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going through my head like a jet plane going with the lights on so people have been requesting for a while for me to feature AMD parts and today I am doing an all AMD PC for you guys that can play Borderlands 2 welcome back to tech st this is brian coming to you guys today with a special all AMD build now this build came about because I found a phenom x2 4 core CPU in a bargain used PC that was lying around one of the used stores that I picked up for around about fifteen dollars and then I also found an AMD engineering sample graphics card this is an X 600 in a junk bin for $20 so those two parts together are going to create one beefy PC and we're going to add in a few extra components but but that being said let's take a look at the past list then we'll move on to the clamps and also look at any problems that we come in along the way and then we'll do the benchmarks so upon getting this case in and looking at it closely I can see that there was a proprietary power supply now the brand name is windy and I've never even heard of them before but I'm guessing that's why I've never even heard of them before they probably went out of business with this model but anyway we've got here actually a really nice case besides this power supply though it looks like from first glance I'm going to have to put in a power supply manually into this case since it is a very interesting case design especially for something this old I mean it's made of all lightweight aluminium and it can fit a full-sized ATX motherboard inside so let's take out all the parts and clean it up and test if they work so now we're pulling this case apart and this is really freaking cool like windy where are you guys nowadays I mean - this proprietary cable this case is legendary I mean some manufacturers could really take some ideas from this I mean look at that it slides out now good easy access to do the build now I know why this PC is in the junk section let's there the cool is busted so first up here we're going to test the AMD graphics card just to see if it works and we can actually get a signal out of it now I'm not expecting too much here but hopefully this all work okay come on hopefully the same boots up and it is a stupid signal to the monitor there from their signal to the Martha then we will be home in Ho's okay cool awesome so this graphics card is now working so we're getting a signal to the monitor which is really awesome news because we can now use this in our build so we're now going to try and boot this pc up and see if we can get a signal and we just have to hope and pray that the CPU is not bricked because as you saw that completely loose heatsink you know if they started off enough times and you get a whoa Wow okay I am NOT going to complain about my luck for a long time because that right there is a lot of life so there you have it you've heard stories about it on the internet now you're seeing it in the flesh this is the zip tied down cool after looking at this case more closely I realized it is just simply one-of-a-kind I haven't seen a case like this in a long time so what we're going to do is we're going to utilize this in a build at a later date I'm thinking like bigger graphics card X 99 you okay so everything is hopefully working now and we're gonna put together the same day oh and a PC and it's gonna hopefully take us that's if my zip tie get a job didn't break them city you so there you have it the AMD PC was doing really well at both 1080p and 720p even though Borderlands 2 was a little bit too far ahead for this PC at 1080p it still managed to play it perfectly fine at 720p and yes I have never played Borderlands 2 before but I'm going to play it from now because it looks like a really fun game and I admittedly didn't know what I was doing I just wanted to benchmark the game to give you guys some figures however I did have a lot of fun building this PC and it's actually really interesting when I got into the benchmarks on Cinebench I noticed that the x4 was scoring like 375 points overclocked and when I compared that to something like an 8 60 K at least the benchmarks I'm finding online this CPU from 2009 is beating it's a 4 core from AMD it's beating in 4 core from AMD in 2014 anyway it doesn't matter this CPU I got in the background here the Phenom x2 is a really good CPU on a budget if you can pick it up for cheap and also the graphics card a little bit dated I would have liked to have put in something different though when I saw an engineering sample I just had to jump the gun because I've never seen an engineering sample graphics card in my life so this is awesome to have one available to me and also benchmark and show you guys the figures and then looking onto the zip tying of that cooler on the motherboard socket that was probably one of the most dodgiest things i've done in the history of this channel and it worked and it worked extremely well I mean the temperatures were really good we got a good overclock out of this CPU on a real mediocre motherboard like this thing didn't even have a heatsink on the v RM it's that budget so I was really happy with the overclocked results and especially with the zip-tie cooler I mean we didn't even get over 45 degrees and the spread was absolutely amazing across all the cause there so I was really happy with the zip-tie job and I mean even though it's a last resort I can highly recommend it so and one thing I will say also with the socket is that since it's a PG a socket that's where the pins are going into the motherboard I was able to get away with sort of being a bit loose with the pressure so if you're doing this on an LG a socket then be very careful because it's a lot more sensitive than a PGA socket in my opinion also one final thing that I'll stress is that a lot of these builds begin with the motherboard so if you're looking to build a used PC like I'm doing then just remember that it all begins with the motherboard and now today I did get really lucky again and that the motherboard worked also the CPU worked and even the memory worked in this budget pickup so I'm looking forward to the day where I actually have problems because I seem to just be getting really lucky as of late but anyway that being said if you guys enjoyed this build be sure to give it a big thumbs up and if you have any questions or comments about today's building be sure to drop a comment in the comment section below this is the all AMD build and I hope you guys enjoyed it and I'll catch you in the next one peace out for now bye I just got this G 100 s in and way too much glue on the box terrible