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good old Rose will hold the SC mo1 yeah oh you know this case no I don't okay okay so should we start with should we start with Pat yeah let's take it out of the box I guess like the idea here is we're just gonna build this thing yeah okay and you've never built it before nope so a lot of the time when writers prepare a video they they do a lot of the preparation yeah I heard that they do that ahead of time uh-huh but today we're just yellowing it yeah well that it's it's fun to prepare but you know it's it's fun to keep life spicy too that sounds like that sounds like mistake number two yeah high-end pcs are pretty cool yeah they can trace raise with the best of them but they have one major problem they're expensive most people don't think about that that's what we're here for but we did so we set out to build the least expensive PC possible with components that we could buy on amazon.com yep I literally went to amazon.com searched the name of the component sorted by price and ordered whatever was cheapest at that time and this is it so it's time to figure out whether what we ordered was an actual PC or whether we made a horrible mistake speaking of horrible mistakes not checking out our sponsor for today's video ant lion bear new mod mic Wireless features a low latency high-quality connection LED status indicators up to 12 hours of battery light and more check it out at the link in the video description okay so I couldn't just go to amazon.com and literally pick the cheapest option because they have to be compatible probably if this is the cheapest case and this is the cheapest board then we're just going to have to put them together it's only fair so this is a LGA 775 socket motherboard it's a dell poweredge server board okay yes so and that's gonna be compatible with our CPU which is a Core 2 Duo II 8400 from Intel are you sure what that that's going to be compatible most server boards from that generation where LGA 771 that is a good point I've never seen that before and this is a locking floppy disk oh cool this is locking IDE oh cool do you want to come in and get some close-ups of oh so this is an insignia it doesn't weigh much more than the box is it tray oh wow you know what I since I'm tired of being dumped on look at this it's a hard drive that's probably perfectly functional I'm pretty sure it's new why are you asking me questions like that test I didn't know they still made 160 gig hard drive we have a single ddr2 Tim that is 2 gigs big this is not ECC and this is a server board oh my god no it's it should it should sub and that says memory ECC DDR doing chipset that's not the socket weight frontside bus 800 megahertz for Pentium 4 we'll hold on a second this might actually be 775 but oh my god this is a Pentium board I don't believe this will work with a Core 2 Duo the graphics card is a blazing fast AMD Radeon 6350 all right how much did this cost us this cost us a whopping actually 2888 Wow it's the most expensive part out of all of them which is great news to hear when it might not even work you know this is not DVI right yeah this is a different port that is everyone knows is not DVI you have actually done something today that hasn't happened in a while you've shown me three tech things that I have never seen before in a single sentence that could be the title of the video I've never seen this before this port these like my keys doohickeys on the IDE things you this cooler mount oh you've never seen that I've never seen that see and I've never seen it either yeah well we do have some other processors that might work Linus look at these wonderful selection of Pentiums and one seller on so a lot of these are newer new pentium old pentium pretty lit okay here's what I think we have to do you know I have to order the cheapest one from Amazon that's true we have to stay true we have to yeah dan stand strong ok so there's gonna be some movie magic yeah and I will get back to this next week I guess so this is attempt number two wait this is the old stuff are we even using this anymore yeah no we're not using that put that away I never want to see it again this is also meant for a pre-built system right but as you can see it's a little more of a normal layout motherboard meant for it's a regular micro ATX form factor yeah yeah yeah it actually has front panel connector becames yeah it's so we can short yeah we're gonna have to guess at them a little bit but at least there's something to guess at indeed Wow even a PCI Express 16x lot this time good job I did it you still gotta say the grass cart of doom-- here same 80 AMD Radeon 6350 with a DMS connector so we know what the connectors called EMS 59 DMS 59 DMS gonna give it to you though this connector curiously is one that's meant to drive to displays by default so that's why I both adapters go from one DMS 59 and to two of the other thing yeah VGA all digital interface okay what else did we change a and the last one we got we changed was the RAM we have real ddr2 non-ecc Ram cool I was a problem we had a server board it was only compatible with ECC Ram also this is need er three you know this right what we's up mode I rabbit written in the script ddr3 alright I'm just okay so everything's here yep should we build it I I hope we can they they fit in the holes it's like they were actually designed to fit together pal yeah boom Kapow yeah dual channel baby four gigs of ram yep we paid eight dollars for four gigs last time right and now we're up to 18 18 so $10 more so we paid an extra $13 but to be plus the adapters which I actually don't have in here minor detail but I think they were like $3 hey ok it's kind of coming together now it looks like this might be a PC whoo whoa I mean that's not a great indicator but it's on which is farther than we got last time sweet music yeah oh man I need like a piece of tape or something so annoying what new ramp yeah it's worth the shot I honestly don't think it's ramble let's give it a shot this is pretty much our most compatible ddr3 ram this rip rip jaws Z stuff okay everybody okay so I got a tray full of lg8 I think there are a LGA 775 Pentiums and the $69 gaming PC cuz that I think it had a he's 7500 in it below yeah okay sure yet let's uh you know what that seems promising that is yes that's a 7500 oh well let's try that first uh-huh do we know that this one works it was that was what was originally in the $69 campus great I was there and I was there too alright I don't even have to put the heatsink on to know if this work - any better okay I can have the RAM from $69 gaming PC - let's just eventually we just put all the components in here Samsung Samsung quality here what's the different beep why it's a different beep this is HP OEM memory Anthony checked it Anthony should have known better that's the memory you have Riley by was HP memory no no no no okay wait I don't want to get him Oh II am system builders you in a couple of different ways wait first they do with their motherboard making it not compatible with other things then they key with your upgrade components because they want you to buy their specific upgrade compatible thing to put in their system but then they also you again when you try and buy their thing and put it into some other system so every memory module has what's called an SPD Chapel and what that has is all the information that the system needs about the memory and they can actually program it in such a way that it's like Oh that's not the system I was expecting now I'm not saying that that was necessarily what happened here because this board also spat out that g.skill memory yeah so it could be the board yes but it could also been the memory yes either way okay so we're gonna put the e 7500 aside for now oh we're gonna put your car to do a back in here and see if that works yeah I want to put this RAM back in just to see nope No you ready for a graphics card I am ready for this and did you I mean you must have known you must have known that this is what this video was you thought it'd be smooth smooth sailin buy the cheapest that you totally go buy the cheapest thing you can possibly find on Amazon and you ought to be hunky-dory I honestly what I kind of expected was for you to buy the cheapest brand new things and I had meant the cheapest thing in a given category but like I'm 2018 new yeah wait in a box with a manual and an i/o shield well we could do that that'd be there yeah yeah we could keep this PC on Amazon part two I swear it's less cringe this Oh oh my hey not bad is it gonna make it all the way to the desktop - tech tips tech tips I am vindicated is welcome welcome to a fan PC do we have a Gigabit LAN you can it is it's gigabit its Broadcom and net extreme gigabit that's the good kind okay so the first thing we want to know is what exactly the crap graphics card this is I know what it is I have that information look you can actually look it up faster than I can check in device manager because of how slow this thing is it's a Radeon 6350 turns out this is actually a Radeon 5450 so it might have been mislabeled on your listing there but that's what it shows up I got swindled get um nice dude huh okay let's move on let's move on to dota 2 dota 2 was what we really wanted here you know we we do this and figure stuff out so you don't have to guys we save you from having to deal with eight frames per second in the loading screen you thought anthem was bad it still is 30 frames per second 720p second lowest settings I don't know there's three main characters on screen there's not that many there's not that much ago no there's really not much but still like this is playable for a MOBA like 30 frames a second yeah with BOTS offline it's playable that's true bump the bump the settings down to lowest can you do that in game well we're up to 50 oh and it looks even worse somehow at the lowest settings and 720p okay let's try a rocket League alright 30 FPS fps in the menu okay alright okay Wow Wow it looks really bad oh you better go to v2 here sir I might go wait where is it about difficulty unfair 1v3 oh yeah okay you see you're getting 30fps though so I don't want to hear no excuses here but Oh oh my gosh this is like I feel like I'm on drugs right now oh how we're good for good for good for you good ish dude good as old this is really bad can you beat three unfair BOTS I have this is a clinic folks this is how it's done look at this look at this he's gonna put the card in the net all right sports fans this is why we all watch the game Oh chipper chipper so what we're discovering here is that unless you're gonna meet a certain sort of threshold for how much you're gonna spend there are certain components that are expensive to buy standalone like a case just because of the logistics of the thing is never gonna cost below a certain amount you got it you got to ship it and stuff whereas when you buy it as part of a bundle it might contribute very little of the value of the total PC as we saw with the $69 gaming PC so we stand by our previous recommendation for low-budget gamers rather than trying to go on a retail site like Amazon buy all the cheapest stuff slapped it together and oh that you can get it working we'd really recommend doing what we did last time buying a already working computer and then if you've got the budget for it even down the line applying a few choice upgrades in order to smooth out the experience this was a hundred and fifty dollars just all the parts by itself and that computer was 30 bucks plus 30 bucks plus another 60 bucks for a GPU yeah 120 bucks altogether we got as good gaming there's a way better gaming experience way better terrible yeah and for those of you out there being loved - not everything is about gaming trust me it's terrible for everything else - speaking of terrible wouldn't it be terrible if I didn't tell you guys about our sponsor for today's video thermal takes a 500 aluminum mid-tower case 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has cool shirts like this one and our community forum which you should totally join by the way Anthony sent me an email said he was exonerated by an email that he found well that's true apparently I signed off on the memory I confess I never clicked the link yeah and the listing for it did not specify that it was HP specific system specific Ram so I'm exonerated - so everyone's exonerate Wow except the Amazon seller that shipped us that yeah stay away from them yeah