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later ladies and gentlemen we build a lot of high-performance computers around
here but today is gonna be different we scoured the internet for the slowest
brand new components that money can buy and we're going to build it right here
right now then for comparison we also grabbed some
sort of what i would consider to be budget components but sensible ones to
see just how much more performance you can get if you balance your budget
is that really the packaging for that we're gonna get to that bit later though
first don't worry the parts aren't in there it's already built let's roll that
intro
of course my expectations may end up being subverted and our slowest possible
compute where's the CPU
maybe this will end up being an amazing bang for the buck starting with our AMD
athlon 3000 g so this puppy right here
is a 3.5 gigahertz dual core that's not
real impressive for 2020 and making matters worse this is based on AMD's
older zen architecture rather than zen 2
but hey for 55
plus it actually includes a cooler i guess you know it's hard to really
it's hard to really complain like how is a CPU 50 bucks for our
motherboard we've gone with MSI's a320m
a pro so this is about as entry-level as
it gets for an am4 motherboard you've got just two damn slots although that
will be enough for us to run dual channel assuming that our budget allows
it which it doesn't because we're building the slowest possible computer has a pci
express 16x gen 3 graphics card slot we
will be installing a graphics card and then you've got onboard video in case
you want to use an apu and wow are those ps2 ports dang
no NVMe for us today folks we're not even using an SSD
man it feels like this should contribute to it being slow but honestly with just
two cores i'm expecting this to do a pretty decent job
of cooling i feel like i should clarify that the
parts that we picked were not necessarily the slowest ones that we
could find but rather that we limited ourselves to things that are currently
in production so the slowest brand new and technically
modern parts that you can build naturally no slowest possible build
would be complete without a single stick of ddr4 memory the CPU does
have a dual channel memory controller but i mean
if we're looking for the bare minimum to fire up the machine and get into Windows
4 gigs of RAM that's it wow you sure can build a
computer quickly when there's like not much in it we're like halfway there already between
our CPU motherboard and RAM we've spent
125 dollars that's less than like a
gaming motherboard but while you guys might think that i'm
impressed by that i'm actually kind of worried for the
prospects of our slowest possible computer here because
CPU RAM and motherboard on the second hand market it
let me tell you i could get some better stuff than that
you know that's what kind of drives me crazy about this
entry-level hardware as it gets branded really what it is is in my opinion
basically e-waste because you might say well you know not everyone wants to put
the work into putting together something second-hand but
it's not even a ton of work i mean we did that video recently where we took an
old dell optiplex basically threw a graphics card in it
for less than what we're going to spend on this complete brand new machine
and let me tell you spoiler alert
this thing is going to run what's the opposite of running circles
around something for our case we've got a thermaltake h17 which at the time was
priced the same as the deep cool matrex that we had originally chosen so 35
point is that's about the cheapest you can get unless it's on fire sale for a
brand new computer case and then for our power supply we've got a Corsair cv550
this is your your entry level hey i don't want my computer to blow up that
would be a bad thing kind of power supply like you can get power supplies
for 13 or whatever but even on a system like this i would not
recommend plugging them in i mean what's the point of ruining stuff huh four hole
screws to put in the power supply jeepers
need to rehydrate
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so this is cool kind of like an SSD except just with
some rubber grommets you just mount your hard drive like that
should i put in all the screws i mean there's really not that many of them uh
we had a second fan that we intended to install on this puppy but i don't think
we're gonna be doing that because there is only a single
fan header aside from the CPU fan header on this motherboard
more simplicity boom
fan installed cable managed this is actually pretty nice for a budget case
hey wow we've got usb 3 on both our case
and motherboard let me show you guys a little trick you can just take all these little
individual pieces and kind of make your own
block of connectors and if you line it up just right
put it on just like that ow oh dang it i stabbed my thumb i'm
good fine 24 pin power connector just like
that you can see instead of an eight pin power connector on this board we've got
just a four pin so we're gonna split apart our eight pin power connector and
just pop half of it into there this is crazy like if i was actually trying to
speed build this i think i could do it in under five minutes and now
for the ps de la resistance our zotac
gt210 this was a slow graphics card when
i was still working at ncix that was like eight years ago you can
still buy them i don't even get it
people who buy a card like this don't care about performance at all or
they get kind of screwed into it because they don't know that the performance of
a fifty dollar card is not half of the performance of a hundred dollar card i
remember talking to zotac about these cards back when i was working in ncx i
was like well who the crap is buying these things they're like oh well you know best buy is moving through them by
the truckload and i was like why are there sales people selling these
to them it's it's a terrible value
point of clarification this is 40 us dollars not 50 and it's still a bad deal
yeah for a 35 us dollar case i'm
i'm liking it crazily enough that was it
by the way the key night among you might have noticed that we had an ati Radeon
fan installed on that graphics card uh that's because we weren't gonna go out
and buy another gt210 just to make this video it's one that we already had and
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
cool enough time to fire it up
i miss little whiny GPU fans hope it works
that took a hot minute to post didn't it let's fire up some cs go shall we and
while we wait for the game to load because that'll probably take a minute on the mechanical drive and
we're going to go ahead and pull out our
better value gaming pc here
our slowest pc came in at a price of just over 300 us dollars while our step
up model came in at just under 600 which
is a pretty substantial increase we are spending almost twice as much
but we're also getting more than twice as much computer so
we're going all the way up to a ryzen 3100 which happens to be based on their
zen 2 architecture that is going to be a big performance boost for gaming we
managed to double our RAM going from 4 to 8 gigs which also means now it's
running in dual channel mode we've got a more feature-rich motherboard and a big
amount of our budget was spent on this puppy right here so we've gone with an
rx 570 which is maybe you know last gen
at this point but still a very very respectable budget gaming card if we're
running a 1080p already just how much faster it boots up and launches games is
a huge difference for this one but of course that's what happens when you
spend a little bit of extra on an SSD and the funny thing about an SSD is that
these days it doesn't actually cost that much extra if you look for the right
deal we got our fatty dove racing 120 gig SSD for 20 bucks
8x anti-aliasing ain't happening let's see if that helps a little bit i'm
going to set the settings over here the same oh man this one defaulted to 4k
oh lordy why
is that still loading holy crap 150 60
70 200 FPS
yep this feels this feels pretty good
all right this one's loaded up now let's just make sure the resolution's right and this
kids is why friends don't let friends buy entry-level graphics cards
we are getting 10 FPS
my ladies and gentlemens we're charging in though we're charging
in we might hit something
i got one
10fps gaming ladies and gentlemen
oh come on but fred's got it out for me
so the lesson we're learning here is that spending twice as much can yield
more than just twice the performance improvement in this case we're looking
at about anywhere from 15x to 20x the
performance at the same settings and i actually missed another thing that is
twice as fast about our higher end system it's got usb 310 gig instead of
five gigs so if you really wanted to transfer things you know quickly over
usb you could do that oh no there's a first time setup on this one
while we wait for that one to complete setup we can go ahead and have a look at what our rocket league performance is
like yes i'm playing with a mouse and keyboard i'm sorry
oh i pressed jump instead of go fast well that's a shame okay so what are we
looking at we're looking at 100 plus FPS with a minimum of 48 the entire time
we've been playing here and that minimum is honestly more important to the gaming
experience than that averages
rocket leg is this game just not even gonna launch
nope new plan just for the sake of giving our
slowest pc its best possible shot we
actually ripped the graphics card that wasn't letting us launch the game out
and we are running off of the onboard graphics the problem with that is that
we're running a single stick of memory because it's a bit of a misconfigured
machine and now our apu graphics has to
share memory bandwidth with the CPU which was already half of what it
ideally would be 15 FPS in the menu
big booth Linus that's the same settings as the other one
oh boy you know having the game run in slow
motion like this is actually kind of nice because it's not an online match so
i think the game is actually running slow
finally let's go for a good old-fashioned cinebench drag race are
you gonna are you even trying maybe it didn't register and one two
three go i think we've all seen enough and i think we've all learned the lesson
that we're trying to teach here just because something is brand new off the
shelf doesn't mean that it is a viable
option for building a system and you might say
well look i've only got fifty dollars to spend on a CPU and that's fine and
that's fair but your best option at that point is to
go back and look for something on the second-hand market that is going to give
you a better experience than this
literally a fraction of the speed of even a value
chip like the ryzen 3 3100 which really is a fantastic
CPU for the money the other thing is
graphics you know how there's a point of diminishing returns when you go into the
very high end stuff well there's a point of diminishing returns at the low end as
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
you to get discouraged if you've only got 300 to spend on a new computer what
i want you to do is head down to the comments where some of our savvy bargain
hunter viewers are going to post some great spec lists that they think they
can put together for 300 because i guarantee you if you head up ebay
craigslist and all those kinds of places it can be done
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to build a great value gaming rig maybe check out our this is a gaming rig where
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