The Best Gaming PC Parts to Keep during an Upgrade!

$270 liquid cooler, WTF
These things are stupidly overpriced anymore

EDIT: paired with a no-name power supply, please Paul pick a cheaper cooler and a quality power supply for this build 🙏

Thanks for looking at my build, You were right that I mainly wanted to know that I am on the right track. The GPU should have been a 4080 Super, I think pc part picker displayed it kinda weird. I think I might still go with that GPU as it has no coil whine from the fans according to reviews.

If I remember right Greg Salazar did a video/build with a Geometric Future case and it did not go well, so yeah I'd say good call not going with that one

well you dont buy nothing now, you wait like smart person until new stuff comes out and then buy your now cheaper stuff. its like buying Bitcoin, buy the dip

Cool !

Also, with new models coming soon, even if you're not super pumped with the newest hardware, they frequently lower the prices on the older generation. Definitely worth waiting.

My friend and I we're in the same spot a few days ago!! What a coincidence, haha. We have 8700k's and 1080's and finally have started feeling the age of our systems. We both went with 7800X3Ds but split off with the GPUs. I went with the 4080 Super and my friend went with the 7900XTX. Looking forward to comparing the systems in the next several weeks. Thanks for another entertaining video Paul! Been watching since the old Newegg TV days!

I am surprised you didnt recommend a 4090 for the $3000 budget guy. $2200 vs $2800 = $600 difference could have gotten a 4090. If anyone has $3000 to spend, that's pretty much the way to go.

Crazy that EU prices are inflated even more than US. Even though the Euro is worth like $1.75. Maybe its the shipping idk. But I just bought a 7900x3d for like $380, and in euros it's $419.99.

Very helpful! ❤

If u wait for pc parts to build, u will never stop waiting. Theres always something better coming out. Plus, u dont want to buy the newest things anyway. Why spend significantly more money for no reason

I like the look of proart, but not the price of most of proart.

"Budget is pretty much as high as im comfortable spending" that tells us literally nothing. Are you comfortable spending $10,000? What about $20,000? Maybe youre only comfortable with $500. You should be more precise with your numbers if/when you want help.

Considering I plan to get new am5 pc, but don't have enough cash now for decent gpu (4070/4080/5000 series), is it reasonable to get 8700G + MSI MPG A1000G PCIE5
psu use it year or 2 then get new cpu + gpu ? Single 1440p 144Hz monitor. ❤

Due to am5 being pricy, il probably only upgrade once the next gen of am5 mobos and cpus are out, so i can gef a first get am5 system since theyl likely be on special. When ryzen 2000 came out with b450, i got a rog b350 and a low end cpu for a good deal. Had 3 cpus in this b350, so il probably do the same with b650 when b750 is out.

Im still back with a Ryzen 5 5600 LOL It just works

Can you tell me why people keeps buying full ATX boards, if they just uses one PCI slot???????????????????

One thing that all the ripples that Nvidia is making with their movements with the 5000 series shows.. they will not launch below the 5080. Current grapevine talk is they will have a small number of 5090's to sell and will either paper launch the next card down 5080TI/5080 or will also make a small batch to sell in late December. That's it. Summer of 2025 is when the mid range everyone cares about is aiming for. Ohhh, and the 5080TI/5080 whatever they end up calling it will still only have 16GB of VRAM🤦🏻‍♂

Also, IMO most of the builds this week I'd swap the 4080S for a 7900XTX. Unless low power, RTX heavy games, and ai/niche professional workloads are goals, then there's very little reason to get the 4080S for $100 more. If we assume that the 8800XT will be $500 for exactly the same 7900XT performance, then buying a 7900XTX will become way more sought after and the better long run move than waiting or buying a 4080S. Even if the 8800XT shocks everyone and matches the XTX at $550, then a 4080S would be a terrible value compared to that and waiting would make the most sense here. Most likely things will fall in the middle, so I'd if you need more than 7900XT/4070TIS performance get the XTX.

I got real good Christening on my second build about PC building (first one went without a hitch, maybe because every thing was new) I wanted windows 11 and Windows 11 hated my hardware. So I went from AM3+ FX 8350 to an AM5 7950X. I wanted to keep all my working components and swap out the core components (CPU, Motherboard & RAM) and to keep my M.2 PCIe X4 SSD which had my Windows 10 OS, The plan was to install the new core components, boot it up in window 10 auto upgrade to 11 because it now has the hardware windows 11 wanted, that didn't happen. When I booted it up with the new core components Widows 10 became unstable I couldn't install the drivers, so I had to ditch the PCIe adapter and installed Window 11 on a new SSD. It fixed the problem to get windows 11 up and running and then was able to install drivers, but then all three my storage HDDs had I/O errors (even wanted to format a brand new HDD and windows couldn't find it to format it!) then I had to put the PC in Microsoft's hands (remote desktop Connection) to fix all the hard drive issues. Be prepared to ditch the OS drive and have Microsoft fix your storage drives. Windows 11 didn't like my HDDs from windows 10 and they don't play well together. The only things I didn't have problems with was the case, PSU, GPU that came over from the old build.

I upgraded over a year ago, I would have liked to have waited for the new line up of CPUs but FX 8350 8 core 8 thread at 4.2 GHz was starting to bottle neck and I was starting to want games it just couldn't run.

Prices? I mean? Spirit overlooker? Relief please!

The only thing I want to upgrade on my system is to get a 6800XT card and that's it. I am on AM4 with a 5800X CPU and 32 G ram on a B550 board. If I want to upgrade the CPU I will go to the 5800 X3D. Not looking to go AM5 at all for at least 3 years minimum before I consider building a new system. By then AM6 will probably be out. I refuse to use W11 so MS best try to keep W10 going for the now increased W10 usage as its W11 OS is being dumped and a lot of peeps are retrofitting W10. The only real problem I have with my system is the storage as the price for a 6TB nvme is too high so I am still using HDDs. Theya ren't bad nor are that that slow but I have to use two of them and really want a single nvme to do the storage of everything except the OS which is on a 1TB ssd.

That intro animation is so cool

why destroy a drive when you can over write the drive with 1010101010101,, you get the point ..