recently we built this AMD budget gaming rig for just 500 and it's pretty good
but here's the thing everybody knows when it comes to getting
the best bang for the buck Intel is where it's at as long as you
don't mind having no warranty having an exposed die on your processor
and using some pretty sketchy BIOS hacks
yes my friends this right here is the heart and soul of what we're dubbing the
ruthless economy pc so tighten up your
sandals ladies and gentlemen because this
is going to be one wild ride and it's brought to you by
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let's start with explaining what you guys were looking at before this is the
qqlt es an engineering sample chip with
six cores and 12 threads that's clocked from 2.4 gigahertz base to 4.1 gigahertz
boost that was supposed to be
destined for a laptop but has been frankensteined by
the one and only mr sue so that it can be installed in a desktop one of these
is gonna run you just a hundred and twenty five dollars which is pretty good
for a six course so uh between mr sue and lisa sue
i think i'll take mr sue any day of the week again as long as you don't mind
having no warranty whatsoever and buying engineering sample chips
really though the main value add here is not the CPU
itself but rather that this CPU allows
us to get one of these the h110d3a
is a mining optimized motherboard
you can see it's got all these pci express slots here for those little
mining GPU adapters that can be had on ebay for as little as 30 dollars
and happens to we hope work perfectly with the qqltes
it's not even the same shape the installation process for this
abomination here very straightforward you go ahead you
take this buddy here with the little uh notches you line them up with the little
notches right there there you go a little something like that oh yeah
you pop this little like carrier slash hold down plate puppy on
here and then you just yep you just you screw
these screws right into the motherboard
no problem there's actual tapped holes on the back
oh oh okay i thought we were just screwing into the pcb well that's a little better
no yeah it's it's like kind of legit okay for cooling you'd be surprised how
cheap we can go this right here is an Intel stock cooler
you can probably scavenge one of these for nothing but if you do have to pay
for them they go for about nine dollars on ebay and that's not a lot of metal
that's not a lot of cooling there but the good news is that because we're
using a mobile processor it also doesn't
output a lot of heat and compared to the
space constraints that you would have to deal with in a laptop
this uh yeah looks you know downright frosty one
thing we want to be careful of when installing the CPU is that we're not
putting excess pressure on one corner and we're applying it evenly because
otherwise we could crack that exposed die and our CPU would be
very dead at that point now when it comes to storage we never
recommend cheaping out and going second hand because when you think about it
what's 10 or 20 compared to the value of your precious family photos
but this is the ruthless economy pc isn't it so
for our boot drive we went with this samsung 840 series off of ebay it's just
over 20 dollars and does have a dram cache so we won't expect the slowdowns
that can happen with d roundless ssds and then because 120 gigs just plain
ain't enough to store any modern games like warfare type games you know what
i'm talking about we also went with a one terabyte
barracuda that was 19
yeah the great thing about this is that by
spending only 40 on our storage we were able to get 16 gigs of RAM i mean sure
it's from a brand that even i've never heard of time tech
but theoretically i mean those are RAM chips on there sk hynix should be fine right
right right yeah yeah 60 bucks for those 60
bucks now it's time to start building this thing
meet computer case
it's got compelling features like steel
and front panel
it also happens to be extremely lightweight so light i can't
even get it out of the box
all of this and no more can be yours for
just 30 which happens to be 30 more
than we're willing to spend on a case in a ruthless economy pc
meet the end tech p180 side of the road
edition we got this for free
on the side of the road it has features like no front panel
look at that unrestricted airflow after we removed these capes up fan filters
you it might even have bugs it's not a bug it's a feature the
craziest thing about the p180 sotr edition is that it's not even the most
defunct thing about itself rip ncix to
go with our vintage antec case
we got a vintage antec power supply this
is an earth watts 650 watt and we would describe it as
old reliable you know it's reliable because someone's been running it in
their gaming rig for the last 10 years it might have uh
something kind of rattling around inside it but it was only 20 bucks on ebay
and i'm sure that'll come out if we shake it hard enough
it's hot glue i wonder what it was holding in place
i gotta say it's been a spicy minute i think the last time i built in a p180
series case and tech was still relevant
hey got him
it is so dirty and like look at this oh my god
ew it's dust
i thought it was like a mark from the heat of the CPU or something gross
you can actually read the brand it's a zalman lga 775 cooler
when did these guys go so wrong all right i never installed the RAM
all right and
there we go i guess i'll need some screws uh those
screws are actually from the not working system that was in that case
beautiful recycling if your side of the road p180 doesn't
have uh these screws you too can check your hope in a prayer
bin and uh hope and pray that you
find some of them in it they're not wide enough at the head i would need like a
washer or something instead hopefully they hold it in well enough to at least
finish this video
look at this class a cable management we got on this case here
look at this there's your little cutout right there
kind of put that through there plug that in the back your hard drive
right there a little something like that oh yeah
boom done
and you just hope it stays out of the fan
that fan is so freaking dirty
i also found a screw in it the top fans apparently connect
the molex so we'll go ahead and i really don't
like touching this this is really very dirty
like it smells i did it for the views
oh this is the most dead fan that i have seen in some time check this out you can
actually see it's popped out of the frame
that's okay this one spins
that one's bit does that just loosen there
now older cases like this one don't have anywhere to properly mount an SSD so
we're going to go with right there one time i threw my SSD
in the drive bay area and it fell out and
shorted the back of my motherboard i have a solution we're gonna cable manage
it to hold it in place okay see
now it cannot fall see perfect
here's a pretty modern feature actually
GPU power cables coming up through the basement this case really was ahead of its time
now it's time to put the cherry on top of our feces
sunday here this gtx 1070 cost us about 200
and should deliver anywhere from 30 to 40 percent more performance than the
1650 that we put in our all brand new parts with warranty's
gaming machine isn't it beautiful and andy yeah it's a
slipper it's more than a sleep it's like
blackout drunk
wow genuine Intel
zero cpu000 two point four gigahertz but hey turbo's working it's uh 14 nanometer
which for Intel means it's either very modern or
quite old it's coffee lake which tells us more specifically what era it's from so i'm
expecting actually pretty decent performance from this thing and it
identifies as a xeon 2400
so like a mobile xeon fascinating this is a 45 watt chip and
wait is this one unlocked yeah that might not be the CPU that i thought it was
yeah we put the wrong CPU in uh
that's why it wasn't showing up as one that would be unlocked
so it needs to be one of these in our defense they all kind of look the same
so while we swap out this CPU it's a good time to point out that with a bare
dye chip like this it is extremely important to have thermal compound
covering absolutely everywhere on it
if you have any part of it that is not thermal pasted
there is a good chance it will die it won't die it will just
do really bad no it could die because some part of it that doesn't have a
proper temperature sensor oh true yeah i don't know it's easy for me to
say as you know someone with a full-time job and who's an adult and all that that
you know this is scary and i wouldn't recommend it but teenage me would probably say well
you're an idiot for buying this when you can get more FPS with that
of course we need to figure out if it actually gets more FPS first
it's going to crush it minor details absolutely crushing look that's what we
think but let's just verify it okay well let's open up xtu here
oh it says thermal throttling
what that's weird we're not even doing anything
oh wait it's better now what'd you do
did you just give it a little wiggly wiggle yeah did one of the clips not go
all the way in yeah i think that you just missed one of the clips you want to turn it off and fix that uh sure
sorry there little CPU oh yeah so it clicked in but it didn't
click into the motherboard give it a little wiggle
wow i get a cloud of dust when i press the power button that's exciting i've
got xtu open and i don't actually know if applying
anything is going to work yet but it appears as though
everything is completely unlocked on this puppy so
that's cool our temps are good we're idling at around 30 degrees now which is
exactly what i'd expect which means it's time for a quick cinebench drag race run
you ready genuine Intel
cpu000 versus ryzen 3 3100 and go
dang it may be sketchy but it sure sketches
this scene fast
wow and it's the same price for these
machines eh yep exactly the same exactly
the same dang
2 800 2300 points so that's a cinebench win
now to be clear if all you were after was cinebench performance you could also
go pick yourself up a first gen ryzen 7
8 core and it would beat the stuffing out of this
but remember we're after an all-round good experience
here and that includes gaming
take that alex boom who's got more FPS
now baby oh shoot oh my control key oh you have a lot more than me wait why is
there a control key here that's not control this is there's two controls on the left
you're gonna have to plant the bomb at some point oh no no no
no okay cool so let's just like stand here
and follow our team around so we're anywhere from around 10 15 to
as high as 20 percent faster on our frankenstein machine compared to all new
parts let's try one more game before we do that alex
really wants to try overclocking this thing so what do you think 4.5 gigahertz
all core yeah we might be able to do 4.7 uh not
all core that's really aggressive yeah all right there's 4.5 velcro do you want
to careful it's dead i was about to say give her a bit more voltage
4.5 all core didn't crash yet
not something do you want to run a cinebench i would love to it's
definitely on the struggle bus a little bit but it's running at 4.5 boys
dang 96
95 ah throttled okay so we need better cooling
i'm one point one five oh it's dead it's it's not okay
we're done you're done but it's off it turned off
that's weird our hard drive disappeared
our partition is gone okay
that's why do maternal won't launch
uh i mean we did say that using uh used
hard drives was something we don't recommend
at least all we lost was some games that's crazy so running 3dmark we're
looking at as high as 25 30 difference
in performance going from our 500 value
rig to our ruthless economy rig making
this one even more appealing is the fact that it has double the system memory
which i mean might not be useful in every game but
could definitely come in handy so there you have it folks
she might not look like much she might not last for long and she
might smell real bad but she's got it where it counts the
ruthless economy build comes out on top
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and little conveniences like that thanks for watching if you guys enjoyed this video
maybe check out our previous exploration into mr sue's crazy frankenstein cpus
where we go a little bit more in depth into how they are actually made