- So smooth.
Oh, everyone knows Walmart is the king
when it comes to low, low prices no matter the cost.
But if you haven't already seen Austin's video,
get out of here, I swear.
I had the idea first.
You might not know that over the last few years
they've expanded this paradigm aggressively
into PC component sales.
But Linus you might say.
Walmart's prebuilt gaming PCs
were an absolute embarrassment.
What makes you think piecing one together out of parts
will be any better?
Truthfully I don't.
I've just already done all eBay, all Amazon, all mono price,
all new egg, all micro center and all wish PCs.
What is left now?
- [David] Costco.
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And that's the last one, here it is.
All the PC components that walmart.com had in stock
for our gaming PC,
starting with the Lepatek Makashi MK II.
A full tower E-ATX case with addressable RGB
and a tempered glass side panel for just $65 and 99 cents.
It even comes with free shipping, like damn Walmart!
I don't know what's up with all this bubble stuff inside it.
That's super weird.
But other than that, it's really cool.
Kind of impressed.
It's pretty cool.
I guess I should find out what this is before we move on.
Oh, weird, okay.
These are the fans that we ordered separately.
I would imagine that's just 'cause Walmart arranged
sending this stuff to us directly.
I don't think they would normally open your case
and put fans in it.
But as for cooling, we're rocking a Cooler Master,
Masterliquid ML120L V2 RGB.
It's got a two year warranty.
The RGB is right in the name and 64.99.
No complaints here
except that a case and a cooler do not a PC make.
Where's the rest of it?
Okay, inside baseball time.
This video concept was conceived over a year ago
to take advantage
of Walmart's extremely generous affiliate program,
but then Walmart actually cut their affiliate rates
in response to COVID-19.
So we kept delaying it and delaying it,
hoping that the rates would go back up.
But if anything, the current PC hardware shortages
have made it even more difficult to get this video done
to the point where almost all of our parts
actually came from third party sellers
using the walmart.com marketplace
which means we encountered some interesting choices
and pricing.
That's better.
All we're missing now is hydration.
Lttstore.com.
Now we can unwrap our motherboard.
We went with an Rog Strix B450-F gaming at $204
and 66 cents.
It wasn't a great deal considering that the MSRP
is 129.99, but pricing aside, it's a decent mid tier board
which means solid IO.
Even if I wouldn't mind seeing a few more USB 3s
and okay expansion with two M dot twos,
even though they both run it gen three,
and this one here actually
shares bandwidth with a couple of the state of ports.
The one thing that you might find yourself missing
as a general consumer
is that there's no wireless connectivity.
So if you need to use wifi, just plan for an add in card
or dongle.
For our Ram and CPU, we went with matching 36 hundreds.
The Ryzen five 3,616 gigs of G Skill Tridentz
at 3,600 megahertz.
We paid just 209.00
for this little six core 12 thread powerhouse
which is $10 over MSRP.
But all things considered,
I'm talking it up as a W at this point,
as for pricing on the rim.
Well, that was a different story.
We ended up paying about $40 over the going rate
for these dims, but I mean I don't know RGB?
Moving on for storage,
we're going with this PNY CS2130 M.2 drive.
It does not have a sexy name
but actually it graces the B tier AKA high-end list
over on the LTT forum,
which by the way you guys should check out,
if you haven't seen it.
Live at linked down below.
They do a great job
of just kind of sorting through the confusing names
and marketing BS and figuring out what you should buy.
It comes with a five-year warranty.
It's got QLC, NAND flash.
Does it have a DRAM cache though?
Yep, there it is right there, Kingston.
And it doesn't break the bank at just $68 and 83 cents.
Powering the whole shebang is a Corsair RMX 750 Watts
power supply, or at least it is now.
This costs us about $25 over MSRP, $150 and 52 cents.
But honestly we consider that pretty good at the moment
because as you guys probably remember
from the last mining boom
what's hard to get?
GPU's and that's right, power supplies.
The power supply we had originally wanted to use
for the project was delayed for so long
that we just had to wait until we saw something
in stock at a reasonable price,
and then grab it out of our inventory
and use it for the build today.
I don't make the rules, man.
I don't even blame Walmart for this.
I know I kind of already mentioned it
but can I reiterate how cool this case is?
Like, okay.
Not, not cool exactly.
We need a version with a more open front panel
for it to actually be cool.
In fact, I think I'm gonna have to use top as an intake
but for the price, hey look,
magnetic filtered intake, actual E-ATX compatibility.
Like look at this.
Look at that, see motherboard, standoff holes way over here
so you could put a giant motherboard in here
if you really wanted to.
Hard drive cages, 65 bucks, like dang, at that price
you could like drill out speed holes in the front of it.
Oh wow.
Yeah, the manufacturing tolerances are...
Whew, I think this case is just trash.
Letha who does this?
Why is this here?
Like what motherboard uses that hole?
This is the standard hole.
That's the dangerous one.
Kudos to cooler master
for the painless mounting mechanism for this thing.
It's even better than I thought.
You just go ahead
and screw on these little clippies right here.
The thumb nuts can't accidentally come off,
the're captive.
You can see I've got one of my thermal pads here
so I'm just gonna pop that onto the CPU.
There we go.
And then you just hook those
over the included plastic clips around the CPU socket.
Tighten the thumb nuts and make sure it's high.
As cool as RGB looks, the cable management
for it can be a bit of a bear.
So we're gonna be using this one to three splitter
that cooler master includes with their cooler.
We're gonna plug that
into the traditional 12 volt RGB header
on the top of the board right here
while we can hook up our 12 volt RGB fan.
Leaving us with one extra header for that.
Wait, our fan pack!
Ah, this should include an addressable RGB controller.
Oh God!
We dodged a bullet there.
I went and got to say to cable for our modular power supply
that'll power, the front LEDs, as well as the controller
for what are going to be the top fans.
And it's got three RGB headers.
Of course we've got that extra front panel
but that's okay because the front panel has a pass through.
Oh, oh crap.
All it cost us was this horrible octopus of cables in the...
You got a good look at the cable, man?
No, you don't see you later.
Which brings us to our graphics card.
Again, guys, this build began back in December of 2020.
The problem is that our Walmart contacts,
in addition to the power supply
had some difficulty obtaining a graphics card for us.
That's right.
The video card shortage has affected everyone.
In fact, the original card that we specked for this build
still hasn't arrived.
So we just had to match something that Walmart sells
to something in our inventory again.
Nevertheless, three months later, here we are.
And I'm really glad we had this already
because this 5,700 XT is available
for the absolutely I watering price of $1,169 and 99 cents.
Well, the problem is that Walmart
like every single other retailer right now
is scraping the bottom of the barrel
trying to find any GPU to buy.
And since Walmart is also a marketplace
where third parties can sell scalpers are using them
to make a quick buck.
Hopefully this blip in supply, due to the mining boom
and the card shortages is temporary,
but I'm not about to get my hopes up.
I still like it 'cause it's still really cheap.
But the tolerances on this case are like, oh shoot.
Obviously not amazing.
And these pop-out style covers back here.
Well, they're a real drag 'cause once you pop them out
you can't cover them back up again
unless you go by like third party covers
or happened to have a friend who has some extras.
Man, can I just take a moment
and say how much I appreciate 360 Hertz displays.
So smooth oh, that's good.
That's good.
We're anywhere from like 170 to as high as 230 FPS.
This is running an ultra nightmare.
Yes, it's only 10 ADP
but like that's great.
Oh yeah and I'm also screen recording same time.
This game is so easy when you like pick up all the health.
(David laughs)
What?
- [David] This is the first level, Linus!
- Well, it gets just, okay.
That don't mean the whole game is easy.
I've played other parts of it
I know there's hard parts.
Back in my day, you had to pick up health packs
and there weren't any health packs.
- [David] But then, they didn't hit as hard.
- All that motion blur though
that I got to turn that off real quick.
That is disgusting.
Run and gonna axe them in the face.
No, not you.
I don't wanna fight you.
Hello to you later Bulgari, ha.
That's what you get for having a bow,
kill you first, blah, blah.
Oh crap.
How do you block in this game?
Right click?
For real, okay.
All right, David doesn't have my back today.
- [David] I don't know how to play it on PC.
- See you later.
Oh, I'm gonna carry this guy.
(laughs)
Either way.
The point is we're not locked at 60 FPS,
but with a little bit of tuning to details,
this is a fantastic gaming experience.
And the whole thing, not super loud.
The question though is what did it cost?
The answer is everything.
No, the answer is $2,162 and 7 cents.
To get a sense of how that pricing compares
to the current state of the PC hardware market.
We built this exact same PC using PC part picker.
And it appears that
even though we ended up paying way too much
for our 5,700 XT, we were only about $125 more expensive
than what we were able to find elsewhere.
So if buying a GPU right now, wasn't absolutely stupid,
our spend for this system
would be a little over a thousand dollars,
which is pretty darn reasonable
for a machine that looks great
and can do a lot more than just tread AAA games.
So we proved and Austin helped, I guess.
He gets an A on this one,
but you can build a gaming PC at Walmart.
They just need to figure out
how to magically roll back the current supply side shortages
because until they can
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