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today is a story of a PC that got neglected it got abandoned by its previous owner to the state where it was the worst jungle sandwich that I have seen yet however the previous owner thought that this was a PC that was similar to the likes of a pizza that had been left in the microwave for three days and it was now uneditable but when I saw this PC I saw a pizza that simply had no topping on it all's it needed was a bit of cheese a bit of garlic and then a bit of mushrooms and then we got to put it back in the oven and make ourselves one juicy meal so let's take you on a journey and show you how I brought this 154 dollar PC from trash to treasure which cost less than a 2400 G the APU on its own and this is a whole system and we're going to do it in the one the only becomes welcome back to tech yes City and here beside me I have a PC which features a first gen I five these are a four core four threaded CPU and you can overclock them quite well even with the stock intel core it's also got a seventy eight seventy which in today's standards is still a really good graphics card is actually becoming one of my favorite used graphics cards because it's so underrated and the performance is actually really good and you can still get really good overclocks out of them with keeping the temperatures low there's also an antique 500 watt power supply a gigabyte p55 UD for motherboard a deep cool tesseract case a gigabytes of RAM and also 160 by 5400 rpm Drive now the great thing about today's build is I'm only going to be changing around one part and that's the two sticks of two gigabytes of memory I'm gonna swap that for one four gigabytes thick of memory but anyway with that aside let the transformation begin city-car the silhouette on the ocean after dark over the long years the whole the red blood from the dirty black water the shadow for the phone raised itself and climbed upon the show beyond on the blacktop there's a gentle rain downtown shadow who leaned underneath as it follows ground kiss you and I saw you step into your eyes I meant to say I love you but instead shit in the city I'm a stranger to myself on these streets of someone else my good intentions there's a shadow in the dark it comes to me infrequently and breaks your perfect are I don't know I do it all the jars food is too late single T and you leave me and the shadow slips away so here's the PC here we've booted it up and it is looking so fresh I mean the power supply was even around the wrong way so I've switched that around and that enabled me to get the 8 pin CPU pin connector behind the back of the motherboard and cable managed absolutely fine however what about these parts we've got the 7870 which as much as people hype up the 79 70 in the 79 50 and they're still really good cards to this date the 7870 in my opinion is one of the best cards it's really underrated this thing's scoring around about 7,000 GPU score when we overclock it and it's up from about 6,200 so we managed to get about twelve hundred megahertz on the corn we overclocked it got a little bit more out of the memory as well and the temperatures in games are still absolutely fine the CPU running on the stock cooler the stock cooler of course being a limitation but of course we're not putting any extra money into this computer we managed to get this from a two point I think it's two point six seven gigahertz all the way up to three point six gigahertz so we saw a 30% boost in performance on the stock cooler and in game it's still not doing too bad this is an an ambient temperature by the way of around 30 degrees so it is summer here so this is like a worst case scenario and the results are phenomenal at least with the overclocks so let's get into some games and see how this thing performs shit in the city I'm a stranger to myself on the streets of someone else so now we've got this PC behind the intern is running so well that I'm really shocked at how much performance you can get out of a PC that cost you literally next to nothing if you want to get into PC gaming and you're on a budget you can see there the four night results we're playing 1080p high settings and we're getting around 60 fps drop it down to medium we can get more FPS if we want to pop G 1080p very low settings we're getting around 70 FPS up to 80 sometimes really good experience and then we move over to destiny - it's the same deal high settings 1080p this thing can do it at around 70 FPS so all these three games which are very popular games are playing extremely well at 1080p which is a great sweet spot for gaming in my opinion especially if you're on a budget so what we've got here one hundred and fifty four US dollars two hundred Australian dollars so on this current cryptocurrency apocalypse you can still get really good deals and really good gaming performance by the way it'll play games like csgo dota 2 absolutely fine if we can run pub G it'll run practically any competitive multiplayer title out there overwatch as well so that's why I usually run pub G as a baseline benchmark this thing can definitely do it now the one thing I would change in this build would be that hard drive it's like a laptop hard drive it is very slow did take me a while to install games and sometimes in the games they will start a do to that drive so if there's one thing you had to do if you had a little bit of extra money would be to drop in a three and a half inch 7200 rpm hard drive also one game in particular was pub G that people told me to take a look at is there was a recent update that apparently helped with optimization I didn't really notice a whole lot of difference between this update and I've tested i5s the exact same i5 in the past the FPS was around the same one thing I did notice however the new desert map seems to be running a lot smoother so that's maybe where the optimizations were applied but again for what it was worth it really didn't make a difference in raw performance increases so now one thing I wanted to talk about also was the process of cleaning this PC a lot of people have been asking me lately to do a guide on how to clean your PC and I'll be doing that very shortly because there's a lot of requests an updated guard on how to clean your PC in 2018 because I did recently get a new two it's the data vac this thing's just essentially just blows a lot of air out it's an electric air blower it'll do a great job of cleaning your PC I recently compared it against the twenty five dollar cooler and it did a little bit better it's a really good tool for initially getting all that grime out dirt and then I'll use the brake cleaner for things like GPU dyes anything that's sort of real finicky and it needs a good clean to get a like old thermal paste off and then of course the wd-40 is the new-look shine but I'll be going through a guide on how I use all those in an upcoming video so stay tuned but what we got behind me is something as I said in the intro it's been neglected people think that they can no longer get any performance out of it because it might be throttling due to some old thermal paste on the GPU die maybe the CPU die as well that needs a thermal paste change but once you do all that and you overclock it because this generation of computers has so much potential the first gen high fives and the Zeon's they got so much potential when it comes to overclocking if you can extract that potential then you're just gonna be getting some really good gaming numbers on your 1080p monitor but really when it comes down to a one man's trash can be another man's treasure I really saw potential in these builds I see potential in any use PC parts it just comes down to how much time you're willing to spend I mean this would really not take me that long if I didn't have to film and record everything but there is a part of me that's happy with this PC I mean I can turn around the flip and make a bit of profit but there's another part of me that makes me sad because someone just completely abandons this PC they go out and buy a new PC and a lot of the times people message me in like well my new PC is not performing anywhere near these use pcs you're putting together and that's because some of the parts just aren't as powerful as some of this old use stuff I mean the 7870 is practically double the performance of a 2400 g that's AMD's latest rise in apu the the best one they've got they've got two SKUs they got the 2200 G they've also got the 2400 G this thing is performing a lot better and this is a grams card that's going on nearly 6 years old now so you can see the amount of performance you can extract out of these old use PC parts it's absolutely phenomenal you just got to apply a bit of magic to it and give us some tack yes lovin anyway guys hope you enjoyed today's video if you did - be sure to slap that like button and let me know in the comment section below if you like this pc or if you would change anything personally love reading your thoughts and opinions as always and if you got any requests as well let me sure to bang them out in the comments as well there's a lot of requests coming in lately and I'm gonna be fulfilling them for you guys so I'll catch you in another tech video very soon peace out for now bye you are probably wondering what is going on welcome back guys so today guys we have okay awesome so what we're gonna do is we're gonna the build also came with an antique 500 watt power supply a gigabyte p55 UD for motherboard a deep cool case that I would like to change around would be the memory changing those two for two gigabytes gonna swap that for one for gigabyte stick of memory so we can run chill so we can run a true dual channel memory consistent so we can run chill