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hey guys this is Austin today we're going to find out how not to buy yourself a gaming PC after years of doing custom builds I have one question is it possible to get a decent gaming PC from a big-box store this is an area we've checked out before a few months ago we picked up a $750 pre-built system from CyberPower that actually wasn't bad but this time we wanted to step up the challenge what would happen when we walk into his store with $600 and ask to see what they have um so I'm kind of looking for a light gaming PC for around 600 this is Ken he usually lives behind the camera but today he has a mission immediately the salesman offers him a $750 CyberPower PC you know the one we just did a video on and definitely not inside the saxena dollar budget soon however another option comes up I'll point terabyte of hard drive getting at four point six out of nine hundred and twenty four reviews oh that's that's really good people must really like it what'd it do it I can price met two weeks ago okay going for four forty nine oh wow okay would you mind if I called my dad first cool dad AMD FX forty three hundred eight gigs of RAM one terabyte 7200 rpm hard drive Rx for 6450 dad doesn't approve okay let's uh I guess we'll keep looking then perceive you as my real dad he'd get me in GT X 1080 TI do you want anything one Starbucks excursion later ken was on to another big box PC store where the halls were filled with promise well if you looked hard enough at least really oh yeah I'd imagine yeah let me actually call my dad first core i3 6100 t eight gigs of RAM one terabyte hard drive gtx 750ti yeah for 449 that's what I thought are there any other alternatives alright 480 before gigs and they also have a soft state hard drive this is a great good machine but yeah so originally was 700 and I think he's gonna take off like 30 40 bucks cuz it's a floor model so the graphics card is basically worth more than half of the price of this computer I'm like it's actually not a pet to you alright that actually does look bad so HP Pavilion is a quite fine sticker yeah what's the deal so this is an HP Pavilion something something something something great really long name it has a core i5 our X 480 480 ok 8 gigabytes of RAM alright it has a 1 terabyte hard drive with a 100 gig m2 SSD okay yeah so how much was this it was 664 that seems like a pretty good deal so you said it's a 480 it's a core i5 is that skylake is that KB Lake 3400 so it's kind like okay so it's a little bit of an older system like a 2016 why did you get a floor unit because this was the only one that they had left because everyone apparently that was my case for yeah everyone I was looking for those cards just swiped the computers for the cards probably just sold everything else this is very small 480 it also has new branding on it so I wonder who actually made the card 300 bucks what's in 80 plus bronze unit 300 Watts actually is that's really low for a 480 I bet it'd probably just barely works I'll do there's a card reader and USBC up front well USB yeah right there oh wow I did not even see that Wow like 660 bucks this seems like a pretty good deal I mean you've got Wi-Fi you've got an SSD you've got a solid graphics card congratulations you successfully defeated the the big box stores but I actually want to see what we can actually do at this I been session gonna be pretty good at gaming first test will be rocket League and uh good feeling about this so right now yeah we're 120 frames per second on high at 1080 so what were you expecting when you ended about a + or sorry mmm random PC part retailer what were you actually expecting to get scammed next we have dirt for now this is another game that's fairly new that I think the 480 should be able to handle pretty well um when you look at a system like this for about like 650 bucks what you're getting here something that you really should be able to play at 1080 on high with most games to be fair all those stores that we visited had options that were just really overpriced that were basically like that like we're talking $1000 for like a 10 60 and you obviously want to avoid that kind of stuff right I think the mid-range is probably a little more of the sweet spot of when you're buying something that's pre-built it can actually sometimes make a little bit a sense as I go flying off so next we have battlegrounds and cents ken is way better at this game than I am once you take it away yeah what God what settings can actually play on let's find out cuz backgrounds I know it's been getting better with optimization but it still does not well no it'sit's pretty awful unlike a lot of systems well it's defaulting to 1080 high that's not bad I mean we could see how it plays first a little bit loud but then again I mean it's a fairly powerful graphics card and what is not a super well ventilated case so yeah this is actually running really well though again 1080p high we're getting 50 and 60 frames which on pub G I think is actually not bad not crazy okay all right so Ken what is your conclusion here with this whole experience of trying to actually get a decent pre-built ganky see the deals exist keep your eyes peeled that's really what it comes down to such great advice just pay attention and life will be okay hey look there are a lot of people that will egg on you for getting a prebuilt PC when sometimes maybe it is the better deal this is a good deal look you did a good job I know you had to shop around a little bit you had to argue with some salespeople but you're able to get a system that honestly is a better deal than what you actually could get on your own so I mean the numbers on this and if you tried to build this system today I mind you to be a little bit nicer with a KB like I 5 and rx 580 but it's gonna cost you about 870 dollars now mind you that 580 is way overinflated in price right but even once you cut that down you hear some stuff like the DVD drive and the Wi-Fi you're still looking at something that's going to cost you over $700 which is more than what you paid for this so what do you guys think about how can date with the pre-built gaming PC honestly I think you actually did a lot better than I was expecting so thanks dad anyway let us know what you think in the comments below and we will catch you in the next one oh maybe I'll catch you in the next one ken will probably behind the camera like usual but you know the way it should be [Laughter]