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welcome to the season one final of upgrade my PC please we made it on last week's episode we had five randomly selected computers all the need of various upgrades I knew the viewers voted Joshua's Core 2 quad rig the most worthy of receiving the proposed upgrades so coming his way is a Verizon 7 1,700 processor and a seuss ROG Strix be 350 motherboard and eight gigabytes of ddr4 memory and as always for you viewers don't forget to vote and comment each week because that will place you on the running to win some cool prizes and again those are global giveaways for example last week's when I was from India and they took home a very cool AOC gaming monitor this week's went up will be announced at the end of the video so stick around for that but before then we have 5 around and PCs to check out and they will be the last 5 pcs of season 1 first up we have a converted pre-built from Nicholas originally this was a HP Envy system but over time he's upgraded everything except for that terrible Oh am case and therefore he says the next thing that he wants to tackle is the case apparently the airflow in that HP Envy case is very poor right now Nicholas is playing games such as battlegrounds GTA 5 and Borderlands but he would also like to start playing new a triple-a title such as destiny true for example he also notes that ideally he would like any of the upgrades to stick with his current black silver and red theme but he acknowledges that beggars can't necessarily be choosers well mate I do appreciate your passion I like your attention to detail so I'll do my best to stay on theme looking over the system specs this is a tricky one to say the least because there are quite a few components here that do need upgrading in fact pretty much everything with the exception of the power supply and of course the monitor I would also like to squeeze an SSD into the budget and of course replace that sad excuse for a computer case well not exactly the bee's knees a quad-core Haswell CPU is still pretty sprightly so let's stick with the core i5 44-34 now a big contributing factor to that decision of course is the 16 gigabytes of ddr3 memory and it would be a real shame to ditch that so this is how I propose we go about things I think it's safe to say the GeForce GTX 760 is the weakest link by far in this system and replacing that with a newer graphics card is really a must so the GeForce GTX 1060 that's gonna really take the gaming experience to the next level then to load up all of Nicholas's games in record time we have the crucial MX 300 525 gigabyte model no less replacing the HP case is the exceptionally good value Coolermaster masterbox light 3.1 and because we can let's ditch that ugly stock looking cooler with the deep cool game ax 400 a compact style cooler that will fit nicely inside the master box and it will also have a little bit of room to spare should Nikolas win he will have a very nice setup that'll get him bye for now and then the future when he upgrades the platform who are we ready to take full advantage popping over to Canada we have rides I'm gonna sounding nuclear doom it's an AMD FX based rig so I get it come right away you can tell Ryan he kind of loves his AMD hardware that Thermaltake a v3 AMD edition case really is something else it's a shame the core i5 8400 isn't in stock that in the geforce gtx 1060 would be perfect for this build okay enough messing around business time now this pc was built about a year ago which may surprise a few of you and it was built after a nine-year stint with an old phenom ii system now Wright admits that he wasn't aware that rise and was about to be released at the time of building this system apparently you can't get internet under a rock seriously though m8 by late 2015 the word Zen was added at least once every 60 seconds by tech enthusiasts around the world anyway the PC is used for gaming and streaming right now Ryan's playing Wolfenstein new order doom 4 and World of Warcraft now we could see there all day and discuss why Ryan bought an FX 83-70 in 2016 but let's just give him a pass on that one he came here for some upgrade help so let's try and give him some first pro tip though run an FX series CPU in dual channel memory mode single channel stars and already starve CPU but again I guess that's not why you came here not for that advice anyway so ok look just get to the upgrade stuff the Radeon rx 480 is obviously still very capable that FX CPU though well let's just quietly replace that with a horizon 5 1600 at this point Ryan's probably heard enough and he's already polishing that AMD logo on the front of his case the CPU will find itself right at home on gigabytes a be 350 gaming motherboard with 8 gigabytes of ddr4 memory now if Ryan finds it necessary he can add an additional 8 gigabytes of memory in the future but other than that he should be pretty right for some time to come if he's lucky enough to win now this next PC entered by Charles is actually his fiancee's PC she uses it for gaming streaming and creating more videos the game of choice right now is overwatch that sounds like Charles and his fiance play a lot of overwatch and I can certainly understand that it's a very addictive game if only I had time to play anyway the PC has been scavenged together using whatever spare parts they could get their hands on not that long ago this PC was lagging even more than it does now with an FX 4130 processor but that was recently upgrade to the FX 83 20 when Charles upgraded his own rig to horizon so the aim here is to achieve smoother gameplay particularly when streaming and because she does do quite a bit of video editing on the side a more powerful CPU for encoding is a must another issue with the current system is the power supply it's a custom Alienware unit which doesn't meet the standard ATX specification therefore doesn't fit correctly in the deep cool tesseract case so ideally they'd like to change it the system also lacks an SSD and that's something I personally feel is a must for every system so we do have quite a few things that we need to try and address here that being the case I'll have to be a little bit more crave with our budget than usual the r5 1600 would be my typical go-to choice for such a system gaming and streaming but it's not really gonna fit in our $500 u.s. budget with all the other things that I want to get so what to compromise there and go for the horizon five 1400 instead and we'll slip again onto the gigabyte a be 350 gaming motherboard with a gigabytes of ddr4 memory then to speed up load times and the overall snappiness of the system let's migrate the OS to the crucial bx 300 120 gigabyte SSD and make it a lot less hacked together we'll go with the Thermaltake smart 600 watt power supply to replace that oversized Alienware thing that's just sitting in the bottom of the case right now should they be lucky enough to win in the future when Charles and his fiance have a little bit more money to play with they could upgrade the graphics card maybe add a little more memory and perhaps even go crazy with the CPU and rise and Plus arrives next year now we're back over to the US for a little veggie my hmm was unexpected didn't expect to see veggie Mart next to a computer in one of these but anyway Australian spreads aside we have a rather smart looking PC built by JC here and it was built back in 2014 for less than $500 u.s. which happens to be our budget today JC admits though that his priorities were a little off on this one as he spent most of the money on the case but after seeing the end case m1 version four he just had to have it so it's fair to say any upgrade plans that we make now will be based around this case although the system is pretty basic with an AMD a10 7850 ka pu and the Radeon HD 6870 graphics card JC's not really asking that much of it at the moment is he really only plays a super smash brothers melee on net play via the dolphin emulator that said he is planning on upgrading for next year to play a monster hunter world which will no doubt be a bit too much for the APU and 6000 series GPU so for this upgrade I'm again going to go with the rising 5 1400 because we also need to replace the graphics card and that will only fit in our budget the real tough choice here though for me was what motherboard we go with because we are limited to an a m4 mini ITX motherboard they're really apt that many of those around and pretty much all of them are priced over $100 us which kind of blows out our budget a bit so yeah I there is a bio starboard for $85 us which looks to be an exceptionally good value by but I've never really recommended a bio start product before and I was a bit hesitant to touch this one after a bit of research it seems to have received pretty solid reviews from professional reviewers and the user feedbacks also been very positive since it will work within our budget and my hands are pretty much tied anyway because we can't afford anything else I'm gonna bite the bullet I recommend if the bio star X 370gt n it's pretty much our only choice so let's go with it and yeah I've got no reason to doubt it at this point the only problem with a mini ITX board and we'll face this problem with any mini ITX board is that if JC wants to expand the memory down or in the future he will have to dump the 8 gigabyte chip that we've purchased with this upgrade package and then buy a pair of 8 gigabyte sticks for a 16 gigabyte capacity but that is the limitation of the Mini ITX form factor as I said there's no getting around that then handling the 3d rendering work which I suppose the gaming will be the chief force GT x 1050 Ti which should be a nice upgrade from the odd Radeon HD 6850 should JC win he'll be receiving a huge upgrade from what he currently has and should be well primed to take on monster hunter world next year last stop we have Andrews ROG beast and right away and has to be said that this system is already quite good but we don't discriminate against those who have made wise purchases in the past or a passionate about the components they use all systems are welcome as I've said of photos our key guys 100% key to getting pics so be aware of that for season 2 I'll talk about this a bit more in a video soon anyway focusing on Andrews rig it is an Ivy Bridge based Core i5 35 7nk and when I overclock the CPU still offers a decent experience of spite being limited to just 4 cores and 4 threads still ditching it for something like the horizon 5 1400 wouldn't really be that much of an upgrade and it certainly wouldn't justify getting rid of 16 gigabytes worth of ddr3 memory not with today's prices anyway this su Strix geforce gtx 1066 gigabyte is also a very good graphics card but next year andrew wants to start gaming at 1440p so he is eyeing off a GPU upgrade he also wants to get rid of that old silverstone power supply if possible now if you guys haven't guessed andrew is a massive ROG Strix fan and he really wants to stick with a soos hardware front upgrades so we're pretty limited here but he really wants it so I'm gonna suggest the Asuza ROG Strix gtx 1070 gaming 8g and well that will eat up pretty much our entire budget it really isn't even enough room left over to upgrade that power supply having said that though the gtx 1070 and core i5 combo that won't come anywhere near 400 watts so the power supply shouldn't be an issue just finally before wrapping this up if this one are in the system I'd really be keen to get rid of the core i5 3570 can replace that with a secondhand core i7 3770k that would pretty much be the best option here providing you can get one for the right price all right guys there's five different pcs all the need of various upgrades it's now your job to let us know which one you think is the most deserving of receiving a proposed upgrade package by voting to cast your vote please follow the link in the video description and that'll head you over to the textbook forums by signing up for the forum's commenting and voting you'll go on the running to win some very cool prizes and again those are global giveaways for the viewers speaking of which the winner from last week's episode was Rikuo 2 to 7 congratulations mate you have a risin 5 1500 X processor coming your way from AMD big thank you to AMD providing that amazing prize and for supporting the whole first season of upgrade my PC please there's been plenty of rising CPUs given away so again thank you Andy Australia really appreciate the support and just finally voting will be open until Friday night in the US and that'll be Saturday afternoon here in Australia and while that concludes the first season of upgrade my PC please in next week's video I'll just be announcing the winner for this final episode as well as the winner for voting and commenting so yeah make sure you go do that now I hope you guys enjoyed this first season about grade my PC please I'm your host Steve again go get voting