We Built the BEST PC

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We built the FASTEST PC money can buy off the shelf in 2026. It’s so fast it’s almost like gaming in the future, and it’s so futuristic that we actually still have to build it! Featuring a monstrous AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2, 32 Gigs of elusive DDR5 memory, and a MSI 5090 Lightning Z GPU with a freakin’ screen on it. Let’s see how this bad boy performs.

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Check out the parts from the build!
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Processor: https://geni.us/erc5S
Noctua NL-LC1-42 Liquid CPU Cooler: https://geni.us/NsSFD
ASRock AMD X870E Taichi Motherboard: https://geni.us/j5O9Q
G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series DDR5 64GB CL30: https://geni.us/Wbg5AZX
WD_Black SN8100 2TB NVMe SSD: https://geni.us/lJsz
MSI NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 32G LIGHTNING Z: https://geni.us/PipPW9h
Fractal Design Meshify 3 XL Ambience Pro: https://geni.us/eGlizJ
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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
0:56 Sponsor
1:17 Our CPU of choice
2:04 The Mother of boards
2:39 $1,600 RAM (R.I.P.)
3:08 Installing the SSD the fast way
3:22 Assembling core components
5:27 The pinnacle of 5090s
6:41 Slickest Display in the biz
7:20 Gaming on the FASTEST PC
9:32 Overclocking the FASTEST PC
12:00 Assessing the damage
12:38 Saily
13:31 Outro