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if you're building a new gaming PC there's a good chance that you've heard

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this piece of advice balance your build

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which is an important rule to follow but

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balancing is kind of a vague term so we're going to explain what balancing

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means and what it doesn't mean the basic

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idea behind it is to minimize the impact of bottlenecks a bottleneck occurs when

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a weaker component prevents a stronger one from performing its best lowering

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your overall system performance in the applications that you care about a

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common bottleneck is overspending on a top tier gaming CPU and then under

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spending on your GPU however it's worth

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noting that this blade can cut both ways

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and a weak CPU can also result in lower

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than expected frame rates making matters even trickier the ideal CPU GPU balance

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is going to differ depending on what kinds of games you play say for example

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you're the competitive type and you play Esports titles where you're chasing the

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highest possible frame rates instead of Maximum visual Fidelity well for you

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balancing your build would mean making sure that your CPU can pump out hundreds

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of frame rates per second reducing latency and giving you a Competitive

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Edge and a good CPU might matter more than you think if you play simulation

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type games like City skylines large cities can drag the game simulation

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speed to a crawl literally slowing the in-game clock but on the flip side if

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you like to enjoy beautiful AAA single player experiences at the highest

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Fidelity you are almost certainly better off allocating all of your character

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sheet points to your GPU before you even begin to allocate anything elsewhere

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because modern techniques for rendering lighting and shadows are almost entirely

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dependent on having a strong GPU so your best bet in any case is to figure out

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your budget then read independent reviews for the games and the Hardware

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that you're interested in to see how different CPU and GPU combinations play

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with each other remember the GPU is often the bottleneck when trying to run

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at high resolutions and high quality settings but the CPU is often the

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bottleneck when trying to reach the highest possible frame rates as you go

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through this exercise though remember that balancing your build does not mean

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buying the highest end component just because you splurged on a different

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component elsewhere in your system don't be pressured Ed into spending fistfuls

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of money on let's say a fancy liquid cooler if an inexpensive heat sink is

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good enough for your needs another example is extra CPU cores well those

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can be worth spending money on if you're performing tasks that use them like

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video encoding or 3D rendering but I pretty much guarantee you that most of

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the games you play only use a handful of cores and a mid-range Chip is going to

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do just fine but that's only CPU and GPU

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what about the systems other components we're going to talk about those right

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after we thank MSI for sponsoring this video are you looking for a powerful PC

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but don't know where to start the MSI desktop Vision Elite RS might be just

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what you need it's equipped with the ultimate power combo an Intel Core I9

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14900 KF processor and an MSI GeForce

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RTX 490 graphics card but if you ever want to swap out components it's going

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to be a breeze with its upgrade friendly design standardized components and the

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durable MSI Z 790 motherboard enjoy

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blazing fast Wireless speeds with Wi-Fi 7 and support for ddr5 and PCIe Gen 5

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but MSI hasn't forgotten about style it features liquid RGB Cooling and a

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panoramic tempered glass panel to show off your top tier components check out

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msi's Vision Elite RS at the link in the description another core component to

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balance is your RAM avoiding critical bottlenecks typically means having

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enough RAM to run all of the programs you need at once without running out

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and in modern games that can be a lot these days with 32 GB quickly becoming

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the recommended amount to reduce stutter and even shorten loading times as you

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move to New areas of the map but that doesn't mean that you should go

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overboard and over by in the old days it

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could be worthwhile to load your system up with as much RAM as you could afford

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because newer programs might need more in the future and if you filled it up by

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accident it could result in a full system crash but modern systems will use

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their drive as an overflow which will slow down performance but it won't lock

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up your system so you can just head to the store at your leisure for an upgrade

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and besides if you have extra budget for your RAM today I'd consider putting it

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towards faster RAM rather than more of it though there is a point of

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diminishing returns so again read reviews to figure out what speed of RAM

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to buy for your needs so you aren't buying something that's so fast you're

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wasting your money balance outside of

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these core components CPU GPU and RAM

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there are some other considerations for balancing that may not affect your frame

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rates in your games as directly but can still save you money for example there

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isn't much point to getting some kind of gargantuan power supply That's rated far

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in excess of what your system actually draws under load a good guiding star is

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to look for a quality unit with 100 to

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200 watts of Headroom for future upgrades cybernetic certifications on

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the box never a bad sign and and I could

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actually say something similar about components like your motherboard in your case for example getting the motherboard

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with the right chipset is important so that your CPU will fit in it and so

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you'll have enough PCI Express Lanes and other key features you might want like

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Fast networking or USB ports but is

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there really a point in getting a super high-end motherboard with a ton of extra

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headers and overclocking Tom Foolery you're never going to use in a different

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vein do you really need a gigantic space hogging case if you're just rocking a

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mid-range graphics card and a single m.2 storage drive we can't talk through

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every scenario like that there's a lot to consider to have a well-balanced

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system but the underlying concept is simple figure out how you're going to be

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using your computer and buy the components that fit your use case

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without overspending and just because you spent a whole paycheck on an RTX 490

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that doesn't mean you have to spend two more paychecks on a 64 core CPU you're

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not going to hurt your graphics cards feelings I promise thanks for watching

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guys if you liked this video check out our other video on PC components that

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are surprisingly overrated