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Josh hey what's up man so look I know that you said that the core 500 toaster can fit full-sized video cards and AIO liquid coolers but dude I can't even fit the motherboard in the damn thing so what's the deal so if that's not the core 500 hippie huh don't Barney key don't get it open up the core 500 from fractal design provides top-class cooling and supports full-sized hardware in a compact design click the link in the description to learn more bread toasting only supported with AMD chips what's up guys welcome back to the channel this is part 2 of my very impromptu mini series where I build and test a potato PC essentially and that's a bit misleading of a name for this rig because it's not really a full PC as you can see there's no case it's just lying here on my table it's also a mishmash of components some of which are potato and some of them are definitely not the reason why I called it a potato build is mainly talking about the video card here the geforce GT 610 it's a 45 ish dollar video card and it's got two gigs of VRAM ddr3 memory that is and I guess that's kind of part of what this video is all about is is a $45 video card even worth it what can what kind of performance can you expect to see in game and is something like that even comparable to let's say the onboard graphics in our CPU here which is a G 32:58 from Intel very nice dual-core overclockable processor so it's definitely not potato quality can still run some pretty some pretty decent games however it's got intel HD 4000 series graphics on it and a lot of people in the comments are saying well dude Kyle this video cards probably not even as good as the the onboard GPU and that in that CPU and that's what we're here to test today okay so if you guys haven't seen part one of the video go ahead and check that out make sure you're sitting down for that one in case you just didn't want to watch part one for understandable reasons we are working with some hardware here including the asrock h 81 and motherboard initially I thought you could do some overclocking with this board but it turns out that's the H 81 M HDS I believe so no overclocking just kind of goes right in with the potato theme here we've got a four gig stick of Ripjaws X memory ddr3 from g.skill and we've also got some storage we've got a WD black 2 terabyte and a crucial m4 SSD 64 gig the other thing that's certainly not potato in this build is the power supply it's a 650 watt earth Watts unit from an Tek and it's a B+ platinum it probably cost more than all these parts combined I don't know if that's true but I wouldn't be surprised again I just had these parts lying around so that's why they're in no means a recommendation of parts you should get for a single system but yeah that being said why don't we go ahead and take a look at the benchmarks because I did run some tests between the intel HD 4000 series graphics on RG 32:58 against our GT 610 GPU so you're a little bit far away why don't you get up closer the monitor here oh okay so I'm playing half-life 2 right now this is the first game I tested in 1920 by 1080 this is the only game that performed actually really well and was very playable on both the integrated graphics and our GT 610 where is this guy die you a sucka you can see the framerate counter courtesy of fraps in the upper left corner there I might have to go fullscreen or something but oh no I'm out of ammo oh no damn you damn you would but yeah we got about average of 52 frames per second on the integrated graphics and then up to 88 on the our discrete GPU there which is a nice bump actually a bigger bump than I was expecting to be honest and we saw that same trend continued with the minimum and Max frame rates as well so definitely very playable which isn't too surprising considering this is a really old game using that old-school Source engine and stuff but you know it's it's still pretty nice that that you can play half-life 2 with relative smooth this Y is my crowbar punching bullet holes into the wall this is weird the next game I tested out was good ol brawlhalla kind of like a rip on Super Smash Brothers if you will very nice game but I wanted to test out a couple of these you know two-dimensional games because I imagine that's the type of title that people are going to be playing if they decide to invest in one of these video cards at that price point what we found here was actually this brothel was an anomaly out of all the games I tested because it was the only one where we saw it increased performance drastically increased performance with the with the Intel HD 400 for 4000 series integrated graphics which I thought was pretty interesting so I'm not sure that's just because the GPU was doing something funky this is just a CPU intensive game I'm not really sure but at any rate the game was still playable even with the GT 610 which got about 30 frames per second on average 30 or 31 whereas the the intel HD 4000 saw double that like I said 60 or almost 60 frames per second so but either way when you're playing a game like this if it's not like a 3d you know first-person shooter or something like that you don't really notice too much the frame rates unless you're going dipping below 30 then it gets noticeably choppy but it wasn't really doing that for me I was hovering above 30 most of the time even with the GT 610 and I would consider this game also pretty playable if you guys haven't figured it out yet I am gaming with the integrated graphics right now so the discrete card is not installed just doing this little demo here with our intel HD 4000 so the next game on the list is lovers in a dangerous space-time so very much like brawlhalla this is a 2-d game not super intensive and we go back to our original trend here of seeing increased performance with the discrete GPU we went from 25 to almost 32 frames per second which is a nice bump over the Intel integrated graphics and gameplay was fairly you know I mean like I said like like with brawlhalla 30 FPS in a game like this isn't that bad especially if you're able to hit that consistently so I would consider this game very playable on on both the Intel graphics and the discrete GPU getting slaughtered right now I'm not really playing any of these games I'm just talking while sucking next up we've got rocket League and unlike the last two games you can actually change some of the graphical settings here both brawlhalla and lovers in a dangerous space-time have lock settings so I couldn't really mess around with that however the last three games that we've seen so far have all been 1920 by 1080 this one as well the only title I had to crank the resolution down was our neck our last one but we'll get to that in a bit video you can see I've got everything set to performance didn't want to go high quality otherwise it runs like potato and we've got a 1920 by 1080 right there so let's go ahead and try jumping into game so as you can see frame rates are very bad with the integrated graphics we averaged about 19 FPS with also you know horrible min and maxes all around however we did get a nice bump from using that GT 610 and it actually was much more playable with the discrete GPU that I think that's probably the this is the game where I noticed the biggest difference in gameplay over all the others so yeah and just look how bad rocket League looks I didn't even know it could look this bad is that even possible this is I mean still better than xbox one but I mean still come on guys the last game I tested was good old chivalry and I got chivalry like really badly both both the Intel HD graphics and the the discrete card struggled immensely with this game and this was the only game that I actually had to turn the settings down to 720 and give you a quick look here at the at the settings we cranked it down to 720 and lowest possible settings we could and still just getting slaughtered on the frame rates Oh getting slaughtered on my neck hey hey oh geez I'm giving myself a that's not right but yeah this game I would not call this playable as you can see 17 18 frames per second even with the which we call it even with the discreet card you with the higher slightly higher frame rates still not playable because this is not this is a 3d FPS game and you can really notice the difference in choppiness here going with with the low frame rates so before I embarrass myself anymore let's just up to late all right my brothers and sisters so what can we take away from today's testing if anything at all well for starters I can confidently say now that I've run the benchmarks that the GT 610 does outperform the intel HD 4000 series graphics in most games there was one game brawlhalla where it was complete backwards but I'm not sure why for the most part you are gonna see some performance increase with getting a GPU like this however the performance increase isn't that great in some games more than others for sure but especially due to the nature of games that you might be playing on a system like this a lot of to 2d games in particular you're not gonna notice a huge difference in those extra frames for example with brawlhalla and what was the other game that I tested lovers in a dangerous space-time I couldn't tell the difference between 30 and 60 FPS so really making this upgrade wasn't really doing anything for me and it was kind of wasted money in those examples however if you're doing something like rocket League something more 3d or FPS even like like chivalry then you will notice a bit of a performance boost now is that performance increase and gameplay experience worth the forty-five dollars that you pay for this thing No and that's why I would not recommend anyone buying a card like this or in this caliber if you're really looking to upgrade from intel HD 4000 series graphics or something similar then just fork out the extra this is already $45 just spend like $70 more and get something like a gtx 750ti for example because that's going to be so much better than this thing and your money is going to be so much more well-spent that way as well you're going to essentially open up a huge number of possibilities when it comes to more games that you're able to play at decent settings you know with with a 750ti you can pretty much play oh you can play a lot of titles at 1080 on medium to high settings and you know triple-a titles you can crank the settings down to make them playable as well even at 1080 whereas this you're not playing any triple-a titles I don't care if you're you know gaming at 240p it's just not gonna happen doesn't have the the bandwidth or the speed so um on that note ya don't buy this that's the moral of this story don't buy this just just get something better and you will be all the more happy for it so that's pretty much gonna conclude it for this little mini PC potato potato PC thing series part video YouTube yes but hope you but hopefully you guys enjoyed it go ahead and toss me a like on the video if you did and feel free to leave me your thoughts on all of this all of these findings in the comments below I'm curious to hear what you guys have to say about these numbers and yeah subscribe to the channel if you haven't already I'll see you guys in the next video really soon have a good day I love you all