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so the weekend I'm trying to enjoy myself and then I'm just a shopping around at my local shopping center and I went into a retailer just to take a look at what things were like in 2019 and some teenagers called me over they said hey man come and have a look at this this is a PC that they're trying to sell here for nearly 1,600 Aussie dollars which is about eleven hundred and thirty US dollars and so as I'm walking over I'm thinking to myself well it's probably a retail they're probably charging a few hundred dollars more they offer the in-store warranty and better service and they can help you pick the PC you need and then I stopped and I paused when I saw it and I almost had a heart attack because this PC had a graphics card in it there was nearly five years old this is a GT 730 and furthermore it's not just a graphics card that's over five years old it's like the lower end of that five-year-old spectrum not to mention they don't state which of the three models it could be because two of them have ddr3 memory that's right on a graphics card there is ddr3 memory in a PC that's being sold in 2019 now some of the other specs on this PC are questionable like eight gigabytes of ddr4 memory and there's some other things that we'll take a look at later and also if you're in the market for a brand new PC I'll give you guys some hints and suggestions on what you can do instead of getting ripped off like this PC that we're seeing in the photo here but without a side I've got a GT 740 here which is actually a step up from the GT 730 they're putting in that PC and we're gonna quickly boot it up and see if it can play a title like apex legends at 1080p high settings which I'm sure is what you would expect if you're forking out this kind of money on a brand-new system let's check it out so we just finished playing apex legends at 1080p with the lowest settings and we're getting around 20 fps at best but when we got to a battle it went down to like under 10 FPS it was a horrible experience so forget about 1080p high settings gaming here for 1600 ozzie dollars what you're gonna get here is an absolutely horrid experience and I don't know where this piece is going and that's the thing sure they could say it's not a gaming PC it's not intended for gamers but putting a nearly five-year-old graphics card in a computer with a up-to-date 8th gen Intel processor and even then Intel have been releasing their nice generation processors this year which are better than the 8th generation processors it makes no sense to couple that CPU with 8 gigabytes of ddr4 memory because I'm sure maybe there's people out there that want a high-powered office PC and they want to do a bit of video editing they're not gonna be doing pretty much any of that with a gigabytes of ddr4 memory and now here's where things get worse because maybe you like ok Brian this PC is clearly overpriced but if it goes on sale for half-price I might be able to pick it up and throw some upgrades on it and this is where the bad news comes in because it's a Lenovo PC and it's past the 4th generation of Intel processors essentially after the sixth generation Lenovo I believe put a heap of sensors in the actual power supply units in the computers themselves and now this stopped people from essentially changing the power supply around and are putting it in a different case where if they did that and they managed to somehow still bypass some of the proprietary adapters that still find themselves with a motherboard that didn't turn off properly or had all these errors so this is pretty much a proprietary system from the ground up and then you could probably only upgrade the memory to 16 gigabytes or maybe 32 if you're lucky and put in a middle-range graphics card that is still of low power consumption something like it may be a 16 60 TI but other than that if you guys are in Australia and you're looking for a new gaming PC you want the warranty and you don't want to have the hassles of building something yourself well on eBay there's people selling gaming pcs that will perform much better in games for instance one seller for under 500 Aussie dollars which is like three hundred and fifty US you can get something with an rx 570 a gigabytes of RAM a risin 320 300 X as well as something that will be upgradable so this sort of value for money compared to the 1600 Aussie dollars that you're seeing here is a night and day difference now keep in mind I believe with the eBay PC you'll still have to add windows 10 on which is some additional cost but even if you're just after the i7 8700 you're like look I just want to have a gaming PC with an intel 6 core processor there's other sellers that are selling for around eleven hundred and forty dollars pretty much the same thing but with a gtx 1060 so you can save nearly $500 and still have a much better gaming experience and who guys in closing out let us know in the comments section below what you think of a PC like this with this kind of specs I think this day and age in 2019 this kind of stuff has to stop and now I do get it with retailers they do charge more because they have to employ staff their bricks and mortar stores that require a lot more cost than that of an online store but at the same time this is just on another level of not practical for anyone whatsoever I'd even like to see them maybe put on another $400 on the price tag and just beef up the specs like the graphics card in the memory then they wouldn't have had such a problem and even the PC and the photo beside that is still very questionable in terms of its value for money and I believe that PC beside it will perform better than the GT 732 off the top of my memory but it decides naming and shaming the retailer I'm not going to do that I sort of want to give them feedback and have them read the comments and see if they can improve on their product because I believe in 2019 consumers are not that stupid they're gonna see this and they're not gonna be fooled by this and at the same time they're just giving their own brand a bad reputation by trying to pull off stunts like this and when those young guys called me over and said take a look at this they were right this was something that people had see because it was a bit too much beyond the scope of getting that extra retail experience and without said guys I hope you enjoy today's video if you did be sure to tap that like button for us if you enjoy the content around check your city might wish to consider subscribing hitting that Bell notification if you want to get that inside scoop before it even gets to YouTube Tech yes city on Instagram and I'll catch you in another tech video very soon he's out for now buddy Oh