Actually "Out Of Stock" is saving me so much money!

kids when online school started: yes dad I do need a GeForce RTX 3080 to run zoom

Only thing you missed is that blue lights make your computer run cooler, red lights make it go faster, while green are a compromise between the two.

A 2023 version of this would be great. All these 2020-2021 PC building videos are like "everything's sold out, get what you can, good luck"

First time in my life I want to and am financially able to have a nice gaming PC. Problem is you can't buy anything right now. Kind of f*ing sad...

Jay: "Assuming you can get your hands on it" Narrator: "they could not get their hands on it"

0:25 CPUs 3:55 Motherboards 8:34 Memory 12:05 Graphics card

In my opinion, if someone is planning to be a PC builder and gamer in the long term, purchasing quality components to use again might matter. This means quality fans such as the ones from Noctua, or a good practical airflow case you may use in many builds. I ended up spending actually more by not doing so in the beginning.

I didn’t buy fans to save money. Edit: Didn’t know my computer had a built in fireplace

It's pretty hard to overspend on PC parts when nothing's in stock.

Pro tip for faster speeds: Open up the pc and unscrew your GPU and place a K&N sticker on the side to increase RPM to 6000

I would say one component I severely underestimated was the importance of the Hard Drive - if you have insane components with a HDD instead of an SSD, you will suffer big time on some games when it comes to LOD and textures popping in super late. Took me ages to solve that mystery when playing Kingdom Come Deliverance and an SSD fixed it immediately. Speedy storage actually does matter but again, I'm sure there's an art to spending appropriate vs ridiculous in the same vein as a motherboard.

I thought the most important part was the RGB fans?

Me who has no knowledge about computers: "I like your funny words magic man"

I'd love to see an updated version of this video for 2022. Struggling to decide on what parts to get for a value gaming pc.

I upgraded to a 5600x last week and got a pretty good deal... I picked up a b550 Aorus master motherboard for a little over $100 US and the cpu for $290 US (this is converted from Australian dollars). I already had all the other parts including some fast 3200mhz cl16 ram. A pretty good deal given the price of computer components these days.

"I bought this RAM cuz it has 4400Mhz" *doesn't know that he's playing at 2111Mhz from the default BIOS settings*

16gb of ram is the sweet spot, but 32gb looks good in the task manager

This is the second one of your videos that I have watched and already I'm a massive fan of your content. I've learnt more useful information from you in two short videos than months of watching similar tech channels that don't give anywhere near the same depth of detail and explanation of what things actually mean and represent. When I get paid I will take a paid subscription to this channel just if nothing else to show gratitude for what I have already watched. Looking forward to watching more from you.......all the way from the UK, very happy watcher :)

Thanks for this man! I'm starting on my first build for PC. Don't want to overspend

11:48 "Extra lights and things on here are always to increase the cost of RAM without changing the performance." Amen.

I need ray tracing for my zoom calls

I don't upgrade my PC too often. I had 1x16gb ram in my PC for 5 years and it ran fine. Yes I recognized I'm a filthy casual, finally price for the same ram drop significantly and got a 2nd 16gb last year. I planned my build with future upgrades in mind. That allowed me to enjoy it a lot sooner.

10:10 Yes I agree lmao, but I think the only possible exception is with intensive flight simulators like DCS world (2.7 specifically). While the recommended minimum is 16gb with 32 for heavy mission, I've found that 24 does me just fine. But if you do intensive stuff on flight sims, 32 is probably excusable.

Save money on everything that's out of stock 😂 Edit: just bought my first desktop (been laptop previously) no idea when the gpu will arrive, guess I'll have to wait and see!

"CPU, graphics card, and memory are the easiest places to overspend." **Laughs in RGB**

Thank you. I just went and edited my lists based on your advice here, and after binging some of your other videos. You saved me a good chunk of money, and I was able to order everything (except for the gpu).

Thanks for this video. I recently got into PC gaming and bought a pre built PC which came with some very decent and also not so decent conponents. I'm now looking to upgrade about half of them this upcoming summer and the more research I do, the more my estimated cost goes down (still meeting my standards, of course) P.S. If any of you watching this video are debating wether to build your first PC or buy one pre built, 100% build your own. It is a bit intimidating, but it took me an afternoon to figure out all the basics. I bought mine as an impulse buy on black friday. I got my money's worth, but I didn't get all of what I wanted, which is the best that you can expect from a prebuilt imo.

I respectfully disagree Jay. There has never been quite a time like this, it's easy to save money on PC parts, everything is sold out.

"Get the highest tiered product you can afford in that category" GT 1030, here we go boiiiis!!!

Everything you said was spot on! However, I got the crosshair dark hero for my 5600x build. Once I realized the dark hero didn't need a motherboard fan I was sold.

Bro you are one of the best rational and real dudes to the core among many youtubers today,so precised in the way you explain and talk,such amazing mentality,thanks for explanation !

Here’s a tip Remove the front plate of a rog strix gpu and spray paint it in white and you have successfully saved 150$

0:24 CPU 3:54 Mobo 8:32 RAM 12:02 GPU

Hey Jayz, thanks for the post. perhaps one way to look at it is to split the budget in rough % for each component eg 50-60% for GFX, 25-30%% for cpu, 10-15% for memory ( or whatever ) and 35% for mobo. that may give us a way to balance the budget on a scalable value build. it would give us a rough framework for a 500-1500 dollar build on the main 4 components. Just some thoughts

10/10 vid Jay. I have an i5-9400f that was a fraction of the cost of any i7 or i9 lga1151 offerings and i never see my CPU max out anywhere near before my 2070 runs out of juice.

Can't overspend on a gaming pc when I'm just window shopping 😂😭

POV: he posts this right after you spend your entire life savings on pc parts

Your content is amazing I just built my first gaming rig and you saved me alot of money it's a budget build I got a 2060 rtx gpu i7 9thgen and 16gb ddr4 ram and runs my games nice and didn't break the bank

Excellent sound advice. Last build was 10 years ago and still going strong but now time for a new rig. Happened to be an AMD set up. All the best Graham.

The fact that everything is suddenly 3-4 hundred more dollars than when this was made is what's stopping me😭

How to save money: Don't buy a case.

If you have a microcenter near you always look for the open box items! You can get great deals just make sure the label says "complete" but this can save you 30% on high end items

Thanks for all the great info! Really helping me keep my build in budget! ... but that's before monitor and keyboards...

"It is hard to bottle neck your gpu with you cpu these days" My prebuilt: "observe"

DO NOT CHEAP OUT ON THE POWER SUPPLY❗️❗️❗️🔥 💣

Legit. Good information. Honestly keep teaching all of us. You mentioned why get into it about something in the video. My question is why not get into it. I'm sure no matter what video you do, as long as its informative, your followers will love.

your channel has helped me so much to be appropriate in my purchases per the individual i am building for....thanks for all the well explained content....super educational....loved your video on water coolers and placement as well...

"The motherboards, it's extremely easy to throw away money", then pull out three Rog items. Exactly!

I can't wait until this pandemic is over to see all the great deals on computer supplies that people don't need anymore.

Optimizing storage speed hardware can save a bit. I remember going ssd for the first time in load speeds. However, spending 4TB in SSD vs a solid HDD is a big price difference.

This is the video I needed. I hate searching for how to build a PC and its just videos of people assembling when I need factual information of what to spend on and not. Thanks!

spend about 150 dollars on a motherboard "laughs in 50 dollar motherboard"

Jay "Nobody needs 32gb of memory for gaming " FS2020: "hold my beer"

I did follow these advices and I finally finished my PC R5 5600x, x470-f, 32GB 3200mhz gskill rams and i saved up so much money and got a 3090 No bottleneck whatsoever, even got a 1440p display and everything is running fine

Been following you for some time, and I really do like your style. I know this is an older video, but I'm pretty much watching/learning everything I can before I start my own build. The reason I went back to this one is because of the title, where to save money. This brings me to graphics cards. Most everywhere I look today (Best Buy, Amazon, New Egg, etc.) for RTX 30x series (or even 40x) are either out of stock or crazy over priced. Then, when checking out new drivers for my existing setup (RTX 3060ti) I noticed Nvidia had a products tab. It appears I can purchase a new 3090ti for $1,100. I've never seen them listed as a 'store' and I was looking for your thoughts. Any reason why I should not purchase from them directly?

"multiples of 8..." Come on Jay, you know it is powers of 2.

Can't spend your money when nothing is in stock *taps head meme

I guess the Cabinet is another point where many people have to know the sweet spot as there are many choices in the market nowadays, but to choose the right one is often a tough decision to make for many people, between the one with many lights, the one with spacious room and/or the one with enough ventilation to cool your components. As a builder I have to evaluate this in order to check if everything will be fine once I start the build otherwise if a customer makes a wrong decision then I will immediately identify the issue.

I remember with Max Payne 1, upgrading from 64mb ram to 128mb made a huge difference.

I don't need 32GB of memory for gaming, I need it for Chrome

10:10 Now hear me out.. There was a deal on the 32 gigs

I really appreciate what you are doing! It's a really valuable channel!

Thank you Jay!

Jay: *brings a strix X470-F gaming as a low-end board* me: *cries in Gigabyte DS3H*

How not to overspend? 1. Don't buy a gpu until Christmas next year.

Thank you very much for your guidance and honesty. Great video.

Such an amazingly straightforward and informative video. Could you please make an update to this for 2023 please.

It is literally more difficult to spend money on computer parts rn then it ever has been

What I wouldn't cheap out on is power supply (good quality) and case (good airflow)

Thank you so much for taking the time to explain this !

great advice, thanks!

also remember to check how parts compare your country. In australia intel is like 30% cheaper than US giving it better price/performance than AMD

So I didn’t get why everyone said how everything is out of stock before, until I finally ordered my first pc parts...

Just ordered a prebuilt can't wait to tinker with it and upgrade

this info is very valuable, thank you.!

Saving money? Its easy, just avoid the temptation of RGB.

Asus was like hey Jay we need to clear out some old stock. LOL

I always build my PC's around the resolution I plan to play with on them & not buy overkill CPU/GPU/etc. I also have no interest in overclocking, so that factors into which HW suits my build's sweet spot.

Helpful, thanks 💪🏻❤️

I see the rog mobos and I'm like "yeah I have my 3700X on an Asus prime b450m-a"

Jay every 10 seconds : *This is an area that's easy to overspend*

Straight to the point. Incredible content

It’s a specific case, but Escape from Tarkov definitely benefits from 32GB of RAM. Also with the number of people Twitch streaming or capturing, RAM overhead is more important than in the past for most people. But the speed rule definitely makes sense to this day.

Cmon we all know RGB is where you really got to spend the big bucks for performance

I love how he talks about the strix mb as if it’s bad. For most people, that’s overspending

Love the way you explain it!

I've been delaying buying a new computer for a long time, now I finally get financially comfortable to buy something really powerful and there's no parts available!

J2C: “If I’m saying this and you have no idea what I’m talking about, clearly doesn’t pertain to you.” Me: what is he talking about.

"There is no such thing as future proofing your computer". Me who used a 2500k for like 7 years until like 2018.

I'll be building my first gaming computer soon! This is great!

Very informative video! Good stuff! Thanks

"Here's how to save money" *sees ROG stuffs, corsair RAMs*

Good, easy to understand video, price to performance building is all you need to do! Push towards 40% budget towards graphics cards. I've seen builds waste money on motherboards and RAM needlessly! Also to consider is what games will you be playing and how that can affect your monitor/gpu selection! I recall someone purchasing a GTX Titan and pairing it with a basic 1080p screen...

It's actually really hard not to over spend, but then it technically isn't really overspending if you're getting what you need. At least in my case. A few points you made make a lot of sense, but then I look at what I have and the reasons I needed an upgrade. A couple games I play(ed) had issues maxing out CPU AND RAM, so a faster CPU with maybe more cores so background don't choke game (going from gen 3 intel to gen 10!). And more than 16 gigs so RAM isn't maxed, but speed isn't so much an issue, so slower is ok. Then, for a few to few dozen % more overclocking seems to be a no brainer, but isn't crucial. And then looking at price difference on CPU's, might as well go for faster for a bit more. But, some to most lower end mobo's don't have enough usb (if too low end) and/or sata for all the drives. Not having a CD drive anymore fixes 1 spot only, so down to 5. More capacity could fix lack of drive space, but then your spending a lot more on all new drives to replace the ones you have that still work. Although in my case this is redundant since all my drives are full anyways so had to replace all of them with bigger anyways. So now down to 3 drives but almost doubled capacity (1, 2, and 4 TB up from 1, 1, 1, 2TB, and a 512GB). One of the new drives is also nvme so now sata limit isn't an issue, but now I have unused drives too, which is a waste to me. Not to mention back-up drive will eventually move external. One thing I know I overspent was the cooler. I live in SoCal so it does get hot, and always had issues with PC getting hot. So I got an AIO instead of using an air cooler, or even the stock cooler. Benefit is it will be much quieter since PC sits right next to me. Plus it looks nicer. I know a CPU can rock on at 70C+ for years even, but I only upgrade every 5 years or so and don't like to see over 60C, even when it's 85F-90F (~30C-32C) in the house at times. Then there's the case. You usually would only build in it once so build ease isn't much a factor. But it sits next to me, so I want it to look nice and have good air flow. It's just too easy to over spend.

At least some of these people have a system working .my had big surge from lightning hitting power line fried system out .so watch on what be nice system for this day and age now .love your content Jay

Congrats Jay! I really appreciate your honest opinion along these past years! You’ve always stayed true to your believes and provided honest info, having the viewer’s best interest in mind!

Your point about finding the "good enough" sweet spots of value for money is sound. Your RAM tip was illuminating.

This is really helpful. Thank you.

This is valuable information. Thanks!