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i would like to apologize for being so late on this video but it wasn't my

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fault Anthony got sick

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that was a reenactment he's fine now so let's set the ground rules products we

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choose for our builds this year must be available brand new taken at either the

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regular retail pricing or if they're like perpetually on sale whatever their

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usual price is and they must fit within about five percent of our target budget

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of which there are actually five this time around from under three hundred

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dollars all the way up to three thousand dollars also they must wait until after

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or Android device use offer code Linus to get 25 off down below

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our new my first gaming rig price tier was

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challenging to hit but this year the stars aligned and we actually pulled off

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a passable esports gaming rig for about 300 bucks with all brand new components

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we started with the impressive athlon 3000g from AMD which while only a dual

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core CPU has integrated Radeon vega graphics and seems to become a darling

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for amateur overclockers and value seekers thanks to its unlocked core

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multiplier and tame power draw and thermals

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of course since we're espousing the oc capabilities of this chip we will need a

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decent motherboard MSI's b450m pro vdh

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max isn't high end but it's got four RAM slots for expansion and is capable of

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100 amps of current according to our forum's handy-dandy motherboard tier

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list our deep cool matrix 30 case is unremarkable but solid enough and our

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Corsair vs450 watt is not only enough for today but could even handle an

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upgraded graphics card if you wanted

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the good news though is that you could do that later because with eight gigs of

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ddr4 3000 memory and a one terabyte sshd

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for storage this build is absolutely capable of entry-level gaming today

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without the graphics card so you could do far worse than this for your starter

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pokemon it has been a great year for first-time gamers if you're still on a

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budget but you want a little more bang for more competitive play then our 500

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just game build is for you at just 90

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Intel's core i3 9100f is a great upgrade

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from last year's ryzen 3 2200g giving us

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four faster cores which is key for gaming is the competition beautiful

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ladies and gentlemen like our 300 build we're sticking with eight gigs of ddr4

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3000 memory but unlike that build since this CPU has a locked multiplier we

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won't be gearing up for overclocking what we will be gearing up is our

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graphics the newly released GeForce gtx 1650 super is the obvious choice here

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and it hits much harder than last year's gtx 1050 ti enabling entry-level aaa

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gaming without breaking the bank what's more since it has the touring and bank

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encoder you can even stream your exploits with only a small performance

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and quality loss it all goes into the same inexpensive chassis as the light

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powered by the same Corsair vs 450 watt power supply

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one note though is that while the vs is way ahead of some of our previous just

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game builds with like case provided power supplies a GPU upgrade down the

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road will likely require a more powerful unit

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what won't need an upgrade though is our storage for the first time ever our 500

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tier has no spinning rust thanks to our 960 gig patriot burst SSD

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all in all it's been a great year for budget gamers for a hamilton more than

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last year we are getting substantially more performance across the board

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now how about the mid-range where our 1 000 game now build lives here you start

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to get into 1080p aaa gaming or even light workstation

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capabilities the ryzen 5 3600 takes over CPU duties

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from last year's 2600 and boy is it ever a lot faster thanks

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to zen 2's performance improvements this plucky chip in combination with

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fast RAM like the 16 gigs of ddr4 3600

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we're giving it actually handles pretty much anything that you can think to

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throw at it as we demonstrated in our budget 4k editing workstation video it

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is seriously versatile and we've teamed it up with a seriously versatile xfx

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Radeon rx 5700 dd ultra for graphics it

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convincingly beats last year's fire sale 1070 ti out of the box and has the

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potential to reach much faster speeds via a BIOS flash or soft power play

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tables boost to enable xt like performance

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now if NVIDIA is more your thing an rtx 2060 would be their equivalent but it

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costs a bit more and what it has in features it gives up in raw performance

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per dollar we went with an MSI b450 gaming plus max

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motherboard for its decent vrms and features including a BIOS flashback

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button and four dim slots for expansion and it's plenty for our 3600 but guys if

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you plan to upgrade in the future you might want to consider an x series board

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instead since a 12 core 3900x would need to be under volted in order to reach max

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performance on this board powering all of it is a 550 watt Corsair cx 2017 it's

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not modular but it's one of the better units at this price point and it'll go

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into a practical if not spectacular fractal focus g

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capping things off we went with a Noctua nhu 12s should we want to overclock our

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CPU and storage duties are handled by a one terabyte NVMe Corsair force mp512

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SSD overall we spent a few bucks less than

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last year but we are getting a lot more computer in every way it's been a great

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year for mid-range gamers and guys this is regular price once you get up into

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the higher price brackets you tend to see deeper promos so get a couple of

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these things on sale and you could fit an awesome shirt like this one into your

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budget ltdstore.com moving up our two thousand

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dollar game on build puts us in spendy territory where most people will

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probably draw the line but where we get some serious horsepower to play with the

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ryzen 7 3700x is an eight core 16 thread

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monster of a CPU that's actually priced lower than last year's core i7 and while

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it is marginally slower for gaming it runs circles around that chip for

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anything else and you'll be doing plenty of else with it because we are backing

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it up with 32 gigs of trident xeno ddr4

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memory and of course our h159i pro cooler so it can really stretch its legs

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in fact you can try and push it even further thanks to its unlocked core

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multiplier and Gigabyte x570 auras elite Wi-Fi motherboard that's capable of

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maxing out even a 3900x with no tweaks required

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the rtx 2070 super in this year's build comes in as a direct replacement for

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last year's non-super 2070 and while it

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isn't quite rtx 2080 levels

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even a little more performance at the same price and that's pretty super i

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guess it's a great 1440p card capable of

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everything rtx implies and you're not really likely to feel restricted anytime

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soon unless you are super into ray tracing

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powering this beast is a 650 watt Corsair rm 2019 one of the higher end

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units you can buy right now and it all goes into the nzxt h510 for a clean

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tempered glass aesthetic as for storage how does two terabytes of pci express

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gen 4 SSD sound good

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i thought so we've got a faster and cheaper CPU

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faster memory faster GPU bigger and faster SSD no more hard drive and a

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price tag that is essentially unchanged from last year it's been a good year for

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high-end gamers merry freaking christmas finally let's have a look at the 3 000

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game end more build for those of you who lead more

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serious lives Anthony has actually secretly been putting builds like these

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together for years of buyer's guides but balanced machines kept ending up in the

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stratospheric 4 000 range

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fortunately AMD's ryzen 9 3950x changes

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all of that bringing 16 cores into the realm of mere mortals with per thread

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performance that is definitely making team blue nervous to go with it we've

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got not one but two 32 gig kits of tridenzi neo ddr4 3600 memory a beefy

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fractal celsius s36 360 millimeter aio

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for cooling and an x-570 aorus master

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motherboard to give plenty of room to maneuver for tinkerers

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pulling graphics duty is the rtx 2080 super a small improvement over the 2080

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but quite a lot cheaper than the ti and that should tackle pretty much any task

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you'd care to throw at it decoding 8k red footage running premiere and after

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effects compositions light cad 3d rendering and of course its gaming

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performance is awesome too it all goes into a Corsair obsidian 500d powered by

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an 850 watt Corsair hx platinum and roll

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in a gen 4 2 terabyte NVMe SSD i mean

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compared to previous years there is just no contest the faster CPU and lower

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price just knock it out of the park it

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has been a good year for budget works to

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the fifth time i said that i mean that's the truth of it 2019 was a

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great year for the pc industry and enthusiasts as a whole i don't remember

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the last time the landscape changed this much

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and all for the better in a single year prices are low for everything including

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volatile commodities like dram and nand flash performance is up competition is

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back and it's just feels good right let's just bask in this we don't get it

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very often like we have had so many frustrating years for building pcs 2016

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sucked 2017 sucks 2018 sucked a little less this year

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this year things are back on track and i can't think of a better christmas gift

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