Happy to hear that, thank you

Haha, you might be waiting a while considering I’m about 0.3% of the way there right now. But all jokes aside, thanks for the support.

And thank you again.

Thank you. And of course - I will always be grateful for any and all support.

Thank you again, and yeah just doing the same thing over and over and trying to find one or two things to improve each time works surprisingly well (in anything honestly)

@JackPCBuilds exactly right! Copy and paste for the rest of your life.

Thank you

Thanks, quite a nice looking pc in your profile picture btw

@@JackPCBuildsone of my flips actually, love watching other people flip them too 😅

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Nailed this here too. For me it all depends on the deals that are available. I will try to target name brand components where I think it will be good for marketing but if nothing like that comes up I’m fine going with a lesser known alternative as long as it fulfills the same function. And I’m lucky to be able to frequently get some really good prices on higher end/name brand parts which I know not everyone else is.

That’s why on my build whenever it’s possible I try to get gently used brand parts. You would get cheaper than brand new junk motherboards or other components. You can sell for same price as junk pc or better yet you’ll be very competitive and flip PC fast. Marketplace it’s the way to go. I’m lucky having several MicroCenters close enough. I get open box parts what cheaper and bundles. Right now the best it’s MSI Z790 I7 12700K 16gb ram for 299$. Paying 3.4% sale tax on electronics in state of New Jersey and getting 5% off with MicroCenter card helps a lot.

Great to hear the quality improvement is making a difference and glad you liked it as well.

I actually don’t even know how to do it properly. Everyone says talk with your hands so that you aren’t boring. So when I first started I was just like “ok nobody’s going to watch this video anyway so I’ll just do this for now.” And then I kinda got used to just waving them in the same two patterns every few syllables and completely forgot to actually get better at it. Thanks for bringing it back into my mind though, I’ll try to figure out what I’m actually supposed to do.

Oh no you’re doing great. It just makes me think of Will Ferrell and I chuckle haha

Alright lol, actually really grateful to have that brought up though, so thank you again.

Anytime. I’m pretty critical of myself so it’s fairly easy for me to give constructive critics but at times I may be too harsh. Keep up the good work. I really enjoy the vids

Thanks. Yeah the first time I tried to sell it, it just didn’t get much interest because of AMD being less popular. But then I took it apart and swapped a ton of stuff but started having temperature issues and other complications. Honestly the original build with that card definitely would have sold by now if I had just left it in its original form and waited.

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Love the content. Keep it up!

same here

Alright! And thank you for the support as well

No you’re correct, and I just went over and looked at the build and was surprised to find that I did in fact mess that up. Anyway, it’s not the end of the world if the fan is facing up but you are correct that it’s optimal to have it down and there are quite a few reasons why. Never even noticed I did that, just must have accidentally turned it the wrong way when installing it. Thank you for pointing that out, I never would have realized.

Thank you

Good luck with the build, seems very well balanced and the 6800 continues to be a great offering in terms of price to performance. Also, the antec 900 - where are you buying it? Or do you already have it from somewhere?

I’ve been looking into that. On vacation right now but if I’ll order some when I get back and if it doesn’t sell by the time it comes in I’ll do that

Thank you and yes, just my phone. But until this specific video they didn’t look nearly as good. For each of these builds I spent almost 2 hours on the pictures this time around. Getting the perfect angles, trying to get the best lighting, and then, for the first time, fine tuning everything in photoshop to make it actually look as good as it does in real life. Because my phone has a bad habit of making all the colors just look very off by default. But turns out that this was shockingly easy to fix with just a few sliders.

That’s great to know. I’ll experiment with some different settings on private videos since I have a 4K tv and I’ll be able to see how much of a difference there is between everything and hopefully find a good balance between it all. Thanks for the tip

It’s just the ZTT discord server discord.com/invite/m72uv72 They have 3 deals channels. 2 are community run, 1 is run by mods. Keep in mind that in the public channels, some people will post terrible deals so you can’t blindly trust anything. But as long as you do research before buying, which you should always do anyway, you’re fine. And the anything in the official #ztt-deals channel is usually good.

@@JackPCBuilds thank you!

No problem, let me know if you have any other questions.

Only available on certain radeons like this one but it’s just called GPU2 Temperature or whatever I renamed it in the overlay to say hotspot because it would be confusing for someone watching to see a GPU2 and they might think there’s a second gpu in the system which would be misleading. Afterburner on most gpu’s will not have an option to see the hotspot, but you can use HWINFO64 instead and that gives you a much more comprehensive dataset of everything: temps, voltage, clocks. Hope this helps and I can clarify more if needed

@@JackPCBuilds thank you for the answer

It’s unfortunate but we have to target what the buyers will actually buy. AMD is like 10% market share or something so it’s just a numbers game that most casual buyers aren’t going to know what a “6800 XT” is. But if they hear 3060 or 4060 or 3080 etc they know exactly what that is and that it’s good. Not to mention the lingering reputation for driver issues etc.

I'm not sure if you're asking about the first build or the second build since they both use corsair parts so I'll answer both. For the air 100 build, I'm using the argb hub which comes included with the case, which hooks up to the reset button on the case to change the colors. It did have an ARGB cable to sync to the motherboard (which I would have preferred), but for some reason I could not get it to detect in windows. I am not sure if this is a widespread issue with all air 100's or if it's just a defect on the one I got. (I haven't seen anyone else talk about this anywhere so I'd assume I just got unlucky with the one I received.) And then unfortunately for the cooler and its fans I'm just separately using iCUE and matching the colors in there to be the same as the color I select for the other fans using the reset switch. Not the best system but it works I guess. For the corsair 4000x build, I'm using iCUE for everything. iCUE has a plugin to sync with and control ASUS products as well. And since every other part which has rgb is from asus, that's all it needs to control everything.

@@JackPCBuilds Ah okey I see. Yeah I wondered by the 100 build. I have a corsair case which I intended to use with my upcoming main rig. It uses iCUE for it's intake fans. Also I have a deepcool AIO. Kind of sucks having to use two ways to set the colors. Especielly since drivers for ARGB seem to be taxing on the performance and gets even worse when using more than one solution.

Yeah it's always more annoying to deal with multiple softwares, but I've always been the type of person to set up the RGB once to whatever static color looks the best (usually red because it's darkest and least distracting) and then never touch it again. I'm not super up to date with their software but I would look into iCUE's hardware lighting settings. In my old PC I just set that to red and then barely ever had to open the software again. If you are concerned about having too much running in the background and prefer just always having your lights the same color that may be the route to take.

I'm sure you could find a way to do the same thing with the other fans as well. For example ASRock motherboards have a whole tool in the actual BIOS to adjust the ARGB headers' colors which I've used before to entirely avoid having to install anything in windows.

Just using my phone right now, can’t justify spending $500+ on a camera right now. iPhone 13 Pro Max at 4K. It is also capable of looking better than this if I optimized my lighting and got better at CC.

Yeah, I usually have a section in the videos where I show things I’ve recently purchased and explain where I got everything. Which is why I don’t go into great detail during the build process/sale process. Just saves time in the video so it isn’t as long if that makes sense. But I can also go over all of the parts in this video if you want.

@@JackPCBuilds it would be great to hear about how you get the parts so cheap, like that Asus AIO for $54, for example. I am a PC Flipper myself and would love to learn

For the montech build the gpu and ssd were free because they were from my old pc. Yeah so for the majority of my cases and coolers I am buying from an auction store local to me, they liquidate amazon returns with no reserve price and highest bid gets it. Occasionally able to get really good deals on cases and coolers but almost never any other PC parts go for good deals there. Sometimes cable extensions. If you have something like that in your area they can be super valuable but I will warn that half the stuff comes broken and you really gotta know what you’re doing to avoid losing money (at least at the place I use) Then in general for other parts: For motherboards I mostly use amazon warehouse (which I guess just rebranded to amazon resale?) but I also occasionally buy from ebay as well. RAM/SSDs I will either just buy new. For ram I will buy used if it is a big saving but most of the time it isn’t. For SSDs if I see a refurbished one on ebay from a seller I trust I will buy those as well. CPU/GPU almost always from ebay. And for power supplies I have a couple of sellers I trust on ebay who sell reliable units which were used but well taken care of. So I mainly use what everyone else does but that amazon returns auction store is my secret for getting the good deals on parts other people can’t possibly imagine replicating, if that makes sense. However if I was operating on a larger scale it would not be viable because tech stuff does not go up for auction there super often.

@@JackPCBuilds thanks, very helpful

Absolutely, that’s one thing reference cards from RDNA 1 and newer are heavily criticised for. And OEM cards usually are on par at best with the reference models.

It’s not great, but not dangerous Researching PTM7950 at the moment, may try that and see if it helps.

Yep, in my experience, for flips, unless you get a really good deal that’s the way to go.

Yes. Assuming you’re referring to the $20 segotep unit. It’s B-tier speculative which is slightly below what I’d prefer but still acceptable for these components. I’ve been using it for ~7 months already as well. As for it being 20 something dollars that was an incredibly rare deal open box and a comparable unit will run you about $80-90 new

If only I lived near one. Have been considering doing AM5 builds though.

If you’re marketing it as a gaming pc then I’d say yeah add one if you can, good luck!

The arc a380 is only like a 100 bucks right now. Think that would be a good gpu to try to get or think i should stick with amd or 580 or even maybe a 3050?

I wouldn’t do the A380, that’s more of a content creation card than a gaming card in my opinion. 3050 is kind of lackluster because it doesn’t actually perform much better than a 580 for over 2x the cost. The thing is that you really gotta buy used stuff to make profit and the 3050 doesn’t really have used value. 580 is the best value out of the 3 and also probably the most recognizable AMD gpu out there so I’d say that would be your best bet. But it really depends on what other parts you got for the rest of the system.

@@JackPCBuilds it’s a am4 build with a 4600g

Ah ok, yeah 580 would be suitable for it then. Depending on how good of deals you got for the rest of it if you can still make profit that would probably be fine going all the way up to a 2060 or 3060 without any sort of meaningful bottleneck as well if you wanted to

To the build footage section? I thought it took up too much of the screen so I decided to omit that. Guess I should just add another line of text instead though, will do so in the future. First build is using 3600 CL18, second is 3600 CL16

@@JackPCBuilds Thanks, mate. We are all nerds here, we like details.

Shorter hair is just better for the summer though

@@JackPCBuilds well, sure it is. But hair change helped at leat me to feel more, how to say it... balanced?

I agree. Watching that section back it appears I worded that part poorly, sorry about that

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I get where you're coming from but in my opinion for a gaming-only build a 5600 is going to be more than fine. I personally would have no issues using a 5600 with a 6800XT in 2024 because it doesn't bottleneck it and still has an upgrade path if you did end up needing to later on. In fact, I actually used this GPU with a 3700X for 6 months last year in my personal PC and was happy with it. Yes I know the 3700X has 8 cores but the thing is that it actually does a little bit worse than the 5600 in games on average. And the next step up, a 5700X, doesn't improve gaming performance all that much - which is why I feel like the 5600 is the sweet spot for a gaming-only build. 5700X3D or AM5 are kind of the only upgrades that make sense to me if more CPU was needed in a gaming-only build. The main benefit of using an 8 core chip here would not be for gaming but rather for other productivity workloads, which is not what I am marketing this PC towards. So if it was a productivity build, absolutely. But for gaming I don't really see it the same way. For other workloads you'd also go with NVIDIA instead of AMD for the GPU. However I will agree with you about it being 4 years old. The fact that AM4 is a dead platform and a 5800X3D is your final upgrade IS an important downside to consider.

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