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sometimes you have to make do with what you've got and today we have only a hundred and thirty six dollars and we're certainly going to be making do in titles like fortnight which is a recently released free-to-play game that's similar to pub G so we'll be testing that out and also pub G and also destiny to to see how far we can stretch this one hundred and thirty-six dollars welcome back to tech yes City this is brand coming to you guys are there with a PC that really just hits all the marks in terms of price performance we've got a budget CPU the x34 30 this thing comes in at seven dollars and it's that good for the money that I might give it a dedicated video on its own so stay tuned for that and then for the cooler we're using a four dollar sis Kabuto now this thing is extremely cheap but it didn't come with a mounting installation kit hence why it was so cheap however I did manage to get around this and I did make a separate video which I'll put in the description below where I used silicon bond and glued it down to the actual motherboard and CPU and the temperatures were actually okay so for this CPU and cooler combo we're putting it on a H 55 M motherboard now picked this up in Thailand in a recent used parts on and I got it for around about $30 very cheap when you couple it with the CPU and then we move on to the memory we've got this for $25 two sticks of xbg data memory well actually got it for free but I'm just pricing it up on what would you expect to pay for a gigabytes of ddr3 memory now it is to stick so we'll run in dual channel and it does overclock quite well even to 1600 megahertz on the X and P profiles and for graphics we own with a HD 7870 now I picked this up for $45 and although it is quite old in terms of its age it's actually really good still in terms of its performance and we'll find that out a little bit later and then continuing on this trend of extreme budget we've got a cooler and power supply both Coolermaster for $20 now the power supply is a 500 watt power supply and it does have around about 400 watts available on the 12 volt line which is gonna be plenty enough for today's components even when we overclock both the CPU and the graphics card to higher levels and then lastly for the drives were going with their really odd configuration to 160 gigabyte hard drives I did try to raid 0 room but the motherboard that we have doesn't support raid 0 so we're just going to install windows on one then of course we've got an extra 160 gigabytes to play around with now I did pull these hard drives out of pcs that people didn't want anymore so I technically paid nothing for them but honestly if you're looking for hard drives this old and banged up I wouldn't pay any more than $5 the only way that brings the total of this bill to a hundred and thirty six US dollars or if you're in Australia about a hundred eighty Australian dollars that without any further ado let's put this thing together for the overclocks the graphics card did extremely well we've got 1200 and 20 megahertz on the core and we've got an extra 200 megahertz out of the memory which is effectively quad pumped so it'd be around an extra 800 megahertz effective on the gddr5 and now this will allow it to perform pretty well in games the fire strike score is scoring close to that of a GTX 1050 or if not a little bit better I believe and so that's going to equate really well in terms of gaming performance especially for a $45 grabs card now when it came to the CPU the X 34:30 this thing comes out of the box at 2.5 3 gigahertz we managed to get it to 3.6 gigahertz on this $4 cooler and this really inexpensive $30 motherboard now keep in mind I could get it up to 3.8 gigahertz but I'm just not comfortable with running something that's got a real entry-level vrm at higher temperatures and putting more stress on that vrm as when I tested it with an IR gun the MOSFETs were reading about 68 degrees which of course t-junction levels would be a lot hotter than that or at least a little bit hotter and so I'm not comfortable running my vrm with that extra level of stress because it could mean in the long run a blown-out motherboard versus one that doesn't blow out of course that big question remains how does it performing games let's take a quick look so the first game which was the whole reason for today's PC that is for tonight this ran extremely well on this PC we're getting around 50 to 70 FPS most of the times on medium graphical settings and the lowest view distance possible when I did up the view distance however there was some quite nasty stuttering so for these settings this computer did run quite well there was the occasional stutter so I'm not sure if that's the hardware itself or it's just those two really old hard drives that I'm using and especially with background processes going on with windows that can indeed cause stuttering due to those old hard drives though the next game we had was pub G and I was surprised this actually ran really well at 1080p on very low settings we're getting around 50 to 60 fps but it was good to see that this PC for a hundred and thirty six dollars could run this game and run it really well I did have an enjoyable experience and then we had the last game which I'll pull up for you guys destiny - that was running again around 70 FPS at 1080p on a blend of low and high settings and it was really gorgeous to play even on these settings so ultimately all three games here at 1080p works success they were running really well though if I had a little bit of extra money and had to change things around which I probably will then I would use a normal cooler not a glued down cooler because I think I'm gonna sell this PC and if I do then I definitely don't want to sell someone a silicon bonded CPU to CPU cooler they'll probably look at anything like what is going on here so I'll probably replace the cooler with something with a mounting kit though if it was using it for me personally I would keep the glued down cooler on there because it's all about price performance at the end of the day and you're saving a lot of money with something like this though also the other thing I'd do is probably change the hard drive around even for a single 500 gigabyte hard drive that's used bits a couple of years you are then those two old hard drives as they are really slow and they are really sluggish but on that note what about the overclocks the last thing to talk about in today's video they were extremely good I mean the x30 430 again I'll probably be doing a dedicate a video to that CPU because it's seven dollars seven dollars the price performance especially in games that you're gonna get with other CPUs even one of my favorites the ex 5650 in terms of just the CPU alone I don't think it's gonna come close to this thing because you're usually getting a couple a CPU like this with a medium in graphics card like a GTX 780 at best and you're gonna get really good price performance so I will be taking a closer look at that CPU and also the graphics card the 7870 it still goes really hard I did manage to do a temperature test on the graphics cards at 80% fan speeds which isn't that loud on this GPU and the temperatures hit 62 degrees max in a 27 degree ambient environment so the over clocks were really impressive the temperatures were good I was happy with how everything performed in today's rig anyway guys that's it for today's PC if you have any questions or comments and be sure to drop a comment in the comment section below and I'll catch you in another tech video very soon also don't forget to hit that like button if you love for ass performance and I'll see you in the next one peace out for now bye