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you know the script calls for me to say this isn't running very well but it's like it's fine

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we love building benchmarking and gaming

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on the kinds of showcase one percenter machines that most people can only ever

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dream of but as much fun as that is the vast

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majority of those rigs actually get torn down for reuse in future videos because

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even for us daily driving that kind of hardware

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it's just not cost effective or practical it also kind of gives pc gaming a bad

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image as something that only the elite can afford when that couldn't be farther

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from the truth we've built competent esports gaming

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machines at great prices and even for

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under a hundred dollars on this channel and you can too if you're willing to

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make some compromises of course the kinds of machines that the average gamer

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is running are somewhere between potato

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and dream battle station how do we know this

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well the monthly steam hardware survey which tells us exactly which pc gaming

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hardware is the most popular so

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with its help we built the most popular gaming pc on the planet and we're going

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to show you guys exactly how much it would cost you to build it and what kind

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of performance you can expect and today's video is brought to you by

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Corsair the Corsair iq 5000x RGB

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tempered glass smart case features their rapid route cable management system

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smart RGB out of the box and more check it out at the link down below

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that's right we've got one a quad-core core i7 4770k

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according to the steam hardware survey 42.94

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of you are rocking four core processors with 18.03 percent of you running a

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hyper-threaded model like this one between 3.3 and 3.69 gigahertz nice it

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turns out then that as much as we all love ryzen right now AMD couldn't

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possibly even manufacture enough of these things to put a dent in Intel's

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years of dominance and as of january 2021 team blue still owns 72

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of the install base now that number is shifting and fast Intel is down almost

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10 since december but it's going to take time since motherboard choice shouldn't

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impact performance much we grabbed a z87i deluxe from ASUS that was lying

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around on a shelf this combo should put us in the top

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range of average CPU performance according to the

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survey it was important for us to find something with hyper threading since

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just shy of 20 of you apparently do have it it's kind of amazing how long this

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chip has kept its relevance and we actually checked out some reviews on

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newegg and pc part picker leading up to this video and it's mostly super

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positive like even as recently as a couple of years ago in the interest of

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strictly adhering to the specs in the steam hardware survey we're unfortunately going to be running this

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puppy at stock speed but lots of users of this CPU report running it at 4.2 4.3

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or even 4.4 gigahertz for years at a time

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that's not too shabby for a CPU that's older than our new social media

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coordinator memory was a surprising one for me the

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average gamer out there a whopping 43.85 percent of you is running 16 gigs

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of system memory not bad so we picked up

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two 8 gig sticks of good old-fashioned ddr3 1866.

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this is actually a great middle ground today you can still squeeze by with

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eight gigs but most aaa games are recommending 16 gigs or more and a lot

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of other desktop applications can also benefit from more RAM we're going to go

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ahead and assume that you guys are running your memory in dual channel mode

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and install it that way you are running in dual channel mode

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right now a few things the survey doesn't mention include the case power supply

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cooler and other peripherals so we went with some amazon bestsellers that i'm

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sure most of you will recognize we've got the nzxt h510 a hyper 212 evo

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v2 and a Corsair cx550 power supply all

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of them are tried and true classics and all of them should fit comfortably

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within most people's budgets that is unlike our solid gold xbox

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controller get subscribed so you don't miss those

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videos that is like the emptiest looking computer now it's time for what you guys

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all crave the GPU

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thing is as much as we may all lust after ray tracing you might be surprised

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to learn that the top ray tracing capable card was the rtx 2060 in fifth

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place with only 3.6 share pretty much

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every current card then that is capable of delivering a smooth raytraced gaming

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experience is conspicuously absent the 3070 isn't even on the list and the 3080

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maintains a slim 0.6 market share

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so it ended up being a pretty close race with the gtx 1060 leading the pack at

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9.4 percent okay get out of here

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we've gone with the six gig model since that's how much vram 23.5 of you have

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and with 66.7 percent of you running 1080p displays this should be more than

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good enough all that remains is storage on average you guys are running over one

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terabyte of storage it didn't specify whether it's solid state or mechanical

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so we're putting an SSD in here just to make our benchmarking run a little bit

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faster and that's it

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ain't she a beauty looks to me like a lean mean steam machine

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or at least an LTT steam game playing machine since that whole

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steam machine idea totally unexpectedly fizzled and died let's go ahead and fire

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her up but what games should we play

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how about the top five games on steam alright so we got cs go dota 2 pub g

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apex legends and source sdk base 2013 multiplayer wait is

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that really gary's mod and half-life 2 death match in fifth place

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did this thing take us back in time to a time when

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there was no LTT underwear on lttstore.com

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nope they're definitely there go check them out at the link below as it turns

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out most source mods running on steam contribute to this inflated number

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including the gta 5 community with the 5m mod so

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team fortress 2 and 6th place let's go with that

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who put this here okay i'm going to fight this guy

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honestly it's running pretty darn well we're at 80 90 FPS dropping as low as

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like 70 but this is totally an acceptable gameplay

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experience now you might have noticed the uh details of the game are looking a

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little basic that's on purpose that's so that we get enough FPS have i not dang

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it oh i'm knocked i'm dead i'm still a

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winner because the game ran okay and

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overall the average team gamer with a machine like this is having a pretty

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smooth experience only apex legends and pubg fell to 60 FPS lows with most of

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these competitive titles here managing closer to 100 FPS with reasonably

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consistent frame times now that's not to say that these games

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wouldn't benefit from a faster machine we did a video back in 2019

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demonstrating the competitive advantage of running at higher FPS even if you

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don't have a high refresh rate monitor since your eyes will get more up-to-date

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information than your competitors and cs go is an example of a situation where

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that difference is quite noticeable it's really at its best when you can crank

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out over 200 300 FPS the competency of

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our competence whatever of our steam pc shouldn't be that surprising though i

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guess most of these games are actually from

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around the same era so to kick things up a notch we're heading over to twitch to

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see if we could use this thing to play along with our favorite streamers we

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didn't plan on this part of the video but it is an interesting point to make

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sometimes your CPU can actually be a bottleneck when it comes to downloading

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and installing games but our 4770k is actually keeping up pretty

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nicely with a 107 megabyte per second

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download of cod warzone from battle net so

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20 30 CPU usage not bad really they make

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you watch a cutscene see every other game knows not to do this okay here we

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go let's see if i can manage to stay alive

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slightly longer than last time you know the script calls for me to say this

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isn't running very well but it's like it's fine definitely a little chuggier

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and a little more teary than what we looked at before but

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actually looks not bad okay that's a lot of tearing right there

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when i was a kid i'd have been absolutely elated to have anything over

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60 FPS regardless of whether i had to smear vaseline on the screen for that

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free anti-aliasing as for the rest of our games you know

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being on older hardware really isn't the end of the world fortnite was only a

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little rough when flying in on the battle bus and even gta 5 was able to

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run at plenty of FPS by default and even look pretty decent if we didn't mind

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losing a little bit of frame rate so there are a couple of lessons here for

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us with the biggest one being that all it takes to join the pc master race

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is an interesting computers and the gatekeepers who fawn over brand new

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hardware and put down anything less than the latest and greatest can go suck an

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egg because unless you're trying to run brand new aaa games on high or ultra

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settings like cyberpunk the medium or microsoft flight sim

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you can have a really solid gaming experience with hardware like this

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and the best part is that with some savvy ebay you can build a machine like

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this or upgrade a non-gaming machine that you get your hands on for anywhere from 750

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to 1300 or maybe even less if you're willing to

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get a little creative with a dremel to fit things together with that said a lot

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of this hardware is starting to show its age and if you upgraded you'd definitely

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appreciate the smoother animations and additional image quality especially in

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anything fast-paced so there you have it ladies and gentlemen

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the average steam hardware survey pc

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are any of you guys out there running any of these components

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of course you are are you still happy with them or are you ready for an

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