How to choose the right PC parts... 

I upgraded this month from a i5 4690k and a r9 290x. To a 5600x and a 3060ti. More than satisfied. It’s a huge jump to me.

The timing of this video... Spent six hours today researching different parts for a new build. Thank you Jay for an updated version of one of these vids.

Seems like a lot of good information but definitely not the right video for someone who's just starting out like me. He might as well have been speaking in Chinese or Spanish and just way too much info. Just not as beginner-friendly video I had hoped I'll definitely come back to this in the future though

I have been running an i5 3450 for the last 10 years, now was too confused what to buy in order to build a new pc, your video helped me understand what my requirements are and what I need to build now. Thank Jayz

Yes Jay, definitely start doing Ultrawide testing as well! I usually assume the 1440p performance and take away 25-30% (given linear scaling, which I know is not exactly true/real).

This feels like one of those cycle’s people should skip. if you have the money then fine. It feels like these newer chips, gpu s, now power supplies need to catch up a bit with all these new power requirements and other features coming out like pci gen 5 etc. I’m waiting for all these new platforms to become the norm including ddr5

This video is amazing. I built my rig in 2014 and have been thinking about upgrading/replacing. The current computer parts landscape is an absolute mess with GPUs, but this is such a great starting point to relearn the state of pc tech. Thank you!

I am building a new system for my parents, who haven't upgraded their PC in like 15 years. I was just looking at some current stuff and your video just walk through it amazingly. You are saying all the exact right things of considerations that I was looking for, for my parents. Thanks!

The M.2 NVME was a game changer for me. I bought the SSD just for Windows & programs and the boot-up speed is incredible. Will upgrade my 1TB HDD to SATA SSD in the future as well.

Actually happy to see an EVGA sponsor read. I hope they push hard in to their current production lines and show us what other cool things they can do when not being held back.

Building my first PC around Christmas time and I've slowly been getting the parts together. Your channel has been super helpful, thank you for everything you do!

Thank you for making this type of video, I used the older one to outline my own build, and I recommend this video to any people who ask about first-time pc building!

Ultrawide deserves a bigger spotlight in review discussions. Start the trend, Jay!

Went with a 5700X cpu, RTX 3070 gpu in July, definitely zero regrets right there.

Brilliant video and you really know your audience as I'm doing EXACTLY what you outlined: limbering up to build something new to replace my 8 year old geriatric (i7-4790K, GTX 980) and I've been flip flopping between AMD and Intel. This video has helped me decide AMD is the way to go for me (will be my first!), as I'm looking to keep this new build for a long time and upgrade it as I need to. Thanks very much!

Out of all the video's I have watched in the last 2 weeks because I am building a new PC after 5 years. Jay, This video made the most sense to me. Thank you brother. 👍👍

Really appreciate videos like this Jay. I built my computer in late 2018. Given that it's turning 4 this year, I'm looking at what it would cost for a new system and hand my primary system down to my daughter. I love building computers, but I don't have time to keep up with all the changing tech. This video really helped me home in on what to look for. I tend to build at the high end every 4-5 years. Wonderfully overkill for what I need it for, but always something I've absolutely enjoyed. Thanks for your time and expertise helping us hobbyists stay updated!!

I'm one of these 7+ year old build (5930K/980Ti) users. Recently I've been bashing my head looking at numbers figuring out the right build, also fighting the idea of waiting. Having you reinforce the point that whatever I buy from the last couple generations will be magnitudes better than my own rig, means I can just buy any modern build now and be happy.

love this presentation style, cut through the hype. also great point about ultrawide monitors, I'm glad you mentioned that

i know this is an older video but thank you i needed this. I havent built a pc since fx8350 and ive been out of the game a while but ive been getting back into it and this helped way more than youll ever know!

OMG Jay you are the FIRST person I've heard mention yet the the feel and issues in Windows and I think that's a HUGE thing to know and consider. Thank you for all your work for us through this buy time!!!

Really appreciate you mentioning us Ultrawide users! Benchmarks for 3440x1440 would definitely be pretty useful for me as that's the panel size I settled on.

Jay is the go-to for understanding how to spec your build, he is the least controversial and the RU-vidr that gave the best advice and information for my mainstream consumer build. I used to be a member of the group of people with a rig from a decade ago. It had an R7 270, i7 4700K, 4TB of 8Mb/s HDD, 64G of DDR3, and a single fan as exhaust with airflow only available with a lack of side panel. To put in perspective the excruciating pain experience I put up with for 6 years; it took 20-30 mins to boot from shutdown, another 10 mins to be able to INPUT numbers for the passcode, another 10-15 mins for the apps to show up and respond, and 5-15 mins of chrome or game loading. By the time all this was done; I had all my homework done, eaten lunch, grabbed some water, and used the bathroom. I second the idea that most users won’t need much more than a 3070 Ti. I also second the idea that any entry level build, such as a Red Devil 6600 XT and Ryzen 5 5600, is just good enough. This entry level build, along with AMD’s SAM, would be able to handle; most games at 1080p and decent graphic settings, web browsing, and non-heavy work or normal school usage. After upgrading to a 6600 XT and a Ryzen 5 5600, I’ve had no issues whatsoever. I do some recording of good memories with the homies and edit them, no issues. Playing new titles like MW2, mostly high settings w/o motion sickness, no issues. Minecraft with shaders, something I’ve longed for after realizing 10fps is unbearable on my old rig, again no issues. My boot time has decreased from 20-30mins down to 15-25 secs, that’s insane! I have tried my best adjusting to not being able to hear food up, grab water, and use the bathroom to my best of abilities. No longer shall I have stuttering frames. My best bang for the buck build was all thanks to Jay’s advice and his guide videos! Thanks!

Thanks so much Jay it has been a while since I built a machine and man has it changed immensely, this video has helped me huge!

Definitely need more graphic card reviews on ultrawides.

These are the videos I like! Built my current rig 6 years ago and looking to build a new one. Videos like this are helpful when considering what parts I should be thinking about buying.

My last build (for myself, anyway...and the one I'm using right now) is rocking an Intel i5-6500. It's been going strong since I put this thing together back in 2016ish . . . but really starting to show it's age. Thanks for the video.

This video exemplifies why you are such a good you tube channel, eloquently spoken with a good connection to people that are on older hardware.

boy do i love your videos Jay! you were the one who inspired me to built my first PC at 27 years old as a Physician with PC interest! Thank you so much for that

Hey, Jay, I'm here to thank you! In the moment I am rocking a 2015 pre-built by Lenovo. It has crazy specs like a GTX 1050, an Intel core-i5 6400, and a hard drive, it runs so well that it hitches when I produce my music in Reaper! well, all jokes aside, your videos and others alike help me a lot to clear the air and give tools to equip me when I finally have the money to pull the trigger! When it comes to music production having a higher clock speed is very beneficial to processing sound. So, when I look at these new clock speeds I salivate, can't wait to taste the performance.

A few years ago I went from FX-6300, R9 380, 8gb RAM and a Hard Drive to Ryzen 7 2700X, GTX 1660, 16gb RAM and an SSD ... Nothing special about this build but in comparison with what I had before it was a massive improvement

Exactly the video I needed to see. I’m still running a 4790k and need an upgrade! Appreciate the knowledge and time ol’ pal! Love your vids

I actually have a pretty unusual use case where I never play games, but I am a researcher and I run very CPU-intensive simulations (codes written by myself and others in my research group, not any commercially available software) that often take 2-3 days to complete. I have been thinking about getting a Threadripper build with the GTX 970 that I already have, but just watching these videos about new stuff is so satisfying

After years of saving i finally have enough to make my first PC, and have been doing research for 4 weeks or so. Your videos have been a blessing. I still need to make some adjustments cuz of budget but i know at the end, no matter what i build, it will be better that the 2010 hp notebook i have right now. Thank you very much for all your work.

Mad respect and love to you... You made so many people's choices clear and the way you said nobody needs a 4090 with such conviction... Hat's off 🙌❤️

Great points all around, Jay! I have a 3440x1440p UW 165hz monitor and I love it. It really adds immersion to games. I'm not looking for 360fps, especially at that resolution. 120+ is good enough for me. I tend to use the 4k benchmarks as a comparison at that resolution cuz I believe 1440pUW is like 75% of the pixels of 4k. But yes, UW benchmarks would be helpful.

You are completely right about the workstation bit. I do quite a lot of 3D modeling and rendering on my machine and to be honest I only render single test frames, short animations or mograph on my own machine but for more demanding animation rendering and such I always outsource to a render farm because its just faster with less fuss and I could never afford that kind of computing power.

That comment you made about doing UW benchmarks would be highly appreciated! I have a 2080ti with a LG UW monitor and don’t really see a point of getting a 3080 or even 4080 unless I’m going to get a huge uplift. Would love to see UW comparisons going forward!

Thank you. I have a build running on 11 years old; chip does not support windows 10. It is nice to hear that an entry-level build is a massive increase to what I have.

Thank u for this as I'm now getting into the pc world this very informative and helps alot!!

hard to believe the first computer i put together myself is going to turn 6 soon. the latest upgrade to it was a 1080 to a 3080. hearing about evga leaving the gpu scene is what finally made me upgrade as i wanted to get a new card from them before they were all gone.

Oh yes please include ultra wide into your benchmarks in the future! It is sooo rare to find those for 5120x1440 so we're just estimating values between standard 1440p and 4k. Even our whole senior management uses this resolution and we could never go back to 16:9 again.

Thank you for this video... it makes too much sense and saved me a whole lot of headaches.

Exactly the video I needed!!

As an ultra wide owner I'd LOVE to see them make it into the benchmarks!

The part where he talked about upgrading from using 10 year old hardware really spoke to me. Recently upgraded to AMD 5900x from 1st Gen Intel i7. World's of difference. Never heard of UEFI BIOS before....things have changed.

Thank you very much for your common sense approach. I have not upgraded my PC for 8 years. Ouch. My video production is somewhat hampered now. I remember when I upgraded in the mid-90s to a 486 and though that was hot stuff. My goodness, the technology is light-years further than then, not to mention the great strides in printers. So, your video really helped me to adjust what I though I needed to what is practical for my needs. Thank you again!!

I Cannot believe how many of my questions you answered. I feel like this video is made for me

Thanks for the info Jay. My current build is around 5 years old and I do plan on doing another completely new build. I think I will be going with AMD as I like the idea that I can keep the new components while also being able to upgrade to newer components whenever they may come out after in the next few years and still have everything be supported in the build.

That observation regarding Intel vs AMD in fluidity and reliability was very interesting and it would be great if you could do follow ups on that. Either get behind reasons or show in half a year if anything changed though that might be very hard to do objectively

Thank you for your videos. You helped me build a new rig to replace my 14 year old PC that I do gaming and also do virtualization for other projects.

One of the best video for new pc builder guide.

Most all my systems since Win 95 have lasted 6 to 10 years, due to upgrades back when. But as time and tech moved forward, things were a little cheaper and longer lasting for me in the long run.

This was really solid info. Thanks for looking out for us and helping see a more clear overview. I personally run a Ryzen 3600x and a 2060 super and still get the gaming experience I want. No need to break the bank.

Making my first PC Build, this know how certainly will help in doing so!. Thanks!

Thankyou for the info jay, it helps to choose a pc components at my set of price range here in the philippines, i have been a long subscriber of your channel and i always watch your videos everytime you post it so thanks

Personally I built my computer as a gaming machine, had no use for upgrading but now I started getting into digital creation and 3D modeling so now I’m looking to upgrade within the year. This video was a great help.

Essentially I just love building PC's, and working out PC issues by learning from people like you. (Also you seem totals honest and not too comercialised) so I build what I call Ebay machines, I source the parts for a build from Ebay, build and work out issues. I currently have 7 builds of varying specs. Thanks for the information you give out.P

Thank you so much for this video, I'm upgrading from 2014 but my last major build was 2008

Gosh...much needed guidance...thank you..!

Jay - this is the best video that you have ever done. Nobody has done a good video on what hardware to choose, except you. Of course, we need ultrawide and multi-monitor benchmarks - needed that for a while. Thank you so much. You have answered 99% of the questions I currently have, in one video! Thank you so much. THIS IS YOUR BEST VIDEO EVER!!!

I have been watching so many videos on making a computer, getting ready to try to make my first. I last bought a computer about 10 years ago, and when it started struggling I just went to system gaming. I am excited to see what I can build, this video really gave me so many good tips

I just finished building my newest computer, upgrading from one I started building in 2016. The NvME made a bigger difference than any other new component. I literally doubled my old computer in every single way, and that was the biggest change besides the graphics card.

very instructive, many thanks to you guys!

Yes, I am that guy that built a gaming PC almost 6 years ago and it still runs fine. Looking maybe to upgrade in the near future so this video was totally for me 😅 I mostly do casual gaming so I don’t really feel I need to upgrade like right this very second. My good ol i5 and 1070 Gpu still put up a good fight. Thanks for the video, very informative 🤘

It's nice to hear a reviewer talk about how a platform 'feels' to use, alongside the actual numbers.

Excellent video. I learned a ton. Being a Mac user for decades this was never a concern when it should have been. I switched to pc. It’s a transition I am going through this was very valuable information

I'm building a 4090 rig for vr. Thanks for the videos they helped.

The 5800x3d seems to be the best value for gaming still, that's why I bought it. I'm also going SFF so the lower temps are a big deal. I paired mine with a zotac 3090 that I got on sale before the 4090 launch.

I really appreciate that you acknowledge not everyone needs the newest and most expensive thing for their use case; a lot of tech folks end up sounding more like salesmen and it creates a lot of confusion for people who don't know what all the acronyms and numbers mean. People who aren't computer-literate are being sold $3k machines that they only use to check their email and watch youtube videos, it's so overkill. I'm putting a list together for a new machine right now and even though I'm not clueless, it's still tough not getting caught up in the hype, so stumbling upon this video was really refreshing. Cheers, mate.

I've been using my rig for the last 9 years and the only upgrade I've done is adding a 1070 to it several years ago, presently saving up for a new rig. I'm looking forward to having more cores for VMs on my box (since I DevOps/SysAd for my day job) as well as some gaming.

Thanks Jay for keeping it real and talking sense!👍

I'm that guy...

I would be really interested in seeing that video on ultrawides. I just picked up a Samsung Odyssey G9 Neo in anticipation of doing a new build. It'd be great to see some benchmarks.

Jay, I’m watched this video about a month ago. July of 2023. Before I was gonna go crazy and build this super powerful rig and spend way more then I needed to. I purchased a 7800x and 64gig of ddr5. And spent the money there and took the 5700xt out of my old build and used that until I could afford a 7000 series card. Great advice

Yep, the last system I built, 3DFx was a top of the line video card. Since then, I’ve mostly had laptops. That means I pretty much had to start from the ground up when I decided now was the time to build a new gaming rig. Intel 13600k ASUS Creator ProArt Z790 32 GB DDR5 RAM Corsair RX1000i Shift 500 GB system drive (NVMe 3) 2 TB data drive (NVMe 4) DeepCool LS720 AIO Montech Sky Two (black) Nvidia 4070Ti

Thanks for talking about the "smoothness" you get with each CPU, this is one of those things I see almost no one talk about.

I have an Ultrawide, and I 100% love it. Would love to see how the extra pixels impact performance on the various GPUs.

I am new to pc building coming from a hardcore console gaming this video is sooooo informative

Love this guy...don't f@#$ around with telling it how it is...great videos as usual

I just upgraded from an i5 4690k / 1060 3gb / ddr2 / Samsung 860 to - 13600k/3080/3600 ram/Samsung 980 Pro and the difference is massive. Will probably keep this system for 8 years!

Just built my new PC with the 13600k. It was auto boosting to 5.5 - 6ghz with voltages being fully reasonable. I feel no need to manually overclock this time around and all I changed was XMP and AI Optimizations. Going from a 9900k to 13600K feels amazing especially with how good the AI is getting with Auto Overclocks.

yeah,, you got me. i'm over here on my first build from 2016 with everything installed on my 1tb hdd. i can't wait to see what a nvme does for me in my new build soon. :')

I'm just now looking at options to build my very own first PC, but I totally get what he says about SSDs My laptop always ran on a Hard Drive, I was able to turn it on, make breakfast, and then return to the desktop screen just appearing. After I added an NVME to the empty slot it had, it absolutely changed my life lol

4090 is definitely a plus to have for vr flight sims and racing sims (but I agree, it's not needed, my 2070 worked decently for all these years, though I've since upgraded to 3080ti)

After getting a whole new PC that is able to run all games, which I couldn’t do before. I would say one of the most pleasing upgrade was the m.2 storage. Being able to load games nearly 4x faster and restart the PC in seconds is one thing I didn’t realize I would need.

Watching this as inspiration while trying to piece together my own built with an SSD drive. I have never tried owning a system with a SSD-drive.

11:05 Man, I'm glad I've experienced this like my current laptop which is Acer ES1531, it is so slow and after I added an SSD it run so much better, it feels like brand new laptop

Thanks for spreading this important truth. I am using a phenom II 1055T 6 core CPU since 12 years or so. But the implementation of my SATA SSD was clearly the most massive boost on boot and loadtimes. Upgrading from that system to an up-to-date system might be as well (yep upgrading! upgrading what? From DDR3 to DDR5!) but that's beyond the point here 😄. I did put together some systems for others in the meantime and there was never any doubt at all whether to use an SSD drive or not. SSD is simply always set by default. NVMe or SATA doesn't even matter when compared to HDD. Keep the HDD for pure storage if you want but boot via SSD and install all programs that you often use, where you want a fast start, that are constantly having load times while using them to load in an instant. That will free you from the pain of loading times you didn't even know was there.

Only thing I'd suggest differently is [especially for gaming], figure out which resolution/refresh rate you want to run at. It becomes a lot easier to spec the rest of the system accordingly. And if you go over budget, it's a bit easier to reel in your expectations. Also, on UW 1440, look at 4k results. Sure there are a lot more pixels involved, but your expectations are much more realistic

I want something better than the most recent consults but also is capable of upgrading everything whenever needed or want

Yes, please do ultrawide benchmarks!

Would LOVE to see those 3440x1440 tests. My current system is getting an upgrade to a 5950x and Zotac 3090 Trinity OC after spotting some reeeally good deals recently. As far as what it's used for, it's pretty split evenly between gaming and video editing.

Still running the same 3820 i7 system with 3 2TB harddrives I built back in 2013. I did recently upgrade my GPU from a 770 GTX to a RX 6700XT, which has made a huge difference in the games I can run. Other than that I am perfectly happy with what I have as I tend to stay with older games. Probably won't make a major upgrade until things break. Guess I am on the 15-20 year upgrade plan.

I feel like this video is speaking directly to me. I recently realized my8-10 year old cpu was outdated when I watched someone do a $300 budget build... and when I compared the components every single one of them out performed mine by over 300% I got a sata ssd last year and it was revolutionary

Hey Jay I got a 3060 ti and a 5800x pretty fortunate to find both of these parts for a reasonable price. Just waiting on the mobo and the case and I'll start the build!

I like the idea of an ebay PC vid. Would be really fun if you and a few other guys like GN etc all had $1000 to build a complete pc using any combination of new and used parts and you all had a set of defined benchmarks to compare, you get one month to find the parts.

As a novice data scientist, I do enjoy building machine learning model on my pc, was running 1060 6GB but then upgraded to rtx3080 and was very happy with the improvement. Also running ryzen 7 3800x and 16GB ddr4 ram. Would like to upgrade ram in the future though.

Thank you Jay!

Thanks Jay! You just saved my money! (B650 advice)