Gadgetory

hey guys this is Austin recently Ken went out and found a surprisingly good 700 game PC that was pre-built from a big box store so that got me thinking what happens when you want to spend $400 I build a lot of custom gaming pcs and the math is really simple you're almost always getting better price to performance when you build it yourself versus buying a pre-built however things have been changing lately in this 3 and $30.00 novo is a great example of that one of the nice things about a pre-built system is that you at least do get some accessories so this looks like a keyboard and while I'm sure it's not going to be particularly high quality it's better than nothing and especially if you don't have any accessories right now something that this will get you off the ground now we have the computer itself so something is a little bit interesting about the skies that is considerably smaller than most desktops because of that as you'll see little bit later it does limit some of our upgrade options so it might not look like much but this guy has some potential so it's powered by a core i3 7100 paired with 4 gigabytes of RAM and a one terabyte hard drive and that might not sound too impressive yet but with one major upgrade I think it can actually handle some pretty decent gaming this is the Nvidia GT 1030 typically lower-end graphics cards just don't make a lot of sense but the 1030 is surprisingly good and with a $70 price tag it puts the entire price of this bill that $400 which I think actually might just be able to challenge Ken's 700 ollar system well at least when you consider price to performance so open this guy up and one of the main issues is that it always supports a low profile graphics card which just so happens to fit perfectly with our GT 1030 so I think the only thing we have to do here is just move the Wi-Fi antenna out of the way but besides that it printed should be good to go and with that we had the graphics card installed so as I'm looking inside here there actually is some upgrade ability so on top of the graphics card you can't easily put another four gigs of ram in here and while it does have a one terabyte hard drive to start with on the bottom there actually is a slot for an in to SSD so if you want to spend another say 30 40 dollars on RAM and maybe another $80 on SSD for less than $500 you're getting a pretty decent system so if we would have actually got the correct GT 1030 which is about a half an inch smaller it would fit no problem however with this one not so much so normally I would try to cut out a little bit of the metal just so we'll be able to clear but the problem is because the system is so small the hard drive is literally right here up against the lip so if I did that basically I would have to pull out the hard drive this one's like literally a half an inch too big so um so can we just do the rest of the video with the computer case open like can we just can this just be the rest of the video because it's not gonna close anymore than that a few windows updates later and the system is alive so well yes it might not look ideal right now we're actually do have some decent specs inside that core i3 is clocked at are pretty impressive 3.9 gigahertz while the GT 1030 might not be the most powerful graphics card around it should definitely be able to handle some pretty decent gaming so our first game is going to be csgo now should be no surprise that the system is easily able to handle it even on high settings at 1080p we're gonna you err between 110 140 frames per second now sure it might not be the most competitive thing in the world where some systems can write 3 or 400 frames but I would say this qualifies as playable you know if I could actually find someone I could just plant the bomb that's also an option next we have rocket League now this is another game that isn't particularly demanding but it actually looks pretty good running here on the 400m so at 1080p on high settings we're doing anywhere between 50 to 60 frames per second next we have Middle Earth shadow of Mordor as I almost kick so this is a slightly older game however even on low settings I think it looks pretty decent at 1080p and we're getting a pretty solid 55 to 60 frames per second so if we would have you know gotten the correct sized graphics card for our case I think this actually be looking pretty good and what's kind of impressive is what kind of price to performance you're actually getting out of this guy if you're going to build the system today it would cost you around 450 dollars that's not including stuff like the optical drive or Wi-Fi card now mind you if I was going to build the system for $400 I would probably make a couple of adjustments like drop the core i3 for a Pentium and maybe consider a slightly faster graphics card but considering there were 400 ollars in it didn't have to build anything besides not being able to close the case it's not bad if you guys want to see how Kim was able to get an even better deal on a pre-built system definitely be sure to go check this video out here but what do you guys think about our Franken monster for $400 let me know in the comments below and I will catch you on the next one