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welcome to episode 8 of upgrade my PC please this episode was meant to be aired last week but I got sick so it's been delayed to this week and we do have one more episode coming next week anyway on the episode two weeks ago which would have been episode 8 we did have five randomly selected computers all in need of various upgrades and you the viewers voted Scott's FX 8120 PC the most worthy of receiving the proposed upgrades and that means coming his way will be a rising 5 1400 processor the MSI be 350 Motherwell eight gigabytes of ddr4 memory and a geforce gtx 1050 graphics card so not about a lot great package there at all and then of course for all your viewers don't forget to vote each week is that will place you in the running to win some very cool prizes and those are global giveaways last episode's winner took home a very cool AMD arisin 5 CPU this week's winner will be announced in the video and you'll find out what's being given away then alright now we have a randomly another random bunch of randomly random randomly selected random computers it's all very random let's go check it out as you built the system eight years ago with multitasking in mind he says initially the system was built inside the Alienware al X case which featured a 1,000 watt power supply the Alienware case was starting to fall apart donut looked pretty miserable I'm told so earlier this year and replaced it with the impressive case labs SMA 8 he also brought over that 1000 watt power supply he says since he can't afford all the parts for an enthusiast grade build all the ones he started with the case and has decided to work from there right now the system is used for gaming and video editing and andrew is keen to check out more modern gaming tiles he just needs an upgrade first obviously the objective would be to replace the very old AMD phenom ii x4 955 processor impossible the Radeon HD 6870 graphics card as well however given how serious Andrew seems about is liquid cooling hardware I feel we really should opt for something a bit more extreme than your entry-level or your typical entry-level be 315 motherboard so let's lock the risin five 1600 on two gigabytes a x-37 in-game in k3 with 16 gigabytes of ddr4 3000 memory that really is the best option for a content creator on a $500 u.s. budget this upgrade will drastically reduce Andrews render times in fact I can't really even imagine what it would be like going from a phantom to processor to something like the Rison 5 1600 James first built this PC back in 2012 and at the time it did have a Radeon HD 5450 graphics card which was later upgraded to a HD 6870 and finally last year the Radeon r9 furio's dropped in and at the time he also took the opportunity to move everything into a shiny new Corsair Vengeance C 70 case the storage and power supply have also been upgraded and the PC really was built to play games and edit videos and today nothing has changed James also went hobbies in a hedge TC vibe with his brother and it works on the PC he says but he is keen to expand upon the games they can play and while this will require a CPU upgrade he's also keen to increase the processing power of the CPU for his video editing and now CAD work his plan right now is to upgrade to the a m4 platform and he likes the option of being outed by either a Verizon 5 or perhaps even a Rison 7 CPU or maybe even something better in the future given how poor availability is of the 8th gen core series right now Verizon really is the only option that said for gaming and productivity performance it's really hard to go past something like the Rison 5 1600 so it's a pretty simple upgrade then as was the case with the previous build let's go with the Rison 5 1600 but this time we will be putting it on the slightly more affordable of sue's prime B 350 plus with a gigabytes of memory and then we'll be calling it a day that combo will be able to extract much more performance from that Radeon r9 Fury graphics card should James win next up we have John's lazy moose built with these dodges before Christmas a late last year after purchasing the CPU motherboard and memory secondhand then they picked up the most affordable graphics card they could which happen to be the Radeon rx 460 and they threw that in the smallest cheapest case they could find which turned out to be the cooler Master Elite 110 it's a neat little PC but despite being just shy of a year old it really struggles to let anything more than the most basic games such as Age of Empires 2 rocket league and quake well the radio rx 460 isn't the most potent GPU the real issue here is the skylake jewel called Pentium processor now we could ditch the G 4400 for something like the core i7 7700 but four hundred and ten dollars ozzie that's not really a cost-effective move and we'd still have to make do with that H 110 board for slightly more we can pick up a be 350 mother but with a 6-quart 12 thread Verizon v 1600 and if we really push the budget we can squeeze in a geforce gtx 1050 TI which will be a fairly substantial upgrade from that RX 460 this upgrade will enable john to make further upgrades in the future whereas the h 110 board was pretty much a dead end of the 7700 K would have been the end of the road there so I feel given the budget this is probably the best option going forward next up we have another Aussie Francesca a fellow Melburnian and on display is the tiny purple pixel eater this swanky regal looks far more impressive than it really is I have to say despite looking the part inside it's powered by a rather underwhelming AMD a8 6600 K APU though the GPU firepower has been improved with the gtx 960 the system does have eight gigabytes of memory but of course it is ddr3 memory so we'll have to give that the flick that said the Samsung Evo 250 gigabyte SSD is a nice addition and will certainly keep that along with the funky-looking Aero call X predator cube case Franchesca is a gamer who admits she was once an Xbox /we gamer but her fiance show the light and got her to become a member of the PC master-race the only problem is she wants to get into more modern games and the system really is struggling and she says it often freezes this thenns another job for horizon that said though if the core i5 8400 was in stock that might have been my recommendation for this one anyway as it stands the r5 1600 is the only option and will slot that onto the gigabyte a B 350 M dash d 3h motherboard since we can't really afford a better graphics card on our budget let's instead up for 16 gigabytes of ddr4 memory if Francesca wins perhaps you can sell that old hardware get rid of the gtx 960 and perhaps replace that with the gtx 1060 or something along those lines last but not least we have Joshua's prowl a humble old Core 2 quad system that I just had to include because these photos are so nice there you go guys pro tip for season 12 upgrade my PC please it's all about them photos anyway handy camerawork aside Joshua certainly needs a few upgrades Joshua sounds like a real PC part scavenger like he could almost be Brian from tech yes city's brother no offense mate he says he's that guy who collects old used and unwanted parts from his friends and puts them in his own PC as a result in 2017 this is what he's dealing with and things look as though they're probably moving quite slowly despite the pcs age you still enjoy his games such as praying he also does a lot of video editing work in Premiere so while Joshua would like to enjoy the latest and greatest games his focus really is on video editing work given the GeForce GTX 970 is still very capable especially at 1080p we don't really need to allocate any of our budget here instead we're going to be focusing entirely on rendering power and that means securing the mighty AMD horizon 717 hundred and eight course sixteen thread CPU and that will make light work of Joshua's videos the horizon processor will be installed on the impressive-looking a seuss ROG Strix B 350 - F gaming motherboard with eight gigabytes of ddr4 memory all right guys there's five different pcs all the neat our various upgrades it's now your job to let us know which one you think is the most deserving of receiving the proposed upgrade package to cast your vote follow the link in the video description that'll head you over to the textbook forums by signing up for the forums commenting and voting you also go on the reign to win some cool prizes and those are again global giveaways speaking of which the winner from last week's episode is Sheriff India hope I said that even remotely correctly anyway congratulations mate I don't think you're gonna care because you now have an AOC gaming monitor coming your way and is a free sync supported monitor big thanks to AIC providing that amazing prize remember guys vote and comment each week because that will put you in the running to win more awesome prizes finally as always voting is open til Friday night in the US and that's Saturday afternoon here in Australia and then we'll announce the winner of this episode at the start of next week's episode which should be shown next week assuming I don't get sick again of course then we will have five new PCs to look at more duel over again though that will be the last episode of the season Armijo Steve go get voting guys you