buying a PC part by part can be tough
thanks to Modern
branding it's impossible to know what's good especially if you've been out of
the loop for a while what is the difference between a ryzen
77700 and 7700x should I save the dollar
is an expensive motherboard really faster and what's better between super
an XT I know I'm just going to Mosey on
over to New Egg and round up the best rated parts and see if the herd
mentality steers me wrong or lands me
kneed deep in manure but first I got to rustle up a
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on any plan including their month-to-month options first the rules
we decided that to be a herd mentality part every product we chose had to have
five eggs good job buddy we also decided
that they needed at least 100 reviews to ensure that they were proven performers
and we filtered by in stock so you know
you could actually buy the stuff so drum roll please your CPU of choice is
Intel's core i7 12 700k I got to say way
to go herd I mean a couple of months
back when we started compiling our list we were a little surprised to see you
all sticking with tried and true 12 gen
but since then it's emerged that 13th and 14th gen Intel chips have been
susceptible to random crashing and even outright failure so we give up some
speed sure but we've still got 12 stable
cores in our socket for around 260 bucks
not bad in fact the only thing people didn't like about it was that it failed
to boot and then boots all right then
our other Contender for the best rated CPU was the AMD 7800 x3d it ties the 4.9
egg rating but given that it shares its
636 reviews with two other chips we couldn't very well give it the win even
if we'd like to it is another $100 and
actually has four fewer cores but those cores absolutely Excel for gaming and
its am5 socket is expected to be supported until at least 2027 making it
a no-brainer for the gamers out there after adjusting our search parameters to
include only compatible LGA 1700 boards
msi's Pro z690 a Wi-Fi ddr5 is our big
winner now this one's another aggregate review score so it's kind of hard to say
which of those boards are the best reviewed ones but it comes up first in
the results compared to its product page siblings and it gets wait only 4 and 1/2
eggs Yep this is our first piece that lands outside of our 5 egg Target but as
it turns out that's as good as it gets for a motherboard and it might be all
right I mean MSI won our shootout a few years back when we tried 10 boards with
one CPU and it's also got a healthy mix of features with lots of IO PCIe Gen 5
for our graphics card decent expansion for later RGB and Wi-Fi 6E so what's not
to love about it well according to our one egg reviewers the ones that don't
work next up comes memory and after much
deliberation we settled on the 64 gig
Fury Beast kit from Kingston why
deliberation well none of the 5A gram
kits had a lot of reviews so we sorted by rating and lowered the threshold to
20 which put this one on top unfortunately it's my first real displ
I mean it's not bad but does the average user in 2024 really need 64 gigs of RAM
and at 6,000 megat transfers per second CL 36 it's not the greatest performing
kit either especially given we're spending
$220 bad reviews here focused mainly on their instability though realistically
that's probably more down to their motherboard choice or the memory
controller on their CPU anyway another disappointment for us was our store
because while it is an m.2 NVMe Drive
which should be plenty fast for the modern gamer specifically it's the
Samsung 970 Evo plus 500 gig that's not
a lot of space for the modern gamer our one or two egg reviews here focused on
its a lack of longevity lack of longevity and especially lack of
longevity though it is worth noting that none of those reviews have shown up
recently and we did find some Forum articles that seem to indicate that s
might have patched some bugs in this particular Drive speaking of situations
that have changed recently our last part before we unveil our case is deep Cool's
AG 620 Tower cooler you um can't buy
these in the United States anymore on account of deep cool allegedly engaging
in selling to Russian businesses and whatnot but before that happened we
bought this fine 5A cooler for just
$61.50 since it's no longer listed on the US site though we had to go to the
Canadian website to get screen capture of the reviews where there weren't any
reviews below 4 eggs no complaints you
know what else you won't be complaining about our new Intergalactic GPU poster
from LTD store.com and the best thing is you can buy one without supporting the
Russian war machine woo now let's get
all of this into the case nice the fractal meshify 2 might
not meet our 4o egg threshold anymore but it did when we ordered it and
come on Joshua D that has nothing to do
with the build quality of this fine case it's got loads of room to work in rubber
grommets for cable management it comes with fans and thanks to its mesh front
panel it should keep our components nice and cool also luckily for us while it is
on the expensive side at $160 the light tint teered glass window
option that we got is still on sale for just 110 complaints about it mostly
centered on its lack of E ATX support a
lack of support for 420 mm radiators without removing the front fanss and
some stripped screws now to get things powered up with a power supply from oh
of course it is SE Sonic it's the vertex
gx1000 this is a 1,000 wat 80 plus gold
fully modular power supply and what's not to love it was even on sale for 170
bucks when we bought it I think the only real criticism that I would level at the
herd here is that this is kind of Overkill I mean I haven't shown you guys
the GPU yet but we do not need a 1,000 W
power supply and we could have saved some money if we'd gone with an 800 watt
but I'm not the one making the rules today folks now the astute observers out
there are probably yelling lonus that's not 100 reviews you cheated cuz you love
seic so much but you know what I say to that look
again boom the only one egg review for
this thing was from someone who ordered the plat Plum rated variant but got gold
and that was probably new egg's fault that is some fine power supply making
now it's time at long last to talk GPU
love them or hate them Asus takes this one with exactly 100 reviews on their
470 TI super OC Edition there's a lot to
like about this guy 16 gigs of vram an elevated boost clock fourth gen tensor
course third gen rate tracing course it's a great card no matter which brand
you buy it from and Ours was on sale the
one egg reviews here had to do with a DOA product and surprise surprise a lack
of customer support and would you look at that it's
a pretty nice build at just over
$900 we've spent a lot of money but we've also got a very competent high-end
gaming rig it looks good it games good
but does it compete good you see I've
been hiding something from you this whole time we built a second PC with our
own choices with the goal of bleeding excuse me I mean beating the herd
and okay we went like $9 over budget but
come on it's going to be the best $9 you
ever spent cuz I think we did awesome here we've got a one tbte Gen4 Drive
instead of 512 gigs we upgraded our CPU
remember of course we were looking at Parts before for AMD launched ryzen
99000 and put the 7,000 series on promo but we've got half as much RAM running
at a much faster speed and the best part Gamers we squeezed in a 4080 super
instead of that 4070 TI super now we did
compromise a little bit on our eggs most of them are in the 4 and a half range
but some of them are even still five egg products so we didn't do any weird
bottom ofth Barrel dumpster diving in order to save that money but enough
chitchat let's see how we did we'll kick things
off with good oldfashioned cine bench and wait why do you get the good one cuz
I chose the good one mind you I mean
it's a miracle even finish the run so yeah make sure mic code update is
available now but uh anyway my 12 gen
one definitely works yep but what about games what do you want to start with
Counter Strike Counter Strike two that's it all right now I'd like people to note
that just because he gets more kills than me doesn't mean that his computer
is that much better than me he's just a much better gamer oh we're totally in
the same match let's go where you at brother I killed huge reaction no oh I'm
dead too we died like nice I just got three in Rapid succession here I'm
catching up it's over what yeah match is
over oh are we in different matches we must be cuz my match is over I thought
it looked like the same match loaded in at like the exact same time you know
what we haven't been doing paying attention to the frame rate oh right uh
wow they're really close I'm sitting at like 270 FPS I mean mine fluctuates a
lot it goes from like 220 to 320 293 280
290 see let's see your kill to death ratio though oh my God that's the real
Mark of a gaming rig yeah that's how that works I'm a little surprised that
you're not getting any extra on the 280 super this is 4K basically cranked right
yeah but Counterstrike is really CPU bound and as much as the 13 700k is a
little better than it's not that much better right and certainly not in like
single threaded performance my GPU peaked at
62 okay so they're pretty close yeah mine's also around 62 okay all right
let's Halo infin Halo infinite sure where are you okay all right let's go
let's go okay I like this gun uh okay I'm at 120 you're at one oh
yeah I'm clearly in the lead it's not a lot I would say that it's enough that in
a pretty bad sit situation you're going to have a slight Edge for smoothness but
both of these are extremely playable yeah I don't think this one's going to
be that close I mean with Ray tracing on
I'm actually losing right now get out of the way buddy hey hey I'm driving here okay you
know what now it's pretty I am winning like I know we're not in the same spot
but I'm getting like 30 pretty consistently oras you're at like a
consistent 24 that's a pretty solid machine man they're both good yeah
they're both good that's a quite a bit better measurably better I mean okay
when it's this low of an FPS yeah 7 FPS 6 FPS that's like more than 10%
yeah but they're both around the same
like realistically 32 to 27 FPS if I had both of these in front of me I wouldn't
be able to tell okay okay yeah you're
right look all right all right you built a better machine you want a cookie yes
give cookie please dudee I can't even like
aame that's not good yeah what are your
1% not great oh yeah see my 1% are
pretty consistently 30 30 plus whereas you're dipping into like 24 territory
for your 1% lows that's that big difference right there yeah
realistically you'd be pretty happy with either of these I think the herd did a
great job but ploof system does show how
important it is to prioritize a bigger GPU and faster memory I also think we
could have gotten better bang for the buck if we didn't care about buying into
a modern platform something like a 5800 X 3D with some higher end ddr4 and a
cheap am4 motherboard makes for a wicked value gaming system and would give you
even more money to spend on your GPU so yeah it's a tad overpriced for what you
get but you can't fault the quality and if you want to buy anything that you saw
here today well except maybe that deep cool cooler we're going to have links in
the video description and the big conclusion here is that in spite of all
the attempts to spread misinformation online reviews still largely serve their
purpose you just might have to sift a little bit and do some research to
really find the absolute best bang for your buck oh and make sure to shop
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