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welcome to episode 7 of upgrade my PC please on last week's episode we had 5 Intel core2 quad based systems all the needed various upgrades and you the viewers voted Andrews PC the most worthy of receiving the proposed upgrades as for our 4 runners-up well they'll be receiving a Rainbow six siege game code from Ubisoft and a big thank you to Ubisoft for supporting the series in providing our contestants with free games don't forget to vote each week either because that will place you in the running to win some cool prizes and those are global giveaways last week we gave away a Verizon v 1400 processor and this week we have another very cool prize and I'll announce that later in the video for now we have 5 very old core i7 pcs to check out so let's go do that actually hold up a minute before we do that please note that this series upgrade my PC please isn't about finding the oldest and saddest and most rundown pathetic computers we can and just simply rebuild them into something new rather the idea is to check out all kinds of different pcs and sometimes we will look at old pcs and sometimes not so old we're really just targeting PC and thews iasts that's it anyway with that disclaimer out of the way we'll no doubt still see how these pcs are all better than mine in the comments but hey let's just get on with it Joshua received his computer as a gift from his parents for finishing middle school I think all I got was a pat on the back and a look of disbelief PC would have been really cool anyway the original system has seen countless upgrades and they were first carried out by professionals then some tech savvy friends helped out now Joshua is starting to mess around the upgrades himself over the past few years he has started researching and tinkering about he's research led him in the direction of horizon 5 upgrade he's been slightly piecing a plan together as it stands he saved up and purchased the Asuza ROG Strix B 350f gaming motherboard and he also has plans to pick up the horizon 5 1600 X next Joshua also plans to replace that crazy-looking case he currently has with the NZXT s340 elite in the matte white finish and he just loves the design of that case and have to agree it's a very slick looking case and since we can afford that with our 500 on the US budget let's go the s340 then for the cpu I propose we do save a little bit of money and get the non ex risin 5 1,600 it's much the same but the non ex version does come with a cooler and that'll help tie Joshua over until he can get an a m4 adapter for the 212 Evo then we can swing for a gigabytes of ddr4 memory and a speed everything up let's drop in crucial MX 300 275 gigabyte SSD if Joshua wins he'll be well on his way to building his dream gaming rig Walter purchase the machine you see here from CyberPower PC in 2010 and over the years has made a few key upgrades originally it came with the GeForce GTS 250 graphics card 6 gigabytes of RAM and a 32 gigabyte SSD upgrading to the Radeon r9 390 would have made a huge difference and that graphics card is still very capable today Walter enjoys long walks on the beach couldn't couldn't do that with a straight face no seriously Walter enjoys playing World of Warcraft Mass Effect Andromeda and Final Fantasy XIV sowhat's X is 10 eyes 1 so that's 11 then we have a V so 5 but we have to deduct I from V so 14 Roman numerals suck anyway final fantasy 14 I've got there in the end I'm moving along Walter uses the PC for illustration so he plays around with applications such as Photoshop so he doesn't just want better frame rates in games but also better performance for his drawing software since the Radeon r9 390 is still a bit of a beast and we'd have to spend more than our $500 US budget allows for to replace it so let's focus on the CPU the new core i5 8400 is proven to be really snappy in their jovi applications and you wouldn't need to spend like another hundred dollars on the rise and 7 1700 to beat it the 8400 is in an exceptional gamer as well and it has no trouble maxing out today's latest and greatest graphics cards so there will be plenty of headroom there then with sixteen gigabytes of memory Walter will be set allow him to work and game faster than ever before next up we have an old Linfield based core i7 870 system from Pascal named Smilodon after the raid max case it's built in I guess it looks a bit like a saber-toothed tiger if you squint really hard and have had like a dozen beers Pascal probably should have called it mothership because that's basically what it is for his family's entertainment the old rigs being used as a plex media streaming server as well as a gaming machine our base for kids and it's often used simultaneously for both playing games as well as streaming and the old core i7 isn't appreciating this mega tasking action or whatever intel calls at these days right now Pascal and his family are playing Rainbow six siege battlefield 1 and titanfall 2 at Terry P so the GeForce GTX 1060 has them pretty well covered there so to keep in-house squabbling to a minimum Pascal really needs more processing power under the hood of that massive raid max case converting our $500 us budget to Canadian dollars we get about 630 dollars to play with and I'm planning on using every last dollar for this one there's simply no better option the horizon a7 1700 the 8 course 16 thread Beast will have Pascal's family well looked after and we're sixteen gigabytes in memory they should be right Pascal can always add another 16 gigabytes down the track if need be all this will be on the msi gaming be 350 PC mate and that'll ensure those play of options to expand and upgrade the system in the future joel has old unfaithful for us and this thing brings back quite a few memories for me as I had a thermaltake Armour + case back in the day and I just loved that thing Joel's build is about eight years old now it was built by a friend as a workstation PC but after years of use the system died and Joel's mate bought a new PC to replace and hand him the dead rig just to play around with after countless hours of troubleshooting and a few component changes Joel actually managed to bring the beast back to life well for the most part anyway it still refuses to boot on occasion it suffers from a few other gremlins but it's a bit of a make due situation for now Joel says he's ok with playing games on low quality settings he just wants to be play games without any stability issues and right now he is trying to play pub G GTA 5 and 7 days to die so for this one I suggest the risin 5 1400 is this fork or axe red CPU can tackle the latest games and it's really a perfect pairing for a mid-range to high-end GPU unfortunately for now though Joel will have to stick with the GTX 760 as we could only afford something like a GTX 1050 or rx 560 and neither of those really offer much in the way of extra performance over what he currently has so be a bit of a waste of money that being the case it's my opinion that we're better off dumping 106 Deus dollars we have leftover on an SSD and that will get us the crucial MX 300 275 gigabyte we are of course pairing the r5 1400 on a be 350 motherboard with 8 gigabytes of memory and this platform upgrade alone will take Joel's gaming experience to the next level now this PC by hallam is creative very creative indeed he says that started life as his grandmother's computer back in 2010 and with a core i5 7500 and a huge error a cool case eventually grandma didn't need the system anymore so she handed it off to her grandson hell in 2015 as a birthday gift grandmas are the best to hunt they hells made a number of upgrades over the years and last year the aro cool knife Fox's he's a nicknamed it cut him for the last time sick of getting cut by the case every time he went in there to do some cleaning or whatever else he hacked it up and just kept the motherboard tray to create the thing you see before you what he's basically made here is an open-air test bed out of timber and the leftover motherboard tray and I have to say I absolutely love it he'll is a robotic engineer student in the future he would like to custom design and fabricate his own small form-factor micro ATX case that's pretty cool speaking of which he does do a lot of CAD work with the PC and this really is its primary function though he does enjoy playing games as well right now he says he's playing overwatch heavily modified Skyrim se and World of Warcraft Legion his dream PC would be based on a thread Ripper CPU but realistically he's hoping for our eyes and 5 or 7 upgrade in the new future so this is a pretty obvious upgrade we will be again using every last dollar we have available the r5 1600 is the most expensive Rison cpu we can afford with our $500 u.s. budget which converted to Australian dollars gives us 645 in addition to the r5 1600 that's going to get us the gigabyte a B 350 M d 3h with 16 gigabytes of memory should hal win his cad life's going to become a heck of a lot more enjoyable alright guys there's five old intel power plants all in need of various upgrades it's now your job to let us know which one you think is most deserving of receiving a proposed upgrade package to cast your vote please follow the link in the video description that'll hide your over the textbook forums by starting up for the forum's commenting and voting though they're running to win some very cool prizes and as I said they are global giveaways and we do do them each week speaking of which the winner from last week's episode is Android D 25 congratulations mate you have an awesome AOC 24 inch g20 460 v q6 freesync gaming monitor coming your way big thank you to a OC providing that amazing prize remember guys vote comment each week because we do have more awesome prizes coming and don't forget to like and comment on the video as well finally voting will be open to a Friday night in the US and that's Saturday over here in Australia then I'll announce the winner of this week's episode at the start of next week's episode 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