A YouTuber Called Out My $500 Gaming PC 

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There needs to be more RU-vidr budget build competitions.

Shoot this might lead to a new series.

I enjoy Elijah's Lab's content, so it's a bummer to see the unfair comparison in builds. However, I think your video here has value in that you critiqued your own channel earnestly, explained your channels value proposition in how it differs from Elijah's, and that you continue to welcome challenges and critiques. Solid video!

Love this friendly competition between PC builders as it provides more template, guide and options especially for the lower end build. Kudos to Zach as well for taking the challenge and he even posted and promoting Zach's video and page for others to see.

this is the way, the right mindset and attitude to have constantly learning, bettering and growing, as well as always welcoming challenges and open to constructive criticism you've earned my respect and admiration, mate

Guys you need to keep challenging eachother to make a better cheaper buuld because we will eventually reach the ultimate budget PC build.

Always love to see some friendly competition! I'm a loyal subscriber of both channels and was a bit worried after the intro, but I love both the builds

I love the content of both of y'all and I am happy to see this is a friendly competition. I like both of the builds (yours performs better tho). I hope you guys actually plan a competition together in the future ❤

this would be a fire series if you guys take keep those PCs and do incremental upgrades with challenges each time like $150 upgrade video, upgrading them with only aliexpress stuff, amazon choice only upgrade, stuff like that. i think seeing the pc evolve throughout the episodes could add a cool dimension to the whole thing

I like Elijah videos, and I'm glad u did this video. It was fun friendly competition videos!!! Something different then the normal everyday videos!

This kind of videos is the absolute best and fun to watch! You and every pc builder that just challange each other is so fun and always intrested too watch. 🙏👌 I love that you so frendly and good!

Tough fight. I personally preferred the black $450 PC for 2 reasons: 1. I prefer the glass front panel 🤤 and 2. It leaves $50 room for cooler and/or price diffs on parts🤑. Thanks again Zack ! All humble budget builders hail your efforts. (And Elijah is cool as well, no issue w/ him)

I really like how you started this out as some kind of antagonistic rivalry but then turned it into honest boosting for each other. The lore is why I'm here.

You know what man. This is the first time watching one of your videos. You've gained my respect with this. Subscribed. Thoroughly enjoyed this. Thanks 💚

Awesome video, watching u had me learn more a d starting flipping laptops and pcs. Thnx honest reviews informative and straight forward.

Just went over to this guys channel to give him a piece of my mind… by telling him that I enjoyed the healthy competition it created, gave him a sub too :D you’re both awesome, keep it up Zac

Competition is what keeps us sharp. You both make great content. Keep up the great work.

It would be cool if elijah made another pc beating yours. 😂 That would be a great series.

i love when people use budget set ups, respect to those rocking budget rigs. hats off to you

I watch both channels. You're both great. Both of you come up with awesome builds. I'd love to see some friendly build competitions at different budgets.

Loved the fact that you actually answered to his video in the friendliest way I could think of and even proposed a collab, would absolutely love to see you two collab for a budget build competition.

I really think Zach handled this very professionally, as well as friendly, in my opinion. The content was thorough in addressing the comparison as well as coming up with a build himself to rival Elijah's, although I believe the two were quite similar, again, in my opinion, with Zach's maybe just edging out Elijah's, price to performance wise. But that all depends on the parts you're able to get and at what price. To me, it'll be a toss up depending on who can find the better deal. And all the other one has to do is wait for a better part to become available for a better price, which, if you look around enough and are patient, you'll of course, pull off. Thumbs up!

I like this guy and his channel. His sense of humor and meme attacks is genuinely hilarious 😂. Its what LTT should have been. I hope ur channel stays this way and doesn't seem out like LTT. 😅

Also it’s because you listen to us which is why you’re one of if not my favourite pc building RU-vidrs ever!! ❤❤🐐🐐🇿🇦🇿🇦

i say i got respect for anybody who builds there own pc even if they dont know whut there doing to experts who have years doing it i would love to see pc builders get those awsome retro gameing pc cases and upgrade them with mondern components

Just built a 5700xt, 3600x for my living room tv. Love the perfomance for my $480 system.

This really didn't end the way I thought it would... lol. You earned a new subscriber Zach.

I love it when youtubers call out on each other. This mean more video to watch while having dinner 😂

I'm so happy for both of you guys, i watch both your channels and love when I see a new up load. There's a newer channel KJS BUILT i just started watching to, hes got some nice builds

i rly enjoy Elijah's Lab's content i think hes very underrated

You got my respect for acting so chill and professional, mate! You get a subscribe from me.

I like these videos.. pushes yall too build the overall best bang for the buck. I love competition.

Honestly I’d love to see Zack and other Pc builders like Elijah or Tech source to come together and make a 5-10 man comp of building say $500 pcs, $1000 pcs. Or different builds to particular requirements. Would be so cool to see the community come together like people trying to race in lemons.

Build Off! Set the parameters and go to town guys! Love to see it!

I love this video 😂 the personal attack you felt is good fun. The amount of times you stated you didn't know it was a competition could be a drinking game. I hope to see more light hearted beef, that overall helps us brokies

Excellent video, love both your channels. I do think the big difference in your channels as you said is that you do easily repeatable deals and Elijah does one off local market deals. My last build (completed a month ago) is a great example where I got a crazy deal on a 5600G 2nd hand rig for a crazy good price allowing me to build a 5600G with 6700xt build with all the trimings (nice case with rgb fans) for £500, but I'm not about to throw my hat into the ring with you two :) Surprised the fortnige numbers were so far out. Were you using performance mode and coukd Elijah be using DX11. The term pro settings in fortnite can on depending on who you ask, eg. I initially used Epic view distance as Pro settings but was told Far view distance is better as firefights are never (or extremely rarely) at max distance. Like you I also make sure FSR or any resolution scaling is turned off (at 1080p it can really make the image look bad).

would be great to have a video series where 2 builders compete and try to build a pc within a certain amount of budget by buying all parts in the same store and at the same time to even out the playing field.

I bought the exact same build and it is so good i can do everything, streaming,cutting and content creation i would never need something better 🎉❤❤ thanks

Hey Zach, first time watcher here. You got a great editing humor/style and fall into line with many bigger channels, so I don't doubt for a second, that you will grow lots the coming year, with regular uploading! Regular content being a challenge If I may suggest something; I believe positivity wins over the long run and again, I like how you call out the smart YT drama move ;) I would suggest to keep the #drama as humorous and fun in nature as matches your own personality, since end of the day we the viewer enjoya mostly the value of competitive pricing and builds being put against each other, figuring out how us brokies can get away with sick PC's and so we appreciate you both, any anyone else that joins the challenge. There's many gamers doing *me vs him* challenges, which seem to work great and pull the audience to both channels. You can keep the clickbait titles and icons, the YT win strategy

ive found that DIY case has 3 exhaust fans stock and no intake fans , so i had to turn the 2 around backwards, or replace the fans entirely so they all match in order to have static pressure inside the case to keep temp below 65" c

I hope this goes back and fourth getting better and better

this is how you know this guy a legend he made a video out of friendly competiton thats how you do it zack love to see this. these day iam super inpressed by zack in this vid it could be taken out of context but zack pulled it back this is how you do it zack he just wanted to bate you a little hay it a nice thing to do in my option as shows the level of class shown here iam a fan of this guy have been for a while and will continue to be love it

I would really like to see a fair competition between you two! You should just set some rules(repeatable deals, no fsr, same graphics settings and games etc) set a budget(Maybe 500$, 1000$ and a 2000$ builds) and it would turn into an amazing series for viewers and both of you!

Budget PC Wars!! I love it!

did you swap the glass side panels, i cant unsee it

I think the design of your build looks better. i like the white, but with that, i'd prefer an all white build, i know that probably is not really possible with a budget like this, but the contrast of the white / black with the rgb clashes in my opinion where the darker reds / blacks blend better with yours. Great video and I really enjoyed it and your positive approach!

Love some fun competition. Been watching both your channels for a long time. Its a win for us viewers. 😁

Funnily enough this is the first video of yours or his that I've ever seen lmao, definitely gives a good first impression of you and a nice recommendation for another channel as well

The 5700xt's problem is that it does not support mesh shaders. Only valid for one game right now but more are surely coming.

first of all: I love your videos, especially your shorts, and congrats on this video I was there when you built that PC secondly: my 1070 goes black screen no matter what I do, things I've done to fix it is mind blowing.. such as thermal paste changing.. thermal pad replacement, driver pack reinstalling .. driver pack deleting with DDU, and installing a fresh one.. nothing helped me, but one guy video that I saw today, said put something between the heatsink and the power port coz its what costing the black screen. I did it and it's not going to the black screen since, but I wanna know what this exactly is and how to prevent it from happening again. most importantly for how far this solution will last, Thanks

I would really love to see a budget gaming pc competition between you Tech Source and Elijah's

This is definitely THE META budget build. nice one Zach!

Nice to see some friendly competition for getting the most out of budgets :) I also just found an RX 5700 XT for $142 with shipping upon looking it up via your recommendation, so that may be the next GPU to power a system I get :D

sweet build for the money, great build in general honestly! rad video

Loved the Blazing Saddles clip! (One of the few you can still get away with on YT 😂)

Let the battle commence!!!! Lol at least you know you're in it those time? Have to admit, didn't know the other guy til your video sooo I think you won already :)

Zach you are the winner for the better pc build and for most humble RU-vid pc content creator !!!

I watch you and elijah, I would love to see a direct head to head pc build with a set budget betwenn you both

I saw some cases online earlier that were "open box" for as low as 12.99 each, says no damage and all parts included and some even come with fans. Might actually grab one to move my plex server into

Every youtuber should compete like this in the end we get the best value system 😂😂

You Elijah and TB should do a 500$ or less PC build challenge that would be super fun and interesting

i watched both and wot u r saying is absolutely bang on

It looks awesome I want to build a pc gunna take me awhile this was so good insight

6:23 LMFAO CALLING OUT THE SPEEDING TICKET WAS INSANE DFLKADJFDJA;FDFJAKLJDKF 🤣

I really like the all white themed pc but seeing that Red and Black, I might choose that. That looks awesome.

I love how the fans are all exhaust in the build 😂

This guy cares if some dude off the internet is under 21, and the budget ballers! I love this dude

Love how you handled this beef. 👏🏼

Sounds like the classic collaboration joint effort “fight” to me LOL ding ding

I do agree with the RX 5700XT for (emphasis) today. I did buy mine quite some time ago marginally used and shipped for $150 USD. I would probably look for $100 USD shipped today as a "deal" for that right now. With that said, the 6600XT is getting down there in price, is a bit more efficient and so, it might be a good option (emphasis) today. For something that should last you a couple of years, I'd move up to a 6700XT if possible, but probably we're over $250 USD shipped at that point. And strangely, if you can fit and have the power for it, a 6800 just keeps dropping and dropping in price. Might be a stretch, but you'll really extend your years of use. I think the lowest I've seen shipped comes close to that $250 USD figure. I'd call that "a deal". Obviously, I'm talking used, talking ebay. Sometimes (emphasis) you can score better deals with a local marketplace, but for whatever reason, I think there's more deception there, so be careful.

Listen I think this would be a GREAT series is RU-vidrs just try to one up each other you should do this to start try some friendly beef. FRIENDLY we don’t want a nexus gamers I think and the ltt thing. Thank you for such a good video!

This is the kind of competition the PC community needs, best budget build

we need more budget build competitions

5700xt has been great for years, but it's hard to recommend after the results in Alan Wake 2. We'll see mesh shaders used more and more.

I have R5 3600 to but my GPU is only RX5700 non xt. But It's awesome when it comes to gaming and programming. Don't have any regrets at all about this build of mine. :D

Tbh both PC’s look amazing and would love either!

Hey Zach, thanks for the video! I was wondering how you usually benchmark your system. Do you install the new SSD in the video and swap them out after for one that has games on it to do benchmarks?

Great vid bro keep it up

Heads up on 5700xt. They show up on aliexpress for $97 "new" pretty frequently. I belive I've picked up 3 at that price.

❤ love to see a little friend comp 😁

I'd take your build all day long,everyday ,and twice on Sundays, it looks so freaking clean with that red and black color scheme. Actually it's one of the favorite builds I've ever seen you do. That's money homeboy, it goes harder than welfare peanut butter. 😎

One of the reasons why Elijah used a 3060, instead of some other better valued Amd cards was because for his goal (selling PCs on Facebook) Nvidia gpus tend to sell a lot better. Great videos from both of y’all, I think you both put out a pretty similar rig in the end. If Elijah used the $125 5700xt, he’d also be sitting at around $450.

Never forget that running theme in "Life of Brian" - There is always one, isn't there?

You guys should just finish this in a battle of fisticuffs. Not that Elijah's build was bad, but Zen+ definitely is showing its age. Zen 2 that your 3600 per core runs miles around zen+ cores. The biggest benefit of AM4, you can go all the way up to Ryzen 5 series.

the "WHO WON? YOU DECIDE" jumpscare got me 💀

No OC on that ram on Elijah's build prob hurt allot. But I think Elijah's pc was very nice esthetic

I’ve been looking at a build for around $1300 where I would use the 4070 super (if I would be able to get one for the $550 tag) but that’s only because I would want to future proof my pc at least a little bit. I only game in 1080P right now but want to look into getting a 1440p monitor in the future! With that being said I see builds like this and it really makes me consider just keeping it reasonable and shooting for maybe the $1k mark and seeing what I can get out of it.

soo coooolll i wish i knew this video was here 5 months ago haha

Thanks for the tip on the RX 5700 XT - I've been struggling with making a budget Ryzen build with absolutely no money and I was able to snag one for $170 CAD (125 USD). I've been eyeing the RTX 3060 12GB for months, but the price is always around $400 CAD ($295 USD) which was seriously bumming me out.

Do you have sites that I can learn about building pc's? Because ive always wanted one and I want be a pc builder when im older also ty you for the vids and helping some bit.

How about a build and flip challenge, based on speed of ale and profit compared to build.

Hey, im working on a new budget build myself. I have roughly $750 to work with and I enjoy playing games like rust/coh 2 escape from tarkov. Woule you prefer the ryzen 5 3600 or an intel cpu for this build?

Me still gaming on a old pc Ryzen 3700x, ASUS b550f, red devil 5700xt 32 GB ram. most games still run smooth but im looking to upgrade in the near future

Surprised Elijah hasn’t commented on this video, would’ve thought this would have been a good opportunity to collaborate

Zach crushed it for sure. clean Victory whitout a doubt. But why did he not turn the fans red, would have matched the color 0.o

In the next few years we might have a pc building youtuber boxing matches

I now have some bugget case ideas. I was looking for a 60 - 80 dollar case.

Elijah's build is so close to being a perfect starting point but if I were going for a Zen+ chip I'd search out a 1600AF, you can get them for £30 a pop and in gaming there's no difference between it and the 2700X. The only Zen chip that benefitted from 8 cores was the 1700/1800X but that was due to the low per core performance. Cooling a 6 core part is not an issue for the stock cooler, AMD 6 cores just don't get that hot, if you use the stock cooler then just go to AMD master and synchronise your fabric speed and switch on PBO, it'll get you to about within 2% of the limit of the chip without needing extra cooling. The B450 PCB is still solid (I always recommend MSi MAX boards in B450, I use one in fact) but really you want a board with PCIe 4.0 if you plan to go with a beefy new card down the line to utilise a faster CPU, the money saved on the chip could bump his (and yours as well, though you'll notice the latency going back a gen from Zen 2) to a B550 board. There is something up with his testing though, he should be getting more than 85FPS out of FH5 at medium I think. 5700XT is still a beast of a card for the money, good for now but maybe getting hamstrung through lack of features as new games drop, but for now it's the used budget king. RTX20 series is also becoming attractive now, a bit cheaper and then I'd start choosing those over RDNA if I was buying. Lastly, even though my PSU is 9 years old I'd also opt for a new unit because I don't know how hard a used unit has been pushed, I know exactly how mine has been used and exactly what state it's in, it has always been used with some headroom so has never been run hard. I'd have to open the PSU up to check it before buying used (NB Never open up a PSU if you don't know what you're doing, the caps inside hold enough charge to kill and can hold that charge for 6 months or longer after being unplugged from the mains).

😉aesthetics over everything! great video Zach