Teaser Video for NCIX "Good Enough Gaming PC" Round 2 Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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so this is an exciting time I've actually had any number of people
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request a new yes I got a copy of Vegas
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I will no longer be using Windows Live Movie Maker cameraman finds that very
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amusing evidently okay I am going to be doing a remake of the good enough gaming
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system which uh This original video was released on the ncixcom channel in
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standard de got about $100,000 views in
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on August 23rd 2007 the dates to your
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left there yeah okay so I have gotten a
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ton of requests to redo this with more Modern
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Hardware so I've actually decided not
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only to do that but also to kick things up a notch and I'm going to be doing two
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systems so I'm going to do one with my original good enough gaming goal which
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was a $600 system so let's walk you through what I'm going to be using for
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that this is all stuff that I've shopped for on the NC site in our weekly special
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this week so no guarantees you'll find exactly this deal but there are no no
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that's there for a reason what are you what what you doing that's there for a
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reason okay um so uh now I've completely lost my
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train of thought right so you usually find deals of this caliber although you
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might not find exactly the same one so the first thing I've got here for my good enough gaming system is a core I3
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2100 processor with a Gigabyte h61 motherboard I I went Super Value lowend
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on the motherboard and for the processor I've gone with a dual core because the
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reality of it is most of the games out there are still going to run just fine
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on a dual core I went with 4 gigs of RAM because for $39.99 minus a $5 Mir how
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can you say no the GTX 461 gig
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especially with an additional 25 bucks off with a mail-in rebate and a free
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copy of hawks 2 and a free NCIX $10 gift
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card that comes with it is a smoking good deal so that works out to just
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under 150 bucks for a great gaming graphics card the 300 at 5299 minus a 20
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Mir is a well ventilated gaming chassis
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it's pretty you know basic but it is what it is we're trying to hit a price
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point here I do not have enough budget for an SSD so I've gone with a $40
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Western Digital Caviar blue 500 gig I did not go with a green even though
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they're cheap because green drives are not really suitable for OS drive use I
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have a DVD Rider I've gone with Windows 7 Home Premium and a true power new 650
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wat power supply normally this would not fit in my budget for a $600 machine but
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it has a $30 Mir on it so down here at the bottom I can see that my cart total
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is $693 192 I have $80 in MIRS and I have a
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$10 ncx gift card that comes with that
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uh that MSI graphics card so I basically treat that as cash so I went just over
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my $600 Target and if you know someone if you already have a copy of Windows 7
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then you can save yourself a 100 bucks there it becomes A5 $500 gaming machine
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now for comparison I want to take this
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value gaming machine and put it up against what you can build for about
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1,000 bucks so here we've got an i5 2500k so we've gone from a dual core to
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a quad core processor we've gone from a cheapo h61 board to a p67 board that is
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SLI ready Crossfire ready and capable of overclocking we've gone from 4 gigs to 8
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gigs of RAM we've gone all the way up to a GTX 570 OC
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we've upgraded the chassis because most people you see spending 1,000 bucks on a
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gaming system are going to be buying a decent chassis the 932 is definitely a
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very decent chassis especially for after a $20 Mir around 100 bucks we've gone
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with the same power supply because it's such a good deal for $39.99 the true
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power 650 is just a ridiculous deal so uh it's fully capable of supporting that
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GTX 570 so that's what I'll be doing I can afford an SSD on this machine so I'm
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going with an ocz vertex 2 60 gig and then I'm going to go with a Caviar Green
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for storage because you can cheap out on the drive because it's just for storage
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green is fine for that finally I've got a DVD riter same as the other one in
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Windows Home 7 Windows 7 Home Premium for 100 bucks and so my total minus $110
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of Mir comes to about 1253 minus 110
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minus another 10 bucks so uh just over
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$1,100 so what I'm going to do is I'm going to build both of these machines
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for you guys and I'm going to compare our good enough gaming machine to what
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you would get if you spend just under twice as much don't forget to subscribe
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