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got a gamer in your life who's looking for an upgrade itching to spend your

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holiday bonus or maybe your computer just exploded and you need to fix fast

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well thanks to Amazon sponsoring this video we've got you covered with our

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2022 holiday buyers guide because not

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only is building a reasonably priced gaming rig actually viable for a change

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you might be surprised to see just how low prices can go if you're willing to

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buy last year's model ddr5 more like DDR

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thank you foreign

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we're kicking things off with our Apu Super Saver build for the Casual Gamer

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out there who just needs something that works we managed to get our cheapest

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system built for a little over 300 dollars it's not pretty and it comes

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with a major caveat our Gigabyte GAA

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320m motherboard does not support our hexa Core ryzen 5 4600g with Vega 7

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Graphics out of the box but if you have

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access to an older am4 CPU like a 2400g

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you can update the biosan you are good to go however if you're willing to Shell

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out about 20 extra you can avoid this hassle by simply going with an a520

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board instead I think it's probably worth the 20 to 30 dollars but when our

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budget is this low every penny counts and it shows how many of you out there

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are using four gig sticks of ddr4 well

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we are and our two and a half inch SSD is only 240 gigs to boot get it because

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it's your boot drives and the rest of

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your storage anyway we've gone with the zelman S3 the cheapest ATX case we could

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find but if you've got an old home computer collecting dust you could

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probably Save A Buck or 50 and just use that if you're on this type of a budget

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you might also consider picking up an Amazon Basics mouse and keyboard they're

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affordable and they just work as for our

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power supply well it hopefully will work it's only 430 Watts 80 plus not 80 plus

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bronze just 80 plus but it's from thermaltake who should reply to your

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emails if you have any problems and for under 30 dollars we can't really

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complain even if it's not going to give us a lot of room for upgrades leading us

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to our first upgrade our 500 build if

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you're a gamer you know you're going to want a dedicated GPU eventually and Apu

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is fine to get started but if you spend a bit extra now you can make sure your

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system has enough power and storage for the future maybe some faster RAM even a

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nicer case for a couple hundred bucks more let's see what we can can get first

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order of business goodbye 256 gig SATA

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SSD hello crucial P3 plus one terabyte

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NVMe SSD at 84. it's a steal and while

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our budget doesn't allow us to improve our processor now almost anything that

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we would upgrade to later is going to support Gen 4 speeds that's why we're

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going with the ASRock b550mpg Riptide

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motherboard not only does it support a Gen 4 drive but what gaming rig would be

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complete without argb headers and some motherboard armor memory was another

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huge upgrade for a small price since ddr4 is so cheap right now we even

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managed to squeeze in more RGB with this 2x8 gig Corsair Vengeance kit running at

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3200 Mega transfers per second cl-16 and once you can afford a graphics card

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you'll need some more juice so we've upgraded to another thermaltake power

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supply this time with 80 plus bronze efficiency and a 750 watt rating now to

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be clear this category was full of tough choices I mean we had to pick between

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between either an APU build but with a

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good upgrade path or a relatively low tiered GPU build that was going to make

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some compromises and might not perform as well as you might Hope anyway there

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is however a middle ground if you're willing to take a little bit of risk and

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maybe spend a bit more like 600 bucks because there are a lot of great deals

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in the used graphics card market right now thanks to the recent crypto crash

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we've got a few recent budget build videos that you can check out if you

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want to stray from the safe path of new warranty Cloud purchases at our next

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price tier a thousand dollars you absolutely could go buy a 500 GPU slap

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it into our previous system and call it a day however both Intel and AMD have

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released their latest and greatest offering upgrade paths that are

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unavailable to our am4 socket 500 build

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friendship ended with 4600g now Core i5

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12400f is my best friend unlike the high

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higher end of Intel's 12th gen processors this little guy doesn't have

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any efficiency cores but it boosts a

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little higher than our previous six core CPU and wins out in both single and

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multi-threaded workloads now that we don't need integrated Graphics we're

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going to save a couple of bucks and get the F version and this Pro z690p

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motherboard from MSI which should give us a phenomenal upgrade path thanks to

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its beefy vrms and its ability to unlock k-series chips now since 13th gen still

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supports ddr4 we're not shooting ourselves in the foot by sticking with

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the same Corsair Vengeance modules from before and our crucial p3s Gen 4 speeds

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will now be taken advantage of now some of you are probably screaming at me

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right now Linus the 5600x is on sale on

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Amazon for a hundred sixty dollars you fool and you're absolutely right with a

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cheap b550 motherboard we could save almost 200 right now but that sale won't

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last forever and upgrading later to a 50

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800x3d could end up costing you a pretty penny if you can find one if you do

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decide to go AMD now though you'll have more than enough left over to pick up a

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screwdriver from lttstore.com thanks to the other recent price reductions from

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AMD you can now get an ASRock RX 6700 XT

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for as low as 390 dollars 12 gigs of

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vram on a 192-bit bus a boost clock of over 2500 megahertz I mean it might not

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be it NVIDIA when it comes to Ray tracing or streaming but this thing is a

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beast for either 1080P or even 1440p

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gaming as for our case it's still good enough for now but we would recommend

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going a little over budget and maybe getting something nicer like this or

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this with slightly improved cable management and Creature Comforts it can

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just make the build a little bit more pleasant but if a little more pleasant

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isn't enough for you if you're thinking of maybe going 4K at our 1500 price

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point over half of our budget is going towards our CPU and our our GPU we're

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sticking with AMD again going for the 6900 XT which is going to give us great

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rasterization game performance for under 700 and we're getting a faster CPU now

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with efficiency course the 12 600k we

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also upgraded our boot drive to a Samsung 980 Pro and finally we're

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getting a nicer case with fractal's Focus 2 RGB mid tower for our cooler we

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chose the thermal right Peerless assassin 120 SE argb a decent cooler for

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just 40 bucks that should be plenty for a core i5 if looks are more important to

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you you can actually save some money here and not upgrade to the 980 Pro

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spending it on a nicer looking case or cooler instead or maybe a fully modular

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power supply and another valid option would be to bump your memory up to 3600

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Mega transfers per second we felt that 3200 was good enough for us for now

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though and besides we still need some upgrades for our two thousand dollar

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build this time around we're building in a case that we've used Lots throughout

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the last couple of years the phantek's p500a digital and we're gonna need that

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thing for all the juicy storage that we've now got with a two terabyte 7200

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hard drive that goes along with our 980 Pro that we have now doubled in size to

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two terabytes as well we're still using only 16 gigs of ddr4 memory but it's now

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running at 3600 Mega transfers per second cl18 and we bumped our GPU up to

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a Radeon RX 6950xt that 750 watt power

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supply should still be okay as long as we stick to gaming and don't try to

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overclock the snot out of our Core i5 13600 KF but we're gonna upgrade to an

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80 plus gold efficiency fully modular unit for a bit of a cleaner look and

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peace of mind a good chunk of change also went to purchasing a z790 board

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with integrated Wi-Fi so if you don't mind sticking with the older chipset and

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you don't need Wireless you could actually save a bit of money there and

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leave the old motherboard the hard drive is also not necessarily required but

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hard drives have gotten wildly inexpensive these days and it's nice to

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have a spot to save any extra files you have particularly to something that's a

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little easier to recover data from honestly I was expecting to find more

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NVIDIA cards in today's builds but the reality is that AMD has made some

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aggressive price reductions recently and

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with free Prime shipping through Amazon it was kind of a no-brainer thanks again

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to them for sponsoring this video I mean no joke just using PC part picker they

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were usually the cheapest option anyway particularly if you already have a Prime

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membership and they're going to have more sales as we move closer to Black

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Friday and the holiday season so keep your eyes peeled as for now we're gonna

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have all these products listed Linked In the description down below if you

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enjoyed this video be sure to check out our recent budget builds like the 69

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gaming PC and the upgrade that we made

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to it later the second hand Market is

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super wild right now good time to build a PC