Best $1200 Gaming PC Build 2024! 😄 [Full Build Guide w/ Benchmarks]

in this video I'm going to be showing you guys how to build this the best $1,200 gaming PC build I believe you can assemble right now perfect for 1440p gaming in all of the latest titles and high frame rate Competitive Gaming at 1080p to this is a really powerful system filled with some great parts that won't break the bank I'll be walking you guys through the part selection for this build how to assemble it step by step from start to finish and looking at detail Benchmark and performance figures later let's do [Music] this the coola master Cube 500 flat pack is a case that lets you do it yourself with support for fullsize specs in a compact form factor a highly adjustable design lets you build as you unbox and it really is like nothing El what's more support for up to eatx motherboards 360m long gpus and a 280 mil aiio up top make it super versatile for the latest components build it your way with the coola master Cube 500 now available in black white and macaron check it out at the first links in the description below to start things off I think we need to rewind back a little bit to when I was first picking the parts for this system I'm going to be using New Egg to pick the parts for this build there's a couple of reasons for that first it lets us see pretty up-to-date pricing and availability and second it means if you're willing to shop around you can save even more money over the config here let's start off with the CPU and there's a few options here from A and D you've probably got the 7600 or 7600 X as the two Best Bets the 7600 comes in at $229 six cords 12 threads the clock speeds are okay not amazing while the 7600 X is going to deliver us that extra clock speed that we want you can see it's available here for depending on where you get it anywhere from $200 to $250 this one here comes in at 239 but I have seen it especially in sales as low as $200 I'm going to add that to the car as I'm pretty confident that's the best option but let's give Intel the benefit of the doubt take a look at some of their options at this price point too the 14600 K is probably the closest competitor from Intel but that's over $300 well the 13600 K from last generation is still going to set us back 283 so ryzen is still the best option Intel might give you a bit more power some more CES but we don't really need it for a gaming PC build now that we've got a ryzen processor we know roughly what motherboard RAM and SSD to pick up I'm going to go for a b650 motherboard as of course that gives us a bit of overclocking for the CPU memory but isn't nearly as costly as a high-end x670 design straight off the bat there's a few good options b650 or a Elite from gigabyte I've used that before pretty happy but it's a bit expensive and the same goes for the MSI plus WiFi 180 is a little bit on the higher end of what I feel aboard like that is worth ASRock typically come in with some really good value shouts at this sort of price point though their b650 M Pro RS comes with all without Wi-Fi the Wi-Fi version will set you back another $20 it's a lot more simple it's a lot more plain but I actually think for what we need is going to be more than adequate so let's go ahead and Pop That in for just how much $29.99 as far as Ram's concerned we need 32 GB of ddr5 and we basically want to filter by Price low to high and pick up a kit with a decent cast latency I think it would be sensible at this point to use some of our filters to actually filter down a little bit better in terms of latencies and speeds we definitely want a cast latency of 31 to 40 cast latency with ddr5 is actually more important than speed really and kit that comes up time and time again is the tforce Delta $95 for the black or the white version this particular kit is 26 GB dims cl40 a little bit on the high side 5200 MHz should do as well though for this system any gaming PC build or just PC build for that fact needs some storage too so we can go ahead and eliminate this now now we want a 1 tbte Gen 4 mvme drive for this build now of course as far as different criteria goes we want a drive that is PCI G 4 so let's add those filters with a capacity of between 1 and 1.9 tabes and then we're going to search from Price low to high and see what some of the cheaper options are the crucial P3 plus is a drive I've had my eye on for a little while it delivers around 5,000 megabytes a second so 5 GB on the read and you can get drives all the way up to 4 terabytes the 1 tbyte is 58 while the 2 terby is going to come in at around 110 and the 4 TB at 200 really actually very reasonable considering the speed of the drive you might have seen our recent video on good budget case options and to be honest with you I'm not even going to waste my time searching I'm going to go and take a look at the montech hair 9003 and there's a very very simple reason for that the air 9003 and white or black with or without the fans is just one of the best budget cases right now you can pick the black one up for 65 but obviously we've gone for a white motherboard some white Ram so for an extra $4 you can pick up the 903 in white instead so let's go ahead and pop that in two cooling for this build we don't want to use the stock cooler it's loud it's obnoxious it won't give us any overclocking head room and it will restrict the Boost clock speeds instead something budget like the Deep cool ak400 is going to be the best shout this has become my go-to pick for a budget air cooler it's a lot cheaper say than cooler Master's hyper 212 RGB that people seem to opt for time and time again and has exceptional build quality plus the White Version at $38 with an extra $6 off using start deep six at checkout is going to do absolutely fine and that's going to give us as much money left as possible for everything else GPU wise nvidia's only real choice that $400 price point is the 46 DTI and if you ever heard the words 46 DTI you probably know that's not a card you want to buy it only performs poorly but it's vram constrained the 16 gig model is very expensive so that leaves us looking at Team AMD now the 7800 XT would be an absolutely Ace pick for this build but as you can see 7800 XT pricing has gone kind of crazy it's become such a popular card that it's very hard to find gpus in or around that 499 MSRP price point in fact on New Egg there aren't any now a last gen option from AMD that could also be worth considering is the 6800 XT but again that's discontinued and no cheaper than the RX 7800 XT well they're more budget cars like the 6750 XT if I just pull a couple of those up are underpowered for this build really in all honesty that leaves us then with the 7700 XT a card that's been overlooked I would say over the last little while because the 7800 XT made more sense for a fairly modest jumping price point and as you can see here there are a lot more options that will more affordably fit within the budget of this build gigabyte I've got one for 439 not a bad card there's also one from ASRock Sapphire XFX all within the kind of price point that we want to confine to here I've had particularly good experiences with the Sapphire card though I've also seen good results from the gigabyte card too and you can find our full review of both cards in the card section now now buying a power supply is a bit of a Minefield and you can very easily spend a lot of money here Corsair 120 100 segotep never heard of them 89 thermaltake tough power that's a little bit more like it the gf1 from thermal T is also pretty cheap and let's see if thermal T can actually deliver here a lot of good budget thermal tapate power supplies and this bm3 is basically unbeatable this one's semi modular meaning you only plug in the cables you need but the motherboard and CPU cables can pre-run but the real kicker with this power supply if we take a closer look is here you get that 12 pin nextg gem 5 power cable now obviously we've got an AMD card so it doesn't really matter it's nice to have that future proofing available to us and you might thank yourself picking up this power supply with that particular Cable in years to come now then how are we looking I think we might be under budget yes $51 under budget couple of areas you could improve motherboard you could probably Notch that up slightly RAM and SSD are totally fine really I suppose just the case choice if you wanted something a little bit different or of course you could push more budget into the GPU but I want this $1,200 build to be achievable even with a few price shifts and latest pricing and availability will be linked in the the description below so what are we waiting for I'm going to hit secure checkout buy all these parts and I'll rejoin you once they have arrived hopefully in a few days time a few days have passed and all of the bits I was missing have now arrived and I've got to say I'm pretty pleased with my part selection the only slight mistake I made was I ordered the right Ram kit in the wrong color so the white Kit is on the way and I'll be able to swap that out a little bit later the best portol really for any build is to start off with the motherboard and install as many parts as you can out of the case while think are easy to access and a little bit less cumbersome now the azck b650 M Pro RS is a board I've heard loads about but never used it's undeniably a pretty basic motherboard but you get the am5 socket four ddr5 randoms plenty of room for M do2s with a big heat sink for one at the top that might run a bit hotter the io is very basic but certainly sufficient with a bios flashback button really nice to see on a budget board display connections a 10 gig USBC and type A some usb2 ports and then some 5 gig type A's and a 2 and 1/2 gig ethernet audio ports are basic but present no optical audio no massive overclocking headro for your CPU for example but we don't need that in a build it's a lot more budget focused all we need to do here is pull up the arm on the socket pull up the socket cover and then just drop the processor in lining up all the triangles really is pretty simple just be careful make sure it's seated correctly and pop the arm down back into place the ram is going to be the next item on the list our tforce DED ddr5 now as I mentioned this kit was supposed to be white but I accidentally ordered the black stuff I have headed to overclockers co.uk which I'll link down below and ordered the right kit and it should be here in about 3 hours time so for now this stuff will have to do I'll be using the second and fourth round dim slots for this build that is going to give us nice dual Channel performance it's going to lock the business and of course provide some room for upgrades in the future SSD is next it's a drive I'm really particularly excited to try out actually crucial's P3 plus the capacity availability for this was a thing that pleasantly surprised me I mean a 4 tbte drive for like $200 is crackers top m.2 slot is going to work well for this you need a teeny tiny screwdriver to get the small screws and the heat shield off Drive goes underneath and the heat shield goes back on top a little bit overkill for a drive of this size but it doesn't hurt to have better cool in than we need the final part to install on the motherboard is this the ak400 wh now I've said it in so many videos recently but deep call have just been so impressive in the last year or so and consistently delivered some really really impressive products to the market you can see as well why I love the aesthetic of this thing it looks incredible all of the heat sink is all this nice powder coated white finish you've got this really nice white and silver accent in at the top and even a white included fan the first step on a ryzen config is to take off the included and pre-installed plastic brackets do keep them safe as if you do decide to add a different cooler on later you may find that actually these brackets come in not only handy but completely necessary for the installation of a different type of cooler then inside the cooler box take this bag of orangy Stoppers and silver screws and pop each of the stoppers over the black back plate screw threads which are poking through the rear of the motherboard then it's a case of taking the silver bracket from earlier and just adding this on top of the orange Stoppers and then taking those included screws from just a moment ago to fasten this bracket into place a drop of thermal paste just to create a nice bond between the CPU and the cooler and then finish things off by adding the cooler block on top of this installation you'll notice here there's a couple of screw threads we can actually just use a screwdriver to tighten these up and once that's done the cooler installation is mostly finished obviously the fan does need to go back on but we'll save that for a little bit later when the actual motherboard has been moved over into the case talking to later in the build I think we're at the point now where we can move on to the case choice for this system and I have of course picked my favorite budget chassis of the year the montech a903 max I'd sort of Forgotten when I all spec this up online quite how big this case actually was so I may end up linking some slightly smaller recommendations below but let's see let's hold the faith for now and just see how the build looks as we go take all the panels off I should mention that's what I'm doing now make the whole case much easier to deal with before laying the case down flat for of course the motherboard installation check that all the standoffs are looking okay and then slide the motherboard into place now get that rear IO lined up and poking through first and then from there on in it should all be nice and easily aligned three screws at the top three along the middle couple down the bottom once all those are tightened up just give them one more going over to make sure they're really nice and in place and then add that cooler fan back on at the end and run the cable out to The Fan Hub at the rear of the case next NE oh God hello with that all said and done the next thing to do is install the GPU now I know that the 7700 XT hasn't necessarily been the most popular GPU since it launched but in our performance testing of not only this card but also this card with the ryzen 5 7600 X in this system we found found actually some quite impressive results the first example of this is in Alan Wake 2 at 1440p high settings with FSR enabled and set to Quality the 7700 XT achieved just shy of 90 FPS on average this is a really respectable result in what is undoubtedly a difficult to run AAA title and of course one that's pretty popular at the moment this pattern of good results gets better as we move through into call of duut War Zone 3 here at 1440p high settings with FSR once again enabled and set to Quality and the RX 7700 XT delivered 148 FPS on average just shy then of that 150 mark this allows for Competitive Gaming at 1440p and of course if you drop the resolution down to 1080p you'd be able to push that frame rate even further Call of Duty's Modern Warfare 3 was no surprise a similar set of results really 14 40p High settings with FSR enabled and once again set to the Quality preset delivered a pretty good 178 FPS at 1440p it just goes to show this card really should not be discounted especially for its competitive pricing while there were also areas where results perhaps could have been a little bit better Starfield at 1440p high and the card struggled a bit more only pulling in 68 FPS on average this is still much more than you're going to find on even an nextg console and of course Starfield has been the victim of terrible software optimization so it's not all the 7700 xt's fault Hogwarts Legacy saw the results pick up a fair bit up to nearly 100 FPS on average at 14 40p High settings once again while our next title fortnite just for the fun of it at 1080p competitive yielded some amazing results as he expect 274 FPS on average to be precise well this C doesn't certainly deliver quite the performance you'll see from a 7800 XT it is going to save you $60 or $70 in the process and unfortunately at this price point Nvidia have got nothing to compete now you can get obviously loads of different 7700 XT designs I quite like this Sapphire card price wi as well it also looked pretty good and was fairly competitive which is nice to see I have used this case previously so let me just have a look and see if these rear PCI slot covers are already in the right place by the looks of things you just need to move this top one down to the bottom to create our two free slots at the top for the 7700 XT push the PCI retention latch down slide the graphics card into place bit of pressure yes nicely done and then of course just a couple of screws to get it all secured down really is very very simple indeed all that then remains is to pop the power supply in and I've also picked up some of my favorite cable extensions as well just to fill the build out and obviously keep with that white and black color scheme these are from easy DIY Fab you can get a full set for like $25 $30 so cheap and as I say we're pairing them up with our smart bm3 really impressive that thermaltake are able to deliver this much power supply and also this much value in one package the motherboard and CPU cables are already pre-run so it's just a case of adding in one for the GPU U and then also a SATA power cable no SATA drives in this build but obviously we have got an RGB and a fan controller to plug in later the power supply being black doesn't really matter as it's hidden away under the PSU Shield at the bottom of the case and then just four screws is all that's required to secure the PSU in and actually finish off the power supply installation and with that the build is pretty much done all I need to do is wait for that new Ram to arrive later today and then I can boot this thing up and see just how good it looks if you enjoyed this one make sure you get subscribed if you aren't already and enjoy the awesome Glam Montage to finish things [Music] [Music] off

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Published: Sat Jan 13 2024