 The Rambit! The Rambit is it! I'm not even! What's up internet? Early this month, Ugotek posted a PC building guide for a gaming rig with a 45,000 peso budget. And I've talked about it before on the podcast why that guide was not the best. In fact, it's extremely poor value for money. Sobrang dehado ka kung sumunod ka sa guide na yun. It uses outdated parts which is not bad sum of the time but not the best fit for a 45,000 peso budget. At other times, they use parts that are really, really, really overpriced. And so just to provide a counter example of how your 45,000 pesos could be spent a lot better. This is our 45,000 peso gaming rig. To arrive at these numbers, I used what we have in shop and I used our PC builder. I just used it for the convenience kasi sobrang dalilang we really intended our PC builder to have a great drop down menu super easy to use dalabas yun total per part and yun total for the build. But it's not super useful if you are still new to the PC space and are trying to figure out the parts kasi mo lang explanation may drop down lang ha pipiliin mo yung mga components but if you don't know how to choose the components then all of that just means nothing. It's nonsense. Kaya medyo na apektuhan talaga dun sa Yugatec guide kasi Yugatec is a more general publication. It reaches a wider audience. It might reach people who don't know a lot about PC building and put their blind faith and trust in that publication and will just buy whatever they recommend and they really won't get their money's worth. I'm not saying that you should buy from hardware sugar that this is the best but I just wanted to show from a very quick example the kind of performance that you should be getting at a ballpark for a 45K build. And para patas yung lamban everything that you got in the Yugatec build kasi hindi lang yung build complete setup na siya may monitor, may keyboard mouse you'll also get dito sa example natin of a 45K gaming build. Hanapin ang yung disversion na gusto mo piliin ang preferred paper and pencil wala pang 5 minutes na sisi gika na para sa windows mo. Marami na kaming na tulungan. Dati, sa'kin di perto ko but now, I'm from a love of my life. Dati, ing-resin walang perto sa nga life ko but now, I'm a world-class Zumba instructor. So, web developer ako and content creator for a YouTube channel and ngayon, ganun pa rin ako pero activated na yung windows ko. Kaya ako naghanap ka ng legit, mura, at original software. Check out cdkoffer.co Check out cdkoffer.com Check out cdkoffer.co So let's start. Di ko memorize yung Yugatec build. But for their CPU, they had a Ryzen 5 4500 which is still Zen 2. The Ryzen 5000 series which is one step below the current generation is Zen 3. The Ryzen 4000 series CPU was an odd choice. Una kasi overpriced talaga siya. They were getting it for 7,699 pesos. We can get the next gen CPU Ryzen 5 5500 for only 6,050. Next gen, mas mura pa. So no brainer. Why get a Ryzen 5 4500 for more? If you can get a Ryzen 5 5500 na take note na, Zen 3 na yun. So there were improvements in the architecture of the chips. So you can actually get the Ryzen 5 5500 for cheaper. Yung motherboard na genami tila, MSI B450, I've stated before that actually this is not a bad choice. If you can get it at a good price. Yung main drawback ng B450, it doesn't have PCI-E4 support. But around this price range, you can't kind of live without that. And their motherboard was priced at 6,200. For just a little bit more, 6,850. You can get a B550 motherboard, which supports PCI-E4, has better internet speeds. So there are a bunch of changes which make B550 good value for money, if you can get it at a good price. Mas mahal nga yung pinilin natin, but not by a lot. And you get value for money. Especially because the SSD that we chose, jumping to it, is an MP33 1TB. Yung SSD ni Yugatec 500GB lang. 500GB is really quite small. Gaming PC gato, mag-install ka ng game, tapos mo-boosan ka ng space. When you get new games, you're going to have to uninstall those previous games to make room for your new ones. You have a lot more breathing room with the 1TB. Plus with a B550, you can enjoy the PCI-E4 speeds of the NDME. And since we're on the motherboard, yung pinilin ni Yugatec was an M80X board, which is good. M80X boards are usually cheaper. Yung pinilin din natin M80X board. But the case that Yugatec chose was a 80X case. And I have no idea how I would go with an 80X case with an M80X motherboard. A lot of people, una, to be upfront, that doesn't affect performance. You can stick in an M80X board into an 80X case. Hindi magabago yung performance niya. Pero mas malaki kasi yung 80X case, the space that it has for boards is larger. It's an 80X case, so it can take 80X motherboards. An M80X board is smaller. So parang sinakup na siya nung case. Parang alaki nung dead air or dead space inside the case. So aesthetically, a lot of people don't like using an M80X board in an 80X case. Plus, there's no reason to use an 80X case here because you can save a lot of money going with a cheaper M80X case that will still have RGB that has better air cooling. Don't get me wrong. The case that Yugatec chose is an MSI Gungnir. Nothing wrong with that. In fact, we've sold the Gungnir or variations of it in hardware sugar as well. Pero hindi siya bagay sa build na to. Our go-to M80X budget case is the Deep Cool Matrix 43FS. So you do get RGB. It's static RGB meaning you can't use software control to monkey around with the lighting. But it does have RGB and it is controllable through a physical button. And it's a lot cheaper. You don't need to spend P5,000 for a case for this build. And getting to the heart of the matter, a gaming PC, limbs or dies by its GPU. You can complain about bottleneck. You can complain but hindi tugma talaga yung ibang parts. Pero kahit sobrang olats ng parts mo, if your GPU is a good GPU, it will elevate your gaming PC. Bottom line, gaming PC, at the end of the day, limbs or dies by its GPU. And Yugatec chose to die by choosing a 1050Ti card for, nami daw kapta price, P10,800 pesos for a 1050Ti. Don't get me wrong, a 1050Ti is a good card if you're buying it second hand, if you're buying it at a good price, daming factors involved. And that's why we really try to provide context when we do similar buying recommendations. Kasi it all depends on anima games na usually linalarumo, anong resolution mo. And I want, I'm trying really hard to be fair to the Yugatec article pero 10,800 pesos so, 1050Ti. And just going to put it out there, I chose a 1650 which you can get for 10,250 mas mura pa kaysa sa 1050Ti. Pro tip, there are a lot of YouTube channels na yung ginagawa lang nila, they take two cards, they play different games on exactly the same route, on exactly the same settings. Yung nagbago lang yung GPU. So you can clearly see which GPU provides better performance and roughly what to expect. A lot of work goes into the side-by-side comparisons and props to the YouTubers who do that big resource for the buying public. Now a lot of you guys are wondering e manalo ako din tong hardware sugar na ito, haiwp ka 1650 lang para sa 45,000 peso gaming build because I have been reading the comments ng people have said I can do a build for 3060, I can do a build better kung gamitin natin yung mga 6,000 AMD GPUs. Again, this isn't the best possible 45K build. This is just what I can easily build. I just wanted to make the point that performance-wise, it's not very hard to come up with a better build. So I don't doubt that you could probably make a build with a better GPU than a 1650, especially if you do it secondhand. In fact, here at hardware sugar we just came out with a video, 1650 din yung GPU, total all-in mo for that gaming rig was 15,000. Oh, eba'ton layo ng 15,000 sa 45, because we bought the 15,000 secondhand at wala pa siyang perish noon. Again, context matters. If you can do better, please do better and post it in the comments para if people are looking for a 45K build, alam nila what to play around with, what kind of components they can expect na good value for money. I think we've actually already covered most of the components. So napagusapan natin yung ah, RAM. The RAM. The RAM. I'm not even like, if you think na parang scripted to na tatawa ko, 100% hindi. Nalala ko lang yung RAM and natawa lang talaga ako for a 45,000 gaming PC. They chose one steak of eight gigabytes, Kingston 3,200 megahertz for a gaming PC in 2023 and my laughter is genuine. That is terrible. So we've chosen 2x8s so you get 16 gigabytes, 3,600 megahertz which is faster. I have no problem with Kingston for RAM. Generally, okay naman siya. But eight gigabytes in 2023 for a gaming PC and as a lot of the comments rightly pointed out, Ryzen is, you know, you want a lot of RAM for Ryzen. Also the RAM speed matter for the memory clock of Ryzen. I don't want to get too technical but 3,600 is the sweet spot. Yung sa Yugotec naman 3,200 so okay na. But if you can get 3,600, why not? Sa atin pasok naman sa budget for us it's 3,400 so double. But you do get double the capacity. You get 16 gigabytes and you do get faster 3,600 megahertz. And that's the whole point why we're trying to save on the other components. Yung nga, case ni Yugotec overpriced. Yung GPU ni Yugotec overpriced. The savings we can get from there will translate them into better parts. And that's clearly seen here in the RAM where yes, we're paying more but we're getting a lot better value for money. Again, double. Double the capacity and faster RAM at that. PSU, they went with a cooler master. No problem with that actually. 600 watts. Probably 80 plus white. We've been happy with cooler master PSUs in the past and we do carry it in the shop. But for this kind of budget build, we decided to go with an FSP, 550 watts. FSP, very trusted brand. We sold hundreds, especially these kind of lower and PSUs of theirs during the pandemic. So we trust FSP. FSP is one of the rare PSU manufacturers that actually manufactures. Sile talaga mes mo gumagawa ng PSUs nila. But to be honest, I don't have any particular criticism about this choice of hardware onto the CPU cooler and Yugatec chose a thermal take CPU cooler and my question here is why? For this kind of CPU, you don't need to get a third party cooler, just go with a stock cooler. The cooler that comes free with the CPU. And that's what we did in this case. In our price list, the CPU cooler is zero because we're not paying for anything. We're just using the stock. That's what's nice about AMD. Their stock coolers are actually quite decent. And we can use the money for better things, for better performing parts. And even the description of the Yugatec CPU cooler, it's na parang kailangan ko lang kasi maglagay no CPU cooler and I'll quote verbatim. For the CPU cooler, we have the thermal take UX200 ARGB CPU cooler. There's nothing special with the UX200. Then why pay 1,900 for it? Aside from the fact that it is more than serviceable for the build. You know what's serviceable? You know what you can use for this build? The free stock cooler! Oh! We also forgot to mention that it has ARGB which may or may not mean anything to you. You can buy the UX200 for 1,900 via the SM Moles online app here. Ah! The SM Moles online app which we'll talk about at the end of this video. All right. Go to monitor and actually this is quite tricky. When I first saw this guide from Yugatec, tas nakita ko may monitor. Maybe that's a saving grace of this particular guide. Kasi mahal talaga yung ma-monitor especially a gaming monitor where you want high refresh rate. So drumrolls lease, what did the Yugatec guide suggest? A Lenovo D2220 monitor 75 hertz for 4,995. It's a better than average gaming experience. It's a high refresh rate gaming monitor. 75 hertz high refresh rate na yun. I mentioned in our podcast I've been in computers since I was like 10 almost 10 years old. Pumasa ko ang mga 486 so wala pa tong mga hello ROGPG48UQ and long time viewers know that I just can't help. Anyway, back in the day wala pa tong manipis na monitors na to. We had CRT monitors, the very bulky kind of monitors. So pero kahit noon nong bata pa ako 486 pa tayo Pentium. Wala pang number ng Pentium. Yung unang Pentium series. CRT monitors, may galon na. So it is Ludicrous that call a 75 hertz monitor in 2023 as a gaming monitor. Krabin. The monitor we chose and it's not available at hardware sugar because at hardware sugar medyo we tried to splurge on monitors. We think monitors are something that you really get good value if you pay a bit more. So yung mga on stock namin medyo mahal to be honest. Not that you don't get value for money. You do. But the overall price that you fork out medyo can be intimidating depending on your budget. So we went back on our experience. Fortunately, last year we did a video where we bought the three cheapest gaming monitors on Lazada and okay pa ba sila? So these are monitors na kami talaga nag-gastos came out from our own pocket and we actually used them. I actually used them for gaming. And all of them are 24 inches larger than that recommended by Yugatec and all of them are 165 hertz. Yan yung gaming monitor. Actually to be honest me when I play I only look for around 144 hertz. Beyond that I think it's kind of hype. I think it's medyo how much bakan my eyes appreciate. But you know gaming monitors are pushing that. So 165 hertz yun taga 29 na gaming monitor magagami ito pa yun 1080p playing valorant. The monitor we chose is the AOC one. Again the details are in the previous video that we did. But overall you do get value for money. It's 24 inches 165 hertz IPS screen. The colors were not bad. Was slightly more expensive at around 5,900. But again you're basically getting 22 inches 75 hertz. Di kung alam anong screen panel yung kayugatec. The one that recommended 1000 pesos more 5,900 pesos. But it's 24 inches. IPS screen 165 hertz. And I've actually used it. I can stand in front of you guys. I can look at you straight to this camera and not feel any guilt recommending it. Basically I'm putting my reputation. I'm putting whatever trust you have in me on the line. By recommending these things. Because that's what you should do with a guide. When you recommend dapat tapat. Dapat matingan mo yung kausap mo sa mata. Sabihin mo na for this budget I think this is what you can do. And if it were me that's what I would get. Keyboard mouse so it's a combo. To be honest I didn't really think about this. I just got the cheapest combo that we have. It's from Cooler Master. Good brand overall. How hard, you know how bad can it be a Cooler Master combo. I think ours is around 1,900. There's was 500 pesos. From an unknown RAPU. RAPU X120 Pro USB keyboard and mouse. I have no idea. I have no experience with RAPU. They might be good. So forgive me guys from RAPU if your stuff is reputable. I don't have any experience but Cooler Master is a very well known brand 1,900 pesos for a keyboard and a mouse from them is good value for money. And again I just didn't want to think about it too much. I just got what was on hand at hardware sugar. So the total for Yugatec was 45,000 pesos. It's a 45,000 pesos gaming guide. Pero sa amin a shade below 45,000. Again maybe not the best but certainly within the ballpark of what you could expect from a decent 45K gaming build. And before I leave you guys because this wasn't this wasn't an exercise in making the best. It was more an exercise of if you are thinking about a build at that price range for gaming please do more research. It's just the number one point I want to make here. And the fact that we can easily come up with double the performance for the same price attests to that. Yun lang naman yun. And the last point I want to make is and I will quote directly from the Yugatec guide again. Guide. Guide. This is the third the last paragraph of the guide. Actually our 45,000 pesos to build above was only really possible because of the competitive prices and discounts being offered at stores within SM Mall's online app. When we tried looking for the components on other platforms the total balloon to 50K 55K and even upwards of 60K The last point I want to make in this video is not buy from hardware sugar it's that this guide it doesn't provide value for the audience. When the article was first shared on Facebook the fact that it was sponsored was clear. But the article itself did not mention anything at all about sponsorship. Lately I noticed that the article has been changed to say that it was written by a Yugatec brand partner. I have no idea what this means and there is no explanation in the article. I really have issues with that kind of approach. Dita's hardware sugar and again it's not it's not about elevating myself it's like Sobrang galing namin compared to other publications it's just that when I say Dita's hardware sugar I want to point out that we walk the walk that we do what we say and Dita's hardware sugar if something is sponsored it's very clear we make we mention it in the video we mention it in the text description that it is sponsored because that's important for the audience to know that perhaps our judgment and what we're telling you has been influenced in some way that it is not our honest opinion that it is that it has been supplanted by what the sponsor wants you to know and actually our sponsors are legit they don't want us to lie to you they want us to tell you what we think genuinely think is good about their products I really try not to be negative kasi actually mabenta yung negative I've actually said this before two years ago in our core liquid 240R video about an AIO I've said that being negative especially on YouTube on the internet sales but we're not that kind of channel we really try to find the positives about something that we're commenting on that we're critiquing whether it's a product or a service or a build guide and even in this critique I've said that I have no problem with using a B450 if the price is right I have no problem with the PSU that they chose even in this guide which really I honestly find so terrible that is my honest opinion in this guide it provides nothing of value to the reader I really find it terrible but even here I've tried to be fair and I've tried to find something that you can try to latch on and say that okay this wasn't so bad so we really try not to do negativity except when it's called for and again like the core liquid 240R that was a terrible AIO it performed actually the looks were good the performance was good but the reliability was terrible and we called out the brand on it even if that meant maybe pissing off a major brand that we relied on because we bought a lot of parts for MSI we still do and fortunately there were no repercussions hats off to MSI of course were a small channel but the hell do they care right some pipitugin channel from the Philippines comments on it it was picked up other larger YouTubers have commented on it but we were the first for the 240R so we don't do negativity but when you find something really terrible and especially in this case where it was a guide from a more general publication a general audience oriented publication I felt that we really had to address that in our Filipino culture actually hindi tayo mahilig sa call out and this is na call out video it's more like please do your own research if you're thinking of a 45K gaming build in our culture it happens a lot that a person who attacks who critiques who is negative parang siya pa yung masama kasi yun nga as a culture we're very aggression adverse we're very we don't want to get in your face we're very conflict adverse and I was hesitant to do this video to be honest kasi yun nga ayayoko na parang kamay yung masama kamay yung parang oh di kayo na yung magaling diba and that's another kind of tech guide that I really hate to be honest buko sa alam kong bumuo ng PC ay alam ko rin manira ng computer ay personally code it actually lahat ng pwedeng gawin sa PC alam ko publicly before that I'm not that kind of guy I really don't care if you know more than me I never said that I'm the best so I didn't want this video to be like that na then I know better ano klasing PC shop to the verge philippines the verge philippines the verge taklipa ano klasing billion for your hard earned 45K pesos you can do a lot better and even a slap dash build like the one that I just described will be lower priced and will give you double the performance thanks for watching clean and reface GPUs na sa makati yung physical store namin and you can also buy from our site www.hwsugar.ph na 100% palaging up to date yung inventory dun kung instock yung item sa amin available yung sa site we also ship nationwide thanks for watching and maybe one of these days magkita tayo sa shop