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two years ago when we built our first most average gaming PC the GTX 1060

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is the most pop for gamers finally all of that has

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changed

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that's right the great price raising has taken its toll and for the first time

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that I can remember the average gaming rig has actually gotten worse and since

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game developers are always going to Target the lowest common denominator for

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their low graphic settings does this mean that game realism could actually

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take a step back to find out we're going to be building a

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new most average gaming PC because gpus

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aren't the only thing that's changed in the last two years

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for instance we've got a completely new sponsor it's you green ugreen is taking

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to make a proper comparison we started by reassembling our last unexceptional

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winner and we re-ran all of our benchmarks driver updates can make a big

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difference over such a long period of time and then we poured over the latest

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team Hardware survey along with the Amazon bestsellers list to fill in the

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gaps for items like power supply case and Storage

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so without further ado build it

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with our motherboard the b660mg from MSI

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and I know what you're thinking really I 12th gen chip Yes actually but I don't

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want to talk about that yet we chose this board because the top selling v660

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on Amazon right now is a hundred and ten dollar Gigabyte board that we don't have

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but we do have this similarly priced guy from MSI with pretty much the same

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features and no matter which one of them you end up with it's enough to make you

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question why anybody needs a 500 motherboard it doesn't have some of the

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latest bells and whistles no support for front USB type c and it only has two

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memory slots which can make upgrading less economical but it's got two gen 4

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m.2 slots support for two and a half gig Lan and of course an upgrade path to the

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latest 13th gen CPUs with that out of the way now we can talk about the CPU

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the problem with the steam Hardware survey is that it doesn't report

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specific model numbers only the brand average base clock frequency average

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core count and an indicator for how many people have hyper threading or smt on

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that note eighty percent of You by the way have hyper writing now meaning that

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two threads per core is now overwhelmingly the norm the average core

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count has also gone up moving us from quad cores into the hexacore class but

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wait the average base clock is now just 2.3 to 2.7 gigahertz uh I mean even if

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Intel didn't still have two-thirds of the market AMD's recent chips pretty

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much all the way in at around 3.6 gigahertz base our suspicion is that

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this is due to a couple of converging Trends first of all older CPUs that have

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low IPC but extremely high clock speeds have really reached the end of their

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useful gaming lifespan and are likely being retired on mass the second is that

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we know that laptops are a growing segment particularly in gaming and they

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tend to have high boost clocks but very low base clocks we were able to find

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some Modern desktop chips that closely fit the build though and we settled on

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the core i5 12 400 since it doesn't have

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have any efficiency cores only performance course it should be fairly

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representative of either a current gen Intel or AMD gaming experience and it

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also happens to be a great bang for the buck choice at its last gen discounted

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price for CPU cooling the hyper 212 lineup of heat sinks from Cooler Master

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must be mentioned due to its obvious popularity however some other great

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value options have hit the market in recent years so it's not really the

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Clear Choice that it once was as for our build well rcpu comes with a stock

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cooler and since it can't be overclocked due to restrictions on the motherboard

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chipset and CPU we're going to go ahead and use that which also makes our

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installation a little bit simpler storage was a tough one I think I'm

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going to fire an email over to valve and ask them if maybe in the future they can

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split it out by interface so that we can see the share of NVMe versus SATA drives

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that could become a really important data point down the road depending on

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how direct storage plays out for now though the hardware survey

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doesn't give us much in the way of granularity with only one terabyte Plus

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for guidance then we aired on the side of plus given that so many modern games

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will occupy 50 gigs or more of storage

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and we felt that with the popularity not to mention affordability of m.2 NVMe

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drives it made sense to go for the not the best but far from the worst Samsung

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970 Evo plus two terabyte if Amazon reviews are anything to go by you guys

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are on the same page here it's only PCI

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Express gen 3 which might not be as f

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word as a Gen 4 Drive Monster X storage hits the scene for real if it does but

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this thing has over 44 000 reviews maintaining a Solid 5 star rating and

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the best part is that if you don't need two terabytes for 165 dollars the one

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terabyte version is only 90 bucks that's incredibly affordable for this kind of

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performance though it is still over double of what a retro polar fleece us

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from lttstore.com and this is this is much less comfortable to wear like

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how cool is it that affordable motherboards are coming with simple

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tool-less SSD installation mechanisms now love to see it now for memory

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ah it hasn't really changed most of you

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are still rocking 16 gigs which is good

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but one thing did change we went with ddr4 rather than DDR3 this time around

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we settled on a middle of the road kit from Corsair a two by eight gig 3200

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Mega transfer per second cl-16 kit all

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three top spots on Amazon are variants of this Vengeance lpx kit with 72 000

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reviews no RGB just straight performance

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is what the people want so that's what we're going to give them moving on to

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the case what can I say this thing is still on

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top despite the new variants that massively improve on its performance at

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over 30 000 reviews it eclipses every other case

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in the top 10 list right now I mean it's almost never the worst choice to just

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pick what's popular and the h510 is no

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exception it's got good looks a user-friendly layout and it's fairly

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priced I just think that a savvier shopper would venture

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the Box and maybe grab the flow variant in hopes that it will better handle

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future GPU upgrades as we continue to March towards the industry goal of

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creating gaming processors that double as space heaters this is the kind of

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thing I'm talking about with quality of life features there's a little nubbing

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on the center motherboard standoff that allows you to just rest the motherboard

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there I'm not saying I recommend doing this I'm just saying that

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um you could by the way the Keen item you might have noticed that I am missing

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an i o Shield someone put this board back in inventory without it it doesn't

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affect performance but it could affect the amount of Emi that's coming out of

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the back of the case not that the sheeple shopping approach is always the

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best I'm about to contradict a lot of what I just said please do not just buy

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the most reviewed power supply on Amazon the thermal takes

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I will almost lean not light on fire we actually really

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included its little brother in our entry-tier holiday shopping guide but we

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only did that because we were trying to fit in a very aggressive budget we would

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never actually recommend that you skimp on power supply so we're going to put a

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couple of better Options under the video that don't cost much more for the

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purposes of this build though majority rules so we grabbed a close enough

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equivalent off our Shelf complete with ketchup and mustard cables and no 80

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plus efficiency badge whatsoever now let's talk about the big change the GPU

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it costs anywhere from 170 all the way up to 250 dollars for a 1650 brand new

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it wasn't very good when it launched and it's not very good right now but with a

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new 3050 which would be the closest current gen equivalent going for at

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least three hundred dollars it's easy to see why over the last few years

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especially but even now most people have

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opted for the save about option and gone for one of these it's got only a 128 bit

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bus four gigs of gddr5 memory that is

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two gigs fewer than our 1060 from our

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last most average gaming PC and a booth

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clock speed of up to 1665 megahertz the

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problem with this card and the reason that I would not recommend picking one

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up even if your budget constrained is that you can get a used 3050 for about

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the same price off of eBay or Facebook Marketplace

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if you have one of these guys though don't feel bad about it because I'm

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about to game on it and I think our Benchmark results might surprise you or

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maybe it won't surprise you since we already said that game developers tend

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to Target the hardware that's out there and a whopping six percent of gamers are

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using this GPU oh moving on to what we're going to

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connect it to we've got this the scepter

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24 inch 75 Hertz does it even have a

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model name the point is it's not actually the most popular monitor this

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21.5 inch 1080p beast from Acer but it

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is the silver medalist and both of them have the same Core specs 1080p

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resolution a slightly higher than standard 75 Hertz refresh rate which

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makes a huge difference over 60 by the way and a very attractive price point on

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that note the wired version of the g502 from Logitech might seem like a bit of

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an odd choice on the most average gaming PC given that it's priced at 80 dollars

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but there's a method to this madness nobody actually pays eighty dollars for

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it it's currently 34 on sale which is a

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whole lot of bang for the buck and if the 50 plus thousand reviews are

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anything to go by almost always on sale don't buy it for

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80. for keyboard realistically anything is probably fine like I would take a

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good mouse and a six dollar keyboard over the opposite eight days of the week

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so I grabbed this s101-3 from Red Dragon uh its membrane

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it's super popular and it'll get the job done if you just need a keyboard though

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this actually comes as part of a keyboard mouse combo there are a lot of

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options out there around this price point or you could just see if your aunt

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and uncle uh really need that one that's sitting there collecting dust and just

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use that almost complete absence of RGB

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just as nature intended it the first thing you'll probably notice now that

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we're fired up other than that hey it worked is that despite us being able to

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install Windows 11 we're still on Windows 10 just like 65 percent of you

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out there the top five games on Steam right now are CS go Dota 2 lost ark

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Warzone 2 and Pub G naturally we benchmarked all of them and honestly I

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mean look at this we've got 220 230 FPS in CS go

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all of them run pretty okay on either

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system but whether it's the fewer CPU

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cores or the outdated DDR3 memory our previous system simply didn't keep up

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quite as well in our two Battle Royale titles we noticed more hitching and our

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one percent lows were much well lower

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which results in a noticeably degraded experience particularly in intense

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firefights in Dota 2 we got about 150 FPS with Lost Art hovering around 60

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meaning that either of these systems the most popular from now or two years ago

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is going to be perfectly fine with the most popular titles and we did all of

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our testing at very high details so if you want more FPS you can just turn down

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the settings and you should be good to go for another year or two at least all

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for the reasonable price of 735 dollars

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which could fairly easily be cut down if you went for like a second hand case or

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something like that it's still a fair bit more than a console but it's also a

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fair bit more useful than a console since you can do so much more on PC like

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emulating older games browsing the web chatting on Discord

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Etc but unlike a console our computer isn't even

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sort of 4K ready Halo infinite defaulted

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to low so obviously if we're going to

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want strong frame rates we're going to have to expect to turn details down a

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little bit but whether it's Halo infinite or whether it's other AAA

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titles at 1080p we found that everything

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was very playable and with no odd bugs

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to speak of so if you target for your Hardware what pretty much everyone else

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is running game studios are sure to at

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least consider your system as they develop their upcoming titles

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the bar does look like it's about to jump up by the way with the RTX 3060

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gunning for the top spot but that's another story for another day just like

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oh yeah