Inexpensive PC Build Guide! 

I got my Deepcool case for like $45

yeah it still can lmao, thermaltake versa h18 and fractal focus 2 are 50 bucks, both of those cases are awesome

found plenty of mesh cases with 3 pre installed rgb fans for about $40.. just install one extra cheap be quiet fan and turn the other fans to a really low speed and youll have decent airflow with almost no sound and some rgb for less than $50

I got my Phanteks P400A Digital for $70. It's now $100... Hearing from Gamers Nexus, keep an eye on what Montech has in store. They might be the new budget kings soon

The amount of new features and ease of build with cases not much more than $50 is worth it over the junk in early 2010s.

You the real MVP

You obviously get it. Respect

GREAT & THANKS... BUT WHAT'S THE TOTAL COST? lol So I skimmed quickly through and it looks like about $1,400 before local taxes where you are.

@@WatchingTrainsGoBy-PassingTime Yeah guy said $1500, and mine is like $300 less or something like that due to the 6700xt I'm getting, same cpu lmao Also my case is the corsair 4000d and I'll be adding in 3 more fans just so there isn't a chance of temps to rise. Still cheaper too.

​@@jatinmarcob2128 Prebuilts cheaper now days because GPU prices over MSRP. Cyberpower 13600KF/32GB DDR5 6000/3080 prebuilt is $1599. They even had 13600k with 3070Ti for $1279 last month if google it.

Same here!

By any chance could you let me know if it plays single player games at high graphics and good performance and if ultra can do even better! Like god of war, rdr2 and new games please and thank you so much!!! This is my first build I’m trying to put together

@@AdrianLopez-gp9yz Yes, it absolutely can. Ive been playing Starfield recently on it, and it runs very smooth on max graphics. Should work absolutely fantastic for anything you give it! Just a quick disclaimer though, since Nvidia is still largely catered toward still (since far more people use Nvidia), having a red build is naturally going to be a less stable on certain smaller games that dont have the budget to cater toward both markets. Aside from that, everything should work flawlessly. Happy gaming!

And then you try and turn it on and something goes wrong lol

@@Fredbear185 then you fix it and the satisfaction comes back 🤣 it’s literally a rollercoaster

honestly I can see how this' would get exhausting after the first week lol

I agree, building rigs and showcasing them, and making a living from that would be an absolute dream for me too. Got to remember though, that especially when people like Jay and Linus first started, they were spending a fortune to make their content and probably making a huge net loss. Jay has made his dream work through sheer passion, hard work, dedication and being lucky enough to be a charismatic, likeable guy. I am an obtuse knobhead, people wouldn't want to watch me because I am an asshole 🤣 Massively appreciate people like Jay though, and I am glad he is so likeable and charismatic, because I have learned a fucking truck ton of information about my tech hobbies because of people like him.

@@carlfleggdon’t be so down on yourself homie, sometimes people like those who shut up and do their work effectively without comments, so you might be making their shit in a quite shop of yours and they pay you well.

too bad the motherboard can not be find anywhere today :( was considering an intel build this month

I love the enthusiasm haha, makes me excited to build my own build very closely around the $1500 range too only I would be using the 3070ti, this is all just awesome to see such an enthusiastic community.

His knowledge isn't that great, he recommended a DRAM-less SSD.

@@roji556 then get the one you want , he didnt say YOU HAVE TO GET THIS ONE, he said this is the one he chose

I noticed this with my new build too, but I never changed that setting so it must have come set to a watercooler in the BIOS from the start. It was idling at about 45-50°C and the CPU fan speed was about a third of what it should have been. Changed the setting to a tower cooler and it came down into the low 30s.

oh yeah that vetroo v5, esspecially with a push/pull fan set up are awesome. and cant beat the ~$40ish price tag

I got mine a year ago and have zero complaints. It's a solid option, even for my 11700k

I am using Vetro V5 with a push pull configuration on a 12700k having great temps even on Cinebench R23. I swaped the stock fan with 2x 120 Alpenfoehn RGB High Speed only to fit with the rest case fans.

I did something similar with a hyper 212 black, now has a noctua redux, just because I had it laying around

my 5800x 3d has never gone above 80c running it HARD in tests, its even lower in games 60c range. unbelievably good cooler for the cost

they're called timestamps...

yes definitely, please do that. If someone is following this guide they will probably want to come back to it a few times and skip around

There’s actually someone always creating these time stamps your after, just a couple comments up from yours was one.

@@Oopsie26 Not a hit against Jeigh, people can complain and tell their opinion of course but... Instead of complaining, I just created them myself.

I hate the chapter feature on RU-vid, it’s a pain to skip around on the mobile app because it likes to stick to those section breaks. E: Also if you double tap to skip 10seconds, it’ll go to the entire next/previous section sometimes which is so frustrating.

Have you built this yet? If so what are your thoughts?

@@disonwilliams7090 I have not. I am just getting around to building my PC and updating my component list. I am looking at a i7-13700k CPU and an RTX 3060Ti GPU. But the motherboard and power source will likely be from this video. The case will be the Lian Li Lancool 216 and the motherboard will absolutely not be ASUS.

I just used the 216 case for a build a build also. I didn't go with an AIO, I used a Noctua NH-D15 chromax Black. Everything is black, no RGB & I really like it. Also put in two fans as the bottom as intake & two at the top as exhaust, still testing thermals to see how it's performing vs the original configuration of three fans. When I bought the case the black pwm wasn't available so I purchased the black case with RGB which has white fans. I was having an issue moving the front I/O to the bottom left side of the case, & after a few back & forth emails with Lian Li it all worked out. I did ask if I could purchase two black 160 mm fans to replace the white ones, they sent me two 160 mm black fans no charge! Can't beat that, I highly recommend Lian Li products, they are helpful & excellent to deal with.

if horizontal can it fit 2x140mm fans on the bottom?

@@brigham1465 No. The bracket mounts on the bottom where the frame would be. The case does support 140mm on the bottom though. The O11 Dynamic EVO vertical mount is suspended above the fans on the bottom but you're looking at $200 for the case, $100 for vertical bracket but I do love it so. At its lowest mount, the bottom PCIe slot is accessible. I have my Soundblaster X AE-5 between the bottom fans and the vertically mounted GPU.

Thanks for the excellent info.

Same.

cpu z says keep the 5600x or skip to the 5950. 2 more cores in the 5800X3D 3.4ghz penalty i have (single core loses 5% to the 3600X and you have a 5600X) only gains you 5% vs 15% of the 5950 in multi threaded and i am running 4000mhz ram on the 5800X3D. % gained should equal the dollar value dollar per 1% gained to be worth while. the 5950 won't be as worth while as the new ryzen 4th gen 7000's or the 13900k which is a 200% increase over the 5800X3D due to 5+ghz clock and 24 cores. the 5800x gets you almost 10%. i will be waiting for the new 7000X3D release to see what performance gains they bring and most likely wait 1-2 years for their prices to fall $200 for both cpu and ddr5. you're in a good place right now. i feel comfortable enough to sit on my current set up for 5 years if i want to. i was trying to wait out to the 7000X3D release but my 4th gen intel system was going thru BIOS resets enough to be annoying. i lost single thread performance by 15% vs the 4.4ghz stock 4 core 8 threads but i gained 6000% multi threaded performance even with the 3.4ghz penalty. reviewers must be paid by the manufacturers to use the best performance statistic that lies about "performance gains" hardware unboxed does the best most honest job at reviewing with out shooting themselves in the foot while still getting some manufacturers endorsements. jay and almost all the others i have watched are schilling hard to get the freebies and endorsements for the most part. "don't bite the hand that feeds you for free" is the tech reviewer motto

My build is very similar. 5800X, 3070 FE, 32GB RAM. Runs BF2042 on Ultra and never dips below 70 FPS on 1440p. Cannot complain about my computer at all. I have two 1TB NVMe SSD's for OS and gaming.

I've got the same build, R5 5600 & RTX 3070. Why did jay use the i5-12600KF for 230$ when the Ryzen 5 5600 is going for $130 for the same performance?

@joeyvigil He explained that. Future proofing if the person building this wanted to upgrade to 13th gen later on.

@@joeyvigil Forealz. 5600 is such good value right now and you could still upgrade to the X3D if you wanted!

Scored a similar spec rig for less than a grand used.

evga streamer pci e streamer capture card

Unless you give a specific case, this can handle streaming already

@@RadeonVector what would change if I had a y60 case?

@@SecretShotgun The case.

@@RadeonVector cool. Just wasn't sure if anything would have to change based on clearance issues or anything.

Budget gamer with 3070 for 650$ xD obviously you have no idea what budget gamer mean....budget gamer build the whole pc for the price of this gpu

@@JURITO1000 Just buy a PS5 then. Budget gaming as you describe it really isn't worth it. Been there and had to re-invest the same amount just about 2 years later. In the long run, investing more will last longer.

@@KkommA88 You can beat the ps5 with $700, and have a pc that can do other things besides game. Pc builder does a real 1440p inexpensive build, this is click bate.

@@JURITO1000 i just bought a 3070 for half that

@@johnzome788 Can you give us a link, or a title to search for, for the PC Builder build, please?

Wow thats a great build and price! And it gives you an upgrade path to 13th gen and either this new gen of gpus or wait until the next gen since 4000 nvidia is overpriced.

Bad choice AMD 7600x + Asus B650 + 16GB DDR5 (take the cheapest for $65) + 6800XT ($599) = better performance for a lower price

@@LevAizik i would take the 3070 over the 6800xt any day just because AMD drivers especially on launch day for new games have issues unlike Nvidia. I was looking forward to the new 7900xtx but apparently there is major issues with OCing the cards as well as competing with mid range Nvidia GPU's

Lies! These people will always bring up their semi identical builds to make others believe that they think like the content creator and use "EVGA" as the cherry on top for sympathy likes.

I had EVGA 1080 for 6 years (1080) and it recently died. I would not buy EVGA because they are out of GPU business now. After all research where repair guys say that Asus has the best components between all manufactures I believe them. So my dream is Rog Strix but what I can afford is TUF line. I switching to Asus family for motherboard, GPU and laptop...

@@jumper55ful In terms of GPU performance the 6800XT is 40% stronger than Nvidia 3070. I don't know about any driver issues with new games.

You probably saw a pretty big minimum and maximum FPS boost with your GPU as well, getting that new CPU, right? I went from just a 3900x to 5950x (much smaller margin of difference), and my 2080ti saw huge gains across the board, especially in my most CPU limited games (saw over 50% gains in the game I cared about most WOOHOO). Yes, I could have gone for a 5800x3D and seen even more gaming boost, but I do other things with my PC besides game, and I wasn't willing to go down in core count for those tasks. 5950x made sense when it was on sale, and I've found a buyer for my old parts to offset the cost, saving me money vs having bought a whole new system. This is the first time I've EVER planned an actual upgrade path for a build ahead of time, rather than just buying a new board and RAM when the time came to upgrade. People in your position did it best though. I could have bought into the platform when you did, but I bought an 8350k instead, and I honestly kind of regret it now. I was hard up for money at the time and had already wasted $135 of my "budget" (all my personal spending money was allocated to funding a small company at the time, the board ended up in a staff PC in the end but it still fucked me over at the time) on a replacement board when it was actually my 4790k that had died. AMD had just been underperforming for so long that my trust wasn't super high in the platform being worth anything long term at the time, even if the CPUs were actually fairly decent according to benchmarks. I didn't make that mistake again when I got my 3800x (which I still have in my home server that I built when I got my 3900x upgrade). But yea, good luck on finding a 4070/7700xt. Assuming they sit on shelves like everything else has so far, you shouldn't have too hard of a time getting one, and they'll no doubt have more supply at launch as well. That 5700x should still last you a good few more years of gaming before it's even worth upgrading your whole platform. Wait for DDR5 to hit price floor IMO before you even consider doing that, that's what I'm going to do at this point now.

I'm upgrading from an i7 3770k, 16gb ddr3 and an msi z77 motherboard to a Ryzen 7 5700x, actually downgraded my cooler from a noctua nh-d14 to a hyper 212 LED (had to keep the noctua in the old build), an Asus Strix B550-F motherboard, 32gb ddr4 3200mhz and kept my rtx 2060. I probably made a bad decision only going with a 650w PSU but I'm gonna be fine with my rtx 2060 for a while.

You know he loves his Nvidia cards. Lol.

This here. Even the 6750xt outperforms it, and the regular 67 is basically on par with it depending on the game

He loves NV but he also explained in the video that he chose team green because of the RT performance.

@@blockbertus still probably better off getting a used 3080 because of the better performance and extra VRAM.

@@craig71686 that’s what i’ve been thinking, but i dont play demanding enough games to excuse me spending 600$ on a gpu lol

Rgb headers are just RGB headers unless its a specific "proprietary" set up like you see with most of corsairs, and Lian Li's stuff. The general RGB header on the motherboard itself is a standard. Its the same as the RGB strips you can buy for $5 in "Walmart" or "Five and Below". As long as its "DRGB" and not the older cheaper non programmable standard, but even then the plug is the same, you just cant control it as much.

I got a similar build. MSI b660m mortar DDR4 i5 12400F - cooler master 212 hyper black edition 32 GB Vengeance RGB pro MSI RTX 3050 VENTUS X2 8GB Samsung 980 pro 1TB Seagate FireCuda 530 1TB Case is MSI mag forge 110R I think EVGA 600w PSU

they are not sold in europe...

@@robertdelange2071 3070fe's or??

@LokiParts I take it you didnt happen to go with the ASUS 3070 Strix OC card then? As it has RGB that will help any build aesthetically and it beats the FE, albeit not by much maybe 5ish percent. I love ASUS, top of the line for GPUs, motherboards, and monitors imo. Now, ASUS typically does cost more, but I truly feel they are worth it especially if we are talking about GPUs here, and it would have/should have, gotten u in the clear as far as looks. Ive gotten to where if I need a GPU or board I almost always opt for ASUS right off the bat.

@@unleasheth I would have loved to get the Asus card, I am a bit of an Asus fan as well, but price was the other major consideration. I ended up going with a Gigabyte Vision OC. It also is also has a little bit more horsepower than the Founders Edition and its design is fairly inoffensive.

@@robertdelange2071 They were sold in Europe. I got one on launch day. However I don't believe they're in production any more with most of the last shipments in major EU stores drying up a few months back.

This is not correct. All locked chips (non-k, including locked i9s) come with coolers, but all unlocked chips do not come with coolers (with k, including 12600k).

i just picked up the same board he shows here and its been great. i honestly dont see a need for a z790 board as long as you can update the bios if going 13th gen

Not knocking this Z690 it's very nice, but overkill for a "inexpensive" build. Even if you're worried about CPU performance and upgradability. The performance difference between Z690&B660(with good VRMs) @stock turbo boost will be negligible with anything ≤12700K So you can save at least 20% with a cheaper Z690, even further 33% on a good B660, all while getting the same performance @stock boosts. If you're just concerned about not choking your future cpu, this board is well beyond that. I'd personally get something cheaper that still provides solid VRMS, and spend the money saved on RAM or storage instead. If you're set on this board in particular there's nothing wrong with it. 4 m.2 slots, and 4 Gen2 USB headers (most cases use 1-2), and more features. Better then cheap Z790s that are a little more expansive then this, and offer less with no extra performance. (States pricing, your country may vary) TLDR: This>Z790 This is more MOBO then most will need, could spend more on other components.

Except with that in mind, it would now be more prudent to go with ddr5. Mid range ddr4 is going to hold you back notably with 13700, not to mention potential 14700.

@@Tc4ify agreed DDR4 will become bottleneck sooner rather than later. Interestingly Intel is still supporting DDR 4 @3200 max even with 13900 KS

@@Abra_Ka_Dabra_008 Officially yes, but you can go well above that. However these days decent ddr5 is starting to make more sense than top of the line ddr4 (sometimes already cheaper too) and you'll be able to upgrade it to an even better kit in a couple years, while ddr4 development is over.

Really good at 4k gaming - affordable Choose one

Affordable but really good at games at 4K is an incompatible featureset, drop one please. If you drop the 4K, this build is more than capable of being an affordable workstation that's also great at gaming.

Except RAM. DDR4 doesn't work with AM5 motherboards.

Look at the 7600x (or higher) - platform prices continue to go down and 3 years of platform upgrades ahead. With faster ram you may not need as much - depending on what you're doing.

Yea if you were watching there was better late summer deals than Black Friday deals.

how much for the z690?

@@bruhh489 MSI had a Black Friday deal for $159!

@@SnapquesterMage man fr?? i cant believe i missed that

​@@bruhh489 If its the MSI PRO Z690-P DDR4 you can still pick them up for that price sold&shipped by amazon.

That and VR. Amd and Intel don't do vr

Yeah definitely. But i think we are in a weird time because each gen of cpus recently have been getting better and more performance. But overal its not worth upgrading your cpu every gen. Only when your gaming needs arent being met. I was on a 3600x and while its a great cpu, the 5000 series cpus were a solid jump in performance and can handle better cards. I ended up going with the 5700x because the 3600x was bottlenecking my 3080 even at 1440p. But i originally had the 3600x paired with a 2060 so it ran everything i needed perfectly fine at 1080p.

Yeah having an fps limiter via either drivers making a game profile, or via rivatuner server statistics (comes with msi afterburner) adding the game & setting a fps limit that exe in particular uses. Or via config files if the game has commands for it helps quite a bit with both thermals & reducing noise. Specially for a game like f.e.a.r from 2005 for example the main menu has an uncapped fps limit & goes too like 3000+ fps rendering a 2d menu & ramps up gpu load too 100% for just showing the main menu. Fps cap set too 101 in rivatuner ? whisper quiet even ingame on my 1660 super. Recently moved up too a ryzen 5600 non x from an I5 2500k at 4.5 ghz, so many games are smoothly running now without stutters from like getting a random message on steam or similar.

Bro.. these videos arent for you... ok.. lol .. You win.. you already got this game beat.. Lol. This is for wayyyy way different ppl.. way down the tier list.

@@Mini-z1994 Yeah the build is quite new so I'm still very much trying out what works how well and which workarounds make stuff work that doesn't play along as of yet. :D Thanks for the hints, I'll see if they help in this case. :)

​@@strydyrhellzrydyr1345 Thanks for the compliment :D but I think performance-wise (apart from the cinebench score, though he has more cores on his CPU and way, way better OC skills than me) and also price-wise it's quite comparable to this build, mid-to-high end with some headroom for later upgrades. :) Besides, I love Jay's videos regardless of whether he builds a ultra gaming monster with custom LC or a budget thing with air coolers, it's fun to watch and gives me inspiration for things I might upgrade or optimize later, like now with the cable management :)

what was your score in Cinebech r23 with 5600x?

yeah for $2,600, you would probably be able to keep that system for like 8-10 years without many problems.

@@PotatoMC1 yeah since I mainly use it for gaming I just plan on upgrading my 3080 in a year or 2 for 4k@120

31 months in your calendar ?

@@tilapiadave3234 as an American I know why youre confused, but its nobodies fault for your ignorance. His date is correct.

@@scallie6462 you guys just like using stupid standard unit,like putting month 1st before day and then the year lol.using Farenheit is another thing lmao.such unique

@@renogunzddragon1900 You cant even write a proper sentence, who cares? You know it was Europeans who created the Imperial system lol?

@@scallie6462 As a normal human I am sick and tired of yanky bull-twang ,,, DAY -Month _year is CORRECT. and There is no such this as "tonite" ,, no such things a "cilantro". :) No such things as feet inches ,, pounds , miles per hour , made up Gallons that aren't even real gallons Time for America to get out of the 15th century and join the real world