a portion of this video is sponsored by IBM with inflation running rampant
PC gaming has gotten out of reach for
millions of people around the world or has it it's been four years since we
built our last hyper budget 69 gaming PC
and I think you guys are going to be shocked by what we were able to achieve
with some Savvy shopping and a little bit of patience we're talking quad core
CPU 16 gigs of RAM and enough GPU
horsepower to play the latest Esports titles with your friends and yes no joke
for the grand total price of just 69 US
dollars sounds great let's build it what are we
waiting for this message from our sponsor thanks to
IBM for sponsoring a portion of this video IBM believes what business needs
most to drive progress in this next era is creativity Yes you heard that
correctly creativity I'm not talking about creativity in a traditional sense
of artists and musicians now I'm talking about the developers the data scientists
The Visionaries who are creatively applying technology in business to drive
change IBM calls them new creators and you can learn more about them later in
this video thanks IBM for sponsoring that portion of the video the 69 we
spent last time around is more like 82 dollars today so by sticking to the same
dollar value we're going to be working with a lower overall budget than the
Dell based machine that I built with Riley back in 2018. the good news is
that consumer electronics continue to be a terrible investment meaning that that
380 tower that we used last time fared
even worse than the cash stuffed in our mattresses that means we can do better
me neat the z420 it's a 2012 workstation
from HP that for its time was Blazing
fast in that considering our budget still blazes to this day it was
primarily marketed to Industries like VFX that require fatty processors to
optimize their render times which is why its Hardware is fit more for a server
than the desk of an office worker it's got an Intel Xeon Processor up to eight
sticks of error correcting DDR3 memory and typically an NVIDIA Quadro or AMD
fire Pro GPU let's take a closer look at
it well this is yeah this is definitely feeling pretty 10 years old though to
their credit that is that is damn clean
for 10 years of dust buildup there's a lot to talk about in here you won't find
support for modern features like m.2 and vme drives or multi-gigabit Lan but what
it does have is standard PCI Express gen
3 slots so you could bloat it up with any kinds of expansion cards that you
would want it supports a whopping 10 drives with these SATA ports down here
it's got USB 3 both in the front and in the back and this look at this this is a
20 pin ATX connector I think wait is it
even 20 hell is this 18 pin motherboard power
with what appears to be a more standard EPS connector in the top
HP why you gotta be like that
just use a 24-pin connector like everyone else this cooler is pretty
funny it uses three heat pipes and an aluminum fin stack but normally you
would just bend the heat pipes in a u and you would put the fence tack right
on top of the socket I don't know why they did it this way and this is cool
they've actually got this little memory
cooler that Clips on on top of your RAM slots
assuming I can actually hello oh this is
cute Angela B Signs the back of it what's up Angie
I guess this was your worst station there it goes
cheese okay there you go got a total of two sticks of RAM in here four would
have been optimal given that the CPU has a quad Channel memory controller but
budgetary constraints conspicuously absent is a hard drive this was probably
shredded due to the data security policies of whatever organization this
machine came from there's a 600 watt power supply
pretty decent nothing about 80 plus or
anything about efficiency anywhere and it doesn't seem to be standard ATX so
thanks HP I guess here's a benefit to their proprietary nonsense though this
seems to be a 92 millimeter fan blowing directly through the power supply it
kind of reminds me of antec's attempted CPX form factor power supplies
probably a pretty efficient way to cool it honestly the power supply and maybe
the RAM are probably the best cooled parts of this computer looks like the
entire rest of the chassis gets a single 92 millimeter fan here at the back and
there's nothing in the side panel that oh my god did you put this here nope
that was there when we got it this was already here
I love it this says November 22 22 wait
November 2022 what year is it 2023 yeah
oh yeah so what is this from the future dude it's from the future haha the RAM
is installed wrong convenient little diagram here showing you which order to
populate the slots in it doesn't really matter though it'll still be operating
in dual Channel mode so if it works it works it's just to help improve
compatibility overall I am super impressed this is a ton of computer for
a few stems more than five Canadian dime bags which translates to 44.49 of real
American money leaving us with 25 and 20 cents remaining if you're inspired by
our thriftiness by the way and you want to purchase a unit like this for yourself don't be surprised if it takes
a little while to find one at the right price the availability of these most
chronic of workstations can be a little bit Boomer bust with nothing on the
market for months at a time and then a big office or a school upgrades flooding
the market and crashing prices for a week or two giving you perfect
opportunity to sneak in there and make your move it's also not the only
old models in the hpz line like the z440 620 820 Etc and Dell and Lenovo also
have similar workstations from this period that are worth watching out for like the Precision t3600 and the think
station s30 respectively if you know of anyone that uses these workstations
currently it also might be worth getting in touch with someone from their organization to see if they're planning
to upgrade soon with a little bit of luck you might even be able to convince
them to give you a heads up when the units are about to find their way out
the door and if you're a lottery winner lucky and build Good Rapport they might
even sell you one directly for a low price this is the kind of benign social
engineering that we don't often talk about on this channel but when you're
bargain hunting can be the difference between tens of dollars and hundreds of
dollars spent to achieve your goal on the topic of social engineering let's
talk about the sponsor for this portion of the video this portion of the video
was sponsored by IBM as mentioned up front the new creators are The
Visionaries creatively applying technology in business to drive change a
line of speed group we're always trying to find ways to further our business and
craft through creativity much like the new creators and one of the new creators
that we resonate the most with is Stephanie Crothers the chief people hacker for X-Force red team at IBM she's
responsible for overseeing a global team of hackers hired to break into
organizations and uncover risky vulnerabilities that attackers may use
for personal gain Stephanie pokes and prods organizations for security gaps
through social engineering the most fun kind of engineering she's driven by her
Natural Curiosity and it's why she's always asking how can I take this step
further how can I test them and we here at LMG relate to her approach because
there's not a day that goes by where we don't think how can we design or
engineer a better reaction if you want to learn more check out IBM's YouTube
channel or new creators homepage at the links below thanks IBM for sponsoring
that portion of the video there's 25 left in our Coffer and two parts we
still need a hard drive because we don't have one and a graphics card
upgrade this nvs 510 is a lower end
NVIDIA Quadro that's designed more for CAD or CGI work than playing video games
to be clear it can play games OverWatch
and CS go ran at 1080p low settings well
I shouldn't say ran but they definitely walked and bumping the resolution down
to 720p actually gave us better frame rates than the OG 69 PC that's thanks to
our much faster CPU but in rocket League
a game that might as well be running directly off the GPU our precious z420
here gets wallet we can't have that and
unfortunately while it may not be 2021 anymore graphics card prices down at the
very low end haven't actually dipped that much at least not yet we had wanted
to pick up a 750 Ti to benefit from its more modern Maxwell architecture
compared to the rest of the 700 series but every time we attempted to buy one
on eBay the listing vaporized so we took
our search local to avoid a later seasoned scrapyard War
scenario where the seller recognizes us and gives us a deal we had our faceless
probationary employee begin scouring local listings to find something legit
we found this listing for an r9270x only
30 Canada Federation tokens and it had been up for a month and got an update
just over a week ago writer boy even talked him down to 25 loonies we were in
luck until we weren't the luck was a pipe
dream the seller told us he was out of town for a week and then we messaged him
on the day he was supposed to return and he had already sold it somehow though we
had missed a perfectly good GTX 760. 30
Canadian and we weren't going to make the same mistake we did last time sent
the email and picked it up hit me
good throw conveniently our workstation already has
the uh okay tool-less mechanism for
installing the GPU
one potential challenge you might run into is that this older power supply
only has six pin PCI Express connectors and you might find some Modern gpus that
have a single eight pin instead so we did need to use an adapter but many
8-pin gpus especially from this era actually did come with dual 6-pin
adapters so it's quite possible that it'll be included with your GPU not a
bad little upgrade so after our conversion to Freedom bucks how much do
we have left two dollars and seven cents hard drive for two dollars and seven
cents capable of actually storing games at a speed faster than a turtle covered
in molasses no problem check eBay on the one hand this one is
two dollars and 250 gigabytes that'll
hold four Zone on the other it's a spinning disc and it's from 2008. that's
going to be a big fat boatload of nope let's move on five bucks 250 gigs but
still spinning discs and somehow this one is even older eight dollars maybe
320 gigs Spinning Disk 2011 too slow too
old okay forget eBay let's go back to the local listings how about Craigslist
how are people selling these used drives for the same price as they cost brand
new maybe Facebook Marketplace more expensive than new
alright we'll head to Amazon I guess the
adata su-635 240 gig that seems good
enough but how do we actually fit it in our budget where do we get 21 from is it
still a 69 PC if we have to do a special brownie bake sale in order to raise
funds David seems like the kind of rule bending you
would engage in oh yeah we've actually got behind the scenes
brownie eating and more available on Floatplane.com by the way go check it
out but wait we can't bake brownies but what we do
have is this extra workstation GPU with
two gigs of vram that is capable of running for displays what
that worth on ebay the price of 19.92 that gives us
21.99
and there it is the final piece of the
69 gaming PC okay doesn't exactly have
an SSD mounting point but that's okay we don't really need that we're just gonna
do that we don't really have any budget left for double-sided tape so we're just
going to tuck that in there a little something like that oh gorgeous beautiful truth be told if we really
tried to maximize our budget we probably could have gotten more like 30 bucks for
our GPU and with that extra nine dollars an SSD with a dram cache like the adata
Su 760 or maybe you could have picked up a lanyard from lttstore.com with our
extra budget now the only question that remains is how does this thing perform
now that we've got all the parts oh she goes
okay oh uh Escape key for startup menu
I mean I'm just curious right like do you wanna do you guys want to see the
uvfi application device configuration our Drive shows up
cool cool it's how to mode IDE uh
that was default back then I guess so you can turn up the idle fan speed well
there's really not a lot to change in here
you can turn hyper threading on and off though wow me CS go okay this is gonna be
awesome I'm stoked because we are definitely getting over 120 FPS on 120
hertz monitor on a 70 freaking gaming computer this is
absolutely playable how are there so
many enemies what is happening here is this death match or something
oh we're playing death dick did I set it
to Deathmatch this isn't even just a little bit usable this is completely
absolutely playable 130 140 170 FPS like
like what oh I love it I'm being penalized for
leaving my last match early wow this is
what this is running great what is it controls the alt Z do you not
have GeForce experience on here if the point is just to see how it's performing
it's very clear that this is running well enough for me to play the game
did I kill that guy I don't know what's happening here man I stepped in his
gross blood where'd she go it's a turret
I don't know how to play this game wait is this set to high this is running
awesome yeah
just happened I died but that's okay because damn it I died
in style look at this 90 100 FPS we were
running at high 1080p uh okay dip down
to like 80 there for a bit still though come on if I'm getting kills in
OverWatch it's a good computer okay because I do not know how to play this
game for crap did I get him I got him
this is pretty look at all good awesome we managed up to Triple the frame rates
compared to our last 69 PC in some cases even being able to crank the settings in
some of these games while still getting comfortable frame rates it can even run
shadow of the Tomb Raider and almost play it stably clocking an average of 30
FPS I think with a slightly better GPU
recent AAA games could be in reach maybe
one that's still getting driver updates rather than just security fixes for
example that would also be a big help running newer games that require DirectX
12 or more than 2 gigabytes of vram titles like Tiny Tina's wonderlands or
Elden ring won't run at all out of the box though there may be some workarounds
available like this hack of Elden ring that lets you run it in offline mode it
actually runs pretty well for a game that costs nearly as much as the
hardware it's running on it might be 720p on low settings but it's only
stuttering occasionally certainly not a bad enough experience to justify such a
quick death on such an early level maybe this section is just less demanding but
hey this entire gaming rig costs the same as
the LTT screwdriver at lttstore.com I'd
say the fact that it can open Eldon ring at all is pretty freaking impressive
so everything's said and done with a little bit of patience it's clear that
getting a modestly competent gaming PC for under 70 US dollars is completely
within the realm of possibility it's not going to play the latest AAA games at
ultra settings but what it will do is get you up and running in Comedy Sports
titles at 1080P and even at high frame
rates that will allow you to be competitive go check out our last 69 PC
build if you haven't already and hit subscribe so you are in the know right
away when we upgrade this bad boy because yes
we are definitely going to do that again to push it to the Limit