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welcome to the fifth episode of upgrade my PC please if you missed any of the previous episodes of the video explaining what this series is all about then be sure to check those out I'll link them in the video description on last week's episode we checked out five AMD FX 6300 pcs and they're all in need of various upgrades you the viewers voted Gabriel's Death Star the most worthy of receiving the proposed upgrades therefore we have our first us-based winner and coming Gabriel's way is a brand new rising 5 14-hundred cpu or gigabyte be 350 motherboard 8 gigabytes of ddr4 memory and a geforce gtx 1050 - our graphics card and once again the good news for the runners-up is that they 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 all the new hardware is installed Gabriel to send us over some updated photos of his refurbished rig and then we'll show them off to you guys at the start of season 2 and a special feature also do not forget to vote each week as that will place you in the running to win some very cool prizes and they are global giveaways last week JK Willy won horizon 5 1500 X processor this week we have another cool prize and I'll announce that later in the video anyway we have 5 new PCs to check out so let's get into it nimma built Darwin back in 2012 and since then the build has continued to evolve hence the name the apu was picked for the reason anyone picks an APU it was cheap and it packed a decent GPU before too long though the integrated graphics was replaced with a free Radeon HD seventy seven hundred and that was picked up from a friend but has recently been swapped out for an RX 480 so in terms of GPU performance the system is actually quite good the issue here of course is that Trinity based a 1050 800 K apu even overclocked it's just not getting the job done it's causing massive system bottlenecks other upgrades over the years have included the NZXT h 440 case the corsair TX 750 pound the Samsung 850 120 gigabyte SSD the games of choice right now include overwatch payday 2 and Guild Wars 2 I'm most familiar with overwatch and I know for a fact that the apu will be heavily limiting performance of the rx for aiding in that title at this point NEMA has come to the absolute end of the road with the FM 2 plus platform and is currently saving for a CPU motherboard and memory upgrade he's a big fan of AMD and has been dreaming of a horizon 5 upgrade for many months now so I propose the following let's ditch the APU for a shiny new horizon 5 1600 which will throw in the asrock a be 350 gaming K fourth a gigabytes of memory the memory capacity can be later increases there will still be to freedom slots available then with the leftover money let's go for a four terabyte hard drive to boost the system's storage capabilities now there's no need to juggle installed games and I hate having to do that next up we have a rather bland looking system from Vince this looks very much like something you would find in an office type setting and frankly that's probably where it belongs sadly Vince is trying a game on this thing and he says he's having a very little fun doing so right now he's playing cs:go using low quality settings at low frame rates and it's much the same with other games he likes to play such as rust and Far Cry 3 like the a1050 100k that we looked at previously the a10 7700 K only has a 384 stream processor enabled radeon GPU so it's extremely weak by today's standards as usual we do only have a $500 u.s. budget so I'm gonna have to stretch it pretty big for this one when on a budget go rise and throw I always say and that's been a saying for like two months now anyway the r3 1200 on the asrock a B 350 and with a gigabytes of ddr4 will work a treat they're napping Vince's game will be the geforce gtx 1063 gigabyte and that will be perfect for his low res monitor then making sure the upgrade doesn't go up in smoke I recommend the EVGA 500 b1 it's a 500 watt bronze certified power supply and that will see us hit the $500 us budget right on the nose okay so Liam has an insanely detailed and somewhat painful upgrade history so get ready here we go in 2012 the system started with an FX 4100 and that was later upgraded to the FX 83 20 but that cpu died just two months ago replacing the dead FX cpu was the Athlon x3 4 50 ouch turns out the FX 8320 all the previous power supply melted the 4-pin power input on the motherboard so both the motherboard and PS you were junked so having scrapped the FX build liam went and picked up a secondhand eye 860 600k on an MSI motherboard from ebay he also got the cheap PSU but that died pretty soon after the purchase so he replaced that with an EVGA 500 watt Liam says he's finally learned his lesson on GPS use so good stuff shockingly after submitting his PC though the a8 6600 K died and he's now replaced that with an a8 7600 the latest update is the system's working at least for now I have no idea how one man kills so much AMD hardware but Liam has had a seriously bad run I'm not even sure I want to recommend anything AMD at the moment but with the Intel 8th gen stuff not arrive until later this week what I'm going to do so again let's up for the risin 5 6100 but this time I'm just I'm not messing around for the motherboard let's just go straight in for the kill with the gigabyte a X 370 gaming k3 and stick 8 gigabytes of memory on that at least if Liam does win the upgrade package he's got himself a motherboard with a nice long three-year warranty with that question Andrew should be on the next season of scrapyard Wars because by the sounds of it he's been training all his life prior to 2012 he'd never owned a PC that wasn't a salvage job but in 2013 he bought a hey CH peeper William P 6 for $500 gutted it and over the years he's bought a number of second-hand parts to turn into what you see here so basically a new computer gaming wise Andrew mostly plays doom Skyrim and alien isolation none of which are terribly demanding though that's probably because that's real or we can get away with for now apart from the APU the rest of the system's actually rather respectable the geforce gtx 750ti is fine for 1080p gaming the WD blue SSD is nice and snappy and the corsair carbides a really nice case and i love the front air vent mod Andrews done the deep core game ax 400 is a good value air cooler and the EVGA 600 BQ is a quality budget power supply so once again what we need here is a platform upgrade therefore I propose the core i5 7600 K on a z2 70 motherboard what do you guys think about that you know someone's already raced to the comment section in protest no seriously this is yet another Rison job yes everybody gets Verizon that said I just realized this is our first-ever Canadian contestant so what can we do with the Canadian dollar we've about 620 of them to play with using every last dollar I proposed the arisin 5 1600 a gigabyte a B 350 M gaming three motherboard and 16 gigabytes of ddr4 3,200 memory that's really gonna bring you up to speed and if you upgrades the GPU at a later point then you really can go from mid range type gaming right up to the high end with a single component upgrade last on the upgrade menu we have civil Ironhide revised throw a few numbers in there and you could have yourself a new Logitech keyboard instead this is the name of Harris's much-loved gaming rig which he bought back in 2014 the pcs initial intention was to gain but Harris now uses it quite a bit for his uni projects since buying the pre-built system he's added an intel SSD and this year his mates gutting the corsair carbide spec 0 for for his birthday and that was to replace the cheap Thermaltake case that the system came in right now harris mostly plays GTA 5 csgo and dota 2 and they all play ok the problem is his CAD work the AMD APU is woefully underpowered and he says the system constantly freezes when adding new layers or rotating a design so that being the case I propose we go with the Rison five sixteen hundred throw that I stand at 80 X as are up a be 350 a pro for motherboard and that will fill out the corsair carbide case a bit better than what he currently has we could also squeeze and a gigabyte kit into the budget but the as rock board does have an additional two DIMM slots free for expansion in the future now with the money left over let's get rid of that cheap and nasty center comm master 800 watt power supply before the thing just detonates para says the power button is broken anyway the be quiet system power eight 600 watt is an affordable and higher quality option so let's drop that in there now in the future of harris upgrades the graphics card he'll ever pc that won't just breeze through is cad work but it'll also be a very capable gamer all right guys there's five stuttery AMD APU systems a whole 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 below that'll head you over to the tech spot forums by signing up for the forum's commenting and voting you'll also go on there running to win some cool prizes and they are global giveaways for the viewers speaking of which the winner from last week's episode is Thiago Perez congratulations mate you have an awesome Reisman v 1600 processor from AMD coming your way big thank you to AMD for providing that amazing prize and remember guys vote each week comment because we have more amazing prizes to give away finally voting will be open til Friday night in the US and that is Saturday afternoon here in Australia and then we'll announce the winner of this episode at the start of next week's episode and at that point we'll have five new PCs to check out and we'll do it all over again I think we'll probably check out some Core 2 quad systems next week so that should be pretty cool I'm your host Steve go get voting