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
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