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so here it is guys it is a stormy Sunday and what better to do then build a PC full of used price-performance now before it rains I'm gonna get on inside and also make something that is just so damn good because today is something really special and why is it special that's because I'm building a used price-performance PC with some of the most electrical deals money combined these are some of these one-time deals that I've picked up so if you guys are looking for a deal that anyone can get over the Internet then I'll put a link up here for a recent bill that I did but today's build is all my best deals from the last few months that I'm putting together to make not only just a gaming PC but also a whole setup with mouse keyboard and monitor included without aside let's go into the studio check out the paths that we're going to put into this build and how much I've paid for them before I get drenched out here on this stormy Sunday so here's all these components here on the desk we're gonna go through each of them quickly and explain how I got them either so cheap or in this case for instance the mouse and keyboard for free now I won this at a competition at IEM when I guess some jelly beans in a jar and I got it right on the correct amount where I guessed 889 and I'll shocked because I've never won anything in my life so this was the first thing that I wanted I was over the moon next up here we had a gtx 1070 where it's a faulty graphics card that got given to me and when I was in Taiwan I took it to the Taiwan service repair center and they fixed it completely free I'll put the link to that video up here if you haven't seen it and then we've got over here a 120 gigabyte SSD I actually bought this brand new 28 Aussie dollars or about 19 USD then we've got a 1.5 terabyte hard drive I got this from the same person that I got this PC right here which is an i7 4770k us also got a cooler a gigabytes of RAM then we've got an adapter and we got this monitor as well 22 inch Samsung monitor now these are really good because you can get these for cheap in the case of this monitor right here I picked it up for $40 are about 28 US dollars which makes it just the nominal value for money for getting into 1080p gaming now of course the 10-7 is going to be able to provide really good frame rates but the last piece of this puzzle here is this MB 520 Coolermaster case it's got three RGB fans at the front and now how I picked this up was that someone was selling it for 50 Ozzie dollars and I asked him exactly why they were selling it and they said they're getting an NZXT case so me picking this thing up for about 34 USD with the RGB bling the tempered glass is definitely a bargain on my behalf now telling up all the parts on the table here at least what I paid for them and I know this is not realistic of what you're going to get if you're looking on eBay or over the Internet I paid a hundred and seventy four USD for this whole set up here and also if you're in Australia comes out to about 250 to Aussie dollars but without a side let's put this whole PC together and then clean this whole set up and give it some check yes loving and then check out the performance and what I believe is going to be my best price performance to this date now we're gonna stop and pause on this OAM right here we've got a legit Windows 10 license included we've got an i7 4770k Kohler motherboard a gigabytes of RAM now had no drives in it and that's why the person who sold it to me was selling it so cheap and this is one of those cases of the person not knowing that in this case 110 Aussie dollars is pretty much what someone would pay for an i7 4770k extra components in this build included is just an absolute steal now you're not really gonna go find this on the internet because the moment someone lists something like this for this cheap and they don't know what it's worth someone else is gonna snap it up in a heartbeat so I guess a lot of times with the local deals it's just about being at the right place at the right time with of course the cash in hand so here's the build it is all complete and the good news is everything is up and running absolutely fine now the magic in this build is coming from the i7 4770k that was released in 2013 has 4 cores 8 threads but interestingly enough this CPU is still actually quite popular and in demand on the used market it still fetches well over a hundred ozzie dollars or in USD terms well over 70 USD and at these prices it does leave one wondering why is a six year old CPU commanding such a premium to this date and it's got to do a two major factors the first being of course it carries that i7 moniker which when people buy a PC and they see I seven in it they definitely think oh this PC is going to be awesome no matter what the second thing is it actually carries all the latest instruction sets even including the avx2 which makes the CPU still in 2019 extremely relevant but the main question still remains and that is how well will this set up perform in games with the gtx 1070 let's put it to the test so we just finished playing apex legends on this use price performance setup and the i7 4770k numbers at 1080p of 108 average FPS 76 1% low and 24.1% low though the results differ of course depending on what part of the map you're on now another thing about this monitor is actually a 1650 by 1050 16 by 10 resolution so I'm actually not benchmarking this particular monitor as the FPS will be even higher we actually set it up over the test rig over there and we're getting the 1080p numbers for you guys but let's jump into pop G now and see how this PC performs in that particular title we just finished up playing pub G and the 1080p ultra results were pretty impressive we're getting over a hundred average FPS but the one percent lows were good - that was 56 however the 17 of 0.1% Lowe was getting a little bit low and there was some stuttering at 1650 when I was playing on this particular monitor here where the point on % lowers were clearly coming out onto 10 and of course that's that level where it can start to be noticeable and it can affect your performance especially in a clutch situation but I here with pub G this is a little bit of a unique outlier since I'm living in Oceania and apparently they've removed these servers and I noticed when I was trying to get some frags that I my bullets just weren't hitting at all so a little bit of a weird problem with pub G I mean the game is running ok but also another thing I'm not too sure of with this rig since the dual channel memory is only at 1333 megahertz perhaps that could be a problem with this particular title but we've also overclocked the graphics card - and the temperatures are good but we'll talk about that after we run the last benchmark here which is GTA 5 so there's gta5 done and now a funny thing about this versus pub G is I'm playing in single-player mode and the FPS is so incredibly smooth in this title and it's a CPU intense title just like pub gears apex legends ran really smooth and so did GTA 5 so I'm going to call pub G a bit of an outlier in that I believe it has other issues inherent to things like these servers which is causing the stuttering and causing the game not to play that well but in terms of the performance and how this rig performed especially for the money and what I paid for it we're gonna sit down and talk about this a little bit more in depth and there it is with the under $200 gaming setup now of course these prices in this build are unrealistic you can't really go out and expect to get a free gtx 1070 but of course over the last three months I've been hustling some really good deals and some of the time I just get those extraordinary deals that are like outside three standard deviations so there's kind of build here today I'd call it the anomaly setup because it's not realistic but at the same time you guys love it when I put together all these cookie cutter builds and this one is just the epitome of price performance in terms of what I've done personally but at the same time there's some other factors involved with this PC that make it a really good balance for instance even though it's only got a gigabytes of ddr3 that held up fine in these three titles and that's still with the MSI Afterburner overlay recording all the FPS figures if there's one thing though I would do to this PC it'd be to upgrade that eight gigabytes to 16 gigabytes which I'll probably do if I'm gonna flip this PC also the gtx 1070 that thing is absolutely fine it's actually more than fine for 1080p ultra gaming I'll surprised at how well it's holding up in these titles with just giving really smooth FPS and especially coupled with that forty seven seventy it's got all the latest instruction sets despite of being a CPU that's basically six years old it can still get up and boogie and play games apps fine now another thing we didn't talk about is the fact that it's got that onboard HD graphics which you can then use if you're streaming for example or doing other things in Adobe Premiere Pro so if you've got this with 16 gigabytes of RAM you could double down as a 1080p video editing rig absolutely no problems now in terms of power consumption here's another surprising thing when I overclocked the grantors card where the core clock was getting around 2.0 5 gigahertz and the memory I got an extra about roughly 500 which I think on NVIDIA is doubled to about an extra gigahertz on the memory the performance was really good and the power consumption was only going up to about 270 watts max draw or at least that's what I saw on the water meter when running the heaven benchmark now the other really good thing about this build is the temperatures - I saw a maximum on the CPU of 72 degrees and this is in a 25 C ambient environment and this was whilst playing GTA 5 I also saw the GPU was basically staying under 60 degrees the whole time which means a couple of things it means the cool that gigabyte have put on this thing is more than fine of keeping this thing under control when it's overclocked and that was it a static fan speed of 70% which really didn't give out any noise at all inside this case and here's another thing that went really well with this build and that's the cooler master case we used here today those three fans at the front there not just for bling they actually provide really good cooling especially with that outtake fan so the four fans included on this case despite it having tempered glass despite having an enclosed front it did have those mesh sides which were able to draw the air in effectively and keep this whole build very cool in what would be considered mediocre temperatures but the last thing I wanted to talk about was gaming on 22 and 24 inch monitors just like the pro gamers really prefer these sizes of monitors I think it's actually a really enjoyable experience playing on a smaller monitor I headed on 32 inch 4k monitors and when I got back from holidays Casals overseas editing on 24 inch monitors for Computex and over in LA I was using a TV I got back home and I was kind of surprised at just how big two inch monitors are and in fact I think they're too big for gaming personally I think they're good for 4k video editing where you've got a lot of real estate especially at 4k but for gaming 22 or 24 inch monitors definitely shouldn't be ignored even if you want the best gaming experience I know those Ultra wines are very tempting they do command a price premium but I could really enjoy myself on a smaller monitor especially coupled with used hardware and I guess in closing that's the crux of this whole video is putting together something really good for price performance but also appreciating how good that price performance really is in the fact that I could get this set up here stop doing 4k video editing and I could really enjoy myself on something that I've put together here today in this video if you've got that friend who's got that high refresh rate 4k monitor he's paid $3,000 for you got that other friend who has a 21 by 9 ultra wide bling monitor and you're on your 22 inch monitor and they're talking down to you you can just tell the tech yes sends his regards because this sector of the market is booming like it's never been booming before and I've actually got some insight news for you guys while speaking to some analysts and journalists over at LA for the AMD event and they were telling me some of the articles with use price performance with some of their biggest articles so far in 2019 only being surpassed by that of the Zen 2 announcement which was really cool to hear so you guys keep hitting that like button for us keep reppin used price performance in the comments section below and if you're enjoying the content enough then you may wish to hit that sub button click that Bell notification because I got a lot more used price-performance coming to your sub boxes in the next few months so stay tuned for that but also on that note let us know in the comments section below what do you think about monitor sizes and what is your best gaming experience not just for enjoying the games but also for a competitive player I find me personally I actually play the best on a 23 inch monitor 1080p when I'm playing competitively but your mileage may vary love reading your thoughts and opinions as always and I'll catch you in the next Tech video very soon peace out for now bye are you gaming at 4k 120 Hertz like dude I'm gaming on a 2012 22 inch Samsung monitor get on my level you