you know the script calls for me to say this isn't running very well but it's like it's fine
we love building benchmarking and gaming
on the kinds of showcase one percenter machines that most people can only ever
dream of but as much fun as that is the vast
majority of those rigs actually get torn down for reuse in future videos because
even for us daily driving that kind of hardware
it's just not cost effective or practical it also kind of gives pc gaming a bad
image as something that only the elite can afford when that couldn't be farther
from the truth we've built competent esports gaming
machines at great prices and even for
under a hundred dollars on this channel and you can too if you're willing to
make some compromises of course the kinds of machines that the average gamer
is running are somewhere between potato
and dream battle station how do we know this
well the monthly steam hardware survey which tells us exactly which pc gaming
hardware is the most popular so
with its help we built the most popular gaming pc on the planet and we're going
to show you guys exactly how much it would cost you to build it and what kind
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that's right we've got one a quad-core core i7 4770k
according to the steam hardware survey 42.94
of you are rocking four core processors with 18.03 percent of you running a
hyper-threaded model like this one between 3.3 and 3.69 gigahertz nice it
turns out then that as much as we all love ryzen right now AMD couldn't
possibly even manufacture enough of these things to put a dent in Intel's
years of dominance and as of january 2021 team blue still owns 72
of the install base now that number is shifting and fast Intel is down almost
10 since december but it's going to take time since motherboard choice shouldn't
impact performance much we grabbed a z87i deluxe from ASUS that was lying
around on a shelf this combo should put us in the top
range of average CPU performance according to the
survey it was important for us to find something with hyper threading since
just shy of 20 of you apparently do have it it's kind of amazing how long this
chip has kept its relevance and we actually checked out some reviews on
newegg and pc part picker leading up to this video and it's mostly super
positive like even as recently as a couple of years ago in the interest of
strictly adhering to the specs in the steam hardware survey we're unfortunately going to be running this
puppy at stock speed but lots of users of this CPU report running it at 4.2 4.3
or even 4.4 gigahertz for years at a time
that's not too shabby for a CPU that's older than our new social media
coordinator memory was a surprising one for me the
average gamer out there a whopping 43.85 percent of you is running 16 gigs
of system memory not bad so we picked up
two 8 gig sticks of good old-fashioned ddr3 1866.
this is actually a great middle ground today you can still squeeze by with
eight gigs but most aaa games are recommending 16 gigs or more and a lot
of other desktop applications can also benefit from more RAM we're going to go
ahead and assume that you guys are running your memory in dual channel mode
and install it that way you are running in dual channel mode
right now a few things the survey doesn't mention include the case power supply
cooler and other peripherals so we went with some amazon bestsellers that i'm
sure most of you will recognize we've got the nzxt h510 a hyper 212 evo
v2 and a Corsair cx550 power supply all
of them are tried and true classics and all of them should fit comfortably
within most people's budgets that is unlike our solid gold xbox
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videos that is like the emptiest looking computer now it's time for what you guys
all crave the GPU
thing is as much as we may all lust after ray tracing you might be surprised
to learn that the top ray tracing capable card was the rtx 2060 in fifth
place with only 3.6 share pretty much
every current card then that is capable of delivering a smooth raytraced gaming
experience is conspicuously absent the 3070 isn't even on the list and the 3080
maintains a slim 0.6 market share
so it ended up being a pretty close race with the gtx 1060 leading the pack at
9.4 percent okay get out of here
we've gone with the six gig model since that's how much vram 23.5 of you have
and with 66.7 percent of you running 1080p displays this should be more than
good enough all that remains is storage on average you guys are running over one
terabyte of storage it didn't specify whether it's solid state or mechanical
so we're putting an SSD in here just to make our benchmarking run a little bit
faster and that's it
ain't she a beauty looks to me like a lean mean steam machine
or at least an LTT steam game playing machine since that whole
steam machine idea totally unexpectedly fizzled and died let's go ahead and fire
her up but what games should we play
how about the top five games on steam alright so we got cs go dota 2 pub g
apex legends and source sdk base 2013 multiplayer wait is
that really gary's mod and half-life 2 death match in fifth place
did this thing take us back in time to a time when
there was no LTT underwear on lttstore.com
nope they're definitely there go check them out at the link below as it turns
out most source mods running on steam contribute to this inflated number
including the gta 5 community with the 5m mod so
team fortress 2 and 6th place let's go with that
who put this here okay i'm going to fight this guy
honestly it's running pretty darn well we're at 80 90 FPS dropping as low as
like 70 but this is totally an acceptable gameplay
experience now you might have noticed the uh details of the game are looking a
little basic that's on purpose that's so that we get enough FPS have i not dang
it oh i'm knocked i'm dead i'm still a
winner because the game ran okay and
overall the average team gamer with a machine like this is having a pretty
smooth experience only apex legends and pubg fell to 60 FPS lows with most of
these competitive titles here managing closer to 100 FPS with reasonably
consistent frame times now that's not to say that these games
wouldn't benefit from a faster machine we did a video back in 2019
demonstrating the competitive advantage of running at higher FPS even if you
don't have a high refresh rate monitor since your eyes will get more up-to-date
information than your competitors and cs go is an example of a situation where
that difference is quite noticeable it's really at its best when you can crank
out over 200 300 FPS the competency of
our competence whatever of our steam pc shouldn't be that surprising though i
guess most of these games are actually from
around the same era so to kick things up a notch we're heading over to twitch to
see if we could use this thing to play along with our favorite streamers we
didn't plan on this part of the video but it is an interesting point to make
sometimes your CPU can actually be a bottleneck when it comes to downloading
and installing games but our 4770k is actually keeping up pretty
nicely with a 107 megabyte per second
download of cod warzone from battle net so
20 30 CPU usage not bad really they make
you watch a cutscene see every other game knows not to do this okay here we
go let's see if i can manage to stay alive
slightly longer than last time you know the script calls for me to say this
isn't running very well but it's like it's fine definitely a little chuggier
and a little more teary than what we looked at before but
actually looks not bad okay that's a lot of tearing right there
when i was a kid i'd have been absolutely elated to have anything over
60 FPS regardless of whether i had to smear vaseline on the screen for that
free anti-aliasing as for the rest of our games you know
being on older hardware really isn't the end of the world fortnite was only a
little rough when flying in on the battle bus and even gta 5 was able to
run at plenty of FPS by default and even look pretty decent if we didn't mind
losing a little bit of frame rate so there are a couple of lessons here for
us with the biggest one being that all it takes to join the pc master race
is an interesting computers and the gatekeepers who fawn over brand new
hardware and put down anything less than the latest and greatest can go suck an
egg because unless you're trying to run brand new aaa games on high or ultra
settings like cyberpunk the medium or microsoft flight sim
you can have a really solid gaming experience with hardware like this
and the best part is that with some savvy ebay you can build a machine like
this or upgrade a non-gaming machine that you get your hands on for anywhere from 750
to 1300 or maybe even less if you're willing to
get a little creative with a dremel to fit things together with that said a lot
of this hardware is starting to show its age and if you upgraded you'd definitely
appreciate the smoother animations and additional image quality especially in
anything fast-paced so there you have it ladies and gentlemen
the average steam hardware survey pc
are any of you guys out there running any of these components
of course you are are you still happy with them or are you ready for an
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