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when five different talented tech tubers asked me to be the judge for their $250 use gaming PC challenge I was more than happy to oblige and today I'm going to be giving you guys the verdict welcome to tech city this is brian coming to you guys today with the final scoring on the $250 use gaming PC challenge now the five tech tubers that I'm going to be judging today are nerd on a budget tech by Matt scatter volt toasty bros and Ozzy talks hardware now all the links to their videos and also their channels will be in the description below so be sure to check them out but with all that out of the way the rules are very simple every builder had a budget of 250 dollars or less to build the best price performance gaming PC possible and every dollar over that 250 dollars would count as $2.00 and based on my metric system which I developed and I'll explain that in a second I had to judge the winner and the following system is as follows first up is fire strike which I gave a heavy weighting of 30% to since I found in the past that this benchmark score is highly correlated to how a gaming PC will perform in the real world with games second we have UniGene heaven which is another gaming benchmark and I gave this a 20% weighting third is GTA 5 which I gave a 20% weighting to as well fourth we have shadows of Mordor which scored 20% in the weighting - and then in fifth place we have the Cinebench r15 benchmark which I decided to give a 10% weight into and only take out the CPU score I decided not to take into account the OpenGL test however since I found in the past that is heavily manipulated by things like level 3 cache which have no bearing to real world gaming benchmarks or at least gaming performance now with all the explanations out of the way let's take a look at the winner of the contest nerd on the budget with a 130 dollar PC he came in with 42 point 6 4 points here and really there wasn't a lot to critique about this build everything was on point he got those deals he got that all in one system there which had the motherboard the CPU the fan the hard drive even and even got some bonus RAM included all for $50 this is what really made this PC win this competition in my opinion also that GTX 660 very good balance there as we could see in the GTA 5 benchmarks scoring ninety point two seven frames per second on average versus the other competitors who had some much more powerful graphics cards though they were being limited by the CPU on that benchmark and then ways kind of heavily skewed the results towards nerd on the budget and since this is a contest with their own settings it is in the confines to have a good balance here and nerd on a budget certainly struck a great balance between CPU and GPU here though if there was one thing to critique I would say to take out that 4 gigabytes of RAM and just have the 8 gigabytes there in the set because I believe that would help your benchmarks even that much more well just by a little bit coming in second place was scattered volt with the 245 dollar GTX 970 beast he scored thirty nine point one five points so just a little bit shy of coming in a victory over no dollar budget however I believe the big letdown here was the GTA 5 benchmark and I will say that that's when that I 520 400 just couldn't live up to the GTX 970 demanding more power to be fed and the CPU just couldn't provide that however the fire strike score there unbelievable on this budget you could also see with that graphic score that he was heavily overclocking that gravis card which is fantastic on this kind of budget though I will also say the four gigabytes of RAM I mean this is a competition and he is playing by the rules very smart choice but honestly for real-world gaming applications I would have liked to send a gigabytes of RAM in there to make a perfect gaming PC the very well done scatter vault love what you did with this build coming in third place with the tasty burrows with their 190 dollar PC they scored thirty four point nine three points here and they had a HD 7950 which they got for $90 and if there anything to critique here I would have liked to have seen them heavily overclock that 7950 I'm not too sure what they managed to get the overclocked to I couldn't really see much information on that though I'm sure that would have made them score a lot better in this competition however that aside I think they had a solid PC in general I couldn't really critique one thing as being a bad deal I just think that note on a budget and also scatter vault got some better deals there and that enabled them to pull over a higher score than toast ebro's coming in fourth place is tech buy a map with these two and $50 PC he scored thirty three point zero one points here and he had a GTX 1060 which he picked up for around about a hundred and seventy dollars and this is the first thing I'm going to critique here since all these other deals were pretty rock-solid I think the GPU let him down especially when we compare that to scatter volts GTX 970 which was scoring a higher graphics score in fire strike and he overclocked that and then we've got the hundred and seventy dollar graphics card which came in at around twelve thousand points versus the thirteen thousand two hundred so there's anything that let Matt down it was going with that gamble on that new graphics card which has less cuda cores than the six gigabyte variant to on the gtx 1060 so that was kind of like the Falla see in this build though with that being said i think it was a very solid contender and i really like what he did with the case and how he modded it to fit in all the parts on a budget and then coming in fifth place Azaz he talks hardware with his 230 dollar PC he managed to score twenty point eight two points here on the scoring system and it was a very bold move going with gtx four 70s in sli that's the first thing i will critique about this build going with legacy dated graphics cards in sli probably wasn't a good idea and especially showed on the benchmarks coming in a well below the other competitors there though I will give credit to Ozzy talks hardware for being the only competitor go with a manual type build he managed to sources xeon separately a motherboard separately in a CPU cooler and also the ram and make something that was overclockable a bowl of mars eels buzz eels buzz Ian's bells there with Ozzy spending $20.00 on the CPU cooler and also $30 on the hard drives I believe that this was money not well spent I believe he could have put more of that money into the gratis card and gone with something like a 250 gigabyte used hard drive and also gone with one of those big fat stock intel heat sinks from back in the day which actually surprisingly do a very good job of overclocking and you can get between around 3.8 gigahertz to 4 gigahertz depending on the ambient temperatures with that CPU sorry guys I had an absolute blast watching all these videos and also collabing with the five different youtubers who are again put the links in the description below for their channels and their videos I think it's absolutely awesome that the tech community is thriving especially in the used part scene where everyone especially like myself likes to get in there for the thrill of the hunt you can also help people out in the process and also save a lot of people money if you want to sell them that computer and save them from buying something like an alienware anyway that's it from me I'm going to go get on my wolf 'mobile and get on out of here so if you like this video then please give it a big thumbs up and I will catch you guys in another tech video very soon which is going to be my own used build and it's going to be awesome so stay tuned for that and also I'm looking for hot used setups that's going to be a new series that I'm going to be bringing to the channel then the emails in the link below so submit all the pictures you can to my email brian at tech city TV and we're going to have an awesome new series coming for you guys so stay tuned and peace out for now bye