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thanks to lastpass for sponsoring a portion of this video more from them

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later ladies and gentlemen we build a lot of high-performance computers around

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here but today is gonna be different we scoured the internet for the slowest

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brand new components that money can buy and we're going to build it right here

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right now then for comparison we also grabbed some

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sort of what i would consider to be budget components but sensible ones to

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see just how much more performance you can get if you balance your budget

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is that really the packaging for that we're gonna get to that bit later though

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first don't worry the parts aren't in there it's already built let's roll that

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intro

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of course my expectations may end up being subverted and our slowest possible

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compute where's the CPU

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maybe this will end up being an amazing bang for the buck starting with our AMD

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athlon 3000 g so this puppy right here

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is a 3.5 gigahertz dual core that's not

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real impressive for 2020 and making matters worse this is based on AMD's

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older zen architecture rather than zen 2

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but hey for 55

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plus it actually includes a cooler i guess you know it's hard to really

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it's hard to really complain like how is a CPU 50 bucks for our

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motherboard we've gone with MSI's a320m

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a pro so this is about as entry-level as

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it gets for an am4 motherboard you've got just two damn slots although that

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will be enough for us to run dual channel assuming that our budget allows

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it which it doesn't because we're building the slowest possible computer has a pci

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express 16x gen 3 graphics card slot we

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will be installing a graphics card and then you've got onboard video in case

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you want to use an apu and wow are those ps2 ports dang

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no NVMe for us today folks we're not even using an SSD

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man it feels like this should contribute to it being slow but honestly with just

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two cores i'm expecting this to do a pretty decent job

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of cooling i feel like i should clarify that the

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parts that we picked were not necessarily the slowest ones that we

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could find but rather that we limited ourselves to things that are currently

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in production so the slowest brand new and technically

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modern parts that you can build naturally no slowest possible build

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would be complete without a single stick of ddr4 memory the CPU does

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have a dual channel memory controller but i mean

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if we're looking for the bare minimum to fire up the machine and get into Windows

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4 gigs of RAM that's it wow you sure can build a

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computer quickly when there's like not much in it we're like halfway there already between

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our CPU motherboard and RAM we've spent

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125 dollars that's less than like a

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gaming motherboard but while you guys might think that i'm

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impressed by that i'm actually kind of worried for the

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prospects of our slowest possible computer here because

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CPU RAM and motherboard on the second hand market it

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let me tell you i could get some better stuff than that

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you know that's what kind of drives me crazy about this

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entry-level hardware as it gets branded really what it is is in my opinion

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basically e-waste because you might say well you know not everyone wants to put

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the work into putting together something second-hand but

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it's not even a ton of work i mean we did that video recently where we took an

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old dell optiplex basically threw a graphics card in it

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for less than what we're going to spend on this complete brand new machine

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and let me tell you spoiler alert

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this thing is going to run what's the opposite of running circles

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around something for our case we've got a thermaltake h17 which at the time was

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priced the same as the deep cool matrex that we had originally chosen so 35

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point is that's about the cheapest you can get unless it's on fire sale for a

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brand new computer case and then for our power supply we've got a Corsair cv550

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this is your your entry level hey i don't want my computer to blow up that

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would be a bad thing kind of power supply like you can get power supplies

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for 13 or whatever but even on a system like this i would not

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recommend plugging them in i mean what's the point of ruining stuff huh four hole

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screws to put in the power supply jeepers

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need to rehydrate

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lttstore.com

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so this is cool kind of like an SSD except just with

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some rubber grommets you just mount your hard drive like that

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should i put in all the screws i mean there's really not that many of them uh

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we had a second fan that we intended to install on this puppy but i don't think

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we're gonna be doing that because there is only a single

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fan header aside from the CPU fan header on this motherboard

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more simplicity boom

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fan installed cable managed this is actually pretty nice for a budget case

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hey wow we've got usb 3 on both our case

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and motherboard let me show you guys a little trick you can just take all these little

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individual pieces and kind of make your own

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block of connectors and if you line it up just right

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put it on just like that ow oh dang it i stabbed my thumb i'm

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good fine 24 pin power connector just like

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that you can see instead of an eight pin power connector on this board we've got

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just a four pin so we're gonna split apart our eight pin power connector and

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just pop half of it into there this is crazy like if i was actually trying to

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speed build this i think i could do it in under five minutes and now

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for the ps de la resistance our zotac

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gt210 this was a slow graphics card when

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i was still working at ncix that was like eight years ago you can

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still buy them i don't even get it

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people who buy a card like this don't care about performance at all or

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they get kind of screwed into it because they don't know that the performance of

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a fifty dollar card is not half of the performance of a hundred dollar card i

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remember talking to zotac about these cards back when i was working in ncx i

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was like well who the crap is buying these things they're like oh well you know best buy is moving through them by

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the truckload and i was like why are there sales people selling these

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to them it's it's a terrible value

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point of clarification this is 40 us dollars not 50 and it's still a bad deal

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yeah for a 35 us dollar case i'm

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i'm liking it crazily enough that was it

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by the way the key night among you might have noticed that we had an ati Radeon

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fan installed on that graphics card uh that's because we weren't gonna go out

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and buy another gt210 just to make this video it's one that we already had and

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it's one that the fan failed on a long time ago and we just kind of threw whatever on there as long as it runs

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cool enough time to fire it up

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i miss little whiny GPU fans hope it works

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that took a hot minute to post didn't it let's fire up some cs go shall we and

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while we wait for the game to load because that'll probably take a minute on the mechanical drive and

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we're going to go ahead and pull out our

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better value gaming pc here

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our slowest pc came in at a price of just over 300 us dollars while our step

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up model came in at just under 600 which

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is a pretty substantial increase we are spending almost twice as much

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but we're also getting more than twice as much computer so

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we're going all the way up to a ryzen 3100 which happens to be based on their

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zen 2 architecture that is going to be a big performance boost for gaming we

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managed to double our RAM going from 4 to 8 gigs which also means now it's

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running in dual channel mode we've got a more feature-rich motherboard and a big

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amount of our budget was spent on this puppy right here so we've gone with an

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rx 570 which is maybe you know last gen

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at this point but still a very very respectable budget gaming card if we're

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running a 1080p already just how much faster it boots up and launches games is

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a huge difference for this one but of course that's what happens when you

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spend a little bit of extra on an SSD and the funny thing about an SSD is that

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these days it doesn't actually cost that much extra if you look for the right

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deal we got our fatty dove racing 120 gig SSD for 20 bucks

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8x anti-aliasing ain't happening let's see if that helps a little bit i'm

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going to set the settings over here the same oh man this one defaulted to 4k

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oh lordy why

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is that still loading holy crap 150 60

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70 200 FPS

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yep this feels this feels pretty good

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all right this one's loaded up now let's just make sure the resolution's right and this

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kids is why friends don't let friends buy entry-level graphics cards

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we are getting 10 FPS

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my ladies and gentlemens we're charging in though we're charging

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in we might hit something

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i got one

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10fps gaming ladies and gentlemen

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oh come on but fred's got it out for me

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so the lesson we're learning here is that spending twice as much can yield

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more than just twice the performance improvement in this case we're looking

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at about anywhere from 15x to 20x the

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performance at the same settings and i actually missed another thing that is

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twice as fast about our higher end system it's got usb 310 gig instead of

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five gigs so if you really wanted to transfer things you know quickly over

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usb you could do that oh no there's a first time setup on this one

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while we wait for that one to complete setup we can go ahead and have a look at what our rocket league performance is

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like yes i'm playing with a mouse and keyboard i'm sorry

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oh i pressed jump instead of go fast well that's a shame okay so what are we

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looking at we're looking at 100 plus FPS with a minimum of 48 the entire time

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we've been playing here and that minimum is honestly more important to the gaming

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experience than that averages

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rocket leg is this game just not even gonna launch

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nope new plan just for the sake of giving our

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slowest pc its best possible shot we

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actually ripped the graphics card that wasn't letting us launch the game out

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and we are running off of the onboard graphics the problem with that is that

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we're running a single stick of memory because it's a bit of a misconfigured

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machine and now our apu graphics has to

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share memory bandwidth with the CPU which was already half of what it

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ideally would be 15 FPS in the menu

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big booth Linus that's the same settings as the other one

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oh boy you know having the game run in slow

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motion like this is actually kind of nice because it's not an online match so

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i think the game is actually running slow

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finally let's go for a good old-fashioned cinebench drag race are

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you gonna are you even trying maybe it didn't register and one two

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three go i think we've all seen enough and i think we've all learned the lesson

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that we're trying to teach here just because something is brand new off the

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shelf doesn't mean that it is a viable

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option for building a system and you might say

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well look i've only got fifty dollars to spend on a CPU and that's fine and

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that's fair but your best option at that point is to

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go back and look for something on the second-hand market that is going to give

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you a better experience than this

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literally a fraction of the speed of even a value

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chip like the ryzen 3 3100 which really is a fantastic

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CPU for the money the other thing is

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graphics you know how there's a point of diminishing returns when you go into the

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very high end stuff well there's a point of diminishing returns at the low end as

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well and it's something people don't really think about so i would give the same advice there in fact i don't want

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you to get discouraged if you've only got 300 to spend on a new computer what

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i want you to do is head down to the comments where some of our savvy bargain

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hunter viewers are going to post some great spec lists that they think they

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can put together for 300 because i guarantee you if you head up ebay

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craigslist and all those kinds of places it can be done

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now for the portion of this video that is sponsored by lastpass lastpass is the

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password manager that i use and honestly

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whether it's for personal use or for our corporate use i absolutely love it the

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corporate version has all kinds of tools that we can use to manage access to all

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the different accounts and not just accounts but little notes or credit card

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numbers or anything else that our staff needs access to no matter where they are

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and to do it securely and then for personal use well it's great whether i'm

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using a pc an Android phone or an iphone

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all i've got to do is enter one password and everything that i need is right at

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my fingertips i'm going to just check and see if there's any talking points that i'm supposed i'm just talking about

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what i like about lastpass right now oh yeah it's way more secure because that

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way you only have to remember one really strong passphrase and you never have to

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use duplicate passwords because let's face it who can remember all the

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literally hundreds of passwords that you have to have these days lastpass

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thanks lastpass for being awesome and thanks lastpass for sponsoring this

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you're looking to maybe go a little bit deeper than the comments on this video

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we converted a dell optiplex into a very viable gaming solution