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with its unique freeform modular system the new master case maker 5 from Coolermaster allows unparalleled flexibility with its adjustable internal layout and exterior customization options learn more about how you can start customizing your own case by following the link down in the description alright so we're going to do something here that I've never really even attempted on this channel I am going to take 400 dollars of my own money head down the Micro Center and see can we build a PC that you can game on for under $400 brand-new but before we go there there's one really important crucial stop we have to make hi can I get a vente upside down iced caramel macchiato with whipped cream yeah upside down come on walk in and out of one side anything uh yeah just a second anyone uh let me get one of those as well make that two of those so we got an open box carbide spec oh one case from Corsair this is like 29 bucks oh that's yours right there he was getting stuff for his console power supply here we got a 500 watt EVGA power supply eighty plus not even bronze with this 80 plus it's so cute an AMD Athlon 53 52 gigahertz quad-core CPU the idea here is that gaming shouldn't take whole lot of gaming or CPU won't we'll see we got eight gigabytes a ballistics 1866 no 1600 1600 bits of two times four gigabyte I got the eight gigs instead of four I thought if I wanted four we could save some money but the 4 gigabyte kit was like four dollars less sound like four extra bucks it makes sense just a future-proof a little bit he has a future-proof feel it a little bit on the memory a Toshiba 1 terabyte 7200 rpm 64 megabyte cache again this was like 39 bucks brand-new hard drive but the motherboard here was an AM 1s 2 H literally like super bare-bones there is nothing special about this it's a Mike RM ATX so it's a micro ATX board can't overclock or do anything with this but doesn't matter we had an extra case van because the carbide only has one intake fans we want exhaust in there and then for the graphics card we picked up a r9 380 X X effects but proving that I'm putting my money where my mouth is I own this graphics card already I have one in the shop but I bought another one because you know when when you're putting your own money on the line on this you force yourself to think a little bit differently with tax and everything three hundred seventy four dollars and ten cents so when I had initially put all this together actually into three ninety but there was a sale today because it's Labor Day you kind of take your chances when you buy an overlock skates from micro Center I think we did all right it's got our window so we can show off all of our mustard and ketchup cables three for $29 casein tall black inside that's cool so yeah I think it's a good starting point for our ultra budget build so first things first though we got to do a test boot which make sure everything works so okay so this is the 380 X we bought just to prove I'm putting my money where my mouth is right here's what we just bought here's the one I already owned it's actually been chilling in this EVGA 750ti box but you can see we hand wrote three ATX on there that is insanely that fans like a 40 millimeter fan it's crazy one thing I want to point out though real quick is I do have my sennheiser shotgun mic on the camera let's not quite this is I am in fat that's cool it's so light I believe you just said that neither can the internet so it's really not that bad honestly I mean you guys know me in cable management I did the best I could considering what it is that fan no that's so it's so cute and at 375 bucks we even have room for growth for the five hundred power supply one terabyte hard drive eight gigs of RAM and a rear fan this graphics card will last us a while so the question is was the Athlon the right choice well there's no upgrade path there anyway but like I said it's 40 bucks for the chip and the motherboard so if you really want to upgrade this thing grab a scar to last you a little while you can get new chip and motherboard now it's time to load an OS and see if you can even play games on this don't see why you couldn't okay so obviously while CPUs only running at 30 C that is a really cold chip all right so I know some people are gonna be like what the heck you need to account the cost of an operating system I personally don't because that's software and the question here was for three hundred and seventy-five bucks in hardware what do you get and with that mentality to though and in game we're gonna benchmark you then have to be like you have to factor in the price of csgo you have to factor in the price of Far Cry 4 or whatever we're going to do so that's why we're not like including the price of the operating system in there so anyway we're gonna get OS installed we're gonna play around and see how you just wasted money but it kind of did I guess I don't need this thing but I thought why the hell not for science science that that beep was courtesy of YouTube's new policies regarding monetization counter-strike go all settings on high and to SMM s to x NS AAA so let's see if you could actually play with these settings and have a good time and no making fun of my terrible gameplay by the way look at look at the FPS and you guys see that up in the corner this is online with bots so but I am I mean look at this now you know you're more of a competitive Counter Strike player than I am would you be able to play with this fps yeah absolutely wait what we're caring about here is if it goes below 60 right yeah whenever every now and then it feels like there might be just like I've ever ever such a slight stutter but then again we are playing on pretty close to a potato CPU here Danica's where I filled in multiple times I'm going to CPU is pretty close to potatoes I mean 39 bucks for monitor or for motherboard and budget and CPU you could be following my budget for csgo that's like the money you save building this way say let's go that's an Asimov up not a lot of folks are really the best csgo csgo is not very demanding any people get mad that i don't benchmark csgo in my Tenaya csgo is one of the most popular PC games of all time though and it is the most popular shooter on PC platform I mean the only thing that gets more contour more popular than that as MOBAs Starcraft 2 and League and dota stuff like that I don't think anyone's impressed by the fact that we can run counter-strike go but what about a newer title like Doom we've got doom here running 1080p vertical sync is off or running SM AAA and of anti-aliasing on there motion blur is on high we've got the Vulcan api going and overall quality on ultra i would not have expected ultra performance out of a three hundred and seventy five dollar Tower including text but with that said here are the FPS right here in the top right corner as you can see I really really wish you guys could see how freakishly smooth this is what all right Nick what do you think it's awesome and I'm blown away that we're running this off of the build because I was expecting like really sluggish speeds I kind of was too I'll be honest I mean yeah we're not choosing the hardest games to ride like it's not going to run Crysis 3 this is going to run far cry 4 at anything like super high end but but think the point of this build is if you're in a very limited budget and you want to get into PC gaming there's an entry point and I think that something like this is actually doing it I mean a $39.00 processor with a free motherboard ok a penny it cost a penny but still I had to pay a penny it was free because about the processor has $40 off the motherboard the motherboard cost $39 so but you had to pay a penny more am I going to monetize because of this violence boom no gun so this is a pretty demon heavy area with lots of explosions and things lots of things happening on the screen the other I know but I kinda want to kill these guys before I bring out 500 more at me all right all right so what if I drop the settings down to say like hopefully visible I'm going to say medium for the hell of it just curious we came up quite a bit we came up nearly double right with that explosion and went down to the 40s before but we're still sitting pretty healthy FPS here conclusion time is this a computer that would allow you to play any game you want at playable you know FPS no it's not and that's because it's obviously bound by the CPU the CPU is definitely the limiting factor here I mean we were able to bottleneck a 380 X without any problems with an Athlon in games like dirt rally dirt rally was pretty CPU bound we tried to play dirt or at least coconut monkey or Nick tried to play dirt and it was in the 30s 20s not great again a title that when we went back and looked at CPU utilization was pegged and we also tried playing overwatch once again was pegged but on the flip side though if you look at something like doom modern triple-a title with Vulcan we were able to see 60 FPS no problems on ultra and if we dropped it down to medium or high we were able to see up to 90 FPS with this system right here you also were able to maintain about 60 FPS in csgo which as you guys know is an older engine right the the source engine is not very demanding but we got some very good playable experiences there so you gotta ask yourself what games you want to play if you don't want to spend a lot of money you can build for around $400 a gaming system that lets you play games like League of Legends dota maybe some starcraft some csgo and even doom without any problems but it really is going to depend on the title there are some changes you could make to this system though that would get you better experience if you can bump your budget up to about 500 bucks you could get yourself something like an a-10 APU or even something like an 80 320 se or some sort of a lower end AMD multi-core CPU that's on a modern socket like am3+ or whatever and maybe even advertises or allows a little bit of overclocking which we couldn't do with this system here we can reuse the graphics card the power supplied the RAM the hard drive but again the upgrade path here on am one obviously he's got nowhere to go but for 40 bucks it was a good starting point and in the future if you set aside another 100 ish dollars maybe about 129 dollars you could get a new CPU new motherboard that would give you a huge boost to gaming performance anyway guys there you go you tell me whether or not you think this was a waste of money if you had no gaming computer whatsoever at least this guy will let you play some games which was kind of the point here obviously it's not going to be super high-end gaming experience but its gaming nonetheless thanks for watching guys as always we'll see you in the next day