1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,840 Costco's electronics department used to be pretty much TVs, some iPods, and a 2 00:00:04,240 --> 00:00:11,440 mobile phone [music] kiosk. But the last time I was here, I couldn't help noticing that they have so much more 3 00:00:09,360 --> 00:00:14,800 now. They've got gaming PCs, gaming monitors, and even all kinds of gaming 4 00:00:13,160 --> 00:00:18,960 peripherals, which got me wondering, is Costco the new cheat code to get a 5 00:00:16,840 --> 00:00:24,200 gaming PC at a fair price? Or is it a trap for people to be lured in by the 6 00:00:21,880 --> 00:00:30,120 convenience of getting their giant slab of meat and a lean, mean gaming PC in 7 00:00:27,160 --> 00:00:34,520 one, admittedly, pretty arduous trip. To find out, David and I are here at the 8 00:00:31,840 --> 00:00:39,440 local Costco with one simple goal, to walk out with the best deal we can get 9 00:00:36,120 --> 00:00:41,440 on a gaming PC. And maybe food samples. 10 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:46,800 I love Costco. I hear that they love you, too, Linus. Just like I love this 11 00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:49,000 segway to our sponsor, Ahrefs. Take your 12 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:53,480 website, add it to an Ahrefs account, and get helpful insights and SEO tools 13 00:00:51,480 --> 00:01:00,400 to help your business grow. Scan the QR code or go to ahrefs.com/awt 14 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:03,120 to get started today. Welcome to Costco. 15 00:01:00,400 --> 00:01:03,120 I love you. 16 00:01:10,840 --> 00:01:16,160 Hey. 100 bucks off Apple Watch, no deals on 17 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:19,880 gaming PCs. But we do have some options. That's a 18 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:26,520 card you want to take. [music] Why buy computers at Costco, Linus? 90-day return policy, free tech support, 2-year 19 00:01:24,560 --> 00:01:30,040 warranty, and okay, this >> Free bloatware, yay. 20 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:34,200 >> Okay, well, we're buying a computer, so >> So, I'm going to grab one of these. And 21 00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:41,160 then, in terms of our options, we've got AMD with a Radeon GPU and Intel with a 22 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:46,920 GeForce GPU. Both are a pretty similar class of machine, which makes the 23 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:50,240 difference in price a little bit confu- 24 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:52,880 This one's got 32 gigs of DDR5. That's 25 00:01:50,240 --> 00:01:58,080 on top of having a higher class CPU, not to mention a GPU with 16 gigs of VRAM. 26 00:01:56,320 --> 00:02:04,040 Meanwhile, over here, we've only got a single 16 gig stick. 27 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:05,761 With actually also a lower tier cooler, 28 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:08,560 not to mention a little bit less RGB. [music] One extra side of glass panels, 29 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:13,400 though. I mean, yeah, that's true, but I'd 30 00:02:11,560 --> 00:02:17,680 rather have the mesh to be honest with you. You think it's the same power supply in 31 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:20,040 both? Hard to say what power supply is in here. >> I mean, the boxes are right here. Does 32 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:25,560 it say on the box? >> Costco only gives us so many specs. Let's have a look. This is the Oh. 33 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:29,640 Wait, what? >> even have any of the AMD ones in stock? 34 00:02:29,880 --> 00:02:35,400 Sorry, the specs are on the other side, I think. Nope, that's the Intel GeForce one. 35 00:02:34,581 --> 00:02:37,800 [music] No. 36 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:45,160 Intel GeForce. Do you think I could get a deal on a floor model? We can ask. It 37 00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:49,560 didn't even occur to me to like ask if someone can help me with my purchase. I 38 00:02:46,920 --> 00:02:53,840 mean, it's Costco. Is that a thing? So, there's two machines there. I couldn't 39 00:02:51,640 --> 00:02:58,360 find any in stock of the higher end one. Um I believe that's the only one left. 40 00:02:56,840 --> 00:03:02,880 Is there a deal if it's the floor model or no? No, if it's a deleted item, like 41 00:03:01,480 --> 00:03:06,800 we're not going to carry it anymore, then they'll mark it down. We're going 42 00:03:04,640 --> 00:03:10,519 to get more stock of it then. Got it. That makes sense. This doesn't have the 43 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:14,800 Death Star assignment yet, so Right. >> that, then it'll be marked down. So, in 44 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:19,320 a nutshell, I'm going to do my bro a solid over here. Wait, did he say that this means 45 00:03:17,812 --> 00:03:23,440 [music] that it's an UL A? >> I think he said the Death Star. Oh, this 46 00:03:21,519 --> 00:03:26,920 could be pretty cool. But, before we try to negotiate a deal on it, I want to see 47 00:03:25,280 --> 00:03:30,760 how these systems compare to just shopping online. Oh, don't forget that 48 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:35,200 that's in Canadian money. Oh, right. Yeah, so this is more like a 49 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:41,080 G, and then this is more like 1,300 bucks. And there it is, a 14 400F 50 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:47,640 with an RTX 5060, 16 gigs of RAM. Wait. 51 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:50,080 This is DDR4. So, we are saving about 30 52 00:03:47,640 --> 00:03:53,440 US dollars compared to this Stormforce system, and we're getting [music] more 53 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:57,440 expansion slots because we've got an ATX motherboard. With that said, we are 54 00:03:55,520 --> 00:04:03,080 giving up a little bit of capacity on our power supply. And also Ew, is that a 55 00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:07,440 Raidmax? Here's a slightly better CPU, a little bit more RAM, but still a 5060 56 00:04:05,640 --> 00:04:10,480 for, you know, couple hundred bucks more. All in all, it looks like we're 57 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:15,120 well within the range in terms of pricing. Let's try and get a deal. Hi. 58 00:04:12,720 --> 00:04:19,239 Long time fan. Buying a PC. Do you know if we can get a discount on it? I'll do 59 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:22,520 it for you. Oh, okay. Awesome. Thank you. Don't Don't like tell them who we 60 00:04:20,880 --> 00:04:25,280 are or anything. Just I just want to be a normal customer. I don't want anything 61 00:04:24,040 --> 00:04:29,120 special though. Okay. Okay. 62 00:04:27,898 --> 00:04:34,960 >> [laughter] >> 10% that's our normal. 10%? All right. 63 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:41,880 We got our deal. It's their standard 10% discount compared to the retail price, 64 00:04:37,160 --> 00:04:44,919 which means that we are only paying $275 65 00:04:41,880 --> 00:04:47,320 for an additional 16 gigs of RAM, an 66 00:04:44,919 --> 00:04:54,120 additional 8 gigs of VRAM, not to mention a better CPU, and probably 67 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:59,520 a better power supply. However, the one thing giving me pause 68 00:04:57,080 --> 00:05:04,760 is DLSS 4.5. If I hadn't tried it, I'd been like 69 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:09,600 I'll take the superior raster performance, not to mention AMD's fine 70 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:15,200 wine driver development. Well, turns out NVIDIA's got some fine wine of their 71 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:17,440 own. And DLSS 4.5 is freaking awesome. 72 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:20,280 However, I could probably rip a stick of RAM out 73 00:05:19,080 --> 00:05:26,320 of this thing, sell it, sell that GPU, and get an NVIDIA card if 74 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:28,880 I really wanted that. I think this is the one we got to take. 75 00:05:27,280 --> 00:05:32,960 >> I agree. Which isn't to say that this is a bad deal, but I like this. This is not 76 00:05:31,280 --> 00:05:35,760 my favorite thing about buying open box items. 77 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:41,160 Okay. There we go. Let's return [music] our cart. We'll be the one Costco customer 78 00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:46,480 ever who returns their cart. There's dozens of us. 79 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:49,760 The specs and price actually looking really solid, but 80 00:05:48,520 --> 00:05:55,000 we still don't even know what brand of power supply we have. We don't know what brand of SSD we have. I'd like to take a 81 00:05:53,280 --> 00:05:59,600 closer look. I'll now start by getting a little bit of this dust off the machine. 82 00:05:57,280 --> 00:06:02,360 That's a small price to pay uh when you consider that versus our comparison 83 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:06,600 system, >> Mhm. you're saving about $300. 84 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:10,800 >> Really? >> And that's using the same parts or very 85 00:06:09,280 --> 00:06:13,480 similar cheaper parts. >> So, that means even without our 10% 86 00:06:12,640 --> 00:06:18,360 discount, >> We would say >> got a great deal. Without the discount, 87 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:21,280 it would still be $140 cheaper. >> And we get the extra year warranty from 88 00:06:20,320 --> 00:06:25,600 buying through Costco. >> Yeah. Now, the sales rep did actually 89 00:06:23,760 --> 00:06:29,800 point out to us that depending on our individual components, they may carry 90 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:32,800 longer warranties. Just uh don't tell the manufacturer that you pulled it out 91 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:37,919 of a pre-built system. It is worth noting though that while our Costco system is competitively priced with our 92 00:06:36,360 --> 00:06:41,760 comparison system, these are not necessarily the exact parts that we 93 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:44,720 might have chosen if we were starting from scratch. I mean, they're not far 94 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:51,160 off though. >> Uh you might want to take a look at this SSD. Have you heard of AGI before? AGI? 95 00:06:49,080 --> 00:06:54,480 Yeah. Yeah, that's uh what is it? Artificial [music] General 96 00:06:52,480 --> 00:06:58,280 Intelligence? It's an AI SSD. [laughter] 97 00:06:56,440 --> 00:07:04,760 No, I've never heard of AGI. Are they good? I have no clue. It's a Gen4 drive. 98 00:07:02,800 --> 00:07:08,400 So, that's something. No DRAM cache though. Mhm. Realtek controller. 99 00:07:06,600 --> 00:07:13,040 >> For a gaming system, it's totally acceptable. Now, it is worth noting that 100 00:07:10,640 --> 00:07:18,080 our comparison system is just following the same broad strokes. That is a 101 00:07:15,440 --> 00:07:21,880 beefier cooler on both our CPU and GPU, but those are not going to affect our 102 00:07:19,840 --> 00:07:25,760 performance comparisons. We're not going to be looking at temperatures. Other 103 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:29,720 than the SSD or the lower-spec, but still adequate coolers, I don't really 104 00:07:27,960 --> 00:07:32,680 see where iBuyPower cheaped out on this. >> No, that's an MSI motherboard. 105 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:36,760 >> Not only that, but this is a pretty reasonable spec one. It's missing the 106 00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:40,800 VRM coolers, which you often see on these system integrator boards, but look 107 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:48,120 at the IO. That's good. >> Yeah. 20K USB-C. we've got 2 and 1/2 gig 108 00:07:44,880 --> 00:07:51,880 LAN. I believe this is Wi-Fi 6E. Let's 109 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:53,800 double check that. PRO B650-VC 110 00:07:51,880 --> 00:07:56,845 VC >> Cooling overview. 111 00:07:55,760 --> 00:07:58,865 Chipset >> [laughter] 112 00:07:59,040 --> 00:08:04,640 >> The front fans COULD HAVE A LITTLE bit more access to fresh air flow, but there 113 00:08:02,240 --> 00:08:08,200 is some mesh here and we actually did a video recently exploring just how much 114 00:08:06,680 --> 00:08:12,080 space a fan needs in front of it in order to draw fresh air in and this 115 00:08:09,945 --> 00:08:16,520 [music] is maybe not optimal for noise, but should be okay for cooling. Show me 116 00:08:14,240 --> 00:08:21,680 the qual. No, you know what? The cable management, 117 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:21,919 I'm totally fine with. Commodity system 118 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:26,480 Yeah. >> It's zip tied. Nothing's going to come 119 00:08:24,840 --> 00:08:29,360 flying around during shipping. I'm okay with that. But this power supply is not 120 00:08:28,280 --> 00:08:36,520 inspiring a ton of us. >> box of mystery is >> as it's not Raidmax, I'll be 121 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:36,520 I'll be okay. 122 00:08:36,560 --> 00:08:43,680 Oh, you know what? I have a cutter in my tech sack. When's the LTT cutter coming? 123 00:08:40,800 --> 00:08:46,626 I mean, we should probably do one. Uh it's just figuring out, you know, how 124 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:51,360 you differentiate on a thing that [music] cuts things. I don't think we necessarily have to like innovate on it 125 00:08:50,040 --> 00:08:55,360 a ton. I think as long as it's just a good one at a fair price. 126 00:08:53,600 --> 00:09:00,839 What the high power I [music] mean, I'm going on 127 00:08:58,560 --> 00:09:04,680 the 80 plus site right now and I'm going to see [music] if this is actually 80 128 00:09:02,640 --> 00:09:07,760 plus gold certified. What's the over/under on that? 129 00:09:06,040 --> 00:09:15,240 >> There's no chance that this is actually gold certified. No way. >> Hold on. Hold on. 130 00:09:10,839 --> 00:09:15,240 HP1 J600GD-F12SC 131 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:23,440 80 plus gold certified >> Yeah. >> No way! 132 00:09:20,680 --> 00:09:26,960 Back in 2019? Okay, so it's an older design, but 133 00:09:25,080 --> 00:09:30,880 technically an efficient one. Being efficient doesn't necessarily mean that 134 00:09:28,839 --> 00:09:34,040 it's the world's most amazing power supply, but it does mean that it is 135 00:09:33,280 --> 00:09:38,320 efficient. >> This is the strongest fan retention clip 136 00:09:36,280 --> 00:09:42,120 I think I've ever encountered on a tower cooler. Oh, there's some nice dust 137 00:09:39,880 --> 00:09:45,080 there. Which is a good thing actually for systems that are going to be 138 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:50,680 shipped. Okay, very nice. Full coverage, not a 139 00:09:48,640 --> 00:09:54,360 ton of extra to seep out and gunk up my CPU. Good job. Enough poking and 140 00:09:52,640 --> 00:09:58,680 prodding at it though, let's play some games. Say what you will about the 141 00:09:55,880 --> 00:10:03,320 quality of included peripherals. This is just add monitor. Keyboard, 142 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:07,000 mouse, tower all included. And it's significantly better than a lot of OEM 143 00:10:05,040 --> 00:10:10,720 peripherals that I've seen. Hey! >> Hey, there we go. 144 00:10:08,960 --> 00:10:14,360 >> That RGB strip doesn't look so bad. >> Yeah, I mean, it's easy to hate on 145 00:10:12,640 --> 00:10:17,120 pre-builts. You know, you should build your own. And there are times when you 146 00:10:15,960 --> 00:10:21,200 should definitely build your own. I mean, we're both huge advocates for 147 00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:25,440 scouring the internet for second-hand deals to get the absolute best bang for 148 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:29,000 your buck. But if you want new stuff, I'm feeling pretty good about this. 149 00:10:26,760 --> 00:10:33,360 What? Go ahead and roll. Who is Who is Darren DeYoung? Did 150 00:10:31,480 --> 00:10:36,960 someone just like take it home and use it for a bit or is this I'm guessing 151 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:40,440 that's just one of the employees did it and it's easier to just use his personal 152 00:10:38,280 --> 00:10:44,720 account and not worry about it. I would think iBUYPOWER would be 153 00:10:42,640 --> 00:10:48,680 way too experienced for that though. Do you think someone bought this one and 154 00:10:46,240 --> 00:10:52,960 returned it? I don't think so. >> I'm looking up Darren DeYoung. Darren 155 00:10:50,839 --> 00:10:59,200 DeYoung Windows 11. Woah! Is this a thing? 156 00:10:55,360 --> 00:11:01,600 >> It must be a thing. Is this a thing? Who 157 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:04,760 is he and how can I bypass this demo stuff? 158 00:11:02,880 --> 00:11:09,400 Woof, that should have been wiped before buying it. Was it an open box computer? 159 00:11:07,080 --> 00:11:13,839 Darren DeYoung retail mode. So, this is a thing. It's retail mode. Apparently, 160 00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:18,040 to get rid of Darren, we just have to click five times on Windows 11 home 161 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:21,960 here. Oh. Look at that. 162 00:11:19,560 --> 00:11:25,792 Wait. Where did I get the idea that the 960 XT had 16 gigs of VRAM? 163 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:33,040 >> There is a 16 gig version. >> [snorts] >> This is exactly what I'm talking about. 164 00:11:30,839 --> 00:11:36,600 Cuz I even did a take where I was like, "8 gigs of VRAM." And then I looked it 165 00:11:34,800 --> 00:11:39,720 up and I corrected myself cuz I was like, "Oh no, the 960 XT has 16 gigs of 166 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:46,280 VRAM." >> Okay, that makes it a little less good of a value. Let's make that calculation. 167 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:48,680 This is why I keep talking about this 168 00:11:46,280 --> 00:11:52,160 kind of deceptive product naming where you don't put all of the specs right in 169 00:11:51,120 --> 00:11:57,560 the [ __ ] specs. Yeah. It's especially deceptive in pre-builds because it's 170 00:11:55,640 --> 00:12:01,480 really hard to look at this and be like, "Is that the 8 gig? Is that the 16 gig? 171 00:11:59,280 --> 00:12:04,880 I don't know." Oh. You can't like easily read the part number through the window? 172 00:12:03,080 --> 00:12:11,400 >> Nope. Here on AMD's site, they literally denote 960 XT and 960 XT 8 gig. That 173 00:12:08,880 --> 00:12:14,160 wasn't on the product card, which might not have happened if we were shopping 174 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:18,920 somewhere that focuses more on technology rather than, you know, at 175 00:12:16,400 --> 00:12:23,320 Costco. I'm pretty annoyed right now. That's not cool. How does that affect 176 00:12:20,920 --> 00:12:29,080 our value calculations? We lose about $80 on our comparison system when it 177 00:12:26,840 --> 00:12:35,880 goes down to the 8 gig model. So, we're still up like 250, 178 00:12:33,120 --> 00:12:40,000 60 dollars. Okay. So, it's still a good value and we're still out ahead, but 179 00:12:38,080 --> 00:12:45,640 we're not as ahead as I hoped we were. And it always feels like a better deal 180 00:12:42,680 --> 00:12:49,440 when I was fully informed rather than getting a rude surprise after the fact. 181 00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:55,600 I looked up the model on iBuyPower's website and it does have the full specs 182 00:12:53,120 --> 00:12:59,000 including their 8 gig card. Okay. So, it's at least partially on us. 183 00:12:57,240 --> 00:13:05,560 Definitely wasn't on there. It managed to fool three of us. Yeah. Which is 184 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:06,640 exactly what it is designed to do. 185 00:13:05,560 --> 00:13:10,240 Just occurred to me, we're running our game library off of an external drive 186 00:13:08,560 --> 00:13:15,960 and I realized that I don't know if the cable that it's attached to is any good, 187 00:13:12,240 --> 00:13:17,600 but conveniently, we have a bin of LTT 188 00:13:15,960 --> 00:13:21,480 cables here and it's super easy to tell what the 189 00:13:19,920 --> 00:13:25,080 capabilities are cuz they're printed right on the ends. 190 00:13:23,480 --> 00:13:30,480 lttstore.com Okay, let's start with Expedition 33. 191 00:13:27,480 --> 00:13:32,480 Oh, okay, well, this is great. 192 00:13:30,480 --> 00:13:36,000 Whoop, little hitch there. Your 1% lows are not so good. 193 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:40,040 >> Yeah, they're really not. Maybe it's just shader compilation stutter? This is 194 00:13:38,080 --> 00:13:43,320 a pretty darn smooth experience. >> I bet you could optimize it a little bit 195 00:13:41,400 --> 00:13:48,160 and hit 60 more consistently, but with VRR, this 1% low of 50 plus, super 196 00:13:47,480 --> 00:13:52,440 playable. >> Oh, yeah, totally. It's not a light 197 00:13:50,680 --> 00:13:56,040 game, especially when you turn it up. Yeah, UE5 is heavy as F. 198 00:13:54,880 --> 00:14:01,920 >> Yeah, I'm going to be honest with you, this is this is so very, very usable. 199 00:14:00,840 --> 00:14:07,240 >> It looks really good. >> Okay, I did get a stutter there, right as I was doing the quick time event. 200 00:14:05,280 --> 00:14:11,880 That was a little annoying. Yep, so it's dipping down to like 45 when there's a 201 00:14:10,120 --> 00:14:16,480 bunch of effects on screen. So, I would want to tune it a little bit more, but 202 00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:18,080 still I'm at like 1440p in terms of the 203 00:14:16,480 --> 00:14:23,080 native resolution that it's rendering at before upscaling. FSR upscaling 204 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:25,040 actually pretty decent these days. >> Yeah. That looks pretty darn sharp. 205 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:29,440 >> Pretty good. >> And I'm still at medium details. So, that I have a lot of room to continue to 206 00:14:28,040 --> 00:14:34,160 tune this if I really needed to. >> Should we compare it to our comparison system? Is there that much to compare? 207 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:37,720 >> No, you're right, cuz it's the exact same system. >> Yeah, I was I was been kind of thinking 208 00:14:36,080 --> 00:14:42,000 about that. Like, what was the point of the comparison system? Yeah, it was going to be it was going to be if we 209 00:14:40,920 --> 00:14:46,880 could build something better for the same price. >> David. >> Well, you know what though, we wouldn't 210 00:14:44,880 --> 00:14:49,839 have been able to do much better or better at all. We can't. 211 00:14:48,480 --> 00:14:53,000 >> So, that's probably why your brain flubbed. Mhm. >> is no better. 212 00:14:52,080 --> 00:14:58,560 >> No. So, yeah, purely illustrative. 213 00:14:55,480 --> 00:15:00,360 >> And time intensive for this gentleman 214 00:14:58,560 --> 00:15:04,480 over here. Uh what else what what do we want to look at? What else we got? >> Cyberpunk. I don't know. You got the 215 00:15:02,880 --> 00:15:09,560 whole library there now, so >> the whole library on this computer. I 216 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:12,920 got the whole library on this computer. I got the whole library on this 217 00:15:11,680 --> 00:15:17,600 computer. Okay. Thank you for indulging me. Right out of 218 00:15:16,120 --> 00:15:22,080 the gate, default settings in Cyberpunk, we're getting 50 FPS average. 219 00:15:19,760 --> 00:15:25,400 Unfortunately, we're getting lows down to like 25, and if you feel it It's not 220 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:30,110 great. >> She's not She's not responsive. I think we can do better than this. 221 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:33,560 >> Yeah. We don't need to go quite to Steam [music] Deck, but I'm thinking 222 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:36,000 >> you go mid high. Medium. You think we can go high? 223 00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:40,600 >> Yeah, just no ray tracing. With fidelity effects? Okay. All right, sure. Our 224 00:15:38,080 --> 00:15:42,480 averages are the same. Dips not quite as low, but still pretty low. 225 00:15:41,920 --> 00:15:50,280 >> Yeah. I mean, that's what 8 gigs of VRAM is going to do you. Are we at 4K quality? 226 00:15:47,840 --> 00:15:54,360 So, it's doing native 1440p? Yep. Let's go down to 1080p. Oh, yeah, there she 227 00:15:51,960 --> 00:15:58,520 goes. Now [music] we're smooth and realistically 228 00:15:55,960 --> 00:16:02,440 Okay, there there's some odd behavior, but it's not bad. 229 00:15:59,760 --> 00:16:05,760 >> No. Especially considering this is an 8 gig card. The stutter that we're seeing, 230 00:16:04,160 --> 00:16:10,520 especially at higher resolutions, is probably down to having 8 gigs of VRAM, 231 00:16:08,160 --> 00:16:14,240 but for the price this is still going to be a way better 232 00:16:12,160 --> 00:16:17,360 experience than the Steam Machine. Oh, yeah. And when you look at what the 233 00:16:15,280 --> 00:16:22,040 estimated pricing is for that We have a better CPU. We have 234 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:27,000 upgradeability. They have RGB. A ton of upgradeability and a better GPU. Yeah. 235 00:16:24,800 --> 00:16:32,240 Yeah, this thing is pretty darn sweet. >> nice little platform, actually. I didn't 236 00:16:29,120 --> 00:16:35,240 stop to think, right? Brett Ham 5. Yeah. 237 00:16:32,240 --> 00:16:37,320 This is a nice little starter machine 238 00:16:35,240 --> 00:16:43,520 for someone who's on a bit of a tighter budget today >> Yep. but might want to upgrade CPU, GPU. 239 00:16:41,760 --> 00:16:47,200 They should upgrade their power supply if they put a better [music] GPU in 240 00:16:44,839 --> 00:16:50,120 here. This is a This is so playable. It's so playable. So usable. You could 241 00:16:48,880 --> 00:16:53,680 tweak it a little bit depending on your sensitivities to visual artifacting, but 242 00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:56,560 it's This is good. >> I could easily play this game like this. 243 00:16:55,400 --> 00:17:01,280 Yeah, and I could easily segue to our sponsor. Nice. Ahrefs. 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