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how's it going guys Kyle here with awesomesauce news welcome to the world premiere of system-config now as many of you know I posted a video a couple weeks ago explaining the general concept of the show but for those of you who missed it well basically each episode follows one individual in need a new computer system and whether that computer be a high-end gaming rig or budget htpc the possibilities are really endless at the end of the day the goal of each episode is to build a computer specific to the client's needs desired level of functionality and their budget and also as many of you know I've kind of been working on the concept of this show for the last several weeks now so after much planning and preparation I'm finally ready to see it go from concept to reality so without further ado I'm incredibly excited to present to you all the first of hopefully many episodes of system-config and joy hi my name is Charlton I'm from Anaheim California and I'm looking to build a budget gaming PC so aside from daily use with internet browsing and word processing with schoolwork I'm looking to play some games such as Starcraft 2 Diablo 3 the expansion when it comes out and also BioShock Infinite so I built my current system back in 2008 because I wanted to play some of the games back then but right now I'm running Core 2 Duo with 2 gigabytes of RAM and 512 megabytes and graphics so I can't really keep up with the games of today my budget for this PC is around $700 but hopefully with the new sales coming up with Black Friday and Cyber Monday I'll be able to get some good deals so basically with this new PC I'm hoping to have a smooth gaming experience and not have to sacrifice too much in terms of graphics and playability so hopefully kyle has a system-config will be able to help me out with that all right guys so I've brought Charlton over into my humble abode and I told him to bring along his old desktop so we can take a look at it and just see how badly Charlton needs an upgrade right about now so this is a cooler master chassis am i right yeah it looks like they looks like a pretty decent chassis looks like it was a pretty good case for its time yeah she served me well you kept it in pretty good shape I believe this thing opens up very nice it's got a business an LED yep blue LEDs here and it's uh it's a hundred 20 millimeter yeah man you got DVD drive very nice a lot of a lot of nice ventilation here but I'm sure it probably gets a lot of dust in there it's probably a vacuum for Dustin I feel see so why don't we take a look inside and just see exactly the damage that has been done over the last one five years that you've had this guy oh my goodness that is impressive that is most impressive sir okay so first off I'll be teaching you what a twist highest or as at time so you can manage some of these cables a bit better but that is that is impressive how much dust buildup you've accumulated over the over the years let's see first off you've got a Core 2 Duo CPU in there with a stock Intel CPU cooler and it looks like the heatsink can no longer breathe due to the insane amount of dust buildup you've also got two six memory that's too big so you got one you got two one gig modules and those are those are the nice side gold-plated ocz modules aren't that yep and I believe those are ddr2 right you like 800 speed or something like that this is really good stuff a bit you got an 8-bit motherboard and then we've also got what video card is it seriously that's a Radeon HD 2600 8 xt nice very nice 512 megabytes awesome looks like you have an aftermarket cooler on it Exelero yeah the video covers give me a lot of heating problems I wanted to slap on an aftermarket cooler nice yes it wasn't ever there and it ever just like shut down on you from Overtown definitely yeah brutal there's a ton of ton of molex here we've got an IDE cable this is this is legacy status guys this is legendary and you've also got a hard drive what's the capacity of the hard drive that's 320 gigs 320 games that's not been so trash the rest of it keep the hard drive I think we're going to be ok you got a 500 watt power spike top mounted of course but before I get an allergy attack why don't we um why don't we set this thing up and just kind of try to run some applications on it see how see how far we can get sure let's do it do it alright guys so we have Charlton's desktop all set up right here and I guess the first thing to do is to boot it up and keep in mind of this is a believe it 7200 rpm mechanical hard drive so it's going to be a bit slow plus it's 5 or 6 years old but let's just let's just roll roll tape right now I've got a stopwatch right here we're going to time it ready let's do it let's do it three two one go Oh hear anything let's try that again let's try it one more time wait let me stop it okay clearly need a new computer because this one doesn't turn on all right one two three go all right I think I hear a hair fans it's booting I like these on Wow all right it really wants to know that means every one of these means you got a hit preset yeah what oh no that's that's not good is that now it's happening often every once in a while oh wow okay all right guys so we finally got it to boot on as soon as we stopped recording actually the computer boot on no problem I know it sounds like a lie but it's totally true so we're in the OS right now we're in Windows XP and why don't we just do a quick little test here we have left 4 dead 2 right here and I hear this was one of your favorite games back in the day I used to play this a lot but I had to crank it down all the way on low settings in order to be able to barely run it okay so why don't we I think we already have it to like to play at high settings we didn't even max it out though I think we have MSAA and anisotropic filtering at 4x so why don't we give it a go for the camera and just show them exactly what we'd be looking at what our user experience would be playing at these settings all right so here's just an opening cinematic choppy I don't think I really need to go further than that so ok I think I think actually will kill a zombie you have to kill a zombie first we need to see what killing a zombie looks like in five frames Wow look at the skull shatter in slow motion I've made flip books that move faster than that that's insane well that said why don't we switch gears here and take a look at the actual components that you will be using from now on that hopefully won't give you performance like this that we've experienced here today so you ready to do that yeah let's take a look all right let's do it all right guys so for a budget gaming PC in today's day and age you really can't go wrong with a visera series CPU from AMD this is the AMD FX 6300 and it comes clock 3.5 gigahertz out of the box with the turbo boost a four point one it's a six core processor for a hundred and twenty bucks and it's quite a steal for any budget gamer the motherboard we've chosen is MSI's 970 ag 43 so it's got the AMD 970 chipset it's am3+ socket for that FX 6300 CPU and it's got enough USB 3.0 and SATA 6 gigabits per second connectivity for all Charlton's needs it also supports up to 32 gigs of ddr3 so if Charlton wants to upgrade in the future he can easily do so speaking of RAM we decided to go with an Ares series kit from g.skill this is their 8 gigabyte kit at 1600 so we've got 2 4 gig modules and they've even got nice little shiny blue heatsink Soloman which will match really nicely with that MSI motherboard the video card we chose was the hias Radeon HD 7870 gigahertz Edition so it comes clocked at 1,000 megahertz right out of the box and it also features 2 gigs of gddr5 memory on a 256 bit interface which is going to be great for 1080 gaming it also features a chai SS Ice Cube custom cooler which has huge copper heat pipes and a really nice blower style design which actually intakes air from both sides of the blower style fan I also wanted to mention that this card is PCIe gen3 point-o but the motherboard only supports PCIe gen 2 which honestly shouldn't be much of a problem as PCIe gen 2 isn't even being saturated with the current generation of video cards so charlton won't really be seeing much of a performance hit now i've assigned the task of cooling our FX 6300 cpu to the cooler master hyper 212 evo successors to the tried-and-true hyper 212 plus this offers an amazing price to performance ratio is extremely quiet and even while cooling on air should allow for some Headroom for moderate overclocking now with the dropping prices and SSDs on the market right now I figured it was still possible to get one of these in Charlton's build even for under $700 so here we have the SanDisk Ultra plus 128 gig SSD features a Marvell controller SATA Rev 3 and we'll be installing the operating system as well as some smaller applications like Chrome in Microsoft Office just to help Charlton speed up things with his day-to-day tasks for games an all-around media storage we've decided to go with WD blue one terabyte drive at 7200 rpm it's an incredibly reliable piece of hardware that delivers solid performance when you need it our power supply of choice was NZXT a laity 2v2 this is their 550 watt model and this might be considered the white elephant in the room pun totally intended just because you could probably find a cheaper modular power supply right now on the market but due to Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals we actually found a killer deal on this unit so we decided to go with it and it is fully modular and 80 plus bronze certified so it should have plenty of power to drive the here we have an ACS DVD combo drive and it also comes with a green software which helps you save over 50% power consumption now obviously optical media drives are not necessary these days but they are super cheap and they're very handy to use in certain situations for instance if you're doing a clean install of a computer and you don't yet have your LAN drivers installed you can't get onto the Internet it's very nice and handy to have an optical drive nearby that you just pop in a driver disk and get your system up and running and last but certainly not least is the chassis that all this beautiful hardware will be dwelling in this is the corsair Carbide series 300 R it offers a great bang for the buck with a painted interior 2 front panel USB 3.0 and tons of mounting points for fans and after charlton shared his story about his old desktop overheating and shutting down I figured this was gonna be a good choice for him considering it has a lot of good cooling performance and is incredibly budget-friendly now the total cost of all these parts comes out to 830 dollars but with my guidance and Charlton's deal hunting abilities during Black Friday and Cyber Monday we were able to get everything within his $700 budget making this an outstanding PC for the price he paid for it and now that we've hand-picked all the parts for this budget gaming rig the only thing left to do is build it you alright guys so the build is done I think you went pretty smoothly we got everything installed correctly hopefully it booted on we installed Windows 7 64 bits we've also installed origin and battlefield 4 so why don't we boot it on and test out the game see just how much we can push the video card that we just put in here that 7870 I'll let you do the honors since it is your system go ahead sir Leeroy boots oh it's already a step ahead of the other that is true and it's fairly quiet as well yeah and I believe this will boot a lot quicker than your your computer your old computer as well gotta love that solid-state we're there alright so we are playing at high settings right now in battlefield 4 that's the the battlefield 4 preset for high and everything's looking really smoothly right now Charleston's having a much easier time killing people than you were in left 4 dead 2 frame rates are looking pretty good as well we're hovering just about 55 to 60 65 at times with a few dips into the 40's the low 40s occasionally we actually cranked it up the ultra for a bit and there were some moments where it would actually dip below 30 so it wasn't exactly playable I wouldn't call it comfortable or ideal but it even then it's still obviously way better than your old system to left her dead too and honestly I think since since I've officially lost Charlton on all levels at this point I think it's a good time to wrap up this this episode of system config so thank you guys for watching and being a part of this experience I know I really enjoyed it and hopefully charlton did - I think eyes enjoy the video be sure to subscribe to the channel if you haven't already be sure to give me a like and let me know what you think of this channel and system-config as well in the comment section below thank you all for watching and until next time I'll see you all in the next video hey bye charlie bye you've gone