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it's build long time again but this one's going to be a little bit different instead of trying to put a computer under liquid or digging space or anything like that we're actually going to be building something a little more down-to-earth it's only around a thousand bucks for a gaming rig and you might kind of go okay well - what could be interesting about this and I'll tell you this is actually based on a challenge that was issued to me by the folks over at Andy who kind of went 4k displays are becoming a lot more affordable right now but the perception among gamers is that you can't really drive games at that resolution and to a degree that is correct in the latest triple-a titles running at Ultra rez you're going to need like multiple of the highest end graphics cards in order to get a playable enjoyable experience but they also continued what about the titles that people are actually playing all the time you're free to play games like League of Legends or Team Fortress 2 or your more mainstream or eSport C titles like csgo or Starcraft 2 what could you build an affordable computer that can run those games at 4k now that the price of really nice displays like this Acer I've got right here are coming way way down all the time well let's find out shall we going back to my purchase of a viewsonic P 95 F + B I believe that a display can last you through several of these bad boys if you choose one of sufficient quality for your needs now and in the future my old dell 24:05 fpw actually got retired from use by my wife only a couple months ago when she saw LG's 29 ultra wide so the component choices for this rig were a little different than normal we didn't over build the PC in an attempt to run every game at 4k but we also didn't want to build the most budget cheapo gaming rig ever either it was meant to be a reasonable bang for the buck sweet spot so around 900 to $1,000 gaming and multi-purpose AMD based PC with some upgrade ability and with the ultimate plan of passing it along and replacing it with a new sweet spot rig when the time is right a strategy that can actually yield much better value for the money in the long run versus trying to spend you know twice as much on a machine in the first place in an attempt to get it to last twice as long not to mention that this way you end up with two machine so you can repurpose your old rig for a friend or family member or server or whatever else down the line so at the heart of the rig is an FX 63 56 core CPU although a 6300 is also a great choice if you don't mind doing a little bit of overclocking we could have stuck with the 8 core that AMD accidentally put in the motherboard that they sent us but given how many threads modern games support and the growing support for lower CPU overhead API is like mantle and DirectX 12 I don't feel like spending a bunch more on a CPU is a great investment for a sweet spot PC today I don't know which sets on our motherboard is an assigned 9 7 D gaming board it looks nice if that matters to you it's reasonably well built it includes support for 2-week Frostfire if you wanted to add another graphics part in the future although it should be noted that sweet spot rigs usually live their lives with a single graphics card and it's got a solid i/o layout with 4 USB 3 ports we kitted it out with 8 gigs of the heaviest memory that we've ever seen now I'm just kidding it wasn't heavy but we had to justify needing two people to build one computer somehow we used an AMD branded kit but any dual channel ddr3 would work just fine if you're a heavy multitasker you might opt for 16 gigs right off the bat but RAM upgrades are one of those things that's easy and inexpensive to do later on down the road when and if you need more that's where all my print jobs with I mean what some print job our drive power supply in case choices aren't terribly important for gaming performance but I'll let you know what we used anyway we went with a 240 gig Kingston SSDs that we had lying around the office although you could pick any value SSD for your boot drive these days a 2 terabyte WD green for mass storage and for large games and programs a/c Sonic 401 80 plus bronze power supply and an NZXT s340 case for a solid airflow clean looks and great price which leads us to the last key component for any gaming rig the graphics card we chose the Radeon r9 285 because at under 250 bucks with some available for as little as like 200 and change on promo it stays within that FPS per dollar sweet spot that usually exists between about 120 to 280 dollars and it also has at least we were hoping when we spec to this thing and not horsepower for the games that we're going to be running on this rig with graphics settings turned up even at 4k so here's the finished build and with it done it's time to benchmark all the games for me and by me I mean Luke and by all the games I mean we took anything that had over 10,000 viewers on twitch TV so like the mainstream and competitive stuff added in a couple choices of our own fired it up at 4k on an Acer b3 26 HK a gorgeous IPS monitor and crank the details to see how they would run and actually the results surprised me a little bit across our test suite of dirt showdown Starcraft 2 Team Fortress 2 Counter Strike global Offensive League of Legends dota 2 and Wow only world of warcraft likely thanks to its recent graphical update with warlords of draenor neither the details turned down at all in order to spit out not just playable but actually very enjoyable frame rates at a massive 3840 by 2160 resolution now this won't be the case across the board we didn't make a magical computer here if you're going to grab the latest triple-a Ong photorealism titles from a series like assassin's creed battlefield crisis or the like then you'll need to run at a lower resolution and deal with the interpolation that comes along with that unless you want to step up to some seriously more powerful hardware but not everyone is interested in that and I was still I don't know what the right word is so I'll say amused when I realized that the most popular games the gamers are really spending the bulk of their time on these days just aren't that demanding and there's no reason that a reasonable modern gaming rig can't run them pranked on a 4k monitor today so thanks AMD for sponsoring this fun little build blog and experiment thanks to you guys for watching like this video if you liked it dislike it if you thought it sucked as always check out the links in the video description to support us you can buy a cool t-shirt like this one you can give us a monthly contribution or you can change your amazon bookmark to one with our affiliate code so whenever you buy CPUs graphics cards motherboards heat sinks as as these or whatever else we get a small kickback that kind of thing helps us out a lot thanks again for watching and as always don't forget to subscribe you