$900 BUDGET Gaming PC with Intel's Arc A770

hey what's up everyone Danny here this PC next to me marks my very first time ever building a system using a discrete Intel Desktop graphics card this is really exciting because now we have a true third competitor when it comes to mainstream graphics cards which in time will hopefully work in favor of the consumers and I say hopefully because we've already had competition in the desktop GPU space for a good number of years now but look at this distribution on the steam Hardware survey not really balanced at all if you ask me but maybe now having two Underdog competitors can turn the tides and even it out a little bit more but we're gonna have to wait and see on that for this build my goal was to keep the total price below a thousand dollars I think that's pretty reasonable given that these new Intel Arc cards cost around like 300 to 350 dollars so it'll be roughly a third of the total budget which I think is very normal also for this build in honor of it being my first time using a discrete Intel card I decided to make it as Intel as possible so wherever I could I'd use an Intel part which really only it works out to be the CPU GPU and the SSD but hey it's still going to be the most Intel system I've ever built and by the way this video is not sponsored by Intel in any way shape or form it is however sponsored by Microcenter though who is always a pleasure to work with because they pretty much give me free reign in my videos to do whatever I want and they completely trust my vision they're a beloved company within the Tech Community because of their long-term reputation of having great prices and customer service as well as constantly running Banger deals year round like right now they're running a new customer special for 25 off any Yes you heard that right any processor not just the old ones that they need to clear inventory of not just for the unpopular ones that your favorite tech content creators told you to stay away from no 25 off of any processor you want even the newest stuff even the stuff that was already great freaking value to begin with to top it all off when you buy a pairing motherboard you can save another twenty dollars check out the links down in the description for more details okay so as always I'll have all the parts or Alternatives listed Down Below in the description so you can check them out but let's go over what's inside this system I'm going to start with the graphics card for once because it really is the most exciting part about this build for me we've got the Intel Arc a770 this is their 16 gigabyte limited edition model and it comes in at an MSRP of 350 there's also an eight gigabyte version which MSRP is at 330 and I've seen both of these going in and out of stock pretty regularly across the online retailers so if you're really trying to get your hands on one it should be a little bit easier than what we were dealing with during the peak pandemic shortages this is considered a mid-ish range card and it's going to compete both price and performance wise with the likes of nvidia's RTX 3060 which I do have one right here as well as amd's RX 6650xt which I also have right here so uh later on during the benchmarks I'll actually be showing how all of these stack up against one another I'll show the results for gaming performance as well as different workloads like blender video editing and Photoshop keeping with the theme of tell next up we have the processor which I went with the Intel i5 12400 you could alternatively go with the 12400f which costs a little bit less due to lacking integrated Graphics but I figured that having an igpu may come in handy in case I experienced any issues with the a770 and had to troubleshoot even with 13's gen out right now I think this processor still provides phenomenal value at this budget it's just hard to fit in a 13600k which is the most inexpensive 1310 chip available right now but still comes in at a whopping 300 by itself I wasn't really concerned about CPU bottlenecking when pairing the 12400 with the a770 and you'll see why later on during the benchmarks I stuck with the stock cooler in this build the 12400 doesn't run all that hot and this gets the job done but as always feel free to upgrade to a 20 or 30 Tower cooler if you want to lower the temps and fan noise a bit more for the motherboard we've got the MSI Pro b660ma this is a very solid board that sets you up for a future upgrade down the road if you're the type of person to stay on a platform for as long as possible remember the 600 series motherboard are compatible with 13th gen Intel it's the same LGA 1700 socket and just requires a bios update if you don't care about future proofing and you typically replace both your CPU and motherboard together when upgrading then you can go with something cheaper like gigabytes ds3h which would work just as well in terms of memory we've got 16 gigabytes of Team group t-force Delta RGB rated at 3200 CL 16. nothing too fancy here for storage we've got the final Intel branded part in this build a one terabyte 660p nvme SSD is this the best drive that you can get out there nope far from it actually but is it one of the cheapest ones that will work perfectly fine for the majority use cases of most people yes next up is the power supply which we've got a 550 watt Asus RG strix 80 plus gold unit I've mentioned this before in other videos and streams but power supply prices are still kind of wacky at the moment this unit MSRP is for 70 dollars and was going for that much across multiple retailers at 70 dollars for a very quality well-built top tier power supply like this that includes a 10 year warranty I think that price can be justified given how important a power supply is for a system but I've been seeing the price be hiked up across multiple sellers though up to 90 dollars which at that point I'm thinking is getting a little bit too pricey especially for 550 Watts the issue is though a lot of previously more affordable options that used to be found for around 40 to 50 have also seen a pretty massive price hike so as always be active in Deal hunting and pick up a decent unit that fits within your budget if you're going by the tier list I'm personally comfortable with anything that seats here or better but I know some people out there only want B tearing above do what's right for you last but not least the case which I went with the thermaltake Versa h18 Micro ATX this is one of the budget cases that I wanted to cross off of my bucket list I pretty much want to use as many cheap cases as I can at least once so that I can make a personal recommendation for them or not coming in at 50 its features definitely reflect its low price it doesn't really have too much going on for it that makes it really stand out from other cases it's got the usuals like tempered glass side panel power supply basement and of course that low price point not much other than that though it's pretty basic in terms of downsides there's only a single fan which is placed at the rear for exhaust it does use four thumb screws through holes on the tempered glass to hold it into place and that LED strip in the front is powered by Molex personally I think a better value case would be something like the montec air 100 which improves in some of these areas with four included adjustable RGB fans as well as a hinged glass panel design for only 15 dollars more alright let's take a look at the overall build list and price summary this all comes in just a hair over nine hundred dollars though as I've mentioned earlier there's different ways to modify it and swap things out for Alternatives with two key things I think being the motherboard and the power supply there are some cheaper options for both of these available that would be perfectly viable and bring the cost down a little bit here's a quick Montage of me assembling the build followed by some Glamor b-roll Shots of it once it was completed foreign [Music] [Music] all right time to take a look at the performance as I said earlier on in the video I tested the a770 as well as the closest equivalents from both AMD and Nvidia so you're also going to see the results for this exact system with the rx6650xt as well as the RTX 3060 I'll show all three cards performing side by side with a lot of additional information like cpuization all the different clock speeds system memory usage video memory usage all that for modern graphics cards in this price range I don't think it's really a question whether or not they can perform at 1080p so my target resolution for testing was 1440p this also pushes the cards more to their limits and ensure that we force the bottlenecks onto the graphics cards and not the CPU that I5 12400 for reference resizable bar was enabled for all the runs across all cards I tested on Windows 11 Ram XMP was enabled and the CPU and gpus were all running at stock so no overclocks at all so yeah sit back relax and enjoy the benchmarks [Music] thank you [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] in terms of the results there was no one true best card that dominated across the board in every single test they each had their victories however looking at the summary of results we do see the AMD rx6650xt which is the most inexpensive card out of the three coming in with the most victories when it comes to gaming The Arc a770 did have its moments though like with Apex Legends which is a little surprising because that's a dx11 title which our cards are known to fall behind on you can see this in the fortnite and Rainbow Six tests where in dx12 it can keep up just fine with the other two cards but switch those over to dx11 and you see a big drop in performance with Rainbow Six being remarkably bad in terms of the other workloads I tested Nvidia did lead the charge when it came to blender and Premiere Pro though AMD did score the best by a little bit in Photoshop and Intel pretty much came in second place across the board in like the blender Photoshop Premiere protests so what are my final thoughts on the a770 and I guess the Intel art cards in general well from a glass half full perspective I'm pleasantly surprised that intel was able to pull this off on their first attempt returning to the mid-range consumer desktop graphics card space uh do they have offerings that compete with the most top-end cards from both AMD and Nvidia no uh and I think that's perfectly fine they're hitting the most popular segment of the market and I'm optimistic they will build up from there from my unboxing of the card to installing it to getting the drivers and then to running the variety of tests I personally didn't encounter any deal breaking errors or bugs and sure there were stuff like the performance losses and titles like Rainbow Six on dx11 but I think those things can and will be fixed over time with driver updates otherwise the user experience wasn't all too different compared to the many AMD and Nvidia cards that I've used before it from a glass half empty perspective however based on the results that we just saw you really have to ask yourself why would anyone bother to buy an Intel graphics card over say AMD or video at this point in time it's not coming in at a significant discount despite lagging behind in performance in a couple of areas so why would anyone bother and the answer is something that I actually left out in all my testing and that is anything to do with av1 Hardware encoding because honestly I'm not super well versed at all when it comes to that and I'm still rapidly trying to catch up on my knowledge of it if you want to watch someone who specifically covers streaming encoding decoding that type of content in really great detail definitely check out eposvox who has made multiple videos covering it but it's just not something that I personally have the skill set to be able to test and report results on at the moment so my apologies for that I understand what everyone is it's a Next Generation codec standard I understand the benefits of it I know for a fact that I will personally benefit from it in terms of stream quality for my weekly streams that I do the bitrate improvements is going to help me out in terms of less data usage it's also going to result in smaller video file sizes so that means the less of your storage being taken up by a given video all that sounds great but none of the software that I use right now even supports it at a hardware level Premiere Pro doesn't handbrake doesn't OBS doesn't actually I take that one back I think they just released an OBS update that does have Hardware encoding but it's still a beta version and only the newest Nvidia cards not the Intel art cards are supported so yeah there's just not enough wide adoption for it at the moment for most people to care in my opinion so Intel being the first out of the gate with this doesn't really mean much because by the time it is more widely adopted both Nvidia and AMD are going to have cards out with the same capabilities so back to my question why should anyone buy an Intel Art card and I think it boils down simply to this do you want to support an underdog or do you like to Tinker around with new stuff and have the capabilities to troubleshoot should the knee to rise and that's pretty much it I would personally be fine running an Intel Arc card in my personal System since I meet both of those criteria however if I frame the question as would you personally recommend an Intel Art card to a close family member or friend particularly someone who's not that computer savvy or would you build them a system with one of these in it then my answer is going to be probably not I'm just going to point them to AMD if they want to maximize You Know Gaming price to Performance or Nvidia if they specifically need like the ray tracing performance dlss and video broadcast and stuff like that my answer would however quickly change though if intel for whatever reason decided to slash their prices to something like sub 300 like what we're seeing with RX 6650 xt's already then that's going to be a different conversation but yeah I think I've talked enough for one video so now it's y'all's turn what do you think about the new Intel art cards whether it be conclusions formed from what I showed in this video or what you've seen from other Tech content creators and reviewers is it generally a positive opinion a negative one maybe a neutral uh let me know down in the comments below I'm curious to hear your thoughts that's gonna wrap it up for this video though hope you all enjoyed and found this either entertaining or helpful in one way or another I want to thank you all as always for watching and for continued support the channel big thanks to the channel members and the super gifters for going above and beyond and of course thanks to Micro Center for teaming up with me and helping me make this video possible as always be safe out there and I'll see you all down in the comments as well as the next stream and our video bye

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Length: 16min 12sec (972 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 04 2022