this is the cheapest ryzen 7000 PC that
you can build out on the market right
now we're going to go over all the specs
how it performs and whether or not AMD
is actually delivering good value when
it comes to the new generation of CPUs
that they have out on the market but
before we get into all of the details I
want you to know that we're actually
going to be giving this PC away as part
of our Cannonball for the Cure charity
stream that's going towards curing my
son's rare disease we're going to be
doing that on October 21st and this will
be one of the giveaway prizes coming in
at a decent price point I think this
will make for a good giveaway which also
helps to explain why I tried so hard to
make sure all of the parts made sense
because I want to make sure that whoever
is receiving this PC actually gets one
that makes sense to build so when I say
that this is the cheapest ryzen 7000
build I've gotten some pushback where
people are alike but it has integrated
Graphics so why do you have a graphics
card in there it's because the
integrated Graphics that are on the
7600x are not capable of gaming they are
just really there so that you have a
display out and when I say cheapest
ryzen 7000 I'm talking about if you have
a PC at home already that you want to
upgrade to the latest from AMD this is
the bare minimum that it's going to cost
you so we went with the cheapest
motherboard the cheapest ddr5 RAM and
then obviously the cheapest CPU that's
on the market for this new generation so
when you total all of that up it's still
a very pretty penny even if you keep
your case your power supply your
graphics card and any other cooling
solution that you have it's going to be
rather pricey so looking at the system
that isn't the ryzen 7000 part what we
have is the Corsair 4000d airflow
Edition to give you some good cooling on
these new 105 watt 7600x chips that
should hopefully help us keep everything
cool in addition to me adding a three
pack of corsair's AF 120 fans up front
in order to get that color scheme that
we wanted with red and black going on
here but this is actually the first time
that I've ever had the LEDs on fans like
pulse almost like they were running at
50 hertz when you're filming in 60 hertz
so you can kind of see the flickering
but it was actually happening in real
life and not just on camera and so I
actually had to swap out the fan cable
for a different port and that seemed to
fix it and actually initially I got the
white LED ones and I swapped them out
for the red LED ones because they ended
up looking better and then also for the
color scheme we picked up the Asia horse
cable extensions in red and black to
kind of go with the theme the power
supply is the Corsair rm750 which is
actually a little bit Overkill
considering the CPU we have in here as
well as the GPU but it was on a really
good sale of only 94.99 and so it was
cheaper than buying like a 600 watt
power supply which would make more sense
for a build like this but we do have
some spare room in case we want to
upgrade the GPU down the line the SSD in
here is the crucial P3 plus two
terabytes PCI Express 4.0 that is what I
would consider somebody who's building a
mid-tier middle of the road gaming PC
two terabytes of an SSD is really where
people would end up and I went with PCI
Express 4.0 because this motherboard is
actually capable of PCI Express 5.0 and
so I didn't want to go too far down the
generation just to save a buck but I
really wanted to keep this build
sensible if you're building with a ryzen
5 7600x what are you likely to also get
with that that was the plan here and
then for the GPU it is an RX 6650xt now
I did spring a little bit extra for the
power color red devil version simply for
the design the aesthetic and the black
and red scheme it has going on I thought
it fit really well with it in the
overall design of the build but in case
you want to save money and you're
following this at home you can actually
save about 60 dollars by going to
something like the XFX Speedster Swift
210 that only costs you 340 dollars as
opposed to the 400 but the 6650 XT is a
really good mid-tier GPU pairing that
with a heavy mid-tier CPU just made a
lot of sense in my mind so the total for
all of the parts that are not not the
ryzen 5 upgrade was 835 dollars and 84
cents now for everything that is the
ryzen 7000 upgrade we got the ryzen 5
7600x for 300 Newegg was running a
bundle for this if you got a CPU Cooler
with the enter Max one and considering
the fact that the new ryzen Chips
actually don't include a cooler anymore
because of their higher TDP I actually
do include the cooler cost in the
upgrade package because you do need it
in case you were coming from a race
stealth or something that was cooling
your ryzen 5 2600 3600 going to the
7600x you are going to require a beefier
cooler for that which is about forty
dollars for this intermax one you
include that ten dollar combo discount
and you're looking more at thirty
dollars so 330 dollars for the CPU plus
it's cooler which honestly isn't too bad
now the motherboard this is where things
are probably going to be changing over
the next few weeks because as of the
time of recording the cheapest
motherboard out on the market is an
x670e however AMD is going to be
releasing their b650 motherboards but
based on the pricing that we know of
those motherboards right at this moment
we would only save about 45 dollars in
order to get the cheapest b650 that's
been announced AMD did say that they
should start at 125 dollars but based on
all the motherboards that have come out
at this moment we're not seeing any that
are that close to that price point so
really you would discount this by about
45 dollars in case you wanted to go with
the cheapest b650 but the x670e we have
here is the ASRock PG lightning this is
again 245 dollars after a rebate it has
PCI Express 5.0 storage as well as PCI
Express 5.0 SSD capabilities it has a
ton of USB ports on the back two and a
half gigabit Lan it also has cutouts for
Wi-Fi which is unique I haven't seen
this before it doesn't include Wi-Fi but
in case you wanted to run your own
cables you could do that with this
additionally this is actually one of
asrock's motherboards that do have
stickers on them when you get them on
the ram slots and this is something
that's come up in the news lately that
those stickers don't peel off well and
when I was building the system I tried
very carefully to peel it off in one go
and it didn't work it actually came out
where I had to use tweezers to get the
rest of the adhesive off of the ram
slots asrock's aware of this they're
fixing it they're rmaying it for anybody
who doesn't actually want this so
hopefully when you consider buying a
board it's not quite that way but the
RAM is a tricky thing when it comes to
building a new ryzen system because it
takes so long for the memory to get
trained with these new PCS and so it's
recommended and I do recommend this that
you try to boot with one stick of ram
first don't try to install two or all
four in case you're building that way
start with one let it boot and then
install the second stick of ram you're
gonna have a much quicker easier and
better time now speaking of the ram we
went with the cheapest ddr5 Ram kit that
I could find on the market that wasn't a
single step stick so this is dual
Channel Ram we have here and this is the
Patriot Viper Venom 16 gigabytes of ddr5
5200 megahertz at a cast latency of 36
and the total price on this was 84.99
which is still considerably more
expensive than 16 gigabytes of ddr4 RAM
but it's also not over a hundred dollars
it's only 85 bucks so when you add all
of that together the new motherboard the
new CPU plus the cooler plus the new
ddr5 Ram the cheapest that we can find
on the market you're looking at a total
price point of 660 dollars just to
upgrade to the cheapest ryzen 7000 setup
which is a hefty sum of money adding
that to the rest of our parts we're
looking at a system that's worth just
shy of fifteen hundred dollars which
means that ryzen upgrade is actually 45
of the entire build we could go with
something significantly cheaper still
staying with AMD a b450 motherboard is
going to cost us 100 dollars a ryzen 5
5600 we could get for around a hundred
and fifty dollars and then ddr4 room
would probably be closer to that 50 Mark
so we're looking at three hundred
dollars to go with the previous
generation whereas we're looking for six
hundred and sixty dollars here or over
double just to get the latest and
greatest from AMD which is a pricey
noodle to cook my friends but how does
it perform is it actually a decent PC
well let's take a look at the benchmarks
I'll save the CPU bound ones for lasso
that you can really see how the 7600x
shines but in AAA titles the 6650 XT
plus the 7600x did great at 1080p High
settings in a lot of games crisis
remastered we averaged 110 FPS in
control we averaged 89.3 FPS in
Assassin's Creed Valhalla we managed to
hit
111.6 FPS in The Witcher 3 we're at
148.5 FPS in Shadow of the Tomb Raider
we were at
163.8 FPS Red Dead Redemption 2 we were
at 41.6 FPS average which is the lowest
of the bunch Spider-Man remastered 82.4
FPS was our average Horizon zero Dawn we
were at 136.6 God of War we're at 105.4
and fortnite we were at
147.8 but now we're the 7600x shines is
in those CPU bound titles taking a look
at CS go we actually managed to hit an
average of
583.7 FPS this thing can drive Esports
games really well that 7600x it's the
first time that I've really seen an AMD
CPU really be able to crack that 400 to
450 Mark in CS go so the 7600x is really
a Powerhouse when it comes to CPU bound
titles but the 6650 XT is a great
pairing for that in case you're looking
for high refresh rate 1080p High
settings gaming even in AAA titles one
of the things I want you to look at with
the benchmarks which we'll be putting
them all on the screen right now the one
percent and point one percent lows were
actually really smooth this is some of
the smoothest gameplay that I've had in
quite some time now I don't have a
breadth of data where I'm going to be
able to compare this against previous
generations of CPUs but I can say
anecdotally this actually was the
smoothest gaming experience that I've
had on an AMD CPU since ryzen launched
so that is the cheapest build you can
make for the new ryzen 7000 series chips
with the 7600x again if you remove
everything that isn't necessary to
upgrade to the new generation of Verizon
chips it's still a very pricey noodle
even if you're saving a lot from your
previous build it's gonna cost a lot to
go with AMD this generation because
motherboards are very expensive ddr5 is
very expensive and there's no CPU
cheaper than 300 from a d right now but
I want to hear from you do you think
this is worth it is it a worthy upgrade
are you going to be waiting until the
b650 motherboards can hit closer to that
125 dollar price point I want to hear
from you down below in the comments
don't forget to check out our Cannonball
for the Cure charity stream on October
21st where we will be giving away this
PC as well as a whole bunch of other
giveaway prizes that are have yet to be
announced but include things like my RTX
3090 my 6950 XT my 12900 KS as well as
my PS5 it means a lot for me to cure my
son and so I'm willing to put all of the
products I have in my office as an
incentive for you guys to donate when it
comes time to do the Cannonball for the
Cure charity stream with that being said
I will see you guys in the next video
cheers