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welcome to episode three of upgrade my PC please if you missed the previous episode or the video explaining what this series is all about then be sure to check those out I'll provide the links in the video description so once again in last week's episode we have five pcs all in need of various upgrades these were older potato type pcs and the viewers voted Braden's old emic old the most worthy of receiving the proposed upgrades unlike the first episode last week's was a bit of a landslide with you guys heavily voting for old emic old so congratulations to brain for winning the $500 us upgrade package the good news of course being that the four runners-up will all be receiving a copy of Rainbow six siege thanks to Ubisoft big thanks to Ubisoft for supporting the series and providing our contestants with free games this week I'll be ordering Braden's new parts from PC case gear and getting them posted out to him PC case key put their hand up right away to support the series and offer free shipping for all Australian based contestants so a big thank you to them also once installed we'll have Braden sent us some updated photos of the refurbished Riggin that I'll show them off to you guys at a special feature at the start of season 2 also don't forget to vote each week is that will put you in the ring to win some cool prizes and that is of course a global giveaway last week ET 3d from Israel won a Seagate Barracuda 4 terabyte hard drive this week we have another very cool prize on offer I'll announce that a bit later in the video but it may or may not be a Rison 5 1600 CPU all right once again we have 5 pcs all the need of various upgrades let's go check them out first up we have an old Sandy Bridge Core i5 PC from Aki which has been named a Kart ski I hope I said that right anyway it was built back in 2011 with just four gigabytes of RAM and the pokey little geforce GT 430 since then a few difficult upgrades have been made a key received the GeForce GTX 480 is a hand-me-down from a relative so that was a decent step up from the GT 430 however the Fermi based graphics card is physically quite long as a result the hacks all came out in the three and a half inch drive bay got the chop so with a bit of violence that problem was solved quite Klee the next problem as many of you know Fermi is a hot item and with limited case cooling a key had to whack in a 120 millimeter fan on the side of the case to feed in some fresh air the GTX 480 also slayed the old power supply so to solve that issue the EVGA supernova 750 g2 was dropped in I'd normally say that's extreme overkill but then we are talking about a GTX 480 after all upgrading the memory was no easy task either as it was discovered that the second dim slot on the H 61 motherboard ended up being dead so a key had to sell the 4 gigabyte sticks and by a single aching about module 4 single channel operation as a student a key uses the PC for projects but like most of us also enjoys the odd game apparently stuttering is a serious problem for titles such as Just Cause 3 and Resident Evil 7 using low to medium quality settings so let's see what we can do about that since we are dealing with a locked core i5 CPU here a platform upgrade really is in order therefore I'm going to propose the horizon 5 1400 on a gigabyte be 350 motherboard with 8 gigabytes of memory this leaves us with enough cash to buy either a new SSD or a case sadly though there isn't enough money left over to get something like a gtx 1050 so we'll have to stick with that GTX 480 for now a key can tackle that at a later date for me the case really is a sad affair and I can't imagine putting any new hardware into that thing so I've picked out the fractal design focus Mini G this is a smart combo that will not just look great but it'll also work very well next up what is old made up - just waiting for his games to load by the looks of it Ray's dream is to up his game in 2017 with a more powerful gaming rig the system you see here just below me here was built by array with the help of build guides over on the Whirlpool forums and it's only purpose in life is to game ray enjoys playing titles such as csgo dota 2 and player unknowns battlegrounds right now powering the rig is the core i5 750 which has been overclocked to three point four gigahertz but Judy inadequate case cooling has to be clocked back down to the stock speeds during summer or the system crashes thermaltake v9 has a massive top mounted 230 millimeter exhaust fan and unfortunately that's dead while the 120 millimeter fan in the rear is also dead handling the rendering work is the geforce gtx 960 4 gigabyte version which is still decent while the operating system is installed on the kingston v300 240 GB SSD so we're pretty good there as well so really we are looking at a platform upgrade here and there isin v 1400 again makes the most sense on our budget well throw the rise in CPU on a standard ATX motherboard from asrock featuring the be 350 chipset along with 8 gigabytes of ddr4 memory since r8 has a nice SSD power supply and decent graphics card i've decided to solve the case cooling issue by doing away with the old thermal take v 9 and replacing it with something a little more swanky looking in the fan Tex eclipse p400s now race pc won't just run cool it'll look cool as well and we know how important that is for a gaming rig get some RGB ease in there and all year 2017 hopes and dreams will have become a reality this unassuming looking gaming rig started life as a pre built HP back in 2013 but has since been upgraded from the original Radeon HD 75-70 graphics card and a gigabyte memory capacity it also came with a hard drive as the boot device but that has since been demoted to secondary storage status when Carson popped in the crucial MX 100 in fact that's the system's most recent upgrade before that in 2015 the graphics card was upgraded to the very popular geforce gtx 970 and another 8 gigabytes of ram was added admittedly today it is a reasonably respectable gaming system if i'm honest but even so carson is chasing better frame rates and titles such as world of warcraft rust and Garry's Mod apparently right now rust is only played on low to medium quality settings and there the frame rates aren't great so the hope is to not just improve frame rates but also the visual quality settings so the heart of the system we have the core i5 35 70 K clocked at 4.2 gigahertz which in my opinion is quite a mild overclock especially with the cooler master hyper 2 unto Evo even so at that frequency the Ivy Bridge quad core is still an exceptionally good gaming and with our $500 us budget there really isn't anything else we could afford that would be a worthwhile upgrade since the system does have a good sized SSD decent power supply and plenty of RAM the weakness here really is the graphics card and possibly the old HP case something like the GeForce GTX 1060 will only really provide a minor bump in framerate what we really need here is something like a gtx 1070 for the upgrade to be worthwhile so I suggest the zotac gtx 10:17 mini this then leaves us enough money left over to get us a nice case something with better thermal performance so I suggest the fractal design focus gee it's a nice looking affordable case that comes with a pair of front mounted 120 millimeter fans next up we have captain kitten and two years ago this was a sad old aimday FX 6300 system rocking an EVGA GTX 460 graphics card today the FX CPU has been ditched for a has well based Core i5 46 7ek nice choice there Rob meanwhile the GTX 460 was swapped out for the Radeon r9 270x the system is built inside the impressive-looking fantex Eclipse P 400 and powering everything is the corsair C 600 with the cooler master hyper T 4 Robert really should be able to get a solid overclock out of the core i5 4670 K and as it stands short of picking up an unlocked core i7 there really isn't much room for improvement here basically what Rob wants is quicker boot up and game load times and he hopes to upgrade to a 1080p monitor in the near future so he's seeking a more powerful graphics card as well as an SSD right now he's enjoying games such as GTA 5 battlefield 4 Skyrim but he also dabbles with a dope Photoshop so gonna fix the boot times and solve that issue of the random mismatch of laptop hard drives I suggest the crucial MX 300 525 gigabyte two-and-a-half inch SSD then to spruce up the rendering performance let's go with the geforce gtx 1066 you buy a graphics card if Rob hasn't already I suggest overclocking the 46 70 K and once he gets a new monitor the gtx 1066 gigabyte will be fully Unleashed last but certainly not least we have another Core i5 46 CM powered game hurry this time from Australia Jayden's ye olde PC is actually quite respectable but of course we have a $500 us budget here and that translates into around $600 Aussie and for that we can make a number of upgrades jaden loves to gaming from 2005 to 2013 he was a proud member of the PC master-race then in late 2013 I guess he must have hit his head or something because he decided to get an Xbox one rather than upgrade his PC Jaden a shame what we think he made anyway thankfully before too long the concussion must have worn off and Jayden quickly became unimpressed with the performance of his xbox and therefore began planning his PC comeback good on you mate anyway in early 2014 Jayden did get his life back on track at least his gaming life as he built the PC you see here today the PC is used to store his music library act as a Plex server for movies and TV shows and of course play games such as pub G battlefield 1 and doom the main issue here is that GeForce GTX 760 graphics card apart from being very slow in today's games Jaden says it's also starting an artefact quite a bit he also plans stopped grade the monitor to a high refresh rate panel in the near future so I suggest to the msi gtx 1060 armour / c 6g that'll fit our budget nicely and will provide the frame rates needed that leaves us with around a hundred and fifty dollars aussie to play with and with that i was thinking maybe we could get another 8 gigabytes of memory or perhaps even a bigger SSD however jaden has requested if possible could we throw in the fractal design define see i thought the case he had was pretty good but he doesn't like the cable management and he wants something with better cooling and easy to clean dust filters so per his request I suggest we throw on the define see the tempered-glass edition now if you win Jayden I expect to see a very smart looking system build indeed alright guys there's 5 core i5 pcs all in need of various upgrades it's now your job 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 for the forums commenting and all that good stuff you do go on the running to win some cool prizes and they are global giveaways will ship them anywhere speaking of which the winner from last week's episode is Ed Samuels congratulations mate you have an awesome Rison v 1600 processor from AMD coming your way big thanks to Amy for providing that amazing prize and remember guys vote comment and do that stuff every week because we do have more prizes coming there's a few more horizon 5 and maybe even some rising 7 CPUs to giveaway later in the series finally voting will be open til Friday night in the US and that's Saturday arvo here in Australia and then of course we will announce the winner from this episode at the start of next week's episode and at that point we will have another 5 pcs to check out and do it all over again I'm your host Steve go get voting