The best advice you gave is check and plan your *space*. Space, space, space. It will make for a much more comfortable and overall enjoyable experience whether you game or work with your desktop and your peripherals. Massive, massive improvement to quality of life.
@@yourtechswad I think I could live with an i5 and rtx 3060ti vs a i7 with 3080.. the price difference would justify a oled.. game dependent of course.. people playing rocket league or destiny 2 don’t require much vram.. just a nice vibrant screen would have a bigger impact in game enjoyment. Or like the wife playing league of legends on a r9 5900x with a 3080.. just simply over kill… using 15% cpu and 38% gpu just to hit game engine lol at 2000fps … I mean it’s an expensive lesson to learn some people will still need to spend it to learn … I know I did.. oh well hopefully people watch the video read our comments and get something realistic
Yeh exactly that! Tbh my rig was fairly mid level when I got it, didn't have a massive budget at all, and I've added to it as I've gone on (fans and storage). I think my next upgrade will be a new monitor, and then I'd look at the PC. Whilst I like graphically demanding games, I'd turn the settings down to utilize a much more fluid and vivid display. And a 3080 for League of Legends is nuts! Haha
@@yourtechswad I like moded games like dayz or cyberpunk … mostly vram limited. Or civilization style games cpu single core speed limited Wife plays Harry Potter, cities skylines, I got her pandora recently.. she does make use of the watts lol But game developers are going to have to learn how to optimize games, they them selves are backed into a corner and limiting their own sales, realistically only 5-10 % of gamers are on “high-end hardware” while most popular games out there new or not run well on a 10 year old igpu..
Yeh it's a difficult spot for game devs. Just have to look at the Steam hardware survey. As much as the new 60 class of cards become popular there's a lot more hardware out there that's aging with limited Vram. Optimisation is always a buzz word in this space isn't it?
I'm a bit old school when it comes to building my systems. I prefer function over design. I would never use a case without a slot for optical drives. And a good airflow is more important than looks. Not a fan of watercooling, because I believe liquids should not be anywhere this close to electronics. So a mesh front always works best for me to get the air in and push it out the back. I don't think a higher than 1080p resolution is necessary on a screensize of 27" or smaller. RGB doesn't serve any function and is most of the time very distracting, so I mostly turn it off except for lighting up the keyboard in a single colour for better key visibility. When it comes to software, I disagree on some of your points. First, I don't trust a security program made by the same people who manage to break the whole OS on every other update. I think it's safer to disable updates and use a third party antivirus, just not Norton or one of the others that install a lot of useless crap. I hate game launchers with a passion, because you don't own your games. Sadly it's impossible today to avoid Steam completely, but I would prefer it, if I could start every game directly from the exe or desktop shortcut without additional software running in the background. I don't need any of the bloat that is in the launcher. And sure as heck I don't want multiple of the darn things on my PC. If I have to put up with Steam, I wil not install EPIC, uPlay, EA Origin or Battlenet. The more of those things you have installed, the more it slows down your system. So I started to buy most of my games on GOG and download the offline installers instead of using the GOG Galaxy launcher and for the games that aren't on GOG or the ones I "bought" before I knew about GOG, I'm using Steam.
Ooo ive got to disagree on the resolution point i'm afraid. For me 1080p on a 27" is not enough. 24" is about the biggest I'd go with a 1080p screen personally. After that 1440p is the way forward. Your software point is a good one, I'm just not a fan of using up resources needlessly for something that's a none issue anyway. I definitely wouldn't disable updates on any current and internet connected PC, even with a "good" anti virus there could be exploits and backdoors that have to be patched on a OS level, an anti virus will most likely not help with these. Always keep your OS updates, just stay away from BETA builds and you should be fine. I download the Game Launchers I actually use. Steam and Epic. I have a GOG account but rarely use it, and occasionally I'll use the xbox app.
@@yourtechswad I still disagree. If they patch out one backdoor and open 10 new ones in the process that they don't find until years later, that's not really safer, is it? I'd say every Windows version has about the same level of risk. And the Steam launcher eats way more resources than any antivirus I know. Also afaik the Windows Defender deactivates itself if you use external security software, so it takes almost the same amount of resources.
Steam doesn't use many resources in the background when it's not doing anything. When updating games, and running games it does. Which is fine, as I'm using the game launcher. However at idle it definitely doesn't use up resources the way most (not all, I know there are lightweight antiviruses out there, NOD32 and Panda are fairly lightweight) antiviruses so. Though I think we will have to agree to disagree on the anti virus front I'm afraid. Which is cool 😁
@@yourtechswad Yes, I don't think we will ever meet on eye level on that point. So agreeing to disagree is the only thing we can do here. Would be a boring world if everybody shared the same opinions 🙂
@@yourtechswad I have to agree with sky on the resoultion thing, mostly because of increased cost and diminishing returns... I can play every game on my pc at max or near max settings on 1080p with a sub 500 dollar setup, no problem... Switch to 1440p and/or over 60fps, and youre probably closer to 800 dollars or more, dependiong which parts you get... And if you're looking for 4k and/or 100+ fps, good luck to you, because the gpu alone will cost more than my entire 1080p setup, incluing all the peripherals
I game in my bed 3 meters away from a 55"tv miniled... Because of perfect scaling from 1080p to 4k and screen distance you can play 1080p and look way better than have rights to with HDR. That paired with a surround sound 5.1, bruh... I don't even need more than a rx 6600 to get "Immersive"
@@yourtechswad a very humble 5 5500 with rx6600 it gets me the 1080p 60fps in anything. 10 years ago that's all I needed, and still is 😏 viewing distance is a great antialising
I've been building and fixing PCs for about 25 years now... If I could take what I know now and go back, I would do 2 things... First thing's first, I would hop on the Linux train, because honestly, the last 10 years Microsoft has been taking away control from users and forcing themselves with things we don't want... Second, I would build a mid-range gaming PC in 2014, think i5 4670 and GTX 670, because every game I play will run 1080p on that. Maybe after a few years i would jump to an i7 4790 and a GTX 970, just so I can have a little extra horsepower to stream with...
See, I always buy the high end and run it into the ground. In 2013 I got the 4790 that I ran until 2020/2021, although I did go from my old 560ti through a few cards until I got the 2070S which was just a bit too much for the old CPU. Now I’m on a 10850k and that 2070S and might consider upgrading the GPU in the next gen or two, but the jury is still out on that. Still have my 4790 with a 1080 in it as a backup/family PC, and it is still a viable gaming PC for the most part.
I get that completely! Windows is infuriating with that, constantly having to Google how to get into certain settings that 10 years ago was so easy to change or find. I one of my videos I purposely put in about skipping the mandatory Internet connection stuff on Windows 11. It's absolutely awful!! As for hardware I've upgraded my PC a little bit, but I really want to get an OLED panel, that instant pixel switching and only blacks, though I'm worried my 3070 will struggle with the resolution.
last 10 years... ever since Satya Nadella became CEO. I don't like him and his decisions for users. Round-head mofo. Windows 10 was okay, but Windows 7 was their peak. It was just downhill from there. Yeah, I'm using Linux, too. Switched about 6 months ago, because my hardware supposedly can't handle Windows 11. Bullcrap, it can. Just not "officially." Still having trouble with OneDrive but I'm thinking of replacing that BS with NextCloud anyway. I installed Win 11 on my old rig for my wife because she's scared of Linux, while moving my Linux install over to a similar (slightly better motherboard but exact same CPU) old PC that I got off eBay for dirt cheap (the shipping cost more than the unit).
I would personally suggest that you’re wrong on the GPUs being for 4k.. I have a 4080 and it’s a borderline 4k card in current gen. It depends on what you want, but I’d argue for pc gaming 120fps is ideal with max settings, and bare minimum 60fps. A lot of the newest hard to run games somewhat struggle to break 60 on the 4080 at 4k without upscaling, and if you wanted to use RT that’s even more precarious depending on the game. I’d argue the 4070ti super and 7900xt are more of a high refresh rate 1440p card like if you have a 240hz oled. They miss 60 fps often without aggressive upscaling at 4k.
The biggest thing to realise is aesthetics cost money. I could literally build 2 pc's with the same or very similar spec and the cost difference can be very big. Case, fans, cables etc. Personally, i have always overspent here and motherboards. Great advice about the chair and desk.
I wish I had known how much of an upgrade getting an 4K OLED monitor was, tbh I just kept upgrading my GPU and yeah the graphics are nice but the monitor is the thing we stare at when you use a computer. I would have gotten a mini-led with good enough dimming zones if I couldn't afford an OLED though.
@@yourtechswad Hell yeah man, i got the MAG 321UPX as it was on special but I would have easily gotten another brand (WOLED/QDOLED) if it went for cheaper :)
I'm going to have to do it soon! There's a good amount of choice now too, only 1-2 years ago it was basically Alienware of nothing for good qd-oled. Now there are great panels from a few different sources
Since you mentioned space at the start I'd like to mention the number one thing I wish I had known is how good small form factor computers are and how I can have the form factor and mobility benefits of a laptop with the same performance as a desktop, with very little trade off in noise. Velka3 - 4070, Dan A4-SFX 4070 Ti S, Formd T1 - 4090/4080S to name a few popular examples. X3D CPUs use so little power for gaming, cooling the CPU is not an issue.
@@yourtechswad There's a lot to be found on Ebay - a lot of SFFPC people move on to the next best things so you will often find cases like the Dan A4-SFX going cheap as a starting point.
Do you think this is a good balance? Im getting my first pc soon and i want to know if the specs are good for the monitor PC: rtx 4060, ryzen 5 5600x and 32gb ram Monitor: 1440p 170hz ips panel 27 inch I've decided that I'm going to get the 1440p display, I'll be using 1080p when I'm gaming, and I also have a ps5 and I'd like to have 1440p on that, so PC: 1080p Ps5: 1440p
Don't get the 4060. Either go AMD equivalent in price, save yourself some money and go for a 3060ti or save a bit more and get a 4070. The 4070 will give you decent 1440p while the 4060 is more of a very good 1080p card.
@@All-kh6vi i saw some benchmarks and I saw the 4060 is pretty smooth with dlss, do you think I should just wait for the 50 series to come out so the 40 series price drops?
@@bloxman2185 if you're gonna go 50 series i would also get a AM5 mobo, ddr5 ram, and a 7600x cpu at least. Prices will drop for 40 series but stock will go quickly as retailers try to clear their shelves and depending on demand prices can even go against you for example I bought a 7800x3d for 275 in July, I wanted to upgrade another pc from a 3900x to a 5800x3d and that cpu is now 330 plus more expensive and a gen older. Point is there always a better deal somewhere, prices don't always go as expected.
The 5700X3d is a way way better gaming CPU, for a little bit more money. Currently the 3d is 50 more expensive the 5600x. BUT it trades blows with the latest Intels. No kidding.
I disagree about anything over a 7800xt going 4k. The visual difference between 4k and 1440p is actually pretty minimal. If you're going to get a high end monitor a 1440p OLED would be a better option as it still offers high fps. But the visuals are much nicer. Also for mechanical keyboards Aliexpress is your friend if you're looking to modify or build your own keyboard. Switches and keycaps are generally much cheaper then most sites
dlss isn't "a real picture". Don't use it. 1. nVidia, for the ray tracing, you want that. Also, the video card MUST HAVE 12 Gigabytes or more of RAM. 2. 64 Gigabytes (or a full 128 Gigs) of system RAM.... Don't listen to anyone that says less than that, they don't know what they're talking about. (HardwareUnboxed gets a pass, he's just a little confused.) 3. TURN OFF pagefile/virtual ram. CHECK TO SEE a few days later if the OS has TURNED IT BACK ON. 4. NVMe M.2 SSD....... The "right one". If you have extra money, get a motherboard that has two NVMe M.2 slots on it. Use one for the OS and the second one for your games. Get 2 PCIe 5.0 x4 M.2 SSD's!!!!!!! Speeds up to 10,000 Megabytes per second!!!!!!!! Otherwise, if the motherboard doesn't support it, 2 PCIe 4.0 x4 M.2 SSDs, speeds up to 7,000 Megabytes per second. Be careful, many of these are 5,400 or less Megabytes per second. 5. Gaming at 4K should be "pretty good" with such a system.... For best results, wait for the new 50x0 nVidia cards coming out by March 2025.
64 gigabytes of Ram? For a gaming PC? Why? I video edit, photo edit, game, audio edit, as well as day to day stuff like spreadsheets and content consumption and have never seen my ram go over about 24gb. Why would 64gb be the minimum?
@@yourtechswad Wellllll. I bought a computer in 2011 with 16 GB of RAM. In 2012, they made DIMMs that were able to get the 4 slots I had available to 32 GB, so I pulled out the RAM I had and went to 32 GB. I bought a new computer in 2022. Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 PC Specs & Requirements, are; 16 GB minimum 32 GB recommended 64 GB ideal...... So, that's about the ONLY time I've agreed with ms on anything.
@@Atheist7 I think you are mistaken. Flight Simulators ideal specs are 32gb. It's on their website. 64gb is a nice to have that people out there might genuinely need. It's not the recommended for a gamer by any stretch though
You are damn right I can! And that is a planned video. It will be in great British pounds though I'm afraid! Though I have no doubt if we can do it here, you can definitely do it for cheaper your end!
@yourtechswad for me it's about 30 years too late. But it's is s well though out video for anyone looking to get into PC Gaming without having a relative that would build them one. Most people would just buy a pc already made, but for the same money they could have a much better one if they did it.
Yeh that's the thing. And the mark up on those prebuilts are insane. PcSpecialist is one of the most predominant I see on the UK, and the prices of some of their machines are crackers. Though I shouldn't moan too bad, ive had a lot of custom from them making poor machines and I get to fix them 😁
Sitting here with 1080p 60hz oled with RTX 4080 Super. I don't really play very demanding games to begin with (mostly Mohaa or KF1), I just needed CUDA and enough vram.
@@user-nl7hw7uh1m Yup, it's a portable. I just bought a 3k 120hz oled now that I was reminded to upgrade. I'm not very sensitive to refresh rate but the increase in PPI will be nice.
I'm a mac guy, Fully embedded in the ecosystem with Mac mini, Macbook, all apple silicon so I can't game. I've tried Xbox online, Geforce Now, VMs, whiskey, everything. But I gave in and went to buy a windows and got a 16g DD4, RTX4060 8g, Ryzen 7 5700x, it's slow AF (maybe compared to mac silicon as i'm not used to windows) won't open Forza 4. I've learned a lot, such as my system didn't have bluetooth (WTF?, what computer doesn't come with bluetooth?) The wifi dongle is insanely terrible getting 90mb down when every other system i have is over 200mb down. It's running fine playing Warhammer 40k, alien etc but I feel it is a one task at a time device. Difficult coming from a mac where it's everything all at once no problems. It froze and crashed downloading steam and doing a few file transfers from an external hard drive, Unreal engine struggles to connect to the internet. If I want to play one game and have nothing running, it's fine, anything else it just dies. PCs are terrible. This is close to £1000rrp and no Bluetooth? Looking forward to your channel growth, I don't trust anyone on TH-cam really as they are all paid shills when they reach a certain point. Good video
You shouldn't be having all those problems. Something is wrong. And if you really need a PC with Bluetooth (why, I have no idea) then buy one with Bluetooth or put it in.
Can I ask what storage you have in that PC? You shouldn't be having all those issues at all buddy. Something is wrong with that system that's making it unstable. A 5700x CPU has 16 threads of compute power, it should handle multi tasking very well. I have a similar CPU and i can photo edit, video edit, watch a video on youtube, with steam updating in the background and all my resource folders open and it's still snappy and responsive. I have no idea why you are having such issues. Sucks you are having such a terrible time with it as well, because i honestly love PC gaming, and messing around with computers. Thankyou for the kind words, it means alot :)
@@yourtechswad 1TB SSD, I was surprised when it just crashed like that multiple times doing the most basic things. I wanted to game on it but i'm also learning Unreal engine to make a game, I wanted to offload some basic AI that I do on my mac, but it just seems incapable. I'm debating taking it back or putting in more RAM to 32, but task manager for the most simple of things is 100% memory. So i think of a couple of comments in places, something is up with this machine
@@Shoomer1988 also, I said I come from mac land, I have a surface Pro, A Dell laptop both of which have bluetooth, I didn't know it was an optional extra.
The best advice you gave is check and plan your *space*. Space, space, space. It will make for a much more comfortable and overall enjoyable experience whether you game or work with your desktop and your peripherals. Massive, massive improvement to quality of life.
Couldn't agree more! Easily my biggest mistake. Went through so many different iterations of my set up to get it right. Was a headache haha
This guy knows what he's talking about. He built me a pc over 4 years ago and never had a problem. Still smashing games at 144 fps no problem.
Bless you Wiz! Thank you for the kind words
If I was to restart, instead of high end pc and low end monitor, I’d have gone mid range pc and high end monitor…
Great point! Monitor is so important, especially now! The tech in monitors now is seriously impressive! OLED panels! 🥵🥵
@@yourtechswad I think I could live with an i5 and rtx 3060ti vs a i7 with 3080.. the price difference would justify a oled.. game dependent of course.. people playing rocket league or destiny 2 don’t require much vram.. just a nice vibrant screen would have a bigger impact in game enjoyment. Or like the wife playing league of legends on a r9 5900x with a 3080.. just simply over kill… using 15% cpu and 38% gpu just to hit game engine lol at 2000fps … I mean it’s an expensive lesson to learn some people will still need to spend it to learn … I know I did.. oh well hopefully people watch the video read our comments and get something realistic
Yeh exactly that! Tbh my rig was fairly mid level when I got it, didn't have a massive budget at all, and I've added to it as I've gone on (fans and storage). I think my next upgrade will be a new monitor, and then I'd look at the PC. Whilst I like graphically demanding games, I'd turn the settings down to utilize a much more fluid and vivid display.
And a 3080 for League of Legends is nuts! Haha
@@yourtechswad I like moded games like dayz or cyberpunk … mostly vram limited. Or civilization style games cpu single core speed limited
Wife plays Harry Potter, cities skylines, I got her pandora recently.. she does make use of the watts lol
But game developers are going to have to learn how to optimize games, they them selves are backed into a corner and limiting their own sales, realistically only 5-10 % of gamers are on “high-end hardware” while most popular games out there new or not run well on a 10 year old igpu..
Yeh it's a difficult spot for game devs. Just have to look at the Steam hardware survey. As much as the new 60 class of cards become popular there's a lot more hardware out there that's aging with limited Vram. Optimisation is always a buzz word in this space isn't it?
I'd love to see important points listed on the side in text while you go through the topics.
OMG that's a great idea! Thank you! I'll remember that for next time!
I'm sure you can tell I'm very much still learning! Thank you again 😁
Fresh G on youtube ❤ wishing you the best in growth and good luck !
❤the intro, so cool🎉
Thank you so much 😁
I'm a bit old school when it comes to building my systems. I prefer function over design. I would never use a case without a slot for optical drives. And a good airflow is more important than looks. Not a fan of watercooling, because I believe liquids should not be anywhere this close to electronics. So a mesh front always works best for me to get the air in and push it out the back. I don't think a higher than 1080p resolution is necessary on a screensize of 27" or smaller. RGB doesn't serve any function and is most of the time very distracting, so I mostly turn it off except for lighting up the keyboard in a single colour for better key visibility.
When it comes to software, I disagree on some of your points. First, I don't trust a security program made by the same people who manage to break the whole OS on every other update. I think it's safer to disable updates and use a third party antivirus, just not Norton or one of the others that install a lot of useless crap.
I hate game launchers with a passion, because you don't own your games. Sadly it's impossible today to avoid Steam completely, but I would prefer it, if I could start every game directly from the exe or desktop shortcut without additional software running in the background. I don't need any of the bloat that is in the launcher. And sure as heck I don't want multiple of the darn things on my PC. If I have to put up with Steam, I wil not install EPIC, uPlay, EA Origin or Battlenet. The more of those things you have installed, the more it slows down your system. So I started to buy most of my games on GOG and download the offline installers instead of using the GOG Galaxy launcher and for the games that aren't on GOG or the ones I "bought" before I knew about GOG, I'm using Steam.
Ooo ive got to disagree on the resolution point i'm afraid. For me 1080p on a 27" is not enough. 24" is about the biggest I'd go with a 1080p screen personally. After that 1440p is the way forward.
Your software point is a good one, I'm just not a fan of using up resources needlessly for something that's a none issue anyway. I definitely wouldn't disable updates on any current and internet connected PC, even with a "good" anti virus there could be exploits and backdoors that have to be patched on a OS level, an anti virus will most likely not help with these. Always keep your OS updates, just stay away from BETA builds and you should be fine.
I download the Game Launchers I actually use. Steam and Epic. I have a GOG account but rarely use it, and occasionally I'll use the xbox app.
@@yourtechswad I still disagree. If they patch out one backdoor and open 10 new ones in the process that they don't find until years later, that's not really safer, is it? I'd say every Windows version has about the same level of risk.
And the Steam launcher eats way more resources than any antivirus I know. Also afaik the Windows Defender deactivates itself if you use external security software, so it takes almost the same amount of resources.
Steam doesn't use many resources in the background when it's not doing anything. When updating games, and running games it does. Which is fine, as I'm using the game launcher.
However at idle it definitely doesn't use up resources the way most (not all, I know there are lightweight antiviruses out there, NOD32 and Panda are fairly lightweight) antiviruses so.
Though I think we will have to agree to disagree on the anti virus front I'm afraid. Which is cool 😁
@@yourtechswad Yes, I don't think we will ever meet on eye level on that point. So agreeing to disagree is the only thing we can do here. Would be a boring world if everybody shared the same opinions 🙂
@@yourtechswad I have to agree with sky on the resoultion thing, mostly because of increased cost and diminishing returns... I can play every game on my pc at max or near max settings on 1080p with a sub 500 dollar setup, no problem... Switch to 1440p and/or over 60fps, and youre probably closer to 800 dollars or more, dependiong which parts you get... And if you're looking for 4k and/or 100+ fps, good luck to you, because the gpu alone will cost more than my entire 1080p setup, incluing all the peripherals
I game in my bed 3 meters away from a 55"tv miniled... Because of perfect scaling from 1080p to 4k and screen distance you can play 1080p and look way better than have rights to with HDR. That paired with a surround sound 5.1, bruh... I don't even need more than a rx 6600 to get "Immersive"
That actually sounds like a sick set up! What rig you running?
@@yourtechswad a very humble 5 5500 with rx6600 it gets me the 1080p 60fps in anything. 10 years ago that's all I needed, and still is 😏 viewing distance is a great antialising
If it works for you and you are enjoying it, that's what counts! Gaming on 55in TV in bed sounds good to me 😁
The best gaming chair I ever had was a recliner.
Nah the ground better
I've been building and fixing PCs for about 25 years now... If I could take what I know now and go back, I would do 2 things... First thing's first, I would hop on the Linux train, because honestly, the last 10 years Microsoft has been taking away control from users and forcing themselves with things we don't want... Second, I would build a mid-range gaming PC in 2014, think i5 4670 and GTX 670, because every game I play will run 1080p on that. Maybe after a few years i would jump to an i7 4790 and a GTX 970, just so I can have a little extra horsepower to stream with...
See, I always buy the high end and run it into the ground. In 2013 I got the 4790 that I ran until 2020/2021, although I did go from my old 560ti through a few cards until I got the 2070S which was just a bit too much for the old CPU. Now I’m on a 10850k and that 2070S and might consider upgrading the GPU in the next gen or two, but the jury is still out on that.
Still have my 4790 with a 1080 in it as a backup/family PC, and it is still a viable gaming PC for the most part.
I get that completely! Windows is infuriating with that, constantly having to Google how to get into certain settings that 10 years ago was so easy to change or find.
I one of my videos I purposely put in about skipping the mandatory Internet connection stuff on Windows 11. It's absolutely awful!!
As for hardware I've upgraded my PC a little bit, but I really want to get an OLED panel, that instant pixel switching and only blacks, though I'm worried my 3070 will struggle with the resolution.
last 10 years... ever since Satya Nadella became CEO. I don't like him and his decisions for users. Round-head mofo. Windows 10 was okay, but Windows 7 was their peak. It was just downhill from there. Yeah, I'm using Linux, too. Switched about 6 months ago, because my hardware supposedly can't handle Windows 11. Bullcrap, it can. Just not "officially." Still having trouble with OneDrive but I'm thinking of replacing that BS with NextCloud anyway. I installed Win 11 on my old rig for my wife because she's scared of Linux, while moving my Linux install over to a similar (slightly better motherboard but exact same CPU) old PC that I got off eBay for dirt cheap (the shipping cost more than the unit).
@@apersonontheinternet8006 How much system RAM did you have in 2013?
@@Atheist7 4x6gb so 24gb.
edit: think I started with 12gb
I would personally suggest that you’re wrong on the GPUs being for 4k.. I have a 4080 and it’s a borderline 4k card in current gen. It depends on what you want, but I’d argue for pc gaming 120fps is ideal with max settings, and bare minimum 60fps. A lot of the newest hard to run games somewhat struggle to break 60 on the 4080 at 4k without upscaling, and if you wanted to use RT that’s even more precarious depending on the game.
I’d argue the 4070ti super and 7900xt are more of a high refresh rate 1440p card like if you have a 240hz oled. They miss 60 fps often without aggressive upscaling at 4k.
The biggest thing to realise is aesthetics cost money. I could literally build 2 pc's with the same or very similar spec and the cost difference can be very big. Case, fans, cables etc. Personally, i have always overspent here and motherboards. Great advice about the chair and desk.
Yeh thats a very good point i didnt think of that. White parts cost more, RGB usually costs more too! Great point, thank you!
I wish I had known how much of an upgrade getting an 4K OLED monitor was, tbh I just kept upgrading my GPU and yeah the graphics are nice but the monitor is the thing we stare at when you use a computer. I would have gotten a mini-led with good enough dimming zones if I couldn't afford an OLED though.
I'm jealous! I was an OLED so bad!! I'm going to have to invest soon
@@yourtechswad Hell yeah man, i got the MAG 321UPX as it was on special but I would have easily gotten another brand (WOLED/QDOLED) if it went for cheaper :)
I'm going to have to do it soon! There's a good amount of choice now too, only 1-2 years ago it was basically Alienware of nothing for good qd-oled. Now there are great panels from a few different sources
daemon tools for virtual drives, audacity for audio stuff portable installs
Wonderful video.
Since you mentioned space at the start I'd like to mention the number one thing I wish I had known is how good small form factor computers are and how I can have the form factor and mobility benefits of a laptop with the same performance as a desktop, with very little trade off in noise. Velka3 - 4070, Dan A4-SFX 4070 Ti S, Formd T1 - 4090/4080S to name a few popular examples. X3D CPUs use so little power for gaming, cooling the CPU is not an issue.
Yeh thats a great point! I have been thinking about doing a SFF build for some Couch gaming! Maybe at some point!
@@yourtechswad There's a lot to be found on Ebay - a lot of SFFPC people move on to the next best things so you will often find cases like the Dan A4-SFX going cheap as a starting point.
Cheers man, I'll have a look and see what I can do for a future video 😁
Do you think this is a good balance? Im getting my first pc soon and i want to know if the specs are good for the monitor
PC: rtx 4060, ryzen 5 5600x and 32gb ram
Monitor: 1440p 170hz ips panel 27 inch
I've decided that I'm going to get the 1440p display, I'll be using 1080p when I'm gaming, and I also have a ps5 and I'd like to have 1440p on that, so
PC: 1080p
Ps5: 1440p
Don't get the 4060. Either go AMD equivalent in price, save yourself some money and go for a 3060ti or save a bit more and get a 4070. The 4070 will give you decent 1440p while the 4060 is more of a very good 1080p card.
@@All-kh6vi i saw some benchmarks and I saw the 4060 is pretty smooth with dlss, do you think I should just wait for the 50 series to come out so the 40 series price drops?
@@bloxman2185 if you're gonna go 50 series i would also get a AM5 mobo, ddr5 ram, and a 7600x cpu at least. Prices will drop for 40 series but stock will go quickly as retailers try to clear their shelves and depending on demand prices can even go against you for example I bought a 7800x3d for 275 in July, I wanted to upgrade another pc from a 3900x to a 5800x3d and that cpu is now 330 plus more expensive and a gen older. Point is there always a better deal somewhere, prices don't always go as expected.
@@All-kh6vi I still want to go with a 40 series and the cheapest 4070 I could find is 550, thats 250 more then the 4060, is it worth 250 dollars more?
The 5700X3d is a way way better gaming CPU, for a little bit more money.
Currently the 3d is 50 more expensive the 5600x.
BUT it trades blows with the latest Intels. No kidding.
I disagree about anything over a 7800xt going 4k. The visual difference between 4k and 1440p is actually pretty minimal. If you're going to get a high end monitor a 1440p OLED would be a better option as it still offers high fps. But the visuals are much nicer.
Also for mechanical keyboards Aliexpress is your friend if you're looking to modify or build your own keyboard. Switches and keycaps are generally much cheaper then most sites
dlss isn't "a real picture". Don't use it.
1. nVidia, for the ray tracing, you want that. Also, the video card MUST HAVE 12 Gigabytes or more of RAM.
2. 64 Gigabytes (or a full 128 Gigs) of system RAM.... Don't listen to anyone that says less than that, they don't know what they're talking about. (HardwareUnboxed gets a pass, he's just a little confused.)
3. TURN OFF pagefile/virtual ram. CHECK TO SEE a few days later if the OS has TURNED IT BACK ON.
4. NVMe M.2 SSD....... The "right one". If you have extra money, get a motherboard that has two NVMe M.2 slots on it. Use one for the OS and the second one for your games. Get 2 PCIe 5.0 x4 M.2 SSD's!!!!!!! Speeds up to 10,000 Megabytes per second!!!!!!!! Otherwise, if the motherboard doesn't support it, 2 PCIe 4.0 x4 M.2 SSDs, speeds up to 7,000 Megabytes per second. Be careful, many of these are 5,400 or less Megabytes per second.
5. Gaming at 4K should be "pretty good" with such a system.... For best results, wait for the new 50x0 nVidia cards coming out by March 2025.
64 gigabytes of Ram? For a gaming PC? Why? I video edit, photo edit, game, audio edit, as well as day to day stuff like spreadsheets and content consumption and have never seen my ram go over about 24gb.
Why would 64gb be the minimum?
@@yourtechswad Wellllll. I bought a computer in 2011 with 16 GB of RAM. In 2012, they made DIMMs that were able to get the 4 slots I had available to 32 GB, so I pulled out the RAM I had and went to 32 GB.
I bought a new computer in 2022.
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 PC Specs & Requirements, are;
16 GB minimum
32 GB recommended
64 GB ideal......
So, that's about the ONLY time I've agreed with ms on anything.
@@Atheist7 I think you are mistaken. Flight Simulators ideal specs are 32gb. It's on their website.
64gb is a nice to have that people out there might genuinely need. It's not the recommended for a gamer by any stretch though
HI sir with due respect can you make a pc build with moniter and mouse keyboard and controller under 1070doller us
You are damn right I can! And that is a planned video. It will be in great British pounds though I'm afraid! Though I have no doubt if we can do it here, you can definitely do it for cheaper your end!
I feel like this video is about 10 years too late:))))
For the information, or for you? 🤣
@yourtechswad for me it's about 30 years too late. But it's is s well though out video for anyone looking to get into PC Gaming without having a relative that would build them one. Most people would just buy a pc already made, but for the same money they could have a much better one if they did it.
Yeh that's the thing. And the mark up on those prebuilts are insane. PcSpecialist is one of the most predominant I see on the UK, and the prices of some of their machines are crackers. Though I shouldn't moan too bad, ive had a lot of custom from them making poor machines and I get to fix them 😁
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Errrrr,...... Yeah.
EXCEPT FOR, **get a RAM: disk** .
What's up, I finished my build finally. I used the GTX 1050 instead
Technically the title doesn't make sense. Just say, "What I wish I knew" Avoid contractions in the title.
When it comes to mech keyboards, build your own. You can make one exactly to your wishes and nowadays, it doesn't cost an arm and a leg.
Sitting here with 1080p 60hz oled with RTX 4080 Super. I don't really play very demanding games to begin with (mostly Mohaa or KF1), I just needed CUDA and enough vram.
Least you'll have 0 issues with performance or HDR 😁
1080p60Hz OLED??? Does that exist? The only ones I've found are portable OLED monitors from Asus and innocn etc.
@@user-nl7hw7uh1m Yup, it's a portable. I just bought a 3k 120hz oled now that I was reminded to upgrade. I'm not very sensitive to refresh rate but the increase in PPI will be nice.
@@user-nl7hw7uh1m i have one but its old . now most are atleast 100hz
I'm a mac guy, Fully embedded in the ecosystem with Mac mini, Macbook, all apple silicon so I can't game. I've tried Xbox online, Geforce Now, VMs, whiskey, everything. But I gave in and went to buy a windows and got a 16g DD4, RTX4060 8g, Ryzen 7 5700x, it's slow AF (maybe compared to mac silicon as i'm not used to windows) won't open Forza 4. I've learned a lot, such as my system didn't have bluetooth (WTF?, what computer doesn't come with bluetooth?) The wifi dongle is insanely terrible getting 90mb down when every other system i have is over 200mb down. It's running fine playing Warhammer 40k, alien etc but I feel it is a one task at a time device. Difficult coming from a mac where it's everything all at once no problems. It froze and crashed downloading steam and doing a few file transfers from an external hard drive, Unreal engine struggles to connect to the internet.
If I want to play one game and have nothing running, it's fine, anything else it just dies. PCs are terrible. This is close to £1000rrp and no Bluetooth? Looking forward to your channel growth, I don't trust anyone on TH-cam really as they are all paid shills when they reach a certain point. Good video
You shouldn't be having all those problems. Something is wrong. And if you really need a PC with Bluetooth (why, I have no idea) then buy one with Bluetooth or put it in.
Can I ask what storage you have in that PC? You shouldn't be having all those issues at all buddy. Something is wrong with that system that's making it unstable. A 5700x CPU has 16 threads of compute power, it should handle multi tasking very well. I have a similar CPU and i can photo edit, video edit, watch a video on youtube, with steam updating in the background and all my resource folders open and it's still snappy and responsive. I have no idea why you are having such issues. Sucks you are having such a terrible time with it as well, because i honestly love PC gaming, and messing around with computers. Thankyou for the kind words, it means alot :)
@@Shoomer1988 that is what I thought, So i'm going to take it back, potentially swap it for another one of the same. thanks
@@yourtechswad 1TB SSD, I was surprised when it just crashed like that multiple times doing the most basic things. I wanted to game on it but i'm also learning Unreal engine to make a game, I wanted to offload some basic AI that I do on my mac, but it just seems incapable. I'm debating taking it back or putting in more RAM to 32, but task manager for the most simple of things is 100% memory. So i think of a couple of comments in places, something is up with this machine
@@Shoomer1988 also, I said I come from mac land, I have a surface Pro, A Dell laptop both of which have bluetooth, I didn't know it was an optional extra.