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hey guys this is Austin and this is the cheapest gaming PC we've ever built at just under $300 let's put this thing together and see how it actually performs and huge shot the last pass for sponsoring this video if you guys have watched the channel for a while you know that I've been using last past four years since way before they ever actually sponsored a video now LastPass really is the single spot that you can keep all of your passwords and allies safe but also secure so you just don't have to worry about them anymore with LastPass you never need to write down remember or reset another password they're all kept safe and secure and the LastPass vault and the best part is is that it will generate a unique and secure password for every single site you visit which is especially helpful if you're one of those people who uses the same password for every single site you use John LastPass will autofill your passwords across your computer as well as your phone where it works not only on 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and actually should give us enough performance for gaming I hope so it's a $55 processor himself backing it up we have a good bytes of Corsair Vengeance lpx Ram now it's important about this is that anytime you're using something with integrated graphics such as the Athlon 200 GE you want to give it as much memory bandwidth as possible which is why we're going with dual channel memory and while eight gigs isn't a ton especially for such a cheap system that's less than $300 it should be just fine everything is going inside the gigabyte a 320 M s2h there's a very cheap motherboard but importantly because we are based on the new horizon chipset where you have a lot of the higher-end features so not only will support our Athlon processor but you could go all the way up to something like a rise in 720 700 X if you ever want to upgrade although that might be a slightly ambitious upgrade but we do have support for ddr4 and importantly an m2 SSD that's important because we're using a 128 gigabyte a data into SSD now first of all an SSD is always faster than a standard mechanical hard drive one of the nice things about budget builds is that this is actually cheaper than a full harddrive now with only 120 gigs of capacity it's not going to be great but it definitely should be enough to install a few games and get us up and running again this computer is all about getting us ready to go right now with plenty of upgrade potential later like buying a hard drive or more memory or a graphics card or better processor all these things are possible at some point but not today when you build a budget computer there are a lot of ways that you can cut corners and save a little bit money one area you shouldn't cut corners on is with the power supply so this is a 450 watt EVGA 80 plus bronze unit now the 80 plus is important yes you could say probably like 15 20 bucks by getting a cheap Diablo tech power supply and it would work for like 15 minutes if you're building a backpack PC there's something that's actually going to last you a few years and importantly give you a little bit of great capacity in the future going to something a little bit high quality is definitely worth a few extra dollars that it costs so what I like about this case is like I was saying it actually has some features which is not always a given when you spend a very very small amount of money on a case so with this guy we do get an 80 millimeter exhaust fan and it also has a full USB 3.0 port like a single one but you know USB 3 is nice on a very very cheap case look at this we even have a little dust filter on the bottom which is actually not super important because the power supply is on the top but uh ok I'll take that I like how it is ridiculously lightweight this case is so we do have our USB 3.0 port on the side you also do have a pair of USB twos on the front and once we get the motherboard and we'll have a few more around the back I'm guessing that would open up our optical drive we had one but in true cheap PC building fashion instead of an optical drive that so we're gonna stuff all our extra cables that we don't need so we've actually built a system in this case before and it is a little bit tight but it's not too bad and one of the nice things is it is a full micro ATX case which me you're gonna save a little bit of room on your desk or underneath your desk or wherever you want to put it the main issue here is that there's basically no room around back for cable management but uh for a system like this especially considering how basic it is I think we'll be just fine I'm not doing a full PC bill tutorial in this video if you guys want to check that out we do one every year and I'll link it in the description as well as in a card but the system itself actually should be pretty easy to put together one of the nice things about this is because it is so cheap there are very few components it's not really that difficult to work inside the case basically what I'm saying is is that if this is the very first time you've ever built a computer it is hard to go wrong with something like this it is about as simple as it gets I'm not she kind of excited to see just how well this performs so I did take a look at the rise in three and the rise in five chips with integrated graphics a little bit earlier in this year and they were impressive but they're also like double the price of this mind you this is like half the CPU cores and less than half the GPU but considering that we can build this entire system for less than $300 I really just want to see how good is it really also wow that is some incredibly well applied federal piece do you see that like what color perfect it is I feel bad about ruining it squash because Ram is so expensive these days the eight gigs of ram is actually the most expensive part of this build and you could get away with four especially if you're not really trying to do all that much gaming you'll be just fine but considering that I actually want to have enough RAM to you know open up a couple tabs in chrome and also play a game of fortnight I feel like eight gigs is they were the investment and the nice thing about this board is that even though it's not really super simple to upgrade since you only have two DIMM slots you couldn't theory bump this up to 16 gigs later once ran prices eventually you know come back down to earth so if we screw our SSD into place we're actually almost done this is a very simple build all that's left now is to put the motherboard inside the case get everything wired up and we can actually see how well our awesome 300 ollar system performs or how not awesome it performs a little bit of cable management installing windows and a couple of software updates later let's see how the actual system performs the spiritual successor the boson so start out with we have the good old classic Cinebench now this is not an incredibly powerful system with only a dual-core rise in base CPU as well as those Vega 3 graphics but well I have to benchmark things cuz that's what I do not too bad so we've got 121 single core and 355 on the multi-core now the only issue with these Athlon chefs I make guesses are call there's really no overclocking capability unlike the rising chips but because this is a full desktop processor we look like we're pretty much running at 3.2 gigahertz across the board 13:22 so definitely not setting the world on fire but again this is better than the equivalent Intel integrated graphics getting into a real game we have csgo now on medium settings at 1080p we've got somewhere between 50 to 60 fps we want to go a little bit higher we can turn the settings down but this is pretty playable is they still they still got you yeah all right Wow we all died together so fortnight does run it's at 720p at medium settings but we do get a pretty respectable 35 frames per second I would love to show you overwatch but for some reason when I actually try to open the game even though it's running here it just turns off the monitor like legitimately just turns the whole thing off like I can all tab back in and windows pops right up nothing is crashing just the monitor doesn't like overwatch yeah there we go hamster do wins again so overwatch is actually kind of playable now mind you we are running it on low settings and it's at 75 percent scale at 1080p which is I think roughly 1600 by 900 ish my math is right but it's totally playable we're getting about 40 frames per second or so next up we have call of duty black ops for a game which should not be able to run in the system but I'm going to try anyway yep yep yep CPS or whatever yeah yeah it's fine low low low low low off off off off off low low low off off off off off off off off perfect that sounds exactly like what we need right now based on the twelve frames per second loading screen I don't have high hopes right now I don't think it's gonna work the problem with black ops is it actually just needs too much RAM so on addition to having CPU memory we also have to keep in mind the graphics is sharing that same 8 gigs of ram so when you combine it all together black ops is just not being cooperative J guys has reasonable sense that it's very specifically told me the beginning that it was not going to work but I want to try it anyway that my friends is the cheapest gaming PC we've built in a very very long time as always links to check out all this stuff will be in the description