Top 5 ways you're WASTING money on with your PC!

with so many people building and buying computers again because prices have really kind of sort of returned to the realm of normal we're going to talk today about five things that you should absolutely positively know are a complete waste of money when it comes to building and upgrading your PC but first speaking of money I've got to pay my bills so roll it for those looking for a high-end custom gaming experience look no further than Falcon Northwest Falcon Northwest has been building PCS made for gamers for over 30 years with a focus on a true high-end gaming experience custom cases is available only through Falcon Northwest feature state-of-the-art testing and design to ensure that every component is performing at their best through thermal imaging and rigorous lab testing designed and overseen by the Falcon Northwest founder himself with a complete lineup of systems ranging from small to large every Falcon Northwest system includes a three-year warranty policy and a year of two-way overnight shipping coverage providing the ultimate peace of mind to see all that Falcon Northwest has to offer follow the sponsored Link in the description below all right so these are in no real particular order um they kind of are but not really just they they are all completely interchangeable the first thing I have on here that I came up with is completely oversized power supplies you know there's a there's a old adage that people used to go by when I say people I mean old folks like me where like upgrading Ram might have gotten you a speed Improvement or upgrading your power supply was somehow apparently going to be better um it's easy to overp your power supply now you want to leave some growth you want to leave some room for future upgrades where let's say you've you have a 60 series graphics card or like a 7600 XT AMD card or something like that yeah you can get away with a 500 wat power supply right but if you decide later on you want to find a you found a really good deal on like a used 3090 or something like that which you know uh is a 400 watt card 300 well about 350 watt the 400 watt card when it comes to overclocking or even custom models then your power supply is not going to cut it because you need a bigger one but it's easy to go too big so we've got a rm850x here and an RM 1000x right here and the price difference between these two can actually be pretty significant um they're both gold rated power supplies it's also extremely easy to overspend on your power supply by going a way higher 80 plus rating than you would ever need so if you're running like really high-end Hardware like 490s that are overclocked and custom water cooling and overclocked 14900 K which are huge gluttons for energy um or let's even say like the new thread rer stuff that's out that gets ridiculous amounts of performance with this 96 cores but also eats up like nearly 1,000 Watts Plus for just the CPU then yeah you're going to be looking look at a high- rated power supply probably A500 to 1600 watt power supply which is the biggest we can get in the US by the way I think in Europe they can actually get 2,000 wat power supplies because of their volt system versus ours um you would never want to put like a 1500 wat power supply on a basic PC so do some research find out how much power you really need for your system there's calculators out there on like um I think a PC part picker even has a power calculator so you can put in your parts and it tells you what the recommended power supply size would be and usually that in builds in a little bit of extra growth that way you have room for upgrades in the future without having to buy a whole new power supply fortunately power supplies are something that can move along with you as you're build matures as long as you don't und speec it but it's also very easy to accidentally spend $300 plus do on a power supply that you'll never even use 50% of its usage out of so this next category is one that we all I think are guilty of sometimes going a little bit too crazy with and that is our RAM and overs specking our ram ram has three major categories to it the capacity the speed and the timings and all three of those can have a huge impact on your system now if we're talking gaming systems typically you do not need huge amounts of ram some games and some titles can use a bit of system Ram depending on how big the world is and how much the CPU is having to do work when it comes to that title but for the most part people can get away with like 16 GB of ddr4 running at 3,800 megahertz and be perfectly fine for years to come when ddr5 came out it kind of started that race all over again well how big can the modules get and how fast can they get so now like the the you can get 8 GB dims with ddr5 they're actually rarer to find than 16 GB dims cuz that's kind of the new spec and the new JX standard but 32 GB for ddr5 is so much more than anyone would ever need for a gaming PC now the question is do you need 5200 MHz dims 4800 MHz dims 8,000 MHz dims and if you go and look at the pricing between every time you step up maybe 4 or 600 cuz it's it's usually an increment of like 200 MHz is where they tend to increase the price difference between something like 5200 MHz versus something like 7200 MHz can often be double the price of the RAM and more often what you'll find is the faster transfer rate of like 7200 MHz sometimes has a slower CL or timing than something with slower Ram with a slower transfer rate so sometimes for gaming PCs you find it's better to have tighter timings than super fast Ram but that that's where a lot of people tend to get confused so if you want me to do a a video about gaming and timings and overall transfer rates versus timings and then we're even talking binary and non-binary RAM these days because now that we can get 48 gigs and 96 gigs and all these other things it includes a whole different level of complication when it comes to setting up your RAM so if you want me to do a video about that do me a favor hit like on this video but what I've got right here are actually two nearly identical sets of ram this is 5200 MHz it is also um 32 GB this is 5200 MHz and also 32 GB but the Dominator Platinum RGB is significantly more expensive than the Vengeance that's because this is the this was their Flagship Ram at the time they've come out with new Ram sents this is just what I grabbed but this has RGB lighting and it uses IQ and it has all the temperature feedback and it's got the nicer heat uh sink on there and overall it's just a better looking Ram but in terms of performance between these two if I were to have a like Pepsi challenge here and have a system with a cover on it that you couldn't tell which Ram set was on there you would never be able to tell the difference period but you can easily double the price by grabbing a set like this versus this you got to ask yourself how much do these pretty little LEDs on top matter to you at least in this particular instance versus saving some money and having more to put into your overall build and maybe step up your graphics card or your CPU specs or just have more money back in your pocket at the end of the day knowing you got a good system that you didn't completely blow the the budget on so this next one I don't really have any like demonstration to show you here but everyone knows what I'm about to talk about is just a complete fallacy and that is gaming Edition anything even a potato PC can be a gaming PC if you play a game on it there's no such thing as a quote unquote gaming PC there are PCS that are optimized for gaming meaning that the graphics card that's in there uh you know it's going to be fast enough to be able to turn your gaming settings up but even a work PC can be a gaming PC it just may not be great at it but but what happens is manufacturers have found about a decade ago like hey if we put gaming on something then the idiots will buy it so that's where we started seeing like literally everything had the word gaming in the title now more often than not that gaming is nothing more than maybe a colorway or like a whole aesthetic look to it uh or RGB see the first RGB stuff really was gaming and that's when it had lights and stuff on it but they weren't necessarily RGB like they might have had red lights or blue lights or they blinked or something but you couldn't control them they just had that sort of like a old star treky kind of look to it then RGB came out and that became the new quote unquote gaming but even a a so-called gaming monitor today is so ridiculous because gaming had the the term gaming had to stay out ahead of the industry's Baseline spec models so what is a gaming monitor today is not the same as what was a gaming monitor 10 years ago so 10 years ago a gaming monitor typically was anything over 60 FPS that's it like TN panels colors were absolutely terrible it looked like you were looking at it through reflective foil it was awful but it had 120 HZ or 144 HZ refresh rate it was 1080P and it had like a 1 millisecond response time that's all people cared about you know but then as IPS monitors came out they were slower they had better color accuracy but they were slower you weren't getting them over 60 FPS the response time wasn't great then the technology moved forward so how did the whole term gain stay ahead of that 240 HZ panels 300 HZ panels 340 HZ panels now we got like 400 HZ panels so that's really where the term gaming kind of stays ahead of the curve so that it makes you think you're actually getting something necessary for it but you're not so the if you're shopping for anything and you see the word gaming in it it doesn't necessarily mean it's bad just know that it's a kind of a bit of a marketing psychology trick if you will thinking that you're getting oh I want to build a gaming PC therefore there's the gaming model I should get that one when the base model right next to it will probably get you 95% of performance and features of whatever is quote unquote the gaming model and this goes for graphics cards too in fact that brings me to my very next topic here which is specifically going to be um custom PCB high-end High tier graphics cards so what I've got right over here are two RTX 3080s this is a 38 8 Founders Edition which it's so cute by today's standards in terms of its size but we know this thing is a is actually pretty badass graphics card it will run just about any game that you want to run 1440p or 4K High settings has good rate tracing the the the performance was there the cooling was there nothing was crazy about this card it was a it was a well performing didn't want to melt itself card and it retailed uh when it supposedly retailed for $700 brand new this is the iGame GeForce RTX 3080 water cooled graphics card doesn't necessarily say gaming on it but it's their Neptune Edition it's their top-of-the-line water cooled card and it was something like5 or $600 more expensive than an RTX 380 putting it pretty close to what you could have gotten an RTX 3090 for the thing was the price gap between the 380 and the 390 was $700 and $1,500 so it gave so much room for these manufacturers to come out with these custom models that could just slide up well over $1,000 $1,200 $1,300 but buying something like this for 1,300 bucks that is going to get you marginal improvement over even something like a Founders Edition card because of the fact that this the Silicon was only able to really be pushed so far in fact out of the box settings on this compared to a Founders Edition card would have probably run in the neighborhood of maybe 100 100 MHz faster we are talking 5% differ 5% difference is you cannot tell 5% impr improvement from one card over another by staring at a screen without an FPS counter going and that's where you start to realize you're throwing money away because of the fact that if you cannot tell by looking at it and just experiencing it that you're getting better performance than that is by def definition a waste of money now what you will get with something like this that's water cooled and whatnot is you'll probably get long ER life in terms of um keeping the Silicon nice and cool the cooler the Silicon runs the better the the Boost tables are going to be but Nvidia controls how far these boost tables are allowed to go so they can't even boost up any higher than uh any other custom card will be it'll just hold those boost clocks longer if you live in a hotter environment or you know you have a long gaming session and heat soak starts to become a problem but remember these aios only touch the GPU die like the RAM and the vrms and all that as that gets hot that also has an algorithm built into how the Boost table work when it comes to heat soak so think about the fact that this card costing like 500 bucks more than a 3080 did uh it's like to cost of your CPU for the most part it may not have been 500 bucks it might have been 2 or 250 but still any amount over realistically even just a Founders Edition card could be considered a waste of money because let's not forget Nvidia I don't I don't know if AMD does this but Nvidia we know for a fact their Founders edition cards are custom PCB they are custom cards they they are not the reference spec the reference cards look entirely different than this but so they have uh good Ram modules in here typically they're running I think Samsung memory inside of the the EnV the Nvidia cards and they're handpicked gpus because of the fact that they're building them for sale so they have a pretty good bin and acet quality to them so you can often find Founders edition cards boost just as high as even the highest tiered custom aib card out there and they're always MSRP models so look at how much money you can waste just on your graphics card now the last place I think people tend to waste money is their storage we're going to take nvmes as an example here pcie Gen 5 gives us a huge huge uplift in performance in terms of data bandwidth and speed for storage now graphics cards right now are not really taking any sort of advantage of of Gen 5 in fact I think all the the cards out right now still are technically Gen 4 but I could be wrong on that but anyway you're not going to really notice any differences on Gen 5 or Gen 4 when it comes to graphics cards on storage like this t700 from crucial runs over 11,000 yeah 12,400 megabytes per second in fact we even did a a video about this and got every bit of that performance and I even like tried heating up the card or ran the card over and over and over and over and over and over and over just non-stop going on this on the disc Benchmark like Crystal disc and was not seeing any sort of reduction in performance because of the fact that the motherboard we had it on had a heat sink so and it performed well so PCI Gen 4 is 5,000 mbes per second now of course that is like large file it's moving one file from one location to another it's not having to seek and search and find files that's where you're going to get that speed as soon as you start like you're you're never going to see that sort of transfer rate as it's moving a lot of small files because it takes time and then we have P gen 3 which if you look at gen 3 now that that seems really really old however this is still 3500 megabytes per second you guys can go and look it up on your own time the difference in price between this drive and this drive is significant now this is only a 500 GB Drive of course this is a what 1 tby drive right here I think no this is a 2 terab drive you can find 2 terab gen 3s and what not in fact it would be a heck of a lot cheaper than a than a Gen 2 or Gen 5 2 terby so let's just assume they were all the same capacity you would also still in a regular use use case using your computer playing your game surfing your internet going to YouTube doing whatever you do at night in your own time that I won't judge you for you will never notice a difference between 3500 and 12,400 but you certainly will notice a difference in the price so you got to really ask yourself if you're not one of those professionals that is like constantly doing major major file transfers and you're you've got some sort of a nvme Naas at home that you're constantly moving files around to you would never notice the speed increase or difference even gaming even games don't take advantage of the load speed that a lot of these nvmes are capable of doing in fact Phil was saying that Ratchet and Clank is the only game that that supports direct storage so everything else believe it or not when it comes to seeking a lot of the small files and stuff you know from wherever they're stored in the game file system it's not going to get you anywhere near the advertise speeds so having the 12,400 versus 3500 is completely unnecessary now if you're building a super badass system you probably have all of these things that I've said are above and beyond what you need and a complete waste of money I hope my systems are perfect examples of that Phill system is an example of that but the point is if you're building on any sort of a budget these are areas that you can easily save money if you're building yourself an Enthusiast PC you don't care about this sort of stuff anyway you just want to go with whatever fits looks good and and have you have very little concern on what the cost is because you're just got a big enough budget to where it really doesn't P it then none of this is going to matter to you but with the amount of people that are now starting to build PCS again getting into their first PCS or upgrading a 10-year-old PC this is the kind of stuff that can be overwhelming to them trying to figure out what is the difference between a gen 3 and a Gen 5 Drive what's you know what all I've got this whole row of graphics cards and they all look the same like for instance you got a 3060 TI when it came out they had a stricks model from Asus that was more expensive than the 3070 and the 3070 even the founders Edition 3070 would Stomp all over a 3060 TI stricks but it was more expensive because it said stricks and it had a giant cooler on it which was completely unnecessary cuz the thing ran like 51° so you can see how easy it is to waste money and the brands are banking on the fact that you're not going to know the difference and you're just going to go with the higher priced one because it's going to mean it's better so anyway what are your number one that's a complete waste of money uh to you put it down in the comments I have a feeling there's going to be an overwhelming repeat RGB down there I think we can all agree on that one but outside of RGB what is your number one waste of money that you think everyone should just stop doing when it comes to building PC sound off Down Below guys and as always we'll see you in the next one

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Published: Mon Feb 26 2024