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so this month's PC of the month is going to be extremely easy we put this together in the recent parts hunt that we did where we got this whole i7 system for around about 220 astraying dolls which would be about 170 USD then to top all that off in the same parts hunt we managed to pick up a gtx 1050 ti4 110 Australian dollars or if you're in the u.s. 85 USD so this lay of the total of this build to 330 Australian or 250 USD so extremely good value for money and now something like this is the easiest way to get into PC gaming and it also represents some of the best price performance you can get in this case we've got a hate to PB you could add and get a Dell with a fork or a gigabytes of RAM hard drive motherboard or pre-installed and then just chuck in a low power consuming graphics card like a GTX 1050 or 1050 Ti you've got yourself a really good gaming PC however this month I wanted to do something different with the video for you guys and that's sort of take you through a step-by-step process of what I do when I get these pcs how I tuned them up and also how I overclock them and then how I test in the games walking back to tech yesterday the first thing I like to do when I get the PCs that come through here is do a fresh install of Windows 10 to get rid of all the crap and also with that you can get a cheap key off of kinguin but I'm finding a lot of the pieces that I get through here already have Windows 10 installed so it's just a simple matter of going in resetting windows completely and then after you've reset windows I like to optimize it so you get rid of all the unwanted programs all the unwanted apps disable some services turn it in high-performance mode even going to Windows Defender and disable some cloud-based services I've got all these settings and tips in a video which I'll put in the link in the description below the Windows 10 optimization guide and I will be releasing a full creators update guide for you guys soon so stay tuned for that and now after this I then start copying over my games but I also get the latest drivers whether it be the AMD or Nvidia drivers and also afterburner and River tuner now these two programs go hand-in-hand with UniGene Heaven UniGene Hammonds a quick benchmark that you can load up to test overclock sand with afterburner you just have to move a few sliders change the settings to boot with Windows unlock voltage control and then understable overclock and then save that to a profile and every time you boot to Windows you will now have your graphics card overclocked which of course is the most important thing for gamers and what quickly pause on this topic and talk about the settings that are using games and now this is a big reason why I get high smooth frame rates that look really good is because I play on high settings and I disable some very taxing settings in games and in my opinion this gives a still very good visual quality in the game but also gives you very smooth frame rates a lot of people are constantly asking me in the comments how do you get such good performance out of your low budget pcs they run better than my i5 and GTX 970 for example and I've got a better SPECT computer than you and the answer is really just tuning the games as well as the system and that's two things that go hand-in-hand to give you guys a really good experience when you're gaming and so with this 1050 Ti I believe we'll be able to hit around about 100 fps and some of these titles that were installing though of course we'll wait till we test the games and now another thing I like to do after I've overclocked everything is run I 264 and basically what this does is will tell us if the temperatures are okay both on our CPU and our GPU I find it's also an extremely real-world benchmark versus some of these other overclocking utilities that can just stress your CPU way too hard or even your GPU and it's not as real-world as either 64 it'll just give you a power consumption figure but it finds very accurate and also temperatures that are very accurate well with that said if there is a problem with the stress test at night at 64 then I'll go back and do things like change some thermal paste on the GPU or CPU and then make sure that either 64 is running completely stable before I even boot up into any games so as I said before overclocking with afterburner one of the most important things you can do on a gaming PC of course we take our power limits and temperature limits up and keep in mind we are in a 24 degree ambient environment here sometimes even the summer for example you may not be able to achieve the overclocks I'm getting here with that said the boost clock on the core was actually quite high on this 1050 Ti though the memory clocks were very low I think was hitting 7 gigahertz per second effective memory speeds so that means we've got a lot more in the tank for memory speed so we're gonna try plus 700 because usually you can get at least a gig so that's plus 500 so with this we can take this all the way up to around about 700 I think we'll be fine fan speeds 80% you can even hear it in the background it's not loud at all so we're gonna go for this first Oh see here with plus 61 plus 715 so let's see if this crashes we'll say this as five so I'd like to save my testing profiles over here and then my stable profiles over here so now we've got here is an overclock that's been running for a minute or two and it's actually looking really stable there's no glitching basically if you get artifacting that's when the screens going crazy that'll mean either the memories overclock too aggressively and if the core is usually overclock too aggressively the program will just start flickering and crash out so with this we can see that we've got a relatively stable overclock here I think this is good to go so we might even want to give it a little bit more of a boost and see if we can extract out of this GPU because it's looking pretty good I mean the effective overclock on the GPU is actually pretty high so we'll start tuning that we gave it an extra 70 megahertz so we'll see if it passes because you should generally do one thing at a time it's just that I'm fast tracking these overclocks and with UniGene as you can see here you can get an overclock on your GPU and literally 10 or 15 minutes and you know that's sometimes like 10 to 20 percent extra performance so tune that in lock it in and it's happy days so I was literally just about to cut the video but we can see here this this is crashed clearly so what this means is that our overclock is now too aggressive so we can try to one of two things we can try up the core voltage and see if that will give it extra juice to be able to work at a higher clock speed or we can just lower the clocks to what we had it before so we can try around that extra 50 millivolt see if that runs but then again the overclock we had before again was extremely good already so I'm not going to complain about that so that overclock was basically unstable so 130 mega Hertz plus on the core just did not work properly so we're going to give it now 87 and see if we can maybe take it to a hundred on the core so that's working okay so quickly again this is a super fast track overclock I'm doing and this is how I usually overclock with my GPUs nowadays it's so easy to find a quick overclock on your computer and keep in mind UniGene heavens probably not the most stressful of GPU applications and see what we got here is something happening here I don't know if that's I've never seen that bug before but any there it is so it works fine so plus 99 megahertz on the court is pretty good now as I was saying before UniGene heavens not the most stressful but it's the most quickest in my opinion just load it up it'll quickly test if it crashes out it's easy to restart unlike programs like fire strike which are really tedious sometimes you have to restart your computer so this is the really the fast trackers dream to GPU overclocking so what we've got here is now 2075 megahertz and that's looking pretty good like I'm happy with that because we tested 130 and so we may be able to get an extra 10 megahertz but there's really nothing in it so that's a pretty good overclock we're now we're just gonna go really aggressive super aggressive on the memory because that will be oh yeah 9 Giga 9 gigabits per second no gigahertz so there we have it we've got the maximum memory overclocks are actually working as confirmed up in the top right hand corner and the GPUs at 2075 megahertz this is actually a really good 1050 Ti we got here and knowing that we only paid yeah what 85 bucks for it like damn like what a bargain that's that's crazy so basically what we're doing now is actually running the full benchmark this will take quite a while but if it passes the full benchmark we'll be able to see the average temperatures also be able to see if these overclocks are relatively stable so there we go the first run it passed it completely fine it's just hitting 50 degrees which is really good for the temperatures the noise is really low and also the overclocks are really high on this GPU this is actually a pretty good sample that the person sold on gumtree so the last test we're going to do of course is run it in AI 264 just for about 20 minutes make sure the system is completely stable with these overclocks and make sure the temperatures aren't overloading the case however one thing I will say that the HP business or server grade desktops do is they do do a good job of having good airflow so I believe you've got one fan in the front one at the back and also the power supply itself is working as an outtake as well so to it out takes one intake so we just finished tuning this PC to its maximum potential and the temperatures are okay the GPU temperatures are really good which is what I'm happy with the CPU is going up around 80 degrees so it may need its thermal paste to be changed but really not a problem in any real-world tests especially when we're gaming not going to be a problem also with the side panel on versus off there was really no difference in the temperatures so we're just going to leave the side panel on of course that's better with dust management as well in this case but with that aside one thing I was really disappointed with was the voltages I couldn't change anything so the CPU was going around 1.3 volt which is really high for a 3.5 gigahertz clock on this CPU so it actually might even not be the thermal pace that needs to be changed could just be it's running high voltages which is causing high temperatures on the CPU per se and also on the memory 1333 megahertz is a pretty low clock I went into the bias to try and change the memory speeds and also the voltages on the CPU and there was nothing there to be able to turn this PC but without a side let's see how this thing will perform in these games so right beside me 250 dollars of use price performance and it is running so well so easy to put together if you guys want to get a PC like this all you have to do is buy one of these OEMs off eBay Craigslist Gumtree wherever you can get it from and then whack in a GTX 1050 Ti or even a 1060 and you'll be having happy days as we saw it here today destiny 2 was getting around out 100 frames per second with a field of view of 105 and a custom blend of high medium and low settings this is how I like to play this game very smooth frame rates the ddr3 memory at 1333 megahertz wasn't affecting performance in this game and we saw this with Cod as well world war two that latest Cod this was running extremely well on this PC - scoring around about that 100 frame mark as well and what we saw with the river tuner statistics was the percentages of the CPU and the GPU were going near max all the time so this was a really well optimised game I'm surprised the good job that they've done with Cod this time around because previous cards have been terribly optimized this was really smooth even on a computer like this for 250 bucks it was running really well high low settings custom field of view 85 the performance was not only impressive but the gameplay itself was really smooth I was having a good time on the latest Cod on PC though you guys are probably wondering there has to be a catch at this kind of money surely a $250 PC can't perform this good and there is one catch and I did find this in pub G when I was playing this at 1080p settings high it was running pretty well there was the occasional stutter but when I dropped it down to low and very low settings to try and extract some better performance out of this game this was when I came into a little bit of a problem the GPU utilization was hovering between 60 to 80% a lot of the times and the CPU utilization was still under 80% a lot of the times - and so what this means was there as a bottleneck somewhere else and this is where that ddr3 1333 megahertz memory is causing problems specifically in pub G so one thing I'd like to do if I could do it again was maybe to get an overclockable motherboard with this same configuration and just see if those memory speeds do make a difference which I believe they will and a fun fact here was when I ran Sidda bench we got a score of 600 and also 3dmark fire strike we've got 8800 points on the CPU and around a similar score on the GPU however a Z on the $30 on from Aliexpress a generation behind if you overclock this to four gigahertz you can get around 10 K physics scores so those old Zealand's they are really good price performance and they can even outperform the i7 2600 non overclockable CPU however you can of course get an i7 2600 of the xeon x 34 50s it's not only do they have better IPC but they overclock a lot higher too in general anyway I hope you all enjoyed today's video if you did then be sure to hit that like button and let me know what you think in the comment section below of this 250 dollar PC would you change things up would you do things differently I'd honestly like to add in a gtx 1060 if I could I believe the power supply it will handle it and also I'd love to just overclock that memory and tune the CPU and undervolt if I could and I'll catch you in another tech video very soon peace out for now bye