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Boson 2.0 $300 Gaming PC Build - January 2015

2015-01-30
there are a ton of advantages to building a gaming PC one of the drawbacks is that they're usually more expensive than a console that's where the boson 2.0 comes in at just three hundred dollars Meli are you getting a great first PC that's simple to build but it's also easily upgradeable later on the heart of the boson 2.0 is the AMD a6 7400 k a dual-core 3.9 gigahertz Kaveri apu with some solid built-in graphics there's also one a seuss a 78 m ii motherboard which has everything you need including a pci 3.0 slot which will come in handy later on even though this is a budget build we still got a full eight gigabytes of g.skill 1866 megahertz ram which is important to keep that apu fed we've also got a one terabyte Western Digital caviar blue hard drive to give you plenty of storage and a 450 watt Rosewill power supply this is included with the Roseville FB mo1 micro ATX case which is hard to beat for the money and wraps up the build nicely since we're working with one of AMD's Kaveri APU s we've got a few cool features like true audio and mantle support along with the easy ability to upgrade later on you can add a graphics card such as the r7 240 to take advantage of dual graphics or even go all out with something like a gtx 750ti you can also overclock the 7400 k if you'd like just don't expect huge gains on the stock cooler of course what's really important is how the computer actually performs jump into League of Legends and we're able to play at max settings at 1080p no problem minecraft is also totally playable 1080p although here you will want to turn down the render distance just a bit get into a more demanding game like red Autosport and you're looking at medium settings at 720p BioShock Infinite is also totally playable 720p and medium settings running all of this on an APU means power consumption isn't too bad either with low power peaking it's just under 100 watts the boson 2.0 is not about maxing out games at 4k but it is good at though is playing a lot of the most popular PC games out there for only $300 now as always I'll have links to everything you need in the description of this video if u want sneak peeks at future PC builds you
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