Buying a Brand New PC is Dumb...

It’s gotten A LOT harder to build a brand new Gaming PC for less than a thousand dollars, but maybe there is a better way to maximize your budget. But how much performance will you be leaving on the table? Can you get that dream GPU by compromising on Older Parts elsewhere?

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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
0:42 The Investigation Begins
1:48 Two CPUs Enter…
5:25 The House for our Parts
6:58 The GPUs
8:06 The Testing Begins
10:32 More Games
12:15 All the Parts and Prices
13:00 What about other features?

[LinusTechTips]

Correction at 1:50: We say that AMD doesn't really make Ryzen 3 or 5 Chips anymore then immediately install a Ryzen 5 Chip and call it a Ryzen 7. Fix Incoming

[kamiru_ka]

"He's been wanting to upgrade his PC, but the people around him keep saying it isn't a good time for it. This has gone on for four years" kinda paradox.

[SoldierSide]

4:19 That sounds like AI Linus. Is it AI Linus?

[jashelps]

Hey someone's gotta buy the new pc for me to buy it cheap in the future!

[cooleosis]

4:20
5:03
ai linus can't hurt you

[Toutvids]

Still running AM4 with an AMD 5900X CPU. Last year I upgraded my Radeon 6800XT to a 7900XTX and what a huge difference that made. And yes my GPU does run up to 100% in top tier games No bottleneck with an old Asus X470 motherboard with PCIe 3.0 x16 slots, because I game at 1440p super ultra wide, not 1080p. I have no intention of upgrading for years.

[ryanwaddington]

I basically built the old PC a few months ago. same 5700X3D, asus prime MOBO, 32GB ram, Only major Diff is i bought a Used 3080 and a bigger Power Supply.

[SonRwanson]

Ai Linus for the motherboard and CPU edits cracked me up lol

[Vantca]

i bought the old but gold system - upgrading after 14 years from my Phenom II 1100T to Ryzen 7 5700X3D :) - Asus Rog Strix B550 F and a 3060 GPU for around 600€ - and now im set up for the next 10 years to go.

[OldManYellsAtClouds]

I wasn't paid for my appearance in this video, you'll be hearing from my get off my lawn.

[pepperfish_]

The best way to spec your computer is to know what you are going to use it for. Experience already owning and using a PC to do your tasks is a must. Then you need to investigate what is holding you back from doing more. Is it a slow or too small ssd, is it slow or not enough ram, or Gpu, cpu? Then build one specifically to overcome that issue, and find the next thing holding you back. This is the evolution of all of my PCs over 30 years. I haven't overspent but I'm getting 80-90% of the performance of the top tier new stuff.

[johnathanmcdoe]

Hardware barely depreciates in price anymore and the used market here is dead and buried because of the former. Those old X3D CPUs are already marked up now and are soon to become unobtanium for real.

[bojack]

the moment he pulled out the rx 7800 xt to compare with the rtx 4060 it was game over😂

[PhysicsGamer]

4:35 Quick word of advice to people wanting to put together a budget build: external (USB, generally) wifi dongles for your PC work great, especially because they can be placed pretty far away from your PC instead of being crammed up against the wall. This is more important than ever, given how much trouble the most modern wifi standards can have getting through walls.

So basically, if you can save some money by skipping the on-board wifi? Don't hesitate to do so.

[mariopil]

With my friend we had created a cascade upgrade pattern: I need better component for my job (lot of 3D rendering) and my company pays me for hardware upgrade every couple of year, so I buy the latest tech and hand down my old to my friend, rotating between them. So every 2/3 generation every one gets an upgrade.

[peteandrickshow]

I ALWAYS buy 1 generation down, For one the bugs have mostly been worked out and two the prices are way better.

[Tbear]

NVIDIA Framegeneration causes some pretty horrible ghosting in SOME games.

[hrishikeshkudva]

but why x870 on the new mid tier pc though? i guess even if i was building a new mid tier pc using brand new components with the ryzen 9600x i wouldve gone with the b650m or equivalent and spent the savings on gpu. X870 for a mid tier pc is very overkill

[Untun]

Still running a Frankenstein build for several years, where at least one component or more is from my previous systems. Pc after pc with same pattern of reusing what I can.

Saves tons of money!

[owkelpton]

I bought a new 5700x3d, b550 mobo, and ram on a newegg special for ~300$. I feel like that combo is legendary for the price and over my 8 years of building pcs, I feel like the x3d series cpu is one of the best upgrades I've ever done. The increase in 1% lows from the cpu is VERY visible and a very welcome benefit, even if it is an "old" CPU