1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,320 Getting all of your tech tips from one source means that you might miss crucial details, 2 00:00:04,320 --> 00:00:09,600 but watching four videos at once is just so inconvenient. 3 00:00:12,160 --> 00:00:19,280 So, hear me out then. How about we smash four amazing tech tubers into just one video 4 00:00:19,280 --> 00:00:26,400 and they compete to build the best thousand dollar gaming PC. It's a generous budget, 5 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:33,760 but not so large that they can just spend carelessly. So, to help, we've sourced this pile 6 00:00:33,760 --> 00:00:38,720 of secondhand parts that we're going to price according to what's typical on 7 00:00:38,720 --> 00:00:44,800 marketplaces like Facebook, eBay, and Java. The online marketplace for new news PC stuff 8 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:50,640 who sponsored this video along with C-Sonic, who also pitched in to help us bring together our four 9 00:00:50,640 --> 00:00:56,160 amazing contestants. Let's meet them. I'm Danny from Nirner Budget, and I make content about 10 00:00:56,160 --> 00:01:01,040 PC builds, steel, hunting, and sometimes land parties. My name is Tito. I have the YouTube 11 00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:05,440 channel Machinautra Productions, and I modify retro video game consoles. Hi, I'm Joyce from 12 00:01:05,440 --> 00:01:12,160 TechJoyce, and I make technology and car content. Hi, I'm Zach from ZTT, and I make a ton of PC 13 00:01:12,160 --> 00:01:16,560 building content, kind of similar to what we're going to do today. Where did you get those in? 14 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:22,880 For those that don't know, it's Zach's Tech Turf, where Turf stands for 15 00:01:22,880 --> 00:01:27,920 Tutorials, Unboxings, Reviews, and Fun, but I don't say that on camera. It'd be a lot to say each 16 00:01:27,920 --> 00:01:33,600 time. What do you think is going to give you your edge today? I think maybe my lack of knowledge 17 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:39,120 of PCs, maybe. How do you think it's going to give you an edge? I have no idea. Most of my content 18 00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:45,200 revolves around looking for used deals, so this was right up my alley, but I try to maximize the 19 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:50,720 performance any time I do a PC build, so I have a lot of practice with that, I'd say. Aesthetics, 20 00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:55,440 for sure. You know, there's one competitor that I'm worried about that's going to beat me in terms 21 00:01:55,440 --> 00:02:00,080 of price to performance. It's Danny. Hopefully there's points given out on the aesthetic realm, 22 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:04,080 which that's what I'm going for. I think I'm the youngest out of all the contestants, 23 00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:08,160 so my hands will be faster, and I'll probably think a little faster than them, 24 00:02:08,160 --> 00:02:12,000 so hopefully my age will give me a bit of an edge. What is the CPU that you picked? 25 00:02:12,080 --> 00:02:18,960 I picked the Ryzen 5 7600. Initially, I went after this Ryzen 5 9600X, listed for $185. I 26 00:02:18,960 --> 00:02:23,600 offered $10 less and got declined. This ended up working out, though, because I later came across 27 00:02:23,600 --> 00:02:28,720 this Ryzen 5 7600 for $125, which works out to be a way better deal. With the money saved, 28 00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:33,120 I then set my sights on a little bit more expensive graphics cards around $500. The best card I could 29 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:42,560 find was this RX6950XT. It was a AMD Ryzen 7900X. I mostly made all my decisions based off price 30 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:48,240 because I really don't know too much about PC building. I picked the Ryzen 5 7600X. It was the 31 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:53,520 best deal that I could find on Java at that specific moment in time. I actually found this 32 00:02:53,520 --> 00:03:02,400 RX7800XT for $450, and that's actually a really good price. I picked the Ryzen 5 7600X3D. Yeah, 33 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:06,320 that one was just a really good deal. I decided to go with an NVIDIA graphics card because I'm 34 00:03:06,320 --> 00:03:12,400 hoping for the benchmarking it involves ray tracing. Please Linus. Now it's time to pick 35 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:18,000 the rest of your computer. We've got a large stock pile of parts, but if there's something else that 36 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:23,360 tickles your fancy, Games Master David will see what you can do and try to get you a fair price. 37 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:29,600 You are allowed to go over your $1,000 budget. However, you're going to be evaluated based 38 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:34,160 on your performance in three demanding games. And for every $10 you go over, it will cost you 39 00:03:34,160 --> 00:03:39,840 1% of your total score. So be frugal. To keep things balanced, we're going to be doing a snake 40 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:44,640 draft starting with Danny, which was decided by random chance off camera and also because 41 00:03:45,600 --> 00:03:54,320 don't tell the others, but we just plain like them better. Go. Okay. Can I get the Game Master's 42 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:58,400 help? Anything that's got red? I just need color. A little something up my sleeve here. 43 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:05,600 It is red. Yeah. Can I get this? It'd be 95. Best I can do is 90. 90. 90 it is. I only have like 44 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:10,880 $50 left. So I'm going to go really cheap. We are adding aesthetics to the rubric. Correct. 45 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:16,160 I don't think so. It's the entire strategy. Wow. That's unfortunate. 46 00:04:17,760 --> 00:04:24,640 Someone might actually do it. I didn't think it was going to be possible. I mean, I wouldn't be nerd on a budget if I didn't stick to the budget. Five bucks. Five bucks. I like it. 47 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:29,840 Question for you. What are we doing about power supply? I'm so glad you asked in a totally 48 00:04:29,840 --> 00:04:35,840 unscripted way. Everyone is getting, oh my God, David. Okay, you're good. You're good. A Focus 49 00:04:35,840 --> 00:04:42,640 GX850 from our sponsor, C-Sonic. It's a member of their multi award-winning platform with proven 50 00:04:42,640 --> 00:04:48,480 reliability and performance. They're ATX 3.1 and PCIe 5.1 compliant, which means they're ready for 51 00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:53,520 all the latest graphics cards. It's OptiSync technology enhances internal cooling efficiency, 52 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:58,640 meaning it's 135 millimeter fan can run ultra quietly for longer, all while minimizing the 53 00:04:58,640 --> 00:05:03,200 amount of space it takes up. It's 80 plus gold certified, meaning it's highly efficient and it 54 00:05:03,200 --> 00:05:06,640 comes with a 10 year warranty. You can check out C-Sonic and the rest of the parts we're using 55 00:05:06,640 --> 00:05:11,120 at the link in the video description. Now let's build these PCs. Before we do that though, where 56 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:18,560 did they land in terms of pricing? Danny, $9.99. Wow. Okay. Nerd on a budget. Joyce, $10.34. Oh, 57 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:24,320 wait, wait, wait. $10.40. Zach, $10.41. And Tito, $10.53. Everyone did pretty darn good. 58 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:30,640 A lot better than I expected. Really close. Wow, nice case. Does it have a side panel? It does not, 59 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:35,760 but that's so I could fit the cooler. Wicked smart. How are you feeling about your choices? 60 00:05:35,760 --> 00:05:40,000 I think I went a little bit over budget, but I'm still very confident because I think my CPU is 61 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:46,800 the best out of all four of them. Very nice. Any regrets? I think the GPU. Do you regret just 62 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:50,720 standing here and chit-chatting while the timer's running? Oh, what? I'm supposed to get started 63 00:05:50,720 --> 00:05:54,880 now? Yeah, what are you waiting for? How about you, Danny? Any regrets? I'm pretty happy with it. I 64 00:05:54,880 --> 00:05:59,920 think I got a pretty beefy graphics card and a decent CPU to pair with it. So, it's just some of 65 00:05:59,920 --> 00:06:04,800 the other parts might be jank, but that's just when you go use sometimes, you know? We have a 66 00:06:05,360 --> 00:06:10,800 red alert here, David. There's no I.O. shield in here. Oh, god. Oh, my god. Given how much of our 67 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:14,880 grading is going to be aesthetics, that's going to really hold you back. 100% what I was thinking. 68 00:06:14,880 --> 00:06:20,960 Thank you. Here's my deal. Okay. We will offer you a 2x multiplier on your aesthetic score. 69 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:27,520 I will gladly take 3x. 4x. Final offer. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate it. 70 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:33,360 How are things going over here? Any regrets on your build? Maybe the case? Is this an intentional 71 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:37,600 vibe? That was kind of a late-breaking decision where I'm just going to kind of go with a really 72 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:42,720 messy setup and that's going to be part of the vibe. Oh, I like it. You have only one stick of RAM. 73 00:06:42,720 --> 00:06:48,640 I do. Yes. Better than none. If we were an actual team, I probably would have helped you with that, 74 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:53,200 but I'd like maybe I'll just let them cook. Or like let them be cooked. I don't like your SSD, 75 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:58,640 though. Well, that was strategic. I did not want to waste money on anything. Performance impacting. 76 00:06:58,640 --> 00:07:02,480 So, you'd rather that whoever ends up with this system, which by the way, people are going to 77 00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:08,320 end up with. Yes. Have a crappy SSD and lose their data down the road. Correct. Like my stock cooler 78 00:07:08,320 --> 00:07:14,080 here? Dude, I approve of the stock cooler. My tech ick was people who spend a bunch of money 79 00:07:14,080 --> 00:07:18,640 on a fancy cooler when they haven't already min-maxed the rest of their hardware. 80 00:07:19,280 --> 00:07:24,240 That's true. Am I distracting you? A little bit, but it's okay. It's missing one standoff. The 81 00:07:24,240 --> 00:07:28,640 bottom right one. Nerd on a budget with attention to detail. Keep an eye on this one. There's a 82 00:07:28,640 --> 00:07:33,360 reason he's our favorite. I didn't mean what I said over there. You're doing great too. Thank you. 83 00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:39,280 Wait, I've never done this before. I've only built like like six, seven PCs. I'm deciding if I should 84 00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:43,760 try to give you hints or not, but since we're competing and you wanted to race. I don't need 85 00:07:43,760 --> 00:07:48,720 hints. Don't worry. Gabe, you're good. I know exactly what I'm doing right now. No, that does not seem 86 00:07:48,720 --> 00:07:53,280 right. Okay, I'm not going to ask for help because I feel like that makes me lose automatically. 87 00:07:53,280 --> 00:07:57,600 There's nothing wrong with getting help. No, I have to do this alone. Okay, I'm definitely the 88 00:07:57,600 --> 00:08:02,880 least qualified out of the three contestants. Yeah, so I picked this cooler because well, 89 00:08:02,880 --> 00:08:08,160 it looked really big. So and I have apparently one of the, I guess better CPUs out of the lot. 90 00:08:08,160 --> 00:08:13,920 So probably need a lot of cooling power. The case is small, but it's missing the door. So that gives 91 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:19,360 me plenty of room to use this. The reason for my cooler is I was definitely thinking about aesthetics. 92 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:25,680 Okay. I guess the Riz 400. The Riz. Is that, is that what we're going with? I am also not above 93 00:08:25,680 --> 00:08:30,240 using the CPU cooler manual. Do you ever use these? Not on this. It's showing me exactly 94 00:08:30,240 --> 00:08:35,520 which hardware to use and whatnot. I like it. Yeah, I respect it. You know what? I like his style 95 00:08:35,520 --> 00:08:41,840 so much that I'm going to increase his aesthetics points multiplier to 5x. No, no, no, we were at 96 00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:49,440 five. Were we? Yeah, I think we're up to seven. I am retarded. Actually, I have thermal paste now. 97 00:08:49,440 --> 00:08:54,080 How do you know what I brought you isn't better? I want to go with these because this looks fancy. 98 00:08:54,080 --> 00:09:00,160 Okay. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you. Oh, I've been being dismissed. I see. I think 99 00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:04,880 there's something to the whole passive aggressive generation, you know, with the whole like COVID 100 00:09:04,880 --> 00:09:09,600 lockdown and the lack of social skills. It's like they can't tell things like they're standing too 101 00:09:09,600 --> 00:09:14,640 close. They're making people uncomfortable. How are you doing? Good. I think I'm making good progress. 102 00:09:15,120 --> 00:09:18,720 I'm just putting all the motherboard screws in, which is like one of the more time consuming 103 00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:26,080 Yeah. Parts of it? I think I'm good with that now. Unflappable. See, this is why he's our favorite. 104 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:31,840 You can't say that. What the hell is that supposed to be? Usually it turns out fine, 105 00:09:31,840 --> 00:09:35,360 but I think I got a little nervous because he's right beside me. I don't want to put any pressure 106 00:09:35,360 --> 00:09:41,760 on you guys, but you are way behind Danny. Am I helping with the pressure? Nope. Linus, I would 107 00:09:41,760 --> 00:09:46,880 like to run something by you here. This is a sponsored component. Yep. Very top of the line. 108 00:09:47,440 --> 00:09:54,160 There's one problem for my build with it. It's only black cables. I brought some cable extensions. 109 00:09:54,160 --> 00:10:00,560 I got red, but I'm going to plug these into these. How much did these cost? $0. Should I trust him? 110 00:10:01,280 --> 00:10:06,320 I'm going to believe him that these were $0. And for being such an amazing deal hunter, I'm going 111 00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:13,680 to reward him by increasing his aesthetics multiplier to 6x. We were just at 7. How are 112 00:10:13,680 --> 00:10:18,960 you already almost done? What are people doing? Modern computers? Everything just goes on the 113 00:10:18,960 --> 00:10:23,040 motherboard? Yeah, that's great. I just mean we're going to have to rely on some of the other folks 114 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:28,160 to do our extras for Floatplane. LMG.GG slash Floatplane. Danny, do you think you could beat 115 00:10:28,160 --> 00:10:33,040 Linus in a build off? I honestly don't know how quickly Linus can build a PC. I usually don't 116 00:10:33,040 --> 00:10:37,040 try to speed through PC builds. I just kind of go at a leisurely pace. If this is your leisurely 117 00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:43,200 pace, I think you'd kick my ass. You just need a quality ratcheting screwdriver. Wow, you've made 118 00:10:43,200 --> 00:10:47,760 a lot of progress. So nothing fits, like nothing's long enough to reach the bottom of that. Yeah, 119 00:10:47,760 --> 00:10:52,720 so what you need is like a little stand underneath. You better believe it. Okay, now I gotta take 120 00:10:52,720 --> 00:10:57,600 everything out then. Can I just leave it like this? Because look, I got one, two, three, four, 121 00:10:57,600 --> 00:11:03,360 five, six. Six screws already. And that's a lot of screws. That's, you know, that is a lot of screws. 122 00:11:03,360 --> 00:11:08,160 So I'm good. I'm good here then. I'm making sure I get your approval. I'm not the judge. They're 123 00:11:08,160 --> 00:11:15,200 the judge. Do I have your approval? You may not be familiar with this concept, but we are not live 124 00:11:15,200 --> 00:11:23,440 right now. Oh, the audience. I'll tell you in the camera, man. Okay. Oh, the audience gave a thumbs 125 00:11:23,440 --> 00:11:28,320 up. So I think we're good. Did everybody go radion? Wow, it's almost like that's the way to go when 126 00:11:28,320 --> 00:11:33,360 you're trying to build on a budget. Speaking of GPUs, all of our contestants picked up their GPUs 127 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:39,920 on Java. Java makes it easy to list and sell full builds or parts with buyer and seller protection, 128 00:11:39,920 --> 00:11:44,560 lower fees, and a community that's actively searching for gaming PCs. And this is all, 129 00:11:44,560 --> 00:11:50,800 without getting hit with, is this still available, messages a thousand freaking times. The only thing 130 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:56,560 I don't love about it is this rear fan. That is specifically why I purchased three fans for the 131 00:11:56,560 --> 00:12:01,600 competition to make sure that they're all black. The aesthetics is the last thing on my checklist 132 00:12:01,680 --> 00:12:06,800 here. I'm just trying to figure out the wiring and making sure that everything works. I do know 133 00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:11,920 that they were talking at some point about selling these on Java. If we get points for that, then 134 00:12:11,920 --> 00:12:16,560 an aesthetic build could potentially help me out. That is true. It might actually matter at some point. 135 00:12:16,560 --> 00:12:23,520 We have our beautiful C-Sonic power supply here. I was sure to put the fan facing downward. So I 136 00:12:23,520 --> 00:12:28,800 chose a 3080 because I was looking on the website and all the 4070s were like $600. So I went one 137 00:12:28,800 --> 00:12:33,600 generation behind and this one is like basically the same performance for like a hundred bucks cheaper. 138 00:12:33,600 --> 00:12:37,680 Wait, these are not like screwed in. Do I have to rip them out? Do I need help again? 139 00:12:39,680 --> 00:12:43,680 Those are breakaways. Okay, thank you. Pretend to cut that part out when you say that. Oh, 140 00:12:43,680 --> 00:12:48,400 these are breakaways. So basically I don't have to unscrew anything. I'm wondering if I should 141 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:55,280 help Joyce with something right now? No. Okay, she doesn't want to help. I'm independent and smart. 142 00:12:55,280 --> 00:13:00,320 How many PCs have you built? Over a hundred and under a thousand. So somewhere between there. 143 00:13:00,320 --> 00:13:05,440 That's insane. Over a hundred? It's like 10 a year. You look so young though because your skin's really 144 00:13:05,440 --> 00:13:10,400 good. Why did you use the lower slot on your... What? On your... She doesn't want to help. She doesn't 145 00:13:10,400 --> 00:13:14,560 want to help. Oh my god. I didn't even realize. She said she didn't want to help. Bro, this whole 146 00:13:14,560 --> 00:13:19,280 video is just embarrassing. Like you're going to be like, wow, you guys noticed and didn't tell me? 147 00:13:19,360 --> 00:13:24,880 That's fucked up. That's fucked up. That's fucked up. Especially you. You probably knew the whole 148 00:13:24,880 --> 00:13:31,280 time. Yeah, come on, Glenn. Come on. First try. Professional. We're trying to find something 149 00:13:31,280 --> 00:13:40,000 to close the side panel with. Oh, brilliant. Oh, we have one. Yes. Yes. Wow. Two. Celebrating. 150 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:47,040 Was that a boot? Are they done? That's really crooked. Really? I mean, wow. Thanks. That's a 151 00:13:47,040 --> 00:13:52,240 computer. Yeah, I did it all first try and I didn't get any help. I don't think your motherboard 152 00:13:52,240 --> 00:13:57,360 is all the way down. No, no, no, no. Don't show that. Okay, just to set the record straight, 153 00:13:57,360 --> 00:14:00,240 I've never claimed to be a PC professional. 154 00:14:04,160 --> 00:14:10,640 Why didn't you screw them in all the way? I did. I thought I did. Oh, no. Okay, wait. Cut all of 155 00:14:10,640 --> 00:14:16,240 this out. Give me the screw. Wait, guys. I don't know what he's doing right now. He's trying to 156 00:14:16,240 --> 00:14:23,360 touch my build. So, see, all I did was turn it a few more rotations and you can see now the 157 00:14:23,360 --> 00:14:28,720 motherboard doesn't shift around like that. Right. Do you need me to check anything else? No, no, no, 158 00:14:28,720 --> 00:14:33,840 no. You sure? Yes. You can. Thank you. Now I feel like I need to check everyone's homework. Can I 159 00:14:33,840 --> 00:14:39,040 just? Yeah, you can take a look at it. Oh, yeah. Look at that. All the screws are in even. Oh, wow. 160 00:14:39,040 --> 00:14:44,480 I got nice little cable management in here and everything. Quality. Now it just comes down to 161 00:14:44,480 --> 00:14:50,560 performance. What is this situation here? Oh, is that it? It goes in. Yeah, I just forgot the 162 00:14:50,560 --> 00:14:54,720 screw in all the way, I think. I found problems with everyone else's build, so it feels unfair if 163 00:14:54,720 --> 00:15:00,560 I don't find something here. Feel free. You'll find something. Oh, a classic rookie error. 164 00:15:01,920 --> 00:15:05,920 Error. Missed the I.O. Shield. That is not an error. This was not supplied, sir. I mean, 165 00:15:05,920 --> 00:15:10,800 when you buy a secondhand motherboard, that's the first thing you got to check. Yeah, I mistakenly 166 00:15:10,800 --> 00:15:16,000 trusted the seller. That's why you got to shop on Java. Yeah. See, I would never put a motherboard 167 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:24,720 without an I.O. Shield into my inventory, but that's what you guys do. See, that's kind of an 168 00:15:24,720 --> 00:15:30,240 error, but this is actually an error. Just don't make it worse, man. No, I'm helping. I'm helping. 169 00:15:30,240 --> 00:15:37,760 Let's see. I fixed it. Thank you for the tech tip. Yeah, that's my turf. I'm also going to pretend 170 00:15:37,760 --> 00:15:42,560 that I don't have to push down hard on this to keep the cable bulge down. Here's how we're looking. 171 00:15:43,200 --> 00:15:49,520 This is my GPU, and the reason I chose it was it was the most expensive one I could afford 172 00:15:49,520 --> 00:16:03,680 within my budget. Pencils down in five, four, three, two, one. Done. I'm done. Okay, moment of truth. 173 00:16:04,640 --> 00:16:13,280 Here we go. We're good. Okay, it's even plugged in. What? Damn, you guys sent me off. Yeah, it's 174 00:16:13,280 --> 00:16:18,480 plugged in. Okay, cut off. Take out the first cut. Just remove it all. Delete all the footage. 175 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:27,840 Hopefully, I did the I.O. right. Oh, okay. Got an LED. Right out of the gate, I got to say immediately, 176 00:16:27,840 --> 00:16:32,240 I want to give you bonus points for leaving the $22 sticker on your case. As you can see, 177 00:16:32,240 --> 00:16:37,680 aesthetics was maybe kind of lower on the priority list. Yeah, and even cooling. You got like half 178 00:16:37,680 --> 00:16:42,000 of your fans in here. That's right. One of them's not spinning. I didn't actually catch your specs. 179 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:49,440 I was so distracted by how ugly it is. So maybe it's like going to be a sleeper underdog. That's 180 00:16:49,440 --> 00:16:53,840 what I'm hoping. Victor. It was the first computer to work. Of course, no one cares what the tower 181 00:16:53,840 --> 00:16:59,600 looks like. If the monitor looks great. Oh, that's already a good sign. And most impressively, 182 00:16:59,600 --> 00:17:05,440 this isn't even running at low settings. This is 1440p ultra no ray tracing. It's actually 183 00:17:05,440 --> 00:17:10,080 Zach's machine that's making all the noises bothering me right now. It's going to be hard to 184 00:17:10,080 --> 00:17:17,120 beat. Or is it? If there were points for aesthetics, which there aren't, this would have lots of points. 185 00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:24,480 And it's also quiet. I don't agree that it's quiet. Oh, that is, yeah. Okay. All right. Let's 186 00:17:24,480 --> 00:17:33,920 take a quick test drive. Shall we? Oh, this is bad news for Tito because even though there's no 187 00:17:33,920 --> 00:17:39,760 points for aesthetics, there are points for the game looking better. If only Zach had tuned it. 188 00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:51,120 What'd you press? I pressed the sabotage Zach button for stealing the similar abbreviations 189 00:17:51,120 --> 00:17:58,800 to my channel. Next up is the one, the only tech choice who surely will blame her brother for 190 00:17:58,800 --> 00:18:03,280 whatever problems we find with her machine. I'm scared. You're going to say something crazy. 191 00:18:03,920 --> 00:18:07,040 Something crazy like, Hey, you should probably put all the screws in. 192 00:18:07,840 --> 00:18:12,080 That was not my fault. The screwdriver you gave me was faulty. 193 00:18:15,600 --> 00:18:19,200 Go ahead. Show me. Well, I threw it out. No, no, I threw it out because it was faulty. 194 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:25,040 All right. Well, why don't we take a look at your computer and see if anything else is faulty. 195 00:18:25,040 --> 00:18:29,360 You're going to be blown away. Your side panel is upside down. The AMD logo on your cooler is 196 00:18:29,360 --> 00:18:33,200 upside down too. What's up with that? Why do you find problems with everything? Just play the game 197 00:18:33,200 --> 00:18:38,160 and you'll see. I mean, all you have to do is beat a low performing PC with no side panel and one 198 00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:43,760 that crashes. Can you commentate on this area right here? Yeah, this area right here is looking pretty 199 00:18:43,760 --> 00:18:52,560 damn good. Not going to lie. It says like 75 FPS and you're 1% low. It's hard to believe. 200 00:18:54,000 --> 00:19:00,240 Now that we're in here, dude, it's even worse. It kind of smells. It smells like burning. We got 201 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:05,840 one exhaust fan. No intakes. I really don't know how long this is going to last. Tech choice, 202 00:19:05,840 --> 00:19:12,160 builder of temporary computers, which brings us finally to this. You know what? I can't find 203 00:19:12,160 --> 00:19:17,280 that much to criticize. It's a little on the louder side, but like, is that really that big of a 204 00:19:17,280 --> 00:19:22,640 problem? And even if the performance isn't the best, right? Like, look at this shirt. Look how he 205 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:27,840 wears that. I like these glasses too. Just, you know, of course it's all going to come down to 206 00:19:27,840 --> 00:19:34,560 performance, which once again, wow, really good. I want to take a moment to recognize that for 207 00:19:34,560 --> 00:19:40,400 a thousand dollars, every single one of these systems is delivering an outstanding experience 208 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:46,560 in what is still an extremely demanding game at 1440p ultimate quality. Some are a little more 209 00:19:46,560 --> 00:19:53,040 outstanding than the others and I think this might be one of them. I don't want to criticize 210 00:19:53,040 --> 00:20:00,240 because you're my favorite. I don't love that your CPU is running at 95 degrees. What? Ready? Three, 211 00:20:00,240 --> 00:20:10,640 two, one, benchmark. Oh my God. I'm absolutely cooked. Oh, it crashed again. Who configured this? 212 00:20:10,640 --> 00:20:14,560 Who configured it? I mean, you picked all the parts. We just watched you do it. Yeah, but you 213 00:20:14,560 --> 00:20:18,560 know, the parts were working when I showed up here. Do you want to just come out and say it? 214 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:23,280 You can say it. I can say it? Yes. You're a poor sport. 215 00:20:23,840 --> 00:20:30,960 In all seriousness, there could be an issue with some of the hardware that we provided to Zach. I 216 00:20:30,960 --> 00:20:36,800 was just ribbing him before, so we're going to do a quick reseat of his GPU and in the meantime, 217 00:20:36,800 --> 00:20:40,800 we're grabbing another kit of memory just in case this one's a little bit on the flaky side. 218 00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:45,120 Why is this six gigafansters per second? Okay. Well, you kind of lucked out. Oh, wow. You just 219 00:20:45,120 --> 00:20:50,000 got a performance boost. Whoops. That was not my intention, but I don't have time to go change it 220 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:56,000 again. I just fixed your computer. This feels great already. I can tell. Okay. Here we go. Let's 221 00:20:56,000 --> 00:21:04,240 see how it goes. Massive upset in first place for performance in cyberpunk. Zach, with the 222 00:21:04,240 --> 00:21:13,440 come from behind victory, he went from zero to 95 in second place for raw performance. 223 00:21:14,240 --> 00:21:22,320 We've got Danny. The nerd on a budget stayed within his budget. Zach, not so much. Neither did Joyce 224 00:21:22,320 --> 00:21:26,800 for that matter, so she's basically out of the running for first place, but could still end up 225 00:21:26,800 --> 00:21:31,680 with a podium finish because, yeah, that's really not that close, but there's still more benchmarking 226 00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:38,800 to go. Let's give him a bonus. Let's give him a nice guy bonus. 10 FPS. I still am like blown away 227 00:21:38,800 --> 00:21:46,480 at how good these machines are. Well, most of them. All of them. Come on. Kind of tempted to 228 00:21:46,480 --> 00:21:52,240 change Zach's memory speed back to 5600. I'm going to change it back to 5600 for the rest. 229 00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:56,720 How much lower do you think it's going to be, Linus? I would say two FPS. That could be the 230 00:21:56,720 --> 00:22:03,360 difference. I was thinking two to three FPS combined with your 4% over budget penalty. 231 00:22:03,360 --> 00:22:09,920 Times 11 aesthetic bonus. Right. I think we're still good. Your aesthetic bonus is zero though, 232 00:22:09,920 --> 00:22:16,080 so because there are no points for aesthetics. I was not told this. Never came up. The fact that 233 00:22:16,080 --> 00:22:23,600 it's so close is why I really feel that we need to double check. Oh my god. How'd it go up? 234 00:22:24,160 --> 00:22:31,600 Time for our second game. I'm rooting for you. Hold tab. Ready, three, two, one, go. 235 00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:39,680 Wow. You're getting kind of like the Canucks. Kind of hard to root for. Whoa. We could have an upset 236 00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:48,080 here. The nerd on a budget is on a roll with a score of 145 with Zach's tech turf with 130. 237 00:22:48,080 --> 00:22:58,400 Joyce coming in at 122. And once again, Tito was there. 93. That's really good. And it is really 238 00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:04,240 good. Our budget was limited to a thousand US dollars. And unlike a game console, which sure 239 00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:08,880 could also run Returnal, as long as it's a PlayStation, these machines can do anything you 240 00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:14,000 could possibly want them to do. Video editing, browsing the internet. The hell else is it that 241 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:18,080 people do with computers these days? Now it's time for the big shocker finish, because see, 242 00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:24,880 I was piling on my Pal Tito before, but he actually has the best performing CPU out of the bunch. 243 00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:31,200 And this is interesting. Our last benchmark, kind of CPU dependent. Everyone, go ahead and press 244 00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:36,400 the check mark. Yeah, I'm rooting for you. Yeah, what? It's already less than 10. Oh gosh. 245 00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:39,840 While we wait for this last benchmark to run, I want to get everyone to sign their machine, 246 00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:44,240 because if you guys were paying attention earlier, you will know this. All of these 247 00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:50,560 are going to be for sale from jawo.gg. Choose wisely. Now for the results. Coming in first, 248 00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:57,840 nerd on a budget. Unfortunately, Joyce's X3D chip just didn't cut the mustard here. 249 00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:06,800 Zach is in the 300 FPS range as well. Tito was there. Even a 10 FPS bonus wasn't enough, man. 250 00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:14,000 I tried. I really tried. And now it's time for me and David to try and do math. 251 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:21,200 Aesthetic score equals zero. Yeah. Times 11. There you go. Yep, that's added. 252 00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:26,560 And did you give Tito his 10 extra bonus FPS on everything? We have come up with the final scores. 253 00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:38,320 In fourth place, and looking very fine and kind, doing it is Tito with a score of 228. 254 00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:44,480 Out of a possible 300. Out of a possible 300. That's good. That's good. That is really good. 255 00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:51,920 After correcting for a slight budgeting overshoot, Joyce comes in third with 259 points 256 00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:59,280 out of a possible 300. And I think it is actually worth noting here just how close our three podium 257 00:24:59,280 --> 00:25:04,640 finishers were, which is to say that if you weren't comparing them side by side in benchmark tests, 258 00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:09,840 you would be more than happy with any of them. It's just that you would be ever so slightly 259 00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:18,480 happier with Zach's Tech Turf. He managed to score of 271. And that's in spite of the fact 260 00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:25,280 that his 11 ex-Aesthetics multiplier was multiplied by zero. That was the whole strategy, Linus. 261 00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:36,960 Which leaves with 297 points out of a possible 300 points, the nerd on a budget, Danny, 262 00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:45,600 undisputed intercontinental champion of building a computer for exactly, 263 00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:53,760 one thousand dollars. Give it a little bit, you know, some personality. He's just a black box. 264 00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:58,400 How are you feeling at the end of this day? It honestly went how I thought it would. 265 00:25:59,120 --> 00:26:03,760 Nerd on a budget. I mean, he knows how to maximize his budget. I'm a little disappointed with how I 266 00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:08,960 did. I definitely did not choose the right GPU. So for next time, I would go with the Radeon card. 267 00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:13,760 Kind of expected those results. Maybe I should just stick with modding retro consoles, but had a 268 00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:17,040 whole lot of fun. How do you think you did? Pretty happy with the build. I like the way 269 00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:21,440 it turned out aesthetically. Wish the aesthetics would have mattered a little bit more than they did. 270 00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:26,000 Audience, if the aesthetics mattered to you, comment down below. Let them know. They do. 271 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:30,880 I probably get a little bit nicer of a case. You know, get a little bit better aesthetics and 272 00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:36,000 maybe one that has a side panel too. How does it feel to be the champion? It feels pretty good. 273 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:40,880 What do you think was your key to victory? Throwing a big chunk of money at the graphics card. 274 00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:49,680 That helped. Other than your own build, what was your favorite one today? I like Zax. It looks the nicest for sure. People would pick a slightly worse performing PC with 275 00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:57,200 like twice the aesthetics, right? So 11 times. 11 times. Thanks, Java. And Csonic. And Csonic 276 00:26:57,200 --> 00:27:01,680 for making this possible and massive shout out to you guys for coming all the way up here. 277 00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:07,040 If you guys enjoyed this video, maybe go check out the time we challenged our writers to configure 278 00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:11,200 $1000 builds. There was a bit of extra challenge in that one in that they weren't allowed to use 279 00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:16,000 the internet to look at any pricing whatsoever. They were just going in blind.