1 00:00:00,020 --> 00:00:04,200 Ah, the mantra of the PC master race. 2 00:00:04,760 --> 00:00:07,020 Build your own PC, they say. 3 00:00:07,300 --> 00:00:09,960 It's cheaper than a pre-built, they say. 4 00:00:10,460 --> 00:00:14,180 But just how cheaply can you build a completely new system? 5 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:17,920 And what compromises would you make if you were to do so? 6 00:00:18,500 --> 00:00:22,600 To find out, we purchased this bag of potatoes. 7 00:00:24,200 --> 00:00:26,000 Oh, and also we built this PC. 8 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:40,780 E.K. Waterblocks' all-aluminum fluid gaming lineup 9 00:00:40,780 --> 00:00:45,600 offers great custom-grade water cooling performance for an affordable price. 10 00:00:45,720 --> 00:00:47,660 Learn more at the link in the video description. 11 00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:52,640 Okay, so the exact spec of the cheapest PC you can build 12 00:00:52,640 --> 00:00:56,980 seems to vary a bit depending on the day that you're shopping for it. 13 00:00:57,260 --> 00:01:00,460 And also just how ghetto fabulous you want to get. 14 00:01:00,460 --> 00:01:03,980 But long story short, we ended up with something, 15 00:01:04,540 --> 00:01:06,000 well, let's say usable. 16 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:09,220 For $151.99. 17 00:01:10,260 --> 00:01:13,780 And to clarify the usable bit there, 18 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:17,360 we actually had managed to find a full system 19 00:01:17,360 --> 00:01:20,640 with this single-core Intel Celeron 440 20 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:23,880 that would have been $1.51 cheaper, 21 00:01:24,320 --> 00:01:27,740 but unfortunately, the Acer motherboard it was attached to 22 00:01:27,740 --> 00:01:31,620 was a lot funkier than we at first thought. 23 00:01:31,620 --> 00:01:35,860 And using it would have required some heavy case modification. 24 00:01:36,080 --> 00:01:40,020 So we settled for this slightly more expensive combo. 25 00:01:40,020 --> 00:01:45,920 A quad-core AMD A8 3870 and this ECS motherboard. 26 00:01:46,870 --> 00:01:49,190 Now, even with the right standoffs, 27 00:01:49,750 --> 00:01:53,670 assembly of this thing was nothing short of heroic. 28 00:01:53,670 --> 00:01:57,750 We dodged, we spun, we rolled away from the sharp, 29 00:01:58,550 --> 00:02:04,290 spiky insides of the Xion case that we picked up for 23 bucks. 30 00:02:04,290 --> 00:02:06,290 I swear, around every 31 00:02:06,430 --> 00:02:09,170 corner, there must have been a sharp piece of metal 32 00:02:09,170 --> 00:02:12,770 just waiting for a finger to run across it. 33 00:02:12,770 --> 00:02:16,370 Finally, though, still alive, but not entirely unscathed, 34 00:02:16,370 --> 00:02:20,270 we fired our rig up and installed Windows 10. 35 00:02:20,270 --> 00:02:22,610 And with it all assembled now, 36 00:02:22,610 --> 00:02:27,110 had a chance to look at what it was that we'd created. 37 00:02:27,110 --> 00:02:30,710 At which time, we promptly wished we hadn't. 38 00:02:30,710 --> 00:02:34,570 Because the build quality of this thing is atrocious. 39 00:02:34,570 --> 00:02:35,290 If this were the subject of an LTT review, 40 00:02:35,290 --> 00:02:36,150 this would have been the first time we'd done this. 41 00:02:36,150 --> 00:02:36,270 So we had to do it again. 42 00:02:36,270 --> 00:02:36,310 So we had to do it again. 43 00:02:36,310 --> 00:02:36,370 So we had to do it again. 44 00:02:36,370 --> 00:02:36,450 So we had to do it again. 45 00:02:36,450 --> 00:02:36,510 So we had to do it again. 46 00:02:36,510 --> 00:02:36,550 So we had to do it again. 47 00:02:36,550 --> 00:02:36,610 So we had to do it again. 48 00:02:36,610 --> 00:02:36,650 So we had to do it again. 49 00:02:36,650 --> 00:02:37,690 But as they continue our review, 50 00:02:37,690 --> 00:02:40,850 it would probably go a little something like this. 51 00:02:40,850 --> 00:02:43,450 All the materials of this product feel super cheap 52 00:02:43,450 --> 00:02:45,330 because they are. 53 00:02:45,330 --> 00:02:47,890 And the whole system is lighter than 54 00:02:47,890 --> 00:02:51,350 some of the laptops we've reviewed recently. 55 00:02:51,350 --> 00:02:54,930 At least I'll give them credit for this. 56 00:02:54,930 --> 00:02:59,130 The outside of the case is mostly free of sharp edges, 57 00:02:59,130 --> 00:03:00,190 but I still wouldn't recommend performing the ol' 58 00:03:00,190 --> 00:03:04,150 reach around to plug something in in the dark 59 00:03:04,150 --> 00:03:05,810 if you don't want to get bit by this here wild cat. 60 00:03:05,810 --> 00:03:06,310 Arr! 61 00:03:07,270 --> 00:03:14,590 Overall though in fairness the look of the case isn't that bad and it's not like it wouldn't be functional if you are on a 62 00:03:14,590 --> 00:03:15,910 tight budget 63 00:03:15,910 --> 00:03:21,710 Though the inclusion of a rear case fan for exhaust would have been a nice touch with that said 64 00:03:22,350 --> 00:03:28,990 Arguably our 400 watt power supply does seem to take care of that job for the most part 65 00:03:29,690 --> 00:03:35,070 probably because the Coolmax i400 runs its fan at full speed as 66 00:03:35,070 --> 00:03:39,410 Often as you should be using a condom at a brothel, so that is 67 00:03:40,290 --> 00:03:46,190 100% of the time in all seriousness though even at idle this system is 68 00:03:46,490 --> 00:03:52,330 Uncomfortably loud due to that fan and at full load once the CPU fan joins the chorus 69 00:03:52,390 --> 00:03:55,310 You'll actually probably be wishing for some ear muffs 70 00:03:55,930 --> 00:04:03,830 The silver lining here at least is that with all that noise you do get some half decent thermals with both the CPU and 71 00:04:04,370 --> 00:04:05,010 GPU 72 00:04:05,010 --> 00:04:07,510 Leveling off at around 64 degrees 73 00:04:08,570 --> 00:04:14,690 Spec wise though ha well you can forget about your favorite triple-a games because this thing 74 00:04:15,330 --> 00:04:19,190 Barely scrapes by the minimum specs for Windows 10 75 00:04:19,190 --> 00:04:24,010 I mean the CPU is actually half decent for 38 bucks 76 00:04:24,010 --> 00:04:31,870 It's four cores at three gigahertz feel like they're being held back somewhat by the rest of the system so for productivity 77 00:04:32,130 --> 00:04:34,790 This box works reasonably well 78 00:04:35,010 --> 00:04:37,790 Well once all the extra visuals are disabled 79 00:04:38,370 --> 00:04:46,850 Surfing the internet was serviceable and even full HD YouTube playback was nice and smooth at least until we ran out of RAM and 80 00:04:47,310 --> 00:04:53,130 Since there's only two gigs of the stuff well you can expect to be hitting the page file every so often 81 00:04:53,830 --> 00:04:56,180 just kidding always and 82 00:04:56,440 --> 00:04:58,440 Oh man 83 00:04:58,740 --> 00:05:04,740 Once you have to access the hard drive any resemblance of haste goes away 84 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:06,740 at only 85 00:05:06,740 --> 00:05:08,740 5400 RPM the 86 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:11,580 160 gigabytes of storage is 87 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:19,380 Molasses slow like type in a search for one of the four blu-ray movies that you could fit on it 88 00:05:19,480 --> 00:05:23,120 Then go make a cup of tea while you wait for the results 89 00:05:23,810 --> 00:05:31,410 But come on who cares about hard drive performance. Let's answer the burning question on all of your minds can it 90 00:05:32,350 --> 00:05:34,350 game I mean 91 00:05:34,710 --> 00:05:39,830 The system does have dedicated graphics, so it should be able to write 92 00:05:40,350 --> 00:05:49,030 Huh the dedicated I think in different graphics would probably be a better term since our GeForce 93 00:05:50,150 --> 00:05:54,570 8440 GS doesn't give too cold shits about your framerate 94 00:05:55,210 --> 00:05:57,010 coming in at 95 00:05:57,010 --> 00:06:03,410 $19 it sports 256 megs of DDR to memory and with a 96 00:06:03,410 --> 00:06:07,610 with a Dinosauric 460 megahertz core clock, 97 00:06:07,610 --> 00:06:12,610 its 3DMark score is 36 times lower 98 00:06:14,250 --> 00:06:18,830 than that of the lowly GTX 750 Ti. 99 00:06:18,830 --> 00:06:22,630 That's right, not a GTX 1080 Ti, 100 00:06:22,630 --> 00:06:27,630 but the 750 Ti, a card that costs only five times as much. 101 00:06:29,070 --> 00:06:32,390 So, needless to say, in our tests, 102 00:06:32,390 --> 00:06:37,960 we're going for playable rather than pretty. 103 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:43,240 Half-Life 2, then, at 720p, medium to lowish details, 104 00:06:43,460 --> 00:06:47,640 actually not the worst gaming experience I've ever had, 105 00:06:47,640 --> 00:06:49,940 though that's more of an endorsement 106 00:06:49,940 --> 00:06:54,320 of Valve's excellent storytelling than this gaming PC. 107 00:06:54,320 --> 00:06:56,500 And as for anything newer than 2010, 108 00:06:56,500 --> 00:06:58,800 well, you can forget about that. 109 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:02,960 Even CSGO at 720p with the lowest settings 110 00:07:02,960 --> 00:07:07,400 yields an absolutely unplayable 10 frames per second. 111 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:12,530 But wait, Crysis was released before 2010. 112 00:07:12,710 --> 00:07:16,220 Can it, can it run Crysis? 113 00:07:16,220 --> 00:07:18,640 Yes, yes it can. 114 00:07:18,640 --> 00:07:23,380 At 800 by 600 and the lowest settings. 115 00:07:23,380 --> 00:07:26,780 And it's actually somewhat playable, which is cool. 116 00:07:26,780 --> 00:07:29,480 But we also wanted to bench our system 117 00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:32,720 in such a way that you can compare it at home. 118 00:07:32,720 --> 00:07:34,580 So we booted up 3DMark, 119 00:07:34,580 --> 00:07:39,500 where only the Ice Storm benchmark for mobile devices 120 00:07:39,500 --> 00:07:43,580 was able to run since everything else required 121 00:07:43,580 --> 00:07:48,580 either a higher level of DirectX support or more VRAM. 122 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:54,000 Funny story, our GeForce 8440GS managed a score of 4,989, 123 00:07:56,700 --> 00:07:59,100 which actually kind of sounded like a big number 124 00:07:59,100 --> 00:08:02,120 until it got absolutely butt-wrecked. 125 00:08:02,720 --> 00:08:07,720 By the 24,320 score recorded by the AMD integrated GPU 126 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:14,440 built in to our processor. 127 00:08:14,440 --> 00:08:17,780 So I guess then that spending that $19 128 00:08:17,780 --> 00:08:20,460 on some Mountain Dew and Doritos 129 00:08:20,460 --> 00:08:25,460 would have had a bigger impact on the gaming experience. 130 00:08:25,500 --> 00:08:29,340 So then with the GeForce 8440 ripped out, 131 00:08:29,340 --> 00:08:32,720 actually the whole system got more usable in general. 132 00:08:32,720 --> 00:08:37,300 We managed almost 60 FPS in CSGO at 720p low, 133 00:08:37,300 --> 00:08:41,660 and GTA V, well, hey, it got the game to launch. 134 00:08:41,660 --> 00:08:44,220 Which at this point, we consider a win, 135 00:08:44,220 --> 00:08:47,500 even if it did only manage frame rates in the 20s, 136 00:08:47,500 --> 00:08:49,180 among other issues. 137 00:08:49,180 --> 00:08:53,600 So bottom line, would we recommend this system? 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