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call of duty black ops 4 aka black out the Battle Royale edition of this franchise has finally been released and as always in the good nature of tacky air city we're gonna be building a potato that can play this game or hopefully play it I don't know yet as we picked up a Dell Vostro here this has an i7 870 CPU it's got a gigabytes of RAM 500 gigabyte hard drive and some random gravis car that we're gonna be ditching very soon minimum spec requirement state that you need an i five 2500 K or a gratis Cod of a gtx 660 or an AMD 7850 or greater so for that problem we're gonna try and solve it by using an EVGA 6 gigabytes 1060 I'd pick this up on a bargain for 240 Aussie dollars I think that's like around about 170 us and also this PC behind me we've got this for 70 US dollars as well so it's a combination that looks like it will come in under 250 US dollars except for one thing and that is nowadays I just can't live without having an SSD in my system especially with the price tag of these things you can pick them up for under 30 US dollars so we'll be adding that into the build as well and without said we've got to build total here it's coming in around at $260 the game itself cost around 70 US dollars and this power supply here this is one of the things I'm worried about so we're going to be a little bit crazy we're going to try use the included power supply by using a two side of the PCIe connector on this thing and see if we will actually run the ten sixty and the i7 870 this video is brought to you by Squarespace and tech yet City viewers are getting 10% off and this is great because Squarespace offer a complete package where you can just build manage and maintain a website all year round without crazy overheads and crazy charges that other companies will charge you to get off the ground if you're a small business this service is very crucial because you can get a professional-looking website that looks the part and plays the part for only a fraction of the cost of what the other guys can do so here's the build here it's completed we did clean this build down in a previous video that I did I'll put the link up here if you want to check that out so it already got some check yes loving but the cable management itself was super easy we talked it behind the hard drive in the SSD since there's two reasons for this of course we want to make the build look pretty decent but there's also no cable management on this case itself and the cable length runs that we have on the solder cables here since we are using two of those for the gravis cards is very limited so there's the build right there I do worry about this power supply since it only does have 17 amps available on the 12-volt line so we could run into a problem ideally with something like an i7 and a gtx 1060 you'd want this to be around 25 a or greater just to be on the safe side but never attempted this before so why not give it a shot so everything was installed we're ready to get going but it just switched off I even got this on camera while going through the menu so unfortunately the palace play is not good enough for these components so we're gonna have to change that around and then get into black ops 4 so we just finished playing black ops 4 on this PC we won a victory royal with the i7 870 and the GTX 1016 what I realized from this combo is that this game actually needs a lot of graphical processing power from the graphics card and so I'll surprised to see that 1066 gigabyte it could really only just handle this game at 1080p high settings and the funny thing was the difference between low settings and high settings wasn't that much at all we're talking like around 10 FPS on average so whether that has to do with the i7 870 or not I do doubt it I mean this CPU was handling this game absolutely fine there was no stuttering at all whatsoever even on the hundred player battle royale modes the zombies was really smooth and also the standard multiplayer the six versus six that was really smooth - so I think we stumbled on a combo that just works really well for this game if you want to play it at 1080p but if you want to save some money on a graphics card because the 1060 is a little bit expensive especially compared to some of the previous potatoes I've done and so you'd have to really step down the resolution to something like 720p but you can drop the settings even more but I find with this game unlike pub G and unlike 49 is if you drop the graphics settings I actually find it more difficult to see things for me personally I loved playing this game at 1080p high not only were the graphics smoother and they looked better but I could also see enemies clearer and that helped me get a battle royale victory as opposed to playing on low settings I had no clue what was going on at all and the way every time I came close to winning I just sometimes just blacked out but we'll get done with this PC first then we'll talk about black ops 4 in general because I think Treyarch have done an amazing job but one thing that surprised me with this PC was that we had an i7 870 and it wasn't overclocked at all using a stock cooler a Dell motherboard and also a gigabytes of RAM that we haven't touched any settings for so these are out of the box settings and in the BIOS you can't even do any tweaking or overclocking so this meant that we were running kind of a worst case scenario for the i7 870 it was on a real mediocre palace play and this still ran the game really smoothly so they've done a great job in getting this game optimized from the get-go and making sure it doesn't stutter making sure it does play on something that's kind of semi potato because the i7 870 that's a CPU now that's going back quite a few years it's actually really old now it's the first gen i7 and we're now moving on to soon to be knife gens so that's kind of like eight years in the making and this thing can still play a latest released triple-a title but of course the gtx 1060 in this particular game goes hand in hand with this cpu now if you do want to get 120 FPS reasons being you want to step up your competitive game a little bit more then you will need to get a better cpu and also a better GPU in my opinion if for instance you want to play at 120 FPS at 1080p i do believe this game is capped at the moment in blackout modes so I'd like to see them raise the cap but besides that the game itself plays really well it's so enjoyable the things that they've implemented in the multiplayer the way the gun shoot the item drops and also the different items you can use I like it how they've got trophy systems as well so you can sort of do different strategies as opposed to pub G & fortnight they had their own strategies but I guess pub G was sort of the most basic of all three of these games now and of course it just has that black ops 2 feel which was my favourite Call of Duty series of all time and it sort of felt like after that they dropped the ball there was too many hackers and then they just made the game cheap to compensate for that and sort of didn't have any kind of scene on the PC but this time around it seems like this game on PC but also ps4 and Xbox one is definitely going to be one to get even though the game itself does have a high price tag I think that represents that it's a much better implementation of the game than the previous Call of Duty series like advanced warfare and ghosts and some of those other titles that I really didn't play a whole lot but this one I'm definitely going to be getting into it a lot more a lot more fun very well optimized and hopefully there will be less hackers on PC I mean I have come into already cobbler times where there's been some suspect movement but hopefully Activision do a good job this time around and making sure hackers don't jump on black ops 4 and ruin it for everyone because the previous time I was playing the Call of Duty even just this year there was people late literally advertising their websites and just blatantly hacking and I didn't like that at all just frustrated me and a lot of other people just quit and I think that's what did it for me and a lot of other guys playing this title on PC but new guys if you enjoyed today's budget build and be sure to hit that like button also I did have to add in a twenty US dollar power supply this is only a 300 watt power play the build itself used up to about 250 watts from the wall so the 1060 does juice a little bit of power especially this older i7 872 coupled together but 250 watts isn't a problem even most basic power supply should be able to handle this something that I've sort of been delving in with lately is sort of trying different sorts of power supplies not your complete bottom-of-the-barrel but more sort of mid-range power supplies and sort of just see how many of them have problems as we saw with today the included Dell power supply the 17 amp that I cut out after about 30 seconds of being within black ops 4 so I thought I'd try my luck but I didn't get lucky in that regards but it would have been cool if those power supplies were kind of underrated on the stickers and they actually had a bit better hardware that's what I was hoping for but didn't quite get there anyway guys let me know in the comment section below what you think of this PC and also what you think of black ops 4 I'm really liking it it's one of those titles that's been sort of a breath of fresh air for me personally as a PC player I'm glad to see Treyarch implant the game really well sort of bring back a bit of life into the Call of Duty franchise especially after some of the recent blunders in my opinion then they released on PC anyway guys I'll catch in another tech video very soon peace out for now bye you