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July 30, 2023 15 mins
Welcome to the best gaming pc builds of the month for August 2023 for $1500, $1000, $800, and $500. Check all the PC builds here: https://newbcomputerbuild.com/newb-computer-build/gaming-pc-builds-of-the-month-best-for-august-2023/

The best $1500 pc build is more realistically close to $1400, leaving you plenty of room for smaller upgrades, and the same goes for the $500 gaming PC build, which is actually pretty much on the mark at $400, and if you read on, you’ll see why.

If you go to the higher $1500 and $1000 budgets, then you can see that these are aiming at the higher resolution type gamers, while also taking advantage of DDR5 and more. So check those out!

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01:24 $1500 Gaming PC Build - August 2023
06:20 $1000 Gaming PC Build - August 2023
08:00 $800 Gaming PC Build - August 2023
09:50 $500 Gaming PC Build - August 2023
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(00:00):
Hello, and welcome to the Augusttwenty twenty three gaming PC builds of the
month. My name is Corey withNube computer build dot com. Well,
welcome to the August update here forthe gaming PC builds overall. If this
is your first time here, wego through a series of different budgets depending
on what your budget is, andfor those that are building new gaming PCs
to game on or just building PCsin general, this may be a value

(00:22):
to you. So this is ourAugust update for twenty twenty three. The
builds up will be going through todayare ones in the range of fifteen hundred
dollars, one thousand dollars, eighthundred dollars, and five hundred dollars.
Keep in mind, I will alsoas I go through those sprinkle in some
upgrade alternatives. So if your budgetskind of a little more, a little
less, that sort of thing thatyou can accommodate your budget to fit.

(00:43):
I do also want to kind ofthrow out there the updates for the month
for August twenty twenty three. There'sbeen quite a few dollars decreases, particularly
in the fifteen hundred dollars build andthe five hundred dollars build one thousand,
eight hundred dollars builds are both thesame in terms of costwise, and they're
kind of on the mark with thebudget with the fifteen hundred dollars build is
way below fifteen hundred and five hundreddollar build. It's actually closer to four

(01:03):
hundred dollars. In fact, it'sit's pretty much four hundred dollars this month,
which leaves plenty of room for upgrades. So if that is your budget
and you're just planning an entry levelA gaming PC, so tune in for
that one, but pay attention tosome of the updates there as if you
really want to increase your performance there, you might need to spend a little
more than five hundred dollars, andI'll tell you why once we get there.
All right, let's start with thefirst build here, the fifteen hundred

(01:25):
dollars gaming PC build of the Monthfor August twenty twenty three. So jumping
into the fifteen hundred dollar bill,this builds that the higher range kind of
one. Of course, you canspend more money on your build, and
I'll show you some upgrade suggestions forthat once we get to the end of
this build. About. However,this build is for those that really want
to game play any game out there, max out settings and we're talking about
ten ADP fourteen forty resolutions and evenplay quite well into four K resolutions without

(01:48):
a hiccup, without a problem.But you might need to scale back in
some games that really really high resolutionsin four at four K, for example,
But this should play everything out there. So this is that build.
If this is what you're looking for, this is the budget that I'd aim
for. And all these builds areput together with regards to price per performance
in mind. So obviously there's somesuggestions within these builds that might not fit

(02:10):
your style or what may it belike the case, for example, the
case that's I include in all thebuilds are basically the case that you know,
highly rateed cases that are kind ofbudget friendly that do the job and
so they'll be kind of decent cooling, all that sort of thing. But
your style may be different, soyou might you want to account for that.

(02:30):
For example, well let's jump intoit. The fifteen hundred dollar built.
So the CPU and this one isthe AMD rise in five seventy six
hundred X CPU coming in at onehundred ninety nine dollars nine to nine cents
at the moment at the beginning ofthe month. This is on sale right
now. In fact, typically Irecommend the seventy six hundred X as it
performs a little bit better than theseventy six hundred. It's actually less than
the seventy six hundred non X thismonth, so I would definitely recommend it.

(02:53):
Keep in mind, if you dowant to go with the seventy six
hundred, it comes with the cooler, whereas this one does not, So
that is the difference, and it'llcome out and kind of in the wash
costwise, So keep keep an eyeout for that. If if you're kind
of going back and forth or theprice of the seventy six hundred changes,
the seventy six hundred is still aviable or is a is a kind of
a viable alternative, all right?Moving on, Like I said, no

(03:15):
cooler included, So I've included herethe Noctua NHU twelve S Redux air cooler
at fifty four dollars ninety five cents. Motherboard for this is the MSI PROB
six fifty P Wi Fi Pro Seriesmotherboard at one hundred and eight dollars and
twenty six cents. Again like arate in the title there. It has
on board Wi Fi which is greatso you don't have to worry about,
you know, connecting through a wiredconnection, and also a pretty decent board

(03:38):
for one of the new Amid Risingseven thousand blew the seven thousand series desktop
processors. For the graphics card,the real power driver for this build,
we have the Zootech Gaming g ForceRTS forty seventy this month. This is
a Newerish card and it was firstintroduced in this build last month, so
kind of significantly increased the performance lastmonth and still included this month. This

(04:00):
comes in at a five hundred ninetynine dollars ninety nine cents at the moment.
Moving on for memory, we havea crucial kid of thirty two gigabyte
memory to sixteen gigabyte sticks here fortyeight hundred megatransfers per second um in this
kit for eighty dollars and ninety ninecents. I do want to throw out
there. Typically U sixteen gigs wasincluded in this build as the kind of

(04:21):
base memory. However, I'm bumpingit up to thirty two gigs. As
it fits perfectly into the fifteen hundreddollars build. In fact, fifteen hundred
dollars build is quite a fordable atthe moment, as I'd mentioned prior,
so moving on storage for this one, I'm recommending right now is the Crucial
P three plus one terabyte nvm SSD. Beginning of the month, here is
forty four ninety nine power supply asthe course their RM series RM eight hundred

(04:44):
fifty one power supply one thirty nineninety nine. This has gone off just
slightly right now, just a noteversus last month. And then the case
we have here's the Course Air fourthousand D. This is a I love
this case, and I've loved thiscase for quite a while and it's been
out for quite a while. Thisis so the Course Air four thousand D
comes in at eighty nine ninety ninefor a total at the beginning of the
month, you're at in August onethousand, three hundred ninety nine dollars.

(05:06):
So, like I said, wellunder fifteen hundred dollars. So that's super,
that's awesome. Yeah, So ifyou're looking for the fifteen dollars built,
there are there is room for upgradesand as I mentioned, I'm just
going to jump over here some upgradeideas. Should you have more to spend,
you can go all out and boostyour gaming performance instantly and go with

(05:26):
an RTX forty seventy TI such aspny RTS forty seventy TI right now,
this one coming out at seven hundredand eighty two dollars seventy nine cents.
That would be a very viable upgrade. You can go with one of the
highest performing gaming CPUs out there whenthe AMD rise in nine seventy nine fifty
x three. D uh this isand keep in mind no bundle cooler in
this one as well, so youstill need a cooler. Uh. This

(05:48):
is a phenomenal CPU. So thisis a six hundred forty nine dollars right
now, So that would be aviable upgrade as well. You could double
your memory with a six or fourgig hit of crucial memory here d R
five, same kit that's included,but double the memory for one nine ninety
nine. Or you can get analternative cooling such as this liquid cooler here,

(06:09):
the b Quiet Bwzer zero eight peerloop three sixteen millimeter all on one
cooler one hundred twenty four dollars ninetycents, so some ideas should you have
more to spend or want to upgradein the future. I'm going to move
on here to the next build,so for August twenty twenty three, the
one thousand dollars Gaming PC build ofthe month. The update for this month
for this one is it's pretty prettysteady, pretty much the same. So

(06:31):
if you've been keeping up with theseupdates and your budgets one thousand dollars,
nothing too much to scream home about, scream home about this month. But
for those of you that are new, let's kick it off. CPU for
this one is the MD rise infive seventy six hundred that's done seventy six
hundred nine X, coming in attwo hundred nineteen dollars ninety nine cents.
This includes a cooler, so we'renot including one, but you could add
one if you want to. Thestock coolers the MD Erase stealth cooler included.

(06:56):
Motherboard that I've included here is theGigabyte B six six six fifty MDS
three h h microat X board,so a very compact board that kind of
does the trick here. One fortynine ninety nine, and then the memory
or memory storry before the memory graphicscard included for this build is the Asus
dual g Force RTX forty sixty tI three ninety nine ninety nine. And

(07:17):
I didn't mention prior, but theone thousand dollars build we'll give you tremendous
ultra gaming performance at fourteen forty andten ADP performance. A little more scaled
back than the fifteen hundred dollars build, mind you, but still it'll still
do pretty well at those resolutions.Memory we have as a crucial kid of
sixteen gigabyte forty one hundred megaher memoryhere two six or two a gigbyte six
story for thirty nine ninety nine.Storage is the Crucial P three one terabyte

(07:41):
NVAM SST for forty four ninety nine. Power Supply to power this one is
the ev g A six Supernova sixfifty G five so six hundred fifty one
power supply one hundred and nine dollarsninety nine cents. And then the case
to put it all together is thez Almine S two for fifty four ninety
nine, coming in at a swiftone thousand, twenty seven dollars at the
beginning of August twenty twenty three.Moving on to the second last build,

(08:03):
the updates for the eight hundred dollarsgaming PC build of the month. So
the eight hundred dollars build. Again, like the one thousand dollars build,
not too many changes, slight refinementsI think in terms of the prices,
but that's about it. And therewere significant updates to this build last month,
so again not many changes since lastmonth other than slight cost fluctuations.

(08:24):
So let's get into it. TheCPU for the eight hundred dollars gaming PC
build of the month is the IntelCore I three thirteen one hundred F gaming
CPU, not gaming CPU, justthe CPU for a gaming PC. This
one comes in at one hundred andfifteen dollars. We're including the stock Intel
Lamentar cooler, so no cost associatedwith that. Motherboard we have as the
gigabite B seven sixty MDS three hmicro ATX motherboard one hundred nineteen dollars ninety

(08:48):
nine cents the sorry. The graphicscard for this one is the power Color
AMD Radio RX sixty seven hundred XTthis month three forty nine ninety nine and
then the memory for this one isthe Coursair Vengeance LPX six and gigabyte kit
of DDR four thirty six hundred megahertmemory at forty one ninety nine. If
you do want to get into theDDR five space, that's where you want

(09:09):
to consider the builds that were mentionedat the beginning here with the one fifteen
hundred dollars build as we've made themove over to that. However, with
the kind of lower end budgets suchas the eight hundred five hundred dollar builds,
we're still on DR four. Nothingwrong with that at all. In
fact, the prices are reflected quitewell and in these builds, which makes
them a great value. At themoment. Storage we have as a crucial

(09:30):
P three one terabyte nbamesst at thirtynine ninety nine, power supply at PBS
Prestige six hundred power supply fifty oneninety nine, and then the Zelman S
two Midtower gaming PC case at fiftyfour ninety nine, for a total of
eight hundred and fourteen dollars here atthe beginning of August twenty twenty three.
Moving on to the last build,the five hundred dollars gaming PC build of

(09:52):
the month. This is um thisis an interesting built, especially this month.
It's an interesting build. Who isthis build? Or well, I
mean, it's a very very entrylevel gaming PC build. It'll get you
gaming, It'll get your gaming allright at seven twenty P. It get
your gaming all right at ten ADP. Obviously scaled back significantly in most games,
but you'll be able to play,which is great, and the reason

(10:13):
for that is it's, you know, an affordable budget PC. It also
doesn't include a graphics card, aswe're using the integrated graphics on the CPU.
However, a lot of potential becauseyou can also add a graphics card
later which will significantly boo boost thegaming performance of this build. But I
do want to mention as I getto the CPU here, the one I
chose and why, and then kindof alternatives you can choose if you wanted

(10:35):
to kind of scale right now versuslater, and that sort of thing.
So let's get started. So thefive hundred dollars gaming PC build of the
Month for August twenty twenty three.The CPU here we have is the AMD
rise In five fifty six hundred GCPU at one hundred and twenty seven dollars
fifty six cents if you've been keepingup to date with these builds. Prior,
I've included the MD rise and sevenfifty seven hundred G which is the

(10:58):
one up from the CPU, whichalso has integrated graphics. However, it's
significantly more expensive aout one hundred andseventy seven dollars and ten cents. I
mean a little bit more expensive.However, the performance for dollars spent here
is it's not quite there, asyou might gain about five percent performance in
terms of gaming performance. So ifyou do want to bump up to that
one, go for it. Infact, I was recommending it prior.

(11:18):
However, right now I just don'tsee the point. You might as well
save that money and put it intoa graphics card later on. Yeah,
so let's move on. Cooler Includedwith this one is the amdy Race Stealth
cooler, so it's included no costassociated with that one. Motherboard is the
Asus Tough Gaming A five twenty mplus Wi Fi motherboard micro at x Board
ninety nine. This is a dpretty decent board for this bill as it

(11:39):
does include onboard wid Wi Fi forquite a budget build, which is kind
of cool. Um Like I said, no graphics card here, we're using
the integrated radio on our x graphicsincluded memory we have of course our Vengeance
LPX six and Giga by kit DRfour thirty six hundred megahert kid of memory
forty one nine nine storage is acrucial P three one terror by NBAM SST

(12:00):
at thirty nine ninety nine and onetarabyte. Plenty of starting room here for
a budget build. In fact,if you wanted to save a few more
dollars, you could scale back toa five hundred gig NVAM SSD and save
a little bit, But that's upto you if you're really trying to nickel
and dime your budget build. Butone tearabyte plenty of space for any starter
PC in my opinion, power supplythermal take smart five power supply to power

(12:20):
this one at thirty nine ninety nine, and then the case bring it all
together as as ALM an S twomidtower gaming PC case at fifty four ninety
nine. This build, like Ihad said, very low cost, is
very low right out four hundred sixdollars. In fact, it's gone down
every single month like The only changein this month, like i'd said,
is moving to the cheaper fifty sixhundred GCPU, but again we're only saving

(12:41):
what is this forty dollars forty fiftydollars or something like that, so that's
why it's so cheap this month.But again it was also under five hundred
dollars last month, so plenty ofroom here. So but I'm going to
jump over to some if you're inthis budget range, some upgrade alternatives for
this one. So if you didwant to kind of go all out initially,
this will be more like a sixto seven hundred I think gaming PC.

(13:03):
If you wanted to, for example, switch to an am D rise
In five fifty six hundred, whichis a better CPU overall, but not
with integrated graphics, that would setyou back one forty four ninety nine at
the moment, and then you wouldneed a graphics card so such as this
one for example, um this gigabyteRadio r X sixty five hundred XT,

(13:24):
which would give you way better gamingperformance than the base five hundred dollars bill
at two hundred twenty dollars and seventynine cents for this GPU, so that
combined with the rise In five fiftysix hundred would give you a pretty well
rounded PC right off the bat.So so if you didn't want to use
to, if you had a littlemore to spend, a little more than
four hundred dollars, mind you,and then the memories if you had some

(13:45):
other if you just wanted to upgradesome other pieces of this bill, that
you could go thirty two gigs ofmemory for sixty nine ninety nine or kind
of double your storage with a CrucialP three two terabyte MBMME sis D for
eighty two dollars and sixty cents.Well, that does it for this month.
I know I didn't get into actuallywhat I'll get into into right before
the end here is because I kindof glossed over it with some upgrade suggestions

(14:05):
for the one thousand dollars build aneight hundred dollar build again. If you
want to see more builds and moreupgrade alternatives, do visit the site new
computerbill dot com. But I kindof I just noticed that just skipped over
the one thousand dollars build upgrade alternatives. So on the one thousand dollar build
again, you can upgrade to kindof an all in one cooling like the
b Quiet BW zero zero six,or to a better graphics card like the

(14:28):
rt X forty seventy WR, storagewith a Crucial P three two tear by
MMS nvm SSD, or a CPUupgrade such as the rise In five seventy
six hundred X, but you willneed a cooler if you go with that,
And then jumping over the eight hundreddollar build again just to remind you
the CPU and the eight hundred dollarbuild, and I apologize for jumping around
here. Going back to the onehundred dollar build, the CPU that was

(14:52):
included was the Intel Core I threethirteen one hundred F so a viable upgrade
could be the five thirteen four hunderd FF at two hundred and six dollars
ninety nine cents, or a bettergraphics card like the RTS forty sixty TI,
or double the storage at with aCrucial P three two terabyte NBAMESSD at
eighty two dollars and seventy cents.My apologies if I was skipping around.

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Hopefully you can kind of scroll tothe beginning here for a recap, or
jump over to the site at newcomputerbilldot com where we post these gaming PC
bilts every single month. So ifyou have any questions or comments, and
you're building a PC right now,feel free leave a comment on the site,
leave a comment on where you're you'relistening or watching to this update,
But other than that, best ofluck building your next gaming PC. Thank you,
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