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so something I hear quite a lot is that PC gaming is expensive to get into and now this can be true if you're buying new parts especially in today's market though today I'm going to show you guys an alternative something that I built this month that's very easy to do it's inexpensive and of course at worst all you have to do is probably change a graphics card and maybe even clean out your computer and for under $200 you can have something that can play the latest titles of 1080p and play it very well even titles like pop G at 1080p 60fps and get a very smooth experience also other titles like overwatch csgo and dota 2 are no problems to so let's take a look at this PC that I built welcome back to tech yes City this is brian coming to you guys today with a video on the cheapest and easiest way to get into PC gaming now this month when I was out deal hunting I picked up a PC for 80 US dollars now this thing was pretty dirty when I got a home I cleaned it up however I noticed that it had pretty good parts in it had a 4 core i5 one terabyte hard drive a gigabytes of ddr3 memory motherboard decent power supply and decent case with 2 included fans and a heatsink already on there and now it was already working I confirmed this when I go to buy it so if you guys are gonna do what I do in this video and I do recommend it then I do stress this do make sure that the parts are working before you go buy them one thing with use parts and one thing that's a big headache is when you buy a part and it just simply doesn't work ie you got hosed though a good hosing aside if you manage to pick up a PC like I have here and you put in a graphics card like a gtx 750ti then you'll have a really good gaming experience now the gtx 750ti was a very popular graphics card when it was released a few years ago however since there's new cards out like the 1050 1050 TI a lot of people who want to upgrade to the latest and greatest will now be selling this 750 eyes so in some cases you can pick them up for around 50 to $100 and at this price it's a pretty good deal you add this in and it doesn't need any PCIe connectors and you can have a decent game experience now the PC that I bought here actually came with a gravis card it's a really old gravis gosselin 9600 GT which is very old it'll play terribly in today's titles so I then took this graphics card out which is very easy you may need a screwdriver depending on the PC and then put the 750ti in and I was good to go I was now ready to play games however before I did that I also like to overclock now that's something that a lot a lot of people can do I'm sure if you're just getting into PC gaming it's gonna be very confusing for you but the computer that I had here and an i5 750 which is a 4 core and it's actually quite old to today's standards I believe it's a seven year old CPU however it's still very good and it can still play games at 1080p take for example when we go into pub G I had this cpu running at 3.5 7 gigahertz on all 4 cores which is a sizable boost over the out-of-the-box 2.6 6 gigahertz also on the graphics card I managed to give that an ear extra 200 megahertz on the core and also around 250 megahertz on the memory and at these overclocks I was getting really good performance we take for example pub G 1080p I was getting very low settings around 60 fps at all times and now very low is what a lot of pros like to use in this game it definitely the foilage and stuff like that in battles you'll also get less dips and this is exactly what was happening especially when it came to gunfights I was getting no problems whatsoever doing those clutch plays so overclocking is something that if you can do then I highly recommend it here on the channel now continuing on with the titles when I do budget builds a lot of people seem to request GTA 5 so booting this up running it at 1080p normal settings we're getting near hundred frames alot of the time sometimes going even higher very smooth experience not many dips I mean there is the occasional dip that's inherent to GTA 5 itself but besides that very smooth experience now next up here we had a popular multiplayer eSports title from Blizzard this was overwatch at all times were pretty much getting over 80 FPS at 1080p high settings a lot of the times it was going into a hundred fps so is a very smooth experience one that this 150 dollar PC was handling perfectly fine and of course not to forget about csgo which is another very popular title we're on dear dust2 with a high-low blend which is how I like to play this game especially at 1080p at these settings will getting over 200 FPS at practically all times extremely smooth experience one which someone would love when they're playing csgo especially competitive gamers and the last title we've got up here is dota 2 one which I used to be good at now I kind of suck because I don't play that much anymore but at 1080p high settings will getting near again a hundred FPS at practically old times there was no dips even in battles very smooth experience so if you guys are looking for a PC that can get into 1080p gaming and it's not gonna give you dips when you're on those clutch plays which is arguably the most important time when you need your computer to perform then something like this on a budget is highly recommended I absolutely love it and even the month before that I picked up a computer for a little bit more but it did have again a four core eight gigabytes of memory the whole package so all you have to do a lot of the times is adding the gtx 750ti now if you're in australia you can get these for around sixty Australian dollars if you're in the u.s. they're up on eBay all the time around fifty to a hundred dollars really when it gets to a hundred dollars you could think about getting a gtx 1050 which is on amazon and you can pick them up for around about a hundred and ten used so if you want to get a modern-day card than a gtx 1050 will definitely perform even better than the 750ti that i've featured here today though with a computer like this what about maintenance and what about keeping those temperatures low well in this case we're using a low powered 750ti so it doesn't put out much heat to begin with so really with these graphics cards that don't require PCI connectors you don't have to worry about them as the terms of the CPU it's a four core it doesn't use much power on its own however I did overclock it to three point five seven gigahertz on the stock cooler and even then in a twenty eight degree ambient environment the temperatures were going to ninety degrees so we still had an extra 10 degrees Headroom on a stock cooler which is arguably one of the worst things you can put on this I 5 750 but one big question I get asked and this is that this PC looks good it's cheap how did you get this thing for so cheap and the trick is that you have to ask for the deals you have to search for those deals no ASCII no Getty that's a general rule of thumb so a lot of the times I only hunt once a month in Australia and like literally on that day I'll just pull up the deals and go hunting and I seem to be doing very well in Australia now I was in Japan before getting really good deals and when I was over there a lot of people said when you go back to Australia you're not going to get the deals dude and I seem to keep getting the deals and I'm sure if I was in the US or frawls in the UK where there's a lot of you spots I'm pretty sure that I could get the deals again you've just got a not to look for and get those deals and today I'm showing you guys a very good formula if you want to get into PC gaming just look for an OEM computer I'll put some links and some search titles in the description below on what to look for now this just wouldn't really be much of a techie a city video if I didn't give you guys some specific recommendations so in eBay or in Craigslist or in Gumtree you can type in some simple searches like desktop computer or desktop PC and from here you can look around and see what comes up ideally we're looking for a fork or something with an i5 2400 or an i5 750 or an i5 3470 these are for cause their budget and usually pcs with these specifications on them will come with a fork or a gigabytes of RAM one terabyte hard drive power supply motherboard whole case and all you have to do like we said before is add in a graphics card however when you do type in desktop computer or desktop PC it can bring up a lot of old dinosaurs things which won't even perform well in today's games they're just a complete waste of time and so if you do want to save a bit of time you can type in more specific searches for instance like I 5 2400 PC o i5 750 PC I 530 470 PC though another trick if you are on a budget you can type in AI 5 550 PC and what this will do is will bring up a cheaper version that you can then put AZ on in for instance an X 30 450 or an X 34 70 which is a CPU you can get for around about $35 put that in this PC if you're interchanging a CPU and you now have one fork or eight threaded beast on a budget as well however another thing on that note when you're looking for the PC parts make sure you don't get scammed when I was looking at 750ti is I noticed that there was literally fake 750 T is even one of the ads was sponsored I can't believe eBay allows this to happen I'm actually gonna send eBay a message and ask him while they're allowing sellers to do this as I think it's ridiculous and you can tell straight away it's there's a hundred and ninety two bit wide bit bus this is not cool this is essentially I believe a five series graphics card like a GTX 560 Ti I'm not too sure but something like that will perform a lot slower than a 750 Ti so essentially you're getting hosed on this deal a 750ti has a 128-bit wide bit bus I believe so that grab is card if you're looking for it take a look at the photos and also just check the information and make sure it checks out make sure you're not getting hosed you can always ask in the comment section below where a lot of people will be glad to help you out anyway guys if you enjoyed today's video then be sure to give it a big thumbs up and let me know in the comment section below what some of the best deals you've picked up lately and also if you've got any other alternatives be sure to post them in the comment section below or if you have any questions about today's build and how I get these things so clean and also on that note when I do clean my pcs I just use alcohol wipes a lot of the time sometimes I'll use a rag and wd-40 to give it a nice shiny finish anyway guys if you're dealing with electronics as well make sure the powers switched off and all the powers drain - and I'll catch you in another tech video very soon peace out for now bye