$1000 Gaming PC in 2023! Build Guide and Benchmarks!

most of the time here you just pull pretty hard on the bottom of the front and it pops right off I'll just smack myself in the face ow ow hey what's up everyone Danny here in this video we're gonna be building a gaming PC with a Target budget of one thousand dollars it's gonna be a white theme build and we're going with uh AMD with regards to the CPU and the graphics card but don't worry I'm wearing an Nvidia shirt and I've got the Intel Arc neon sign there in the back so if they don't feel left out if you show bias equally to all companies does that make you biased at all he was actually sponsoring this video and sent over some of their products to fill out the build and of course that will all be accounted for based on the retail price all parts can be found down in the description as well as in my vetted link which will have everything in this build as well as other curated lists of builds and gear that I use so be sure to check that out as well for this system I changed up the formula a bit for my usual chasing the maximum performance per dollar and I shifted some attention to the Aesthetics to Showcase some of the deep coolest Parts uh so some of the money allocated will be towards things that don't necessarily give you a huge performance uplifts but overall I think this ends up being a great PC given the end cost and of course when we talk about the summary of parts and prices later on in the video I'll show you what it could look like for people who are on a smaller budget and you know don't have stuff to spend on the extras and Aesthetics uh but yeah let's go over all the parts real quick so first up is the ryzen 55600 A6 core 12 thread processor which is one generation owned by this point because AMD has their new am5 Verizon 7000 series out but you know what nothing in the New Gen even comes close to this price wise when you pack in the cost of the new CPUs motherboard and ddr5 RAM you're not going to be able to get anything nearly as inexpensive as this for gaming performance it's going to do really well so yeah pretty easy Choice here if you want to go Intel you would be going with something like the I3 12 100 or 12 400 there's kind of a big jump Gap in between those two and this kind of Falls right in between them playing with the 5600 is this motherboard the Azeroth v550m Pro 4. this is a Micro ATX board and it's pretty mineral of the road budget board this one has stuff like USBC in the rear i o it has a pretty big heatsink on the vrms it has a heatsink shield for the m.2 I do want to note that everything in this build all these parts are brand new except for this board this I got from Amazon and like new condition so not brand new but good condition for only 85 bucks Amazon has a ton of hidden gems when it comes to discounts on used motherboards so definitely keep an eye out and look for like the used section of it before spending full price on the item for the graphics card I went with this RX 6650xt this is going to be pretty much the best value graphics card that you can get in its segment right now and it's priced around 280 dollars very consistently sometimes there's more discount codes uh mail and rebates to bring it down lower it's just a lot of value in AMD right now especially in kind of like the the mid-range Market remember we've got one of my budget favorites the team group t-force Delta rgbs in white we've got 32 gigabytes here at 3600cl18 some may say that you know 32 gigabytes is overkill but man Ram is so dirty right now this was 80 bucks so why not feel free to spend half this amount if you only want to get 16 gigs if you think that's enough for you but for a thousand dollar build it's pretty easy to fit 32 gigs in nowadays for storage we've got the Western Digital blue sn570 in one terabyte like memory storage is they're cheap too so if you're spending the ballpark of like 800 900 a thousand dollars on a build there's no excuse not to have at least one terabyte of solid state storage in it for the power supply we have the cx650m from Corsair this is 650 watt this is TRC on the PSU tier list which is perfectly fine for me uh tier C and above I'm good with I'm not like a super snob about getting only tier B's into your a but yeah power supply punches just kind of suck right now most of the stuff that you find that's tier C around 600 watts is going to be about 80 bucks on NewEgg and Amazon sometimes you might find a better sale so uh yeah just be flexible with the power supply next we have the case which I should probably unbox this thing right now give me a second this is the ch370 from Deep cool this is a Micro ATX case this is my first time building in this case so I'm pretty excited to check it out uh this is priced really well I often am seeing this down to 60 bucks on sites like Amazon and Newegg when you're talking about a 60 case to be honest your expectations should be pretty low because this is the budget segment where a lot of companies cut corners but I can already tell uh the build quality in this case is a lot higher than a lot of other manufacturers out there and this isn't just because deepcool sent me this you know normally these cheap budget cases have like four thumb screws through drilled holes on the glass so it's super annoying to remove not only is there not four thumb screws through the glass there is only one in the back here and this is magnetic this is a magnetic panel with only one screw here so uh just things like that is what makes a budget case stand out well Above the Rest next is this cool right here which is a relatively newer from Deep cool this is their lt720 white this is a 360 millimeter AIO now you may think it's Overkill because you know we're pairing it with the ryzen 5 and you're right but this is actually priced pretty well this has an MSRP of 140 now you didn't know deep cool does produce their own pumps in-house so they didn't like you know hire out Ace attack or one of those other popular pump manufacturers they do their own pumps in-house and this is their fourth generation of their pump so you know it's been iterated on and they know what they're doing actually let me get this open up real quick yeah so we got there three white FK 120 fans here and for the actual radiator and pump itself can't really see much here because there's no LEDs lit up but when uh it is on you're gonna see the infinity mirror effect on here and this does feature their anti-leak Tech which you can see here on this end where the barbs are coming out of the radiator this essentially relieves the pressure in the loop as the temperature of the liquid inside increases uh it has like this elastic relief bag as opposed to you know if you have like a rigid system where nothing can expand or contract uh volume is going to stay constant so that's going to make pressure grow up and when pressure goes up that's how you can spring a leak so they've got that elastic bag in here uh that can expand and contract so that allows the volume to change to try to you know alleviate that pressure and that's up we have a three pack of adjustable argb fans the fc120s from Deep cool we're gonna use this to populate the rest of the case I'm probably gonna put actually put this on the radiator and put it in the front because it's going to be front mounted top mount is not gonna be able to fit the 360 AIO so yeah probably gonna put this on the radiator and put the white fans in the rest of the case nice thing about these fans is that they are Daisy tannable so you know when it comes to RGB the biggest pain is having all those extra wires and cables and stuff but these are Daisy chainable so that you know you can reduce the amount of inputs going into either like a hub or a motherboard so that's gonna be nice but yeah that is pretty much it for all of the parts all right let's real fast take a look at the build summary and price breakdown we're coming in a bit under a thousand dollars here now I haven't decided yet and we'll see once this gets built out but uh I might add white sleeve cable extensions in there if I don't end up liking the black stock cables from the cx650m it just depends because this is going to be a mostly white but there is some black Aesthetics going on in here so if we can save money and the black cables look good enough we'll go with it but if not we'll add that around like 25 into the summary and we should still be clearing well below a thousand dollars even with extensions added in there now if you're looking at this and you think to yourself man that AIO is overkill for this system such a waste of money yo just chill don't worry fam I got you feel free to use the included stock cooler that comes with the 5600 and Bam look at that we're down to around 850 dollars you Budget King you all right let's get to building this thing all right so first things first we're going to get everything onto the motherboard before we get into the case so CPU is first get our SSD in here next is going to be the memory and last is going to be the mounting hardware for the AIO yeah a little manual in here tells you exactly which brackets you need to use for AMD here and then whether you're doing am4 or am5 so we're going to be removing these existing ones on the motherboard real fast and screwing these in their place next we need to put the pieces onto the pump block itself so it can be mounted into those standoffs all right we're good to go here now I'm not gonna be mounting this pump block onto the motherboard yet because it still has to go into the case and when I do that it's going to be all gangly and stuff and it's going to make it a pain to install but pretty much everything's on the motherboard now and it's ready to go into the case the first thing we're going to do is get this rear i o shield in here foreign next we're going to check to make sure all the motherboard standoffs are in the case ready to go because sometimes the cases don't populate all of them so it's going to drop the motherboard in here see if they line up and see if we need to add any more standoffs and it's looking like we do not have to add any additional standoffs so we are good to go to screw it down now so we're just going to get everything screwed down here and sometimes what I like to do is only screw in just basically the corners and maybe the center uh just in case anything goes wrong and I do have to remove the motherboard it's less to unscrew then you can come in later and screw it all in once you know everything is working without any issues but up to you how you want to do it with the motherboard in place now it is time to start planning out the AIO so what I'm going to be doing is let's first remove this front panel most of the time here you just pull pretty hard on the bottom of the front and it pops right off ow just smack myself in the face well look at this also the nice thing about this case which I forgot to talk about earlier um is it has a built-in headphone holder that just pops out so you know here it is in front of the case you spread this button and it pops out like that so where's my headphones at yeah so you can just hang them here just like that and you've got yourself a headphone hanger all right so the actual way I'm gonna be doing this is I'm going to be installing the RGB fans up the front here so that we can actually see it through the mesh and then I'm going to be installing the AIO fans at the top and the rear of the case also another really cool thing about this case let me show you right here they have a graphics card basically like a stack bracket built into the case this is a sixty dollar budget case y'all we've got features like magnetic single screw attachment of the tempered glass panel we've got things like this built in here other companies really need to step up on their budget cases man stop trying to cut all the costs provide a good product to the consumer and we will promote it to our friends and family and they will buy your products yeah really like this here all right so the AIO is going to go through here and let's get these fans opened up yeah so the nice thing about these fans is that it does have the ability to daisy chain so they could all work with one another and reduce your cable clutter see just like that all right so we've got the fans on and the radiator in so now we close at the front and then the pump lock can go on and the pump cover does come off so that you could reach your screws now we can get this back on there and it is good to go so now what I'm going to do is remove this rear fan and install the three white fans that came with the i o to the rear exhaust as well as the top exhaust of the case because it's a 360 AIO and how tall it is and how much space it takes in front of the case uh the barbs are actually coming out too close to the uh top where I can't get the front top fan in there but you can kind of see it up here so yeah that's definitely not gonna fit but I think that's gonna be okay we can just leave one of these fans out all right so next is the power supply which to be honest this could have gone in a lot earlier into the system but uh sometimes I put in early sometimes I put in late I don't really follow any particular build sequence I just kind of build and put things in as they make sense now speaking of which I guess I can connect the front connectors too while I have the power supply out uh so I can get all the stuff down here in the bottom before the power supply kind of gets in the way these are going to be things like the USB 3.0 connector HD audio and the USB 2.0 all right power supply going in the fan is going to be facing down because there is a mesh portion down here so it does get ventilation foreign we've got the eight pin EPS for CPU power up here in the left top Corner we've got our 24 pin ATX and then we've got the pcie power for the graphics card coming to the bottom speaking of which removing the top two brackets here and then it just slots in just like that so we actually don't even need to use the VGA bracket because this is like a reasonably sized card like it ends right here the bracket actually attaches to the case way over here so this is like if you had a super long card that pretty much goes all the way up to the radiator then you would use this so don't need it here but let's get connected and see how it looks hmm yeah I think this could benefit from extension cables let's get those out all right got the extensions in there looking nice and that's pretty much gonna be it for the front side so now he comes to the back side which honestly doesn't look too bad because of the reduction in like the RGB cables and things like that so now I'm just going to do Cable Management on this and when it comes to Cable Management it's as much time now for you feel like putting into it right I could just take all these cables just shove it down here in the basement uh close it up and nobody else would know right but um I it's something that you just get better with over time like I'm gonna time myself trying to do the cable manager so nothing is managed right now uh so I'm gonna put a timer out and see how long it takes me [Music] all right that's pretty much it how long did that take about seven and a half minutes or so and you know it's gonna depend varying from build to build depending on how much extra stuff you have in here how much RGB how much experience you have but yeah I think I mean looks pretty clean right there's always going to be some degree of shoving things into the power supply basement just because that's where the most room is going to be but yeah uh I mean didn't even take that long to do so now I guess is the moment of truth turning this thing on so I've been here flip the switch and then the power button [Music] [Music] thank you all right were you watching that short segment of b-roll Glamor Shots I fast forwarded through time and I've installed Windows uh got updates got drivers and all the games for the benchmarks so what I did do was overclock the CPU the 5600 since we have such a beefy cooler on it so let's put that cooler to use and let's see what an overclock does to it so on the screen I'll show all the overclocks that I did get as well as any other relevant settings uh and yeah during the benchmarks I will show the stock CPU results on the left side of the screen and the overclock CPU results on the right side of the screen so that you can see and have a side-by-side comparison of all the metrics on the overlay uh so yes the back relax and enjoy the benchmarks [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] thank you foreign [Music] the CPU overclock while it did make a noticeable difference in the test that had CPU intensive workloads like cinebench and some of the various 3D Mark scores it didn't do that much for the games almost all the gaming results were within a couple of average FPS of each other which is pretty negligible in my book though in some titles we did see some noticeable gains in the one percent lows and while this was nice I don't think they're really worth overclocking for though because the stock one percent lows were fine as they were this is because the rx6650xt is indeed the bottleneck in this system not in a bad way or anything like that though because it does pair really well with the ryzen 5600 it's just that for gaming in most scenarios the GPU is going to be the one that's leveraged and does most of the heavy lifting it's not the end of the world a lot of people like to take the term bottleneck and make it like the worst thing ever every system has at least some kind of a bottleneck uh something like this is fine uh but one thing I did hope that you noticed though were the CPU temp it was really low when the CPU is at stock settings most of the time less than 40 degrees you see when gaming uh and with the overclock in there it did get warmer but it only ever reached around 50 degrees or so and that was one of the benefits of having a more premium cooler in the system sure it didn't give us FPS gains and games but it did give us much better temps than say a stock cooler would and relating to temperatures is how loud or rather how quiet the system is because it could be run uh much cooler and that gives a lot of Headroom to lower the fan speeds to reduce noise let me try to show you real quick how quiet this is pretty freaking quiet but all right that wraps it up for this video hope you all enjoyed and found this either useful or entertaining one way or another let me know down in the comments below what you think of the build overall and I'm very curious how many of you out there have big coolers or aios that could be considered a bit overkill for the CPU that you have in your system and if so why is it for the better thermal performance acoustic reasons Aesthetics maybe something else look forward to reading your responses below thank you all as always for watching and for continuing to support the channel big thanks to the channel members for their above and beyond support be safe out there and I will see you all down in the comments as well as the next stream and our video bye

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Length: 23min 0sec (1380 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 02 2023