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buying a PC part by part can be tough

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thanks to Modern

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branding it's impossible to know what's good especially if you've been out of

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the loop for a while what is the difference between a ryzen

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77700 and 7700x should I save the dollar

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is an expensive motherboard really faster and what's better between super

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an XT I know I'm just going to Mosey on

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over to New Egg and round up the best rated parts and see if the herd

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mentality steers me wrong or lands me

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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

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we decided that to be a herd mentality part every product we chose had to have

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five eggs good job buddy we also decided

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that they needed at least 100 reviews to ensure that they were proven performers

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and we filtered by in stock so you know

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you could actually buy the stuff so drum roll please your CPU of choice is

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Intel's core i7 12 700k I got to say way

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to go herd I mean a couple of months

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back when we started compiling our list we were a little surprised to see you

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all sticking with tried and true 12 gen

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but since then it's emerged that 13th and 14th gen Intel chips have been

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susceptible to random crashing and even outright failure so we give up some

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speed sure but we've still got 12 stable

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cores in our socket for around 260 bucks

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not bad in fact the only thing people didn't like about it was that it failed

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to boot and then boots all right then

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our other Contender for the best rated CPU was the AMD 7800 x3d it ties the 4.9

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egg rating but given that it shares its

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636 reviews with two other chips we couldn't very well give it the win even

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if we'd like to it is another $100 and

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actually has four fewer cores but those cores absolutely Excel for gaming and

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its am5 socket is expected to be supported until at least 2027 making it

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a no-brainer for the gamers out there after adjusting our search parameters to

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include only compatible LGA 1700 boards

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msi's Pro z690 a Wi-Fi ddr5 is our big

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winner now this one's another aggregate review score so it's kind of hard to say

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which of those boards are the best reviewed ones but it comes up first in

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the results compared to its product page siblings and it gets wait only 4 and 1/2

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eggs Yep this is our first piece that lands outside of our 5 egg Target but as

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it turns out that's as good as it gets for a motherboard and it might be all

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right I mean MSI won our shootout a few years back when we tried 10 boards with

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one CPU and it's also got a healthy mix of features with lots of IO PCIe Gen 5

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for our graphics card decent expansion for later RGB and Wi-Fi 6E so what's not

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to love about it well according to our one egg reviewers the ones that don't

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work next up comes memory and after much

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deliberation we settled on the 64 gig

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Fury Beast kit from Kingston why

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deliberation well none of the 5A gram

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kits had a lot of reviews so we sorted by rating and lowered the threshold to

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20 which put this one on top unfortunately it's my first real displ

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I mean it's not bad but does the average user in 2024 really need 64 gigs of RAM

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and at 6,000 megat transfers per second CL 36 it's not the greatest performing

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kit either especially given we're spending

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$220 bad reviews here focused mainly on their instability though realistically

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that's probably more down to their motherboard choice or the memory

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controller on their CPU anyway another disappointment for us was our store

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because while it is an m.2 NVMe Drive

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which should be plenty fast for the modern gamer specifically it's the

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Samsung 970 Evo plus 500 gig that's not

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a lot of space for the modern gamer our one or two egg reviews here focused on

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its a lack of longevity lack of longevity and especially lack of

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longevity though it is worth noting that none of those reviews have shown up

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recently and we did find some Forum articles that seem to indicate that s

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might have patched some bugs in this particular Drive speaking of situations

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that have changed recently our last part before we unveil our case is deep Cool's

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AG 620 Tower cooler you um can't buy

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these in the United States anymore on account of deep cool allegedly engaging

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in selling to Russian businesses and whatnot but before that happened we

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bought this fine 5A cooler for just

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$61.50 since it's no longer listed on the US site though we had to go to the

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Canadian website to get screen capture of the reviews where there weren't any

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reviews below 4 eggs no complaints you

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know what else you won't be complaining about our new Intergalactic GPU poster

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from LTD store.com and the best thing is you can buy one without supporting the

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Russian war machine woo now let's get

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all of this into the case nice the fractal meshify 2 might

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not meet our 4o egg threshold anymore but it did when we ordered it and

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come on Joshua D that has nothing to do

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with the build quality of this fine case it's got loads of room to work in rubber

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grommets for cable management it comes with fans and thanks to its mesh front

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panel it should keep our components nice and cool also luckily for us while it is

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on the expensive side at $160 the light tint teered glass window

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option that we got is still on sale for just 110 complaints about it mostly

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centered on its lack of E ATX support a

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lack of support for 420 mm radiators without removing the front fanss and

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some stripped screws now to get things powered up with a power supply from oh

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of course it is SE Sonic it's the vertex

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gx1000 this is a 1,000 wat 80 plus gold

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fully modular power supply and what's not to love it was even on sale for 170

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bucks when we bought it I think the only real criticism that I would level at the

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herd here is that this is kind of Overkill I mean I haven't shown you guys

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the GPU yet but we do not need a 1,000 W

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power supply and we could have saved some money if we'd gone with an 800 watt

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but I'm not the one making the rules today folks now the astute observers out

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there are probably yelling lonus that's not 100 reviews you cheated cuz you love

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seic so much but you know what I say to that look

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again boom the only one egg review for

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this thing was from someone who ordered the plat Plum rated variant but got gold

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and that was probably new egg's fault that is some fine power supply making

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now it's time at long last to talk GPU

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love them or hate them Asus takes this one with exactly 100 reviews on their

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470 TI super OC Edition there's a lot to

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like about this guy 16 gigs of vram an elevated boost clock fourth gen tensor

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course third gen rate tracing course it's a great card no matter which brand

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you buy it from and Ours was on sale the

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one egg reviews here had to do with a DOA product and surprise surprise a lack

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of customer support and would you look at that it's

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a pretty nice build at just over

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$900 we've spent a lot of money but we've also got a very competent high-end

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gaming rig it looks good it games good

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but does it compete good you see I've

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been hiding something from you this whole time we built a second PC with our

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own choices with the goal of bleeding excuse me I mean beating the herd

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and okay we went like $9 over budget but

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come on it's going to be the best $9 you

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ever spent cuz I think we did awesome here we've got a one tbte Gen4 Drive

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instead of 512 gigs we upgraded our CPU

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remember of course we were looking at Parts before for AMD launched ryzen

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99000 and put the 7,000 series on promo but we've got half as much RAM running

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at a much faster speed and the best part Gamers we squeezed in a 4080 super

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instead of that 4070 TI super now we did

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compromise a little bit on our eggs most of them are in the 4 and a half range

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but some of them are even still five egg products so we didn't do any weird

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bottom ofth Barrel dumpster diving in order to save that money but enough

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chitchat let's see how we did we'll kick things

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off with good oldfashioned cine bench and wait why do you get the good one cuz

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I chose the good one mind you I mean

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it's a miracle even finish the run so yeah make sure mic code update is

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available now but uh anyway my 12 gen

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one definitely works yep but what about games what do you want to start with

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Counter Strike Counter Strike two that's it all right now I'd like people to note

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that just because he gets more kills than me doesn't mean that his computer

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is that much better than me he's just a much better gamer oh we're totally in

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the same match let's go where you at brother I killed huge reaction no oh I'm

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dead too we died like nice I just got three in Rapid succession here I'm

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catching up it's over what yeah match is

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over oh are we in different matches we must be cuz my match is over I thought

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it looked like the same match loaded in at like the exact same time you know

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what we haven't been doing paying attention to the frame rate oh right uh

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wow they're really close I'm sitting at like 270 FPS I mean mine fluctuates a

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lot it goes from like 220 to 320 293 280

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290 see let's see your kill to death ratio though oh my God that's the real

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Mark of a gaming rig yeah that's how that works I'm a little surprised that

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you're not getting any extra on the 280 super this is 4K basically cranked right

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yeah but Counterstrike is really CPU bound and as much as the 13 700k is a

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little better than it's not that much better right and certainly not in like

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single threaded performance my GPU peaked at

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62 okay so they're pretty close yeah mine's also around 62 okay all right

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let's Halo infin Halo infinite sure where are you okay all right let's go

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let's go okay I like this gun uh okay I'm at 120 you're at one oh

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yeah I'm clearly in the lead it's not a lot I would say that it's enough that in

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a pretty bad sit situation you're going to have a slight Edge for smoothness but

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both of these are extremely playable yeah I don't think this one's going to

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be that close I mean with Ray tracing on

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I'm actually losing right now get out of the way buddy hey hey I'm driving here okay you

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know what now it's pretty I am winning like I know we're not in the same spot

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but I'm getting like 30 pretty consistently oras you're at like a

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consistent 24 that's a pretty solid machine man they're both good yeah

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they're both good that's a quite a bit better measurably better I mean okay

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when it's this low of an FPS yeah 7 FPS 6 FPS that's like more than 10%

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yeah but they're both around the same

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like realistically 32 to 27 FPS if I had both of these in front of me I wouldn't

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be able to tell okay okay yeah you're

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right look all right all right you built a better machine you want a cookie yes

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give cookie please dudee I can't even like

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aame that's not good yeah what are your

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1% not great oh yeah see my 1% are

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pretty consistently 30 30 plus whereas you're dipping into like 24 territory

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for your 1% lows that's that big difference right there yeah

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realistically you'd be pretty happy with either of these I think the herd did a

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great job but ploof system does show how

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important it is to prioritize a bigger GPU and faster memory I also think we

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could have gotten better bang for the buck if we didn't care about buying into

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a modern platform something like a 5800 X 3D with some higher end ddr4 and a

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cheap am4 motherboard makes for a wicked value gaming system and would give you

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even more money to spend on your GPU so yeah it's a tad overpriced for what you

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get but you can't fault the quality and if you want to buy anything that you saw

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here today well except maybe that deep cool cooler we're going to have links in

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the video description and the big conclusion here is that in spite of all

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the attempts to spread misinformation online reviews still largely serve their

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purpose you just might have to sift a little bit and do some research to

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really find the absolute best bang for your buck oh and make sure to shop

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