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welcome to the second episode in our very first season of upgrade my PC please if you missed episode 1 or the video explaining what the series is all about then be sure to check those out I'll link them in the video description below so on last week's episode we had the first 5 pcs all in need of various upgrades and you the viewers voted Hayden's CAD box the most worthy of receiving the proposed upgrades the voting was seriously close and shockingly the CAD box beat Dakota's Silver Shadow by a single vote just one vote that's pretty harsh and I really wish we could afford to offer Dakota an upgrade package as well sadly though we are stretching the budget as it is for now still Dakota won't be walking away empty-handed and neither will the other three contestants as all four runners-up will be receiving a Rainbow six siege game code from Ubisoft speaking of Rainbow six siege make sure you tune in to the APAC pro league from september 12th to see the top siege teams and E&Z take on the best teams in Asia I'll provide the link in the video description so you can watch the live stream 2 matches as for Hayden we'll be ordering his new parts from PC kaske and they'll be sent out this week PC case key put their hand up right away to support the series and offer free shipping for all the Australian based contestants so a big thanks to them also once Hayden's installed all the shiny new hardware in thuy system I'll get him to provide us some updated photos of the refurbish rig and then I'll show them off to you guys in a special feature at the start of next season also don't forget to vote each week as that will place you in the running to win some cool prizes and those will be global giveaways although we can't afford to expand the upgrade Series globally just yet we can still offer you the chance to win some very cool gear no matter where you are speaking of which later on the video we do have a Seagate Barracuda 4 terabyte hard drive to give away thanks to Seagate that will be going to one lucky winner who voted on last week's episode so if you did indeed vote make sure you stick around for that all right so once again we have 5 pcs all in either various upgrades so let's go check them out it's amazing how much of a statement a case can make the graphite series 320 T comes in one of two options black which is pretty typical or what Corsair calls rebel orange and this is the option ryan chose i have to say a very nice choice where I am built the system from the ground up and it began life with an F X 4100 four gigabytes of RAM and the Radeon HD 7770 the pcs been named Dortmunder after the first Alliance Cruiser showcase in episode 1 our Firefly Ryan's favorite sci-fi series to him I also loved that series it died far too young it still hurts even today and it was something like 14 years ago man do I feel old anyway today Ryan's PC packs a slightly more powerful FX 8350 along with the r9 270x which is a pretty big step up from the 7770 there's also sixteen gigabytes of ddr3 which is a shame as we weren't actually proud to carry that over to any modern platform as you can probably tell from the case where I enjoy his doom but he also likes to play csgo and pub G neither of which play particularly well on an FX series CPU getting right into it this is what I proposed since Ryan has used a lot of a MIDI Harper in the past and right now in terms of value rise it represents the most bang for your buck I've decided on the horizon 3 1200 for the games Ryan wants to play in the class of GPU were upgrading to I think rise and 3 makes a lot of sense here and it can of course be upgraded down the track then filling out that mid Tower is the MSI be 350 gaming plus with 8 gigabytes of memory and with four dimm slots not offer here it can be easily upgraded in the future then finally the GTX 10 63 gigabyte will take things to the next level and push frame rates over 60fps at 1080p for a nice smooth experience at all the latest titles fellow Aussie Braden is rocking along with only me cold and medium PC from his sister many years ago the only upgrade made since receiving the PC includes a gtx 660 and a larger 500 gigabyte hard drive short of that though brayton hasn't had the funds for any big upgrades it sounds like Braden does a little bit of work in light works but mostly likes to play games such as rocket League overwatch and csgo and while very fun popular games I assume they're mostly played out of necessity as they aren't the most demanding titles right so for our younger viewers out there the Core 2 Duo e 80s six-hundred was a high-end flagship dual-core processor released way back in 2008 by Intel and at the time it was a bit special today though it runs rocket League like bicycle League and no matter how hard at pedals with just 2 gigabytes of RAM it's going to be a jerky ride because we're coming from so far back I'm gonna recommend the pentium g 45 64 this one opposed to rise and 3 in terms of pricing it's much the same but we're going about things a little differently for this one now you might be confused by the relatively high end Zed 270 boy from asrock but the idea here is to provide Braden with a set of components that will allow him to make further upgrades in the future dropping in a Core i5 or a core i7 perhaps down the track will give this system a new lease on life meanwhile the GTX 1050 is a massive upgrade from the gtx 660 and that pretty much goes without saying and finally the thought of Braden running this newly refurbished system on an old 500 gigabyte hard drive was just too much for me so we're putting down the angle grinder and getting out Kingston's a 400 which will make for a super snappy boot drive with this upgrade Braden can certainly enjoy some new games can you feel the force well Daniel can and it's extremely weak but still very power hungry the Phenom 2 was AMD's last-ditch effort before it all went horribly wrong for almost a decade now all those years lost anyway built back in 2008 Daniel has persevered never losing faith in the force though he has made a few upgrades along the way the GTX 760 is one of the newer additions and the system has gained a few case fans along the way Daniel mostly uses the PC for gaming and he likes to play pub G but I mean who doesn't am i right along with that he also does like to play Mass Effect Andromeda and warframe having to play those tunnels on this PC would be enough to send anyone to the dark side as David as the core hardware is the system itself is actually very neat and tidy and I really like the case power supply and storage they're all very respectable speaking of storage a PCI Express adapter card had to be installed in order to take full advantage of the SSDs as the motherboard only supports soldered devices with a three gigabit a second throughput and not the six gigabits per second that's required he also tells me that the graphics card blocked most of the SATA ports on the board because they're not mounted at a 90 degree angle so to stop Daniel going rogue I proposed the same rise and three upgrade option that we've already explored this means dropping in the horizon three 1200 on the MSI be 350 going + along with eight gigabytes of ddr4 memory then tackling the games will be the GeForce GTX 10 63 gigabyte and since Daniel only games at 1080p this graphics card will be more than sufficient and then finally if Daniel can get his hands on the a m4 adapter for that 212 Evo then I suggest doing so as that will allow him to use that over the AMD Wraith stealth box cooler okay so this cute little computer affectionately named Reggie has a seriously long backstory so I'll try and summarize it as best and quickly as I can basically Reggie comes from humble beginnings with an Athlon 64 x2 processor after a very long wait Dom eventually upgraded Reggie with a phenom 2 X 6 1045 but the asou smother bullet through a problem after problem and after going through the RMA process not once but twice Dom was forced into an emergency upgrade and that ends up being what you see here so more of a downgrade than an upgrade he went with the super budget orientated Athlon 5350 and that is on the am-1 platform this isn't really a gaming PC though rather its primary role is video work and Dom's dream was to get a rise and CPU in there and has been saving to make this happen so once again converting our 500 u.s. budget into pounds we end up with 390 pounds to play with since gaming isn't the priority here and when Dom does game he only plays rocket League on overwatch and both of which play quite fine in an rx 550 using mild quality settings so we're throwing everything at the CPU here to speed up the video encoding and the best option is of course the risin 5 1600 since Reggie is built inside the cute little element gaming atomic Mini ITX case we've gone with the gigabyte a B 350 end gaming Wi-Fi motherboard with 8 gigabytes of memory down the track though Don might want to sell that a gigabytes of ddr4 replace it with a 16 gigabyte kit but funny how the rendering times will be slashed dramatically even with 8 gigabytes Gramps looks to be on its last legs and surprisingly Kelvin is reporting pretty bad stuttering in games such as Rainbow six siege Just Cause 3 and more recently the destiny to beta Kelvin was gifted this system many years ago by his uncle and has done his best to keep it running ever since upgrades have included the geforce gtx 1066 gigabyte graphics card samsung SSD and the coolermaster v 750 power supply we don't need a new graphics card for this rig as calvin has recently saved up and invested in a shiny new geforce gtx 1060 and he now also has a nice SSD a decent case and power supply so really we're going to dump the entire budget into the platform this open siz up to the rising v 1600 on the asrock be 350 motherboard with a gigabytes of ddr4 memory Kelvin does say he's very keen to give rise and overclocking a shot so I propose we throw in the deep cooled game ax 400 it's a very cost-effective air cooler and it should allow us to hit full gigahertz should the processor be good for it then finally the upgrade from the Core 2 quad q 9300 to the horizon 5 1600 is massive should Kelvin win the upgrade package he won't know himself all right guys there's 5 potatoes all in need of a good old-fashioned overhaul your job is to let us know which one you think is most deserving of receiving our proposed upgrade package to cast your vote please follow the link in the video description that'll head you over to the textbook forums by signing up to the forums commenting and voting you go on the running to win some cool prizes and that will be a global giveaway for the viewers speaking of which the winner from last week's episode is ET 3d from Israel congratulations mate you have an awesome 4 terabyte barratry 2 hard drive from Seagate coming your way for now there are only people in select regions can into their PC for the upgrade my PC please series remember we're paying for all of this out of our own back pocket without the aid of sponsors it's very costly and not that easy to put together we hope to expand this series into more regions in the future but for now at least you can still get involved by voting and that will give you the chance to win some cool gear so far in my opinion we are off to a very good start in this episode alone we've given away a $500 us upgrade package for copies of Rainbow six siege and a Seagate Barracuda 4 terabyte hard drive not bad indeed finally voting will be open till Friday night in the US and that's Saturday arvo for those of you here in Australia I'll then announce the winner from this episode on next week's episode which will be Tuesday at 5 p.m. local time here in Australia and at that point we'll have another 5 pcs to check out we'll do it all over again I'm your host Steve go get voting you