Good old Rosewill.
Oh, the SCM01.
Yeah, oh, you know this case?
No, I don't.
Oh, okay.
Okay, so should we start with that?
Yeah, let's take it out of the box, I guess.
Like the idea here is we're just gonna build this thing.
Yeah.
Okay, and you've never built it before?
Nope.
So a lot of the time when writers prepare a video,
they do a lot of the preparation.
Yeah, I heard that they do that.
Ahead of time.
Uh-huh.
But today we're just YOLOing it.
Yeah, well, I mean, it's fun to prepare,
but you know, it's fun to keep life spicy too.
That sounds like mistake number two.
We're gonna have a mistake counter.
Yeah, yeah.
High-end PCs are pretty cool.
Yeah.
They can trace rays with the best of them,
but they have one major problem.
They're expensive.
Most people don't think about that.
Yeah, that's what we're here for.
But we did.
So we set out to build
the
least expensive PC possible
with components that we could buy on Amazon.com.
Yep.
I literally went to Amazon.com,
searched the name of the component,
sorted by price,
and ordered whatever was cheapest at that time.
And this is it.
So it's time to figure out
whether what we ordered was an actual PC
or whether we made a horrible mistake.
Okay, so I couldn't just go to Amazon.com,
and literally pick the cheapest option
because they have to be compatible.
Compatible.
If this is the cheapest case
and this is the cheapest board,
then we're just going to have to put them together.
It's only fair.
So this is a LGA 775 socket motherboard.
It's a Dell PowerEdge Server board.
Okay.
Yes.
And that's gonna be compatible
Compatible.
Compatible with our CPU,
which is a Core 2 Duo motherboard.
E8400 from Intel.
Are you sure?
What?
That that's going to be compatible?
Most server boards from that generation were LGA 771.
That is a good point.
I've never seen that before.
And this is a locking floppy disk.
Oh, cool.
This is locking IDE.
Oh, cool.
Do you want to come in and get some closeups of this ?
She's light as I'm so sorry.
Oh my God.
So this is an Insignia.
It doesn't weigh much more than the box.
Does it?
Try it.
Oh, wow.
You know what?
Since I'm tired of being dumped on, look at this.
It's a hard drive.
It's probably perfectly functional.
I'm pretty sure it's new.
Why are you asking me questions like that?
I didn't know they still made 160 gig hard drives.
We have a single DDR2 DIMM.
That is two gigs big.
This is not ECC and this is a server board.
Oh my God.
No, it should support.
And that says,
memory ECC DDR2 chipset.
That's not the socket.
Wait, front side bus, 800 megahertz for Pentium 4.
Well, hold on a second.
This might actually be 775, but oh my God,
this is a Pentium board.
I don't believe this will work with a Core 2 Duo.
The graphics card is a blazing fast
AMD Radeon 6350.
All right.
How much did this cost us?
This cost us a whopping, actually 2888.
Wow.
It's the most expensive part out of all of them,
which is great news to hear when it might not even work.
You know this is not DVI, right?
Yeah, this is a different port that is,
everyone knows is not DVI.
You have actually done something today
that hasn't happened in a while.
You've shown me three tech things
that I have never seen before.
Hey! In a single sitting.
That could be the title of the video.
I've never seen this before.
This port, these like doohickeys,
doohickeys on the IDE things, this cooler mount.
Oh, you've never seen that?
I've never seen that before.
See, and I've never seen it either.
Yeah.
Well, we do have some other processors
that might work, Linus.
Look at this wonderful selection of Pentiums
and one Celeron.
So a lot of these are newer.
New Pentium, old Pentium.
Pretty le different.
Okay, here's what I think we have to do.
We have to order the cheapest one from Amazon.
That's true.
We have to stay true.
We have to, yeah.
To our video.
Stand strong.
Okay, so then there's gonna be some movie magic.
Yeah.
And we'll get back to this next week, I guess.
So this is attempt number two.
Wait, this is the old stuff.
Are we even using this anymore?
Yeah, no, we're not using that.
Put that away, I never wanna see it again.
This is also,
This is also meant for a pre-built system.
Right.
But as you can see,
it's a little more of a normal layout motherboard
meant for, it's a regular micro ATX form factor.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It actually has front panel connector pins on it.
Yeah, which we can short.
Yeah, we're gonna have to guess at them a little bit,
but at least there's something to guess at.
Indeed.
Wow, even a PCI Express 16X slot this time.
Good job, Riley.
I did it, I did it.
You've still got- This is the same.
This is the graphics card of Doom here.
Same AMD Radeon 6350 with a DMS connector.
So we know what the connector's called now.
DMS 59.
DMS gonna give it to you.
What?
Yeah, no.
This connector, curiously,
is one that's meant to drive two displays by default.
So that's why both adapters go from one DMS 59
and to two of the other thing.
Yeah. VGA.
VGA.
All digital interface.
Ooh.
Okay, what else did we change?
Okay, and the last one we got,
we changed was the RAM.
We have real DDR2 non-ECC RAM.
Cool.
That was the problem.
We had a server board.
It was only compatible with ECC RAM.
Also, this is DDR3.
You know this, right?
What?
What are you talking about?
I haven't written in the script DDR3, all right?
I've just-
Okay, so everything's here.
Yep.
Should we build it?
I hope we can.
They fit in the holes.
It's like they were actually designed to fit together.
Pow.
Yeah.
Boom.
Pow.
Yeah, dual channel, baby.
Four gigs of RAM.
Yep.
We paid $8 for four gigs last time.
Right.
And now we're up to-
18.
So $10 more for DDR3.
So we paid an extra $13.
But for it to be compatible.
Plus the adapters, which I actually don't have in here.
Minor details.
But I think they were like $3.
Hey, okay.
It's kind of coming together now.
It looks like this might be a PC.
I mean, that's not a great indicator.
But it's on.
Which is farther than we got last time.
Sweet music.
Yeah, oh man.
I need like a piece of tape or something.
It's so annoying.
What, new RAM?
Yeah, it's worth a shot.
I honestly don't think it's RAM though.
Let's give it a shot.
This is pretty much our most compatible DDR3 RAM.
This RipJaws Z stuff.
Hey, everybody.
Okay, so I got a tray full of LGA.
I think they're LGA 775 Pentiums.
And-
Yeah, this one's not.
The $69 gaming PC.
Cause that, I think it had an E7500 in it.
But we'll see.
Oh.
Yeah.
Okay, sure.
Should we try it?
Let's, you know what?
That seems promising.
That is?
Yes.
That's an E7500.
Oh, well let's try that first.
Aha. Do we know that this one works?
It would.
That was what was originally in the $69 gaming PC.
Great.
I was there.
And I was there too.
All right.
I don't even have to put the heat sink on
to know if this worked any better.
Okay, can I have the RAM from $69 gaming PC too?
Let's just.
Eventually we just put all the components in here.
Samsung, Samsung quality here.
It's a different beep.
Why?
It's a different beep.
This is HP OEM memory.
Anthony checked it.
Anthony should have known better.
That's, I'm upset.
The memory you had Riley buy was HP memory.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
Okay, wait.
I don't want to get in.
OEM system builders you
in a couple of different ways.
Wait, what?
First, they you with their motherboard,
making it not compatible with other things.
Mm-hmm.
Then, they you with their motherboard, making it not compatible with other things. Then, they you with their motherboard, making it not compatible with other things. Mm-hmm.
upgrade components,
because they want you to buy their specific upgrade
compatible thing
to put in their system.
But then they you again,
when you try and buy their thing
and you put it in some other system.
So, every memory module has what's called an SPD chip.
And what that has is all the information
that the system needs about the memory.
And they can actually program it in such a way
that it's like,
Right.
oh.
some I was expecting.
Now I'm not saying that that was necessarily
what happened here because this board also spat out
that G.Skill memory.
So it could be the board us,
but it could also have been the memory us.
Either way.
Okay, so we're gonna put the E7500 aside for now.
We're gonna put your Car2Duo back in here
and see if that works.
I wanna put this RAM back in just to see.
Nope.
No.
You ready for a graphics card?
I am ready for this.
And did you, I mean, you must've known.
You must've known that this is what this video was.
Really?
You thought it would be smooth?
Smooth sailing?
Buy the cheapest thing.
You told me, go buy the cheapest thing
you can possibly find on Amazon.
And you thought it'd be hunky dory?
I honestly, what I kind of expected was for you
to buy the cheapest brand new things.
And I had meant the cheapest thing in a given category,
but like.
From 2018.
New.
Yeah, like in a box with a manual and an IO shield.
Well, we could do that.
That'd be a different video.
Yeah, yeah, we could.
Cheapest PC on Amazon.
Part two.
I swear it's less cringe this time.
Oh my God.
Hey, not bad.
Is it gonna make it all the way to the desktop?
Linus!
Tech tips.
I am vindicated.
Welcome.
Welcome to a functioning PC.
Do we have gigabit LAN?
You can.
It is.
It's gigabit.
Oh man.
It's Broadcom net extreme gigabit.
That's the good kind.
It's extreme.
Extreme.
Okay, so the first thing we wanna know
is what exactly the crap graphics card this is.
I know what it is.
I have that information.
Look, he can actually look it up faster
than I can check in device manager
because of how slow this thing is.
It's a Radeon 6350.
Turns out this is actually a Radeon 5450.
So it might've been mislabeled on your listing there,
but that's what it shows up.
I've got swindled.
Get them.
Ha ha.
Nice dude.
At 95% SEMA.
Huh.
Okay.
Let's move on.
Dota 2.
Dota 2 was what we really wanted here.
You know, we do this and figure stuff out
so you don't have to guys.
We save you from having to deal with eight frames per second.
In the loading screen.
You thought Anthem was bad.
It still is.
30 frames per second, 720p, second lowest settings.
I don't know.
There's three main characters on screen.
There's not that many.
There's not that much going on.
No, there's really not much going on.
But still like this is playable for a MOBA,
like 30 frames a second.
Yeah, with bots.
Offline, it's playable.
That's true.
Bump the settings down to lowest.
Can you do that in game?
Well, we're up to 50.
Wow, and it looks even worse somehow.
At the lowest settings and 720p.
Okay, let's try.
Rocket League.
All right, 30 FPS.
Hey.
30 FPS in the menu.
Okay.
All right.
Okay.
Wow, it's like.
Wow, it looks really bad.
Oh, you better go 2v2 here, sir.
I might go.
Wait, where is it?
Bot difficulty.
Unfair 1v3.
Oh yeah?
Okay.
Oof.
You're getting 30 FPS though.
So I don't want to hear
any juices here, bud.
Oof.
My gosh.
This is like.
I feel like I'm on drugs right now.
Oh, no, no.
No, we're good.
We're good.
Good-ish.
Dude.
Good is all realistic.
This is really bad.
Can you beat three unfair bots?
I have.
This is a clinic, folks.
This is how it's done.
Look at this.
This is gonna score on the logo.
Oh, he put the car in the net.
All right, sports fans.
This is why we all watch the game.
Chipper, chipper.
So what we're discovering here is that
unless you're gonna meet a certain sort of threshold
for how much you're gonna spend,
there are certain components
that are expensive to buy standalone.
Like a case, just because of the logistics of the thing
is never gonna cost below a certain amount.
You gotta, you gotta ship it and stuff.
Whereas when you buy it as part of a bundle,
it might contribute very little of the value of the total.
And we're gonna have to get out of the box
and service the game to a certain extent.
But you just gotta be careful.
And if you're gonna use the right device,
you've got to be careful.
You might end up buying a full-time PC
as we saw with the $69 gaming PC.
So we stand by our previous recommendation
for low budget gamers.
Rather than trying to go on a retail site,
like Amazon, buy all the cheapest stuff,
slap it together and hope that you can get it working.
We'd really recommend doing what we did last time,
Cause this was $150, just all the parts by itself.
And that computer was 30 bucks plus 30 bucks
plus another 60 bucks for a GPU, 120 bucks altogether.
We got a good gaming experience.
That was a way better gaming experience.
Way better.
Terrible.
Yeah.
And for those of you out there being like Linus,
not everything is about gaming.
Trust me, it's terrible for everything else too.
So thanks for watching guys.
Really, thank you for watching.
Thank you for accompanying us
on this painful, painful journey.
But we had fun, didn't we?
Hey, I learned a lot.
We had fun.
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By the way, Anthony sent me an email,
said he was exonerated by an email that he found.
Oh, that's true.
Where apparently I signed off
on the memorabilia.
Yeah.
That's a good memory.
I confess, I never clicked the link.
Yeah.
And the listing for it did not specify
that it was HP system-specific RAM, so.
I'm exonerated too.
So everyone's exonerated.
Wow.
Except the Amazon seller that shipped us these.
Yeah, stay away from them.
Yeah, butt heads.