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welcome to episode 8 of upgrade my PC please a last week's episode we had 5 old Intel Core i7 based systems and need a very supp grades I knew the viewers voted a Howell's PC the most worthy of receiving the proposed upgrade package so coming hells way we have a risin 5 1600 processor a gigabyte p3 50 motherboard and 16 gigabytes of ddr4 3000 memory and that will all be coming from pc case key thanks to those guys for supporting the series and offering free shipping before we get into the next 5 pcs just a quick note to the viewers do not forget to vote comment and all that stuff each week because that will put you in the running to win some cool prizes and they are global giveaways so anyone can enter last week's we're not took home a very cool AOC gaming monitor and this week's winner will be announced at the end of the video we have a pretty cool prize in store for them alright then so it's time to check out a random bunch of PCs for this week this little gaming box was built by Andrew back in 2014 during a Black Friday he was after a compact and portable rig they could take to medical school when he was away from home the system was initially built with a de Graaff Excalibur he managed to score an old GeForce GTX 460 from a friend who'd upgraded to something more substantial the pcs used mostly as a workstation but Andrew also enjoys playing the odd games such as minecraft medieval 2 total war and civilization 3 Andrews brother also recently gave him a copy of The Witcher 3 but doesn't really play that well in the system and he would also like to try out some new tales as well when he's not working of course in order for Andrew to enjoy more modern games I suggest we go about things a little differently to the norm rather than just ditch the has wild platformer let's replace the dual core Core i3 CPU with a Core i7 4790 it is a costly upgrade but really there's no better option as going rising or and 8th gen CPU from Intel that would really see us ditch the motherboard and a lack memory this also leaves us with enough money left over to grab a geforce gtx 1050 to our graphics card for 1080p gaming this will have Andrew well covered should he win and he can finally enjoy The Witcher 3 next up we have snow that's it just snow and you probably guess that snow features the cute little Thermaltake core v1 snow Edition Mini ITX case owner ethan started piecing the system together late last year after selling his old athlon x4 860 k build to a friend he then bought the core i7 6100 motherboard and memory from another friend all right Ethan we get it you have lots of friends stop making the rest of us feel bad anyway where was I yep after scouring the core components he then took to eBay and picked up pretty much everything else the idea was to build a compact system to save space on his desk the PC is used to game as well as do a bit of photo and video editing right now Ethan is mostly playing fallout for overwatch and Starcraft 2 finally a fellow sc2 player it has to be said that right now Ethan has a pretty decent turn DP gaming rig but the core i3 6,100 process is probably gonna start aging pretty quickly now since he does have some ddr4 memory actually quite a bit of ddr4 memory let's just ditch the CPU and motherboard in favor of the horizon 5 1600 and the asrock a be 350 gaming ITX AC then because we can and also because Ethan is suffering due to lack capacity let's update the primary boot drive to the crucial MX 300 525 gigabyte SSD that we no need to shift around installed games now moving up from core i3 s we have a coffee part not a coffee Lake there is quite a big difference Evan built this PC at the start of 2014 and has since made multiple upgrades he's added some case fans he's doubled the memory capacity for making advise to 16 gigabytes and he's upgraded the box cooler to the Noctua NHL 12 the PC is now being handed over to his girlfriend to replace her aging laptop which is on the way out so if ever wins the upgrade package will be going to his girlfriend so she can game to her heart's content Evan says she deserves that I can feel the love now I'm told she does like to play a broad range of games but right now the system just stutters really badly and even games that aren't quite that old but a little bit demanding games such as like Assassin's Creed and BioShock Infinite though bioshock's getting quite old now anyway so we have to get this thing up to speed the good news is there are a few decent components already in the system the coolermaster 1/2 912 case is quite good and that corsair CX series 600 watt power supply get the job done that said though the CPU motherboard and memory they're not the best and probably the graphics card as well will need to be replaced since the coffee like CPUs are either out of stock or grossly overpriced right now let's go Ryze and plus the Rison 5 1400 at 150 dollars u.s. right now it's just a superstar let's slot that onto the asrock a B 350 M motherboard with a gigabytes of ddr4 memory finally capping it off I think the GeForce GTX 1063 go byte will be the way to go it handles 1080p gaming with ease overall if Evan wins his girlfriend will be really able to play games to her heart's content okay so what we have here is a prebuilt from australian computer store Cpl William isn't the original owner of the system he picked it up from his cousin about two years ago who got it from a friend he suspects it was purchased as a business type PC anyway William ditched the geforce 9600 GT that came in it and replaced it with a second-hand GTX 650 Ti boost and while he was at it he threw in a 120 gigabyte ocz SSD I'm pretty impressed the OCZ SSD still works actually I've had a lot of those died he also upgraded the three true gigabyte ddr3 memory sticks totaling six gigabytes to a single 8 gigabyte stick which I have to say was probably a bit of a mistake as the core i7 920 process of benefits from triple channel memory operation the system is mostly used for CAD work and William is an architect students so he does do a lot of rendering and he says a single image can take hours to complete on this system since rendering is the priority here let's again go with the horizon 5 1600 and I recommend William overclocks this thing as far as he can on the asrock a be 350 pro 4 helping out with that let's throw in the acquiring m9 a the motherboard does offer four dimm slots so he can expand the 8 gigabyte memory capacity down the track quite easily should William win he'll no longer have to wait hours for his renders to complete last but certainly not least we have Scott's white knight which despite the specs was actually built very recently using hand-me-down parts from his friends this is kind of nice in Scotts words he had this to say inspired by the content found in harbor unboxed I thought I would give it a go myself despite all my friends offering to build it for me it was probably the single most nerve-wracking experience I've ever gone through however I was exhilarated by the prospect that it would be something many people have never done that I constructed all by myself overall he's been quite happy with the system using it mainly to play csgo the only issue being that he would love to play pub G and sadly it just doesn't run very well on the current CPU and GPU combo I know that game in particular hates one gigabyte graphics cards even with the low quality settings the Radeon HD 77 90 is probably the biggest issue here that said I can't leave a man behind no less in a slow-moving bulldozer so the FX CPU has to go as well upgrading the CPU and GPU on this budget of $500 u.s. budget is going to be very tight especially once converted into pounds still this does allow us to pick up a horizon 514 hundred and m/s I'd be 350 M gaming pro at gigabytes of ddr4 memory and a GeForce GTX 1050 2 gigabyte graphics card that will completely eat up our budget every last dollar or pound but it certainly will be enough for Scott to enjoy pub G at 1080p alright guys there's five completely randomly selected pcs that need various upgrades it's now your job to let me know which one you think is the most deserving of receiving the proposed upgrade package to cast your vote please buy the link in the video description that will head you over to the textbook forums by signing up for the forum's commenting and voting also don't forget to comment and like on the video as well you'll go on the running to win some cool Rises and those are global giveaways and we're doing them every single week speaking of which last week's winner was Jin the hero congratulations mate you have an awesome rise in five 1,400 protester coming your way big THANK YOU to AMD for providing that amazing prize remember vote comment each week don't forget about the video we have more awesome prizes coming finally voting will be open til Friday night in the US and that's Saturday over here in Australia and then I'll announce the winner of this episode at the start of next week's episode and then we'll have another 5 pcs to check out not sure what the theme will be there whether it'll be 5 more random pcs but we'll find out next week I'm Harry Steve go get voting guys