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Everything's gotten so expensive, I wouldn't blame you for just crawling into bed

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and trying to forget about inflation for a day. But rip those sheets off!

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Because what if I told you you can build an entire gaming PC?

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You can build an entire gaming PC for the price of a single AAA game.

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And I can hear you saying, oh Linus, a PC that cheap has to come

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with some serious compromises, right? Well, aesthetically yes,

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but other than that, maybe not. We have built some pretty impressive

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$69 gaming PCs before, and this one blows its predecessors out of the water.

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It can play cyberpunk, Baldur's Gate 3, and all manner of indie games

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at very playable frame rates. And what's even better is that by the end of this video,

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we're gonna equip you with the tech tips that you need to build a machine like this for yourself.

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But wait, hold on. I gotta respond to this message from our marketplace seller.

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Oh, they wanna know our price for our sponsor. Oh!

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Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!

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Oh! Oh! If you haven't figured it out yet,

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this is gonna be an all second hand PC because barring some kind of catastrophic pricing error,

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it's just not possible to build a brand new gaming PC

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for anywhere close to this price. At least not one that you'd want to game on.

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That doesn't mean it's not worth the effort, it just means you will have to put in a little effort.

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See, building a PC for this cheap is a little different than a regular build.

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You're gonna have to be flexible on your parts. You might not get exactly your preferred brand, for example.

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The next thing is that the best deals are usually on bundles of components

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rather than individual ones. So if you have your heart set on a particular CPU,

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for instance, you might have to do a little bit of wheeling and dealing to get your hands on it.

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With that in mind, it's not as hard as you would think.

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All you've gotta do is educate yourself on what's possible by watching the rest of this video,

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then set multiple search term notifications on your favorite secondary market,

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and then you play the waiting game.

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We're gonna showcase what we ended up buying, but what we're really trying to teach you is how to fish

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instead of just handing you a monkey face prickleback.

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The first thing you're gonna wanna reel in is an old pre-built PC or workstation.

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Finding a good one of those is gonna cover a lot of your parts' needs,

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but what specifically do you need to target? Let's start with the non-negotiables.

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If you wanna play modern-ish games, you're gonna need a four-core CPU and eight gigs of RAM.

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Luckily, finding an older pre-built or workstation with those specs isn't nearly as hard as it used to be.

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Four cores has been pretty much standard even at the lower end for over a decade.

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With that said, a nice to have is to try to get the most modern chip you can find,

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since it's a pretty sure thing that a newer CPU

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will outperform its older equivalent. And the newer the processor you find,

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the newer the platform it'll be sitting in, so the more likely it is that you'll have

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some kind of attractive upgrade path. If you're looking for a starting point,

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Tom's Hardware, by the way, has a great tier list for legacy CPUs,

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and we're gonna have that linked down below. We landed on this beauty of an HP Office PC

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with an Intel Core i5-2500s for $17.50 US.

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Let's take a look at some of the other parts inside. Let's see here.

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We've got eight gigs of DDR3 1600 megatransfer

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per second memory. We've got a 500 gig hard drive in there,

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CD-DVD drive, and, hey look, okay,

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cooler's not that exciting, but it's got one. It's $17.

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What it doesn't have is any space for upgrades. How are we supposed to fit our extra stuff in here?

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That's the fun part, you won't. Okay, so there are a few problems

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with using a pre-built or a workstation. One is that a lot of them tend to be

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small form factor systems, like this one, that might not have space for the parts

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that you wanna upgrade them to. But that's a problem for about three minutes from now.

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Number two is that compatibility can be a big problem.

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That's gonna raise its ugly head in about one minute.

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And finally, these systems are not designed for gaming.

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So the dinky little power supplies that they ship with

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often reflect that. To be clear, when I say dinky, I don't even necessarily mean that they're that much smaller

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than a standard power supply. I mean that they aren't rated for enough capacity

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to power a GPU. This one is just 240 watts.

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Now you could bypass these hassles by paying a little bit extra for someone's old custom computer

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that will provide a more flexible upgrade platform. And if you're a beginner PC builder,

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that is a very valid route. But we have found that generally the best priced performance

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is gonna be in old mass market machines like this one.

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And besides, we're making a video. And us playing on hard mode means

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that you guys get extra entertainment. Decidedly not entertaining is the amount of time

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I spent failing to solve problem number three. Finding a prebuilt that includes a power supply

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with the necessary eight pin PCIe connector that you need for most GPUs.

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Ours did not come with one, which means that we had to spend 10 whole dollars

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buying this very old 400 watt C-Sonic.

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Let's install it. Our new standard power supply has a regular 24 pin connector,

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but our HP motherboard wants three proprietary ones.

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Luckily, we don't need to get rid of the old power supply.

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It can stay here and power everything but the GPU,

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which will get juice from our new C-Sonic. One paperclip jumper wire leader and blamo.

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You got like 650 watts of juice, yo.

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Complete with this super slick mounting system. I'm calling gravity.

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one connector, but it's a good time to warn you that it's not ideal to go all two PSUs and one PC.

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As you may have instability and reliability issues, the best route long-term would be to buy an adapter cable

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that's available for common Dell and HP work stations that adapts 24 pin to whatever they're using.

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But that costs extra money and we can't afford the extra $5 to $10 if we're gonna hit our budget.

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So how do you plan on fitting that GPU? Oh, I'm so glad you asked.

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I have two options. One's janky, but costs $5.

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And the other one's really janky, but it's free. Which one do you think we should do?

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Well, that was easy. What do you think about side panel? Because we're gonna have to deal with this handle.

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I think if we wanna, oh, maybe not. There might be enough clearance. So we'll just cut a hole.

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All right, moment of truth, it's fine, it fits.

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Yeah, it loves it. That's so good.

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Oh my God. Hell yeah. Oh, the nice thing too is if we ever need

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to have a sag bracket, we can just put something here. Yeah.

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This is the best. Amazing work, Alex. Now we need to solve the next problem,

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which is fitting this GPU around this CPU cooler.

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It's supposed to be like that. But that heat pipe is gonna get in our way.

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Turn it like that. Oh yeah. And then maybe it fits.

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I think that's gonna fit. Oh yeah, no problem.

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Easy fit, sweet. We might need to cut one more thing.

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This might get in the way.

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In a perfect world, we would have taken the computer parts out of the PC when we did this,

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but it's fine.

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We might need one more hole in our case. I didn't even think about RAM clearance.

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I think more cutting is the solution.

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There we go. Nice.

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If you have room in your budget, I recommend scraping off the old thermal crust

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and replacing it with PTM7950 to get better thermal performance.

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And for taking the part computer, LTT Precision Driver Kit, this thing fucking rocks.

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Now we can pretty easily fit a dual slot graphics card in here.

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It's quite nice. But now that we've got the space,

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which graphics card should we go with? Well, once again, it's not as simple as us

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just naming the one perfect GPU and you buying it.

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You'll need to be flexible and patient to see what's actually available in your area.

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To help you on your way, we found this tier list of older GPUs

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over on the LTT forum from user 191x7.

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Your goal should be to spend somewhere between $30 to $50 on a card that is below the 980 Ti,

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but above the GTX 1060. Now, you might not find that price advertised,

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but this is a great tech tip. Be courteous.

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Politely asking for someone's best price can help save you money.

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We ended up saving about $25 total on our build today.

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Perfectly illustrating our point about needing to be flexible, we ended up with two non-ideal options for our GPU.

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We got this RX 570 with four gigs of VRAM for $28,

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which is really not enough today,

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or for about $6.90 more,

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we got this RX 580, which has eight gigs of VRAM and is a little faster,

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but technically broke our budget. The funny thing is we didn't think

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we were going to have to compromise quite this much. 578 gigs were used extensively for crypto mining

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and can be had for very cheap. The issue is that we got bamboozled

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and this just isn't one of them, which, hey, look, if we're being realistic

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and we're talking about exactly what the experience is like building a PC like this, we've got to meet head on.

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So we got scammed on our GPU and you might too.

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It is worth noting this is not a perfect situation,

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even aside from the parts you can see, this handy PCIe cover, we're going to put right here

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to make sure that the fan on the GPU doesn't rub against our heatsink.

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Oh, oh, that's perfect. Clearance, baby. Oh, she's sick.

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The last thing we're going to need with whatever money we have left is a cheap SSD.

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Spinning rust just isn't going to cut it anymore. Now, some of you are probably going to be surprised

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to see us using an SSD like this one. SATA SSDs are both slower and more expensive

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than M.2 drives these days. The issue is that our motherboard doesn't have an M.2 slot.

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So we settled on our Patriot P210 for $14.

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We're going to use that as a boot drive and then we're going to reuse the 500 gig hard drive

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that came with our workstation for bulk storage. Now we just need this power supply,

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maybe a little jumper so they both go on at the same time.

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Nice. Although it should be noted that you can do this with just a little piece of wire,

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if you want to get adventurous. And that's it. It's alive.

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Did we build an entire gaming PC for the price of a single AAA game?

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Yes, we did, $69.50.

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Let's see if it's any good. Why don't we kick things off at the bottom of the challenge poll

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with a competitive gaming title that we've seen run on a literal potato, Counter-Strike 2.

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It's not bad. It's working. It's not bad. It's a little bit lower than when I was testing.

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And the 1% lows are kind of nasty. When she dips, she dips.

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I do wonder how much of that is the fact that we're stuck with a four gig

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rather than an eight gig card though. Yeah, when I was testing,

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I was testing with an eight gig card and this was not an issue. It's still playable,

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but you're definitely not getting an edge from this computer. And the other four gigs of VRAM

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is going to be the best of $6 you ever spent. Do we have that?

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Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. We could, we could take it with the settings. Right now there's no FSR on.

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So we could probably get a little bit back. Sure. Yeah. Let's, let's try and mess with the settings a little bit.

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I have it all low, but I turned FSR off. There's no question.

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You're going to want to spend another 10 bucks on a GPU with more VRAM and maybe even another 10 bucks on a better CPU.

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But there's also no question that this is a modern title that is absolutely running and absolutely playable.

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I actually got this 3570 for five Canadian dollars.

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Oh, really? Yeah. And it would be a substantial upgrade. Mostly because this is a lower wattage chip.

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Here's a controller that costs more than twice the computer. Yeah. The Wolverine Pro did not make it far

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into our recent controller showdown. I mean, can't be upset with 150 frames a second.

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No, you really can't, can you? I think that's one of the strongest cases

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for a computer like this is playing indie games. Yeah. This is a perfectly

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formula gaming experience. Yeah. The struggle is in loading areas.

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I think either CPU lets us down or storage,

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but even that's not that big of a deal. You just load into an area and then it's done. And dude, that's the kind of thing

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that we can always upgrade later. Yeah. This is awesome.

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Yeah. It's not the prettiest thing ever, but it's $70.

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So Dragon Dogma 2 is a good one to play because that is a $70 game.

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Sure. 50 FPS on a two-dimensional loading screen

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is not a great indicator. I think it's doing stuff in the background.

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Oh, okay. This looks like it's got to be all low.

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Yeah. And FSR. This doesn't look like it's performance at FSR.

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Oh. Oh. Yeah. That's a lot of FSR.

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Yeah. I can really see it when we're moving around.

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Ooh. This one's on the hard drive too. So I'm wondering if that's going to have an impact

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on when we're moving between areas, but that doesn't feel like the kind of area

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that's loading assets. No, it really doesn't.

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Trying to check if I get another really bad stutter when I'm not moving at all.

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Yeah. We're not even looking at a bottleneck situation. We're looking at a system that can give it's all

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and it's all is not enough. This is pretty slow.

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The low times are pretty atrocious. This is 100% off of the hard drive and we will feel it.

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The nice thing is Baldur's Gate 3 has a slow hard drive mode.

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I'm not 100% sure what it does, but it's supposed to help with streaming the assets

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in a way that balances it a little bit more. Good Galarian. The best guy.

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You know what I think the coolest thing about the PC is though?

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We're sitting here going, okay, the $70 machine. It might play Baldur's Gate 3.

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And realistically looking at this,

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it's probably not gonna be the smoothest experience of all time.

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But if Baldur's Gate 3 doesn't run in a way that we find acceptable, we could play Baldur's Gate 2

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or Baldur's Gate 1 or Neverwinter Nights. The library that can be accessed by this thing.

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Decades. Decades. Decades of life. Of Game Library.

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You know, it's so cool.

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Okay. Well, that answers that question then.

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There might be some settings we could turn down. I don't think that's the right answer.

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I think the right answer is spend the extra $6. Yes. Get the 8Gig card. It's worth it.

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Or in some cases, don't even spend the extra. We did find other listings for 570s

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that had 8 gigs at the same price. We just happened to run into someone who bamboozled us.

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I would rather play Baldur's Gate 3 like this than not play Baldur's Gate 3 at all.

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I tell you what. And this is a game that costs as much as the computer.

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Okay. We're going to max out Bellatro. I've never played it. You've never played it?

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Oh, it's basically poker with Roguelite elements. Okay. It's so fun.

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You're getting him addicted to Bellatro. Got it. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on.

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The company's done. The moment he gets in on this game. There's nothing more important than Bellatro.

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You know what's more important than Bellatro? Having a PC that can even play Bellatro.

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And now you can have one for $70. $70? Frickin' dollars.

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Bottom line, I can't believe what we got for the money,

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but that doesn't mean that a few more dollars wouldn't help.

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And the first thing I think would probably be a graphics card with eight gigs of VRAM.

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Yes. And then shortly after that, I need a little bit more SSD storage.

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Heck yeah, you do. There were games that we were running that I felt like, dude, this is playable,

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except when it would stutter. And I think Baldur's Gate probably took a solid

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minute and a half to open. Yeah, it was painful. It's like going back in time.

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I also see you holding a couple of other options. Like what does a RAM upgrade gonna cost?

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About 10 to 15 bucks if you want DDR3. And if we wanted to go for something like a Core i5-3570,

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which is a higher TDB chip that's gonna turbo hire and give us better performance in lightly threaded games,

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we're looking at about another 10 bucks there as well. That's the thing about these old machines

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is if you have a working motherboard and a working power supply,

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those tend to be the things that fail first. So there is a surplus of replacement parts

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for things like CPUs and RAM that don't fail as often.

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One thing that's really frustrating is I couldn't find a good upgrade path from a 588 gig.

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Without spending like... A significant 100 bucks on just the GPU.

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That's so rough. If you can find a 588 gig, hold on to that until you have about $150, $200, I think.

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Maybe what we should do is we should do a $169 gaming PC or a $269

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and see how much better performance we can get. I would love to do that.

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Why don't you tell us which one you wanna see in the comments below? Why don't you tell us about our segue to our sponsor?

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If you guys like scrappy builds like this one,

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you should check out the compilation that we put together of the first ever scrapyard wars.

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It's an amazing little time capsule of how things used to be around the LTT office.