i would like to apologize for being so late on this video but it wasn't my
fault Anthony got sick
that was a reenactment he's fine now so let's set the ground rules products we
choose for our builds this year must be available brand new taken at either the
regular retail pricing or if they're like perpetually on sale whatever their
usual price is and they must fit within about five percent of our target budget
of which there are actually five this time around from under three hundred
dollars all the way up to three thousand dollars also they must wait until after
this message from our sponsor glasswire who lets you instantly see your current
and past network activity detect malware and block badly behaving apps on your pc
or Android device use offer code Linus to get 25 off down below
our new my first gaming rig price tier was
challenging to hit but this year the stars aligned and we actually pulled off
a passable esports gaming rig for about 300 bucks with all brand new components
we started with the impressive athlon 3000g from AMD which while only a dual
core CPU has integrated Radeon vega graphics and seems to become a darling
for amateur overclockers and value seekers thanks to its unlocked core
multiplier and tame power draw and thermals
of course since we're espousing the oc capabilities of this chip we will need a
decent motherboard MSI's b450m pro vdh
max isn't high end but it's got four RAM slots for expansion and is capable of
100 amps of current according to our forum's handy-dandy motherboard tier
list our deep cool matrix 30 case is unremarkable but solid enough and our
Corsair vs450 watt is not only enough for today but could even handle an
upgraded graphics card if you wanted
the good news though is that you could do that later because with eight gigs of
ddr4 3000 memory and a one terabyte sshd
for storage this build is absolutely capable of entry-level gaming today
without the graphics card so you could do far worse than this for your starter
pokemon it has been a great year for first-time gamers if you're still on a
budget but you want a little more bang for more competitive play then our 500
just game build is for you at just 90
Intel's core i3 9100f is a great upgrade
from last year's ryzen 3 2200g giving us
four faster cores which is key for gaming is the competition beautiful
ladies and gentlemen like our 300 build we're sticking with eight gigs of ddr4
3000 memory but unlike that build since this CPU has a locked multiplier we
won't be gearing up for overclocking what we will be gearing up is our
graphics the newly released GeForce gtx 1650 super is the obvious choice here
and it hits much harder than last year's gtx 1050 ti enabling entry-level aaa
gaming without breaking the bank what's more since it has the touring and bank
encoder you can even stream your exploits with only a small performance
and quality loss it all goes into the same inexpensive chassis as the light
powered by the same Corsair vs 450 watt power supply
one note though is that while the vs is way ahead of some of our previous just
game builds with like case provided power supplies a GPU upgrade down the
road will likely require a more powerful unit
what won't need an upgrade though is our storage for the first time ever our 500
tier has no spinning rust thanks to our 960 gig patriot burst SSD
all in all it's been a great year for budget gamers for a hamilton more than
last year we are getting substantially more performance across the board
now how about the mid-range where our 1 000 game now build lives here you start
to get into 1080p aaa gaming or even light workstation
capabilities the ryzen 5 3600 takes over CPU duties
from last year's 2600 and boy is it ever a lot faster thanks
to zen 2's performance improvements this plucky chip in combination with
fast RAM like the 16 gigs of ddr4 3600
we're giving it actually handles pretty much anything that you can think to
throw at it as we demonstrated in our budget 4k editing workstation video it
is seriously versatile and we've teamed it up with a seriously versatile xfx
Radeon rx 5700 dd ultra for graphics it
convincingly beats last year's fire sale 1070 ti out of the box and has the
potential to reach much faster speeds via a BIOS flash or soft power play
tables boost to enable xt like performance
now if NVIDIA is more your thing an rtx 2060 would be their equivalent but it
costs a bit more and what it has in features it gives up in raw performance
per dollar we went with an MSI b450 gaming plus max
motherboard for its decent vrms and features including a BIOS flashback
button and four dim slots for expansion and it's plenty for our 3600 but guys if
you plan to upgrade in the future you might want to consider an x series board
instead since a 12 core 3900x would need to be under volted in order to reach max
performance on this board powering all of it is a 550 watt Corsair cx 2017 it's
not modular but it's one of the better units at this price point and it'll go
into a practical if not spectacular fractal focus g
capping things off we went with a Noctua nhu 12s should we want to overclock our
CPU and storage duties are handled by a one terabyte NVMe Corsair force mp512
SSD overall we spent a few bucks less than
last year but we are getting a lot more computer in every way it's been a great
year for mid-range gamers and guys this is regular price once you get up into
the higher price brackets you tend to see deeper promos so get a couple of
these things on sale and you could fit an awesome shirt like this one into your
budget ltdstore.com moving up our two thousand
dollar game on build puts us in spendy territory where most people will
probably draw the line but where we get some serious horsepower to play with the
ryzen 7 3700x is an eight core 16 thread
monster of a CPU that's actually priced lower than last year's core i7 and while
it is marginally slower for gaming it runs circles around that chip for
anything else and you'll be doing plenty of else with it because we are backing
it up with 32 gigs of trident xeno ddr4
memory and of course our h159i pro cooler so it can really stretch its legs
in fact you can try and push it even further thanks to its unlocked core
multiplier and Gigabyte x570 auras elite Wi-Fi motherboard that's capable of
maxing out even a 3900x with no tweaks required
the rtx 2070 super in this year's build comes in as a direct replacement for
last year's non-super 2070 and while it
isn't quite rtx 2080 levels
even a little more performance at the same price and that's pretty super i
guess it's a great 1440p card capable of
everything rtx implies and you're not really likely to feel restricted anytime
soon unless you are super into ray tracing
powering this beast is a 650 watt Corsair rm 2019 one of the higher end
units you can buy right now and it all goes into the nzxt h510 for a clean
tempered glass aesthetic as for storage how does two terabytes of pci express
gen 4 SSD sound good
i thought so we've got a faster and cheaper CPU
faster memory faster GPU bigger and faster SSD no more hard drive and a
price tag that is essentially unchanged from last year it's been a good year for
high-end gamers merry freaking christmas finally let's have a look at the 3 000
game end more build for those of you who lead more
serious lives Anthony has actually secretly been putting builds like these
together for years of buyer's guides but balanced machines kept ending up in the
stratospheric 4 000 range
fortunately AMD's ryzen 9 3950x changes
all of that bringing 16 cores into the realm of mere mortals with per thread
performance that is definitely making team blue nervous to go with it we've
got not one but two 32 gig kits of tridenzi neo ddr4 3600 memory a beefy
fractal celsius s36 360 millimeter aio
for cooling and an x-570 aorus master
motherboard to give plenty of room to maneuver for tinkerers
pulling graphics duty is the rtx 2080 super a small improvement over the 2080
but quite a lot cheaper than the ti and that should tackle pretty much any task
you'd care to throw at it decoding 8k red footage running premiere and after
effects compositions light cad 3d rendering and of course its gaming
performance is awesome too it all goes into a Corsair obsidian 500d powered by
an 850 watt Corsair hx platinum and roll
in a gen 4 2 terabyte NVMe SSD i mean
compared to previous years there is just no contest the faster CPU and lower
price just knock it out of the park it
has been a good year for budget works to
the fifth time i said that i mean that's the truth of it 2019 was a
great year for the pc industry and enthusiasts as a whole i don't remember
the last time the landscape changed this much
and all for the better in a single year prices are low for everything including
volatile commodities like dram and nand flash performance is up competition is
back and it's just feels good right let's just bask in this we don't get it
very often like we have had so many frustrating years for building pcs 2016
sucked 2017 sucks 2018 sucked a little less this year
this year things are back on track and i can't think of a better christmas gift
than that unless it's a gorgeous website that's super easy to build if you want
one of those check out our sponsor squarespace wait what you think you
don't need a website of course you do it's easy and you can do almost anything
on it using squarespace they've got award-winning templates that will make
building your website super easy and make it stand out instead of looking
like it's from the 90s so if you're looking to open a business online
selling products or whatever they've got you covered there too squarespace can
help you showcase what you're selling in a modern style they've got a rich product display including videos and
image zoom they've got automatic inventory management and there's no
limit to how many items you want to sell even we use squarespace for both our
Linus mediagroup.com and ltxexpo.com websites and if you ever get stuck they
have 24 7 support that is ready to help you out via live chat and email so head
to squarespace.com forward slash LTT and get 10 off squarespace down below thanks
for watching guys if you're looking for another video to watch and maybe you're
upgrading instead of doing a full build check out our CPU buyer's guide for this
year and make sure you get subscribed so you don't miss any of our other holiday
guides ciao