1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,560 a portion of this video is sponsored by IBM with inflation running rampant 2 00:00:06,720 --> 00:00:12,719 PC gaming has gotten out of reach for 3 00:00:09,840 --> 00:00:19,680 millions of people around the world or has it it's been four years since we 4 00:00:16,080 --> 00:00:21,359 built our last hyper budget 69 gaming PC 5 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:25,740 and I think you guys are going to be shocked by what we were able to achieve 6 00:00:23,520 --> 00:00:31,619 with some Savvy shopping and a little bit of patience we're talking quad core 7 00:00:28,260 --> 00:00:33,480 CPU 16 gigs of RAM and enough GPU 8 00:00:31,619 --> 00:00:40,379 horsepower to play the latest Esports titles with your friends and yes no joke 9 00:00:36,420 --> 00:00:41,520 for the grand total price of just 69 US 10 00:00:40,379 --> 00:00:46,440 dollars sounds great let's build it what are we 11 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:50,760 waiting for this message from our sponsor thanks to 12 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:54,719 IBM for sponsoring a portion of this video IBM believes what business needs 13 00:00:52,860 --> 00:00:59,219 most to drive progress in this next era is creativity Yes you heard that 14 00:00:56,940 --> 00:01:03,180 correctly creativity I'm not talking about creativity in a traditional sense 15 00:01:00,780 --> 00:01:06,720 of artists and musicians now I'm talking about the developers the data scientists 16 00:01:05,220 --> 00:01:11,939 The Visionaries who are creatively applying technology in business to drive 17 00:01:09,119 --> 00:01:15,600 change IBM calls them new creators and you can learn more about them later in 18 00:01:13,500 --> 00:01:21,119 this video thanks IBM for sponsoring that portion of the video the 69 we 19 00:01:18,299 --> 00:01:25,920 spent last time around is more like 82 dollars today so by sticking to the same 20 00:01:23,820 --> 00:01:30,000 dollar value we're going to be working with a lower overall budget than the 21 00:01:28,619 --> 00:01:35,400 Dell based machine that I built with Riley back in 2018. the good news is 22 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:40,979 that consumer electronics continue to be a terrible investment meaning that that 23 00:01:37,860 --> 00:01:43,259 380 tower that we used last time fared 24 00:01:40,979 --> 00:01:51,119 even worse than the cash stuffed in our mattresses that means we can do better 25 00:01:46,020 --> 00:01:54,840 me neat the z420 it's a 2012 workstation 26 00:01:51,119 --> 00:01:56,939 from HP that for its time was Blazing 27 00:01:54,840 --> 00:02:01,619 fast in that considering our budget still blazes to this day it was 28 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:06,600 primarily marketed to Industries like VFX that require fatty processors to 29 00:02:04,560 --> 00:02:10,739 optimize their render times which is why its Hardware is fit more for a server 30 00:02:08,819 --> 00:02:16,319 than the desk of an office worker it's got an Intel Xeon Processor up to eight 31 00:02:13,920 --> 00:02:23,099 sticks of error correcting DDR3 memory and typically an NVIDIA Quadro or AMD 32 00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:24,780 fire Pro GPU let's take a closer look at 33 00:02:23,099 --> 00:02:30,540 it well this is yeah this is definitely feeling pretty 10 years old though to 34 00:02:27,180 --> 00:02:33,180 their credit that is that is damn clean 35 00:02:30,540 --> 00:02:37,680 for 10 years of dust buildup there's a lot to talk about in here you won't find 36 00:02:35,040 --> 00:02:44,700 support for modern features like m.2 and vme drives or multi-gigabit Lan but what 37 00:02:40,980 --> 00:02:47,340 it does have is standard PCI Express gen 38 00:02:44,700 --> 00:02:51,000 3 slots so you could bloat it up with any kinds of expansion cards that you 39 00:02:49,140 --> 00:02:55,440 would want it supports a whopping 10 drives with these SATA ports down here 40 00:02:52,800 --> 00:03:02,819 it's got USB 3 both in the front and in the back and this look at this this is a 41 00:02:59,220 --> 00:03:04,560 20 pin ATX connector I think wait is it 42 00:03:02,819 --> 00:03:10,800 even 20 hell is this 18 pin motherboard power 43 00:03:08,099 --> 00:03:16,739 with what appears to be a more standard EPS connector in the top 44 00:03:13,019 --> 00:03:19,500 HP why you gotta be like that 45 00:03:16,739 --> 00:03:23,580 just use a 24-pin connector like everyone else this cooler is pretty 46 00:03:21,599 --> 00:03:27,540 funny it uses three heat pipes and an aluminum fin stack but normally you 47 00:03:25,920 --> 00:03:31,019 would just bend the heat pipes in a u and you would put the fence tack right 48 00:03:29,340 --> 00:03:36,060 on top of the socket I don't know why they did it this way and this is cool 49 00:03:32,940 --> 00:03:38,400 they've actually got this little memory 50 00:03:36,060 --> 00:03:43,440 cooler that Clips on on top of your RAM slots 51 00:03:39,900 --> 00:03:46,080 assuming I can actually hello oh this is 52 00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:49,860 cute Angela B Signs the back of it what's up Angie 53 00:03:47,940 --> 00:03:54,120 I guess this was your worst station there it goes 54 00:03:51,780 --> 00:03:58,200 cheese okay there you go got a total of two sticks of RAM in here four would 55 00:03:56,040 --> 00:04:02,940 have been optimal given that the CPU has a quad Channel memory controller but 56 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:06,900 budgetary constraints conspicuously absent is a hard drive this was probably 57 00:04:04,799 --> 00:04:10,920 shredded due to the data security policies of whatever organization this 58 00:04:09,180 --> 00:04:17,699 machine came from there's a 600 watt power supply 59 00:04:14,340 --> 00:04:19,919 pretty decent nothing about 80 plus or 60 00:04:17,699 --> 00:04:25,080 anything about efficiency anywhere and it doesn't seem to be standard ATX so 61 00:04:22,199 --> 00:04:28,979 thanks HP I guess here's a benefit to their proprietary nonsense though this 62 00:04:26,639 --> 00:04:32,720 seems to be a 92 millimeter fan blowing directly through the power supply it 63 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:37,740 kind of reminds me of antec's attempted CPX form factor power supplies 64 00:04:35,880 --> 00:04:42,180 probably a pretty efficient way to cool it honestly the power supply and maybe 65 00:04:40,139 --> 00:04:45,960 the RAM are probably the best cooled parts of this computer looks like the 66 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:50,780 entire rest of the chassis gets a single 92 millimeter fan here at the back and 67 00:04:49,020 --> 00:04:56,040 there's nothing in the side panel that oh my god did you put this here nope 68 00:04:54,060 --> 00:04:58,880 that was there when we got it this was already here 69 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:06,540 I love it this says November 22 22 wait 70 00:05:03,180 --> 00:05:08,580 November 2022 what year is it 2023 yeah 71 00:05:06,540 --> 00:05:12,660 oh yeah so what is this from the future dude it's from the future haha the RAM 72 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:17,040 is installed wrong convenient little diagram here showing you which order to 73 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:20,520 populate the slots in it doesn't really matter though it'll still be operating 74 00:05:18,479 --> 00:05:24,300 in dual Channel mode so if it works it works it's just to help improve 75 00:05:22,199 --> 00:05:28,440 compatibility overall I am super impressed this is a ton of computer for 76 00:05:26,699 --> 00:05:35,280 a few stems more than five Canadian dime bags which translates to 44.49 of real 77 00:05:32,460 --> 00:05:39,240 American money leaving us with 25 and 20 cents remaining if you're inspired by 78 00:05:37,680 --> 00:05:44,340 our thriftiness by the way and you want to purchase a unit like this for yourself don't be surprised if it takes 79 00:05:42,780 --> 00:05:48,539 a little while to find one at the right price the availability of these most 80 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:53,400 chronic of workstations can be a little bit Boomer bust with nothing on the 81 00:05:50,639 --> 00:05:57,720 market for months at a time and then a big office or a school upgrades flooding 82 00:05:55,919 --> 00:06:01,020 the market and crashing prices for a week or two giving you perfect 83 00:05:58,979 --> 00:06:04,699 opportunity to sneak in there and make your move it's also not the only 84 00:06:05,100 --> 00:06:12,900 old models in the hpz line like the z440 620 820 Etc and Dell and Lenovo also 85 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:19,560 have similar workstations from this period that are worth watching out for like the Precision t3600 and the think 86 00:06:16,860 --> 00:06:22,620 station s30 respectively if you know of anyone that uses these workstations 87 00:06:20,940 --> 00:06:27,180 currently it also might be worth getting in touch with someone from their organization to see if they're planning 88 00:06:25,319 --> 00:06:30,660 to upgrade soon with a little bit of luck you might even be able to convince 89 00:06:28,860 --> 00:06:33,720 them to give you a heads up when the units are about to find their way out 90 00:06:31,919 --> 00:06:37,259 the door and if you're a lottery winner lucky and build Good Rapport they might 91 00:06:35,639 --> 00:06:41,699 even sell you one directly for a low price this is the kind of benign social 92 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:44,639 engineering that we don't often talk about on this channel but when you're 93 00:06:43,319 --> 00:06:50,100 bargain hunting can be the difference between tens of dollars and hundreds of 94 00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:53,460 dollars spent to achieve your goal on the topic of social engineering let's 95 00:06:51,720 --> 00:06:57,120 talk about the sponsor for this portion of the video this portion of the video 96 00:06:54,840 --> 00:07:00,060 was sponsored by IBM as mentioned up front the new creators are The 97 00:06:58,680 --> 00:07:04,020 Visionaries creatively applying technology in business to drive change a 98 00:07:02,639 --> 00:07:07,919 line of speed group we're always trying to find ways to further our business and 99 00:07:05,819 --> 00:07:11,100 craft through creativity much like the new creators and one of the new creators 100 00:07:09,780 --> 00:07:17,639 that we resonate the most with is Stephanie Crothers the chief people hacker for X-Force red team at IBM she's 101 00:07:15,840 --> 00:07:21,599 responsible for overseeing a global team of hackers hired to break into 102 00:07:19,319 --> 00:07:26,160 organizations and uncover risky vulnerabilities that attackers may use 103 00:07:23,520 --> 00:07:30,599 for personal gain Stephanie pokes and prods organizations for security gaps 104 00:07:28,139 --> 00:07:33,960 through social engineering the most fun kind of engineering she's driven by her 105 00:07:32,580 --> 00:07:38,220 Natural Curiosity and it's why she's always asking how can I take this step 106 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:41,220 further how can I test them and we here at LMG relate to her approach because 107 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:45,539 there's not a day that goes by where we don't think how can we design or 108 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:49,199 engineer a better reaction if you want to learn more check out IBM's YouTube 109 00:07:46,979 --> 00:07:53,940 channel or new creators homepage at the links below thanks IBM for sponsoring 110 00:07:51,960 --> 00:07:59,160 that portion of the video there's 25 left in our Coffer and two parts we 111 00:07:56,520 --> 00:08:05,639 still need a hard drive because we don't have one and a graphics card 112 00:08:01,979 --> 00:08:07,639 upgrade this nvs 510 is a lower end 113 00:08:05,639 --> 00:08:15,120 NVIDIA Quadro that's designed more for CAD or CGI work than playing video games 114 00:08:11,400 --> 00:08:18,599 to be clear it can play games OverWatch 115 00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:20,520 and CS go ran at 1080p low settings well 116 00:08:18,599 --> 00:08:25,199 I shouldn't say ran but they definitely walked and bumping the resolution down 117 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:33,240 to 720p actually gave us better frame rates than the OG 69 PC that's thanks to 118 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:34,800 our much faster CPU but in rocket League 119 00:08:33,240 --> 00:08:42,360 a game that might as well be running directly off the GPU our precious z420 120 00:08:38,219 --> 00:08:45,000 here gets wallet we can't have that and 121 00:08:42,360 --> 00:08:49,860 unfortunately while it may not be 2021 anymore graphics card prices down at the 122 00:08:47,519 --> 00:08:55,740 very low end haven't actually dipped that much at least not yet we had wanted 123 00:08:52,980 --> 00:08:59,100 to pick up a 750 Ti to benefit from its more modern Maxwell architecture 124 00:08:57,240 --> 00:09:04,620 compared to the rest of the 700 series but every time we attempted to buy one 125 00:09:01,500 --> 00:09:05,880 on eBay the listing vaporized so we took 126 00:09:04,620 --> 00:09:10,080 our search local to avoid a later seasoned scrapyard War 127 00:09:08,339 --> 00:09:14,220 scenario where the seller recognizes us and gives us a deal we had our faceless 128 00:09:12,060 --> 00:09:20,160 probationary employee begin scouring local listings to find something legit 129 00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:22,800 we found this listing for an r9270x only 130 00:09:20,160 --> 00:09:27,720 30 Canada Federation tokens and it had been up for a month and got an update 131 00:09:25,380 --> 00:09:31,320 just over a week ago writer boy even talked him down to 25 loonies we were in 132 00:09:30,360 --> 00:09:35,100 luck until we weren't the luck was a pipe 133 00:09:33,420 --> 00:09:38,459 dream the seller told us he was out of town for a week and then we messaged him 134 00:09:36,540 --> 00:09:44,279 on the day he was supposed to return and he had already sold it somehow though we 135 00:09:40,680 --> 00:09:46,019 had missed a perfectly good GTX 760. 30 136 00:09:44,279 --> 00:09:51,600 Canadian and we weren't going to make the same mistake we did last time sent 137 00:09:47,880 --> 00:09:53,160 the email and picked it up hit me 138 00:09:51,600 --> 00:09:59,899 good throw conveniently our workstation already has 139 00:09:56,700 --> 00:10:03,500 the uh okay tool-less mechanism for 140 00:09:59,899 --> 00:10:03,500 installing the GPU 141 00:10:04,680 --> 00:10:10,920 one potential challenge you might run into is that this older power supply 142 00:10:08,279 --> 00:10:15,720 only has six pin PCI Express connectors and you might find some Modern gpus that 143 00:10:13,260 --> 00:10:21,120 have a single eight pin instead so we did need to use an adapter but many 144 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:24,600 8-pin gpus especially from this era actually did come with dual 6-pin 145 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:28,740 adapters so it's quite possible that it'll be included with your GPU not a 146 00:10:26,820 --> 00:10:33,480 bad little upgrade so after our conversion to Freedom bucks how much do 147 00:10:30,720 --> 00:10:37,980 we have left two dollars and seven cents hard drive for two dollars and seven 148 00:10:35,640 --> 00:10:40,980 cents capable of actually storing games at a speed faster than a turtle covered 149 00:10:39,779 --> 00:10:48,480 in molasses no problem check eBay on the one hand this one is 150 00:10:45,360 --> 00:10:50,820 two dollars and 250 gigabytes that'll 151 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:55,500 hold four Zone on the other it's a spinning disc and it's from 2008. that's 152 00:10:53,940 --> 00:11:01,380 going to be a big fat boatload of nope let's move on five bucks 250 gigs but 153 00:10:59,519 --> 00:11:07,740 still spinning discs and somehow this one is even older eight dollars maybe 154 00:11:03,920 --> 00:11:09,959 320 gigs Spinning Disk 2011 too slow too 155 00:11:07,740 --> 00:11:15,060 old okay forget eBay let's go back to the local listings how about Craigslist 156 00:11:12,660 --> 00:11:19,560 how are people selling these used drives for the same price as they cost brand 157 00:11:16,740 --> 00:11:25,980 new maybe Facebook Marketplace more expensive than new 158 00:11:22,320 --> 00:11:29,820 alright we'll head to Amazon I guess the 159 00:11:25,980 --> 00:11:32,220 adata su-635 240 gig that seems good 160 00:11:29,820 --> 00:11:38,279 enough but how do we actually fit it in our budget where do we get 21 from is it 161 00:11:35,579 --> 00:11:40,800 still a 69 PC if we have to do a special brownie bake sale in order to raise 162 00:11:39,779 --> 00:11:45,120 funds David seems like the kind of rule bending you 163 00:11:43,620 --> 00:11:48,720 would engage in oh yeah we've actually got behind the scenes 164 00:11:46,980 --> 00:11:52,019 brownie eating and more available on Floatplane.com by the way go check it 165 00:11:50,459 --> 00:11:57,899 out but wait we can't bake brownies but what we do 166 00:11:54,600 --> 00:12:00,200 have is this extra workstation GPU with 167 00:11:57,899 --> 00:12:05,640 two gigs of vram that is capable of running for displays what 168 00:12:03,779 --> 00:12:12,980 that worth on ebay the price of 19.92 that gives us 169 00:12:09,980 --> 00:12:12,980 21.99 170 00:12:13,040 --> 00:12:19,980 and there it is the final piece of the 171 00:12:16,800 --> 00:12:22,440 69 gaming PC okay doesn't exactly have 172 00:12:19,980 --> 00:12:26,279 an SSD mounting point but that's okay we don't really need that we're just gonna 173 00:12:24,420 --> 00:12:29,220 do that we don't really have any budget left for double-sided tape so we're just 174 00:12:28,140 --> 00:12:35,820 going to tuck that in there a little something like that oh gorgeous beautiful truth be told if we really 175 00:12:33,959 --> 00:12:40,019 tried to maximize our budget we probably could have gotten more like 30 bucks for 176 00:12:37,680 --> 00:12:46,019 our GPU and with that extra nine dollars an SSD with a dram cache like the adata 177 00:12:43,139 --> 00:12:49,800 Su 760 or maybe you could have picked up a lanyard from lttstore.com with our 178 00:12:48,060 --> 00:12:54,899 extra budget now the only question that remains is how does this thing perform 179 00:12:52,079 --> 00:12:58,260 now that we've got all the parts oh she goes 180 00:12:56,820 --> 00:13:03,660 okay oh uh Escape key for startup menu 181 00:13:01,500 --> 00:13:07,260 I mean I'm just curious right like do you wanna do you guys want to see the 182 00:13:05,339 --> 00:13:12,899 uvfi application device configuration our Drive shows up 183 00:13:10,019 --> 00:13:19,139 cool cool it's how to mode IDE uh 184 00:13:16,560 --> 00:13:25,980 that was default back then I guess so you can turn up the idle fan speed well 185 00:13:23,220 --> 00:13:28,980 there's really not a lot to change in here 186 00:13:27,360 --> 00:13:34,440 you can turn hyper threading on and off though wow me CS go okay this is gonna be 187 00:13:32,760 --> 00:13:39,540 awesome I'm stoked because we are definitely getting over 120 FPS on 120 188 00:13:37,980 --> 00:13:47,220 hertz monitor on a 70 freaking gaming computer this is 189 00:13:44,060 --> 00:13:48,600 absolutely playable how are there so 190 00:13:47,220 --> 00:13:53,399 many enemies what is happening here is this death match or something 191 00:13:50,279 --> 00:13:55,800 oh we're playing death dick did I set it 192 00:13:53,399 --> 00:14:00,320 to Deathmatch this isn't even just a little bit usable this is completely 193 00:13:58,200 --> 00:14:06,660 absolutely playable 130 140 170 FPS like 194 00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:13,740 like what oh I love it I'm being penalized for 195 00:14:09,839 --> 00:14:16,620 leaving my last match early wow this is 196 00:14:13,740 --> 00:14:20,639 what this is running great what is it controls the alt Z do you not 197 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:24,360 have GeForce experience on here if the point is just to see how it's performing 198 00:14:22,380 --> 00:14:27,860 it's very clear that this is running well enough for me to play the game 199 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:34,139 did I kill that guy I don't know what's happening here man I stepped in his 200 00:14:31,980 --> 00:14:39,720 gross blood where'd she go it's a turret 201 00:14:37,139 --> 00:14:44,360 I don't know how to play this game wait is this set to high this is running 202 00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:47,279 awesome yeah 203 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:53,399 just happened I died but that's okay because damn it I died 204 00:14:49,800 --> 00:14:57,000 in style look at this 90 100 FPS we were 205 00:14:53,399 --> 00:14:59,339 running at high 1080p uh okay dip down 206 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:04,500 to like 80 there for a bit still though come on if I'm getting kills in 207 00:15:01,680 --> 00:15:11,639 OverWatch it's a good computer okay because I do not know how to play this 208 00:15:06,839 --> 00:15:13,320 game for crap did I get him I got him 209 00:15:11,639 --> 00:15:19,139 this is pretty look at all good awesome we managed up to Triple the frame rates 210 00:15:16,199 --> 00:15:23,820 compared to our last 69 PC in some cases even being able to crank the settings in 211 00:15:21,839 --> 00:15:28,740 some of these games while still getting comfortable frame rates it can even run 212 00:15:26,279 --> 00:15:34,800 shadow of the Tomb Raider and almost play it stably clocking an average of 30 213 00:15:31,199 --> 00:15:38,940 FPS I think with a slightly better GPU 214 00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:40,740 recent AAA games could be in reach maybe 215 00:15:38,940 --> 00:15:45,000 one that's still getting driver updates rather than just security fixes for 216 00:15:42,720 --> 00:15:49,860 example that would also be a big help running newer games that require DirectX 217 00:15:47,220 --> 00:15:54,540 12 or more than 2 gigabytes of vram titles like Tiny Tina's wonderlands or 218 00:15:52,079 --> 00:15:58,560 Elden ring won't run at all out of the box though there may be some workarounds 219 00:15:56,880 --> 00:16:02,220 available like this hack of Elden ring that lets you run it in offline mode it 220 00:16:00,480 --> 00:16:05,639 actually runs pretty well for a game that costs nearly as much as the 221 00:16:03,899 --> 00:16:10,560 hardware it's running on it might be 720p on low settings but it's only 222 00:16:08,100 --> 00:16:14,639 stuttering occasionally certainly not a bad enough experience to justify such a 223 00:16:12,480 --> 00:16:17,839 quick death on such an early level maybe this section is just less demanding but 224 00:16:16,860 --> 00:16:24,300 hey this entire gaming rig costs the same as 225 00:16:21,300 --> 00:16:26,399 the LTT screwdriver at lttstore.com I'd 226 00:16:24,300 --> 00:16:31,079 say the fact that it can open Eldon ring at all is pretty freaking impressive 227 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:35,160 so everything's said and done with a little bit of patience it's clear that 228 00:16:33,120 --> 00:16:40,199 getting a modestly competent gaming PC for under 70 US dollars is completely 229 00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:44,220 within the realm of possibility it's not going to play the latest AAA games at 230 00:16:41,759 --> 00:16:50,220 ultra settings but what it will do is get you up and running in Comedy Sports 231 00:16:46,019 --> 00:16:51,899 titles at 1080P and even at high frame 232 00:16:50,220 --> 00:16:56,940 rates that will allow you to be competitive go check out our last 69 PC 233 00:16:55,019 --> 00:17:00,120 build if you haven't already and hit subscribe so you are in the know right 234 00:16:59,100 --> 00:17:04,140 away when we upgrade this bad boy because yes 235 00:17:02,399 --> 00:17:07,220 we are definitely going to do that again to push it to the Limit