PlayStation 5 Console Killer - $500 Gaming PC 

Would you build this computer? I wanna hear some real nerd opinions. I know parts of it are weak, but do you think it's still worth it?

Everyone talking about how much fps there going to get with a PC while I'm chilling over here with my switch with 30 fps

i think this is the first time ive actually seen his recording room decently clean lol

"The PS5 cost $500" Scalpers: "How about no"

When the ps5 is actually harder to get than all these parts combined

*Someone talking about the value of console gaming* Me: I don't remember Steam charging me every year to play with my friends

The problem is Teraflops isn’t a perfect measurement. It’s used every time a new console comes out to showcase how ‘powerful’ they are. However every time it’s actually tested, this isn’t the case. Clock speed of the GPU, the type and amount of VRAM and actual architecture of the GPU matter way more in real life application than “teraflops”. Just wanted to put this here because as a PC RU-vidr I believe you should have said something about how teraflops aren’t a measurement used for the purpose the Sony’s marketing is using it for. Thanks for listening to my ted talk

No, it's not the first time. This always happens at the start of a generation when the hardware in consoles is actually new instead of 7 years old

my depression kicks in when i realize that this 500 dollar pc is better than my 900 dollar laptop

When I was watching the monitor screen, it reminded me of this time my friend tried to watch a comparison of a 1080p tv compared to a 4K tv, on his 720p iPhone

Wait until they release the pc 2

This dude is literally the only one who acctually convinced me to get honey lmaoooooo

Honestly being able to run windows at full speed is what sells pcs for me. I would keep a 1650 and an i3 just so I can run windows and have all my emulators and steam games.

didnt know markiplier made pcs in his free time

"for specs that powerful , you would normally find that in a 800$ dollar computer" me: mike wazoski with sullys face because i recently built a 700$ pc

"I'm kinda insecure, I wanna see bigger numbers, I'm overcompensating." hahaha that sums up the tech and gaming world.

I'm impressed with the price to performance of this build. But it's very far from matching a PS5. 1) The PS5 digital edition is the correct comparison to a PC without bluray drive and that's launched for $399 MSRP 2) 240GB bottom of the barrel SATA SSD vs. Sony's 800GB super-fast SSD? Beyond laughable. 2.5) Depending on which game you want to play, you'll only fit a single game like COD: Modern Warfare (2019) with its 175GB install size on the SSD. Have fun. 3) That R5 1600 isn't close to cutting it, the most equivalent CPU is a R7 3700X 4) TFLOPS is a terrible way of measuring GPU power because it does NOT translate into FPS. 5) Both GPUs only do 6GB VRAM, that's not going to be enough to match PS5 on textures and shadow quality 5.5) Only the RTX 2060 actually supports ray tracing to put it on feature parity with the PS5 in that regard, putting you way over budget 6) Nor is 8GB RAM going to be good enough for some games and measly 2666 MHz will actually cost you a fair bit of performance 7) A $40 case is miserable to build in 8) The video outright says to get a PSU secondhand from a friend. DO NOT CHEAP OUT ON YOUR PSU!

Even though it’s $555 instead of $500, I don’t see a ps5 editing videos and checking discord or streaming with obs etc etc. even though a gaming pc is “meant” for gaming, it’s still a computer, so it can do a hell of a lot other things that the ps5 can’t lol

The thing is there's so much more you can do with a PC that you just never will be able to do on a console.

Best part of the whole video: the awesome montage music. Killer. Good luck getting a graphics card now, btw...

I’m sorry I may not be the most experienced in pcs but when I heard “teraflops” I thought “wow I didn’t know things so cool can be called that” 🤣

Tbh honey has never saved me anything and I’ve had it for a a couple years now..

The specs are too good to be cheap though, and there's a lot you cant do with a PS5 that you can do with a PC so I still don't see it as a real competitor especially cause you can never upgrade it.

Guess I know what I'm fighting for this christmas

Not sure what was worse, the motherboard or his sensitivity

Consoles are back to being the better bang for your buck for gaming but when you have a pc you have more then just a gaming device which should come into consideration when talking prices and $

Everyone obsessed with specs while I'm here loving my Nintendo switch. I feel it's the games that matter.

The intro is perfect. Thanks KristoferYee!

You’re making me want to buy the ps5 lol I’m new to the pc world, solid video, thanks brother!

They sell it at a loss to get the money back selling games

You gotta keep in mind that more teraflops doesn't completely translate to better gaming performance - a gtx 1070 outputs about 6.5 teraflops, yet has very similar performance to a 1660ti

"While this case may not be $40.... *Shatters glass* It sure is now!"

Feels so good to be able to watch this on a ps5 a year later cause of scalpers

Well, this video definitely did not age well, no one can match that specs with a 400 budget

I used to be a console pleb and I’m tempted to buy a Ps5 but I think PC will still be better as it’s a multifunctional workstation and not just a *play* station

Let's get one thing straight, having owned the ps4 for 7 years with the £45 yearly subscription and the additional price I've payed for the games being more expensive compared to steam It's cost me £1100 over 7 years to enjoy my PS4 and that only plays game nothing else really so might as well spend a few hundred more and get a pc that'll be more useful for tasks and work

I love the irony in the sponsor being a browser extension on a video to build a $500 PC.

Why cant everyone chill, consoles are getting better value, pc's are getting better specs, and we should all just accept it.

Wait I've been struggling to sell my $500 PC the specs are R5 2600x, RX 570, 16GB 3000mhz, 550w, H510 case

imagine he pulled out a 3070 and got it for $250 😂

the thing is with the ps5 pricing they try to take your mind of how you have to pay 60$ a year for online and pay for overpriced games

can we just appreciate his AMAZING crosshair movement even while running with a knife

If I'm correct they have a lot of custom hardware in it and I believe their are some parts in it that you can't get for pcs

quick question! do you have any suggestions for a case that can easily move back and forth between two rooms? I don't know if there is a decent case with handles that exists that is sturdy and can fit all the parts I plan on putting into it. (if it's ugly hopefully I can just paint it for a better aesthetic)

well i know what im saving up for over the winter with chores and like A LOT OF EM

I wouldn't call this a killer, but it does have many advantages.

7:26 i'm pretty sure you got that wrong, the 1660 ti has 10.87 TFLOPS at FP16 (which is half) but just 5.437 TFLOPS at full FP32, while the PS5 has 20.58 TFLOPS at FP16 and 10.29 TFLOPS at FP32 (according to techpowerup.com) so it has half the theoretical performance and since you're using just 8gb of ram it will not be able to compete at all edit: and you were getting 60-100 fps at 1080p while the ps5 should get 4k60 and maybe even 120

Really enjoyed your video. Can I use this build for racing games?

0:01 and here I am finally getting a PC (hopefully) for the first time in my life. 🙃

Meanwhile on Xbox: Um... we have like Halo... and Gears of War?? Microsoft: You can play those on PC Xbox: so we have no reason to exist

This is a great build and the only thing different I would change for just a little more is 16gb of ram. Oloy ram on Amazon is a great choice for just a little over 50.

before I even watch the video I wanna say the thumbnail threw me for a loop I have that exact same case. That's the first time I've had the same part of a computer as the video I'm watching and I had to do a triple take in disbelief lol

KristoferYee : talk about 8 core Me : *hold my duo core*

Just to put this out here, Sony has not yet confirmed a price. The 500$ is just speculation.

is this pc better then the 550$ video you did? i was going to build that one now i don't know if i should get this one or the other one

Thank you for the video!!

We can't forget about the fact that you have an actual computer, so you can use it for video editing, using apps, and a million other things you can't do on a console. Simply having a desktop computer is the reason this machine is so much more of a better deal.

Imagine if the ps5 is like 900$ lmao

Idk why but the word teraflop is funny to me 😭

actually insane that the ps5 has that much power considering it cost $400 (not counting $500 ps5 since it’s only that price because of disk drive)

i love how you werent shitting on the ps5 or consoles in general the whole video like others usually do, good video man. pc is def better for a lot of things but consoles have their upsides

crazy that a year later this is now a $1000 pc

Came back here to send this video to my friend that was thinking about upgrading his ps4 to a ps5. So I put on an argument about getting a PC instead. I decided to stay and rewatch the video to refresh my memory. Thank you for this video!

Me after watching Kristofer Yee for 1 hour ( time lapse begins) “ not this song”

According to the developers from “Deliver Us the Moon”, who are producing a game for the next-gen consoles and PC, the consoles perform close to a 2070 Super, and considering the specs, I’m expecting the CPU to be close to a 3700x, so this build isn’t a console killer unfortunately, and I don’t think a 2070 Super with a 3700x is an 800$ computer, for that we’ll have to wait until 2023-2024 to get a true console killer for 400$ (probably the PS5 price will drop to this value by then) And by the way, the RTX 2060 isn’t capable of 12 teraflops of 32-bit, I genuinely laughed when you said that, because the PS5 has 10.28 teraflops of 32-bit, while the RTX 2060 has 6 teraflops of that same metric, and 12 teraflops of 16-bit (the PS5 has 20.56 tflops of 16-bit) No hate towards your video, but I just wanted to leave this here

Ah yes, the good old days when literally everything was reasonably priced, the days when we could complain about the 1080 ti being $600 😢

i was looking forward to a prebuilt one but i may as well build my own

Have fun trying to build something like this in Canada, we might as well be a third-world country when it comes to availability and price of PC parts. This is a big reason why I enter like a million giveaways for PC parts, everything is so expensive so winning just about *anything* would be a great start towards building a new PC.

As soon as I saw that A320 I was like, "Ah no..."

Xeon e5-2680... 8 cores, 12 threads, 3.5Ghz, boatloads of cache. The available cache places its performance on par with Intel's older i7 offerings but with extra cores for streaming. I just bought a pre-built server with 32GB of ram and kitted it out with a 1660 and an SSD for less than $600 shipped. It's not flashy, but it gets the job done, and it does it well.

I was wondering if there way anyway I could buy this from you

Gets 149 fps with a 555 dollar build Me: gets 30 frames in minecraft with a 1300 dollar laptop.

I know it was a time lapse, but you put that together really fast 😂😂....maybe I’m just slow.

What's even more impressive is that the diskless one is even less... that's bonkers

Crying over the fact that I still cant get this

Editor: How many memes do you want KristoferYee: yEs

"There has never been a moment in history when buying a console was better than building your own pc" uhhh I love pc gaming but there's many times in history when consoles made more sense. i know not a lot of people care about retro stuff now but this was absolutely not the case early on in games. When gaming was still primarily 2D, PCs simply didn't have the graphics horsepower to do fast, smooth scrolling because of specialized hardware on NES and other consoles of that era. When Sonic was zooming at 60fps, platformers were basically impossible on PC. Commander Keen was a huge step forward. It wasn't til 3d games came that pcs started to make more sense, with doom being the real showcase. It wasn't til recently that the libraries of consoles and PCs were similar. If you're a JRPG fan like I am, a PS2 back in the day made a ton more sense because uh jrpgs didn't come to pc. When consoles typically come out, they're usually better buys than PC because console makers subsidize the hardware with accessories and games, while having high end hardware. the 360 back in the day was a great buy in regard to price to performance, with the 360's GPU being faster than the fastest Nvidia Card (7800 GTX) out at the time and cheaper for an example. PCs being a better buy than console is a relatively new phenomenon. This generation with Xbox One and PS4 is honestly a bit of an exception rather than the rule

When you applied the honey coupons codes did it just go from 12 dollars to 59?

Would this be a good build for console streaming?

The whole comment section is just peps trying to defend their purchase of a console or PC. Gamers are truly oppressed D: It is what it is.

500 dollars for a really good ps5 me: damn, now if only I didn't have to buy online ps5 to play online which eventually adds up... Edit: it seems I've started some kind of pc console war in the comment section... if you guys want my take since I have a pc owned a ps2 Xbox 360 and on weekends I go to my cousins which have 2 ps4. Nintendo switch with like 15+ games (60$ each lul Nintendo), Xbox one with the game pass. My take is console has definitely become more viable of an option but is really hard for me to choose as a pc player who doesn't like yearly or monthly stuff which add up (would take a big chunk of my money which id rather save up for the next thing id buy whether that be pc or something. and don't have parents who'd by a switch game on a whim +3 Nintendo consoles that my cousin's tiny brother destroyed) id rather just collect free games from epic games (which overall have been better than ps4, xbox one, Nintendo switch "free games" still pretty gud *sometimes*) and save up money for masterpieces which I can buy for dirt cheap and complete such as dungeon which I got for 5$ on sale and sometimes I hear bundles are good but don't tend to be on the lookout. Also checked today that the game pass is on both console and pc and without a dought one of the best deals for short term to me (maybe create multiple accounts to keep getting that 1$ deal on games which progress isn't a priority) overall when it comes to discord, youtube, email. gaming etc. is a lot more convenient as you can have things running and playing on the background and foreground seamlessly. I want to add more of what I think are the pros and cons of each console, pc whatever but on a finished note, il say me and my brother are saving up around 1000$+ in which well buy a new pc and do a build where i will document what is the best price/quality u can get for the money we have at the time for our purposes... *If your read trough this far thank u =)*

I think there is a bit of history missing here, the consoles in their release date, in general they were always very powerful compared to a PC of the same price, the problem is that the PCs evolve every year, and the consoles lag behind, it is as if PCs continuously advance, while consoles only take a leap ahead of PCs for a few moments

Pc costs 500, my country: how about 1000 dollars

Imagine having to pay to play online This post was made by PCMR😎😎😎

Instructions unclear: built a 2000$ pc that also happens to be better than the ps5

Build a $600 pc in 2021 id watch that over nd over again

*installs OBS* * uses external camera footage for gameplay*

this is great for people on a budget i’ve shown you to tons of my friends

A few things: 1. the 1600 for $105 is the AF model so its basically a slightly lower clocked 2600. It is a 2000 series cpu even though it has a 1000 series name and is the smaller nm architecture. 2. I'd recommend grabbing the ASRock B450M Pro4 for $80. Much better mobo and can overclock. Plus its a 400 series board instead of the 300 series board. So that is an extra $25 to spend on it instead of the better GPU. As someone who has had two 300 series boards, they are not that good and have stability issues. 3. From #2, you can grab another set of sticks bringing the ram to 16GB. So that's another $30 there. Possibly less since youd be buying a pack of four rather than two packs of two.

U can see how defeated he feels in his eyes through the whole ass video thats the funniest part to me😂😭

i have that corsair case, i case was crying when it saw you smash its bother's tempered glass

Lol imagine buying snap in stabilizers in a honey ad. Obligatory screw-in stabilizers message

Xbox series x: "am i a joke to you?"

How would it perform in 1440p ? just curious how much the difference would be

If i decide to make this same build would i be able to upgrade it later?

Eh PS4 released they said 60fps in everything and in most games it gives 30

One thing I want to point out is consoles are sold at a loss and they regain that money with digital licenses like ps plus or xl gold, and if I can recall correctly, game creators have to pay to put their games on that specific platform but I don't remember if that's true or not

Something you missed is that the ps5 comes with a free controller. But the pc doesn’t come with a mouse and keyboard which is easily another 20-50$ on the absolute low end.

I am gonna start building my gaming pc soon 😊

This is my POV, but I am and still have a lot to learn. So Sony is targeting 4k 120 FPS right? So they're expecting 1 everyone to have a 120Hz display, 2 they're doing this over HDMI? Doesn't HDMI 2.0 Limit to 4k 60Hz?