Gadgetory

you guys keep telling me you love the price-performance stuff and right here I've got yet another yes delivery for you guys on the desk let's take a look what we've got here and this is a 170 dollar i7 rig that we picked up with a gigabytes ram 2 terabyte hard drive now it has one of the ugliest cases I have seen in the history of computing as well as having an absolute garbage power supply list so we're gonna pull that apart very soon strip it down and then also prep the rest of these parts because what we got here is a power supply is just a pretty generic 600 watt case compounds play it does work pretty well especially for a low powered build which would kind of go here on the desk then we've also got an RX 470 which I picked up for 70 Ozzie dollars but we're gonna reflash this to an rx 570 and then we've also got a 60 gigabyte SSD to throw in there to help with the boot speeds and we've got this for 10 Ozzie dollars so so far we have 280 Ozzie dollars I'll put all the USD pricing up there for you too and then we've got an extra $2.00 in LED strips but we're still going to go pick up another case which I've lined up for 30-odd Z dollars but before we do that we'll strip this thing apart and then get all the parts on the table ready for a tech yes cleanse also guys I recently got this tool here it's a electric screwdriver but it also turns into an electric driver too but I'm a bit conflicted because I don't know if I should be using this or if I should be using a Swiss Army knife let us know in the comments below I mean this one's also got a torch on it as well and even one on the bottom so with all the parts laid out here on the table except for the case we're gonna go pick that up now I still have to clean down all these parts make them look like brand new but I do want to go pick up that case before it gets dark it's $30.00 Aussie dollars which is like 20 USD it looks pretty good I haven't seen it in person yet but I'm hoping it'll come through for this build let's go get it so we just got back now and this case is really big it's I think it's the full sized ATX cases but even then it just looks incredible I mean look at this thing you've got two fans included that side here bringing air in here mesh front panel even got a handle up the top here to carry this around to parties and whatever and the best thing is at the side here you've got a clear side panel so we're gonna be able to put all the pots in after we give them some tech yes loving and then we're gonna put some LEDs in and it's all gonna shine through just beautiful I can already picture this it's just gonna be not just like price-performance but it's gonna be looking incredible - so let's start cleaning all these parts up and then get ready for the build so we now cleaned out all these files right here everything is looking brand spankin new one quick thing we have to do though is quickly clean down just the heatsink contact areas here just to get the multi-purpose spray off so there's no oil when we put down the thermal paste and then we'll be good to go we're gonna start building this thing also one thing I did notice to report on for you guys if you're in America don't use the oil base wd-40 I got some in in Australia here and it is indeed very thick and oily if you're in Australia - this stuff is just absolutely amazing the multipurpose spray it just goes on gives it a nice real thin film looks amazing it's not sticky at all it's such a good spray to work with but let's start rocking this build and here's the bill here it is completed is looking Schmidt we got those two RGB LED strips inside giving it some bling we've also got that our x47 it's gonna get flashed in the morning so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna crash out now because it's pretty late and then I'm gonna wake up and we're gonna start installing windows and set all this up and then install some games and see how well this base performs so it's now time to install Windows but one funny thing about this case is that it's got a Windows 10 om license key written on the back of the actual case itself but in this build we won't need a Windows 10 license because we've already got a Windows 10 Pro license that was pre-installed with this motherboard in here when I bought the build off the previous person however if you guys don't have Windows 10 activated or you need a Windows 10 Pro license then today's video sponsor s CD keys have you covered for as little as 12 USD using the coupon code TYC SK you can get 12 percent off and get a single end-user license this is the legit stuff and then activate it and have no problems I've used these keys myself and never had one gone bad so what are you waiting for links in the description below use that coupon code and save money today let's get back to the build so we've installed Windows and now we're copying the games across so we gonna have to wait for that to get done but one thing I'd always do with a gaming PC something that's really quick and easy is install UniGene heaven install prime95 and also MSI Afterburner these three programs are going to quickly let you know if your system is stable it's also going to give you in the case of MSI Afterburner temperature readouts so let's open these up and see what's going on so now we're running prime95 testing out the CPU I usually leave that running for a good hour just to test the system memory as well and make sure nothing's crashing everything's running smoothly but while we're doing that we try to open up UniGene heaven just to get the benchmark running for the graphics card however it crashed out with this RX 470 and now Windows is telling me that this is not recognized it's actually stopped a device with an error code 43 on its current V bios so what we're gonna do now is use a TI flash to actually flash this into an RX 570 so we can try and get it working for gaming I actually have to remember the exact commands to force flash this so I figured this out now I'm gonna close prime95 for this just because you don't want your computer crashing or even risking a crash while you are flashing a bios it's just gonna save you a lot of time and hassle so we're gonna run this as administrator again and then we're gonna type in CD backslash that'll bring us back to the main command prompt here city spacebar ATI flash that will open up a folder and then we type in hei flash /i and now this will let us know what adapter number our graphics card is so it's zero so now we have to type in hei flash and then type in slash P or sorry - p zero that will select the grabs card then - err for force flash and then rx 570 files and that should work that should now make this an RX 570 and fingers crossed it's going to take a little bit of time and there we go it's ready to be come in rx 570 so we just got to restart the system and then let's check it out so if coming to a little bit of a problem in that this after we flashed it it works on the PC over there to test it out but it doesn't now work on this motherboard so I believe it could be there secure boot enabled or a lack of UEFI support on boot and so we're gonna try and update the BIOS now and see if we can fix it otherwise we're gonna have to replace this whole motherboard so now we tried updating the BIOS we had to use zero zero four eight apparently to get it to work but then we tried updating from the in BIOS tool that told us to go to Windows we use the Windows Update and then it just bricked so this motherboards essentially toast I think it's a good reason anyway time to get rid of this garbage out of the system and change the motherboard over something a little bit better and this should work absolutely fine let's change that over of course it's gonna add to the build cost unfortunately but as we said just before it's for the better so this motherboard did fix the trick there everything is working absolutely fine the RX 570 is showing up now unfortunately Windows is now not activated because this motherboard wasn't activated but it's time to install some games and finally get everything up and running properly we'll talk about that Intel motherboard a bit later in the video but let's see at these games installed and see how this thing performs so after all the hassles we finally got this PC running and the total cost came out to about three hundred and fifty five Aussie dollars or if you're in the u.s. two hundred and fifty five US dollars now the biggest thing that added to the cost of this build was this motherboard it was just so tedious as well and man I don't know what happened here like this is one of those things where Intel really did a bad job on this board in particular I mean why implement a BIOS update tool when you force people to go to Windows and update the BIOS in Windows and everybody knows with mother wood BIOS updates you generally don't want to do them in Windows because it has the highest chance of breaking a motherboard and in this case we went to do it it restarted the Machine and then as it was restarting it just froze so then after that the Mulla board just didn't work anymore so I'm gonna save this board for an episode of can yes fix it so stay tuned for that I mean at the moment it's just too much time to try to get this thing to work especially all the hassles that we had trying to get it to work in the mean time where I thought my rx 570 wouldn't have worked but I found out I was like knows it worked on the other computer and then it didn't work on this I was like okay there must be some sort of secure boot and not an option to enable compatibility support module CSM so that sucks that board ended up wasting a lot of time and it also added another 39 US dollars onto the bill because that's what you can get one of these h61 gigabyte boards for and also we had to then install Windows 10 Pro on it so that was another 12 USD so that pretty much added 51 US dollars to the build that we shouldn't have had to have added if Intel had just done their BIOS updates right that was a bit of knowing it really sort of blew the budget out a little bit I mean it's still a good budget build at the price if we look at those gaming figures they're looking really good I mean the latest shadows of the Tomb Raider even on high at 1080p settings still getting around 54 average fps and then we moved on to some of those benchmarks like heaven we're getting a really good score 2400 and then 3dmark firestrike gives you guys a good score on how the GPU and the CPU perform where the GPU is getting over 13 thousand points CPU is getting over 8,000 points on the physics and then moving through to a game like hitman 1080p high settings was getting a little over average of 90 FPS but for some reason MSI Afterburner just wouldn't accept the benchmark numbers and so I couldn't accurately get you guys an average FPS figure but the 0.1% and 1% lows were very accurate so this game was running really smooth on this PC which of course is just awesome since it's one of those latest and greatest titles and then of course what about dota 2 csgo fortnight and all those other competitive multiplayer titles well we booted up dota 2 and that was running absolutely fine at 1080p you're not gonna have a problem playing any competitive multiplayer titles on this PC and for the budget it's gonna do a really good job giving you some smooth gameplay but one thing about that I 720 600 even with a gigabytes of RAM it's still a great little combo even for 2019 especially if you're on a budget just be careful of some of these older motherboards they may give you headaches like we saw here today and then we move over to the case and we had this CM stormtrooper this thing has a handle on it we whacked in to red LED strips only added a little bit to the price of the build and this thing is just massive it's got two fans on the side and a big 20 centimeter fan at the top so things are gonna stay very cool in this case and especially for the price we paid 30 Ozzie dollars are around 22 US dollars I think it was a good bargain but what do you guys think let us know in the comments section below what you think of this massive case do you think it's pretty cool I mean it's got some good cable management options in there but one thing that I would have liked to have done differently in this build in particular would be to change to a palace play with some black cables I think that really would have made this bill complete I definitely noticed the catch of a mustard standing out a lot more in this bill for some reason I don't know what it is but of course if we did that that would have added to the cost of the build even more since power supplies with those black cables generally cost more than the ketchup and mustard kind but the good thing was the Arak for 70 did flash successfully to the rx5 70 and that even works with a 6-pin only so if you guys want to test that out on our X 400 or 500 series cards and get away with just using a single 6 pin if it has only one 8 pin connector anyway guys that's about it for this budget build if you enjoyed this one especially with all the twists and turns and be sure to hit that like button also if you want to check out stuff like this before it even hits youtube be sure to check us out on instagram check yes city and also if you want to check out the videos the moment they hit youtube then be sure to subscribe with that notification bell turned on also if you want a cheap Windows 10 key the pro version like we used in today's video single end-user license be sure to check out today's video sponsor SCD keys and i'll catch you on the next one very soon peace out for now bye you