Gadgetory

hey guys this is Austin and today I'm here with had brand new gaming PC for five hundred dollars so the last time I did this bill was back in July of last year well that was an awesome build at the time there have been a lot of new parts that have come out and a lot of cool things that we can upgrade to make this even better to give you guys an idea of the performance obviously I can't test every single game ever on this I chose a few games that are very graphically intensive and tried them on the 500 all PC to see how they ran to start with we have battlefield 3 with the resolution set to 1920 by 1080 in the campaign I was able to use ultra settings with the anti-aliasing off and in multiplayer high settings worked for very well far cry 3 also works very well here again with the resolution set to 1080p I found that high settings were the sweet spot here as it was easily able to stay well above 30 frames per second next up we have Crysis 3 which is one of the best-looking PC games ever for this one we had to turn this things down to medium however do keep in mind that even computers that cost twice as much as this can sometimes struggle to write it on high to kick the build off we're going to be using an Intel Core i3 3220 now I recently did a comparison between the core i3 and a pair of AMD CPUs and this was the clear winner making it a good fit for this budget PC so this is a quad core processor clocked at 3.30 Hertz however it does have Intel hyper-threading which allows Windows to see it as a quad core CPU and a lot of games will I should be able to leverage that to run even faster for about $130 this is a great fit for our build for a motherboard we wouldn't be using an MSI b75 m AP 45 now the reason I like this board is it comes with a lot of features that you need and nothing you don't so for example it does have a SATA 3 port which means that if you ever want to upgrade to an SSD it's very simple and it also has cool things such as USB 3.0 support another very nice thing about this motherboard is that if you ever would like to upgrade you can ditch your core i3 and grab a Core i5 or Core i7 and it will work without a problem all for about $65 for a graphics card we won't be using an EVGA GeForce GTX 650 Ti now this is a fantastic mid-range card which of course like I was saying earlier will be able to play games such as Crysis 3 and battlefield 3 and basically anything else you throw at it now it does support one gigabyte of gddr5 memory there is a two gigabyte version of this card however I find that to be just a little overpriced so said to stick with the one can go by version for this one it is also very overclockable so you get some extra performance and with support for up to three monitors it's a very solid card for about one hundred and fifty dollars for memory we're going to be using four gigabytes of Corsair Vengeance Ram now this is assault stuff that I use in my own build as its call it at 1600 megahertz that's about the sweet spot for an Ivy Bridge based system like this now I will be the first to admit that four gigabytes isn't a ton of RAM so I do recommend that when you can you can upgrade this and because this motherboard has four dimm slots if you'd like you can bring this all the way up to 16 gigabytes of RAM however if you want just stick with the four gigabyte version which is what I did with this build is gonna run you about $25 for a hard drive one using a 500 gigabyte Western Digital caviar blue now this is pretty much the only hard drive I ever use in my budget PC builds and there's a good reason for that for starters since it does have 500 gigabytes of capacity that's gonna be a lot of room for all your music your pictures your videos your games all that kind of stuff although I will mention that and I'll add another link in the description if you guys are interested there's also a one terabyte version of this drive if you want a little bit more storage on top of that since it is a 7200 rpm Drive it's gonna be relatively fast and it is very reliable I've used many of these over the years and never had any problems so all this for $60 makes it a saw a deal for a power supply we're going to be using over 430 watt Corsair CX 430 now this is a great little power supply that is not only reliable but it's also efficient with an 80 plus bronze certification now 430 watts is overkill for the system as it pulls something more like 150 watts when you're actually gaming however having extra overhead is not a bad thing at all this allows you to if you'd ever like to add additional hard drives fans lights all that kind of stuff to your computer without any problems all for about $40 for the case we're going to be using an NZXT source 220 now i've recently been using a lot of NZXT cases in my build and I've guessed they have been very impressed so the source 220 gives you a full ATX sized enclosure which means that you have plenty room for expansion for your hard drives pretty much anything you can think of to throw in there it should fit now it does have a couple of additional features including a an extra 140 millimeter fan over the previous version as well as USB 3.0 support on the front panel so all this for about 50 dollars makes it a fantastic case so there you guys go an awesome $500 gaming PC now do keep in mind that prices are always changing so I'll have links to everything I mentioned in the description of this video and on top of that I'll also add some additional upgrades so for example if you want to connect to Wi-Fi you want to add a DVD drive a bigger hard drive Windows 8 whatever you want to do well the tunnel links in the description of this video so be sure to check them out if you guys are interested more feel free to check out some of my other pc builds including the $350 build that I did last month if you enjoyed definitely be sure to leave this video a thumbs up and if you're interested in more videos like this be sure to subscribe anyway guys I will catch you next time