How to CORRECTLY choose your PC Parts

what's up guys J soos ends here and I'm gonna do something that I've never done on this channel but I promise you that I would we're gonna do a little bit of a build guide in terms of picking parts I'm gonna give us that budget and we're gonna kind of go through here and talk about picking the parts and how to make sure things are compatible and to sort of give you a little bit of a guide at a price point but more importantly everyone talks about how to build the tower but realistically with the most common questions that we get on this channel isn't about building the tower it's about picking the parts so today we are bringing you J's PC part picking 101 that's the first class in college courses and let's go to Community College students whatever they call it featuring the Intel 9750 h6 core processor up to 64 gigabytes of memory and multiple GPU options mag 15 laptop from electronics is one of the lightest production and gaming notebooks on the market due to its magnesium lightweight 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I just tend to do manual price shopping because I like it better so what we're gonna do is we're not gonna talk so much about the parts we're picking we're gonna talk about why we're picking the parts we're picking so this isn't necessarily gonna be a cookie cutter parts list although at the end of this video we will show you the way we spent the thousand dollars which is the price point that I've chosen for this first video of trying to bring you these ways to think about shopping it's designed to help you think about the way to choose these parts not so much what we what we chose the most expensive single part you're going to pretty much buy is gonna be well especially if you're doing a gaming system is going to be your video card or your it's part the way I tend to budget for this is I tend to have it be anywhere between thirty to forty percent of the total cost of the system so if I'm building a thousand dollar system it means I've got between three and four hundred dollars to spend on a graphics card without having to make too many sacrifices somewhere else in the budget to then get everything to fit because remember there's like seven main components that you have to get into your system you've got to get your CPU your RAM your motherboard your graphics card your storage your power supply and your case so those are seven components technically eight if you do it the way I do it which is going to be an SSD as well as a large capacity spinning hard drive so by sticking within that thirty to forty percent budget ratio it means that I'm not gonna have to make too many sacrifices later on based on those seven or eight components I just mentioned so it makes it pretty easy though with Newegg you can just sort by your price and it actually works out really well because on the left-hand side right here if we scroll down to our sorting we can go right to 300 to 400 dollars so since we know that $1000 is our total budget I'm shopping within that particular price point and what I'd like to do is I tend to kind of price my my GPU to be no more than 50% of the total budget of the system but usually it's gonna fall between more like thirty and forty percent of the total costs of your system so it's going to be the single most expensive part so the next most expensive thing you're probably gonna spend on your system is gonna be your CPU and your motherboard combo now depending on where you're shopping you can find a lot of combo deals and Isis I basically recommend finding the CPU that you want to go with Neysa based on what your tasks are gonna be and I already know that within this thousand dollar price point the best performance to price ratio is going to be with AMD AMD's Rison what you need to know though once you decide on which part you want to go with is you need your socket type to be compatible and it's kind of simple now with AMD because all the mainstream stuff is am 4 plus and because of the forward and backwards compatibility AMD's promised till about 2022 I think it is it means anything am four plus is gonna be compatible with each other now there are some caveats to that caveat caveat there there are some exceptions to that you can take a newer generation rise in CPU and pair it with an older generation Rison so although you can go backwards compatible like that and save some money I tend to make sure I stick with a generation of CPU and motherboard that are matched or at least go with a newer motherboard than the current CPU that I'm with if they are compatible with each other if you're not the kind of person that's looking at changing this in the next year or two and you're a five-year builder plus you you aim for that five year mark of having the CPU or the PC last then this is kind of irrelevant to you and if you make sure you stick with the same generation CPU and motherboard then it means that you're gonna guarantee that all the features of the CPU that you have are there and unlocked and ready to go and the motherboards built to the capacity it needs to be built to to support the particular CPU that you've put in there so for the motherboard we actually chose the MSI B 450 tomahawk max and we chose that for a couple of reasons one we've used it in the past several times actually and it's a very well designed well built and a very good value of a motherboard it doesn't have the highest chipset series for the CPU that we selected that's because we also didn't go with the highest end CPU from the generation that we could have so it's a pretty well matched motherboard to CPU now the CPU we actually chose was the AMD Rison 520 600 X it's a six core 12 thread CPU 4.2 gigahertz turbo clock it's more than enough horsepower to do live streaming gaming video rendering just it's a really well-rounded all-around CPU and we save some money because it's not the latest generation of CPU from AMD and because it's still available with current support and a really slash price it's really hard to beat its performance to price ratio but that also means going with a super high-end motherboard that has all these features designed for like the 3,700 X which we're not using makes no sense it would be wasted money the be 450 tomahawk max gives us four dimm slots that we can expand our memory later on if we go with a dual channel kit now which means if we went with a cheaper motherboard we wouldn't be able to do that unless we replace both sticks of rams so for now for this build we're gonna go with two sticks of RAM and then the option to add more later so memory is pretty simple you're not getting gouged like you were two years ago there's no huge memory shortage around the world and it's $200 sixteen gigabytes or $100 plus for a single 8 gigabyte stick you can now get 16 gigabytes for well under 100 bucks in fact we're looking right now all I did was search ddr4 one of the first ones that comes up right here is a $69 set of 2 times 8 gigabyte DIMMs a 32 hundred megahertz ram from g.skill ripjaws when it comes to shopping for ram first gen Rison definitely benefited from its fastest memory as you could get that was because of the Infinity fabric and the way that the chip let's all talk to each other that's kind of changed now with the 2000 series it was not nearly as important but still somewhat impactful on performance in the 3000 series we we're not really seeing much of an important performance benefit or hit by speeding up or slowing it down with intel on the other hand the faster the memory it really goes well with the high over clocks that you can get with Intel CPUs so I tend to find the sweet spot to be right around to be honest 3000 megahertz but if your budget can't afford it 2666 is gonna be just fine it's easy to overspend on memory by going I want the fastest memory possible but again unless you're using very memory intensive niche tasks that are gonna need the superfast megahertz ratings of memory with very tight timings I think in a blind taste test you'd have a hard time seeing 2666 versus 4000 and just basic computing you're never gonna notice it so when it comes to memory though you obviously are gonna want to go with dual channel if you've got a dual channel motherboard or if you're running like an X platform on either a thread ripper or Intel then you're gonna want one stick per channel and those are four channel systems see we need four sticks to make sure there's at least one stick in each of those channels how do you know what you got well unless you paid an awful lot for your CPU you don't have 4 channels I promise unless you bought a 39 50 X and then you only have dual channel and that's expensive too so I guess the whole argument to split window alright I guess a better way to say it if it doesn't say thread Ripper or Intel extreme you don't need 4 sticks we drew up this video to bring you a special message from I fix realize it's in by the makers of I picture got a crappy graphics card that's okay I fix it that's 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the airflow it's just the box to give you some sort of an atmosphere to move air to keep things nice and cool the only time the case is gonna ever ever affect your system performance is if you have terrible air flow in your parts start thermal throttling pass that if it fits your motherboard and you go with the right size case that matches your ATX form factor so ATX full sized ATX needs an ATX case em ATX seen em ATX or an ATX you can always put a smaller motherboard in a bigger case but not the other way around unless you really go with a dremel so I tend to choose the case last because sometimes it's the piece that I also buy used if I have a very strict budget because it's the least impactful on your system I don't want to spend a lot of money there because what you gain with a lot of money spent on a case is aesthetics but aesthetics at the end of the day we're having a beautiful case like let's say my Inman 9 to 8 but I've got a 500 all our budget build crammed into it what sense is that so it's really easy to imbalance your system by spending too much money on your case which is why we're gonna go right to power supply now power supplies are one of those things that I think a lot of people tend to overcomplicate as long as they're an 80 plus rated or higher and you're not using some gray box that came out some case with a power supply included with it you're usually not going to run into too much of a problem mainstream systems and are not putting extreme loads on the power supply with running to overclock graphics cards and a 16 core 32 thread CPU that's overclocked and water-cooled you're very rarely ever gonna notice that your power supply is underpowered which is why I tend to shop right around the 80 plus gold rating so what that tells me is the components used in the power supply are better than average I've got better capacitors the rail design is going to be more improved and that eighty plus rating is nothing more than an efficiency rating it tells you how efficient the power supply is to generate the power advertised based on the power it pulls from the wall what you might find though is between gold and like titanium it's like 2 or 3% at the most in terms of efficiency levels gold has the most power supplies in its category a lot of people go right past bronze or right past silver from bronze to gold in terms of their power supply designs and then right past gold - titanium now kind of surpassing platinum so gold is just where the best price of performance ratio is going to be so there's no reason to buy a super expensive power supply you just need to make sure it's sized properly for your graphics card which is the most single demanding power component in your system it's gonna pull way more watts than your CPU under load if you're doing gaming your CPU hardly ever goes under a full load anyway your graphics card as long as it's not being bottlenecked will go immediately to its max power draw to give you all the performance it can based on you know your settings and your overhead and so what I'm gonna say is that with the 2060 which is what the CPU or the GPU is that we actually chose for this build and again we'll do a full ration out at the end calls for about a 500 watt power supply or like a 4 in a watt power supply it's nothing crazy but because of that efficiency curve like I said when it comes to power supplies I like to oversize my power supplies by a good 15 20 percent at times so I'm gonna actually shop between 500 and 600 watt power supplies in 80 plus gold for this particular system so it brings us to our last component - case like I talked about which is our storage now with $1000 we don't have to make a lot of sacrifices to our storage if we were trying to shop at like a $500 price point then there's some sacrifices that need to be made and I get pushback on this all the time but the way I tend to build my systems is one SSD that's as big as I can afford while still affording a large spinning drive to put large files large games backups pictures music movie files that are large in capacity that can easily chew through an SSD that way I can have both and the the best way the cheapest way to get max storage is with hard drives now a lot of people will say yeah but J hard drives are perfectly fine for your operating system and such but I'm gonna tell you right now my personal opinion on this matter is that with how inexpensive SATA SSDs are today there is no reason whatsoever you shouldn't actually be going with a SATA SSD for your main OS and your favorite games and programs drive there fast I'm sure they're not nvm ease you know 3500 megabytes per second but when it comes to building a system like this a SATA SSD in general use and clicking around in your operating system and loading programs that's the way that I tend to do it now when it comes to sizing your SSD things are a heck of a lot cheaper than they used to be so if you're searching for internal SSDs just sort by the form factor two and a half inch and then come down here to capacity and it's kind of weird the way Newegg brackets sees it's two hundred and seventy six gigabytes to five hundred and fifty we can get a 500 gigabyte crutial MX 500 which i've got like three of them sitting in the box over there because we've used them in so many builds it's got an average of four out of five eggs with 374 reviews so that's one that I'm confident in in fact I'll go ahead and add that one to the cart but then like I said I always pair that SSD because although 500 gigabytes seems like a lot I always pair it with a hard drive because with games now being north of a hundred gigabytes like Red Dead Redemption 2 is 116 gigabytes for one game and then after Windows is installed it's gonna eat like 60 gigabytes if your SSD and then once windows partitions and all that you're gonna loose a few more gigabytes to partitioning you're gonna be left with like three hundred and some-odd gigabytes before you even installed your first program other than your operating system so you can why having a spinning hard drive is also worthwhile now I'm gonna give you a little secret here spinning hard drives seems Oh freakishly slow when their housing your operating system which is true boot times kind of suck compared to SSDs I've gotten better but they definitely are slow and then when your operating system is on a spinning Drive and you're loading programs that are happening and the the platters having to seek all over the place you'll find load times are slow it's you know you click on something you go to the bathroom you come back and it's just finishing up but when it's not handling the operating system and it's just sitting there on its own SATA controller just waiting for you to call something up its cache is not constantly having to swap out if you're playing the same games and stuff that are stored on your hard drive and that's stored in cache then it's gonna load very quickly in fact we've done side by side comparisons here with secondary SSDs and secondary hard drives side-by-side and saw that sometimes it's only 15 or so percent faster on an SSD than a hard drive and as long as you go with a decent hard drive and a 7200 rpm and one that has a large cache then what you're gonna find is that having a hard drive is not nearly as bad as a lot of people want to make it out to be it's when you have the operating system on there that that tends to be a problem I also tend to go with at least a 2 terabyte they're cheap enough now there's no reason Seagate is a very reputable brand you've got Western Digital which is twice as as much as Seagate but that's where you're gonna want to do your research on various hard drive types what the colors mean because Western Digital is always in like black blue green red and each color is a different task it's designed for and for 54 bucks and an average of 4 eggs out of 596 reviews Add to Cart so what does that bring our grand total to eight hundred and fifty four dollars and eighty eight cents prior to tax our total with tax is nine hundred and forty four dollars and seventy eight cents which only really leaves us about fifty dollars for a case now like I said already cases are extremely subjective as long as they are giving you the proper airflow and they could fit your motherboard and all your components in there and nothing interferes and touches and you are fine looking at either a beige box a black box with a steel interior and you don't it looks like you just want to play your games you're gonna set it on the floor in the closet and not look at it then don't waste your money on an expensive case but I can tell you right now that things have definitely gotten a lot better when it comes to cases in fact there's a lot of brands out there too I've never even heard of better that are there so if we just shop computer cases and we look for ATX full Tower we got a lot of options that show up so you've got the corsair carbide 200 R for 69 bucks that's technically out of our price point but this is where you can start to make a few adjustments here you could potentially go down to a one terabyte hard drive and save about ten or fifteen bucks if you're not convinced your need 2 terabytes you could step down the graphics card maybe slightly I'm confident in the fact that you can find a case in here that you would want to use I'd be fine with your parts it's not gonna break the bank like we've got this DIY PC black USB 3.0 ATX case and it looks like it has fans actually so that's the thing with cases though many of them don't include fans and if they do they're often garbage because they know people are gonna put in whatever fan that they want the problem is when you can buy a Corsair 120 millimeter light loop fan that costs $30 or more per fan you can easily spend five hundred dollars in a single case with fans it's insane so that's where you have to decide what you were okay with spending but this fit this actually looks like it has an intake fan a side panel fan that blows right down on your graphics card and the rear exhaust fan and guess what it is $33 it's got ATT reviews four out of five eggs I will click that one into our into our build $888 prior to tax and shipping we've got no additional like warranties sitting on here because sometimes it likes to add a little three year warranty there or without you knowing it secure a checkout that brings our grand total to nine hundred eighty eight dollars and ninety eight cents the subtotal shows one thousand eighteen dollars because we're getting an Xbox game pass card with our AMD CPU because it's named deep deal and promo going on right now so that's why it shows also a - $29.99 for gift one that's what that is so we did it we actually did $1000 PC including tax and we didn't scrimp on our parts and if we look at our parts right here and what we chose you see them in like a really weird order but the case the DIY PC it's got a really good review place hold a certain amount of money there if you don't like the case that I chose obviously that's subjective land you have to decide what case that you're gonna like just remember airflow motherboards fitment you know form factor that's gonna fit all your stuff if you go with like a really cheap $30.00 case and you somehow scored a twenty seventy and it's a long card it may not fit so that's those are the kind of things you have to think about our Seagate Barracuda 2 terabyte drive which I already explained as to why I chose that one our motherboard p450 tomahawk max am for AMD motherboard explained why with the PCI Express slots the four times dims the beefy robust built vrm it's the same generation as a CPU that we chose which is an AMD Rison 5 2600 X 6 core 12 thread CPU so lots of multi-threading taking place with that 16 gigabytes of g.skill ripjaws v-series 3200 megahertz so we know that if you enable the do CP setting which will go into BIOS and make it run at that speed otherwise it'll run at base ddr4 speed we know our AMD CPU is gonna love 3200 megahertz we've got our MX 500 500 gigabyte SATA SSD and then our graphics card this was this is always the hardest one because it's again it's the single most expensive piece and there's a lot of competition taking place in the CPU Speight or a GPU space even amongst a single Brannock NVIDIA has got cards competing with itself which is kind of crazy so we chose the brand-new EVGA r-tx 2060 KO ultra the reason for that the 2060 is about to come under serious attack with the 5600 5600 XT AMD graphics card coming out very soon it was debuted at CES so what's kind of happened here is the price point here has sort of gotten more competitive or now you can get a standard 2060 for under 300 bucks $299 or you can get the faster factory overclocked 2060 ko ultra for 319 so for me personally I thought the 20 bucks was worth the extra price considering we're getting it faster than a 2060 graphics card for the cheaper than what a 2060 actually was just a month ago and it didn't kill our budget we stayed within budget and I wasn't gonna gain any serious SSD storage space by saving the 20 bucks I wasn't gonna gain any serious space when it came to our hard drive I wasn't gonna go with a higher tier CPU with that extra so what I do is like okay I can save 20 bucks here and if I spent that somewhere else what would I gain would I gain another performance tier of something and if the answer is no then I stick with it which is what we sort of did here and depending on what the performance of the 5600 XT ends up looking like this whole this part might have changed but I have to go based on what we have today and what's available and that's what we chose so guys this has just been my kind of a walkthrough of how to pick your PC parts when building your next gaming rig this is kind of fun though we're gonna save this parts list we might end up building this system and benchmarking it I know it's what a lot of other guys do I know Paul does it up if Kyle does it to where he'll kind of do a video picking parts like this order all the stuff build it benchmark it and go hey this is how it went because like I said in the start of this video the problem is almost everyone teaches you how to build the system but not many people ever tell you how and walk you through picking your parts phil has friends that build Pete are building pcs and I have people that are emailing me by the millions and it's like the most common question we have is not how does this part fit together where does this plug in its how do I choose what parts should I get what CPU what graphics card because it's confusing and like we said in one of our other videos about one of reasons why you may or may not want to build your own PC one of the reasons we chose that you may not want to is the overwhelming amount of parts out here in your overwhelming fear of having something be incompatible or just making bad decisions so if you guys like this video do me a favor hit that thumbs up button and subscribe if you're new around here and why don't you go ahead and comment down below how you would spend $1000 if you were building a system here yes I know $1,000 goes a lot farther in the US and does in other countries so obviously you'll have to adjust this based on your market value and inflation and whatever in your particular sector of the world sector three Gamma Quadrant I don't know whatever thanks for watching guys as Holy as we'll see you in the next one [Music]

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Length: 24min 17sec (1457 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 27 2020