so we all know what the PC Master a subreddit would have to say about
getting set up with a new gaming rig build it yourself man do it up custom or
failing that at least buy from a reputable system builder online what
pretty much no one would recommend is to go to the Local Best Buy ask for a
gaming PC and buy whatever it is that they bring you but that's what we did
let's see how that worked out for us shall we
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out what the heck I was just talking about so let's start with the shopping
experience I actually sent my wife in myste in an effort to see just how
frustrating it would be for a more normal person to find a gaming PC at the
local Big Box store so at the first store the initial salesperson explained
that the difference between the $900 gaming PC and the $1,500 one was
Aesthetics and that gaming computers just cost more the actual difference was
that the gaming one had a video card fortunately my wife realized that and
found someone else to talk to the second rep was much better but didn't have
anything in stock to sell though in her defense the store is moving in like 4
days so fine on to store number two or are we in spite of having one of the
Reps from the first store call ahead to reserve a unit of the PC my wife was
trying to buy the second store sold it
while she was on Route and called her when she'd already been driving for 10
minutes to come and get it time to head
somewhere else then third times a charm right after waiting around to talk to a
stocking girl and then getting bounced to The Geek Squad line and then back
again she was finally offered the ASUS M32 CD desktop PC for 900 Canadian
or about 625 us with the current exchange rate so let's have a look at
how she made out then shall we the M32 CD in the recommended gaming
configuration features an Intel Core i5 6400 Skylake quad core 8 gigs of ddr4
RAM running in single Channel actually preferred in this case to allow for
cheaper upgrades a 1 tab hard drive a system specific h110 motherboard with a
single full-size PCI e6x expansion slot
a mini PCI e slot with an AC wireless card two dim slots and USB 3.1 10 gbit
on the back and finally an R9 372 gig
video card notably one that features an ASUS direct cuu style cooler and a very
robust security bar to keep it in place during shipping the case is nothing
special with a rearm mounted 90mm fan a spot for another one in the front though
I can't tell where that one would get fresh air from and a perforated side
panel for air flow and the power supply actually is a huge stepup from what I
expected a 500 watt continuous unit from Delta with a 120 mm fan and extra plugs
for everything from additional drives the motherboard can support up to four
to even a more powerful graphics card as long as you account for keeping it cool
actually overall this package is a lot better than I expected but still I mean
I figured come on this can't be so hard I'll head over to good old nc.com and
beat the stuffing out of it with off-the-shelf components and it's gone
no and it turns out that was not as easy
as I thought even with NC's Rock Bottom
$50 PC assembly fee and even ignoring
the obvious subsidies that Microsoft gives to PC makers for including their
operating system assuming that I wanted
you know a somewhat equivalent AC Wireless solution a DVD writer Etc I
still ended up getting pretty much the same thing for my money without Windows
so when you factor Windows into it it was a full
$125 more expensive to have it built
there I mean sure I get some more PCI Express slots but then I'm actually
giving up a proper PCI ebased Wi-Fi solution for a USB one and settling for
a lesser power supply the one bundled with the CM Elite 350 okay then time for
a new tactic because we're pcmr right we can build the computer ourselves saving
$50 right there and we don't necessarily need need the cheap mouse that came with
this thing so I gave myself some more flexibility on the second config opting
for an AMD fx6300 processor 8 gigs of
DDR3 an MSI 970a Motherboard no included
Mouse DVD driver or Wi-Fi then I spent what I gained on a better graphics card
an R9 380 which the college educated
among you may have already realized isn't an outright better computer just a
different one one that might be better for gaming in some games but certainly
isn't better for all tasks or even all
games which I guess leads us to the conclusion one that I did not see coming
I mean honestly I was sure that after publishing this video we'd never be
working with Best Buy on a top five laptops for students thing like we did
back in the fall again I was certain they were going to get wrecked as the
kids say but that's not how it went down today at all
many of the traditional problems that have existed since the last time I
bought a desktop computer at Future Shop like 15 years ago the inability to find
someone to help you the high pressure sales pitch for extended warranty once
you finally do find someone to help you the Limited stock and selection the hit
or miss knowledge of the instore staff are all alive and well but the computer
we ended up with is actually a really
great value gaming box our equivalent
build offered better PCIe expansion but but its power supply was not as good and
it didn't have USB 3 10 gbit not to mention the huge price disparity and our
DIY build where I built it myself and gave up some features still only saved
me 15 bucks sure it can deliver better
gaming performance in GPU bound scenarios but without crippling CPU
performance even further by stepping down to an APU or something like that
the difference was not nearly what I had expected so there you have it Color Me
surprised whether we have Best Buy to thank for acknowledging the demand for decent
gaming PCs that contain decent graphics cards or ASUS and the other system
Builders to thank for dumping these boxes on Best Buy's shelf buying a
gaming rig at Best Buy is not as bad an option as you might think and a Savvy
used Hardware Shopper could probably manage to flip that included graphics
card plop in something better and end up with an astonishingly good rig for
around $1,000 though while you're at it I o recommend throwing in an SSD
speaking of throwing something in if you were thinking to yourself gee I could
sure use a USB gaming headset with a nice highquality mic good sound and RGB
lighting maybe check out the Logitech g633 Artemis Spectrum it features 7.1
Dolby Surround Sound 40mm proog G audio
drivers and it's compatible with the PC as well as the PlayStation 4 and Xbox
One as I mentioned before it features adjustable RGB lighting and custom tags
with a cardioid boom mic and it's available now on Amazon all you got to
do is pick them up at the link in the video description so thanks for watching
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