A simple, cozy $700 PC Build - 500 FPS on a budget! 💙

thank you Microcenter for sponsoring this video ever since AMD released their new platform about a year ago I have always wanted to build an affordable PC on it but everything has been so dang expensive now there is a Saving Grace and that has been the ryzen 5 7 500 F it's one of the newest budget processors that AMD has put on am5 and they silently which they tend to do often with their best offerings release did over the summer with this new processor and with motherboard RAM and video card prices dropping it seems like the perfect storm to finally make this modern yet affordable PC build happen my goal is simple build an affordable brand new PC for high refresh rate gaming 500 FPS I think is totally doable in some games but I think 1000 fps would be an awesome stretch goal to start my journey I flew out to Micro Center's Indianapolis store Grand Opening to choose out all of my parts and to take advantage of the awesome in-store deals there was a ton what the heck all right I'll take two it's kind of insane they have prices here better than like anywhere else I've been because of there's so many they have so many grand opening deals it's just it's crazy these deals ended up making this PC way faster than I originally planned while still staying around 700 so if you have a Micro Center near you use it right now new customers get 25 off all processors and if you submit your computer build to their build showcase and it gets approved then you get a 25 coupon for your next in-store purchase or if you need help with part recommendations you can literally talk to Micro Center sales associates in store and they can help you or if you want someone else to build it for you you can use Marcus Henry's PC Builder and then have an expert technician build it the same day eventually I did have to leave paradise and come back to reality but I came home with all the parts to hopefully make this 1000 fps PC reel so we're back from Micro Center and we have a really fun spread let's talk about it the CPU that we have is the ryzen 5 is 7600 for 210 dollars and I really wanted the 7500 F but unfortunately Micro Center did not have it in stock but the 7600 for 210 dollars was a great deal it's only about six percent faster than its older brother so you would get comparable performance with this one gigabyte graciously sent over their a620m gaming X motherboard and it retails for a hundred dollars now I did not want to go with the cheapest option on am5 even though there are some available because I wanted a board that could support an eight core or 12 core processor comfortably in the future and this one does just that as for Ram I chose a 32 gig kit of ddr5 for 45 Micro Center had a really good in-store grand opening deal and I just couldn't say no to the price it won't be a noticeable difference between 16 gigs and 32 gigs so you'll still be fine with 16 our storage is a one terabyte SSD for thirty dollars and similar to the kid of ram Micro Center had a really good Grand Opening in-store deal for this usually you will find 512 gig ssds for around this price our power supply is a 500 watt model from Power spec for 45 dollars it's a great starting point nothing flashy but it gives us a little bit of breathing room for a video card upgrade in the future and speaking of video cards I bet you're wondering which one we're going to use to hit a thousand FPS and it is the Radeon 6650 XT 8 gig and we got it for 230 dollars now there were other options like the RX 7600 or the 6600 XT but this was the best deal at the time and lastly our case is the montec air 903 Max and it's montec's new case it comes with a ton of ventilation I mean it has four fans pre-installed and it supports large graphics cards like up to a 40 90. if we choose to upgrade to that in the future Montag sent it over but the cool is that you can actually buy it at Microcenter it's 75 dollars there but if you get the non-max motto you can save a few dollars buy that for 65 and then we just have a ton of goodies to kind of spice up the setup like I got a few fans these are only two dollars a pop at Micro Center the Arctic p12s then I also got some colored cables so we can make this build look a little bit more visually interesting and then also some thermal paste I think this was one or two bucks it's like cryonauts really good pace and it's going to be better than the stock one these aren't necessary but if you want to add a little bit more personality and flavor go for it now the total here is about 735 dollars if I don't include the extra goodies but this will go as low as 695 dollars if you go to a 7500 F and then depending on your case and your RAM cool let me go grab my candle put on some really cool tunes and let's calmly build this computer yeah yeah let's do it [Music] so I decided to start out by taking out the case and just setting that aside I think it's way easier to do that in the beginning foreign so now we're going to get our motherboard out and from the box itself we just need the motherboard the io shield and the manual [Music] and man the i o Shield the bane of my existence do not forget to install this so make sure you open it and set it next to the case for later now the manual itself isn't completely necessary but it's just handy to have so you can set it aside [Music] so normally I start off by installing the CPU but I decided to try things a little differently here so we're going to start with the round [Music] so to install the ram we're going to pull back the clips on the ram slots themselves and then after that we're going to match the notches on the RAM sticks with the notches on the ram slots place them in and then push the ends until we hear a very satisfying click oh my gosh the m.2 ssds love these things because you don't need any cables to install them now this motherboard thankfully came with a m.2 heatsink just make sure you remove the plastic don't make the same mistake I've made foreign the heatsink also has a screw pre-installed that doesn't fully come off which is insanely helpful because I've lost so many of these in the past okay and now we have the fun part the CPU [Music] so these new am5 CPUs don't have any pins on them themselves all the pins are on the motherboard so you don't have to be quite as careful now to install it this is me making sure it's lined up correctly If You Can Read AMD ryzen top to bottom left to right then it is in the correct orientation and then you just place it in it should literally fall into place no pressure at all after that we pull the lever down into place and you should hear a satisfying little pop [Music] [Music] so now we're going to install the stock cooler and there's pre-applied thermal paste which will work fine but because we spent our whopping one dollar on our cryo knot paste we're going to use that instead so I have a paper towel and some rubbing alcohol and we're just going to rub off the pre-applied thermal paste [Music] and when you apply you want about a pea size drop I got a little trigger happy but it'll still be effective oh and don't forget to plug in the CPU fan into the fan header at the top [Music] and now it's time to prep the case which admittedly is my least favorite part of all of this but it's just a necessary evil oh yeah and ioshit do not forget that so we're going to install that first and I'm just lining it up to make sure I install it properly cool so now we're going to install our power supply and Route some cables and I definitely prefer routing my cables before installing the motherboard it's just so much easier and here I'm just doing a little cleanup putting all my trash in the power supply box to make sure that my area is clean [Music] um so this box has the case screws and then it has the case manual put that aside because you will need it for later so make sure you install the power supply with the fan facing downward so we can get cool air from the bottom to cool the pack Supply itself [Music] [Music] this is and now I'm making sure that my motherboard lines up correctly and then I'm mentally taking note of the standoffs and the grommets so I know exactly where to route my cables this will help a ton so I recommend doing this for sure and now we're doing my least favorite part of everything routing the cables but again a necessary evil and you will thank yourself a lot later so with the cables all routed I'm just making sure I'm not missing any standoffs if I am I install those and then after that I screw in the motherboard and then we plug in our motherboard power our CPU power and then our front panel cables in time for the video card one of the most exciting parts of the build [Music] foreign the video card make sure you remove the protective metal i o slots on the case [Music] I plug in the pcie power cable and just straighten a few things up and now we're ready to test it's movement of truth let's see if everything works [Music] thank you yes I was super excited here because I think I waited about 30 to 45 seconds for something to show up on screen so I was losing a little bit of help but there you go congratulations you built yourself a 700 computer super exciting stuff after adding in the cable extensions and spray painting the CPU Cooler I think the computer looks pretty phenomenal [Music] right after building it I went into my BIOS enabled the extreme memory profile and I started testing but I noticed something really weird the CP was insanely hot it was like 95 degrees Celsius now apparently this is a normal thing with am5 processors they're programmed to run at basically their maximum temperature in order to squeeze out as much performance as possible but I don't like that unfortunately because we are on an a620 motherboard I can't fine tune the automatic overclocking and the voltage like I want to I did try the 65 watt eco mode but it doesn't fix the temperature problem so instead I used ryzen master and I enabled an 80 degrees Celsius temperature limit so that's what we're going to be working with when it comes to all of the benchmarks and games and gaming was great Hogwarts Legacy averaged over 100 FPS and rarely dipped below 60. I mean it was just super enjoyable overall and it's a similar story in cyberpunk 2077 on the medium preset with quality FSR wear comfortably in the 130 FPS range and don't dip below 100 and after testing 200 PCS the last few weeks this is such a nice change of pace and as a resident MMO player I decided to test new world like I normally do and it kept the same high FPS trend on medium without any Dynamic resolution scaling we averaged about 138 frames per second and some light combat that'll definitely drop in crowded areas but man it's just nice having a computer where I can press play in a game and I don't have to worry about tweaking settings extensively but the question Still Remains can we hit 500 FPS or even greater thousand I chose CS go Valor and Apex Legends and Rainbow Six Siege as my victims for this mild Insanity I'm using competitive graphical settings to emulate what Pro players would use and I am not a pro player myself I just found these online but I'll have a list of all of the settings in the description so I kick things off with cs go and performance was surprisingly worse than I expected now I mean we're still in the high 300 so it's very much playable but I think I was expecting a little bit more I got head shotted that's so embarrassing it's so embarrassing okay oh my gosh this is so bad and even after lowering the settings we're still not able to hit the 400s on average so looks like this game is just so CPU bound and our processor just isn't good enough for that next up was valerant which I am fully expecting to hit a thousand FPS at least once that was my goal from the start we started off really well while into the six and seven hundreds range with competitive settings and some peaks in the 800s and I decided to turn down the settings to the lowest possible just to get a little closer and man we were so close so close okay dude we're almost at a thousand we almost hit it I saw 933 but we couldn't quite reach it but we're gonna come back because I think there's a way that we can now Rainbow Six Siege was smooth like butter and technically we did hit over a thousand FPS in the waiting room we're hitting over a thousand here that's excited in the menu but I mean my toaster could probably do that and I would get toast at the end of it so we're not going to count that I think we could just squeeze out a little bit more performance if we lowered the settings but it's a similar boat to CS go I don't think we're gonna hit a thousand and lastly Apex Legends and I learned the hard way that there is a 300 FPS cap who would have thought on the bright side the system did average basically 300 FPS and it stayed above 190 most of the time so great performer overall so at this point none of the games have actually hit a thousand FPS but the closest that we've gotten was invalorate and honestly I'm not going down without a fight I did lower the settings to the absolute lowest and then I remembered that I still had that 80 degree temperature limit so I have ethereum right now we're using ryzen Master to put a temperature limit on the CPU and it's set at 80 degrees Celsius which is totally fine but I wonder what would happen if we didn't do that right let's try Valiant one more time I wonder if we can actually hit a thousand with this off let's see yeah no it didn't work at all I think performance is actually a little bit worse and of course this is dependent on the map and everything but yeah a thousand FPS just isn't in the cards so unfortunately we couldn't hit a thousand FPS on this computer but I can't say that it wasn't because we didn't try it's still a really good performer like we were able to average over 500 in one of the games and 240 FPS and above is totally doable so you can get high refresh gaming on a tighter budget so I'm very happy with this computer I think if I were to change one thing I would probably spend another maybe twenty dollars and get a b650 board because then we can actually fine tune and tweak some of the Precision boost and automatic overclocking settings and that can be a real treat but beyond that it is a killer computer I like the look I like the performance and I hope that this is a good recommendation for you and a big thank you to Micro Center for making this computer happen if you're close enough to them then definitely check out their in-store deals and take advantage of the other goodies that they have the Micro Center links to each of the components will be in the description as well so if you guys have any questions let me know in the comments if you loved it wait no if you liked it leave a like if you loved it share subscribe all that stuff and I'll see you guys in the next one I failed but we'll edit that we'll make it work

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Length: 20min 12sec (1212 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 24 2023