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yo what's up I that wasn't the smoothest intro that's alright what's up guys welcome to booted we are finally live thank you all and chat who came early ha ha ha for being here this is season 2 episode 1 so we are at a completely new season now this is the the season premiere actually and last season we we had a winner because that's usually how the show works and that winner was Hannah and just I wanted to quickly recap on his glory and his masterful victory here as a season one grand prize winner he had an H for 40 as did all the other finalists had a very nice fairly balanced rig with the z97 system core i5 44:30 and a gtx 960 and those freaking cable sleeves man those sleeved extensions I think really really scored him some points with the audience so congratulations hon oh I'm very happy for you man and I'm looking forward to seeing how you spent that gift card I'm actually going to try to convince hanno I'm in the process of convincing him to record a short 30-second video that we can maybe see on a future episode here on season 2 and find out exactly how he's spending that $500 gift card I really hope a CPU cooler is involved in all that but nice to have you you guys back welcome first-timers as well for those of you who are new to the show let me just quickly explain how this whole thing works so right now we are in week 1 this is the first episode of of this particular season where we're gonna have five contestants hop on board and you guys the live audience are gonna vote on which four suck the most and that'll leave that'll leave one PC as today's finalists who will go on to compete in round four later this month and then next week we do the same thing have five more contestants x-out four of them another finalist and then week three same thing we'll have our third finalist and then those three finalists will compete in week four for the grand prize of a $500 gift card in the form of either Steam or Amazon monies so this are pretty high yo $500 is definitely can definitely make an impact on on your on your system if you're looking to just upgrade the hardware and you're using all $500 for that system it can make a big difference even if you have a mid-range or a high-end system good could you know support a second video card for example or in Hinault's case hopefully a CPU cooler and maybe an unlocked processor who knows some peripherals maybe but why the $500 gift card is so important on this season is because this is a budget addition on booted here so all the contestants you're about to see today and for the next two weeks are basically going to be showing off their very limited budget rigs that range around the price of anywhere from five to seven hundred dollars give or take now obviously that that can fluctuate based on whether whether those those contestants bought the parts new or used if they're a secondhand or repurposed from other builds but more or less we're dealing with very frugal systems this season which i think is going to be pretty interesting because the less money you have to spend on a rig the more creative you have to get and the more I think effort it is really to make your system look good it's easy when you have lots of dough floating around to you know get a nice case with good cable management that sort of thing so it's gonna be really interesting I think it's gonna be an exciting season and before we hop into our first contestant a quick word from today's sponsor which is once again let me go ahead and load this up oh I missed having Paul around he just he just does everything so fluidly but we're gonna be talking about fantex really quick here they've still got their RGB LED adapter promo going on so if you guys have a compatible motherboard that has a built-in RGB header which is becoming more and more popular these days along with the fantex and through case and it's all it's all listed right here now you can actually get one of these RGB LED adapters for free granted if you purchased those of that motherboard in case before March 1st then you can get one of these bad boys and this basically just is it's an adapter that you hook up an RGB LED strip fantex also sells those you hook up an RGB strip to your motherboard directly which is really nice because you don't have to you can get powered directly through your power supply which eliminates any need for like a molex or a SATA power connector from your power supply cleans up cable clutter quite a bit and it allows you to control that RGB LED strip within whatever motherboard software is being offered and this strip is about it's 24 inches Hey so plenty of length to route this adapter behind your motherboard tray and really start your LED run your strip run from any point in your case which is really nice we're also gonna be talking a little bit about the P 400 in just a bit but more on that later so on that note folks I think it's time that I have a sip of this beer mmm-hmm that's a pineapple sculpin IPA from ballast to point this quite delicious shout out shout out to my wifey to wifey sauce for picking it up today let's go ahead and talk about Cameron this is PC number one from Cameron now despite this being a super budget rig he still found the Appropriations to to bust out a fractal define our v which is a really nice case it's not super expensive but I wouldn't call it budget it's just a very economical chassis for all the features that it features for lack of a better phrase and yeah you've also got a CPU your of course you could really he's got a CPU Kyle that's that's groundbreaking he's got an Athlon 64 x2 6400 which I think pairs pretty nicely with a gtx 750ti that you got in there let's go ahead and take a closer look here yeah okay we've got a lot it looks like there's a lot going on here and I'm glad you have a case with decent cable management otherwise would be slightly worse than it already is I'm in I'll give you some credit I'll give you some credit here because you're dealing with an old-school asus motherboard the m2m e sli and it's got some weird port layout configurations here so you've got your 24 pin ATX that's way over here by the CPU cooler you don't really see that anymore these days maybe on a few specialty boards or some server grade boards but yeah I feel sorry for you man because that's a really shitty location for for that big-ass connector to be but you tried your best I guess I I think you could have probably routed it you would have had better luck routing the cable up you know kind of behind at the top your case because there's a routing hole up there it on the definer v but I also understand if you didn't have enough length in that cable for that cable to reach but considering that you're using an NZXT Heil 82 550 watt power supply I think you probably could have managed speaking of which the cables themselves are not the greatest they are ketchup and mustard that's kind of the standard cabling that comes with the Heil 82 I believe which is a shame because it's a nice power supply it's all white that's not a modification guys if you're wondering if he painted his power supply or if he dipped it you know in something no it's not wrapping paper that is how the Heil 82 naturally looks so it's kind of a shame that you've got some ketchup and mustard cables here docu some points for that but apart from that you've also got this IDE cable that's connected to what I believe is an optical drive up here that's also running molex power so you've probably had this thing for quite some time now and just you just couldn't get rid of it you just couldn't let it go could you you know I'm sorry I'm sorry about that because it looks hideous I have to say IDE cables never was a fan never will be and they're kind of they've gone the way of the dinosaur for sure so maybe I don't know optical drives aren't that expensive you can easily just get a SATA powered one you know that runs say to both data and power and really clean up the look of your system here just by replacing that god-awful gray flat ribbon mess but we've also got some stuff going on here this is a some memory you've got eight gigs solid of ddr2 and from a tech no less and I have not seen any new sticks from a tech in ages in fact I don't think I've ever even seen an a Tech kit in person just online in the pitches but I believe they still make memory they I know they make some ddr3 I don't know if they're making ddr4 if they are there's still a very budget there on the budget side I don't even think they actually have heat spreaders on most of their Dems if any but ddr2 I mean I'm not gonna dock any points for that because Steve Eagar too in most cases when you're gaming is is plenty is plenty fast even at 800 megahertz I know it doesn't look great on paper but I've heard a lot of reports and from people who are still on ddr2 and said no like any limitations I have when gaming is not a fault of my memory it's usually the CPU or the video card or something like that so um yeah what I will say is that it will play look god-awful obviously their classic green PCB that nasty green goo just makes me shudder but uh but yeah let's see what else you got here let's see okay so you got an optional shot here with the with the side panel on nice little window peering through everything okay okay now is there anything else I really want to say about this system I like the fact that you have a hyper 212 on there even though it doesn't really need it you know just because it looks a lot better than the stock AMD cooler that's for sure and it's a hell of a lot quieter so I really like how you did that but yeah and I also like how you remove the the hard drive cage I think that was a smart move you weren't utilizing those five other drive trays in the define r5 so you just took it out and opened up a lot more airflow for your case with that front intake there so good call on that night good on you might I wish I wish I was Australian so I could really Drive that phrase home but you know the one thing I'll say is I'm a little conflicted about the define r5 as well because it's such a nice case that I'm like I don't want to like give you for it or take off points but at the same time I feel like that's probably one of the last components you should have invested in here especially with that CPU 750ti I think you're okay with it as long as you're doing some light gaming at 1080 but but yeah maybe maybe a new like chipset and you know socket type would have been nice maybe get some ddr3 just to be a little bit more then forking out a hundred bucks for that case at the same time who knows who knows I might have I might just be giving you as much if you had spent more money on the chipset but had like the motherboard and CPU but you had like this really crappy Zalman case or something you know really good I don't know who knows you know there's really no right or wrong method here I'm just I'm just spitting just spitting fire no that's not really fire anyway I don't know I'm saying now thank you Karen yeah let's move on to Simon this is also the crooked picture edition of booted where all the pictures are crooked I forgot to mention that so we've got a Zalman z11 plus a I was just talking on Zelman cases hey that was purely coincidental man case in here I'm sorry I didn't mean that maybe I did who knows I've got an AMD FX 6100 paired with an ACO something motherboard and something Ram that's a long long ass code that I'm not I do not care to decipher you've also got a ZOTAC gtx 615 here let's take a look ok so right off the bat way better cable management than Cameron I would say much cleaner all around and and granted you don't have like the best case for cable management but you seem to make do here just fine I think maybe things could have been tightened up a little bit more at the power supply you've got a stock AMD cooler so there's that you've also got a brown PCB on your motherboard which I'm not a huge fan of but I understand given the price range of all of these builds that you do what you can the other thing here is that you very much like Cameron also have some nasty green PCB naked you got some naked dims in them slaps there and you didn't say how much capacity was there but I'm guessing it's either four or eight that have to imagine it's at least four especially if you're doing some some light gaming even but the pairing here is is also pretty nice I like your hardware style you've got a like I said the I think the CPU matches the GPU I don't think you're gonna see too many bottlenecks there the other thing that I am a little bit skeptical about Oh here's here's some here's some bling if you want to call that bling there's some blue LEDs in here so you got a little bit of illumination and I like I like that I like how even though this is a cheap cheapo rig you've still managed to get some some blue accent LEDs in there to match your motherboard which is cool and we can't really see the dims so that's a plus however I did want to point out that your power supply is scaring me one because I don't really know anything about this brand power LC or LC power I'm not sure which way it goes but it looks a little bit shady to me that's all I'm gonna say there's no sticker on it I don't know if you remove the sticker or if it's just that budget of a power supply that it doesn't have one on it because some of them don't which is also kind of surprising because you've got you know flat black ribbon style cables that that seem to come stock on this thing I can't imagine you swap those out so I don't know I'm a bit perplexed I definitely know this power supply is not 80-plus I mean correct me if I'm wrong in chat but that looks that that looks sketchy so that's points for that power supply because even these days I think you can get a decent power supply that's you know 40 50 bucks definitely enough power for that GTX 650 what is a 650 these days I mean these days it's got a TVP of what like 60 64 65 watts so yeah I don't know I don't know that power supply man but overall everything else looks pretty good so nice job Simon not bad I'll to Chevy let's move on to Kareem Kareem is PC number three numero thais you've got a Corsair 88 are mmm-hmm it's actually a pretty decent budget case so nice taste I like your style on that I've also got an Intel Pentium G 32:58 which obviously we're gonna see a bunch of these processors surface on this season of booted eventually because it's it's it's a good chip for the money it's overclockable it is dual-core but you can't overclock the sucker and it is affordable so we've got that paired with a B 85 M motherboard from asrock eight gigs of HyperX fury 1866 can you overclock on b85 I'm honestly guys I'll be honest I'm not too familiar with b5 but I don't know if you can like overclock the multiplier you can't change the multiplier right I know I mean you can probably change the B clock but let me know in chat you've also got an r7 370 in here okay that I think that's a pretty decent budget card especially pairing it with that Pentium chip we've also got a 500 gig Samsung hard drive and you didn't specify whether it was oh yeah I guess you didn't specify that it was a hard drive another SSD and actually I can see it right here now if I'm looking if I'm using my eyes like I do cable management is actually not horrible it could be cleaned up a little bit what stands out to me is okay so you can you you can overclock on it or you used to be able to okay or or yes you can so some b85 motherboards can overclock thank you guys for clearing that up I should I should just do a bunch of b85 motherboard reviews to brush up on my on my knowledge there but okay so the cables that are underneath your hard drive are staring at me a little bit and I wish that I couldn't see them also ketchup and mustard ketchup and mustard everywhere Intel stock cooler is just problems problems all the time at least I would have taken the stickers off my power supply to you know maybe make things a little bit more flush the rest of the system and if we take a look at the money shot here you also have your little blue cover on your SLI bridge our I'm sorry your crossfire bridge this is a Radeon card an AMD card I would probably take that off buddy I don't think you really need that there I think that's just how the packaging comes it's kind of like leaving the plastic wrapper on your on your card but you can remove that it also doesn't really look that great so mm-hmm the other thing let's see can we show this all right here's just another angle and yeah I mean honestly your cable management is good given your case and there's really not much other than the your SATA connectors there by the hard drive you've also got plenty of airflow which I like you know you got some cheapy fans at the front there but they are probably moving some air towards your video card granted it probably doesn't get too hot anyway cuz it's you know low TDP and that sort of thing but I think this is a pretty nice so far this is my favorite rig in terms of hardware like if I just was choosing ranking the system's based on hardware I might go for this one you also got some ddr3 1866 RAM in there so that's nice so good job cream we will see what the audience thinks about your little system here and we've still got two more to go though guys we've got manual I don't know if it's manual or manual or manual I have a friend whose name is manual but I know some manuals pronounce their name manual I don't know maybe it depends on which country you're in I'm not that cultured so we've got a lodge assist 368 so ho is that really what it's called a SOHO it's kind of funny like South Hollywood you know is it is it like a preppy case look at hipster douche bag chassis anyway you've got an AMD a8 3850 say pay off a soos f1 a 55m le I have no experience with this motherboard eight gigs of Myshkin EC zero to sixteen hundred that's that's looking pretty good what's got in our nine 270x they're from our friends over at XFX let's take a look here okay now the first thing I see and by the way I'm not a huge fan of the case this is a preference thing this is completely subjective it looks it looks like a transformer toy knockoff that you would buy at a swap meet you know it's not really transformers it's like transform transform arrows and they're like they look a little different anyway personal preference side profile now at first I was like what is a curly fry doing in your system and then I realized that's not a curly fry that is a fan cable up here by your CPU cooler it's actually the fan cable from your rear exhaust fan and I don't know if you just if it I I don't know I have no comment did you take it to get a perm did they come like that sometimes I haven't dealt with a fan cable personally pet look like that from the get-go but fulle distracting and while it's not a french fry there is definitely ketchup on it and I'm not a fan of that either plenty of ketchup in this system along with mustard yes noodle cables that's right so yeah obviously there's not too much to do with cable management here there isn't much flexibility that you have in this largest case I've only dealt with one largest this case in my life and it was actually the the video was the chiefest building the cheapest PC ever it was like 140 dollar PC and it came with a power supply which I believe this chassis also did and this is another questionable power supply and guys doesn't matter if you're running like really low powered components like a 270 X for example get a good power supply because the power supply is the one thing where if it goes bad and and goes south your other components are really in danger as well because the power supply obviously powers everything words of wisdom so that's a little sketchy to me however I like the video card choice I think it is probably the best looking thing in this system by far motherboard at least you have some heat spreaders on your dims I mean I got a fault the other guys for for just sticking with the nasty green stuff but have fan cable though fan cable though man I don't know if you just like if you took like scissors and you went like you how you deal with ribbon like when you're when I'm wrapping presents and you want to make the ribbons all curly I bet you did that I bet you did that didn't you anyway oh I don't want to show the cable management quite yet it's not time for that yet okay so manual manual there's definitely room for improvement here but aesthetics aside this looks like a very functional system and I'm sure you get some good gaming mileage out of it so I'm happy for you as long as your power supply doesn't explode in the next 24 hours on that notes here's Riker Riker I like your name you probably have the best name so far on booted out of all the contestants apart from hano hano is also a pretty cool name I'll tell you Europeans it's either Europeans are like white kids with rich parents that get all funky with their kids names anyway the corsair speck zero 3 and this is kind of interesting this is a very interesting system here let's take a look at the side profile we've got a G 32 58 once again cooled by a cryo rig h7 azrog z97 pro 3 and a gtx 750ti from EVGA eight gigs of kingston valueram 120 gig SSD this is the first I believe the first SSD that we've seen in the budget system rankings which is good good on you mate and you've also got three hard drives in there I'm sure you didn't buy all these at the same time maybe they were left over from other builds or from you know just just something else external drives maybe now the first thing it's this always this always amuses me because people will go the extra mile to cover up a certain part of their system say for example the power supply area they'll go out of their way like Ryker did to create kind of a diversion or a power supply shroud for example and instead of like drawing attention away from that area it really just draws my attention to it it seems counterintuitive to me and really defeats the purpose because it just looks like you took a shoebox and cut a big hole in it and slapped it right over that part of your case granted at least you put gaff tape over the shoe box before you installed it a but still it just looks really distracting and I guess maybe when you have the side panel on it doesn't matter so much but at least from this angle kind of kind of pulls me out of it just a tad and I can also see you've done the same thing with your 24 pen at least and and your other cables your other cables your 24 pin ATX and maybe even some SATA cables over there are also wrapped in gaff tape I like I like your forward way of thinking Riker you can definitely see that as gaff tape gaff tape confirmed and from afar you can't really tell maybe you can maybe in person you can but how about that Linus tech tips fan a you notice I said a because - is Canadian yeah here's here's my problem with the lens tech tips man apart from the fact that it's from Linus no actually that has nothing to do with it at all but it's a knock to a fan right at its core it's just a rebranded nock to a fan that's like what 25 30 bucks after tax and shipping maybe 35 bucks that I don't know maybe could have been put towards a better case that maybe had a power supply shroud that would have looked a lot better than what you did here and also it doesn't really match the stock fan that came with that that h7 there so you've got two different fans on that cooler which also looks a little bit strange obviously that doesn't mean you should go out and buy another Linus fan I mean you can but like I said I think your money is better spent elsewhere on components you really need so I don't really know if that's gonna get you that much more cooling performance slap at another fan on there even if it is not to a but um but you know what I will say Riker is I like the effort you put in more effort or more time was spent with this build than anyone else and you definitely have the best cooler - tech tips or not and we've did we take a look at the front here we're starting to piece together some of the puzzle putting the pieces together you named this system trash 5000 it's either the five trash five thousand the trash s is zero zero but I'm pretty sure it's five thousand so that makes a little bit more sense so maybe this is kind of the the vibe you were going for was kind of more like a makeshift homemade home modification you know amateur type look what I think is you you did the gaff tape you did the the power supply shroud and the cables first and you you you knew you knew that it kind of looked a little off so you decided to stamp the trash logo on there to make it a bit more befitting which you know good on you mate again only I was Australian yeah man I definitely can see the effort that you put into into this and like I said the name of this episode is make - and you got to make do with what you have so I can respect that I definitely respect that but those ladies and gentlemen are all the contestants for season 2 episode 1 so right about now you should be seeing in chat my lovely beautiful wife posting some links so she'll be posting two links one is a photo album photo albums of all the contestants we just saw and you can go ahead and open that and take a look at all the full full size images of each rig and look at them carefully guys don't just you know just go based off of impulse really take a look and see which ones stand out to you the most and are overall the better build and then the other link she'll be posting in chat is a straw poll link to vote on which of those systems you think should go on to week 4 as a finalist and win all the money's so what you guys are doing that and I want you guys to again take your time we're gonna go ahead and take a look at our sponsor one more time fantex with the Eclipse p400 damn Daniel I'm sorry sorry back at it again with the white no I'm sorry I can't help it I can't help it it's over it's it's been dead a long time anyway it Clips p400 budget case sixty seventy bucks for this thing really great water cooling support if you're trying to get into that you're trying to break into water cooling but you don't want to spend a hundred bucks on a case this is this is a pretty nice case and and you have a really large side panel window which i think is I'm really glad that that's starting to trend more and more even on budget cases at this price point because especially if there's water cooling support you're gonna want to show off those components generally speaking the water cooling stuff looks is designed and you pay a little bit more for it because of the cool factor because manufacturers purposely make them look as cool as they can its its popularity contest it's a cool thing so it's nice to be able to see those components in this chassis you've also got some accent LED lighting here at the bottom and that does correlate to the any RGB strip that you connect I believe actually it might just be the fantex ones I'm not too sure about that but for sure the fantex RGB LEDs if you connect it to let's say a motherboard like the Maximus 8 formula then you can actually sync both of those colors and anytime you change in the software it will it will go ahead and update both of those I'm pretty sure I'm pretty sure correct me if I'm wrong guys but that's from from what I've heard what there's no photos for number one oh there's no photos for number one all right guys since there are no photos for number one I will just go ahead and show them to you I'm sorry about that I will I will fire my QA assistant effective immediately oh wait I'm the QA assistant I'm sorry I'm firing myself immediately okay so here's number one this is a number one Cameron go ahead and take a look he was in the define our five boom and there's another side profile shot that IDE cable in a tu camera get at it yeah alright there's another close-up look all righty then alrighty I think that's that's fair okay you guys got some coverage you can always pause the video if you really need to but yeah also wonder really quickly speaking of the the p400 check out this awesome video that I made no actually this is hardware connects this is Dimitri this is Dimitri filmography goddess yes he's a goddess he's just dainty like that but he did a review on the P 400 new 69 Hey case Dubai $69 that's USD by the way and he had some nice things to say about it as well maybe just look at it doesn't really look like a $69 case I'm you know I mean the front is plastic and it's very minimal but when you look at the internal layout it actually does have a lot of features that you might see on a more expensive chassis do that radiator support has radio support at the top and the front of the case guys so you can fit multiple rads in there and not just like 120 s you can fit you know - 40 s - 80 s there's the LED functionality so just wanted to give a quick shout out to my homie dimitri go ahead and check out his review if you haven't already and yeah p400 baby I'm actually getting fan texts to send me one for review so I can check it out myself because the last time I took a look at it the only time I took a look at it in person with CES on that note y'all I think it's time that we we take a look at the voting stuff I always get nervous I always get nervous about the voting stuff and if you guys want to be surprised don't look at the results just yet because that ruins it for everyone okay ooh okay there we go I got a Q that I got a cue the a dramatic music here all right all right you guys you guys voted we all looked we all looked and this dramatic music really doesn't do well when there's like a banquet advertisement right here and one for whatever let's see who won boom all right number five hey actually Riker Riker you son of a gun you got 51% of the votes dude not bad so that means you are our week one finalist my friend your shoddy power supply shroud job actually won this round that is phenomenal and like I said a plus a plus plus for effort man you really showed everyone what you could do with what you had and it really paid off in the end so we will be seeing you my friend and and your trash 5000 here back again in week four so very nice very nice and for all you other guys thank you very much for competing you gave it your all but in the end you were booted and the live audience has spoken so thank you very much everyone in chat you guys have been fantastic enough for this here out livestream yeah that's that's the season 2 premiere and thank you guys so much for tuning in if you want to catch the show live and you're watching the rebroadcast the the the show does air on mondays at 5:30 p.m. Pacific on my youtube channel awesomesauce Network you can follow me on twitter at forever Kyle for 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