we humans need to stick together
yes me lord more lumber is required righto you require my assistance
job
so today we're going to be building something i haven't done before
personally and that is an open frame gaming pc and this frame here
can be had off aliexpress and it doesn't come
that cheap and when i got it i was kind of like
well that's actually a pretty small box and it's not a whole lot of case you
wouldn't think okay that is a pc case but apparently it is
and we're going to build it with the instruction manuals that do not
come in english so just two little pieces of paper and i
have to figure out the rest but that aside we have a build here
that's got a bit of a mix of components some that i've pulled out of a trade-in
pc others that i have been someone donated this thinking it was faulty in
terms of a surge protection on but it was actually their motherboard
when i spoke to them about it and then we've got here a
120 gigabyte ssd and an i7 870 with a motherboard
that was in a dumpster pull out that i got
in a heap of cases with just rubbish some of these motherboards had
heap of bent pins this one had a few bent pins but I bent them back
and then we've got eight gigabytes of ddr3 memory now this build is going to
be for a special game that i hold to my
heart and that is warcraft 3 and they've remastered this game and
i've seen the reviews online people are saying it's terrible but
i really need to get back into this game i used to love playing it
and looking at the specs they're saying that this thing really doesn't need a
whole lot at all you could run this thing on like a
rotten potato that's how easy it is to run apparently but of
course since i want the highest fps possible in this old school
game and i'm hoping the graphics are remastered a bit i'm thinking this build
should be perfect for the job but there's only one
way to find out and that is to put it together and see
if there's any problems and if there isn't any problems then
we'll start installing warcraft 3. but before that we'll quickly put the build
tally up here for you guys and then we'll get to buildings
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now one thing about graphics cards like these this is a gtx 780
and if you can find someone that's upgrading their pc
a lot of the times you can get a free part off them especially if they think
it is faulty and in the case of this gtx 780
someone sent it in thinking it was indeed faulty when it
was actually their motherboard that was faulty and not the graphics
cards so if your friends are upgrading their pcs and they've got parts that
they just don't need anymore and they're going to give them away
then definitely take advantage of that depending on where you live in the world
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so
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so
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hours of completing this build we finally got it finished and we've got
to power it up now see if everything's smooth but one thing
about this case is it's so tedious because you've got to get all the little
spaces right between the motherboard spacing and the
manual is i like i don't even know why they
included the manual because there's parts in here that aren't there
and then there's parts missing and even the sheets just like got these six
steps that just say nothing in between so what i had to
do was go look at the original picture online
and then just reverse engineer it and then put it together that way and so
we've now got the build it's all complete and i gotta say it is
pretty firm it's all in together but we still got our i o shield here
hey i'm an io shield i'm still attached not for long
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brilliant what is it now yes my friend you require my assistance
our horses are under attack
well
require my assistance
our hero
give me something to do
what is it now wait till you see me in action
brilliant well we're gone with it give me something to
do throw them away
throw them away not enough
um
and so we're just about to start testing out war zone here we can see right up in
that top corner we're getting like 30 fps this is so desirable for your frame
rates i mean the human eye can't see more than 5 fps anyway so this is just
totally perfect for our gaming experience
let's give this a shot anyway and see how it performs in warzone i mean it's
gone up to 60 already so that's a good sign hopefully if we can get 60 fps out
of this thing and it doesn't start it too much then it
should be okay storm earth and fire heed my car
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and now we've just finished testing up this pc
with warcraft 3 reforged and also decided to test call of duty
warzone mainly because that's the when you go to flip the pc
people just want to know how it performs in warzone can it run warzone so first
of all yes it can run warzone around 60 fps
at 100 screen resolution 1080p low settings which was quite surprising
it did quite well and it was very smooth in order to do that of course you could
drop the render resolution play with a little bit higher fps but
for what it's worth 60fps a smooth 60fps is always a good thing and this pc did
provide that even without the ability to overclock
the memory or the cpu but then we move on to warcraft 3
reforge and i was actually surprised here because i thought this thing would
be able to do like 240 fps but it didn't it only went up to around
112 average i think after i did a massive benchmark on it
and even then the 0.1 lows were like really low but i noticed that
only happening when there was major event changes in the
game so say for instance you go from your normal gold mining to
your low up keep and that is when you build enough units your population goes
over 50 you then drop down to mining seven gold
and when that happened i noticed the 0.1 lows dipped a little bit
but in battles it was very smooth the graphics seemed to be a lot better than
the og version but that being said i mean i can see
where the negative reviews are coming from
they're charging like 45 aussie dollars just for pretty much the same
game that i paid for all those years ago uh just with a re
uh slapped on texture pack and higher resolutions that's kind of what it feels
like but i still really enjoyed this game and one
thing that comes out of warcraft 3 reforged is
is that this is how like really good rts games were designed and i really miss it
i absolutely love this game i love the original brood war and just
playing it again brings back the feels so despite the
blizz attacks on this game all these years later
it did play quite nicely so maybe a lot of those negative reviews
were when the game was first released and it was quite buggy and it was
crashing because i didn't really experience
any problems while i was playing this game except the 0.1 percent lows but
again this hardware isn't the best to begin
with but i was pretty surprised that the game was
cpu demanding at least in terms of single thread performance so if you want
to get the atmos best fps out of warcraft 3 your
gpu you will need a decent gpu if you want to up the graphics
but you're definitely going to need a high single thread performance to get
the most out of that so this game i came in like thrown a few
jabs thinking this system was going to own it
but then warcraft 3 re-forged had that reforged hammer and did a counter attack
and i was just uh taken away by i didn't even know
i just quickly got stunned mid video though with all that out of the way do
let us know in the comments section below are you
digging this open air build that we did here with
this budget aliexpress case i mean the end product is pretty cool
i'm personally liking it definitely don't buy something like this
if you've got animals or anything that runs around freely
and it's prone to i guess dropping something or
spilling some liquids on it but other than that if you've got a quiet area
where you are this thing comes in a really cheap price
point i think it was like 35 usd when i got it i had to pay 10 gst
australian tax and of course converting usd into aussie dollars does
raise the price a bit but for what it's worth it ends up
working out if you're on a budget and you just want a
cheap case to get you by then this thing does everything you can pick it up
all at one time and it holds together the one thing to keep in mind with this
thing it will take you a while to get your head around okay
how do i actually build this thing because the included instruction manual
when i saw that and i started trying to work out what it was trying to say
i just threw it in the bin i looked at the final product
of the case itself on aliexpress and then i realized okay let's just build it
this way and it ended up working out for me
despite parts actually missing from the instruction manual
and how to properly complete it now with all that out of the way we've got a
gaming pc here that's ready to rock and roller and if you guys
enjoyed today's warcraft 3 reforged gaming pc
then be sure to hit that like button for us also let us know in the comments
section below do you play rts if so what is your favorite rts game for
me it's definitely a toss-up between brood war
and warcraft 3. i love the both of them because there's that dynamic
in those games where if you make one little mistake the game's not over
i feel like in starcraft 2 you make one mistake
the game is finished and that's sort of like that's why i didn't really get into
starcraft 2 that much because focuses a lot more on the micro as
opposed to warcraft 3 and especially brood war
the micro and the macro balance each other out same with age of empires as
well i'm really looking forward to age of empires four
where you need that mix of micro and macro and you need to get it on point
so bring me back to those glory days of rts just like this question of the day
here with another terrible segue for you guys and this comes from herbeus here
and they ask is this comparison correctly done out of
a case wouldn't it be accurate to test inside
one i don't have an idea i'm just wondering and they're
referring to our video where we tested out the wraith prism i'll put the link
up here and actually i really like this question i picked it out for one
reason and that is depending on who you go to you're going to get a different
opinion because accurate would be at least 100
accuracy would be testing every single different scenario out there
which no reviewer has time for we can't test out every single case with that
particular cooler because we just wouldn't have a life or
we wouldn't even have a video because it would just never get made
but when it comes to an open air test system i actually personally feel like
it's a great middle ground where it's going to give you better
temperatures generally than a really bad stuffy case with no airflow
but at the same time it's not going to give you as good a result as a case with
really good airflow in a push-pull configuration and so
that's why i test on open-air test systems because i've always got
a correct apples to apples comparison and i can actually relate that to
previous data that i've tested in the past and another thing is too
if something's bad on an open air test system it's generally going to be bad in
general so that's the most important thing at least
when we're testing tech is getting to the recommendation and making sure
you guys are getting a good deal or getting at least
a premium product if it's an overpriced product for what you're paying for and
you're not getting hosed anyway hope that answers that question
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