over the last week i have been slowly acquiring
individual pc parts in order to make
a really good budget system and this was
the last deal that i got in my hands
right here
this is a ryzen 3 2200g
four cores four threads and i managed to
pick this up
for 80 australian dollars however you're
probably wondering
why you outside surrounded by nature
well i mean i love being surrounded by
nature but there is another reason
and that is we are out on the road and
i'm going to pick up the final two components
that i need to complete this budget
gaming pc setup
and that is an a520 motherboard now this
motherboard was being advertised
for 60 aussie dollars i put in an offer of 50
and they accepted so we're gonna go pick
that up right now and i've also found a
case for sale
with a bit of rgb bling for 50 aussie
dollars too so let's go get these two
final deals and then talk about
the other components in this build and
put together a budget
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studio when it's time to finally put
this
ryzen 2200 g budget gaming system
together
and i'll put all the prices of
everything here up on the screen that
we've got in today's
build and also the total tally for you
guys
and with that aside let's quickly build
up our machine and see what it looks
like
and not only that let's see how it
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so we've now finished the amd 2200g apu
build and also looks pretty
fresh but before we get into the games
there is something important to do
in the bias well there's actually two
things that are important in my opinion
the first being
giving our apu more dedicated
video memory and in this case we're
going to give it the maximum and that's
2 gigabytes so out of the 16 gigabytes
of ddr4 memory
we're going to allocate two gigabytes of
that dedicated to the apu
now in my opinion if i've only got eight
gigabytes of system memory i'll leave
this on auto but since we've got 16
we do have a bit of wiggle room but it's
also important to note that apus
don't have a dedicated vram buffer like
graphics cards do
they actually use the system ddr4 memory
so
we are going to set that in and then the
other important thing is to
lock in our xmp profiles now we've got
two profiles with this
kit of memory one being a three thousand
megahertz profile that's profile two
and the second being profile one which
is our 3200 megahertz now
since this is a 2200 g it may not boot
with the 3200 megahertz profile
so we may have to lock in profile 2 if
that doesn't work but
let's give that a go now and see if we
boot into windows
so this little apu build is now
configured and tuned
and we managed to get the memory up to
3200 megahertz
at cl 16 which this is good value memory
if you're in the market for a cheap kit
that's still going to give you good
performance now
look at the frame rates in gta 5 here
this is a 1080p
native resolution and we're getting
around 55
to 70 fps average here
and that's where it's fluctuating
between depending on the area of the map
so
completely smooth experience if you want
to couple this with a budget 60 hertz
modern now
we recently took a look at these
monitors uh that i picked up on the
channel and they're fine
for gaming especially with what's going
on in terms of graphics cards now you're
probably thinking
brian the apu build it doesn't have a
dedicated graphics card it's not going
to run
games that well and in my opinion it
will do the job
especially since there's going to be a
couple of tips i'm going to give you
guys
in this video right now and that is i
think gravis card prices will come
down in the next couple of months and
the reason being is we're already seeing
the ethereum profitability start to
believe it or not
start to drop that's the people who are
buying the graphics cards
and they're purchasing them just to mine
cryptocurrencies that profitability is
going down
which means as that gets down the demand
for gravis cards
from those types of people who are
buying them goes down
as well and another thing on top of that
is there's also
been major changes and major releases
coming out in the way of
asic miners for ethereum
so these two factors together will mean
that we could
and coupled with the third factor which
if we see the all-time price highs of
these cryptocurrencies crash this could
make gravis cards
a lot cheaper very soon and so my advice
for now would be
just to hold out and something like this
apu build here
or even a budget build with an older
graphics card under four gigabytes of
vram
which we've also featured recently on
the channel something like these builds
will get you by
so we just finished up playing starcraft
2 and we got a
three versus three happening here where
the average fps started out really high
like over a hundred and twenty
and then as the game progressed then we
got into really big battles because in
three verse three
there's a lot of units it then started
averaging out
around 53 average fps with the one
percent point lows being absolutely fine
considering it
is rts now a really good thing about the
apu build
is that we've got upgrade options and by
this i mean
we can change out our 2200 g later on
for say ryzen 5 3600
and we could also add in a graphics card
and this will give us a huge boost in
fps
and we really only have to change out
one part and then add in another
part and we're good to go so the last
game we had up here was valeran and
playing this at 1080p
low settings 100 screen res gave us 105
average fps with 65
fps on the one percent low and then 47
on the 0.1 percent low so
very smooth experience for valerian now
some other things that i haven't talked
about
with this build is that it's whisper
quiet and it only uses
about 80 watts from the wall so it's
extremely power efficient
and it's got the bling and it's really
quiet to boot though another good thing
about only using 80 watts
is that the cpu itself the temperatures
here we're only really going up into
the mid 50s staying under 60 degrees in
pretty much
all these games that we're playing here
today so temperatures are cool
it's quiet and it's very power efficient
and you can still get a very enjoyable
experience
at 1080p and here it is for this gaming
pc right here 250 bucks
and we can play some games and enjoy
ourselves
whilst doing it and we've got the option
to upgrade
when prices get a little bit better now
whether prices get better in one way or
the other
remains to be seen but i do think
graphics cards themselves
will become more affordable in the next
few months
so do wait for that if you are keen to
get a graphics card
but one thing i'll talk about even
though this video
has shown the apu is or can be a really
good value option right now
there is one disadvantage i did find
whilst i was testing this
pc and that was mainly when it came to
using the screen grab
where they amd don't include it in the
driver's seat that's the amd
radeon relive but i did use streamlabs
and i tried to
start recording some gameplay footage
whilst playing and it does stutter so if
you do want to stream
or record desktop footage off this pc or
off an apu build
then you may come into some trouble
especially since it does use that ddr4
memory
for the whole system process so
basically if you're just into gaming
right now
this pc is going to serve you well but
you can upgrade it
quite easy if you've got a bit of extra
money and prices aren't too expensive in
the future
but lastly when it comes to building a
pc like this
for me it's a lot of fun especially
finding those used deals
where i think one of the best deals here
today was definitely that apu
it's a 2200g it costs a 62 usd
or 80 australian dollars which when you
think about it you're getting four cores
four threads
and a gpu built on even though it's like
a low end gpu it still represents
awesome value for money but we did add
in a new part
and that was the ssd because i couldn't
find any of those
the case and the ram they're pretty much
brand new
even with this case right here i had the
peel still
on it when i got it so one thing to
always keep in mind if you're watching
tech yes city i'm always going to tell
you guys
to go out there and look for the best
deals possible and they usually
are local deals if you can get them and
if your local area sucks
then i have in the past as well built
somali express pcs where
some of the parts on aliexpress right
now are also still pretty cheap
except of course the graphics cards
anyway guys if you've got any questions
or comments about today's build
then do drop a comment in the comment
section below and also let us know what
you think
of the apu build right here would there
be things that you would do differently
love reading those thoughts and opinions
as always
just like this question of the day here
which comes from
qtp13 and they ask as someone who has
played arcade games
ness genesis etc sure competitive edge
refresh rate latency resolution i scoff
at these words
so they're talking about our recent
video that we did
with the input latency testing where
i've talked about the technologies that
i mean companies like nvidia they use
like
reflex and all this stuff that they talk
about
getting a competitive edge when it comes
to gaming and there is truth to it of
course the companies like amd and nvidia
like they're going to
really market this stuff hard so they
can get a sale
but there is truth to it and the way i
think of it is if you're a pro
gamer you do want the best tools when it
comes to
pro gaming because that could cost you
the difference between first
and second and sure the gear is
expensive but if that difference
is or say for instance the prize money
if that's a huge difference between
first and second
that's already paid for the gear and
then some and another thing is too if we
compare it to any other sport
having the best gear if you're a pro
player is always the most desirable
route i mean
i couldn't imagine lewis hamilton
driving say for instance the alpha tory
and coming first all the time i mean
lewis hamilton's one of the best drivers
out there
but he's also got the best gear to keep
winning the races with mercedes so
kind of like if you are the pro then you
will get the best gear but going up to
that route of course
you still need the skill so when i talk
about things like getting a competitive
edge
i understand that pro gamers want the
best gear
if they want to get the competitive edge
that means having low latency
and all those things that you might
scoff at but i mean ultimately there is
truth to it
anyway hope that answers that question
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