Please don't do this when building your PC!!!

This viewer wanted to build a gaming PC and streaming PC, but I think they were going about it in all of the wrong ways, spending too much money on parts that don't really impact performance. Let's see how I would fix it.

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[Ladioz]

The PC community is filled with rich people that don't know what to buy, and poor people that know exactly what they want if they had the money

[captianfail]

spending $5k to game on a 4070 ti is insane. You can run a 13700k/7800x3d and 4090 for $3k and just stream from the same system without even noticing that streaming load.

[lionheartLOL]

Only a couple of minutes in but it is crazy to me that in the streaming PC and gaming PC they both have like $200 in fans if it was just for their gaming PC fine but the streaming one too? absolutely insane budgeting imo

[rohanchooramun]

Baffles me to see people with that amount of money to spend on a gaming pc to only waste it.

[NachoTEK]

Honestly, the old prebuilt could be the streaming PC with a RAM upgrade to 16GB because the 1660 has the new Nvenc encoder that look great on both Twitch and YT

[AshtonCoolman]

I'm surprised that they never thought to upgrade the RAM in their old i5-9400F PC. How could anything function well with 8GB of RAM in 2019 which is when that CPU was released?!

[Aleph-Noll]

that is insane, with that amount of money you can get a 7800x3d and 4090 lol

[DavidMiller-dtmx]

With a 4090 and a 7800x3d, I'm betting he doesn't really need a dedicated streaming pc, at all. I'm no expert, but that's a beastly combo.

[meh-]

Why not re-use the old PC for streaming? Then use the entire budget to build a maxed out gaming rig.

[aqualung]

If it's just for AV1 encoding, Intel Arc would have been a more cost-effective GPU choice.

[madgodzilla]

I would take out the 1 & 2 TB ssd's and put in a good 4tb nvme. That way your only populating one slot with more storage while spending roughly the same.

[olivur_]

I'd change the 13900K for a 13700K or a 14700K, get rid of that expensive liquid cooler and just buy a nice air cooler (Noctua maybe) for $100 - $150, spend much less on RGB fans from a cheaper manufacturer, and for everything else, the build looks very nice. Overall, would save around $600 - $700.

[hjge]

A secondary streaming pc is from back in the day when streaming hit your cpu hard. With modern hardware that's however not the case anymore, since your gpu can encode video now, with only a slight performance hit. So it's much cheaper to just get a better gpu in your main gaming rig and also stream from there.

Besides, you can't stream in 4k anyway, so any high-end gpu should easily be able to max modern games + stream.

You should only get a secondary streaming pc if you have money to burn AND love tinkering. Because using a secondary PC is not only more expensive, it's also harder to set up, harder to maintain and a lot more can go wrong.

[JackJohnson-brqr]

This guy has $5000 to spend but couldn't upgrade a 5 years old GPU with $219 MSRP and still somehow managed to be a "very competitive gamer". This is a joke. Can't be true.

[kosmosyche]

Just my thoughts in general. The most important part of a gaming PC is a GPU. The second most important part is a CPU. In this particular order. If you are on a budget (even if it's rather big as in this case) treat fancy motherboards, coolers, fans, cases as nice, but really unnecessary extras. Start building your PC around the most efficient and performant GPU and CPU you can afford without spilling over the budget (this means first choosing minimum required mb, cooler and case for your potential build and... no extra fans! lol), see what CPU and GPU you can get, watch some tests and comparisons and then think really hard, whether you really really want to go for something worse, because of a fancy mb or a pretty case. Priorities, man.
A $3000 build with anything less than an RTX4080 or an AMD 7900XTX is insane waste of money!
And choosing for this - gaming focused - build anything other than AMD 7800X3D CPU right now (sorry Intel, but it is what it is) is extremely unadvisable.
And god damn Kraken cooler, really? lol You should only allow yourself to buy that thing only after you've made sure you're buying RTX4090 and still have a nice pile of cash to spend. And even then I'd go for more SSD storage (why not 4TB SSD, you'll free one slot for possible future upgrades and spend roughly the same as 1TB + 2TB) and RAM first, as they are more important. As I said, priorities!

[Berserkscarlett]

Good on Daniel for doing this video. Better on the builder for asking for help because it was needed. Hope the builds come out great my guy.

[ZackSNetwork]

I don’t understand why new PC builders always spend tons of money on a expensive AIO that costs more than there CPU. I saw a person do a $1, 500 PC build an it had a Ryzen 5 5600 with a NZXT Kraken Elite 360mm. Then they went with a 1TB Sata SSD that also had no dram and a RTX 3060 12gb. Yes this was recent as in posted by them 2 months ago.

[KryptixIII]

I was in the exact same situation where my build would only fit a 12400F/6750xt and was just filled with overpriced NZXT case/fans and an overpriced motherboard but I went with zero RGB, more reasonable mb and was able to afford a 12600K/4070 in the exact same budget.

[obeliskt]

yeah for 3k$ just buy the 7800x3d + 4090 combo. that's all you need to play AND stream at the same time.

[Kapono]

Boys never ever buy a Pre Built PC. ALWAYS build your own PC