Gadgetory

hey guys Austin and today I'm here with the photon 2.0 so for $5.00 this should be a pretty solid computer but first we have to put it together so $500 is an interesting sweet spot you're getting a system that's going to be a lot more powerful than one of the ultra budget rigs well still not being that much more expensive than something like a console for the case we have the thermal take versa h15 I actually really like this chassis so not only is going to be fairly affordable which is definitely appreciated on a build like this but you're really not losing a lot so we have USB three we have a full 120 millimeter fan around back now importantly especially if this is your first computer build there's plenty of room inside so it should be fairly easy to work on cable management and height and not be quite so clean and we'll see in a few minutes but this should be a great chassis to start with powering the photon 2.0 is this 500 watt EVGA power supply this is actually a little bit overkill for what we need right now however with that 500 watts of capacity that means that you have a little bit of extra capacity if you want to do some upgrades which is always nice and it's still an 80 plus certified supply which means that now is it efficient that also should be fairly well quality eyes for the motherboard we have a gigabyte h1 10ma now this is a fairly basic motherboard to be fair however the most important thing is is that you have a lot of future expandability options so while you can rock this guy for now which makes the photon a great system for today over this will support a core i5 core i7 we can pump up the memory there's a lot that we can do this is a great starting point powering the system is an Intel Core i3 6100 now I'm actually a pretty good Vanacore I freeze for gaming builds so especially on the budget side while you can go AMD I like the i3 for the expandability options so here we have 3.7 gigahertz a raw dual core hyper threaded fury honestly this is actually fine for pretty much any game out there with that hyper threading it allows it to act like a quad-core processor so most any game should run fine on the core i3 and we're getting it like 100 bucks so it's hard to complain remembering we have a gigabytes of Crucial Ballistix sport ram now I like this for a couple reasons first of all eight gigs of DDR 4 clocked at 2400 megahertz is totally fine for anything we want to do today and amazingly enough it's also ready for upgrades so because this is a sink them that means that we have a full extra slot here if you want to ever upgrade so for example if you want to bump this up to 16 gigabytes it's super easy powering everything is the new EVGA geforce gtx 1060 graphics card now this thing is no joke especially when you consider this is a 500 allah gaming computer build we're here spending most of our budget on the card however that's a good thing graphics cards are easily one of the most important parts of a gaming computer so this is a three gigabyte version of the card however it's still going to be powerful enough to handle literally any game out there so around back you have up to five display outs so if you want to go multi monitor crazy you can so you might not want to game on five monitors at once and it also shares a lot of DNA with its bigger brothers the 1070 and the 1080 all in all a great card for the builds rounding things out we have a one terabyte Western Digital blue hard drive now I've used these and a ton of gaming PC built in the past they're rock solid reliable while they might not be the fastest things in the world if you don't want to go full SSD and this is gonna be a lot cheaper than that this is gonna be completely fine however as always I feel like I've said this like a million times with this build it's very simple to use an SSD on top of this to get nine of the capacity but also the speed however for now we're just rocking the blue alright so the photon 2.0 is done however now comes the fun part how does it actually perform get into a game like GTA 5 and you'll see we're easily capable of running on very high settings at 1080p with a solid 60 FPS this is a great example of getting better than console graphics and a rock-solid frame rate moving on to a title which has been a staple of my testing for a while we have Middle Earth shadow of Mordor here again we're easily able to play on Ultra settings at 1080p at well over 60 frames this is a title you could probably bump up to 1440p and still be fine getting into a DirectX 12 game we have ashes of the singularity this is a much more demanding title that especially taxes the CPU but even here we're able to play on extreme settings at 1080p with around 38 fps as always all the links you guys need to build this will be in the description as well as a full tutorial on how to put together a gaming computer and you also may want to stay tuned to the channel may or may not be a giveaway going on pretty soon catch you 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