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between the nan flash shortages dram price fixing and the GPU mining boom and

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subsequent bust 2018 has been one heck of a ride but now

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as the holidays approach it's looking like a fantastic time all of a sudden to

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build a new gaming pc and it's my job to

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find the best deals at five hundred dollars a thousand dollars and two

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thousand dollars for you so naturally i didn't do it i had

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Anthony do it but it's okay he did a great job

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before we begin a note about our part selections we decided not to use sale

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pricing except where components are more or less perpetually on sale where we

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used the price that it was available at most often this way you guys can expect

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these prices or less so if you see

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better deals on these parts or on other parts go for it this video is just meant

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to be a guideline so let's start with our budget just game

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pc with only 500 bucks to spend every

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dollar needs to contribute to gaming performance in some way and when we look

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at last year's wow 2017 was rough

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we just barely managed a ryzen processor

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and we had a meh case with an even more meh power supply

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this year we're able to use the much faster not to mention cheaper ryzen 3

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2200g and this time we also get a b350 chipset

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motherboard which means we can actually overclock it a little bit

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now sadly we are still stuck with eight gigs of RAM but since we've got four

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slots on our board we can get a dual channel kit to improve the performance

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of our bandwidth hungry ryzen CPU without sacrificing future upgradability

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but wait there's more this time around we swung a separate

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case and 80 plus bronze power supply with its own three-year warranty and for

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storage well this was kind of a no-brainer so our sshd unfortunately ended up almost

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10 more expensive for the capacity this year

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but it's fast enough that you're not gonna feel the crunch too quickly while you're

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gaming so we had to make a compromise there and it was a worthwhile one

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because you will be gaming we're picking up a Radeon rx 570 this year the four

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gig model of course but that gtx 1050 ti

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from yesteryear is finally gone and we've got performance more akin to a gtx

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1060 three gig this is one of those it's

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always on sale cases because newegg claims it's on sale but looking at the

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pricing history it's been on sale for the entire month of november and it sold

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for not much more going all the way back to october so the heavens have opened up

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and smiled upon the budget gamers this year because by our math you can grab

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this setup for just over 501 on newegg

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or just under 500 if you spread your purchases to other vendors

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moving on we've got our game now mid-range pc

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and last year we were in pretty rough shape on this one too if i'm being

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honest yeah we managed to Ryzen five but it was a quad core this year we're

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up to six cores thanks to the most versatile CPU in our recent CPU buyer's

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guide the ryzen 5 2600 which

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it's even it's even five dollars cheaper by the way thanks AMD

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and what's more we're able to get proper ddr4 3200 memory to feed the beast for

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less than what we paid for 2400 megahertz last year i am so glad that

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whole RAM thing is over this time for our boot drive we're sticking with

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solid-state storage and this is crazy we

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are getting double the capacity this time around for five dollars less making

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this easily the biggest SSD that this segment has ever been able to afford an

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extra bonus is that at one terabyte you're not going to have to burn as many

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erase cycles swapping games around to fit in a more confined SSD and it's even

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m.2 moving on our case doesn't have a window

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to show off the clean interior but the Corsair carbide 270r offers both build

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quality and creature comfort improvements over the thermaltake versa

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complete with easier to clean removable dust filters and then going into it is

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the bigger 650 watt variant of the evga

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b3 power supply that we used last year giving us a bit of room to upgrade later

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on remember guys this is evga's like actually good even though it's 80 plus

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bronze psu line and it should serve you well for years to come

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finally we also picked up a gtx 1070 ti

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for a cool 20 less than we paid for the 1070 that got us through the last two

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years by the way it's not likely that these things will stick around for too much

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longer the existing 10 series stock is slowly but surely disappearing from the

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top down so either move fast or hopefully the rtx gtx whatever it is

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2060 ends up being a decent replacement only time will tell what we do know

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right now though is that in total this build weighed in at a hair over a grand

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but that's less than five percent of the budget and many of these parts regularly

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go on sale and it's freaking awesome so happy shopping

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finally we haven't forgotten about you mega ballers out there you so for you

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guys we've got the game on high-end gaming rig which at two thousand dollars

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should last you quite a while now looking at every other year's game on

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build you might think that us going from an hedt or high-end desktop socket down

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to a core i7 on the consumer socket is a

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downgrade and in terms of pci express

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lanes you'd be right but in terms of processing power we're actually gaining

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two cores that are each faster than any

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previous CPU that we've used in these builds which more than makes up for

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their lower thread count due to the loss of hyper threading

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we also lose quad channel memory but we keep our 32 gigs of ddr4 3200 RAM this

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time in the form of a dual channel kit that leaves two slots open for future

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expansion our storage improvement this time around

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is in picking up the SSD that we used in our game now build the wd blue one

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terabyte m.2 SATA which gives us one terabyte of fast storage to go along

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with our four terabytes of 5400 RPM spinning iron so the os and commonly

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used apps and games go on the SSD and the longer term storage and lesser used

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games go on the hard drive with plenty of room on both or you can even check

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out a software caching solution like primocash split up your SSD and kind of

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divide and conquer that way now we're keeping our sea sonic 80 plus

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gold power supply and our knock to a cooler from last year because they're

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great deals and the cooler in particular is good enough to handle quite a bit

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more than our core i7 9700k can put out and then for our case we've splurged on

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the tempered glass Corsair crystal 460x with all of its RGB goodness

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now in light of the case choice some folks might prefer a liquid cooler for

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aesthetics but just be prepared to spend a little extra for the privilege to get

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comparable cooling capacity to what we've already got

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which leads us then to our most controversial pick this time

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around last year we practically begged AMD and

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NVIDIA to give us a solid upgrade of some sort so maybe next year we'll get a

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2 000 system that's worth upgrading to from our 2016 model

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like can we AMD and NVIDIA if we're really good

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and we've got it the rtx 2070 yes i know

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rtx is nowhere near worth it at this time but that doesn't mean that the rtx

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2070 isn't a good graphics card it's

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just an overpriced graphics card and by the

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time we wrote up this buyer's guide brand new stock of gtx 1080s and 1080

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ti's was essentially depleted

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so unless you want to buy those used which by the way is a valid option one

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that we'd recommend these guides only include products that

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you can buy brand new in a store so this is the best performance for gaming that

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we could get into this price bracket and it ain't bad for productivity either

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on that subject this video is about gaming pcs and of course that was the

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goal but as it turns out all of our builds across the board ended up pretty

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well balanced for either gaming or productivity tasks and we ended up

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inadvertently following some of our own advice from our recent CPU buyer's guide

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so as it always is with custom pcs the sky

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is the limit in terms of configurability but we think that our rigs make a great

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starting point for almost anyone who isn't looking for a hyper specialized

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build so now we'll wrap up then with full disclosure time we don't get any

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kickbacks for manufacturers for our holiday buyer's guide parts but what we

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do get is a commission if you buy them using the links below so if you're in

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the market go ahead and check them out it truly is a great time to buy a pc

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especially a value one 2018 was like a real roller coaster of pricing and

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availability but here we are finally at the end of it with a tangible

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improvement across the board over previous years so may your holidays be

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filled with tech and gaming cheer is this even visible in the frame let's

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bring some springs holiday cheer yeah

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