{"video_id":"fp_tCGM3xhF1H","title":"The Herd Mentality PC 2024 - Shopping For Top Rated Parts on Newegg","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2024-08-31T15:47:00.014Z","duration_s":819,"segments":[{"start_s":0.0,"end_s":4.88,"text":"Buying a PC part-by-part can be tough. Thanks to modern branding.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":7.12,"end_s":12.26,"text":"It's impossible to know what's good, especially if you've been out of the loop for a while.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":12.46,"end_s":17.92,"text":"What is the difference between a Ryzen 7, 7700, and 7700X?","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":18.08,"end_s":25.18,"text":"Should I save the dollar? Is an expensive motherboard really faster? And what's better between Super and XT?","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":25.18,"end_s":33.34,"text":"I know. I'm just gonna mosey on over to new egg and round up the best rated parts and see if the herd mentality","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":33.58,"end_s":40.02,"text":"Steers me wrong or lands me knee-deep in the newer, but first I gotta rustle up the segue","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":43.06,"end_s":48.12,"text":"To our sponsor first the rules we decided that to be a herd mentality part","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":48.46,"end_s":52.66,"text":"Every product we chose had to have five eggs. Good job, buddy","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":52.9,"end_s":58.38,"text":"We also decided that they needed at least a hundred reviews to ensure that they were proven performers","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":58.38,"end_s":64.86,"text":"And we filtered by in-stock so you know, you could actually be buying stuff. So drumroll, please","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":65.66,"end_s":72.66,"text":"Your CPU of choice is Intel's Core i7-12700K. I gotta say","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":73.22,"end_s":79.38,"text":"Way to go herd. I mean a couple of months back when we started compiling our list","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":79.38,"end_s":84.26,"text":"We were a little surprised to see you all sticking with tried-and-true 12th gen","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":84.5,"end_s":93.34,"text":"But since then it's emerged that 13th and 14th gen Intel chips have been susceptible to random crashing and even outright failure","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":93.34,"end_s":97.66,"text":"So we give up some speed sure, but we've still got 12","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":98.22,"end_s":102.34,"text":"Stable cores in our socket for around 260 bucks. 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You know what else you won't be complaining about our new intergalactic GPU poster from LTT Store.com","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":329.04,"end_s":333.08,"text":"And the best thing is you can buy one without supporting the Russian war machine","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":334.52,"end_s":336.52,"text":"Now let's get all of this into the case","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":338.08,"end_s":343.84,"text":"Nice the fractal mesh if I to might not meet our four-point egg threshold anymore","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":343.84,"end_s":348.2,"text":"But it did when we ordered it and come on Joshua D","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":348.32,"end_s":352.08,"text":"That has nothing to do with the build quality of this fine case","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":352.36,"end_s":356.2,"text":"It's got loads of room to work in rubber grommets for cable management","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":356.2,"end_s":361.72,"text":"It comes with fans and thanks to its mesh front panel. 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This is a 1000 watt 80 plus gold fully modular power supply","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":395.76,"end_s":400.72,"text":"And what's not to love it was even on sale for a hundred and seventy bucks when we bought it","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":401.12,"end_s":404.8,"text":"I think the only real criticism that I would level at the herd here is that","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":406.0,"end_s":409.92,"text":"Kind of overkill. I mean, I haven't shown you guys the GPU yet","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":409.92,"end_s":416.72,"text":"But we do not need a 1000 watt power supply and we could have saved some money if we'd gone with an 800 watt","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":417.2,"end_s":422.72,"text":"But I'm not the one making the rules today folks. Now the astute observers out there are probably yelling Linus","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":423.44,"end_s":428.72,"text":"That's not a hundred reviews. You cheated because you love Seasonic so much, but you know what I say to that","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":429.52,"end_s":437.12,"text":"Look again Boom the only one egg review for this thing was from someone who ordered the platinum rated variant","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":437.36,"end_s":440.08,"text":"But got gold and that was probably new eggs fault","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":440.64,"end_s":443.28,"text":"That is some fine power supply making","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":443.84,"end_s":446.88,"text":"Now it's time at long last to talk GPU","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":447.44,"end_s":455.28,"text":"Love them or hate them ASUS takes this one with exactly 100 reviews on their 4070ti Super OC edition","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":455.76,"end_s":462.72,"text":"There's a lot to like about this guy 16 gigs of VRAM an elevated boost clock fourth gen tensor course third gen ray tracing course","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":462.88,"end_s":466.88,"text":"It's a great card no matter which brand you buy it from and ours was on sale","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":467.36,"end_s":470.8,"text":"the one egg reviews here had to do with a doa product and","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":472.16,"end_s":475.44,"text":"Surprise surprise a lack of customer support","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":477.68,"end_s":483.28,"text":"And would you look at that? It's a pretty nice build at just over 1900 dollars","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":483.36,"end_s":489.76,"text":"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","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":490.48,"end_s":496.88,"text":"But does it compete good? You see I've been hiding something from you this whole time","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":497.92,"end_s":502.96,"text":"We built a second pc with our own choices with the goal of bleeding","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":503.76,"end_s":508.24,"text":"I mean beading the herd and","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":508.24,"end_s":517.6,"text":"Okay, we went like $9 over budget, but come on. It's gonna be the best $9 you ever spent because I think we did awesome here","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":517.84,"end_s":523.6,"text":"We've got a one terabyte gen 4 drive instead of 512 gigs. 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I mean it's a miracle even finished the run so","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":567.84,"end_s":572.72,"text":"yeah Okay, the microcode update is available now, but","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":573.76,"end_s":578.8,"text":"Uh Anyway, my 12th gen one definitely works. Yep, but what about games?","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":578.8,"end_s":581.68,"text":"Do you want to start with counter strike counter strike two? That's it","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":582.08,"end_s":589.2,"text":"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","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":590.0,"end_s":594.96,"text":"He's just a much better gamer. Oh, we're totally in the same match. Let's go. 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I mean mine fluctuates a lot. It goes from like 220 to 320","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":627.92,"end_s":634.08,"text":"293 280 Let's see you're killed the death ratio though. Oh my god. That's the real mark of a gaming rig","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":634.56,"end_s":639.6,"text":"Yeah, that's how that works. I'm a little surprised that you're not getting any extra on the 280 super","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":639.68,"end_s":647.28,"text":"This is 4k basically cranked right? Yeah, but counter strike is really CPU bound and as much as the 1300 k is a little better","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":647.52,"end_s":654.16,"text":"Yeah, not really. It's not that much better, right? I'm certainly not in like single threaded performance. Yeah, my GPU peaked at 62","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":654.88,"end_s":658.24,"text":"Okay, so they're pretty close. Yeah, mine's also around 62. Okay. Okay. All right","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":658.8,"end_s":663.36,"text":"Let's halo infinite halo infinite. Sure. Okay. All right. Let's go. Let's go. Okay. I like this gun","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":665.04,"end_s":669.12,"text":"Okay, I'm at 120 you're at one. Oh, yeah, I'm clearly in the lead. It's not a lot","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":670.56,"end_s":678.24,"text":"I would say that It's enough that in a pretty bad situation. You're gonna have a slight edge for smoothness","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":678.96,"end_s":683.52,"text":"But both of these are extremely playable. Yeah, I don't think this one's gonna be that close","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":684.08,"end_s":689.52,"text":"I mean with ray tracing on I'm actually losing right now go the way buddy","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":690.64,"end_s":696.16,"text":"Hey Hey, I'm driving here. Okay, you know what now it's pretty I am winning","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":696.88,"end_s":700.56,"text":"Like I know we're not in the same spot, but I'm getting like 30 pretty consistently","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":700.96,"end_s":706.8,"text":"Whereas you're at like a consistent 24. This is a pretty solid machine, man. They're both good. Yeah, they're both good","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":706.88,"end_s":717.04,"text":"That's a quite a bit better Measurably better. I mean, okay when it's this low of an FPS. Yeah seven FPS six FPS. That's like more than 10 percent. Yeah","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":718.48,"end_s":724.72,"text":"but They're both the brown the same like realistically 32 to 27 FPS if I had both of these in front of me","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":724.8,"end_s":732.08,"text":"I wouldn't be able to tell Yeah, you're right. Okay. All right. All right. You built a better machine. Okay. You want a cookie? Yes","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":732.56,"end_s":736.16,"text":"Give cookie, please If I can't even like","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":736.96,"end_s":744.56,"text":"Yeah, that's not good. Yeah, I wonder what your one percent. Oh, yeah. See my one percent are pretty consistently 30 30 plus","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":744.72,"end_s":749.92,"text":"Yeah, whereas you're dipping into like 24 territory for your one percent lows. That's that big difference right there","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":750.72,"end_s":754.88,"text":"Realistically you'd be pretty happy with either of these. I think the herd did a great job","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":755.04,"end_s":761.2,"text":"But ploof system does show how important it is to prioritize a bigger GPU and faster memory","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":761.52,"end_s":766.72,"text":"I also think we could have gotten better bang for the buck if we didn't care about buying into a modern platform","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":766.96,"end_s":774.48,"text":"Something like a 5800 x 3d with some higher end ddr4 and a cheap am4 motherboard makes for a wicked value gaming system","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":774.64,"end_s":777.52,"text":"And would give you even more money to spend on your GPU","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":777.84,"end_s":784.56,"text":"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","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":784.96,"end_s":789.52,"text":"Well, except maybe that deep cool cooler We're gonna have links in the video description","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":789.68,"end_s":794.32,"text":"And the big conclusion here is that in spite of all the attempts to spread misinformation","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":794.72,"end_s":797.6,"text":"Online reviews still largely serve their purpose","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":798.0,"end_s":804.16,"text":"You just might have to sift a little bit and do some research to really find the absolute best bang for your buck","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":804.72,"end_s":809.6,"text":"Oh and make sure to shop around because you never know when you might find a deal somewhere or free shipping","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":810.08,"end_s":816.0,"text":"Or a segue to today's sponsor If you guys enjoyed this video, maybe check out the last time we did this","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":816.16,"end_s":819.68,"text":"The pc landscape sure has changed in the last couple of years","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"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 7, 7700, and 7700X? Should I save the dollar? Is an expensive motherboard really faster? And what's better between Super and XT? I know. I'm just gonna 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 knee-deep in the newer, but first I gotta rustle up the segue To our sponsor 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 a hundred reviews to ensure that they were proven performers And we filtered by in-stock so you know, you could actually be buying stuff. So drumroll, please Your CPU of choice is Intel's Core i7-12700K. I gotta 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 12th 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 fails to boot and then boots All right, then our other contender for the best-rated CPU was the AMD 7800X3D 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 hundred dollars 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 LGA1700 boards, MSI's Pro Z690A 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 four and a half eggs Yep, this is our first piece that lands outside of our five egg target But as it turns out that's as good as it gets for our motherboard and it might be alright I mean MSI won our shootout a few years back when we tried ten 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 five egg RAM 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 disappointment. I mean, it's not bad But does the average user in 2024 really need 64 gigs of RAM and at 6,000 megatransiters 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 storage 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 it's 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 form articles that seem to indicate that Samsung 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 cools a g620 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 five-egg cooler for just $61 and 50 cents 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 four eggs No complaints. You know what else you won't be complaining about our new intergalactic GPU poster from LTT Store.com And the best thing is you can buy one without supporting the Russian war machine Now let's get all of this into the case Nice the fractal mesh if I to might not meet our four-point 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 US dollars The light tepid glass window option that we got is still on sale for just a hundred and ten Complaints about it mostly centered on its lack of EATX support a lack of support for 420 millimeter radiators without removing the front fans and some stripped screws Now to get things powered up with a power supply from no, of course it is Seasonic, it's the Vertex GX 1000. This is a 1000 watt 80 plus gold fully modular power supply And what's not to love it was even on sale for a hundred and seventy bucks when we bought it I think the only real criticism that I would level at the herd here is that Kind of overkill. I mean, I haven't shown you guys the GPU yet But we do not need a 1000 watt 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 Linus That's not a hundred reviews. You cheated because you love Seasonic 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 platinum rated variant But got gold and that was probably new eggs 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 4070ti 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 ray 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 1900 dollars 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 I mean beading the herd and Okay, we went like $9 over budget, but come on. It's gonna be the best $9 you ever spent because I think we did awesome here We've got a one terabyte gen 4 drive instead of 512 gigs. We upgraded our CPU Remember, of course we were looking at parts before AMD launched Ryzen 9000 and put the 7000 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 4070ti Super now we did compromise a little bit on our eggs Most of them are in the four and a half range But some of them are even still five egg products So we didn't do any weird bottom of the barrel dumpster diving in order to save that money But enough chit chat Let's see how we did we'll kick things off with good old-fashioned Cinebench And wait, why do you get the good one because I chose the good one? Mind you. I mean it's a miracle even finished the run so yeah Okay, the microcode update is available now, but Uh Anyway, my 12th gen one definitely works. Yep, but what about games? 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 are you at, buddy? I killed huge reaction No Oh, I'm dead too. We died. Nice. I just got three in rapid succession here. I'm catching up. What's over? What? Yeah matches over. Oh, are we in different matches? We must be because my match is over It looked like the same it loaded in at like the exact same time. Okay. You know what we haven't been doing Pay 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 Let's see you're killed the 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 counter strike is really CPU bound and as much as the 1300 k is a little better Yeah, not really. It's not that much better, right? I'm certainly not in like single threaded performance. Yeah, my GPU peaked at 62 Okay, so they're pretty close. Yeah, mine's also around 62. Okay. Okay. All right Let's halo infinite halo infinite. Sure. Okay. All right. Let's go. Let's go. Okay. I like this gun 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 situation. You're gonna have a slight edge for smoothness But both of these are extremely playable. Yeah, I don't think this one's gonna be that close I mean with ray tracing on I'm actually losing right now go 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 Whereas you're at like a consistent 24. This is 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 seven FPS six FPS. That's like more than 10 percent. Yeah but They're both the brown 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 Yeah, you're right. Okay. All right. All right. You built a better machine. Okay. You want a cookie? Yes Give cookie, please If I can't even like Yeah, that's not good. Yeah, I wonder what your one percent. Oh, yeah. See my one percent are pretty consistently 30 30 plus Yeah, whereas you're dipping into like 24 territory for your one percent lows. That's that big difference right there 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 gonna 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 around because you never know when you might find a deal somewhere or free shipping Or a segue to today's sponsor If you guys enjoyed this video, maybe check out the last time we did this The pc landscape sure has changed in the last couple of years"}