TL;DR

Linus rounds up a $1,600 gaming rig built entirely at MSRP—no scalper markup required. He pairs an AMD Ryzen 5 9600X with 32 GB of DDR5-6000 RAM, an MSI B650-A WiFi board, a 2 TB M.2 SSD, and cools it all with a Thermalright Frozen Notte 360 AIO inside a Phanteks XT Pro Ultra case. Power comes from a Seasonic Gold PSU and graphics from an ASUS GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16 GB.

The video breaks down each part’s price and performance, totals the final build cost, and then fires up some gameplay. Along the way, Linus jokes about GPU shortages, soaring RAM prices, and plugs sponsors like War Thunder and Secretlab—if you’re after a solid 1440p setup without paying above MSRP, this is your blueprint.

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