Just two cents here in summer.

Time is fast approaching, and that's the time a lot of people tend to build their new systems because they get graduation money or they just have the summer off.

They want to entertain themselves, and usually they want to do it by gaming or upgrading their systems.

Well, today we're gonna try and head off some of those purchases by giving you guys some information that will make your purchases hopefully smarter and more intelligent, because today we're gonna talk about something that gets really overlooked, and that is, our budget builds actually worth it.

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Now budgets.

What are they?

A lot of people take the term budget and immediately just apply that to mean the cheapest build possible.

And although that could be very true, you have a $5 budget.

You have a $5 trillion budget like countries have, so let's go ahead and just come up with a universal understanding of the term budget, meaning you don't have a dollar above your set spending limit.

That's what a budget really is.

A budget just means all of your money is allocated towards various things.

It has a purpose.

It's meant to go in certain areas, and then your budget is then basically budgeted.

But when it comes to computers, most people just have a total amount.

But they don't budget it to a dollar amount for the motherboard X amount for the graphics card X amount for the memory, which is how a budget truly would work.

But most people don't do that.

So hopefully today I could get you guys thinking in that sense so that you don't take your budget build and make it entirely not worth it, because you sort of built it for today and not for the future.

And then you're stuck later, having to upgrade by changing everything out because you made poor choices today.

So that's what we're trying to avoid with this video.

Know what I have right?

Here are some motherboard examples.

Motherboards, like I said, are the easiest way to overspend.

Ah, lot of time.

There's features on here that you may be paying for that you're not going to use.

There may be features on here that you want and didn't get because you made poor budget in decisions.

So you can have this basic board right here, which is pretty much the cheapest Intel board you can get for.

I think it's Ah 11 5 x 11 56.

Technically, you could you've got four channels, which is actually pretty decent on here.

But there's not many phases to this power delivery system, so you couldn't over clock and stuff with it.

But you could put in this technically what, like an 8700 K if you wanted, or you could do the very same thing with this empty box because there's no motherboard in their way.

Just pretend like that never happened it up down.

There we go.

The point I was trying to make is both of these motherboards.

But the point I'm trying to make here is that you could spend 500 plus dollars on a motherboard and sticking I three in it.

Both these motherboards except the same CPS should you put an I three in this.

But now that we talked about how you can really over by on your motherboard versus your CPU is talk about the features that exists on motherboards and where it's OK to save money.

This right here is an A 3 20 I would I would never really buy this even for Risen, because every single rise and chip, whether it be the cheapest one to the most expensive one, is over clock a ble where an intel.

It might make sense because you can get a locked chip on Intel, which is very inexpensive.

And there's no point in buying over Clocking motherboard are not over clocking chip, but and be sort of a different story because every single chip is unlocked.

What you're gonna notice here on the build quality between this guy is the mosque that's exposed.

There's no active cooling on them, the chokes as well.

There's no cooling on those.

The mosque.

It's appear there's little squares.

That's the power delivery system.

When you hear about phase power, like how many power phases there are, that is it specifically what we're talking about?

Those get very hot that's delivering power to the CPU and stepping down 12 volt in all of that.

But the next step up here with the B 3 50 you can see we do get a heat sink on our main phase delivery right there.

Power fades, delivery.

Still none up here at the top, next to the chokes, but at least a little bit of additional cooling.

Now, both of these motherboards look very similar, but they're actually quite different.

We talked about the heat sink design on the power delivery.

But if we look now at the PC Express lots, you can see that the more mid range one has a kind of metal reinforcement on there, which gives it a little bit more strength of rigidity.

They both have to PC.

I express one X on there.

This one has an additional slot at the bottom, which is kind of useless these days, which is a standard PC.

I nobody really uses PC I anymore.

In any modern capture card, you're being 10.2 slots for Pizza express Whatever.

Now, one thing that worth noting on here, though, is this is a more intelligent design.

In terms of the spacing, they put one of the one ex above the graphics card to get captured Carter sound card here.

And then they spaced out 32 slots down, the other one.

That way, if you put a graphics card in here, which is a standard to sought, you could still utilize that problem with this one.

Here is, every single graphics card is at least two slot now, so assumes you put in a graphics card.

This one becomes useless anyway, so this one pretty much pretended, doesn't even exist.

This one shouldn't even exist.

Ironically, though, the cheaper motherboard, I think, has a better lay out in terms of Seita, where they all face the same direction, whereas on this guy here, two of them face up and then two of them face out.

But you think it's kind of awkward, but another sacrifice you make because these boards come in 50 bucks.

60 bucks rain.

Just when you have, like, this little was like $40.

If you sure if you really shop for it, they only have two Rams lots.

So here's what that means in terms of future compatibility and where you could start costing yourself money.

Now let's talk about where you actually would end up costing yourself some money in the future if you ever wanted to upgrade this system.

When people were shopping budget systems, they tend to like I said, Wanna go as cheap as possible And the cheapest DDR four you can get now is eight gigabytes or 24 gigabytes sticks now.

A lot of people would do that because they want to use dual channel rather than getting a single eight gay.

Now, if you did that, you would utilize both the slots because there's only two slots on each of these motherboards, meaning if you wanted to up that ramp capacity later, you've gotta buy all New Ram.

If you didn't go with the single eight gig now, depending on what you're doing, you can often get away with single channel RAM and not really notice any difference when it comes to gaming and stuff like that by going with a single eight big stick.

So I'd recommend that if you have a dual slot board like this, are dual channel board with only one slot for channel, So make the sacrifice of dual channel down to a single eight gig rather than going with 24 gigs if you think you're gonna upgrade later on, otherwise you're buying all new memory.

So here's the X 3 70 from Aura.

So this is obviously has all the features that you would want.

It's over clocking.

Capable.

It's got passive cooling on all of the power delivery.

It's even got a bigger chips that cooler on here.

It's got four RAM slots.

You want to make the same sacrifices we mentioned before.

You can do eight gigs and upgrade to eight gigs later with a total of four sticks.

Three full size PC.

I express lots so you can use s Ally Crossfire.

Multiple one X Um, yeah, so this one also has extra features like extra fans.

Fan headers.

You can plug in more fans.

It's got a bunch of the bottom few at the top.

It's got a Iot cooler on there.

It's got surface mounted buttons for start reset and where, as you can get a board that has similar features to this for around 100 to $115 if you can use the same motherboard for future upgrades, that it makes sense to spend a little more now to get this thing to spend a lot less now and get this and the later have to upgrade the motherboard and the ram anyway.

All right, let's talk about si, Pues, this is an area where I think a lot of people just get really confused on where they should be spending their money.

Um, it depends entirely on what you're doing with your computer.

So if you're gonna be doing gaming, though, you don't need as much CPU power as you might think.

This is an I 3 71 100 This is what was kind of considered like the go to budget seep you back in the seven Siri's.

And then since then, AMG has really stepped up their game with, like, the 2200 g, which is what we have right here.

But it's really easy to overspend on your CPU.

Like I said, depending on what your use cases, he wouldn't necessarily need to buy something crazy like an I 9 99 100 k to play games.

Unless you're starting to push your frame rates really high with a very high in graphics card.

So here we have two different graphics cards that live on the completely opposite end of the spectrum.

The roughly $120 GTX 10 50 the $2500 tighten our T X.

If you pair this card with a terrible see few something like a 71 100 that would be an absolutely terrible combo, because what's gonna happen is a C P has to prepare the frames for the graphics card, and the graphics card does all the eye candy in post processing and stuff and send it off to the monitor.

If the CPU can't send the information to the card, fascinate, the card has to wait.

Which brings down your frame rates.

It goes all over the place, which is a terrible experience.

So this pairing would be a whole lot better because this graphics card is not going to be necessarily slowed down by an I 3 71 100 Quick way to waste your money.

Obviously, if you're buying a tight next for Titan R TX altogether, in fact, some people were even stupid enough to put two of them in their system.

What So a more logical pairing thio either of these because the 10 50 is definitely gonna start showing its age and more modern titles like things that have come out since our T X has sort of been announced and developed.

Now, like over the last seven months or so, games are starting to want to utilize Maur of the modern technologies that are found in graphics cards.

So what I would recommend is kind of throw both of those to the side and get something Maur middle ground like what we have right here is a GTX 16 60.

Or you could even pair it with something like a tame the Radion 5 90 which is gonna give you a very good 10 80 p gaming experience.

It's going forward compatible with a lot of modern titles without feeling like you're graphics card is suddenly becoming what's holding you back.

And not only that, it's It's funded by a more modern graphics card than buying older tier one, because there are options that are available in current generations without completely breaking the bank Now, you might have noticed a bit of a theme here, and that being not buying the cheapest that's available because, in my opinion, that is the quickest way to overspend on your system.

But that's not the easiest way to overspend on your system.

I'm going to show you what I mean by that I present to you the quickest way to overspend in your budget.

We're talking about Ram.

What we've got right here are two different sets of ran ballistics and the Trident Z Royal.

So again I chose two very opposite ends of the spectrum, similar to the Titan Artie X and the 1510 50 non ti I.

Now let's just say, for instance, here these are identical in terms of capacity.

This is technically eight gig kit two times, for this is the 16 2 times eight.

But the capacity and this discussion doesn't matter so much as speeds and timings.

I could pretty much guarantee you that even someone like myself who has used and experienced every single piece of equipment and stuff you see on the shelf behind me firsthand experience that I could not tell you the difference between two identical systems running 2400 megahertz C l 19 vs 3200 megahertz sale 15 of the same capacity.

I guarantee I would not be able to tell the difference in general workflow gaming or whatever.

So save some money by buying basic RAM, but a heat seeker something on there.

You buy one of the heat sink, but don't overspend on something that's very boutique with, like, all of this crazy RGB and shiny nous.

And don't be fooled by the word gaming.

Trust me, anything that says gaming, just take it as a marketing gimmick because you can game on anything.

So the last thing we're basically left to talk about here is storage because storage is gonna be a very subjective thing.

Now what we have right here are two different types of two and 1/2 inch storage devices.

So this is a solid state drive right here from England professionals, the cheapest you can get.

We think we paid, like, $40 for this 240 gigabyte.

This is a spinning driver here, and the only difference between the two of these is gonna be how long you're willing to wait for your computer load in your games to load.

So if you're the kind of person that's like, I need to spend the least amount possible literally the least amount possible, Then I would recommend getting a hard drive.

But with prices being what they are now and ST S S D is really getting extremely inexpensive because of the rise of M 0.2 drives, I still would usually recommend getting at least a 120 gigabyte or 1 28 gigabyte SSD because you could get it for, like, $25 now and then getting a large capacity like one terabyte or two terabyte hard drive to put all your games of stuff on, and they just move your favorite game to your SST, whichever one you're playing through.

And then when you're done, move it to another drive or get rid of all together and then have a less on here as well, Then the last thing, obviously, is your case.

Get whatever box you think is prettiest that fits in your budget.

I mean, there's so many out there.

I can't really help you with that.

You could spend 20 bucks.

You could spend $2000 on a case, so obviously it's been $0.

Yeah, put it on the box.

Put in a cardboard box.

We should do a cardboard box case around here anyway, Guys, I wanted to make this video because I know a lot of you are going to be doing build an upgrade this summer.

It's a very popular time for upgrades, and I wanted to sort of head off some of the buying decisions you guys are gonna make to kind of make you think a little bit differently before you go and spend your money.