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ah the mantra of the PC master-race build your own PC they say it's cheaper than a prebuilt they say but just how cheaply can you build a completely new system and what compromises would you make if you were to do so to find out we purchased this bag of potatoes oh and also we built this PC ek water blocks is all aluminium fluid gaming line-up offers great custom grade water cooling performance for an affordable price learn more at the link in the video description ok so the exact spec of the cheapest PC you can build seems to vary a bit depending on the day that you're shopping for it and also just how ghetto-fabulous you want to get but long story short we ended up with something but let's say usable for a hundred and fifty $1.99 and to clarify the usable bit there we actually had managed to find a full system with this single core intel celeron 440 that would have been a dollar fifty one cheaper but unfortunately the Acer motherboard it was attached to was a lot funkier than we at first thought and using it would have required some heavy case modification so we settled for this slightly more expensive combo a quad-core AMD a8 38 70 and this ECS motherboard now even with the right standoffs assembly of this thing was nothing short of heroic we dodged we spun we rolled away from the sharp spiky insides of the Xion case that we picked up for 23 bucks I swear around every corner there must have been a sharp piece of metal just waiting for a finger to run across it finally though still alive but not entirely unscathed we fired our rig up and installed Windows 10 and with it all assembled now had a chance to look at what it was that we'd created at which time we promptly wished we hadn't because the build quality of this thing is atrocious if this were the subject of an LTT review it would probably go a little something like this all of the materials of this product feel super cheap because they are and the whole system is lighter than some of the laptops that we've reviewed recently at least I'll give them credit for this the outside of the case is mostly free of sharp edges but I still wouldn't recommend performing Leola reach-around to plug something in in the dark if you don't want to get bit by this here Wildcat rare overall though in fairness the look of the case isn't that bad and it's not like it wouldn't be functional if you are on a tight budget though the inclusion of a rear case fan for exhaust would have been a nice touch with that said arguably our 400 watt power supply does seem to take care of that job for the most part probably because the Coolmax I 400 runs its fan at full speed as often as you should be using a condom at a brothel so that is 100 percent of the time in all seriousness though even at idle this system is uncomfortably loud due to that fan and at full load once the CPU fan joins the chorus you'll actually probably be wishing for some earmuffs the silver lining here at least is that with all that noise you do get some half-decent thermals with both the CPU and GPU leveling off at around 64 degrees spec wise though huh well you can forget about your favorite triple-a games because this thing barely scrapes by the minimum specs for Windows 10 I mean the CPU is actually half decent for 38 bucks it's four cores at 3 gigahertz feel like they're being held back somewhat by the rest of the system so for productivity this box works reasonably well once all the extra visuals are disabled surfing the internet was serviceable and even full HD YouTube playback was nice and smooth at least until we ran out of RAM and since there's only two gigs of the stuff well you can expect to be hitting the page file every so often just kidding always and all bad once you have to access the hard drive any resemblance of haste goes away at only 5400 rpm the 160 gigabytes of storage is molasses low like type in a search for one of the four blu-ray movies that you could fit on it then don't make a cup of tea while you wait for the results but come on who cares about hard drive performance let's answer the burning question on all of your minds can it game I mean the system does have dedicated graphics so it should be able to write ha the dedicated I think indifferent graphics would probably be a better term since our GeForce 84 for TGS doesn't give too cold it's about your frame rate coming in at $19 it sports 256 Meg's of ddr2 memory and with a dinosaur ik 460 megahertz core clock its 3d mark score is 36 times lower than that of the lowly gtx 750ti that's right not a gtx 1080 TI but the 750 Ti a card that costs only 5 times as much so needless to say in our tests we're going for playable rather than pretty half-life 2 then at 720p medium to lowest details actually not the worst gaming experience I've ever had though that's more of an endorsement of Valve's excellent storytelling than this gaming PC and as for anything newer than 2010 well you can forget about that even csgo at 720p with the lowest settings yields and absolutely unplayable 10 frames per second but wait Crysis was released before 2010 can it can it run Crysis yes yes it can at 800 by 600 and the lowest settings and it's actually somewhat playable which is cool but we also wanted to bench our system in such a way that you can compare it at home so we booted up 3d mark where only the ice storm benchmark for mobile devices was able to run since everything else required either a higher level of DirectX support or more vram funny story our GeForce 84 for TGS managed to score of 4,000 989 which actually kind of sounded like a big number until it got absolutely bought wrecked by the 24,000 320 score recorded by the AMD integrated GPU built in to our processor so I guess then that spending that $19 on some mountain Dew and Doritos would have had a bigger impact on the gaming experience so then with the GeForce 84 40 ripped out actually the whole system got more usable in general we managed almost 60 FPS in csgo at 720p low and GTA 5 well hey it got the game to launch which at this point we consider a win even if it did only manage frame rates in the 20s among other issues so bottom line would we recommend this system absolutely not I mean to be clear there's still a lot of fun to be had with it I mean older titles like Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 and emulators worked awesome but this is a lesson in smart spending even if you're on a super tight budget the cheapest thing on the market is almost never a good value so our previous guidance still stands below a certain price point you really are actually better off with a prebuilt or going further down used hardware no matter how many crack pipes you might find in it is pretty much the way to go blue apron lets you create delicious chef designed meals at home they deliver all the farm-fresh ingredients you need right to your doorstep in exactly the right proportions no trips to the grocery store no waste from unused ingredients and because they're shipped 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