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Axion $400 Gaming PC Build - March 2015

2015-03-24
PC gaming has never been more popular and the IC on is a great way to get into it for $400 you can get a computer that can handle most any PC game out there while still being easy to upgrade at the heart of the acción is an intel pentium g 32:58 this is not your old school Pentium on paper it's an ordinary 3.2 gigahertz dual-core Haswell processor but there's one big advantage the ability to overclock as you'll see later even without overclocking the Pentium is a solid choice but crank it to 4 gigahertz or higher and this will give much more expensive CPUs a run for their money on the graphics side we've got an MSI r7 250x for well under $100 this is a solid graphics card with 1 gigabyte of gddr5 memory along with DVI HDMI and a DisplayPort that supports 4k monitors don't expect Crysis crushing performance here but it should easily be able to handle most games on medium at 1080p for a motherboard the acción is using an msi h 81 m ii 34 it supports overclocking our Pentium right out of the box along with USB 3.0 and 4 SATA ports for hard drives SSDs and optical drives memory is handled by a gigabytes of Crucial Ballistix sport this is a single 1600 megahertz module which is important as it leaves a free slot on the motherboard if you want to upgrade to 16 gigabytes of RAM later on the acción uses a one terabyte Western Digital blue hard drive I've used a lot of these in PC builds and they've always been rock-solid they're decently fast for the 7200 rpm spindle speed and one terabyte should be enough to store plenty of games for the power supply we've got a corsair CX 430 like the WD blue the CX 430 is one of my favorite parts for budget builds with 430 watts of capacity and an 80 plus bronze certification to make sure the acción stays reliable and efficient tying the bill together is the new fractal design core 1100 this brings the same basic layout from the core 1000 including support for micro ATX motherboards a front 120 millimeter fan and a new front fascia put all these parts together and you've got the acción but let's see how it performs jump into League of Legends and you'll see it's absolutely no problem to run on max settings at 1080p and together it's the same story for Minecraft the exile keeps it right up against 120 FPS even with the graphics turned up getting into a more demanding title shadow of Mordor is playable on medium at 1080p at around 40 frames per second move over the Metro last light Redux and here you're getting a solid 49 FPS on medium prepare with the r7 250x you don't really have to overclock the Pentium to get solid performance but having the option can be a big help even from normal day to day use for $400 the acción is a solid gaming PC that can be easily upgraded later on of course you can customize it with things like a Wi-Fi adapter an optical drive and all the links you need in the description of this video if you enjoyed and want to see more PC builds like this definitely be sure to subscribe to the channel anyway guys thank you so much for watching and I will catch you in the next one
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