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so we all know what the PC master-race subreddit would have to say about getting set up with a new gaming rig booth yourself man dude up custom or failing that at least buy from a reputable assistant builder online but pretty much no one would recommend is to go to the local Best Buy ask for a gaming PC and buy whatever it is that they bring you but that's what we did let's see how that worked out for us shall we the azeroth d-10 gaming router features gaming Boost Technology m2m technology Nazz functionality and there h2r 2 + 1 DLNA travel router dongle head over to the link in the video description to find out what the heck I was just talking about so let's start with the shopping experience I actually sent my wife in my stead in an effort to see just how frustrating it would be for a more normal person to find a gaming PC at the local big-box store so at the first store the initial salesperson explained that the difference between the $900 gaming PC and the $1500 one was aesthetics and that gaming computers just cost more the actual difference was that the gaming one had a video card fortunately my wife realized that and found someone else to talk to the second rep was much better but didn't have anything in stock to sell though in her defense the store is moving like four days so fine onto store number two or are we in spite of having one of the reps from the first store call ahead to reserve a unit of the PC my wife was trying to buy the second store sold it while she was enroute and called her when she'd already been driving for 10 minutes to come and get it time to head somewhere else then third time's a charm right after waiting around to talk to a stalking girl and then getting bounced to the Geek Squad line and then back again she was finally offered the Asus m32 CD desktop PC for nine hundred Canadian dollars or about 625 US with the current exchange rate so let's have a look at how she made out then shall we the m32 CD in the recommended gaming configuration features an Intel Core i5 6400 I like quad-core eight gigs of DDR four Ram running in single channel actually preferred in this case to allow for cheaper upgrades a one terabyte hard drive a system specific h1 10 motherboard with a single full size PCIe 16x expansion slot a mini PCIe slot with an AC wireless card to DIMM slots and USB 3.1 10 gigabit on the back end finally an r9 372 gig video card notably one that features an asus direct cu style cooler and a very robust security bar to keep it in place during shipping the case is nothing special with a rear-mounted 90 millimeter fan a spot for another one in the front though I can't tell where that one would get fresh air from and a perforated side panel for airflow and the power supply actually is a huge step up from what I expected a 500 watt continuous unit from Delta with a 120 millimeter fan and extra plugs for everything from additional drives the motherboard can support up to four - even a more powerful graphics card as long as you account for keeping it cool actually overall this package is a lot better than I expected but still I mean I figured come on this can't be so hard I'll head over to good ol NCIX comm and beat the stuffing out of it with off-the-shelf components and it's gone no and it turns out that was not as easy as I thought even with NCIX is rock-bottom $50 pc assembly fee and even ignoring the obvious subsidies that Microsoft gives to PC makers for including their operating system assuming that I wanted you know a somewhat equivalent AC wireless solution a DVD writer etc I still ended up getting pretty much the same thing for my money without windows so when you factor Windows into it it was a full 125 dollars more expensive to have it built there I mean sure I get some more PCI Express slots but then I'm actually giving up a proper pcie-based Wi-Fi solution for a USB one end settling for a lesser power supply the one bundled with the CM elite 350 okay then time for a new tactic because we're PCMR right we can build the computer ourselves saving a few dollars right there and we don't necessarily need the cheap mouse that came with this thing so I gave myself some more flexibility on the second config opting for an AMD FX 6300 processor eight gigs of ddr3 and MSI 970 a motherboard no included Mouse DVD driver Wi-Fi then I spent what I gained on a better graphics card and r9 380 which the college-educated among you may have already realized isn't an outright better computer just a different one one that might be better for gaming in some games but certainly isn't better for all tasks or even all games which I guess leads us to the conclusion one that I did not see coming I mean honestly I was sure that after publishing this video we'd never be working with best buy on a top 5 laptops for students thing like we did back in the fall again I was certain they were going to get wrecked as the kids say but that's not how it went down today at all many of the traditional problems that have existed since the last time I bought a desktop computer at Future Shop like 15 years ago the inability to find someone to help you the high pressure sales pitch for extended warranty once you finally do find someone to help you the limited stock in selection the hit or miss knowledge of the in store staff are all alive and well but the computer we ended up with is actually a really great value gaming box our equivalent build offered better PCIe expansion but its power supply was not as good and it didn't have USB 3 10 gigabit not to mention the huge price disparity and our DIY build where I built it myself and gave up some features still only saved me 15 bucks sure it can deliver better gaming performance in GPU bound scenarios but without crippling CPU performance even further by stepping down to an APU or something like that the difference was not nearly what I had expected so there you have it color me surprised whether we have Best Buy to thank for acknowledging the demand for decent gaming PC's that contain decent graphics cards or asus and the other system builders to thank for dumping these box on Best Buy's shelf buying a gaming rig at Best Buy is not as bad an option as you might think and a savvy used Hardware shopper could probably manage to flip that included graphics card plop in something better and end up with an astonishingly good rig for around $1000 though while you're at it also recommend throwing in an SSD speaking of throwing something in if you're thinking to yourself gee I could sure use a USB gaming headset with a nice high quality mic good sound and RGB lighting maybe check out the Logitech G 633 Artemus spectrum it features 7.1 Dolby surround sound 40 millimeter Pro G audio drivers end it's compatible with the PC as well as the PlayStation 4 and Xbox one as I mentioned before it features adjustable RGB lighting and custom tags with a cardioid boom mic and it's available now on Amazon all you got to do is pick them up at the link in the video description so thanks for watching guys if this video sucked you know what to do but if it was awesome get subscribed hit that like button or even consider supporting us directly by using our affiliate code to shop at amazon by buying a cool shirt like this one or with a direct monthly contribution now that you're done doing all that stuff you're probably wondering what to watch next so click up that little button in the top right corner to check out the seven gamers one CPU video where I build well technically there were two CPUs but I basically build one rig that runs fed in gaming instances at once