Gadgetory

there's a new title on PC that's currently in alpha and it's called spell break and as soon as I saw this I thought to myself why not build a used price-performance gaming PC and see what kind of value for money we could play this game on and today that's exactly what we're gonna do so let's quickly take a look at the minimum required specs then we'll take a look at what we've got on the table then we'll try and build something that can play this game so the system requirements here are saying that you need an i-5 44 30 or an FX 6300 the first being a 4th Gen 4 core Haswell CPU now on the desk we've got an i5 4460 so this is slightly better in the fact that it's clocked 200 megahertz higher than the i5 44 30 if you're on the AMD side you can use a 6 core FX 6300 then for the graphics card they're asking to have a gtx 960 or a r7 370 now both these cards are mid-range cards back from those generations the GTX 970 that we've got here today is amplitudes faster than the 960 despite it only having a extra 10 on the naming scheme it's also stating that you need 8 gigabytes of ddr3 memory which we've got two gigabytes of dedicated V RAM which we've got 3.5 so on the table here we got a GTX 970 I've got a 500 gigabyte hard drive 120 gigabyte SSD a gigabytes of memory mismatched as well a lenovo h 81 motherboard and also inside that we've got that i 5 as we mentioned before we're gonna be using the included cooler as well as getting this power supply here the Kouga 500 watt so this is a new part that i'm going to be using in this build and i've also got to go pick up a new case from the local retailer but they do these cases super cheap and i'll show you soon so with our set we don't have to give a whole lot of parts here tech yes loving because we've already given that graphics card some tech yes loving in a previous video where we took at the GTX 970 in 2019 I'll put that link up here if you want to check it out but other than that we really only have to give the RAM motherboard CPU cooler hard drive an SSD some cleansing so let's quickly do that now and then stop the build just go back now from the computer store and we picked up one of these for $35 so it's actually a really good price considering it's got a 12 centimeter LED fan which is blue in this case at the front of the case so all we have to do to add a bit more bling is another $1 LED strip and we're good to go so we're waiting for let's put this thing together so here's the build all complete here we've got the blue LED at the front with the blue LED strip and it was unintended but it actually matches up with the wind force gtx970 g1 which has a blue wind force led logo now this whole build it tallied up to around about 370 ozzie dollars which is like 262 u.s. d adjusted so it came out a little bit more expensive because we had to use a new power supply in case because I couldn't find any deals on cases and power suppliers on gumtree well I did find a case but it just looks so bad to the point where it will detract away from value from the build if we go to flip it blow out a slide let's start installing windows tune this thing up and then run some spell break and see how it performs so the spell break gaming PC looks like it's been breaking some spells with the fancy LED lights but the performance was pretty impressive at 1080p high settings in window mode we were getting over 80 average fps and I think the one percent and point one percent lows were sort of going a little bit wild sometimes and I guess again that's because the games in alpha when I first booted up this game it did have a problem where it only allowed me to put 1080p in windowed mode so full screen and borderless window sort of having some problems so it is a indeed a alpha game still but it is pretty fun I mean getting into it sort of like it's got a little bit of a learning curve but it is a battle royale type game and instead you've got spells and you can start off with a basic thing and you get gauntlets and use special spells I mean for me it was just personally just things were all over the map I managed to get my character with some invisibility thing and that was pretty cool but somehow people still knew where I was and just sort of jammed me from behind but speaking of jam we did indeed jam a lot in this case and the problem is it's only got that one fan at the front which has weak airflow so it's pretty much a sarcophagus inside here and the temperatures on the GPU was showing like 89 degrees max and admittedly I did overclock the GPU and I was surprised it didn't crash out at these temperatures but the easiest thing to do with a case like this is to just remove the side panel and that will let the hot air vent out and you should be getting much lower temperatures the spell break it ran really smoothly 1080p high settings the game does look pretty promising I think I'm not sure if it's free-to-play but I got sent a key on Twitter from skilled rebuild so big thank you to skilled rebuilds for sending us that key and also we played apex legends on this gaming PC right here and it did pretty well I mean we're getting over 60 FPS on high settings 1080p the CPU and the GPU just had perfect synergy at these settings pretty much 100% on the GPU 100% on the CPU for cause there with the i-5 for for 60 but now back to spell break in terms of the minimum specifications they're pretty much right on the money I guess in terms of the CPU this is about where you'd want your CPU to be in getting over 60fps and having a smooth experience because to my eyes it was a pretty smooth experience even though the 1% point one percent lows was sort of showing some occasional stuttering it was still a good experience on this PC but the GPU was still maxed pretty much a hundred percent all the time so that gtx 960 recommendation is probably a solid recommendation to get 1080p low and medium settings GTX 970 again being a lot more powerful than the 960 so all that aside we got a build here they came in pretty cheap still has that new look and still uses a new power supply but it is doing very well for the price tag around 260 US dollars 370 Aussie dollars and I think in this case the part where we extracted the most value out of this build was the motherboard a gigabytes of RAM the CPU cooler and that combo for the hard drive all thrown in there we got that for around 160 Aussie dollars and it just screams value at this price point because this motherboard does work with the GTX 970 but on top of that it also came with a Windows 10 Pro Licence pre-activated so I didn't have to go out and buy a Windows 10 key on top of that and really it all just came together to make run really smooth gaming PC honestly though if using this every single day I'd either be changing out the fans which in this case high airflow fans do cost a bit of money they will add to the cost of the build or you just simply take the side panel off in that case it does look pretty clean I even though we're still using ketchup and mustard cables the build came out alright but on that note guys let us know in the comments section below what you think of this gaming PC right here and also let us know what you think of cheap cases do you utilize them especially if they got LED fans like this they do bling it up a little bit they do create value I think when it comes to flipping the PC but also on that note let us know in a comment section below what you think of spell break have you played the game yet seems a little bit exciting it's definitely a little bit of a battle royale twist compared to the other battle Royales out there but me personally man I'm just getting battle Roy out at the moment there's so many of these games coming out I just I'm losing track I sort of enjoy a bit of a single-player game and a sort of different like RTS game and I'm just really hanging for Age of Empires for but as me personally maybe hopefully Microsoft will update that later this year but 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