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welcome to episode 4 up up grab my PC please if you missed any of the previous episodes of the video explaining what the series is all about and be sure to check those out I'll provide links in the video description so on last week's episode we had 5 Core i5 PCs that roll in need a very sup grades and you the viewers voted a Keys Akatsuki the most worthy of receiving the proposed upgrades therefore we now have our first new zealand-based winner and coming Aki's way we have a brand new Core i5 1400 CPU a gigabyte be 350 motherboard 8 gigabytes of ddr4 memory and the fractal design focus mini G computer case so congratulations to Aki and the good news is the 4 runners-up will be receiving a Rainbow six siege game code from Ubisoft big thanks to Ubisoft for supporting the series and providing our contestants with free games once installed we'll have a key senders some updated photos of the refurbished rig and then we'll show them off to you guys there's a special feature at the start of next season also do not forget to vote each week as that will place you in the running to win some cool prizes and those are global giveaways last week we had ed some Ewell's who won the horizon 5 1600 processor and the week before ET 3d won a Seagate Barracuda 4 terabyte hard drive so congratulations to those guys as well this week we have another cool prize and I'll announce that later in the video for now we have 5 pcs all in need of various upgrades so let's check them out samuel is a young guy who saved for over two years to build a system or at least a version of the system you see here in late 2014 he pieced it together and back then it had a single 8 gigabyte memory stick the Radeon r9 270 graphics card and a 500 gigabyte hard drive which was being used as a boot drive since then a few upgrades have been made most notably of which is the geforce gtx 1060 which samuel saved up for for quite some time but he pulled the trigger on it in late 2016 he also scored a free 8 gigabyte memory module from his mate very nice bonus there the 500 gigabyte hard drive was also dumped for a larger 1 terabyte model and that holds all Samuels games and he's also made the move to a speedy SSD for the OS so that's a nice upgrade there further upgrades though had been put on hold as Samuels now saving to study abroad next year in Japan while he completes your 11 so the dream would be to take this gaming PC to the next level so we can enjoy that when he's not studying speaking of games right now he's enjoying subnautica GTA 5 and hearts of iron 4 but also works with Photoshop and Premiere apparently the FX 6300 really takes its sweet time encoding videos so Samuel has been dreaming of horizon 5 6 800 upgrade but hey who isn't these days so that being the case propose we go ahead with the risin 5 1600 grade and throw that eye standard ATX as rock a be 350 pro 4 motherboard which will fill that Krueger MX surrounded case at a bit better we can only squeeze an 8 gigabyte kit into the budget but the asrock board will have two dims free for expansion then because we can I think the be quite system power 800 600 what would be a worthwhile upgrade the 500 watt unit in there is I suppose decent but it's one of those included PSU deals and they generally tend to be a bit cheap plus those non sleeved cables are a bit ugly am i right then the only last thing would be the hydro Series H ATI I know you can buy an adapter for the am 4 socket for this cooler and I'm not sure if that will be required or not missus something Samuel will have to look into overall the upgrade package will dramatically reduce using code times and enhance the gaming experience so a win win next up we have another FX 6300 powered rig and this one was also built back in 2014 that was built by kevin as a project for college to learn what makes computers tick or in Kevin's case really slow and have the hopeful gamer to get completely bulldozed then Kevin also started with the Radeon r9 270x and eight gigabytes of memory along with a single one terabyte hard drive over the use he added a second one terabyte hard drive another 8 gigabyte ddr3 kit and the geforce gtx 980 which is comparable to the gtx 1060 in terms of performance today the pc is used exclusively for gaming to help keV unwind and ease down time and well that's exactly what a good gaming rig should be used for the hope though is to enjoy games such as battlefield one rome 2 total war and GTA 5 with less frame jitter as kevin puts it with three modules and six cores I can only imagine how do the experiences with the FX 6300 processor at the risk of being a bit boring where once again going with the horizon 5 1600 maybe in a few weeks Intel can offer an alternative for future episodes in the series anyway since keV has a really nice black and red theme going on I suggest the as rock a be 350 gaming k4 and this time of course we will be sticking with an 8 gigabyte ddr4 memory kit with the leftover money the biggest impact we can make is a 240 gigabyte SSD from Kingston the UV 400 the SSD alone will live in this PC right up and Kevin will be loaded into games quicker than he can say I don't miss my old FX 6300 me minion minion meet the upgrade my PC please audience don't upset them trust me you don't want to do that alright so minion was purchased as a pre-built system from Ironside computers in the US many it is Alex's first desktop PC and I believe it was originally purchased with gaming in mind but alex has since gotten heavily into music production as well as a little video editing of gameplay footage the system originally came with the geforce gtx 960 - you give out graphics card but that since been swapped out for a gtx 1060 other than that the system's pretty much gone untouched what alex is looking for in an upgrade is something that he can improve upon in the future obviously the am3+ platform turned out to be a dead end his master plan right now is to get the Rison 3 1200 processor and stick that on the MSI be 350 PC mate with a 250 gigabyte SSD or there abouts well we can certainly make that upgrade happen with our budget in fact we can probably even do a little better with the SSD and CPU rather than dropping the Rison through 1200 let's go for the horizon 5 1400 for those extra threads and as per Alex's request let's go for the MSI be 350 PC mate motherboard with 8 gigabytes of ddr4 memory then capping it all off we can probably squeeze in the crucial MX 300 and we can go with the 525 gigabyte model that is a seriously good buyer right now now we're heading over to New Zealand for the first time this episode to check out Mackie's AMD FX 6300 rig yep another one not lying with the title Mackey built this system in late 2012 and I must say you have to admire how well he's hung in there at the time it wasn't even a full-blown conclusion yet that the bulldozer architecture moved about as quickly as a bulldozer as the years went by Mackey's love for his FX processor remains strong and he decided to treat it in 2015 all it needed was a shine in UK so he purchased the NZXT h 440 and as you can see here it does look quite nice the following year the power supply was upgraded because his existing model blew up probably the FX pro saw the corsair r MX series 550 what was dropped in to take care of that power-hungry cpu then this year Mackey's brother who sounds like a real top bloke brought him a shiny new rx 480 graphics card I suspect though there might be a miner in New Zealand trying to work out who stole his R X 480 the impressive w25 15h monitor was purchased secondhand and the pcs now mostly used for 3d CAD modeling and rendering as well as content creation and photo editing so ideally what we really need here is a CPU with more cores and cause that are more efficient than a coal power plant yep you guessed it there isin 5 1600 is the best and only sensible choice right now for such a budgets of course we're picking it for this build I think the asou Spri be 350 plus will work well and it'll look great in the NZXT and 440 unfortunately with pricing the way it is in New Zealand the moment we can't afford any more memory or perhaps a bigger SSD still the upgrade from the FX 6300 to the horizon 5 1600 is significant enough as it is and it will provide Mackay with an awesome platform to work with last but not least we have the death star and if we're lucky with the help of the force we can fire two proton torpedoes into the am3+ socket and end it Gabriel built the system about a year ago he says and I've really got no idea what his excuses if he'd been following the channel or reading the content over on tech spot we could have saved him a lot of heartache anyway Gabriel says it was meant to be more of a workstation slash mid-range gaming PC but today it's really just no longer cutting it games such as France Skyrim and battlefield 4 they play okay he says but more modern titles are really becoming an issue the FX 6300 and gtx 1050 TI combo is really going to struggle at 1080p with modern games so we really do have to focus the budget on getting a new cpu as well as a GPU ideally I would have liked to upgrade the raid max power supply but that I'll just have to do for now thankfully the upgraded PC probably will draw less power than what the FX system is using currently Gabriel already has an SSD so we can leave the storage alone so I propose we opt for the rise and 5 1400 on the asrock a be 350 pro 4 with 8 gigabytes of ddr4 memory then to really improve the gaming experience we'll ditch the gtx 750ti in favor of the gtx 1050 - i and that right there is a big step up indeed the 1050 Ti is capable of tackling all the latest styles at 1080p using reasonably good quality settings so Gabriel won't know himself alright guys there are 5 power-hungry FX 6300 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 the proposed upgrade package to cast your vote please follow the link in the video description that'll head over to the text bot forums remember you have to register but you do go in the running to win some cool prizes those prizes will be given away globally so anyone can sign up vote and have a chance to win something cool each week speaking of which the winner of last week's episode was JK Willy congratulations mate you have an awesome rise in 5 1,500 X processor from AMD coming your way big thank you to AMD providing that amazing prize and remember guys vote comment each week we will have more awesome prizes to give away finally voting will be open til Friday night in the US and that's Saturday afternoon here in Australia then I'll be announcing the winner of this episode at the start of next week's episode at which point we'll have another 5 pcs to check out and we'll do it all over again I'm your Harry Steve go get voting guys