today we're gonna have a full-blown death match between the cheapest
gaming branded Amazon crap built and a little concoction of my own
[Music] so the challenge for today's video is to build a better $390 system than that Amazon crap
build although I think challenge may be a bit of a strong word because considering the specs of
that crap built this is probably going to be one of the easier things I've ever done I just want to
clarify for this video that there isn't actually going to be a build guide section to this video
that build guide will be released on Wednesday I've already filmed it I think that's gonna be
really awesome but I didn't want to put like a ten to twelve minutes section of how to build
a computer in this video because all of you may not be interested in that and that way we can do
more in-depth tests about how well the two systems scale with potential upgrades and things like that
and then finally before we get into the specs list I also want to say that because we have a
390 dollar budget for the system there are a bunch of ways that you can go about specking up this PC
you could go the maximize performance short term route but sacrifice on things like motherboard
quality power supply quality and maybe even RAM amount or you could go the knife battle people
on Craigslist for a secondhand Dell Optiplex rod you just drop a graphics card in there
and then you'll get great gaming performance in fact I think that's the route that gets you the
best gaming performance although you do sacrifice future upgrade ability and then there's the more
boring way to go about it which is using an AMD APU but spending more money to get a better power
supply a better motherboard and maybe even 16 gigs of ram now the problem with this route is that you
do sacrifice short-term performance but getting a nice base system I think is really important at
this budget so that you can kind of scale nicely over time with upgrades so with that let's get
into the boring system specs that I got for this video now I did buy all of these components at a
local shop because you know hashtag support local businesses I can't believe I just did
the hashtag whoo my finger is there but what this means is that I had a more limited selection when
it comes to especially motherboards so the parts list that I have linked in description below is
actually slightly different to the components that I'm using but it'll have the exact same
performance because it's the same Ram the same APU and so on and so forth now when it comes to the
CPU slash graphics card I'm using the AMD Rison 330 200 G again many of you have probably fallen
asleep just by hearing me mention that name but it's a really good little APU and it's going to
perform significantly better than what the little crap built was packing motherboard wise I actually
ended up getting an Asus B 450 tough gaming Pro now this is a much more expensive motherboard than
you should buy at this budget but again this was the only option I really had from my from my local
shop and it's not gonna affect gaming performance ram wise I could actually squeeze 16 gigs of DDR
for 3,000 megahertz in here now going with 16 gig / 8 gig is very important when you're using an APU
because the graphics card section of the APU uses some of your RAM and if you only have eight gigs
of ram yeah there's not much to go around and the extra speed helps a lot as well in regards
to storage I'm using a 240 gig SSD which is gonna really help speed up the day-to-day usability of
the system I really love SSDs power supply wise this is another thing that you should never ever
cheap out on in my opinion and that's something where the crap will cheaped out hard but we're
using an EVGA BR 500 which is a really nice budget option it's a 500 watt 80 plus bronze rated power
supply and what I really like about this power supply is that it doesn't have ketchup and mustard
cables and it will easily be able to handle a nice GPU upgrade and then finally the case that I got
for this build is is a bit controversial because it may or may not end up in the final product but
it's a deep cool matrix city which yeah well we'll get into that that one a bit later on a
bit I'm a bit salty about that case and with that very predictable parts out of the way let's do a
quick 80s themed build montage have a chat about how the build went and then we can get into the
Deathmatch arena of death [Music] and just like that we finished our competitor to the Amazon crap
build and I think it looks really good although the eagle-eyed of you probably would have noticed
that this case isn't the exact same one that we started off with in the video but that little
deep cool case really sucks so I decided to go with this thermal take h17 which is the same cost
as the coolermaster case that I've linked in the description of this video so it's not a fancier
case it's still a very budget oriented case I really like this Thermaltake h17 although the
front airflow on it is really terrible it's fine if you have only the APU in there but the moment
that you upgrade and put a dedicated graphics card in there it just can't handle the heat so if you
want a case that looks like this I would recommend going for the h18 version which has a perforated
front and it should have way better thermals now we need to size up the two competitors and see
how they compare on paper before having a look at the benchmarks now interestingly enough there are
actually two categories in which our brand new system actually is worse than the crap built now
the first one is in the amount of storage because I went for a 240 gig boot SSD in this system we
actually have a lot less storage space than the three terabyte hard drive in the crap build the
next category where the crap built wins is that it actually has a DVD drive which which our system
doesn't in fact this case doesn't even have a space for a DVD drive although in pretty much
every other category this little system that we built is significantly better than the crap built
when it comes to power supplies the crap built had a terrible 450 watt power supply of PC death in it
whereas here we have a 500 watt 80 plus bronze rated power supply with some nice-looking cables
we have twice the amount of RAM which for an APU based system is really important and then when it
comes to the APU we have a massive upgrade as well we still don't have a dedicated graphics
card because of the route we went for this build you know favoring future upgrade ability but the
3,200 G is significantly more powerful than that 9600 in in the little crap field and
then motherboard wise we actually upgraded a lot as well as I mentioned in the beginning of
the video I did accidentally buy a more expensive motherboard but if you go with a motherboard that
I listed in the description below that is still a huge upgrade and then of course there's the fact
that we have an SSD as opposed to a normal hard drive so you know our operating system response
is gonna be a lot faster and games are hopefully gonna load faster as well and finally we're
at the moment of truth how much better does this system compare to the little crap built
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and as you can tell it was a little bit like reenacting this song this PC absolutely
obliterates the little crap built in some cases it was between three and four times
as fast I mean I knew it was gonna be faster right but because we were going the sacrificing
short-term performance route I didn't realize it was going to be this much faster than the
little crap build the difference between the two with this system it's a little bit like
trying to game on like a PC at your local library whereas this is like a decent gaming experience
it's just so much better and then because of the SSD and the faster CPU not only does this
PC vomit in the crap builds face when it comes to gaming performance but just general desktop
usability is also significantly faster things like installing all of those damn game launchers that
you need these days like you play and rockstars crap all of that stuff takes so long to do on
this little PC whereas it's nice and snappy on on our beast but now let's see how differently these
two systems scale with a graphics card upgrade so what I'm gonna do is drop an AMD rx 570 into both
of these systems and see how differently they perform with the same graphics card in them
[Music] as you can see it performs way better than this system with a graphics card in fact
in some use cases this system with the rx 570 is actually slower than this system without the rx
570 in it which I find pretty hilarious and then again aside from just the straight out gaming
performance because we have a good power supply in here we could just drop that graphics card
straight in but the power supply that comes with this system is so terrible that a I just flat-out
refused to ever use it in a PC again because I didn't want to burn my house to the ground
and B it didn't actually have supplemental power for a graphics card so even if you wanted to you
couldn't upgrade a graphics card with that power supply in it without having to also upgrade the
power supply we can see that it wasn't really a deathmatch it was more like pitting a full-grown
polar bear against a KFC battery chicken it just really wasn't ever gonna work out for the little
KFC battery chicken was it with that subscribe to the channel if you don't want to miss the the
build guide where I walk you through how to build this nifty little PC by yourself that video will
be coming out on Wednesday I also have a couple of videos linked in the description below where
other tech youtubers did videos on different approaches that you can take to the roughly 390
dollar budget PC one of them is by toasty bros and the other one is by Zach's tech tough so if
you're interested in various options in this price point go and check out those videos check out my
twitch stream which will be happening later today I'll have that linked in the description below as
well I have a bunch of social media down there as well and yeah until the next video bye bye
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