How To Build a Gaming PC in 2019! Part 1 - Hardware Basics

for over ten years now I have been creating videos about computers and how to build them on YouTube and 2019 is no different now that we're a couple months into the year I'm creating a new how to build a computer series this one is aimed at beginners so if you've never built a computer before you're thinking you might want to do it welcome and hopefully this video will help you out whether you want to build a larger computer or a smaller computer the first thing you're going to want to do is figure out what parts you need to go in there choosing the parts can be confusing in and of itself so in this video we're gonna figure out how big you want your computer to be how much you want it to cost and of course how powerful you want it to be I'm gonna go over all the core parts of a computer what they are what they do and give you guys recommendations on what you should buy right now this year so stay tuned but first this video is sponsored by Squarespace if you're interested go to Squarespace comm slash fall sorry where'd you get 10% off of your first order of course hang out till the end of the video for more on that for now let's get started with computer building it's funny how things change but also how things stay the same so for instance my recommendation still going back eight or 10 years is that you mainly only are gonna need a Phillips head screwdriver in order to assemble a standard modern-day PC however they've gotten a little bit fancier these days and they even have integrated stuff like all these fancy RGB lights not gonna be diving too much into RGB lighting for this video that's more of an aesthetic thing my goal is to get you guys a computer that's powerful and hopefully affordable the lighting and the aesthetics come later but going back to those first three things you need to decide one how big do you want your computer to be 2 how powerful you want it to be then three of course very important how much do you want it to cost computers can cost as little as $400 for a computer that you can get up and running with 600 to 800 dollars is kind of a nice reasonable range to get yourself a good functional computer that you're not spending too much money on then of course you can spend $1,000 1,500 $2,000 and beyond if you're looking for high-end desktop components high core count components high-end graphics cards like the 20 80 TI that can cost over $1000 themselves but let's keep things a little bit more reasonable to start out with and talk about what you already have so since you're watching this video I'm assuming you have an internet connection at home and you probably already have something that you can watch YouTube with maybe that is a cell phone or a tablet but maybe you already have an existing computer and if you already have an existing computer you might have some stuff that you can start out with and over to your new computer continue using the peripherals are the things apart from the actual computer itself are the things you can probably carry on using and save yourself some money in the process so you're gonna need a keyboard you're gonna need a mouse you're gonna need a monitor that can connect up to your computer then you're going to need that internet connection which is probably handled by a router that's provided by your internet service provider the only reason I bring this up is because your router might have Ethernet plugs to plug in directly to the computer or more likely you have Wi-Fi available so you want to make sure that your computer is set up and has a Wi-Fi connection via an antenna that can usually be purchased along with the motherboard let's not get too far ahead of yourselves just make sure that you've got the keyboard the mouse to monitor the internet connection beyond that I'm mostly going to be focusing on the computer itself from here on out actually two other quick things before we move on one is that if you want to be able to hear your computer you're going to need speakers or headphones of some variety oftentimes your monitor has speakers built into it so if you connect via HDMI to your monitor you can have sound that way but you might also consider a headset something like this that'll allow you to hear stuff and then also if it's got a built-in microphone if you're gonna play online games and you want to talk to people a mic is a very nice thing to have as well last thing to check with your old computer and this is not an old computer by the way just using it as an example but is there any old parts that you can reuse chances are the core components and the case would be harder to take over to a new system but you might be able to salvage a power supply if it's got enough wattage and you might definitely be able to salvage some old storage you can take old storage hard drives wipes them and reuse them as fresh new storage so if you've got an old 1 terabyte hard drive or something in an old system consider reusing it just bear in mind older hard drives can fail eventually so you want to make sure you have that data on there backed up somewhere else as well so now let's get back to building your computer and choosing the parts that you want to go inside the way I usually think about building a computer the core computer itself is that there are seven main components that you will need to consider and have in mind in order to get everything together and up and running the first part is the CPU the CPU also has additional parts because there's a CPU and then there's a heat sink fan that helps keep it cool by providing a heatsink and a fan to blow air over it those will sometimes come with the CPU if you get certain CPUs from AMD or Intel or if it doesn't you might need to buy a third-party one separately to install in there as well and for that you have air coolers as well as all-in-one liquid coolers like the one that's currently installed in this system those can get more fancy and expensive so I'm going to mostly be focusing on the stock coolers that can come with the CPUs that you buy but that's sort of your assessment there second part is going to be memory memory is volatile storage so it only stores data while there's actually power going to it it's very fast and more of it will often make your system faster more on that when we get into the detail about the memory though the motherboard is the central components that sits in the case that everything plugs into including a socket for the CPU slots for the memory as well as expansion slots over here to install graphics card or other things like capture cards there's a ton of motherboard options out there when it comes to the size of the motherboard the compatibility with the socket for the CPU and the CPU that you've chosen as well as additional features that can really drive up the price a lot motherboards for me usually cost a hundred to two hundred dollars this is actually a high-end desktop motherboard it has lots of memory slots we're not going to be dealing with this today we're mainly going to be focusing on the mainstream platforms from Intel and AMD right now for Andy that is socket AM for for Intel they have socket LGA 1151 and you want the newer version of that that works with Intel's 8th gen and ninth gen processors so the CPU the memory and the motherboard of the first three components and I list those together because you need to make sure that they're all compatible with each other and they're also going to be very key to the actual performance of your system especially the CPU the memory to a lesser extent when it comes to gaming performance that is where you're going to potentially want a graphics card graphics cards again can range hugely in price from 100 bucks all the way up to $1500 and more most people in 2019 are probably gonna spend between $200 and $400 on a graphics card if you're looking at a mid-range to high-end system that's dedicated for gaming but you can actually get away without having your graphics card completely if you go with integrated graphics that are built into your CPU if you're going with an Intel CPU I don't recommend that because the integrated graphics aren't that good if you're going Andy you need to make sure you get an AMD APU they have a 2200 g and a 2400 G those are what I recommend for entry-level builds that you can get for as low as 400 to 500 dollars it's a great way to get up and running with a gaming PC and not have to invest the several hundred dollars in a graphics card but also gives you the ability to upgrade to that down the road just bear in mind if you're getting an APU you need a motherboard that has video outs as well just three parts left the next one is storage this is long-term storage so this will save data even when your computer is off there are three different variants of this the first is old-school mechanical spinning hard drives these are usually larger 3.5 inch drives these you can get a lot of storage for less money but they're not as fast you're definitely going to want an SSD for your main operating system drive where you install windows for that you can either get a 2.5 inch SATA SSD like this and for this you can get a very fast drive with good price per gigabyte that you spend and then we also have newer MDOT - SSDs like this one the newest ones use nvme as a communication protocol for the rest of the system but they can cost a little bit more so it's going to be up to you whether you want to go with one of these or just stick with a standard 2.5 inch SSD the last two parts actually have the least amount of impact on how fast your system is going to be overall that is the case which can largely be aesthetic but you also want to make sure the case has enough airflow to evacuate the hot air that computers can generate while they're being used and also case is important when it comes to form factor whether you want a standard full sized ATX case like this or a mini ITX case like this one back here that supports smaller size motherboards more on that in just a second but the last thing is the power supply here's an example of a power supply it's basically a brick that plugs into the wall at one end so you can get power from at your home and then at the other end you're going to have cables that come out and those provide power to the rest of the components some plug into the motherboard some will plug directly into storage drives some plug directly into your GPU more on that when we get to the actual build in the next video but there are some things you want to consider about a power supply - which we'll come back to in just a second so let's talk about cases I have a few different case examples for you guys here the main thing you're gonna be thinking about when you look at a case is how much space do I have to work with on my desk or wherever I'm going to be keeping my computer and do I want something that's small and compact and maybe even portable to handle like this little mini ITX case here from Corsair or do I want something that's a little bit more flexible full sized full ATX mini ATX cases can be a little bit more challenging to work with you simply don't have as much space inside the case as you normally would you're also going to find a variety of layouts so here you can see the motherboard sets horizontally this is a little mini ITX motherboard power supply sits on the bottom is a few expansion slots here for storage drives and that's mostly it's I was able to fit an all-in-one liquid cooler in this system here as well but just overall a little bit more cramped not quite as much room to work with the cables and this is on a large side when it comes to mini ITX cases there is an in-between form factor often neglected called micro ATX so here's a micro ATX motherboard on the left versus a full-size ATX motherboard on the right micro ATX gives you a little bit more expansion down here than a mini ITX which is the smallest size so it's kind of an in-between you're still limited on case options for micro ATX I actually don't have a micro ATX case here to show you guys but for that reason I'm gonna focus on full-size ATX from here on out so these are both full ATX cases you can really see the ATX sized motherboard in that one also it's showing off that cases that are fancy and more expensive can have stuff like a tempered glass side panel window that lets you see into the case at your build once it's all finished both of these cases have a more normal vertical orientation but neither of these cases have the power supply where the power supply usually is I just realized both cases I have over there for an example of case airflow are really bad examples because neither of them use standard case air flow so I'm using my very fancy Arctic Panther custom liquid cooled system to show you a more standard case layout which is that we have intakes in the front and it is very nice to have a dust filter for your front intakes if that's available on a case and then after the air flows through the system it can escape either via an exhaust at the back here or an exhaust across the top and the top exhaust is a very popular place to put a radiator if you're using liquid cooling or one of the all-in-one liquid coolers that I showed you on that first system also in this layout the power supply is going to be on the bottom left which lets you look at it and then a lot of cases will have sort of a basement area down here at the bottom that's separated for the power supply to kind of hide that in the cables although that is mostly an aesthetic edition and depending on how pretty your cables are in your power supply you may or may not wants a case that has that of course these two cases that I chose for this video both do not use that standard layout mainly because they have blocked off front intakes this is the SL 600m from Coolermaster by the way as well as the Leon leap TC 0:11 dynamic and white from LAN Li apart from the airflow and power supply mount though these have standard layouts which is the ATX motherboard which is back there on a motherboard tray at the back of the case and that lets you install everything on top of that the graphics card which is installed right here there's a Radeon 7 over in this one CPUs in a socket at the center of the motherboard cooled by the air or liquid cooler memory is in the slots just to the right of that then your storage might install directly to the motherboard if you're looking at where these little MDOT two drives or you'll have 2.5 inch drive mounting points where you can install SSDs so if you figure out what size case you want and you've taken a look at the airflow and aesthetic concerns then you're probably also going to be concerned about price you can get cases as cheap as 20 bucks or so but I would recommend about 40 to 60 dollars should be your ballpark range for an entry-level case and you can get really solid cases in the 40 to $60 range you can get a master box Q 300 L 4 45 or $50 this is a micro ATX case but very solid all-around it's been very well reviewed Coolermaster also has a master box light 5 which is a full sized ATX case but around 65 or 70 dollars the fractal design focused G also available for 55 or 60 bucks a very solid mid-range all-black case Corsair has got a carbide spec oh six they just recently launched this is another case it has a lot of features for a budget price sells for 75 or 80 bucks normally but you can often get it on sale for as cheap as 55 or 60 NZXT sh 500 is also a really solid case available with a few accent colors as well but you can get the black version for 70 bucks fantex has the eclipse p 400 available for $80 this is again I really solid all-around case so just take a look at these cases their features their reviews see if they have a look that stands out to you factor in your budget and then make a choice on which one you want the last one here is the fractal design mesh if I see this is also a really solid case it has really nice air flow so if you're concerned about things getting warm that's a good choice for you and this one you can get for $100 next we'll look at power supply and here there's a few things you should consider a power supply you should be able to get for about 40 to 60 dollars as well so similar price to a mid range case and the things that the power supply will be concerned about are the wattage whether or not is modular and the efficiency rating for a standard gaming PC I usually look at wattage between 500 and 800 watts 500 is kind of the starting out point you can't get away with less than that but if you have 500 or 550 watts on your power supply you'll be able to support mid-range and high-end graphics cards if you add one in the future next is the efficiency rating you have bronze gold platinum and titanium you at least want to get 80 plus bronze rated you can also take a look at 80 plus gold rated power supplies as well but you can usually get better deals on the bronze ones as for brands there are a lot of power supply brands out I typically go with EVGA Corsair see sonic silverstone Rosewill has some good power supplies but they also have some bad ones too so you got to double-check the reviews and then from there just start looking at actual power supplies to see how they're configured so of course there for example has their CX M series that they've recently updated so they have all black cables they're also partially modular modular cables allows you to not use the cables that you're not going to use because you don't need all the cables that come with any given power supply so here's a non modular power supply on the right and you can see how having this big gripper cables in your case might be hard to deal with and we have a mostly modular power supply over here on the left this one has a bunch of extra cables plugged in here if I didn't need these I could unplug them and then we have a few fixed cables for stuff like the main motherboard power connector the only other thing you might want to consider with a power supply is that these cables again can look kind of ugly if you have this multicolored nonsense going on there I actually taped over this one to block it off but some power supplies will have modular cables and will also have all black cables like these so that they just look a little bit cleaner and they don't stand out as much when you've built your system moving on to talk about motherboards and I have CPUs also right here because there's a very close relationship between the CPU you get and the motherboard you got to make sure that they are compatible and here's where you get to make that age-old decision AMD or Intel because Andy makes CPUs Intel makes CPUs and you got to get a compatible motherboard for an Intel CPU a compatible motherboard for an AMD CPU they are not swappable in any way shape or form in fact the CPUs themselves are different Intel uses LGA on these mainstream boards AMD uses PGA I have a separate video on the difference between those if you want to check it out but every motherboard is gonna have these basic features first a socket at the center where your CPU gets installed you want to be careful with that it can be delicate next to that we have these long vertical slots that's for memory you can have two slot motherboards I recommend trying to get a four slot one because you're probably going to start out with two sticks of memory and you have expansion space for adding two more in the future if you start with four slots most mini ITX boards only have two slots because that's all there's room for that is one of the sacrifices you make by going with mini ITX you're also gonna have places to connect up power from your power supply usually a larger 24-pin power and then a smaller either 4 or 8 pin power up in the top left right here's where you have power delivery componentry for the cpu and if you're looking into overclocking that's something you want to pay attention to and double check the reviews for your given motherboard most motherboards will be able to run any CPU it's compatible with at stock frequencies but having better power delivery is important for overclocking and the bottom left you have expansion slots these are typically called PCI Express and you'll want at least one full sized by 16 one for installing a graphics card to a full sized ATX motherboard gives you additional slots as well though so for instance a 2-way graphics card setup or perhaps expansion cards for video capture or adding more USB ports beyond that you will have ports to connect up your storage drive via SATA ports over on the side or MDOT 2 slots this board has one of them right here there's another one beneath the heatsink down here and then along the right edge and the bottom you'll have other connectivity for stuff like USB 3.1 gen2 front panel connectors fan headers for connecting up fans USB 3 front panel audio RGB headers not going to get into too much detail on those but they are things you want to take a look at if you're concerned about connecting for example an addressable RGB LED strip so at this point you're probably like alright Paul I got a reasonable idea of what's going on with the motherboard itself what installs where I know about the form factors small medium or large Mini ITX micro ATX standard ATX and I know I want to get the right socket for the CPU I'm choosing LGA 1151 for modern eighth and ninth gen Intel CPUs and socket am 4 for AMD rise and 1000 series or 2000 series CPUs or ap use but what are all these other numbers on the box is Z 390 here on the Intel boxes we have B 350 M and X 470 they're for MSI those are for the chipsets a chipset is an extra chip sits on the motherboard that helps the CPU handle additional IO so you might have additional PCIe slots or MDOT 2 slots or SATA slots that go through the chipset and then that communicates back to the CPU so you can connect up drives unfortunately Intel and AMD have been in kind of a branding battle when it comes to their chipsets they're all really similarly named and it's very confusing which one is which so pay more attention to the sockets first of all then look at the chipset and just know that right now for Intel you want Z 390 or Z 370 if you're getting an unlocked processor and you want over clock you can save some money by getting lower end chipsets but definitely Z 390 or Z 370 if you are getting an unlocked overclocking processor which is one of the nice things you should get with Intel over that costs a bit more and then for AMD I would recommend a B 450 chipset motherboards simply because that still allows overclocking they're not going to be as expensive as the x4 70 motherboards and you still have backwards compatibility with first-generation Rison you will know you have compatibility with rise in 1000 2000 series and honestly the main benefits you get with going with x4 70 over B 450 are the ability to do two-way graphics card setups which honestly most people never bother with if you're shopping online for a motherboard i recommend using pc part picker and choosing your processor first the Rison v 2600 is a really really nice mid-range 165 dollar processor from AMD once you've chosen that it's got a compatibility feature so if you go to try to choose a motherboard it will only show you compatible boards from there you can drill down to stuff like the form factors so we want ATX and I recommended the B 450 chipset so we'll choose that as well and then here we can see compatible B 450 motherboards listed between a price of about 94 dollars all the way up to 140 dollars if you want a recommendation for me right now this MSI B 450 tomahawk is a solid board with some RGB LED features but also has really good power delivery so if you're gonna overclock there in the future you'd be set and you can't of course do the same thing with intel intel has really fast processors I gotta give them that but they tend to be more expensive so their current flagship on the mainstream side is the I $9.99 hundred K which cost about 500 bucks that's a lot more than the AMD option but we can also go to choose a motherboard here and then again it would list us compatible boards but just reality check here because it's listing this be 360 gigabyte motherboard as compatible the B 360 chipset from Intel limits you as far as your connectivity and it also doesn't allow you to overclock so that's really a bad choice of motherboard to pair with something like a 9900 K but if we again use our filters here to just choose z3 70 and z3 and 90 those would allow overclocking then we can sort by price and get ourselves some more reasonable options here now you'll notice some less expensive boards that are compatible here chances are these aren't going to have the greatest power delivery so you're probably not going to be a overclock quite as well although on the AMD side I was able to get away with a maybe 100 to 120 dollar range motherboard and still do some overclocking I would probably want to go more towards the hundred and fifty dollar range to get yourself a solid Intel motherboard and maybe even up towards 200 if you're looking for some more advanced features now let's talk about the CPU potentially one of the more expensive parts of your builds may be eclipsed by the graphics card depending on what graphics card you get but again we're talking about mainstream CPUs from AMD and the write and Intel on the left and if you're just looking at the bottom of the CPU from Intel for example whether this is a $500 9900 K or like one of their $80 dual cores they're gonna look exactly the same on the bottom because they have the same pin count their LGA 1151 so they have 1151 contacts down there on the bottom same goes for AMD whether you're talking about an entry-level $100 part or their flagship 2700 X it'll look the exact same from the bottom you'll only be able to tell what it is by looking at the actual label labeling on the CPU itself I also want to point out that these are not all of the consumer CPUs available there's also stuff like Rison thread ripper from AMD then Intel also has their LGA 2066 stuff these are called prosumer or high-end desktop chips and I'm only showing them to point out that they exist not going to touch on them much in this video because they're much more expensive so if you're just learning how to build a PC you should start out with the mainstream platform stuff so beyond that how do you choose you're mainly going to be looking at the core count of a processor the thread count of the processor where it takes the number of cores and actually provides twice the number of threads available to the operating system to use for calculating stuff and then finally the frequency that the CPU runs at and when you're comparing CPUs of the same generation and architecture a higher frequency CPU will be faster I'll talk about pricing and decision making in just a second but the only other thing you want to concern yourself with is whether or not your CPU comes with a heat sink fan if you buy an Intel CPU that's not a case Q on the end so if you get the 8700 it will come with a stock heatsink fan these are usually adequate so you can get some benefits but upgrading them but you can at least get up and running with that almost all current AMD AM 4 processors do come with a heat sink fan of some variety they have different sizes of them of them depending on how expensive the CPU is that you buy and they're actually pretty decent the Wraith stealth and the rates so again if you're just getting up and running out off the ground and you want to save some money you can totally just go with the included heat sink fan that comes with your AMD CPU so back to pricing for a CPU starting on the AMD side so I've chosen a b4 15 motherboard I'm now going to choose a CPU so the compatibility filter will only show me compatible CPUs on PC part picker and here we can see that 465 bucks we got that rise in 520 600 I think this is the best bang for your buck CPU right now at a reasonable price that 165 bucks because you get six cores and twelve threads it does have simultaneous multi-threading it comes with a heat sink fan in the box and it's completely unlocked for overclocking so you can overclock this if you so desire another stand up for me from AMD is the Rison 320 200 G again this is that APU but you can get by without a graphics card with this and get it for as little as $92 but usually about 95 or 100 this is a quad core CPU without SMT so you only get four cores and four threads but it's a hundred bucks and you don't have to buy a graphics card if you want a lot of processing power than you want more cores so getting an eight core on this platform from AMD you can actually get as cheap as 170 dollars to the rise in seven 1700 I think the 2600 is a little bit better as a gaming CPU but you can also get the eight core 1700 X or even the eight core 2700 for about 260 dollars if we compare that to what's available over on the intel side you will note that for a six core locked Intel processor you have to pay a hundred and eighty five dollars for the current gen unlocked six core from until you have to pay two hundred and sixty dollars and this does not have multi-threading or hyper threading as intel calls it still six cores and six threads if you want what is in my opinion the equivalent of the unlock 6 core with multi-threading from AMD from Intel you got to go to the i7 8700 K which still costs 350 to 400 dollars and that is last generation still a very good CPU but their current generation replacement is the 9700 K which can get for 410 dollars which is an 8 core unlock CPU but it does not have hyper threading for all of the goodness and speed possible on the intel side right now on the main stream platform you got to go at the I 999 hundred K which is a cores and unlock and is a very fast and capable processor mind you but it's 500 bucks so you got to pay for that performance let's move on to system at memory system memory come and these sticks often called dims dual inline memory module is what dim stands for and memory is pretty simple there are no moving parts so that's easy enough you know pretty difficult to damage if you drop them or anything all you really need to be concerned about with memory is what version you're getting and anything in the past 2 years is going to use ddr4 not ddr3 this is a ddr4 module on the top and ddr3 on the bottom you'll note that the notches here and not in the same place so it's actually pretty much impossible to install a ddr3 module into ddr4 slot and then you have two main specs you want to look at one is the capacity or how much actual space is in each memory stick you usually will see a listed amount of memory per stick so this is originally a 4 gig by 4 set up so they were 4 4 gig games for 16 gigs total and then you have 2 ratings for the speed one is what's usually called memory speed itself so DDR for this is ddr4 3200 higher is better you'll see 3,000 speed 3200 speed 3400 up to 4000 speed these speeds that you can get for reasonable prices right now that are also good speeds are about 3000 or 3,200 and finally you'll have a CL rating that's known as caste latency that is the latency or how many clock cycles it takes for the memory to do a specific job lower is better when it comes to that number so caste latency 14 is better than caste latency 16 and when it comes to the cpu you've chosen you also want to make sure your memory will play nice with that Rison likes higher speed memory so I usually recommend 3,000 or 3,200 speed memory width for a rise in CPU and you'll have better luck getting your memory to run at that rated speed if you get memory that listed as compatible with rice and or just double check your motherboards memory compatibility list you should be able to find that on your motherboard manufacturers website they'll have specific kits that they've tested at specific speeds and they'll tell you yes it will work with your cpu intel cpus tend to be a little bit more flexible when it comes to memory I still recommend higher speed if you can afford it but usually you can get away with 26 66 or 3,000 all that said if you can find memory that's just a couple bucks more that's on the faster rated speed I recommend going for it but don't spend 20 or 30 dollars to jump from 3200 to 3400 for example finally I recommend buying your memory in a matched set just so you can plug it in and make sure that it will play nice together dual channel kit is just fine for getting you up and running on the mainstream platform you can also get quad matched kits as well that you may or may not be interested in usually those are for the high end desktop platform and then what is all the rage right now is RGB lighting on everything right so you'll find some memory that has RGB lighting across the top that is purely aesthetic does not make your memory any faster so again don't spend a bunch of money on RGB memory go for faster memory first but you know if the same gets available with RGB and not and you prefer RGB and it's the same price and go for it you know it's not gonna hurt your performance either and when it comes to graphics cards I could easily do a full video by itself on choosing graphics cards the difference between AMD and NVIDIA who are the two main GPU makers and the pros and cons and price range and everything but I'm gonna try to keep this simple since this is already a fairly long video with graphics cards you get what you pay for if you pay more money you're gonna get more GPU performance if you want to game in 1920 by 1080 you can get away with a graphics card in the 150 to 300 dollar range if you want to play at 1440 you probably want to spend 250 to 400 dollars and if you want to go upwards beyond that to 4k or some of the ultra wide screen resolutions and you probably want to spend a 500 bucks plus on your GPU I'll make a couple notes on compatibility and then go into some recommendations for you when it comes to physical compatibility as long as you have a modern GPU uses PCI Express it slots into the top PCI Express slot usually on your motherboard and you're gonna have pretty much universal compatibility it's just like that that's how it works when it comes to the GPU itself physically usually the length of the GPU this way can sometimes be a conflict if you have a shorter case most cases listed the GPU length that they're compatible with and that's also something that PC part picker keeps in mind if you're picking out a GPU there and then you might want to keep an eye on the height or width I guess depending on how you hold the graphics card as well some cases don't have as much space horizontally and in fact this case is one of the ones where if you have a big fat GPU and like a water block on it that has more stuff sticking off of it you can potentially conflict with the glass part right there that's less of a concern but something you should keep keep an eye on especially if you're buying one of these over Bilt's aftermarket third-party designs this is a gigabyte Oris r-tx 2080 TI so if you're looking in the low to mid range say 200 to $300 price range I would recommend on the Nvidia side the geforce gtx 1066 gig or on the AMD side the RX 588 or the rx 598 gig if he can claw your way up to the 350 to $400 range I was formerly recommending AMD's Radeon Vega 56 or Vega 64 if you could find them in stock and at reasonable prices however NVIDIA has just recently launched the r-tx 2060 for three hundred and fifty dollars between the two if you can get a really good deal on a Vega 56 or 64 still go for that but the r-tx 2060 whether you're talking about the founders Edition or any of the third-party versions that's what I would go for there if you can spend five hundred bucks go for an RT X 2060 if you can spend seven hundred bucks go for an RT X twenty eighty if you can spend a thousand to fourteen hundred dollars I guess maybe consider the RT X twenty atti but honestly that is a lot of money to spend especially if you're just building a system for the first time it's the best gaming graphics card you can get it's just more money than a lot of people spend on their entire computer so you know spend the money that you have don't go into debt over something like this and the last component I'm going to talk about is storage unfortunately storage is really flexible apart from your main operating system drive that's you'll want to pay attention to from the get-go because when you first set up your system you're gonna want to install probably windows on it if you're building a gaming PC Linux is totally fine - for people who like that I'll be covering that procedure in part three of this video but suffice it to say what you want to start out with is a single fast SSD preferably an MDOT two nvme one right now if you can afford it but if you can't you can easily save twenty or thirty bucks by just going with a SATA SSD like this one these little MDOT two drives are really nice because you just installed them directly to your motherboard you don't have to worry about running cables over from your SATA ports or powering it via an extra plug coming over from your power supply and although most people aren't gonna take advantage of the speed that you get from a higher-end nvme MDOT - SSD they can get much much faster than these SATA drives the SATA drives typically top out about 500 to 550 megabytes per second read and write speeds whereas nvme drives can go to 2,000 or 3,000 and beyond so back over on PC part picker - look at storage this time and I'm going to drill down to just look at SSDs and to see what the best deals are I'm sorting by price per gigabyte and just over ten cents per gig is what you can get an SSD for right now so that means you can get 480 gig SSDs for about 50 bucks you can get one terabyte SSDs for about $100 you can even get 240 drives for maybe about 25 to 30 dollars so if you're really on a budget that's what I would go with to get yourself started out for most people a 500 gig class drive for about 50 bucks would be just fine and if we go down here and look just for MDOT 220 280 drives we can potentially start looking at some nvme options just keep in mind not all MDOT two drives are nvme for instance this WD blue drive is a SATA 3 drive so it's still only gonna top out at about 560 megabytes per second sequential reads 530 megabytes second per second sequential writes this Intel 660 p2 tire but actually is an nvme drive so this will get you sequential reads and writes it closer to 18 hundred megabytes per second and this is nvme so tons of good options here when it comes to SSDs to get your operating system drive loaded up - I would just recommend if you're looking at standard SATA drives just take a look at what some of these nvme drives are in the same price range and you might find that some of them are pretty reasonable and sometimes we're spending the extra 15 or 20 bucks to get them before I close out this video though I have been using Squarespace recently actually for the past few years to power my store Paul's Hardware Nets and you guys should also try out Squarespace if you want to put together a website I have a link in the video's description and you should check that out Squarespace basically helps you do the internet better by helping you set up a website they have templates to help you get started with responsive designs so you can get website looking good whether it's on a cell phone or a desktop or any other device so whether you need a website for your business or for a hobby or for anything that you might want to create a website for Squarespace is good for creating that website a 24/7 support via live chat and email and they have commerce functions available so you can integrate products to sell and set up a store just like mine at pulse hardware net especially if you have super-sweet merch to sell like I do so click the sponsor link in the description or go to Squarespace comm slash Paul's hardware you will get 10% off of your first purchase and a big thank you to Squarespace for sponsoring my youtube channel so that is part one of my three-part series on how to build a computer in 2019 I hope you guys have enjoyed it and maybe learned a little bit more about how computer gets put together these days and of course remember those three key things decide how big your computer wants to be decide how powerful you want your computer to be and then those should probably determine how much you can spend on your computer of course you can also do it the other way figure out how much money at first and then drill down to figure out how much you can spend on the computer itself but if you would like some more guidance with putting your own PC together definitely check out my monthly build series at the beginning of every month I do a couple PC builds partly based on price points or specific use cases and there you will find full lists of my recommendations on how to build a PC for 600 bucks or a thousand bucks or just however much you happen to have on you right at the moment thank you guys so much for watching this video definitely hit the thumbs up button if you enjoyed it links are in the description too a lot of the stuff I talked about today as well as the PC part picker who has a great site for helping choose your own PC parts and let me know what you think of this video in the comment section down below if you have any suggestions I'd love to hear them thanks again for watching guys we'll see you next time

Channel: Paul's Hardware

Views: 2,306,845

Keywords: how to build a computer, how to build a gaming pc, pc gaming, CPU, Motherboard, computer, how to, tutorial, guide, walkthrough, install, installation, setup, AMD, ryzen, AM4, socket, chipset, 1080p, 1920x1080, video games, power supply, case, memory, video card, gpu, vga, personal computer, paulshardware, budget, $900, $1500, $500, learning pc hardware, beginner's guide

Id: gHY6ygHj80c

Length: 34min 8sec (2048 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 19 2019

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I am not Paul. I just think it's appropriate for this subredit. Paul gives a very comprehensive look into hardware and then puts it together in the second part of his video, all the while teaching beginners how to build a PC.

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