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excellent what's up everyone welcome to Paul's hardware if you've been watching my channel in the past couple weeks you will know that I have been doing a beginner's guide to building a computer upgrading a computer setting up that computer properly by installing Windows setting up stuff on the UEFI BIOS and making sure that like if you have an added extra hard drive in there that it's working properly and now finally I'm doing what everyone should do with their newly built computer which is to see how frickin fast the darn thing is because when you build a computer kinda want to see what the performance is like anyway though if you want to check out any of the videos leading up to this one including the how to build a computer beginners guide you how to upgrade a computer also a beginner's guide as well as the how to do everything after that also beginner's guide available via the playlist length in the video's description also posted in the card right up there please check those out to share them with your friends if they've never built a computer before and hopefully we can spread the love with this computer building thing because PC gaming is a heck of a lot of fun and getting in on the ground floor even if you're building just a 500 dollar system I think you can get a lot of bang for your buck as will be shown very quickly here as I move on with the benchmarks so the benchmarks are going to be run at 1920 by 1080 I think that's a very reasonable resolution to be playing at if you're building a system like this the $750 system I think would be a great option for anyone who's considering transitioning over to 1440 resolution gameplay but if you don't have the monitor keyboard and mouse and Windows licenses for the system bear in mind those aren't included with the cost so you're going to need to spend a little bit of extra money on those and I've posted links to where you can get Windows for fairly cheap via kinguin net down in the description you can also buy windows for full price if you're paranoid if kinguin dotnet i've also posted some examples down there of a mouse keyboard and monitor that you could use with the system let's get right into the benchmarks though once again 1920 by 1080 is a resolution I'm running these ads 3dmark firestrike extreme is our first benchmark this is a synthetic benchmark but a great way to get a initial comparison of your systems performance compared to other systems performances the $500 build scored 2371 overall 2499 on graphics 6105 on the physics tests and 1032 on the combined tests upgraded to the $750 build we have 5678 overall 6421 on the graphics 6600 seven on the physics and 2732 combined that's a pretty big jump especially if you're looking at those overall scores and the combined scores that is the impact of both jumping up to a quad-core processor from a dual core as well as jumping up to a graphics card that costs in the $250 range as compared to our entry-level rx 460 graphics card which costs around hundred and ten to one hundred and thirty dollars 3d mark time spy is next this is another synthetic test focusing on direct x12 performance the $500 build scored 1793 overall 1730 on the graphics in 2000 261 for the CPU $750 build scored went 4064 overall more than double the score 4203 on the graphics and 3423 on the cpu so some pretty impressive gains all around moving on to GTA 5 very popular game I loved playing it whenever I get the chance the $500 build on the built in benchmark scored thirty eight point one average frames per second and a minimum of fifteen point eight since 38 frames per second isn't exactly the best average frame rate I mean above 30 is okay and playable but you really want above 60 if you can manage it I decided to play around with some settings and I found that by turning MSAA off and setting most of the settings in GTA 5 to high or normal I was able to achieve 60 to 70 frames per second playable frame rate so that's really what you'd want with 1080 and you can still totally play it just hire normal settings it's not even that much of an impact on the actual visual impression that you get of the game the $750 build scored 96.1 average frames per second in the built-in benchmark 10.2 was the minimum which is a little bit disappointing but minimums can bounce around a lot I found that live gameplay using these same high resolution benchmark settings still got me 90 to 95 frames per second on average so just fine for 1080 gaming even at the highest settings you can do and I would imagine that even if you jumped up to 1440 you could still get yourself around 60 frames per second moving on to overwatch these benchmarks were run at Ultra settings not epic like I usually do I found the $500 build scored 69 point 7 average frames per second 50 for minimum totally totally fine for playing overwatch at 1080 $750 build 181 and average frames per second and 146 was the again a huge boost and it's really cool to see that with just another $250 invested in the initial system we're seeing double and sometimes close to triple the frame rate that you get especially if you're playing a game like over arch which isn't quite as GPU intensive but that really high frame rate hundred and eighty 1.1 average frames per second with a $750 build would be very appealing to someone who wanted to get a fairly budget system but that invest a little bit more in a monitor that did say 120 or 144 kurtz refresh rate get yourself really fast smooth gameplay you don't necessarily need a hugely powerful system to do that with a game like overwatch but it's still possible so that's good to know csgo is up next this is another game that is not terribly intensive to play when it comes to the GPU that you need a lot of people are interested in playing csgo at really high frame rates I'm happy to say that the $500 build was consistently up in the 150 280 frames per second range bear in mind that I have no idea how to play csgo personally but I did run around and pretend for a little bit so that's really nice especially if you're going with again a high refresh rate monitor $750 build improved on that it wasn't quite as much of a jump as that we saw with the other games I was seeing 150 270 at minimum but often times it was hitting 200 frames per second and even getting up to the 220 and 230 range so very good performance there as well finally we have doom and I tested doom using Vulcan rather than OpenGL and I did it a different way so I'm running a 1080 but I decided to test it at low medium high and ultra using just that intro sequence so I could compare them side-by-side and see what the frame rates work you so what have we learned from these benchmarks well I learned that the $500 billed easily was able to handle 1080 gaming at medium to high settings as well as high frame rate gameplay and less demanding games like csgo and overwatch which I thought was really cool I mean most of the time if you consider a budget build like five hundred dollars or less you think like wow you're really going to have to turn the settings way down in most games but it would actually perform very well as long as you're playing at ten $8,750 build shows how much of a boost you can get by spending just a little bit more with a quad core at $250 price range GPU like the gtx 1060 in here gets you high to ultra settings at 1080 an allows you to easily transition over to a 1440 monitor if that's something that you're considering doing in the future now as far as temperatures go that was a big concern here and I'm happy to say that my addition of this extra fan made a pretty big difference the $500 build tested as is the CPU hit 64 degrees Celsius max while gaming GPU was at 76 degrees max those are perfectly adequate temperatures a little bit warmer than you might want but nothing that's like a real concern for you now the $750 build I'm happy to say the temperatures actually went down even though I upgraded to hardware that's actually going to generate more heat and I think that is almost entirely due to the fact that I upgraded and added an additional 120 millimeter intake fan here on the side to supplement the 120 that came with the case for the $750 build CPU hit 58 degrees C max while gaming the GPU hit 65 degrees C max while gaming even though we're still using the stock heatsink fan so I thought that was pretty nice too although I will say that noise was definitely impacted since we're using a fairly generic fan here this is just when I pulled out of my collection but should be comparable to the kinguin fan that's linked in the video description this is a bit Phoenix it's just a pretty standard case fan that you would get with a normal case but spending five to ten dollars on a fan will give you a fan that works but might be a little bit louder spending fifteen to twenty-five dollars on the fan would get you a fan that works and is also quiet the upshot though is going to be noise testing so let's quickly listen to that I set up Unigine valley to run on a loop let it run for a while and then did standard noise testing using my shotgun mic here's the $500 build and here's the $750 built here is just a touch of coil line coming from the 1060 so there you go guys performance noise and temperature testing with this build in both configuration let's talk pros and cons the pros for this build would obviously be price to performance since we're talking about an entry-level build I like the size it's a micro ATX case rather than full-size ATX so it's fairly diminutive and would fit you know if you had a small desk or something like that you also have upgrade options which is a big reason why I went with a current-generation sockets the LGA 1151 sockets current generation platform from insel with this be 150 chipset you can't overclock but you can upgrade to other skylake processors which are the new and fastest processors at least on the consumer mainstream level that Intel currently offers so from the 6100 you can go to a 6400 or 6500 you can even go to a 6600 or 6700 don't get the case skews because again you can't overclock and you won't really get much out of that but if you did go with a z170 board to start off with and in my monthly builds video I did recommend a different version of this system that has a z170 board you can even upgrade to an overclockable processor just bear in mind you would also have to buy a heat sink fan that those don't come with and more on the heatsink fan it's just a second so upgrade options I think are really important especially if you're building a new computer you're building it yourself you want to learn how to do it in how to make it better in the future those are kind of the main reasons and the main things that I like about this computer there are a fair amount of cons though and things you should consider and be aware of if you're building in the system one would just be all those little things that make me kind of appreciate really expensive hardware not sound to uppity about my PC hardware or whatever but a $40.00 case just isn't going to give you all of the accessories and amenities and ease of use that a $80 case or even a hundred and $50 case will get you so spending a little bit more can get you more stuff as has been pointed out extensively in the comments on these videos the case as well I mean it's a budget case so you don't really get as much cable routing there's no dust filters included the motherboard is also a budget mod motherboard being a v1 50 chipset you can't overclock the processor if you get an unlocked SKU processor you can't even really plug in XMP settings to set your memory up to the faster speed for example it's also using a stock heatsink fan which I try to avoid at all costs if I can but for a budget bill that just makes a lot of sense it's a 20 or $30 investment in a heat sink fan that you don't need to spend you also have a lack of advanced upgrade options in this one so again the overclocking overclockable CPUs the amount of space that you have in the case I have to drive melts here that I've used there's two five and a quarter inch bays up here that you might be able to wedge something else in there but you're really kind of hitting the maximum of what you can fit in here aesthetics it's not the prettiest case it's it's a very standard boxy case there's no side panel window my cabling from the power supply has ketchup and mustard going on there and everything so yes it's not pretty but you don't stare at your computer while you use it well some people do anyway I'll leave that up to your decision finally you don't have Wi-Fi as well but that's a flips back to the pros for this and the reason I went with a micro ATX instead of a mini ITX build with this is you do have a couple expansion slots down here at the bottom so if you needed Wi-Fi you could pop in a Wi-Fi card if you even wanted to set this up as like a capture computer you have an extra slot down there so you could pop in like a capture card TV tuner card there's other things you could do with the system besides just making it a gaming PC so I like that room for expansion as well finally I wanted to address at least a couple questions that came in on the other videos I posted about this the first one directly is from moist Twinkie which is a fantastic user name by the way he just asked if I change the motherboard do I still need to reinstall the OS I recommend if you're doing an upgrade from a motherboard or something like that to always do a fresh install of your operating system it's just a better way to go but if you change your motherboard and you have Windows 10 already activated chances are Windows 10 will not activate on the new motherboard Windows 10 seems to set up a hardware ID for the system that you activate it then remembers that hardware ID and it's a issues you what is called a digital entitlement so if I was to for example erase the hard drive reinstall windows 10 on this and just plug it into the internet it would activate Microsoft would say you have an activated Windows license just by recognizing the hardware that's installed here so if you swap your motherboard yes windows might suddenly say this is a new computer now and you need to reinstall your operating system or buy a new license or something like that but often in those situations you can call Microsoft and do their activation line and that work quite a few people commented on the fact this case is ugly and the computer is ugly and I have no real response to that other than that it's a budget system quite a few other people said can I upgrade the CPU cooler and yes you can but it would be quite a challenge and a pain in the butt because this motherboard does not have a cutout on the backside of the motherboard tray so you would have to basically pull the whole motherboard out and essentially rebuild the whole system to put that CPU cooler on there so again a lot of stuff that sort of points towards some of the things that you don't get when you're sticking to a budget but I'm still happy with this build because I think when it comes to entry-level PC building what I'm focusing on is getting a working full-featured system with all the individual components sticking to a budget which is very hard to do once you start to say like oh just spend 20 bucks more on the case and you know you can get this slightly better graphics harder to spend this much more you got a 6500 CPU there which is about 190 bucks you could spend 20 bucks more and get a 6600 or something like that start tacking all those on and suddenly it's not a $500 bill anymore or a $750 build it's a $900 build but you can always say that you can always spend more money and get better cooler stuff to put in there it's all about what you choose to put in there for now how it works and what you could potentially add in the future which is kind of what I was trying to focus on this one base basic PC building is about getting a full-featured system together sticking to that budget getting good performance and low noise advanced PC building some of the stuff that a lot of people aren't asking about in the comments that I talk a lot a lot about on my channel is stuff like aesthetics making it look pretty overclocking which a lot of people don't even dive into just because it seems a little bit scary I have videos on that of course but then also there's the aftermarket cooling and liquid cooling that you can get into as well but those are all like the next steps these videos are intended to say if you've never build the computer before and you want to try it out especially if you want to try PC gaming you can set this computer up you don't have to invest a ton of money and then you can start looking at those advanced things - moving on to the next and getting yourself an epic build or something more similar to the system that I have going on there behind me anyway though guys that is all for this video I encourage you once again to leave me your comments and feedback in the comments section down below please go ahead and hit that like button if you enjoyed this video and helped you out because that helps me a ton there's also links down there to my store we can buy shirts if you're interested again all the parts I've used to your links to the other videos in this series for those of you who haven't watched them yet I really hope this has helped you guys in your PC building adventures thank you for watching and we'll see you next time