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welcome back to harbor unbox to standby dancing the final winners of up grab my PC please season one over the past three months we've looked at 50 computers and upgraded to them based on guidance from you the viewers the final winner of season one is JC from the us with these smart looking mini ITX rigged by winning he'll now be an upgrade from that AMD APU and a Radeon HD 6870 graphics card that it currently has two rows and five processor with the geforce gtx 1050 Ti so congratulations to JC on winning the final episode the $500 us upgrade package includes not just the Rison v 1400 processor and geforce gtx 1050 - a graphics card but also a shiny new X 370 motherboard with eight gigabytes of ddr4 memory also taking home a cool prize is SVD Killswitch for voting and commenting on last week's episode and they're taking home a risin 5 1500 X and this is now the 10th viewer to walk away with a prize in total this season tech spot in collaboration with harbour and box has given away $5,000 u.s. worth of PC upgrades and with the help of our partners well over $2000 u.s. worth of prizes for the viewers it's been a fun season and we keen to do it all over again right now we're targeting February next year to start season 2 we will be kicking that off with a look back at all the winners from this season and see how they got them with all their upgrades for those of you who've already submitted your PC well you don't have to do that all over again for season 2 that's it there I strongly recommend you go back and update your photos and provide the best photos you can really is all about the photos and you can reply to the existing post that you've already made and your private thread there and just update photos there or you can even edit the original submission however you want to do it but you can go back to that original thread please update the photos we have had over 1400 submissions so far and next season will be picking just 50 of the best again photos really are everything without good quality photos you simply won't be picked unfortunately that is the situation looking at we have to work with now I can almost guarantee that if you do provide high quality photos that will ensure that your PC makes it onto season who anyway as we get closer to starting season 2 we'll release another video containing all the important information any changes or tweaks that we may have made for season 2 well that's gonna wrap up season 1 I hope you guys enjoyed it taking out this video I'll show all 10 submissions that won this season I'm a host Steve see you next time crockie we're back in Australia this time with Hayden and his CAD box I promise I'll never do that again for the remainder of this video right ok down the business so Hayden built this rig with his stepfather almost four years ago now with the intention of using it for CAD assignments as he is a student of course like most of us he does enjoy the odd gaming session from time to time and he mostly plays a europa for factorio and civilization 6 the problem is the core i5 4670 is getting hammered with the CAD work it takes hours to complete short three-minute renders so we definitely need some more CPU firepower ideally I'd love to suggest something like the Rison 7 1700 but that's just not going to fit within our budget unfortunately and the idea of something like a thread Ripper build would no doubt have Hayden throw f---ing at the mouth but again not realistic for our budget anyway getting back to reality once again I'm going to recommend the Rison 5 1600 with its 6 cores and 12 threads it will be ideal for the CAD work strap that on the be 350 motherboard with 8 gigabytes of ddr4 memory and we're set once memory prices do settle down Hayden might want to add another 8 gigabytes and then the system would be unstoppable for his CAD work Hayden says he's also keen to give overclocking a shot so I suggest throwing in the cryo rig m9 a fellow Aussie Braden is rockin along with Olema cold and medium PC from his sister many years ago the only upgrade made since receiving the PC includes a gtx 660 and a larger 500 gigabyte hard drive short of that though Brayton hasn't had the funds for any big upgrades it sounds like Braden does a little bit of work in light works but mostly likes to play games such as rocket League overwatch in csgo and while very fun popular games I they're mostly played out of necessity as they aren't the most demanding titles right so for our younger viewers out there the Core 2 Duo 8600 was a high-end flagship dual-core processor released way back in 2008 by Intel and at the time it was a bit special today though it runs rocket League like bicycle League and no matter how hard at pedals with just 2 gigabytes of RAM it's going to be a jerky ride because we're coming from so far back I'm gonna recommend the pentium g 45 64 this one opposed to rise and 3 in terms of pricing it's much the same but we're going about things a little differently for this one now you might be confused by the relatively high end Zed 270 boy from asrock but the idea here is to provide Braeden with a set of components that will allow him to make further upgrades in the future dropping in a Core i5 or a core i7 perhaps down the track will give this system a new lease on life meanwhile the GTX 1050 is a massive upgrade from the gtx 660 and that pretty much goes without saying and finally the thought of brain and running this newly refurbished system on an old 500 gigabyte hard drive was just too much for me so we're putting down the angle grinder and getting out Kingston's a 400 which will make for a super snappy boot drive with this upgrade Braden can certainly enjoy some new games first up we have an old Sandy Bridge Core i5 PC from Aki which has been named a Kart ski I hope I said that right anyway it was built back in 2011 with just four gigabytes of RAM and the pokey little geforce GT 430 since then a few difficult upgrades have been made a key received the GeForce GTX 480 is a hand-me-down from a relative so that was a decent step up from the GT 430 however the Fermi based graphics card is physically quite long as a result the hack saw came out in the three and a half inch drive bay got the chop so with a bit of violence that problem was solved quite quickly the next problem as many of you know Fermi is a hot item and with limited case cooling a key had to whack in a 120 millimeter fan on the side of the case to feed in some fresh air the GTX 480 also slayed the old power supply so to solve that the EVGA supernova 750 g2 was dropped in I'd normally say that's extreme overkill but then we are talking about a GTX 480 after all upgrading the memory was no easy task either as it was discovered that the second dim slot on the h 61 motherboard ended up being dead so a key had to sell the 4 gigabyte sticks and by a single aching about module 4 single channel operation as a student a key uses the PC for projects but like most of us also enjoys the odd game apparently stuttering is a serious problem for titles such as Just Cause 3 and Resident Evil 7 using low to medium quality settings so let's see what we can do about that since we are dealing with a locked core i5 CPU here a platform upgrade really is in order therefore I'm going to propose the horizon 5 1400 on a gigabyte be 315 motherboard with 8 gigabytes of memory this leaves us with enough cash to buy either a new SSD or a case sadly though there either enough money left over to get something like a gtx 1050 so we'll have to stick with that GTX 480 for now a key can tackle that at a later date for me the case really is a sad affair and I can't imagine putting any new hardware into that thing so I've picked out the fractal design focus Mini G this is a smart combo that will not just look great but it'll also work very well last but not least we have the death star and if we're lucky with the help of the force we can fire two proton torpedoes into the am3+ socket and end it Gabriel built the system about a year ago he says and I've really got no idea what his excuses if he'd been following the channel or reading the content over on tech spot we could have saved him a lot of heartache anyway Gabriel says it was meant to be more of a workstation slash mid-range gaming PC but today it's really just no longer cutting it games such as battlefront Skyrim and battlefield 4 they play ok says but more modern titles are really becoming an issue the FX 6300 and gtx 1050 TI combo is really going to struggle at 1080p with modern games so we really do have to focus the budget on getting a new CPU as well as a GPU ID I would have life to upgrade the raid max power supply but that I'll just have to do for now thankfully the upgraded PC probably will draw less power than what the FX system is using currently Gabriel already has an SSD so we can leave the storage alone so I propose we opt for the horizon 5 1400 on the asrock a be 350 pro 4 with 8 gigabytes of ddr4 memory then to really improve the gaming experience we'll ditch the gtx 750ti in favor of the gtx 1050 - i and that right there is a big step up indeed the 1050 Ti is capable of tackling all the latest titles at 1080p using reasonably good quality settings so Gabriel won't know himself 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 very little fun doing so right now he's playing csgo 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 a 1050 100k that we looked at previously the a 1070 700 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 us 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 2 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 all right diving until we have Andrews PC which is dubbed jus retirement makes sense the 11 year old q 6600 has seen better days that GeForce GTX 1060 is probably not really pulling its weight either anyway the system in its current form or there abouts was built five years ago from secondhand parts with the exception of the graphics card the lovely and very retro coolermaster wave master has seen three builds now it's started life with an Athlon 3500 then an Athlon 64 x2 4200 plus then an Athlon 64 x2 5400 before going blue with the q 6600 Andrew now uses the system for image and video editing but of course enjoys the odd games such as our factor 2 Borderlands and rollercoaster tycoon I'm sure it also like to enjoy some new or more demanding games as well could he actually play them the only requirement here being that we do keep the wave master case and honestly I wouldn't dare a place such an old beauty what I will do though is replace that crusty old LGA 775 platform we have at most 380 pounds to play with so we will be stretching the budget to the max on this one the best option right now for Andrews needs would be the risin 5 1600 on the Isuzu prime B 350 plus we thank you bytes of ddr4 I'd love to upgrade the graphics card as well but rather than up for a lower-end Verizon CP I feel like going all-in on the r5 1600 will pay off for that image and particularly video editing should Andrew win he can always upgrade to something like a GTX 1060 in the future and that'll set him up nicely for gaming 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 he'll in 2015 as a birthday gift grandmas are the best to hunt they Pels 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 too right 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 hell 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 Aizen 5 or 7 upgrade in the near future so this is a pretty obvious upgrade though 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 d3h with 16 gigabytes of memory should hal win his cad life's going to become a heck of a lot more enjoyable 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-racking 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 are $500 u.s. budget is go to be very tight especially what's 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 1052 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 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 2 of upgrade my PC please it's all about them photos anyway handy camerawork aside Joshua's 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 offence mate he says he's that guy who collects old used and unwanted parts from his friends and puts them in his iron 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 he's 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 Rison processor will be installed on the impressive-looking a seuss ROG Strix B 350 - F gaming motherboard with 8 gigabytes of ddr4 memory now way back over to the US for a little veggie my hmm was unexpected didn't expect to see Vegemite 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 in one version Foy 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 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 AM 4 Mini ITX motherboard and there really aren't 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 there is a biostar board for $85 us which looks to be an exceptionally good value buy but I've never really recommended a biostar 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 at the Biostar 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 borders there 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 chiefest GT x 1050 Ti which should be a nice upgrade from the old 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 you