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so this is an exciting time I've actually had any number of people request a new yes I got a copy of Vegas I will no longer be using Windows Live Movie Maker cameraman finds that very amusing evidently okay I am going to be doing a remake of the good enough gaming system which this original video was released on the NCI ex-con channel in standard death got about a hundred thousand views in on August 23rd 2007 the dates here left there yeah okay so I have gotten a ton of requests to redo this with more modern hardware so I've actually decided not only to do that but also to kick things up a notch and I'm going to be doing two systems so I'm going to do one with my original good enough gaming goal which was a six hundred dollar system so let's walk you through what I'm gonna be using for that this is all stuff that I've shopped for on the NCIX site and our weekly special this week so no guarantees you'll find exactly this deal but there are no that's there for a reason what are you deaf what do you think what she's doing that's there for a reason okay so now I've completely lost my train of thought right so you usually find deals of this caliber although you might not find exactly the same one so the first thing I've got here for my good enough gaming system is a core i3 2100 processor with a gigabyte h61 motherboard I went Super Value low-end on the motherboard and for the processor I've gone with a dual core because the reality of it is most of the games out there are still gonna run just fine on a dual core I went with four gigs of RAM because for 39.99 - a $5 Mir how can you say no the GTX 460 one gig especially with an additional 25 bucks off with a mail-in rebate and a free copy of Hawkes - and a free NCIX $10 gift card that comes with it is a smokin good deal so that works out to just under 150 bucks for a great gaming graphics card the 300 at 50 to 99 - a 20 Mir is a well ventilated gaming chassis it's pretty you know basic but it is what it is we're trying to hit a price point here I not have enough budget for an SSD so I've gone with a $40.00 Western Digital caviar blue 500 gig I did not go with the green even though they're cheap because green drives are not really suitable for OS drive use I have a DVD writer I've gone with Windows 7 home premium and a true power new 650 watt power supply normally this would not fit in my budget for a $600 machine but it has a $30 Mir on it so down here at the bottom I can see that my cart total is six hundred and ninety three dollars and ninety two cents I have $80 in MI RS and I have a ten dollar NCIX gift card that comes with that that MSI graphics card so I basically treat that as cash so I went just over my $600 target and if you know someone if you already have a copy of Windows 7 then you can save yourself a hundred bucks there it becomes a $500 gaming machine now for comparison I want to take this value gaming machine and put it up against what you can build for about a thousand bucks so here we've got an i-5 2500 K so we've gone from a dual-core to a quad core processor we've gone from the tipo h61 board to a p67 board that is sli ready crossfire ready and capable of overclocking we've gone from four gigs to eight gigs of ram we've gone all the way up to a GTX 570 zero C we've upgraded the chassis because most people you see spending a thousand bucks on a gaming system are gonna be buying a decent chassis the 932 is definitely a very decent chassis especially for after a 20 dollar mir around a hundred bucks we've gotten with the same power supply because it's such a good deal at for 39.99 the true power 650 is just a ridiculous deal so it's fully capable of supporting that GTX 570 so that's what I'll be doing I can't afford an SSD on this machine so I'm going with an OCD vertex 260 gig and then I'm gonna go with the caviar green for storage because you can cheap out on the drive because it's just for storage Green is fine for that finally I've got a DVD writer same as the other one in Windows Home some windows 7 home premium for 100 bucks and so my total - a hundred and ten dollars of Mir comes to about 1250 3-1 10 - another 10 bucks so just over $1100 so what I'm gonna do is I'm going to build both of these machines for you guys and I'm gonna compare our good enough gaming machine to what you would get if you spend just under twice as much don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips fron boxing's in computer videos and don't forget to subscribe to my NCIX comm channel so that when we release this video you will be there to see it