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having fully reviewed the intel pentium g 4560 cpu including follow-up coverage on best GPU pairings with the g4 560 we decided to assemble a gaming pc around the budget intel chip this follows our previous pc build which featured an r5 1600 x for mid-range cost today it takes a less metered approach we're staying below $500 closer to 450 to 480 and leveraging only Hardware in our lab to do it before getting to that this video is brought to you by ifixit.com and the pc essentials toolkit which can be had for $20 making it one of their cheapest yet most complete toolkits use code gamers nexus for $5 off to bring that to 15 you can go to ifixit.com a lot of scammers nexus or click the link below for more information as usual with our pc builds that one of my requirements for our team Eric and Patrick worked on this was these only parts that we had here so no ordering stuff and we have a couple of suggestions in this content where we would make changes where we to order something that way you can benefit from those changes but this gives us a solid base lines work from do some FPS tests power draws has to show that no you do not even need a 500 watt PSU but the price was good on new ID anyway so we can establish all that with what we have here we've done thermals noise power and fps of course and that tells us exactly how all the parts are performing where we can improve them if you were to build your own and the goal of the build was to assemble a cheap gaming machine using Intel's new pentium part which seems to somewhat invalidates almost the i3 territory chips now there are some key differences in AVX support and things like that but as far as gaming goes a G 45 60 does pretty damn well and is right in the territory where the i3 is previously have been so that makes it a good candidate for a cheap gaming PC and so we seized on the drum and these rise in line in this price category it's a little ways out still and we've also paired for now a gtx 1050 with a build a few things here we looked at 10:50 tea is they're appealing there were a couple that were $120 but the sales were still hit miss sometimes v1 20 sometimes w140 at 140 the price was just a little too high and entering into 570 territory or exiting 560 territory where didn't make a whole lot of sense but a 1050 is consistently eighty to a hundred dollars depending on sales and that was a good pairing so we'll go through all those numbers and some of the other options from the 1050 Ti and the 570 you can see all that an hour when does the g4 560 CPU bottleneck benchmarks that contains all those numbers if you're curious how much more you can get out of the performance with a better GPU overall not counting rebates we're looking at a price of roughly four hundred seventy dollars though if you count the rebate to Falls closer to 450 but we all know how reliable those are this build uses a gigabyte b250 hd3 motherboard which is one of the immediate things that you could cut down to lower the cost something we'll talk about more later it's also got the MSI ten to the OC card at 100 or 80 after rebate if you count those and then we're using a HyperX fury 20 400 megahertz memory at 8 gigabytes of course $68 eb j is 500 watt power supply is also routinely on sale for 20 to 30 bucks enough to be reliable it was technically about $50 MSRP the corsair spec oh for enclosures what we're using for the case as it's the lowest cost case we have right now we just reviewed it so we know exactly what its strengths and weaknesses are and it still retains some level of quality in the $50 class the drive is a simple one terabyte WD blue 7200 rpm disc and if you had money couldn't spring for an SSD but for something ultra budget this makes sense and so again we set the bar with our PC build by doing actual benchmarks of thermal power noise and gaming rather than just assembling the list on new AG or whatever incline it today that is why we require the parts here these are all things we've worked with and that to some level we either trust a good amount or we trust with caveats that we've explained in all the reviews so that you know what to look out for that's why we use these parts because we know them and can recommend them as a complete unit that's been fully tested here so let's start with the FPS benchmarks to keep things easy and then we'll roll to power temperatures and noise the goal for gaming performance in such an inexpensive PC was roughly 60 FPS at medium to high settings starting at the low end of the spectrum it Sniper Elite 4 on high which is somewhat ambitious we had only forty 4.7 FPS average despite excellent optimization on behalf of the game however this is a game that relies so heavily on the GPU and as demonstrated in our g4 560 bottlenecking article there is a somewhat significant performance uplift by using a 1050 TI we can actually show that benchmark briefly here to show where the other GPUs land with this PC build there is no stuttering though and medium settings raised the average near enough to our 60 FPS goal that we could call it good that said sniper tends to perform better on cost cost and the hardware given its optimization focus for AMD Hardware right now so this is the only game you want to play or maybe doom is included in that and be worth considering an rx 560 instead the more demanding Ghost Recon wildlands however it's still at the low end of the spectrum remain just below 50 FPS average at medium settings while GTA 5 tested with a mix of very high-end ultra graphics had a higher average with comparable lows pts performance is impressive here and dropping a few settings from ultra the high would permit frame rates north of 60 FPS average pretty consistently and just keep in mind that the type of hardware we're running on is pretty cheap considering that this is what's capable of 60 FPS now with pretty damn high graphics settings in GTA that's not anything to be ashamed of Total War fared better again nearly at a 60 FPS average but with less drastic dips this is with high settings so you could drop the medium and be in pretty good shape if you're not happy with this and then overwatch at the maximum possible settings it performed roughly the same but consistently high frame rates are much more important in competitive gaming for that reason we followed our own overwatch graphics optimization guide raised the average FPS to 87 from following that guide and increased the zero blow on tumblr to a more manageable 51 this shows us that dropping settings a bit will print frame rates greater than 60 FPS though overwatch and other eSports type hold on well with the higher quality settings and with overwatch anyway you can lower things that you'll never really notice anyway even though the FPS impact is noticeable for power testing as measured at the wall we're measuring an idle total system power consumption at around 30 watts with multi-threaded blender rendering at 54 watts GPU blender rendering at 82 watts total system drops that gives us a look at CPU and GPU total utilization and then overwatch gaming was around 115 Watts draw you can easily drop down to a 422 450 watt power supply for this build and still have some power budget overhead but it's tough to find good PS using the 400 watt range that aren't complete garbage or aren't overpriced for the wattage they exist but the value tends to be better at this 500 watt market borrowing some of our brand-new case testing methodology that made its debut I'm a spec o for a 3d marked stress test burnin puts a realistic gaming load level on the CPU and GPU jointly rather than using our normal torture testing this establishes a CPU load temperature of 2048 Salty's delta T / ambience and a GPU load temperature of 40 4.6 l vs TT / ambient this means that considering ambient temperature our GPU is an arien v70 celsius point we're completely fine on both components despite running a stock CPU cooler and a low-end video card cooler neither the cpu nor the GPU produce much heat here and adding an $8 case fan would be beneficial to keeping the CPU and GPU cooler speeds lower which would help in noise reduction speaking of noise for noise testing our tests were performed with the single case fan at max speed and we left the GPU fan to adjust itself automatically unless otherwise noted we knew that Intel stock C vehicle would be loud and so inconsistent in its speed and past tests with Emma size 1050 and engine TT IOC models have shown them to be prone to buzzing at higher fan RPMs so we weren't expecting much here that said at idle the system reaches a noticeable but surprisingly tolerable 38 DBA it's not silent by any means and any activity at all causes the CPU fan to audibly ramp up but headphone users shouldn't have any problems just for reference the noise floor here is about 26 DBA the chosen components require very little cooling and noise levels could easily be reduced by purchasing a real CPU cooler with a larger fan but Intel stock heatsink is completely adequate and free loading the cpu with blender and the GPU with a 3d mark stress test in two additional tests barely affected the noise levels as the G 45 60s at low temperatures combined with gigabytes default CPU fan curve kept the fan from rising too much an hour PM manually tuning fan speed to 100% revealed just how bad things can get if they were to get bad and I was 44.9 DBA sounds more like a vacuum cleaner than a PC at that point but you could still tolerate it with headphones and if you are particularly ignorant to noise because you'd rather not spend a whole bunch of money to reduce it again the reason we feel comfortable keeping a noise or cooler installed is because the 4560 will rarely reach temperatures that require those higher fan speeds so again the extra fan would help reduce cooling rpm modulation so we're pretty happy with the performance overall again off the shelf parts from here it's performing pretty well you could drive down cost a little bit more so there's an easy $20 saving to the motherboard we have an HD 3 in here it's ap-250 board ATX it's a gigabyte board that runs close to $90 which 4g 45 60 isn't really necessary now it does give you some upgrade a headroom if you wanted to pull that chip later and put something better in there but because it's not a Z SKU you're not really going to get the full potential out of a real upgrade to a case Q anyway because you're going to be launched for overclocking so there's it's a point of diminishing returns where you can either go full zsq and enable yourself for the upgrade later or commit to what is more likely reality for most of us and just buy a cheaper board stick with the 4560 until you're ready for a complete full system build so the options there may be an asrock B 250m pro 4 that's a micro ATX motherboard we don't have but it's a bit cheaper so you say about 20 bucks there if you really were desperate for the 20 bucks this board is good it's probably better in a few ways but again $20 not necessarily needed another option would be from gigabyte the be 250 a micro ATX version of the ds3 H similar to this board but micro ATX another 20 bucks off or for cases you can go down to something like a 200 are for about 40 bucks right now as of today the equals tesseract plenty of other cases viy pc the not I said not even not necessarily they are not the highest quality cases neither is this to be fair but it's a bit better than some of those but again you're looking at how much how much you want to spend to get a little bit better quality when you already at the low-end budget scale to begin with personally my philosophy is if spending an extra $10 will make me happier for the however long I will have the system then I'll do it but that's just my way of doing things especially in the case Department because you're going to be staring at it for the whole time you have the system so overall not a bad build performs well you can do 60 FPS gaming on it with medium ish settings and a lot of the more intensive games or you can get away with high in a couple of them overwatch is a good example you can basically do alter there and the same is true for GTA 5 without advanced graphics settings so pretty damn good overall impressive considering where the industry was a few years ago and as long as you're at 1080p you're in good shape with a setup similar to this of course many improvements can be made we've given you a couple of suggestions but stay tuned subscribe for more because there always be more PC build so patreon are complex game is access to helps that directly or just subscribe because we'll have tons of compy tech stuff this coming week to watch that helps us even more than other options thank you for watching we'll see you all next time you