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when we took only the top results last time we noticed that hey if you're

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willing to scroll past the sponsored first result Amazon actually provides

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very clear guidance for what they feel is the best choice with this helpful

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little badge but should we trust it I

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mean on the one hand I'm sure that Mr Bezos would only mine the finest of data

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from our purchases and reviews and use that to lead us to the promised land of

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value PC gaming Town surely he would never use his powers for capitalistic

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evil but of course on the other hand

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reality so we built a second all Amazon

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PC this time using only their overall

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pick to see if beating back the title wave of sponsored crap really is as

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simple as just trusting Amazon the guys

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who sold us out in the first place will it be better let's find out after this

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sale my first question was what exactly

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is is the overall pick badge well based

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on what we can find it looks like it was added to their Amazon's Choice system

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back in 20123 and in a nutshell it takes

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our herd mentality concept so the idea of just buying whatever's popular cuz

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Hey it couldn't be that bad to a whole

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new level to become an overall pick though an item must not only be

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purchased often it also needs a fourstar rating or greater and must be returned

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infrequently that extra bit of data about returns is

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what makes this such a GameChanger exposing that to Shoppers makes sense

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for everyone the buyer the seller and even Amazon themselves I mean nobody

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likes dealing with returns so the only question is did it work if it did I

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should have a high value high quality and reliable computer and you know what

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outside of a few odd choices this build

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doesn't look half bad While most folks probably don't need need a motherboard

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with AMD's premium x670 chipset the

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tomahawk Wi-Fi from MSI is a pretty nice board it's got an eight layer PCB PCI

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Express Gen 5 on both the x16 and our top m.2 slot loads of vrm cooling Solid

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iio 2 and2 gig networking what's not to love well for one thing apparently this

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board doesn't like WD or Samsung drives

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that's not going to be a deal breaker for us because spoiler Amazon picked a

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crucial vx500 for our system that we'll talk about later but we're also going to

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try a Samsung NVMe drive just to see how that goes before we can do that we need

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to get this to a state where we can actually boot it up though starting with our CPU the ryzen 7 7700x for just

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$245 now this was on a deep discount at

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the time of purchase for a whopping 39% off but hey I mean if that's what makes

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something an overall pick I'm into it it's eight cores 16 threads Zen 4 and

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it'll boost to a Max of 5.4 GHz making it pretty hard to beat at this price so

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as you'd expect most of the complaints about it were just about DOA chips or

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empty boxes probably due to the shipment being opened and intercepted annoying

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but hardly AMD's fault for our ddr5 memory we ended up

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with a sweet looking 32 gig kit from Corsair but under the surface it runs at

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6,400 megat transfers per second CL 36

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that's not awful but most folks should be shooting for about 10 NS of first

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word latency these days especially now that prices have come down if you want a

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bit more detail about that stay tuned for our next memory speed matters video

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for now though I'm still feeling pretty good about this Choice thanks to the low

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number of onear reviews most of which just seem to be complaining about DOA

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products I mean to be clear DOA is bad but course air support seems to fall

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somewhere between adequate and hey maybe

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even good so if you get unlucky reach out and they should get you taken care

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of oh you know who also has good support LTT Store.com check out the new

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circuitry hoodie looks great feels great and it's puny as all heck

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circuitry now let's talk about our SSD while there's nothing inherently wrong

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with using a SATA SSD in 2024 I mean they're perfectly fine for booting your

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Os or running games it does feel like a questionable choice for overall pick

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when you can get an m.2 NVMe drive for a similar price for one thing they're

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faster but perhaps more importantly if you don't get care about performance you

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don't need to mount NVMe drives in your case and then run two flipping cables to

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them so when Amazon recommended that we buy the BX 5001 tbte I was a little

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surprised however we've had good experiences with crucial drives overall

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and it's easy to believe that Amazon has too I mean heck I'd probably promote

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this drive on my store if it had a 4.7 star rating with over

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120,000 reviews I mean they're not all

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good but the onear complaints are mostly about right speeds and rmas neither of

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which uh should affect us today for our

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CPU Cooler I was pleasantly surprised to see the Peerless assassin 120 SE I know

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it's good you know it's good but was Amazon going to know it's good

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apparently yes and honestly there's really not that much else to say about

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this thing it's a great cooler from a company that's been playing the game

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just about as long as anyone and it comes at a great price now let's fire it

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up and see if this Samsung SSD works

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H I guess before we can fire this up we're probably going to need a power supply Amazon suggested the

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rm850x which is a little overkill for

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our build today but it's a reputable unit and it gives us some headro if we

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want to upgrade our GPU down the line also being 33% off at the time that

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doesn't hurt now the key out among you might have noticed something though we

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thought we had an rm850x in our stock so

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we didn't order one but it turns out we have the shift version

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we could have delayed the shoot but we thought you know what shift happens and

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it doesn't make a difference to Performance

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so time to get some modular cables

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installed power hey there we go all right

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theoretically we should just fire up into Windows unless it actually has problems with Samsung drives did they

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say what the compatibility issue is supposed to be should just be Motherboard BIOS update okay well

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evidently ours is updated so cool but we can't leave it like this

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so we took Amazon's advice and bought a Corsair 4000d airflow at full price

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honestly it's a little on the expensive side but at about 24% off it's hard to

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say no we've built in this case plenty of times and I like it it's thoughtfully

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laid out easy to work in and most of the low star reviews had to do with the lack

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of space around the power supply unit which uh we accidentally remedied by

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going with the uh um side mounted modular cables but you could also Remedy

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by just plugging in your regular module power supply cables ahead of time then

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sliding the whole thing in and Finishing Touch now for the moment you've all been

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waiting for the GPU and wow okay no I'm

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I'm kidding it's not going to be an offbrand rx580 like last time instead

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we've got something far more modern an RTX 36 12 gig it's neither the latest

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nor is it the greatest but it should do us just fine for high-end 1080p gaming

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or even 1440p in a pinch thanks to NVIDIA frame rate boosting features like

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dlss most of the complaints about this card had to do with them breaking down

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overtime which can happen and it seems

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like most of those folks were frustrated that it happened past the return window

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so maybe we found a fatal flaw in Amazon's returned infrequently criteria

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after all a card that can can't be returned is not necessarily a card that

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shouldn't be returned let's see if ours

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Works hey there we go so overall we paid

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$1,147 which is not too bad we've said

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for years that this is Right Around The Sweet Spot of price to Performance and

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without even firing it up I can tell you this is going to be a much better

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machine than what we built last time however the question isn't can we beat

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last time the question is can we beat

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this plof believes that his handpicked

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configuration will outperform Mr bezos's

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Tech tips while also being cheaper by

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about $20 and I don't believe I know a bold claim he is

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rocking the same 7700x thanks to that sweet deal but he managed slightly

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faster memory a Gen 4 drive with a dam cache and a Radeon 7700 XT sure we

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downgraded to a motherboard that lacks PCIe Gen 5 and the H5 flow it's not as

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premium a case as the 4000d airf flow but man is that ever a lot of GPU and

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the big surprise here is that almost all of the deals that we found to build this

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machine were on Amazon so if their

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overall Choice was algorithmically adjusted they could have offered us this

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same config for just $60 more than what we paid so let's see if he slayed the

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dragon starting with Horizon zero Dawn

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so 1080p quity ultimate ultimate quality

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okay I mean oh hamburgers I know that

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we're in different zones yeah but still

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I I've got like over 50 or 60 FPS higher

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than you yeah this is not close I I don't think it's close at all I've got

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almost twice the frames it's not a perfect scientific

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benchmarking system we're doing here but uh I don't think even if I go to the

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same spot as you I'm gonna suddenly shoot down to like 83 FPS let's go to

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another game let's check another game hold on I want to try turning on frame

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gen I can use dlss it's still not as good no it's

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really not yeah that actually didn't boost your FPS as much as I thought it would it's

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higher but not by a lot do I have AMD's

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upscaling method with super resolution so don't get me wrong it's not as good

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it's not as good I don't even like dlss yeah cuz I can tell when it's on

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but now I'm getting almost 200 frames a second well okay it dipped a lot but I'm

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170 160 especially in a game with a lot of nature a lot of trees I know it looks

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so bad it looks so bad it I can't I can't do it even this you can see well

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you're a diva look at this you can see the shimmering I can't do it okay we're

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at different spots okay that's fine I've kind of got a bit more going on I mean I

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don't it's oh my God look at this 47 43

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my 1% lows are 90 it's amazing what

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skimping on basically everything but your GPU and then blowing as much money

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as possible on your GPU will do for your gaming experience at higher resolutions

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or higher detail levels oh yeah and we didn't even skimp that much these are

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all pretty brand name parts I chose you know no weird thermal T power supplies

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or anything like that yeah what power supply do you have uh also Corsair but I

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went down 100 Watts I don't think this is any kind of contest I don't really

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think we need to run any more games I think this has been very much settled at this

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point overall then the system is nowhere

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near as bad as last time we were given decent products from reputable Brands

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sometimes even at a great price but while the 3060 12 gig is a perfectly

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cromulent card if you want to game at 1080p well medium depending on the game

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we'll have it linked down below along with everything else it's impossible to

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avoid the truth that it is getting a little long in the tooth especially if

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you consider that 50 Series is rumored to be right around the corner along with

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