like it's about to jump up by the way with the RTX 3060 185 00:13:45,839 --> 00:13:53,100 gunning for the top spot but that's another story for another day just like 186 00:13:50,760 --> 00:13:57,899 this story about our sponsor Micro Center holiday savings at Micro Center 187 00:13:55,260 --> 00:14:02,279 start now the weather outside might be frightful but these holiday savings are 188 00:13:59,940 --> 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can be found 198 00:14:41,399 --> 00:14:47,220 in the description down below if you guys enjoyed this video maybe check out 199 00:14:45,180 --> 00:14:52,639 the first one where we talked a lot more in detail about this machine 200 00:14:49,459 --> 00:14:52,639 oh yeah