I Bought a Gaming PC at Best Buy… Am I Dumb?

Check out MSI's deals and special Holiday offers today at: https://msi.gm/3NzyMO3 Check out ORIGIN PC’s lineup this holiday season at http://bit.ly/3H3Sm3I We were pleasantly surprised in 2016, and again in 2020, but can we still get a decent Gaming PC by wandering into a Best Buy and taking whatever the sales rep recommends? Our secret shopper finds out! Discuss on the forum: https://linustechtips.com/topic/1476271-i-bought-a-gaming-pc-at-best-buy%E2%80%A6-am-i-dumb/ Buy a Rog Strix G10CE Gaming PC: https://howl.me/ciLpg5ILSFr Buy an Intel Core i5 11400F: https://geni.us/1jD8aaH Buy an Nvidia GTX 1660 Ti: https://geni.us/pKG0BT Buy a 600W LiteOn PSU: https://geni.us/AqJO Asus ROG B560M Plus: https://geni.us/GVy7 Buy a kit of SK Hynix DDR4: https://geni.us/Hi0Bg1 Buy a Western Digital 512GB SSD: https://geni.us/ICZG AMD Ryzen 5 5600X: https://geni.us/rdeP5 MSI B450 Gaming Plus MAX:https://geni.us/11buGAs Buy a kit of Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB DDR4 RAM: https://geni.us/iLhyBJX Buy an Intel 670p 1TB SSD: https://geni.us/RplFr67 Buy an MSI Mech 2X Radeon RX 6650 XT:https://geni.us/PaI52PB Buy an ASUS Tuf Gaming 750 W 80+ Bronze PSU: https://geni.us/wu25Zf Buy Fractal Design Focus G Mid-Tower Case: https://geni.us/zDEh Purchases made through some store links may provide some compensation to Linus Media Group. ► GET MERCH: https://lttstore.com ► SUPPORT US ON FLOATPLANE: https://www.floatplane.com/ltt ► AFFILIATES, SPONSORS & REFERRALS: https://lmg.gg/sponsors ► PODCAST GEAR: https://lmg.gg/podcastgear FOLLOW US --------------------------------------------------- Twitter: https://twitter.com/linustech Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/LinusTech Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/linustech TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@linustech Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/linustech MUSIC CREDIT --------------------------------------------------- Intro: Laszlo - Supernova Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKfxmFU3lWY iTunes Download Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/supernova/id936805712 Artist Link: https://soundcloud.com/laszlomusic Outro: Approaching Nirvana - Sugar High Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngsGBSCDwcI Listen on Spotify: http://spoti.fi/UxWkUw Artist Link: http://www.youtube.com/approachingnirvana Intro animation by MBarek Abdelwassaa https://www.instagram.com/mbarek_abdel/ Monitor And Keyboard by vadimmihalkevich / CC BY 4.0 https://geni.us/PgGWp Mechanical RGB Keyboard by BigBrotherECE / CC BY 4.0 https://geni.us/mj6pHk4 Mouse Gamer free Model By Oscar Creativo / CC BY 4.0 https://geni.us/Ps3XfE CHAPTERS --------------------------------------------------- 0:00 Intro 0:55 The Rules 1:31 Weirdest Advice Ever 2:28 What we got 3:53 The catch 5:14 His biggest mistake 6:06 What if we spec our own? 6:51 What if we build our own? 8:48 Who wins? 10:18 Outro