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Hindi man ibig sabihin na bagong taon, kailangan tumalun ka agad sa pinakabagong generation. Plus, what makes the previous gen even more attractive, aside from their performance, is their price. Bumagsak ng mga presyo nila, and that feeds into their value proposition, mas value for money sila ngayon. Instinctively, we want the latest and the greatest, but that might not be the best option, depending on what you need, depending on the target of your rig. But if you really want the latest generation now, just wait a little bit for the next-next gen. And what I mean by that is, is the second wave of the current generation. For example, yung Ryzen 7000 series lalabas na yung mga non-X variants nila, which might be better value for money. Lalabas na rin yung X3D versions, which are supposed to have excellent performance, if the 5800X3D is anything to go by. Ganon din yung Intel, maglalabas na rin sila early part of this year. Nung 13th gen pa rin, pero more affordable options, non-KF variants. Same thing goes with Nvidia. Yes, it's still the 40 series, pero lalabas na yung 4070 Ti, probably the 4060, maybe even the 4050, if some rumors are to be believed. Yes, lalabas na yung next gen, but yan yung mga fastest, most expensive possible. But itong second wave of the next gen, ito yung mas value for money. The brands have also adjusted their prices accordingly. The next wave of the next gen usually brings the prices down for everybody. So if you really need the latest, just wait a little bit more. Even if you're not interested that much in what's coming, they might bring the prices down of the high-end parts that you do want. Number four is the same advice year-in and year-out. Kait anong taoon, kait anong build, get yourself an SSD. I can't stress, and I've repeatedly stressed. Everything is much faster, especially kung sanay ka pa rin from a hard drive. Any year, any build, any advice, get yourself an SSD. Number five for gaming, the sweet spot for RAM is still 2X8, 3600 MHz DDR4. Yes, it's very tempting to go DDR5, 6000 MHz, 2X16, but really a lot of the games don't benefit. Wala ka masyado makita na performance gains from going with more expensive RAM. Gusto mo bagong hardware, but for most rigs, for most games, the venerable recommendation to X8 3600 MHz. Number six regarding PSU, what is a good kind of base requirement? 750 Watts is still very acceptable for a lot of gaming rigs. Yes, you have the 40 series na power hungry talaga. You have the 13th gen, 7000 series ng Ryzen na power hungry. But even with all of those things, 90% of the builds out there kaya ni 750W PSU. And again, there's that fear na, because bagong hardware, you're going to need more power. Of course, there are some cases where you'll need to go beyond 750W, but for the majority of systems, 750W is still very good. Stay with Windows 10. Yes, it was released in 2015, pero in our experience, mas stable parin si Win 10. Andami customers na pangapasok sa shop na nag-reclamo na unstable yung system nila. And eventually, we traced the fault kasi nag-upgrade sila to Win 11. So, if you don't have any pressing need for some of the new features of Win 11, we recommend sticking with Win 10. Ako personally, nakawin 10 parin ako. Change is hard. And now, I'm going to be a jerk because tip 8 is update to Windows 11. Yes, I know what I just said, but there are some reasons why you would want Win 11, the new interface or the new UI. There are certain features na wala sa Win 10. Rocket the programmer personally swears by Win 11. It is much newer, released in 2021. Most of the bugs from the initial release are gone. And inevitably, you will need to move to Win 11 kasi sooner or later, Microsoft is going to retire Win 10. Number 9, diversify your YouTube diet. Yes, we all love our linuses, our steves, our polls, our kiles, our dimitries. But there are many, many other channels na hindi kasing mainstream, but also provide excellent features about hardware. Recently, lumalabasi provoked pron sa feed ko. I don't quite know why, but it's hard to go wrong with the British accent. Optimum tech, although optimum tech has gone quite mainstream lately. Lawrence Choice is a criminally underrated source, especially for motherboards, tech testers, ggf events, great builds, great video quality. Eposbox for testing or a wide variety of content. So these aren't small channels by any means, but they're definitely a lot smaller than the very mainstream channels. And it's these creators that can be a bit edgier or more exciting in their content because small comes with its advantages also. And if you're watching Hardware Sugar for the first time in this video, please do consider adopting us for 2023. Hit that subscribe button, like button, all of the usual social media things. Number 10, don't chase PCI-E5. Yes, it's the latest standard and you might be tempted kung bibilin ng aonong bago. Syempre gusto ko yung pinakalitest. But at least for GPUs, there isn't actually any PCI-E5-ready GPU yet. Even the latest 40 series of Nvidia is still PCI-E4. For storage, yes, on a theoretical level, may mga available na PCI-E5 drives, but it's very hard to find them out in the real world, out in the wild. And finally, for PSUs, pamitsan tinatawag yung ATX-3, the format that the RTX 40 series natively uses, pamitsan tinatawag din yun as PCI-E5. But as we've mentioned in other videos, while an ATX-3 PSU is nice to have, kagana pa naman yung RTX 40 series safely, even without a PCI-E5 PSU. Number 11, uso pa rin yung ATX, but they're getting larger and larger. And it seems kinda silly, kasi yung boong point yung ATX is para yung pinaka maliit na mainstream na possible. But as a consequence of the bleeding edge hardware getting larger and larger, yung RTX 40 series sobrang laki, the ATX cases have also gradually grown larger and larger over time. And you do have cases like the Phanteks Shift XT that can change size depending on the kind of hardware that you put into it. So, ATX is still very popular, but the size or the average size of the cases is growing. 12 still on ATX, since it has become very popular, a lot of the brands have tried to make things easier for their customer. Yung ATX dati, yung really had to make sure na kasiya lahat. The case was so small, yung had to make sure yung tolerances were correct, yung measurements were correct. But nowadays, we have ATX cases and ATX hardware that is streamlined. For example, the NR200P Max, which is an ATX case, but it already comes with a PSU, it already comes with an AIO. So, we're seeing more of these built-in things to simplify ATX builds. 13, we get asked quite often kung itong specs ba toh kaya mag-streaming and most of the time, it's yes. Kahit medyo lumana PC mo, hindi latest gen, it can probably handle streaming. I know because I streamed for a long time using a very old i5-4690K, fourth generation Intel, modern games, kaya yung kaya. Your PC is more powerful than usually we give it credit for. So ngayong bagong taon, if you're thinking about buying a new PC and upgrading just for the purposes of streaming, your current PC probably can do that already now without any changes. Usually, yung mga nag-upgrade lang for streaming are professional streamers, yung mga kailanganong capture cards, better graphics cards, CPUs with more cores and threads, multitasking. Usually, yung mga pro streamers lang yung talagang kailangan mag-bayad to get better quality streaming. But for the casual streamer, there's no need to upgrade or get a new PC in 2023 if that's the only thing you want to do in addition to what you're doing already. 14, and the same goes for programming. We often get asked the question ano ba yung recommended build namin for programming? Actually, you don't need a lot of computing hardware for programming. Most of it is computational, yung pagkino-compile mo na yung code. It depends also if you're doing game development, which is a type of programming also. In general, you don't need very high-end specs for programming. Check if you have a current PC now and inisip mo, oh, kailangan ko ito para mag-upgrade or you're a parent, and yung anak mo na, oi, kailangan ko ng bagong computer kasi mag-ccs na ako sa college, yung inito gan yan. Most programming is not computationally intensive. You don't actually need a very brand new cutting-edge computer for that. 15, so it might be a good idea to do some spring cleaning that includes dito sa atin. Dust is a common enemy. Pumapasok talaga yung sa case. It builds up in the fans. It decreases performance because as components get hotter, their performance goes down. We do offer general cleaning in the shop where we take a full computer. We break everything down. We remove all of the dirt, the grime, the dust, the cobwebs. Paminsan may nakapasok na doon na e-pace, amoy nandarga, whatever. I mean, we've really seen some dirty builds. We reapply thermal paste to the CPU and we throw in our patented cable management skills. And we also do GPU repasting. I'll be the first to admit, tamadakotong ko sa cleaning. But, you know, if it's been one or two years since your computer was assembled and you just leave it in some dusty part of the house or the office, give your PC some TLC and have it cleaned. 16, build with multiple monitors in mind. This is not popular advice. You don't hear it said often. The secondary monitor makes everything easier. You're more productive. If you're streaming, it's super useful when you can use your primary screen for the game and the secondary screen to monitor the stream. If you're working, same thing. Anything you do on your computer is 10 times better, at least, with a secondary monitor. Tapos, this doesn't need to be expensive. Yung secondary monitor, pa de secondhand TV or basically any display HDMI or display port or even the older form factors like VGA or DVI. And if you're PC as a graphics card, it doesn't need to be the latest graphics card. A lot of the older cards do have a lot of multiple ports. When people hear multiple monitors kasi inisit nila, ah, mahal yun. Di ko raman kailangan. It's true, you don't need it to run a computer, to use a computer. But once you have it, it makes everything so much easier. Tapos yung mahal yung upgrading in mind. It doesn't necessarily need to be expensive having a secondary monitor. So when you're building, do think about where will I put a secondary monitor? Will my GPU have enough ports? How do I mount the thing? It will go a long way at your quality of life. 17's Piki of monitors, do check na tama yung resolution and refresh rate na ginagamit mo. Bale wala kung bibili ka nung 144 hertz, 165 hertz na monitor, na kaya mag 2K, pero yung settings niya naka 1080p at 60 hertz. Seems like a simple thing for enthusiasts and kung sanay ka sa computer, medyo automatic na chin-check mo yun. But I see a lot of comments online na nag-ulat na lang sila, bumilisa lang nung magad ng monitor, two years down the line lang nila nalaman na, ui, kailang ko pala-check yung settings ng windows to enable all of those features that your fancy monitor has. Simple step, but yes, sometimes people do forget to check it. 18, the eternal question, especially at the start of the year, should you buy a full rig na bago, or just upgrade? It's very hard to talk in general, kasi andaming variation sa computer and that's the nice thing about the hobby, you can really tweak and upgrade and swap parts in and out. So very difficult to give general advice without knowing the specific computer, pero personally, kung below-raisen yung AMD system mo, pero kung below-raisen, I would suggest just getting a new system. Same goes for around Intel 7th gen. Very roughly, Intel 8th gen pataas, malamang you kind of have a good graphics card, the RAM is still good, MOBO, if it's Intel hard to upgrade, but you know, basically decent for what you have now. But anything below-eighth gen seems a little creaky already at this point. Price to performance, it would probably be better if you have that kind of rig, kung babmulika na lang nung bago. 19, connected to the upgrade question is be afraid of the marketing hype. So, every time a new generation comes around, sinasabi nung mga brands, this is the latest and the greatest, you can't live without it. Talong-talong yung previous generation namin, tanga ka for even considering na bumilin nung luma kaisa sa dito sa pinaka-latest na generation, but don't be afraid to ignore that marketing hype. Syempre gusto nila na bumilika, but for you, iba yung priorities. The priority of the brand is to sell a product. Your priority is to get value for money. So, don't be afraid to ignore the marketing hype, and don't be afraid to ask questions. Sa mga tech friends mo, sa mga shops na bidibisita mo, and ask is the Ryzen 7000 series really the best for my use case or okay na ba yung 5000 series? And if a shop is a good shop, if a brand is a good brand, they'll give you an honest answer. Number 20, ask questions, but there are customers that ask too many questions. Baka may magalit, for me saying so, but I'm just gonna say it na may mga customers talaga na di mo masatisfay ang daming tanong. We've made videos about it before. And the problem with that is na, yes, it's good to ask questions when you're using it to inform yourself, when you're using it to improve your understanding of a component of how everything comes together for a build and those questions are good, those questions are fine, those are the questions that we like to answer. But when you're asking questions just for the sake of asking questions, it's like all of the answers just pass through you and you ask the same questions over and over again, yung pinapakita noon, di mo talaga na iintindihan yung mga sagot ng shop or nun tech friend mo and that doesn't help you also. The whole point of asking questions is that you can come to an informed decision about what you're buying. But if you're not processing, if you're not understanding, kung yung mga sagot just leads to more and more questions na paulit-ulit lang, di ka rin aabot sa point na you can with confidence say, ah itin kailang ko, itin gusto kong GPU, itin gusto kong RAM, itin gusto kong system. So too many questions also is a sign that the customer is not doing his job because the customer does have a job because at the end of the day ikaw magsasabi, atingin ko okay tong system na to. I trust the shop, but I also understood what they were saying and I agree sa recommendation nila na ito dapat yung maganda para sa use case ko. 22 some parts last much longer than others. I'm thinking about monitors, PSUs, storage, a lot of those parts years, 5 years, 10 years paminsan, magagamit mo pa rin and you should take that into consideration when you do a new build. Can you have parts that you can cannibalize from your old system? Ako person I do that all the time, yung PSU lilipat ko sa bagong system yung mga monitors ko, yung ibang sobrang duma na kasi lilipat ko as secondary monitors to my new rig. So again, this is kind of pushback against the hype na you always need the latest, the highest capacity, not at all. You have a lot of old parts in your old PC na kahit in 2023 sobrang okay pa rin sila at magagamit mo pa rin sila even in a new system. 22 when most of us think about upgrades we think about the CPU and the GPU but actually a lot of the quality of life of using a computer is in a different component. So 22 is maybe your PC is fine now. You don't want to touch the main rig but there might be a peripheral that you do want to upgrade and that will really improve your use of your computer. It doesn't have to be something crazy like a 48 inch OLED but if that's what floats your boat why the heck not but it can be a keyboard uso-uso yung mga customize keys ngayon baka you're thinking of diving into that scene or getting a new primary or secondary monitor getting a new mouse getting a new microphone or headset don't restrict your list of possible upgrades just to the very vanilla things like CPU, GPU, RAM, things like that. There are a lot of peripherals that can make your PC shine. Kumaganda na rig mo, get something that will make you appreciate it more para maramdamon mo talaga yung performance ng computer mo. 23, we all love computers but perhaps the best building tip of all is find a hobby or an interest outside of the computer hardware space. Having different interests, mga healing outside of computers will enrich your computer life as well. Give you something to do other than obsessing about hardware or about specs for your games. This talking doesn't look like much but this has been with me basically my entire life. My mom made this for me but it's not mine anymore. I kept it, you know, I used it as a kid, I kept it and now it's my daughters. But we recently welcomed another addition to the family my son who's 6 months old now. So wala na akong stocking na ma-man na sa kanya because I only had one stocking for my mom and I gave it to my first born daughter. So for 2023, my project will be to knit a stocking for my son. I've never done any knitting at all or whatever. Yung niya, these hands are not knitting hands. Wala akong alam nii isang cross stitch sa buhay ko nagawa ko. But yun, that is my outside of computer project for 2023. Hopefully it will get done by Christmas 2023. I have the whole year to do it. So hina-hina lang, slowly but surely and hopefully it lasts long enough that he can pass it on to his kids. Kasi kawa naman yung second child ko if he doesn't have the same kind of memento as my first born has courtesy of my mom. So for my mom, to me, to my daughter and for my son, from me to him to his kids later on. Simula pa lang nung taon everybody has their own New Year's wishes or solutions or hopes for the year. I hope it will be good for everyone. Excited to tackle 2023 and if upgrading or buying a new rig is in your plans, don't forget hardware sugar. Paminsan may nagtatanong kumikilala ba kami ng computer shop na trusted yung hindi ka lolo ko hin? Actually, meron kami. Full service PC store ang hardware sugar. Nagbabenta kami ng PC components. Nagbabenta rin kami ng fully assembled rigs. We clean computers. Kasama na rin yung excellent cable management namin and CPU cooler repasting sa cleaning. We also clean and repaste GPUs. Nasamakati 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.