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the holidays are coming in hot which means it's exactly the right time to get

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Gamers they're a fussy bunch and with infinite combinations that you could

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pick from for a gaming PC it is easy to get overwhelmed well good news everyone

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by clicking this video you've already gotten the hardest part out of the way

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so sit back as we unleash this blizzard of tech tips upon you we are building

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three PCS at three different price points point and when we're done you're

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this price we like the long-term value of our game tomorrow machine you may

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already know that an APU or accelerated Processing Unit combines a CPU and a GPU

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onto one chip generally keeping both power consumption and costs down but

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what you might not know is that over the last couple of generations their gaming

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prowess has gotten very impressive and the 58600 G is capable of playing even

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modern titles in HD while leaving us

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with enough budget to build an upgrade friendly platform that we can take with

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us for years to come AMD's current am5 socket has some really solid options for

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entry-level motherboards these days a series chipsets used to be a for avoid

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but now they come with support for memory overclocking and PCI Express Gen

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4 the latter of which is particularly important because our Apu limits any

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future GPU upgrades to just eight Lanes

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RAM is going to cost us around $60 if we're targeting the ddr5 price to

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Performance Sweet Spot 40 bucks for an entry-level case around $40 for a 500

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gig Gen 4 SSD and then one area where we're going to need to overspend a

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little is our power supply we like these two units from Corsair and EVGA for

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around $65 either one will give us the headro we need to add a performance tier

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GPU later on down the line but they both

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come with some compromises while every

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Power Supply we're recommending today was able to go from Zer to 110% load

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multiple times without issue these particular units performed poorly for

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output Ripple it's not likely to kill anything and it probably won't cause

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problems for a system at this price point but if you want a little bit of

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extra peace of mind you can spend an extra $20 or so on one of these units

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that tested better while still fitting in our budget and here's the parts list

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upscaled gaming today upscale gaming

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tomorrow once you slot in a GPU maybe we should have called this the Merry

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Christmas now wait for your birthday machine oh you guys it's not even my

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birthday which wait means there must be a secret bonus machine that's right my

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friends we've got an all new price point

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for our holiday guide this year we've got the game hard machine an $800 rig

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that will run modern games at 1440p right now as long as you don't mind

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being locked out of some future upgrades for our CPU then we've gone with the

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5700 x3d on AMD's older am4 platform

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that means no future CPU upgrades but

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being honest I think it's going to be a few years before that really starts to

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sting anyway and it frees us a lot of

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budget for our GPU rounding out the system we settled on a BIOS compatible

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b450 motherboard 16 gigs of reputable 3600 megat transfer per second RAM and a

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decent PCIe NVMe SSD ideally here you

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want to find one with a dam cache but failing that look for hmb support to

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ensure stutter-free operation we settled on this case but it's worth noting that

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deals in this price bracket can tend to be pretty volatile often changing on

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Tuesdays for some reason so be ready to be a little flexible on that now for

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this build and all the ones that are still coming you're going to need to

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budget for a CPU Cooler and we feel that the thermal right Phantom spirit is

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worth the $10 to $15 premium over popular choices like The Cooler Master

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212 what isn't worth it at this budget is water cooling because you want every

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possible dollar going into the right GPU

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this Asus dual OC 7700 XT was the right

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GPU for us cuz we got a great deal for it at

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$350 but that might not always be around so we'd recommend taking a look at Tom's

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Hardware's super handy GPU hierarchy chart to help you understand how any

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prospective deals that you find might match up at a glance we'd also recommend

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you check out LTT Store.com for some great gift ideas at much lower prices

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than any of the PCS featured today we've got stocking stuffers like these stick

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locks or the tech sack for your favorite tech bro on the go now it's time for our

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next stop on the deal train the game

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harder $11,000 balanced PC here you can expect

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and even 4K gaming for older titles that you'd love to see look their best

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well-rounded foundation for future upgrades we'll kick off our parts list

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with a deal we found on an AMD ryzen 5 7600 X CPU that comes with a free 1 TB

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Kingston mv2 SSD now by the time you're

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watching this video that deal might have expired but the mentality behind our

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pick won't you got to be flexible

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educate yourself on what you need and then dig for the deals that are

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sometimes buried in bundles and most importantly ask yourself what games am I

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actually playing for example if you're a competitive gamer and you use low

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Graphics settings to get high frame rates you might want to look at an x3d

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chip at least once the scalpers get bored with their latest play thing

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however if you're building a machine for AAA 1440p gaming you should stick with

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our recommendation which brings us to one of the hardest choices our

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motherboard let me break this down the ryzen 7600 X is am5 again but we're no

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longer budget limited to just entry-level boards that means we need to

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choose between the nine available motherboard chipsets at least the naming

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scheme is somewhat useful even if the first letter is redundant so for now

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let's ignore the letter and jump to the first digit which tells us the

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generation either 6 or 8 is going to

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work for our CPU so then and let's look at the next two digits these tell us the

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tier of the chipset higher number means more tiers and an e indicates better

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connectivity with more PCI E Lanes but

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none of those things necessarily mean better board the chipset informs the

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feature set not the build quality so

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bottom line then unless you know you need something else a good b650 board

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like this one is a great choice for about $100 it has good enough power

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delivery for a light CPU overclock and support for a PCIe Gen 5 SSD even if

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it lacks a Gen 5 GPU slot the good news

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is that likely won't impact real world GPU performance for quite a few years

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looking at how long it took for Gen 4 to matter now we could go for a Gen 5 board

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but it would cost us twice as much which at this price point we don't think is

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worth it our RAM and our cooler get carried forward we've already got our

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SSD and that leaves us to sort out case and power I like the fantex X T Pro and

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we can comfortably afford one of the good 750 W power supplies from last time

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that leaves us $450 for a GPU so let's have a look at

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our options on the team green side we can get a RTX 460 TI or on the team red

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side this excellent XFX Speedster 7800

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XT now to be clear neither of these is a

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wrong choice but it is worth noting that while the GeForce card includes NVIDIA's

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excellent Suite of features it's a less performant card to begin

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with and it's going to rely on AI upscaling in order to deliver comparable

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in-game performance so I leave that up to you now it's time to open the

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throttle a little if you're after a superior PC gaming experience the kind

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of 4K horsepower your console locked friends can only dream of we have

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finally arrived at the best without wasting money station this $22,000 PC is

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stacked and without throwing away some serious extra money I don't think you

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can get a much better experience to kick things off then this Behemoth starts

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with the absolute best gaming CPU the world has ever seen the AMD ryzen 7 9800

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x3d does it oh that's right those are out of stock everywhere what I meant to

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say was the second best the 7800 x3d

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nope all the deals are bad all right we went with the 9700x

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now I get it those first two would outperform our practical pick here but

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at the cost of how you say more money

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and as we discussed in our recent 9800 x3d review Once you go above 1080p low

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settings you're better off spending that extra money on a better GPU besides

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we've still got eight fast Zen 5 course

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and AMD's mismanaged launch of this thing has resulted in some aggressive

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deals to help clear inventory which is

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good because motherboards have gotten pretty expensive these days we've got

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yet another am5 chip so let's buy the most expensive thing not I know we could

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afford it but guys if you look closely the main difference for the eboards is

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more PCI E Lanes which unless we know we need them we don't need them and there's

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no performance difference between 600 series or 800 series at least not on the

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chips that are available today so we'd recommend going for whatever you can

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find at a good price we ended up with this one but after procuring it we found

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this great deal that includes a 32 gig kit of g-skill flare X5 which is a good

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reminder that we should always be flexible if we want to get the best

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value it's too late for us but hey our loss is your gain by the way it's worth

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noting that during the holiday season a lot of retailers will extend their

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return window on select items so that you can shop with a little bit of extra

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confidence when you see a good deal that's something that might be

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especially important this year with the looming threat of new tariffs on

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overseas manufactured Electronics we're not going to say that things are

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definitely going to be more expensive next year but we also can't say for sure

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that they won't be and this will especially impact you if you're

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splurging on some style points with an AO cooler and a very glass forward case

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we've doubled the capacity of our RAM and SSD and we've jumped up to a 1,000 W

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Platinum efficient power supply to keep our power hungry GPU fed really real

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istically we probably could still get away with a quality 750 W unit but 1,000

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is such a nice round number and at this

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budget we can afford to spend extra on something that we can hopefully bring

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forward to our next upgrade we can also afford to spend ,000 on our GPU which

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gives us a choice between AMD's 7900 XTX

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and NVIDIA's RTX 480 super now on the

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one hand we've got better rasterized performance and more than $100 in s

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savings but on the other hand we've got better Ray tracing and upscaling

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Hardware not to mention NVIDIA's long history of solid software support I

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don't think either of them is a bad choice so I'm going to leave this one up to you but we ended up going Team Green

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for this one we also ended up leaving all the links to everything that we've

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sales the prices will be different every week but if you were to start with any

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of these builds as a springboard we're confident that you should end up with an

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