all of this year and most of last year people were out there looking they had 500 saved they
were used to seeing in 2019 2018 budget pcs that were available with good performance for
five hundred dollars but now it just doesn't happen they can't find that anywhere except
at tech yes city where we've got today a gtx 980 gaming pc with a ryzen 5 3 616 gigabytes of ddr4
memory it's even got a bit of rgb now you're probably thinking brian what happened to this
gtx 980 that looks sick as bro where did you get that from and this gtx 980 it wasn't unfortunately
always sick as it was actually nauseous when i first picked it up 200 aussie dollars that's
what i paid for it it was dirty i then did what i do with used parts going forward and that is
popped it in the ultrasonic cleaner washed its dirty mouth out with some detergent and tap water
and tap water
and then i cleaned all the old paint off and then we re-sprayed it black and then of course i gave
it some multi-purpose spray to polish it off and protect it from any future rust and this is what
you're left with now a gtx 980 that not only looks like brand new but performs like one and some may
even think it looks better than brand new but i'll let you guys be the judge in the comments section
below let's pull up a price list of all the parts that we have in today's build and what we paid
for them with of course the gpu being one of the most important parts but also this ryzen 5 3600
motherboard and cooler combo that we picked up for a really good price i was quite happy with that
considering the six cores 12 threads on zen 2 that is going to be extremely relevant even if you want
to upgrade the gpu in the future once the rug gets pulled out from underneath crypto and gpu prices
on new products return to normal but until then we are going to be micromanaging here so let's
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so
and this build is all complete it is looking schmick but one really good thing about this
whole process was it was one of the quickest pcs i've built all year just there was minimal
cables to use on this power supply the ram the x and ps they lock in straight away
with this b450 motherboard that we used and for the ryzen 5 3600 we don't
really need to overclock it just whack in your ram xmp profiles that's kind of going to be the safest
easiest uplifting performance that you can get and then inside we've got only one exhaust fan
so we're going to check the temperatures on this build right now to see how it turns out
but since the ryzen 5 3600 especially while you're gaming won't use up a whole lot of
power and the gtx 980 definitely isn't as power hungry as say the titan x that we tested recently
i'd say this whole build will end up being okay even with the side panel glass on but
we won't know until we install windows so let's get that installed and start those benchmarks
and all the testing is now complete with a build like this i am pretty impressed with the price
performance but also the aesthetics now i did go to the extra length to clean the motherboard
and also the gpu and that can take a little bit of extra time but i do recommend that because in the
case of the actual case itself that is brand new and that means that we've kind of got like a build
that presents like a whole new pc now in terms of the numbers itself you've got the option here and
this is what i'm gonna start recommending going for with pc builds because this pc build came
at a pretty good price considering what's going on in the market but i think if you get a build
like this you can at a future date sell this gtx 980 and then upgrade to something more powerful
because i'd say the gtx 980 especially if we're looking in the background here we got cyberpunk
running it wasn't the best fps experience i mean we're getting around 48 fps on low settings at
1080p in cyberpunk but when we went to dota 2 which i've been testing in the heavy team fights
we were getting a pretty similar fps to the other two builds that i featured here on the channel
and that is we're getting 134 in those massive team fights at 1080p maximum settings and so this
build will do the job for playing all those games at 1080p with smooth fps now the ryzen 5 3600
that did a good job on the physics score so we'll move over to the fire strike score and this is
one of those benchmarks that anyone can compare their numbers to just to see how much not only
price performance they're getting out of their pcs but also how powerful their pc is in general and
usually i like to have the gpu score coming over the physics score but you'll start seeing a bit
of a trend at least while the gpu prices remain as high as they are for the new gpus you're going to
probably see more the physics score being higher than the gpu source because typically i like to
have this gpu score around double uh the physics score that's always been a good balance for me but
of course we've got here now 13 750 which is below that of the 18 500 that we got on the physics side
so the ryzen 5 3600 very capable cpu it boosts up to 4 gigahertz in games and the funny thing
about the temperatures was it like to stay around 60 degrees but this is the first time i've been
benchmarking with a ryzen cpu or any cpu for that matter where all the temperatures on the numbers
were exactly the same even though the loads were different between the cpu cores i don't know maybe
this is just the weird ryzen sample or maybe the afterburner program was bugging out a bit but the
temperature was exactly the same across all those cores so that was pretty good to see or maybe i
just mounted that cpu cooler with perfection and or maybe the ultrasonic cleaner clean the surface
of that ryzen 5 3600 to perfection whatever the deal is we've got a pc now that looks brand new
the temperatures are really good on the cpu the noise is really quiet as you can hear i've got the
mic right here pc's right here running cyberpunk and it's burning up about 230 watts from the wall
the max i measured was 238 watts so it's going to be pretty good on power as well especially while
you're playing games though if i was to critique one thing about this build it would be that
cooler on the gtx 980 these older reference card coolers they although they remain relatively quiet
they do so at the cost of temperatures where this gpu even the 23 degree celsius ambient environment
is still going up around 80 degrees so it still likes to remain kind of toasty where i like my
gpus personally in the 60s and max 70s if i can get away with it but then again this graphics
card will do perfectly fine considering we only paid 200 aussie for it or about 150 us and i think
going forward if you guys are looking to build a decent price performance pc you can definitely do
so you've just got to look at the cards that are a little bit older and they're a little bit more
inefficient compared to the newer cards because the miners won't be targeting something like a
gtx 980 anywhere near the level that they would be targeting say an rtx 3060 ti anyhow guys that's
about it for this build do let us know in the comments section below what you think of the whole
cleaning process the whole build process here do you like the combo of the parts do you like this
new angle i'm going with these price performance pcs i think for me it's exciting because i get
to start building again i'm noticing some of the prices are coming down especially when i pick up
these gpus on the used market and i pick up things like a ryzen 5 3600 combo yes it's not the best
price performance i've built on the channel but it does remind me of better times and that's the most
important thing because that's what brings a smile to my face and of course hopefully this video
brought a smile to all your faces and if it did be sure to hit that like button and let us know
in the comment section below what you like best about the build love reading your thoughts and
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