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hey guys on today's episode of hub builder we're going to take a look at League of Legends performance now need for those looking to build a new budget rig the intention is to find that perfect balance between price and performance now it's no secret the League of Legends will play on just about anything even with the graphical quality settings cranked that said for perfectly smooth playable 1080p performance you will need to be somewhat careful of what hardware you choose as always it can be cheaper and better value to shop secondhand for low-end gaming machines but if you aren't interested in taking on the challenge of secondhand shopping then we have some easy brand new options here my search for the best value budget League of Legends machine was narrowed down to two choices after benchmarking almost every option available the most affordable option comes from AMD with their AAA 7600 this apu features now 7 graphics processor with 384 SPU's clocked at 720 megahertz the FM two plus build came to $265 but was also tested with the optional $135 radeon r7 370 and 110 dollar geforce gtx 750ti the more expensive option being recommended is an Intel Haswell build focused around the unlocked Pentium G 3258 this CPU doesn't include an integrated GPU which is what boosts the cost of the base configuration in our case after three hundred seventy dollars as the geforce gtx 750ti was selected for the rest of the hardware both systems were loaded with 8 gigabytes of ddr3 2400 memory at a cost of forty dollars a 120 gigabyte version of the a data SP 554 $35 and the EVGA 500 watt 80 plus bronze certified power supply for forty dollars all of this was built into the $30 cougar MH 200 case this means seventy dollars was spent on the case and power supplier so you can save some money here going with a lesser quality case / power supply combo if your budget is really tight benchmarking League of Legends can be tricky but I found the best and easiest way to do this is by using a service such as LOL king to download a replay the replay can then be executed using your current graphical settings in a program such as fraps can record the framerate performance the replay that i downloaded featured 10 players that looks like they knew what their are doing so it was a fairly fast paced and action field match the fraps test lasted 10 minutes and I reported the minimum and average frame rates running this house for this long gave extremely accurate results but I still took an average across three runs which for the most part came out exactly the same each time so with that said let's get into the results first up we have the very high results at 1080p and here we see the amt am one processor the athlon 5350 struggles to deliver playable performance with frame dips as low as 60 FPS the integrated 128 SPU radiant I GPU is the primary issue here the desktop equivalent would sit somewhere between the Radian are five to thirty and 220 the AMD a8 7600 which they're ultra low-cost choice does struggle but the 43 FPS average meant it was smooth for the most part adding a discrete GPU to the AMD system such as the gtx 750ti boosted performance by massive 78% when looking at the minimum frame rate and sixty-three percent on average this is obviously a huge leap in performance and that being the case I was shocked by how much better the Pentium 3258 performed with both the Radeon r7 360 and geforce gtx 750ti here the 750 ti is minimum frame rate is seventy-three percent greater when paired with the G 3258 which meant we never saw a drop below 70 1 FPS needless to say the game was extremely smooth and very playable under these conditions reducing the overall quality down to high from very high only nets as a few extra frames per second in most instances the a8 7600 configuration for example rendered 3 FPS more when looking at the minimums and just a single frame more on average the lowest quality setting our use of medium since I really wanted to focus on the highest in game quality settings anyway you're dropping down to medium from high boosted the minimum frame rate of the aah 7600 system by 2 FPS to 28 FPS while the average frame rate jumped up by 5 FPS to 49 FPS even here the am1 systems still struggled with the minimum of 19 fps and average of 34 FPS it's pretty incredible that a brand new sub $300 computer can deliver playable performance in League of Legends the key to this build was the AMD a8 7600 processor and its accompanying a 58mm 2 plus motherboard although you can add a discrete graphics card to this budget build doing so with say the gtx 750 I will bump the total build cost up to 375 dollars and for that price you may as well invest in the significantly faster Haswell platform for that price the Pentium G 3258 and gtx 750ti combo delivered considerably more performance in league of legends of course you can overclock both the AMD and Intel systems for improved performance evidently the G 3258 doesn't really need to be overclocked with minimum staying above 70 FPS the aah 7600 will need its neck wrung to get anywhere near that when it comes to cpu utilization neither the G 3258 or aah 7600 fully utilized under any conditions in this game all for cause of the a8 7600 were loaded to around twenty percent with just one core sitting around fifty percent so it seems League of Legends really only requires a dual core processor and core efficiency or clock speed will be king here you might be wondering why I didn't go with the cheaper dual core apu then like the $38 richland a 470 300 for example in terms of CPU performance this wouldn't be a downgrade for this title but the 192 SPU's GPU would have been a massive downgrade offering only slightly better performance and the athlon 5350 adding in a discrete GPU to offset the week integrated GPU performance results in the same scenario that a 8 7600 faced for slightly more the G 3258 is world's faster speaking of downgrades you could swap out the G 3258 for the cell Ranji 1820 and not sacrifice too much performance but I really don't recommend this as it saves just twenty dollars and fur goes the ability to overclock I hope those of you looking at building a new cost-effective League of Legends machine families builds useful if you have any questions let me know in the comments and I'll see you guys next time you