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There needs to be more UKpostsr budget build competitions.

Shoot this might lead to a new series.

I enjoy Elijah's Lab's content, so it's a bummer to see the unfair comparison in builds. However, I think your video here has value in that you critiqued your own channel earnestly, explained your channels value proposition in how it differs from Elijah's, and that you continue to welcome challenges and critiques. Solid video!

Guys you need to keep challenging eachother to make a better cheaper buuld because we will eventually reach the ultimate budget PC build.

this is the way, the right mindset and attitude to have constantly learning, bettering and growing, as well as always welcoming challenges and open to constructive criticism you've earned my respect and admiration, mate

Love this friendly competition between PC builders as it provides more template, guide and options especially for the lower end build. Kudos to Zach as well for taking the challenge and he even posted and promoting Zach's video and page for others to see.

I love the content of both of y'all and I am happy to see this is a friendly competition. I like both of the builds (yours performs better tho). I hope you guys actually plan a competition together in the future ❤

Always love to see some friendly competition! I'm a loyal subscriber of both channels and was a bit worried after the intro, but I love both the builds

You know what man. This is the first time watching one of your videos. You've gained my respect with this. Subscribed. Thoroughly enjoyed this. Thanks 💚

This kind of videos is the absolute best and fun to watch! You and every pc builder that just challange each other is so fun and always intrested too watch. 🙏👌 I love that you so frendly and good!

It would be cool if elijah made another pc beating yours. 😂 That would be a great series.

this would be a fire series if you guys take keep those PCs and do incremental upgrades with challenges each time like $150 upgrade video, upgrading them with only aliexpress stuff, amazon choice only upgrade, stuff like that. i think seeing the pc evolve throughout the episodes could add a cool dimension to the whole thing

Just went over to this guys channel to give him a piece of my mind… by telling him that I enjoyed the healthy competition it created, gave him a sub too :D you’re both awesome, keep it up Zac

I like Elijah videos, and I'm glad u did this video. It was fun friendly competition videos!!! Something different then the normal everyday videos!

Competition is what keeps us sharp. You both make great content. Keep up the great work.

Awesome video, watching u had me learn more a d starting flipping laptops and pcs. Thnx honest reviews informative and straight forward.

Tough fight. I personally preferred the black $450 PC for 2 reasons: 1. I prefer the glass front panel 🤤 and 2. It leaves $50 room for cooler and/or price diffs on parts🤑. Thanks again Zack ! All humble budget builders hail your efforts. (And Elijah is cool as well, no issue w/ him)

i say i got respect for anybody who builds there own pc even if they dont know whut there doing to experts who have years doing it i would love to see pc builders get those awsome retro gameing pc cases and upgrade them with mondern components

I really like how you started this out as some kind of antagonistic rivalry but then turned it into honest boosting for each other. The lore is why I'm here.

i love when people use budget set ups, respect to those rocking budget rigs. hats off to you

I watch both channels. You're both great. Both of you come up with awesome builds. I'd love to see some friendly build competitions at different budgets.

Just built a 5700xt, 3600x for my living room tv. Love the perfomance for my $480 system.

I'm so happy for both of you guys, i watch both your channels and love when I see a new up load. There's a newer channel KJS BUILT i just started watching to, hes got some nice builds

Loved the fact that you actually answered to his video in the friendliest way I could think of and even proposed a collab, would absolutely love to see you two collab for a budget build competition.

This really didn't end the way I thought it would... lol. You earned a new subscriber Zach.

Excellent video, love both your channels. I do think the big difference in your channels as you said is that you do easily repeatable deals and Elijah does one off local market deals. My last build (completed a month ago) is a great example where I got a crazy deal on a 5600G 2nd hand rig for a crazy good price allowing me to build a 5600G with 6700xt build with all the trimings (nice case with rgb fans) for £500, but I'm not about to throw my hat into the ring with you two :) Surprised the fortnige numbers were so far out. Were you using performance mode and coukd Elijah be using DX11. The term pro settings in fortnite can on depending on who you ask, eg. I initially used Epic view distance as Pro settings but was told Far view distance is better as firefights are never (or extremely rarely) at max distance. Like you I also make sure FSR or any resolution scaling is turned off (at 1080p it can really make the image look bad).

I bought the exact same build and it is so good i can do everything, streaming,cutting and content creation i would never need something better 🎉❤❤ thanks

this is how you know this guy a legend he made a video out of friendly competiton thats how you do it zack love to see this. these day iam super inpressed by zack in this vid it could be taken out of context but zack pulled it back this is how you do it zack he just wanted to bate you a little hay it a nice thing to do in my option as shows the level of class shown here iam a fan of this guy have been for a while and will continue to be love it

You got my respect for acting so chill and professional, mate! You get a subscribe from me.

I really think Zach handled this very professionally, as well as friendly, in my opinion. The content was thorough in addressing the comparison as well as coming up with a build himself to rival Elijah's, although I believe the two were quite similar, again, in my opinion, with Zach's maybe just edging out Elijah's, price to performance wise. But that all depends on the parts you're able to get and at what price. To me, it'll be a toss up depending on who can find the better deal. And all the other one has to do is wait for a better part to become available for a better price, which, if you look around enough and are patient, you'll of course, pull off. Thumbs up!

Build Off! Set the parameters and go to town guys! Love to see it!

I like this guy and his channel. His sense of humor and meme attacks is genuinely hilarious 😂. Its what LTT should have been. I hope ur channel stays this way and doesn't seem out like LTT. 😅

Funnily enough this is the first video of yours or his that I've ever seen lmao, definitely gives a good first impression of you and a nice recommendation for another channel as well

I like these videos.. pushes yall too build the overall best bang for the buck. I love competition.

ive found that DIY case has 3 exhaust fans stock and no intake fans , so i had to turn the 2 around backwards, or replace the fans entirely so they all match in order to have static pressure inside the case to keep temp below 65" c

I love this video 😂 the personal attack you felt is good fun. The amount of times you stated you didn't know it was a competition could be a drinking game. I hope to see more light hearted beef, that overall helps us brokies

would be great to have a video series where 2 builders compete and try to build a pc within a certain amount of budget by buying all parts in the same store and at the same time to even out the playing field.

first of all: I love your videos, especially your shorts, and congrats on this video I was there when you built that PC secondly: my 1070 goes black screen no matter what I do, things I've done to fix it is mind blowing.. such as thermal paste changing.. thermal pad replacement, driver pack reinstalling .. driver pack deleting with DDU, and installing a fresh one.. nothing helped me, but one guy video that I saw today, said put something between the heatsink and the power port coz its what costing the black screen. I did it and it's not going to the black screen since, but I wanna know what this exactly is and how to prevent it from happening again. most importantly for how far this solution will last, Thanks

Also it’s because you listen to us which is why you’re one of if not my favourite pc building UKpostsrs ever!! ❤❤🐐🐐🇿🇦🇿🇦

I love it when youtubers call out on each other. This mean more video to watch while having dinner 😂

Honestly I’d love to see Zack and other Pc builders like Elijah or Tech source to come together and make a 5-10 man comp of building say $500 pcs, $1000 pcs. Or different builds to particular requirements. Would be so cool to see the community come together like people trying to race in lemons.

sweet build for the money, great build in general honestly! rad video

I think the design of your build looks better. i like the white, but with that, i'd prefer an all white build, i know that probably is not really possible with a budget like this, but the contrast of the white / black with the rgb clashes in my opinion where the darker reds / blacks blend better with yours. Great video and I really enjoyed it and your positive approach!

Budget PC Wars!! I love it!

Love some fun competition. Been watching both your channels for a long time. Its a win for us viewers. 😁

The 5700xt's problem is that it does not support mesh shaders. Only valid for one game right now but more are surely coming.

Let the battle commence!!!! Lol at least you know you're in it those time? Have to admit, didn't know the other guy til your video sooo I think you won already :)

It looks awesome I want to build a pc gunna take me awhile this was so good insight

I would really like to see a fair competition between you two! You should just set some rules(repeatable deals, no fsr, same graphics settings and games etc) set a budget(Maybe 500$, 1000$ and a 2000$ builds) and it would turn into an amazing series for viewers and both of you!

I hope this goes back and fourth getting better and better

did you swap the glass side panels, i cant unsee it

I watch you and elijah, I would love to see a direct head to head pc build with a set budget betwenn you both

This is definitely THE META budget build. nice one Zach!

I saw some cases online earlier that were "open box" for as low as 12.99 each, says no damage and all parts included and some even come with fans. Might actually grab one to move my plex server into

Nice to see some friendly competition for getting the most out of budgets :) I also just found an RX 5700 XT for $142 with shipping upon looking it up via your recommendation, so that may be the next GPU to power a system I get :D

i rly enjoy Elijah's Lab's content i think hes very underrated

I have R5 3600 to but my GPU is only RX5700 non xt. But It's awesome when it comes to gaming and programming. Don't have any regrets at all about this build of mine. :D

Loved the Blazing Saddles clip! (One of the few you can still get away with on YT 😂)

I would really love to see a budget gaming pc competition between you Tech Source and Elijah's

I do agree with the RX 5700XT for (emphasis) today. I did buy mine quite some time ago marginally used and shipped for $150 USD. I would probably look for $100 USD shipped today as a "deal" for that right now. With that said, the 6600XT is getting down there in price, is a bit more efficient and so, it might be a good option (emphasis) today. For something that should last you a couple of years, I'd move up to a 6700XT if possible, but probably we're over $250 USD shipped at that point. And strangely, if you can fit and have the power for it, a 6800 just keeps dropping and dropping in price. Might be a stretch, but you'll really extend your years of use. I think the lowest I've seen shipped comes close to that $250 USD figure. I'd call that "a deal". Obviously, I'm talking used, talking ebay. Sometimes (emphasis) you can score better deals with a local marketplace, but for whatever reason, I think there's more deception there, so be careful.

i watched both and wot u r saying is absolutely bang on

5700xt has been great for years, but it's hard to recommend after the results in Alan Wake 2. We'll see mesh shaders used more and more.

I’ve been looking at a build for around $1300 where I would use the 4070 super (if I would be able to get one for the $550 tag) but that’s only because I would want to future proof my pc at least a little bit. I only game in 1080P right now but want to look into getting a 1440p monitor in the future! With that being said I see builds like this and it really makes me consider just keeping it reasonable and shooting for maybe the $1k mark and seeing what I can get out of it.

Heads up on 5700xt. They show up on aliexpress for $97 "new" pretty frequently. I belive I've picked up 3 at that price.

Me still gaming on a old pc Ryzen 3700x, ASUS b550f, red devil 5700xt 32 GB ram. most games still run smooth but im looking to upgrade in the near future

Hey Zach, first time watcher here. You got a great editing humor/style and fall into line with many bigger channels, so I don't doubt for a second, that you will grow lots the coming year, with regular uploading! Regular content being a challenge If I may suggest something; I believe positivity wins over the long run and again, I like how you call out the smart YT drama move ;) I would suggest to keep the #drama as humorous and fun in nature as matches your own personality, since end of the day we the viewer enjoya mostly the value of competitive pricing and builds being put against each other, figuring out how us brokies can get away with sick PC's and so we appreciate you both, any anyone else that joins the challenge. There's many gamers doing *me vs him* challenges, which seem to work great and pull the audience to both channels. You can keep the clickbait titles and icons, the YT win strategy

I really like the all white themed pc but seeing that Red and Black, I might choose that. That looks awesome.

Do you have sites that I can learn about building pc's? Because ive always wanted one and I want be a pc builder when im older also ty you for the vids and helping some bit.

Hey Zach, thanks for the video! I was wondering how you usually benchmark your system. Do you install the new SSD in the video and swap them out after for one that has games on it to do benchmarks?

Zach you are the winner for the better pc build and for most humble UKposts pc content creator !!!

One of the reasons why Elijah used a 3060, instead of some other better valued Amd cards was because for his goal (selling PCs on Facebook) Nvidia gpus tend to sell a lot better. Great videos from both of y’all, I think you both put out a pretty similar rig in the end. If Elijah used the $125 5700xt, he’d also be sitting at around $450.

I watch both and I don't really care about guides, but nice come back!!

Some how yt automatically made me watch your undercover vid of PC bros then the one made on you and now it played this I think there needs to be a series of everyone going for some one else then they go for them as a big collaboration of all the top and same small PC building youtubers

Every youtuber should compete like this in the end we get the best value system 😂😂

Listen I think this would be a GREAT series is UKpostsrs just try to one up each other you should do this to start try some friendly beef. FRIENDLY we don’t want a nexus gamers I think and the ltt thing. Thank you for such a good video!

Sounds like the classic collaboration joint effort “fight” to me LOL ding ding

I wish those sleeved cables were cheaper, I'd love a set of black/blue corsair cables but they cost as much as a good gold PSU ffs.

❤ love to see a little friend comp 😁

Two of my favorite pc building UKpostsrs fighting. Yay😁

Elijah's build is so close to being a perfect starting point but if I were going for a Zen+ chip I'd search out a 1600AF, you can get them for £30 a pop and in gaming there's no difference between it and the 2700X. The only Zen chip that benefitted from 8 cores was the 1700/1800X but that was due to the low per core performance. Cooling a 6 core part is not an issue for the stock cooler, AMD 6 cores just don't get that hot, if you use the stock cooler then just go to AMD master and synchronise your fabric speed and switch on PBO, it'll get you to about within 2% of the limit of the chip without needing extra cooling. The B450 PCB is still solid (I always recommend MSi MAX boards in B450, I use one in fact) but really you want a board with PCIe 4.0 if you plan to go with a beefy new card down the line to utilise a faster CPU, the money saved on the chip could bump his (and yours as well, though you'll notice the latency going back a gen from Zen 2) to a B550 board. There is something up with his testing though, he should be getting more than 85FPS out of FH5 at medium I think. 5700XT is still a beast of a card for the money, good for now but maybe getting hamstrung through lack of features as new games drop, but for now it's the used budget king. RTX20 series is also becoming attractive now, a bit cheaper and then I'd start choosing those over RDNA if I was buying. Lastly, even though my PSU is 9 years old I'd also opt for a new unit because I don't know how hard a used unit has been pushed, I know exactly how mine has been used and exactly what state it's in, it has always been used with some headroom so has never been run hard. I'd have to open the PSU up to check it before buying used (NB Never open up a PSU if you don't know what you're doing, the caps inside hold enough charge to kill and can hold that charge for 6 months or longer after being unplugged from the mains).

I'd just go 1660v3, huananzhi qd4, and now you have an 8 core comparable to a 3700x or 5700g (its between). Supports nvme, ddr4, and rebar. Mem is capped to 2133, but its quad channel

Your gaming PC is literally my first build. in the montech air 100 and Ryzen 3 4300G. The A520 is perfect mobo with 3600mhz RAM. you can upgrade your CPU and upgrade your RAM to +4000MHz. if you're not streaming you don't need the extra DIMM slots really. If your goal is to game and work and maybe use chrome in the background then you'll be fine with dual channel. I don't have a GPU but I get 50+ fps on the game I play so its fine. I'll wait a few years to get a 3060 for dirt cheap

Zach crushed it for sure. clean Victory whitout a doubt. But why did he not turn the fans red, would have matched the color 0.o

This guy cares if some dude off the internet is under 21, and the budget ballers! I love this dude

Honestly You're PC looks Pimp and His looks good too if i had to pick one i would Go with Yours Zach💪👊💯

My gaming laptop build cost me less than $400 and can run any game perfectly all the parts where brand new its even being used for vr you dont need to spend alot of money for a good gaming experience i love these build videos

the "WHO WON? YOU DECIDE" jumpscare got me 💀

6:23 LMFAO CALLING OUT THE SPEEDING TICKET WAS INSANE DFLKADJFDJA;FDFJAKLJDKF 🤣

No OC on that ram on Elijah's build prob hurt allot. But I think Elijah's pc was very nice esthetic

I actually snagged a 5700 xt for 95$ before this video n was wondering what cpu to use with it n😀

Tbh both PC’s look amazing and would love either!

Blazing Saddles reference :D

I built a zeon 2666 with a 1080 ti that cost me roughly $380 that runs cyber punk 2077 ultra at 57 fps. Strange how budgets PCs just do everything and are cheaper with only few downsides.

This is the kind of competition the PC community needs, best budget build

I love how the fans are all exhaust in the build 😂

Great vid bro keep it up

soo coooolll i wish i knew this video was here 5 months ago haha

I love your pc builds Zach, i think It could have been cooler if you just turned the fans red

ryzen 5 3600 is really the meta 💪💪 i bought one new with stock cooler, box, and all that last march. it was 100ish USD