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want to build yourself an awesome gaming PC for five hundred dollars say hello to the photon hey guys this is Austin and today I'm here with my latest build the photon with a budget of $500 you're looking at a PC that can handle games at 1080p without breaking a sweat run it through the 3d market firestrike benchmark which is a good general test of a gaming PC's performance and here the photon stacks up nicely against some of my other builds take a look at battlefield 4 and we've got a solid 48 frames per second running on high at 1080p jump over to Metro last light a game that's not only fun but also incredibly demanding and here we're able to run things on normal at 46 FPS with BioShock Infinite things can be bumped up to very high settings and still get a nice and smooth 54 frames per second if you like racing games grid 2 is a fun choice and the photon handles it nicely on Ultra at 43 FPS and because I know you guys are going to ask I did try running watchdogs on the photon so I was able to get running decently on medium settings at 1080p our are seeing some pretty decent stuttering which unfortunately have seen on basically all versions of the PC right now so for more in-depth benchmarking gonna wait until wheelies see some patches or some driver updates to kind of address that but it is playable on the photon now let's take a closer look at all the parts that make up the photon starting with the case which is the new Corsair spec oh one this is a full sized ATX chassis with a big window along with the front LED fan as a corsair case it's nice and easy to work in and about the only thing I wish it had was a second exhaust fan but that's an easy enough upgrade for the processor the photon is using an AMD athlon x4 760 K it delivers a quad core design clocked at up to four point one gigahertz which is a good fit for 1080p gaming I have lost track of how many budget gaming PC's I've built using at Long's as their rock-solid CPUs they can even be overclocked on the graphics side we've got a Sapphire Radeon r7 260x this is a great card with support for things like AMD's mantle and trueaudio along with two gigabytes of memory which is getting more and more important these days take a look at the motherboard and we've got an MSI a 78 M II 35 this is another one I go to choices that accepts up to 16 gigabytes of RAM has both USB 3.0 and SATA 3 along the support for Kaveri for storage we've got what in my opinion is the best hard drive for a gaming PC build the Western Digital caviar black with one terabyte of capacity this is the next best thing to an SSD and it's going to cost you a lot less on the memory side the photon uses 8 gigabytes of Crucial Ballistix sport ram clocked at 1600 megahertz this is great stuff for gaming and since it comes in a single dam you can always add another to bump up memory to 60 gigabytes later on I feel like a broken record here is I've only used these things a million times before but for the power supply we have the corsair CX 430 these are a great choice there now I'm going to be reliable and efficient but they also give you plenty of power to handle the system as is as well as with some additional upgrades later on put it all together and the photon is a killer gaming PC that doesn't break the bank even though the photon is around $500 as of recording this video things change all the time so we'll have up-to-date links of everything I talked about in the description of this video over on my website so definitely go check that out anyway huge shout out to Hulu Plus for making this video possible you've probably tried Hulu on your computer but Hulu Plus is so much more with Hulu Plus you can watch current season episodes of your favorite shows like The Colbert Report shark tank and Family Guy along with every episode of shows like Naruto South Park and Doctor Who another show I've been really enjoying is cosmos and you guys can find the entire season over on Hulu Plus for only $7.99 a month you can get your shows anytime anywhere considering this like a quarter a day it is so worth it just go to Hulu Plus calm slash Austin and you'll be able to try it out for free for two weeks and help support the channel again that's Hulu Plus comm slash Austin so definitely go check it out and start streaming TV today anyway guys thank you so much for watching and I will catch you in the next one