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now i get criticized a fair bit for not really criticizing products enough i

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think some people feel and for not looking at lower end products that are

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more affordable a lot of the time we tend to get really focused on the high-end sexy stuff so to address both

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of those things i'm gonna be taking a look at the r7240 a product that sucks

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and is cheap so we're gonna go ahead and take this out of the box to be clear i'm

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not particularly criticizing MSI here there's nothing different about their r7

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240 implementation that makes it worse than anyone else's it's just that this

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graphics card for 80 dollars makes absolutely no sense and nobody should

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buy it so let's go ahead and have a look at the card itself it has a downward

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draft cooler which i guess is is what it is it's got a heat sink that's like

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indicative of how much power you can expect this thing to have and then it's

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also got a full-size bracket or you can replace that with two half size brackets

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so that you can install it in a low profile case although you won't be

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having a very satisfactory gaming experience with it anyway it comes with

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a driver disc and that is pretty much all so i'd like to take a moment to talk

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about the concept of price to performance yes this is an 80 card but

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even if it was a 60 card on special promo it still makes absolutely no sense

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to buy because there are options that cost just a little bit more that deliver

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so much better performance you see guys there is a sweet spot buying a 500

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computer or 400 computer is not a sweet

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spot experience you are actually getting less for your money by buying something

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that is less expensive similarly when you start to spend a fortune on gtx

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titans or 780s or you know r9 290xs you

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are similarly getting less for your money that is why graphics cards like

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these exist these are the Radeon 7770

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and the r7260x so this is the last gen product

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so it will tend to be a very good deal and the 260x is a current gen product so

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it carries a bit of a price premium right now but you can still see that it

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is a much better value than this so low

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end products um i guess without further ado let's get into the benchmarks so

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here's dirt 3. we're running at 1080p so any reasonable gaming experience is

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going to be at 1080p these days we're running 4x uh msaa so that's

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anti-aliasing and we're running on high or ultra so both of these graphics card

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this one for about a hundred dollars and this one for about a hundred and forty

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dollars run this game very satisfactorily you're having a great

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gaming experience on our standard test bench this one in spite of having the

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benefit of using one of the best cpus available that is overclocked can manage

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a meager 18 FPS you will have an even worse experience on your computer this

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game is not playable at high details at 1080p far cry 3. this is more of a

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hardcore title so we weren't really expecting this to do very well but guys

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the performance difference here considering the price this gets 28

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frames per second this gets nine frames

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per second nine frames per second it is one third the performance and it costs

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more than half as much that isn't reasonable that doesn't make any sense

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the sweet spot for this one is probably going to be more like the 7770 which

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costs just about 25 more than an r7 240

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and performs more than doubly as well delivering a very playable experience

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particularly once you turn anti-aliasing off even running that game at pretty

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high settings next up we've got tomb raider fairly mainstream title third

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person adventure game all that kind of noise so both of these games at ultra

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without tres fx did i say games because i meant graphics cards deliver a

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playable experience here averaging 40 to 51 FPS this okay again costs about 25

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less than a 70 and manages a meager just

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over one third of the performance this you guys is why i don't focus on low end

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stuff and this is why i don't generally make videos about stuff that i think is

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stupid because it just makes for a video where i haven't actually told you

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anything useful about what to what to buy um i guess i have don't buy low end

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junk because it doesn't make sense you're better off saving your pennies

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for like another couple weeks another couple allowances and getting something

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that delivers a much much better value

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that is all my friends thank you for checking out this unboxing and

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cautionary tale about the r7 240 i

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apologize to AMD and MSI for anything that i said that might offend them about

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this video but let's face it guys low end cards are stupid and they make no

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sense and so there you go you should just get

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something a little bit better and pay a little bit more actually a lot better

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so deal with it don't forget to like this video if you liked it dislike it if you disliked it

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leave a comment if you have any thoughts to share with me about maybe you think

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that these make sense i mean they have HDMI so they can carry out you know what

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most onboard graphics that supports all that stuff too these days um and as

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