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of course give or take everyone's different depending on your needs and how much horsepower you're looking for and things like that what we're gonna be doing today is I'm gonna give myself a fixed budget of anywhere between five and six hundred dollars to spend on upgraded components that we'll be putting in to this build and hopefully breathing new life into this system but let's quickly recap the specs of this old-timer before we introduce the new components will be swapping in starting with the processor II of the Intel Core i5 35 70 K which is Ivy Bridge it's a quad core it's got four threads no hyper threading it was a great CPU in its day but now you can find it used on eBay for twenty to fifty bucks so its glory days are definitely well behind it that's being cooled with some variant of a hyper 212 cooler from Coolermaster tried-and-true budget option we also have a z77 motherboard from MSI the model number of steep sneezy 77 a g4 one with 16 gigs of ddr3 memory not sure what the speed is we have three of the same kind of memory module and then we have one out cache that's a completely different brand but 16 gigs right there and then our graphics card is also MSI it's a Radeon HD 7850 2 big frame buffer was a great card in its day just like the processor but now it's definitely starting to show of age our power supply is a TR - 600 watt unit from thermal tank not sure exactly how reliable this unit is or if it's even 80 plus certified it doesn't look like there's any badge there it doesn't mean that it's not but I can't really be sure and then for storage we have a 120 gig 850 Evo SSD from Samsung which is what we're booting off of and this mechanical hard drive which I cannot see the label from where I'm at so I don't know that the capacity or brand but those are the two drives in the system then of course we have the case which is the Corsair 200 arc like I said this is a pretty decent system and five years ago it was a very capable machine but alas here in 2018 it's time for a change so I was looking at this rig trying to decide what can I keep what's gonna last me still a few a few more years and what absolutely needs to go and the first thing I thought in terms of upgrades was the CPU so I'm gonna be swapping out that 35 70 K for arisin 5 1600 now some of you are probably like why first gen rising Kyle you should get the second gen rise and it's newer it's better and faster yes ok that's true but the horizon 5 1600 is still a fantastic 6 core 12 thread chip it's really not that far behind the 2600 X by any means and you can find it for 20 to 35 dollars cheaper than the 2600 X depending on where you look so since we're dealing with the confined budget I'm going with the 1600 baby and it's gonna be loads better than 35 70 K in pretty much every way obviously we can't pop a risin ship into a z77 board though that would end poorly for everyone involved so I'm bringing along the B 350 M Pro vh + motherboard from MSI this is a very bare-bones motherboard it's actually one of the cheapest available on the market with this particular chipset however it is also kind of - bare-bones it only has 2 DIMM slots I would have really opted for the 4 I think it was an ass rock board that had 4 slots but about the same price the reason being is because these are all products that I already had on our shelf if I actually plan this video ahead of time like a smart person then that would have allotted me more time for things like shipping and be able to whittle down the price while getting some components that made a little bit more sense for this build if you'd like to see the alternate list of hard where that I was thinking you can find the PC part picker list link in the description below where we actually brought the total cost of all the upgraded parts down to about $500 what you're seeing today right here is closer to 600 so bear that in mind hope that's not too confusing obviously we need memory ddr3 is just not gonna work on this platform so we have a 16 gigabyte kit 2 by 8 gig sticks of g.skill ripjaws 5 ddr4 at 2400 speed obviously Rison would prefer faster memory as always but again we're on a budget and there's nothing stopping us really from from from overclocking this hopefully we can get 29:33 that would be my goal anything beyond that would just be the cherry on top I should also mention that even though this is a bare-bones motherboard with only two crappy DIMM slots it does have an 8 pin EPS connector on it it is B 350 we can still overclock our CPU so that's that's nice at least and then finally our graphics card will be replacing the Radeon HD 7850 for this lovely EVGA gtx 1050 TI 4 gigabyte models so we're essentially doubling the frame buffer that's gonna be fantastic for so many things and this is just a great card through and through when it comes to 1080p gaming at high or even very high settings depending on the title that you're playing your mileage may vary 75 watt TDP gets all of its power straight from the PCIe slot on the motherboard so that's one less cable that we have to connect that's that's actually plugged in right here so overall this is what our upgrade path looks like today folks I'm excited to get things underway you can find links to all this stuff in the video description right now I'm gonna start cutting this guy to make room for all of this awesome hardware see what I did there and then we can circle back do a little happy dance we'll do some AV comparison testing just to see how much faster this new and improved rig is compared to old grandpa here it should be nothing short of glorious ladies gentleman about further ado cue montage all right upgrades complete this is the finished product it actually looks really nice it turned out much cleaner than I thought it would and I guess that's kudos to the two hundred are for having some pretty decent cable management for cheaper case you know with a plenty of room behind the motherboard tray and tie-down points and things like that obviously no power supply shroud so I did have to stash some excess cables from our non-causal nan Bosler non modular power supply in the hard drive cage you can kind of see there's looks like the ketchup and mustard monster took a down there but it's somewhat out of sight out of mind for the most part looks very clean I also relocated the SSD which was initially in this slot right here and I didn't like this position because it was the SSD was facing in such a way where the ports were right here on the inside of the case and you could clearly see the SATA cable the nasty ketchup and mustard SATA cable going to it so I repositioned that behind the motherboard tray it's kind of just floatin there but not really because it sits tight and snug so it's not moving around no cables will come and plugged or anything so I just put it back there because it looks cleaner when you can't see it everything else was pretty straightforward there's got too much to comment on it was a really easy going little upgrade so I think now we're ready for benchmarks and I'm actually using the same data that was pulled from the original Craigslist PC when I tested it initially two months ago or something like that I didn't rerun any tests on that I'm just using the same data there so that's gonna be compared to the data that I pulled today using this new and improved PC just so that we're all on the same page there if you guys recall I did not overclock the original Craigslist PC when I tested it and I tried to do that same thing with this rig but I couldn't help myself I over clocked the memory just a little bit simply because the Rison platform is so dependent on memory speeds whereas the Intel platform is certainly not when it comes to gaming anyway so I just couldn't help myself I took it from 2400 to 2933 which isn't even a huge bump but I think it's gonna make a few percentage points a difference at the very best in today's testing so if you guys want to get super mad about that and give me a bunch of he'll go ahead and tell me what a terrible person I am in the comments I don't care but with that all behind us let's take a look at the numbers for our brand-spankin'-new 2018 upgraded PC and the five-year old outdated version of itself that can be so just but so much faster now my goodness is blazing it's like hashtag 420 blaze in it right now but honestly what would you expect we literally took out parts that were around five years old and swapped him out for mostly courage and hardware obviously the performance gifts there are gonna be pretty substantial as we clearly saw in the benchmarks so that's if we're exciting I think this this was five to six hundred dollars well spent but at the same time this could have gone many different ways and so I kind of want to ask you guys here at the end of the video how would you have spent that five to six hundred dollars differently if you were upgrading the same system I'm very cute to hear your thoughts I'm sure you have a lot of opinions about it as you often do so leave them a down there in the comments and I'll get around to read them and stuff um but that's pretty much it guys I don't know if I'm gonna like scrap this or like this is a very functional usable system maybe I'll donate it or give to someone who needs one I don't know I don't know yet but it's it's a great system now I mean it was a great system for its time before now it's a great system today so mission friggin accomplished I feel proud of myself guys thank you so much for watching this video go ahead and toss a like on it if you enjoyed it and get subscribed to the channel for more tech stuff coming at you really soon you can also check me out on floatplane if you want to watch my videos a full week early without ads for 3 bucks a month I'll put a link for that in the video description until next time guys thank you so much for tuning in to this one have yourselves a good one and I'll see you all 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