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two years it was two years ago to the day the last time we

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built a 500 gaming pc with an actual

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freaking GPU unit that is how long gamers have waited for graphics card

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pricing to come back down to earth but it has hasn't it the crypto bros may be

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crying but right now gamers are rejoicing at the tsunami of cards

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hitting the used market rtx 3090s

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a thousand dollars 30 70s how about 500

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bucks for a non-lhr version but wait hold on i hear you guys 500 that's still

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a freaking ton of money for just a GPU so today we're gonna build an entire

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budget gaming pc that was inspired by an

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ebay listing that i would have thought impossible just a few short weeks ago an

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rtx 2060 for just 200 bucks impossible

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i'm just in such a good mood today guys because the main premise of this channel

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that anyone can build a computer and that it doesn't have to be outlandishly

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expensive is finally true again for our motherboard we've gone with the

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h610me-d4

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yeah it doesn't have the greatest io and

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there's no cooling on the vrms but this puppy can be had for a hundred dollars

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brand new or for around 65 on ebay all

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with support for the latest 12th gen Intel processors it's got two m.2 slots

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for SSD storage albeit at gen 3 speeds support for dual channel ddr4 memory and

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it's even got one of the older style 12-volt non-addressable RGB headers

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but hold on a second Linus what are you doing building a budget rig with current

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gen Intel ah that is where my good friend the core

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i3 12 100 comes in there is a lot to

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like about this chip starting with the fact that it has four of the same golden

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cove p cores that you would find in the rest of Intel's 12th gen lineup it also

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has support for up to pci express gen 5 and ddr5 like the rest of the 12th gen

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lineup now there's only four of those cores eight threads total so you're not

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going to be setting any cinebench world records but they will turbo to up to 4.3

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gigahertz meaning that this chip is a low-key gaming monster and

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i haven't even mentioned the best parts yet it's just over a hundred dollars and

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you can get it down to 105 if you go for the f version of the sku which doesn't

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include onboard graphics that's wild and

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unlike AMD's closest competitor lga 1200 has a clear upgrade path you can either

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go to an i5 or an i7 12th gen or you can

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move to the upcoming 13th gen raptor lake which is confirmed to be backwards

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compatible and it gets even better unlike the rich people k skus Intel's

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basic processors actually come with coolers in the box they're nothing

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amazing and our particular one seems to receive some touch-ups at the factory

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but they are super easy to install look pretty decent and are perfectly capable

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of taming the 89 watt maximum boost TDP

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of a chip like this one

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RAM ended up being a pretty straightforward choice for us this 16

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gig kit of 3200 mega transfer per second cl 16 ddr4 is pretty much the sweet spot

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for price to performance and it also happens to be the maximum transfer rate

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that this particular CPU and motherboard combo supports

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as for why we chose a team group t-force vulcan z

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frankly it just came down to price it was about 50 bucks and you'll actually

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find plenty of comparables from other brands and the budget hits keep coming

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we've gone with a crucial p2 500 gig for our boot SSD why you might ask because

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at 45 dollars it is cheap as chips it

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might be pci express gen 3 and it might not have a dram cash but at this kind of

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price point your only other options are maybe a wd sn570 which is going to be

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around the same price anyway or a mechanical hard drive which frankly is

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not what you want to be booting off of in a modern system which isn't to say

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that mechanical hard drives don't have their place for bulk storage their cost

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per Gigabyte is absolutely untouchable which is why we made sure to find a case

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that has support for at least one hard drive this is the fbm x1 from roswell is

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it the greatest case ever no but it can be had for as little as

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like 10 bucks on ebay and hopefully between the front 120 millimeter and

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rear 80 millimeter cooling fan we will have

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enough cooling you know what else you can never get enough of fun exclusives

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and behind the scenes which are only available on Floatplane.com

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and i took that personally this is a budget build so we won't find

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any fancy features like built-in i o shields we'll be

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popping our shield in the old fashioned way oh so hard oh should have spent

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twice as much on my motherboard it's fine i'm kidding then as long as we've

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got our standoffs in the right locations please do make sure you double check

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that we'll just go ahead pop our board in how you doing there buddy oh yeah look

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at that man how cool is it that even budget components can be color

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coordinated now like this build looks awesome

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oh oops it's still not really worth the extra

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cost but this wouldn't have happened with the built-in i o shield i accidentally got the little tabs here

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for grounding uh inside the ports rather than on top of them

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so i'm going to need to take the board out and put it back in

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yeah there's not much cable management yeah much in the way of cable management

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in this case that's okay we'll make it work that's a pretty cool hack to get

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some cable management room on the back just kind of pop out the panel a little

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bit i like it Linus approves

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oh what the hell whoever disassembled this last time ripped the oh plastic

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housing for the usb 3 header off of the motherboard you know i talk about how

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fragile and horrible these connectors are all the time this is what i'm

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talking about look at this it ripped the female housing right off

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the last motherboard that it was in

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that don't worry little h610m that won't

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happen to you doesn't it just kind of feel like summer

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don't you just want to wear a party shirt from lttstore.com

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yeah we showed up wearing the exact same

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thing today i swear we didn't coordinate this twins twinsies oh wow this is cable

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management it's going to be horrible this is just gonna

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traverse the motherboard like this apparently boom

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cable managed you can call me the cable guy

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just kidding my career hasn't sunk that way

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our power supply was a pretty obvious choice we went with the cv650 from

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Corsair it's non-modular and it's not going to have bells and whistles like

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you know silent zero decibel fan modes or anything like that but it's 650

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freaking watts it's still 80 plus bronze so it's reasonably efficient and it's

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got all black sleeved cables so our finished rig is not going to have any of

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that ketchup and mustard look like an older one would even when you're working

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with a non-modular power supply it can be a useful little trick to plug in hard

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to access connectors like the cpu8 pin connector before you actually install

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the power supply there's our 24 pin for cable management the only thing we're

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going to leave accessible is our pci express 6 plus 2 pin connectors and the

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rest we can just cram in the five and a quarter inch bays

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old school style now we paid forty two dollars brand new for this bad boy but i

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would hazard a guess that in the coming months we are going to see much like

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gpus a surplus of power supplies on the second hand market probably not lower

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wattage ones like this but i would expect to see wild deals on 850 000 and 1200 watt

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units as miners try to divest themselves of this hardware

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finally it's time to talk GPU now i gave

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a 200 price for an rtx 2060 but the

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truth is it's a little bit more complicated than that you probably

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aren't getting a founder's edition for 200 but we've seen other rtx 2060s which by

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the way will perform the same sold for as low as 160 dollars if you're more of

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a team red type of character you can also get a 5600 xt for about the same

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price 160 at the low end and those top

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out around the 190 dollar range it's a ton of GPU for the money especially in

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the context of the last two years uh-oh

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uh this is going to be a little tight oh no it seems fine never mind never mind i

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lied it's all good it does take a bit of maneuvering to get

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it in there but it's in now we just need our power

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connector oh you know what i bet i can look through here to see

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what i'm doing okay you actually probably even have hi camera i'm having

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so much fun right now you know like i can't believe we can finally build

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budget rigs again this might not be the best gaming rig for 500 but that's kind

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of the fun of it there's a lot of different ways to tackle a budget rig

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whereas with a high-end one buy all the most expensive stuff and slap it

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together here we've got to make sacrifices are we more focused on CPU

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are we more focused on GPU what's our risk tolerance for used hardware that is

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something to be aware of if you're picking up these crypto mind gpus yeah

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they might not last as long as a brand new one and you're certainly not going

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to get any warranty coverage on them so it's a die you got to be tempted to roll

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i mean i certainly was back in the day don't take my word for it though all

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we've got to do now is close it up and show you guys the results obviously

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these peripherals are a bit of a mismatch for our system but i'm using

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them to emphasize the capability of this rig and i dare say it actually looks

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pretty good too oh she's nice

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uh-oh the case is in the way that fit of our ports look uh oh that's stupid

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yeah i think i remember that being a problem in this case it's got this little folded piece of metal here that

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makes it so that you can't can't actually get a displayport cable in

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there um

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um i think i made it worse yeah i think you did no

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time for another power fist

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there you go fix that for your rosewill percussive maintenance

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moment of truth time here we go 16 gigs RAM

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CPU detected m.2 detected

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boom everything good to go that's a bit of a concern the only front air intake

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is here and these feet are super low profile

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it's possible that we're going to need some speed holes

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to ask you how you are you just have to say that you're i think it'll be okay

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i think that i'm gonna get prepared to make speed holes don't until we actually

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test yeah and a third and a 20 60. like i

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think it'll be fine you heard it here first

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ploof says thermals will be fine with a solid front panel it's low end hardware

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it'll be okay it's not a 30-70 or like a

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12-700 k i think it'll be okay definitely some

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minor quality of life challenges um can't get

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i can't get a plug into this boy there it goes just give it a little

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bend there can you get it better i'm sure i can get it out yes yes i can get

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it out oh now i can't get it back in though

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in cs go we're running at 1080p with everything basically cranked and

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something else to note as we're going through this exercise is that i am screen recording at the same time that's

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right this machine is not only capable of playing games it is also capable of

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streaming something that you could not do for 500 bucks just a few short weeks

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ago as always it won't actually make you a good gamer but

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yeah just low key 250 300 frames per second let's go

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oh it feels good doesn't it 12 year old game does it feel good wait look hey 300

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FPS in anything for 500 bucks i'll take

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it after this last freaking couple of years

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it's worth noting that even though this is an older esport-centric title so not

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the most demanding game a big part of why we're able to push these extremely

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high frame rates which actually have a benefit even if you don't have a high

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refresh rate monitor because they reduce input latency is due to those golden

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cove p cores now you could spend another 40 bucks and you could get six of them

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rather than four but we were trying really hard to hit that

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500-ish dollar price point 12 100 man

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what a steal oh wait wait where's my knife oh boy

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i went to press a melee button forgot my game i was playing

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we're getting halo infinite where's the because you set it to

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install only

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this is one area where this CPU is going to hold us back

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downloading games poor thing we're only at uh 300 megabit

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it's at 48 CPU usage

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oh we should have a look at what our temps were in game our CPU maxed out

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around 65 degrees and our GPU maxed out around 69 degrees that's nice i'd say

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that's pretty nice but i don't know if we had actually

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reached peak sure okay sure we're gonna run a more demanding game now

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obviously this is a little bit more impressive we've got halo infinite

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running at medium at around 75 frames

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per second that is more than smooth enough for actually a pretty oh no crap

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well that was a tactical error

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ah whoops oh man

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that was a bit of a fail but what's not a fail is that we're sitting at 90 cp

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utilization 98 GPU utilization the

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system is still freaking quiet and we've peaked at 76

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degrees on our GPU and around 80 on our CPU so we are

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nowhere near thermal throttling territory

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i told you you were right when you're right you're

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right ploof thanks and reminder of course i'm still recording this game

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okay i want one kill and then i okay and then i'm good to leave get the guy in

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the coast ah

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i just got milade it's embarrassing that's it then the 500 gaming pc it's

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back ladies and gentlemen great performance damn near silent adequate

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thermals and you can go even cheaper if

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out the one from two years ago and while you're at it check out the comments

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people got real mad about how impossible it was to buy a computer like this what

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are you guys magic no we just made that video right before things went completely to shiz