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I know what you're thinking it's only been 9 months since our last $500 budget

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buildt but in that short time we've seen AMD and Intel launch new product

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families and we've seen inflation take away about 3% of our buying power which

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at a $500 budget works out to about $15

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which is the difference between 8 and 16 gigs of RAM or between a 512 gig and a 1

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TB SSD so we got a lot of questions to answer today like how far will $500 go

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if we want the latest CPU Tech will we be able to afford a good GPU an okay GPU

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a GPU can I afford a segue to our o I faked you out we're going to get right

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into it today starting with the core I3 13100 F four hyperthreaded performance

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cores and a boost clock of 4.5 GHz the core I3 1300f doesn't offer a lot of

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bells and whistles it doesn't even have Onboard video but it does support

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Intel's latest platform features like PCIe Gen 5 and ddr5 even if we won't be

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using them and it's only $1100 making it

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well the only option by comparison the

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cheapest 7,000 series ryzen CPU is the 7600 for a whopping

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$120 more to be clear it is much faster

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six cores rather than four at up to 5.1 GHz but at this price AMD just isn't

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viable for our system and what's really wild is even if we go back to their

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older am4 platform we find that AMD has simply abandoned the budget-minded

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customers that kept them alive during the bad years even with a ryzen

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5600 we would need to make extra compromises to hit our $500 budget like

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trying to find a free case or buying a used GPU but today is a no compromise

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I first got into this hobby there's not much left in the way of bad motherboard

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Brands so really what it comes down to is finding something that has the

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features and connectivity that you require we settled on the B 660m hdv

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from ASRock it's got a total of six USB 35 GB ports including one type-c dual

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m.2 SSD slots ample PCI e USB 2 and SATA

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expansion and while it only has two ddr4

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memory slots unlike the h610 chipset motherboards that come in a little bit

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cheaper than this those slots support overclocking which means we're not

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leaving any performance on the table I well not that that's necessarily

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concerned given our RAM Choice uh we ended up with a single 8 gig stick of

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patriot Viper Elite 2 and I know I know this is going to be a bit of a

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controversial pick so please allow me to explain this lands firmly in the bang

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for the buck speed range for this platform and while we could have gone

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with 16 gigs of RAM or at least a dual

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Channel 8 gig kit which would have netted us some additional performance

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it's a slippery slope right guys I mean if we start with a budget but then we

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keep saying what's $10 more suddenly we find

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ourselves with a $600 build rather than a $500 build and $100 of debt to our

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mean older sister it's far better to just drop a second stick in down the

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road upgrade to dual Channel later when it can be found Dirt Cheap secondhand or

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when cash flow is a little bit looser which while I tend to shy away from the

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FW ended up being one of the big themes of this build let's talk about storage

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for nearly the same price as this Intel

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670posts

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will take up 100 gigs on their own

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there's no question that that's desirable but storage is one area where

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I just don't like to screw around and the 67p is not only a known good

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performer punching well above its PCIe gen 3 weight class it's also got an

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excellent reputation for reliability I mean do you want to be gaming or do you

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want to be waiting around for a warranty replacement that might never come and

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besides once this is full and you want to boost your storage space down the

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line those Dirt Cheap drives on new EG are still going to be there and you can

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always throw them in knowing that you've got a rock solid

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foundation though I'm not sure I can say the same about our case the DIY PC f2s

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main selling point is available in

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purple or orange it doesn't have entirely terrible Cable Management

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thanks to this kind of popped out back panel here you can see when we pop off

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the panel it's totally flat here no room

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for anything but that's where your space is

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as far as as I can tell it's to save the like 6% materials cost of making

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everything else a little bit bigger to accommodate that extra width so you just

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stamp it out of the side panel it's it's ingenious actually truthfully though

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none of that is why we chose this we chose it only because it is literally

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the cheapest matx case that we could find on PC par picker and I would never

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buy this case not because I'm some kind of outof touch elitist but because I am

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with to get down and dirty if Scavenging from a dumpster means saving $38 almost

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10% of my total budget here I'll do it

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and you should too the ATX standard hasn't been meaningfully changed in

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almost 30 years which means unless you're buying a top of the line GPU

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which you're not your modern system will probably fit in this or this or this or

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this or this and on the subject of using what you've got let's talk about cooling

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even as you start to upgrade the machine machine the CPU heat sink is one of the

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last things that I would recommend you spend money on Intel stock cooler it

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ain't much but it'll take you all the way up to a 13700 nonk so you might as

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well use it now we just need to plug in our CPU fan header and while we're at it

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let's do our case fans as well we've got the rear one and the front one header

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here yes if you must have something bigger or especially quieter there are

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plenty of options in the 15 to $40 price range we're going to have some of those

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linked down below or you could just take my advice and spend that on an adorable

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wag hoodie for your four-legged friend just $24.99 at LTT Store.com now we just

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got to do a little bit of cable management here's our front USB 2 as

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well as our HD audio so convenient these come in little bricks

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easy peasy they only go in one way I

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can't say the same for our front panel connectors but what I can say is everything is very helpfully labeled

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reset right power switch last thing

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we've got is our front USB 3 just be careful with this one these pins are

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very fragile make sure you got it aligned before you click it in time for

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power this is going to be yet another controversial Choice we've gone with the

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enax Cyber Bron 500 watt it's

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non-modular but it does at least have black cables so it'll look nice it's 80

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plus bronze it's got dual 6 plus2 PCIe

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connectors so it's good for pretty much any performance tiering down GPU but the

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issue is that you can get a functioning power supply for as little as like 20

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bucks the issue for us is that our options below this price point are

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either from unknown brands or from thermaltake whose entry level lineup

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doesn't have a great reputation and the thing is given the risk of collateral

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damage when a power supply blows from my point of view you just can't afford not

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to spend a bit more here didn't really script anything for cable management

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here so I guess we're just going to wing it oh yeah 8 Pin

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the eight pin has no cable management cutout so it's just going to go

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here now this is going to come right

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here cool not bad not

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bad not great not great yeah yeah yeah

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just everybody just relax for a second okay right goes there all right and now

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it's pretty all right again I had a segue into this written but completely

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off script now so I'm just going to open by saying it's amazing what 200 bucks

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can buy again these days anything the

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ASRock Challenger D Radeon RX 6600 has 8

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gigs of vram a core clock of 1626 MHz

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and a dual fan cooler that's not bad

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considering that our only real criteria was how much money do we have left okay

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I'll take that one at $200 you're pretty much looking at the GTX 1660 or the RX

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6600 00 between those two the 6600 is

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much newer and way more powerful see you

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later NVIDIA not bad though right no it's fine

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I mean it's not great but but not

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bad power's in and everything's looking pretty good on this side um not as great

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on this side we'll deal with that in a sec first I want to address some the other options for gpus if you're not

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married to buying brand new at $200 there are some very interesting options

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in the secondhand Market including 2080s 1080 TI 5700 XTS and 6600 XTS it's a lot

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more performance but you do miss out on your

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warranty oh boy oh I don't know if I

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want you to roll on this uh too late I

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press the

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button wow that's something

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just Y no yeah it's really good

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case wow it's like it's like that video

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of the bloated whale carcass where the guy like cuts it open it's like okay

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let's fire it up I closed the panels bad gbi's it's

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not going to work adding everything up after a small

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mail in rebate I think it was like 10 bucks right we are just under our budget

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at $498 we're going to have a link in the

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description to our PC part picker list before you click on that though let's

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see if it's worth buying this is freaking awesome sitting at 9% 6% CPU

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usage with screen capture going we're using the GPU for encoding but does

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still use a little bit of CPU let's fire up a game we're going to go hard going

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straight to Halo infinite I think we can go to High preset ah restarted the game

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to take effect no I'm not going to start the game fine whatever 1080p medium

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preset still we're looking at 80 FPS for our 1% lows so if you're losing at that

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point that's on you that's good they didn't even pick up my sniper these guys

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suck definitely struggling a little bit sometimes the real world experience is

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not quite on par with what the FPS numbers would suggest it's almost like

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there's a little bit more input leg can't put my finger on it to of the game

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no I'm busy wining I'm the top on my team what do you mean

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that's what winning looks like you want me to capture the flag fine I'll Capture

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the Flag I don't even care wait 10 seconds 10 seconds of what we're almost

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out of time draw or oh we won we won what we won all right Doom Eternal

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hey but notice how quiet it is not bad generic orange Jelly D fans

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and even that poor Intel stock heat sink when it's barely doing any work very

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quiet I think Ultra nightmare is probably a little aggressive for this

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let's try High something something's attacking me look I don't have any audio

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and this is running amazing okay I probably could be running Ultra

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nightmare right now okay we're turning it up it's way way too good uh Ultra

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nightmare is a little much that's not quite right oh crap yeah no this is

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laggy let's try nightmare or let's try Ultra how about Ultra uh okay too easy

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now we're getting 150 frames per second

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there has got to be a middle ground here you know what I bet it was a CPU issue

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even playing a single player game four cores these days very borderline I'm

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hitting 80 plus sometimes 90% CPU usage

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Doom maternal right in multiplayer games there's a little bit more for the CPU to

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keep track of and that can be more of a challenge to be clear it was very

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playable but it's not going to be necessarily optimal but I only have a

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pistol now wait what was that oh that was was that warm up KN that's happening

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right now oh I mean oh no you killed your team oh did I yeah yeah it is free

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okay no no so I was supposed to do that so that was epic then yeah

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whatever dang it oh come

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on come on they're too good I can't hit

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misel I'm coming at him from every side he's dominating

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me yeah thank you for that David anyway

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we're getting anywhere from 150 to 300 frames per second I'd say that's fairly

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playable not that it helps me not suck close out the video no I'm killing this

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guy how did that Miss David help me out here are these guys good or am I

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terrible that was pretty

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bad who would have thought that Intel would be not just a good budget gaming

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option but the budget gaming option if we wanted to go AMD with this we'd have

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to go all the way back to am4 maybe a ryzen 5600 on an a520 m board or

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something like that the point is that's taking me into probably going to regret

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this territory on the cheapness of the motherboard and it would still cost me a

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bit more and if I wanted to spend a bit more this is still a great starting

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point I could cheap out on my case and spend a little bit more I could get a

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Core i5 13400 on the same platform or if

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