Mid-Range Gaming PC Build for Fortnite & Streaming (Cyber Monday)

Doing videos about fortnite is for getting views. I'm disappointed to see you doing that. Its ok including that in benchmarks but full video for that...

Best closing comments ever. Steve Burke, laying waste to needy commenters like a BOSS!

To much fuzz/hair in GPU ocd triggered ...video unwatchable. :)

I made a similar build for a friend to play FF14, so much similar that the only real difference was the case and video card. Went with an RX 570 since they're like $130 right now.

You want ‘just good enough’ take a look at some of the lower end gaming PCs from the big OEMs! No, seriously. I think it would be fun to look at what the big players do to keep the costs down.

For example, I bought my kid a HP Pavilion Gaming desktop recently, and it is an interesting mix of shit I would never do and surprisingly competent. It has a Ryzen 2400G, but the motherboard is a 4+2-phase with only two MOSFETs per phase and no heatsink...but it manages to stay cool even under Prime95 thanks to no overclocking support. It has an RX580, but it is a single fan card. The power supply is only 400w, but it is 80+ platinum! The motherboard is a seriously cut down custom job, but it has a functioning M.2 slot that supports PCIe 4x drives.

The thing is a hideous yet fascinating combination of crippling omissions and totally functional compromises. I think it would be fun to see a small series looking at just how bad these things really are, and where their cost savings end up working out just fine.

Will u build me a computer? Just tell me what to buy

Gaming PCs need at least 16GB of RAM. Even for current games 8GB is a pain and you should be prepared to get thrown to the desktop with a memory warning occasionally. Alt + Tabing out and look for some stats with firefox or chrome on the wiki will crash it in most cases.
Better safe some money on the fancy case and power supply. Mainboard is too expensive as well. An entry level mainboard is perfectly fine.

Great analysis, I would've liked to see some BFV numbers!

Stumlbed across ur channel so cool...... tho I kno nothing ....but that I want a PC..... I don't wanna buy another PS4 pro .. can u give me some advice I just wana play/stream SFv & DBFz.. should I go w this build in the video? I heard u throw around the word "prebuilt" too?

This is practically my build lol

Ryzen 5 1500x with cryorig h7 to get sweet 4.0ghz

Why is everything always so dusty?

You should do a online poker, something that can run several poker programs, a HUD, and simulations.

my son is running a AMD FX-8300 @ 3.3Ghz with a GTX 570 and plays Fortnite like a boss.. this PC will Blow his away though.

I decided to build mine on the floor, when I looked around for a screwdriver our mischievous cat hid in the case box and then attacked me whenever I wanted to get him out of there! Later on he even wanted to eat my thermal paste! Fluffy jerk...

This is almost exactly the black friday build I made and I didn't watch this until now lol.

Fuck Fortnite & PUBG

Have a good day ✌️

idk what youre talkin about, my streams look fantastic with a 2600 and 1070, 9k br @60 and i average way over 100fps in games

Hey so I have never built a pc and I don’t play fortnite but would you still recommend this build to a beginner? Right now I’m using a 6 year HP Pavilion and I definitely think it’s time for an upgrade. My buddies say I should just buy a prebuilt but I would rather make my own. Plus from what I have read it’s cheaper to build your own also. Any feedback would be great!

what do you do with these pc's after you buy and build them? I would love just one of the secondhands lol oh well santa doesnt love me, coal again.

does 2600x come with cooler or im screwed and wont be able to use it

Just a few days later and prices way higher.

Love this type of video, makes me feel a lot more comfortable when looking at building a new pc that will work better than what I've done in the past. 1 question, If I went with the R7 CPU, would the MSI x470 be the better mobo for that CPU, or is it just an upgrade for the R5?

I need that pc😭

Found your channel by accident. Saw that video and went on a research for the exact same hardware, your 700~750 dollar pc when bought here in Brazil (Just doing the exchange of 1 dollar = 3,85 Real 'our currency') goes for 2888,63 R$, now with shipping and the stores margins, you end up paying about 3.900 R$. Now imagine that Brazil's minimum wage (here we're paid by month 'days worked' rather than by the hour) is 954 R$, that being 247,70 $ US dollars. So in the end, that is not a "mid range pc", that, here is a high end very very very VERY FUCKING EXPENSIVE pc. And I'm an IT analist and have a 5k salary (1298,20 US$) which is considered a high paid professional here. That is how nice it is to live in a socialist country folks, steer away.

@Gamers Nexus - content suggestion: tech reviewers always talk about cpu performance in video editing , but i have never seen them do cpu tests on compiling large software projects. my 8 year old gen3 i5 with a 960 still cranks out 60fps in league of legends np so i havent had any reason to upgrade, but now that 6 and 8 core processors are finally available at mainstream prices i would love to see a breakdown of say a 2600 vs 2700x vs intel i5 and i7 compiling projects in a few different IDEs. c++ in visual studio / java in eclipse and maybe command line gcc / javac in linux would be a good start.

You could save more and get better performance with a RX 580

Bought the same CPU motherboard combo on Black Friday with an rx580. Should be here today.

Will this run Runescape at ultra?

You know. I've never built a computer, and I can't wrap my head around the different components and what the numbers mean, but I'm so much better at PC building than you guys.

I'M BETTER THAN YOU AT EVERYTHING!

What? You told me to say that :D I'm not, but don't blame me for following your instructions! :P Love your content, you've made me want to build a PC again despite all my terrible experiences with it in the past.

Way too much thermal paste. Also, shouldn't this build include a webcam? Maybe a headset? It seems like that's required hardware for a streaming rig. Other than that nitpick, great video!

those sidebars showing progress of graphs show time are neat bro

Snowflake is always a great addition to the content!

Hi. No arguing against your choices from me - I went out and bought the Gigabyte Aorus B450 as suggested! 1 question though if I may - without extra cooling and overclocking malarky, just sticking to standard; what do you recommend to do in the BIOS? I have a basic windows 10 set up for gaming.

Dell™ Inspiron 3670 Desktop PC, 8th Gen Intel® Core™ i5, 12GB Memory, 1TB Hard Drive, Windows® 10 Home. Can it run fortnite at 80+ fps on mediem or low settings

Costs 1115 dollars in india despite picking some cheaper items..by total of 250-300 dollar less..its real bad..😡

Could I use a phantoms p300 instead of that case?

Streaming on gpu is always better with single pc, zero impact to performance, and quality is only by a tiny bit worse.

It's annoying that these builds are so much cheaper in the US compared to Canada... if I buy some parts in the US it's still cheaper, even with the low Canadian dollar... :/

could you play apex on this

why would i build this? my 1993 hewlett packard with the upgraded 56k modem still runs. i mean really that things flies. 80486 cpu @ 725mhz with integrated dual floppy drives and a whopping 512k of ram not to mention the massive 40 mb HDD. it still dials up prodigy. so i can check email. never ever had a virus issue.

“Relatively cheap” BOI

did your cat fade in the wash?

....I've built thousands of computers, my first was put together with a soldering pencil; but I'm still never comfortable asserting that my designs are superior to anyone else's. Certain "design habits" are generally better than others, though.

hey do something for this please $700 very good for playing/streaming fortnite and has like everything ssd everything please