- Today I have been given a seemingly simple challenge,
Build a gaming PC using parts from Walmart.
Now, Walmart, as you will likely know,
has actually sold some pretty decent gaming PCs
and gaming laptops in the past.
But actually building an entire gaming PC,
that might be a slightly more difficult challenge.
So I'm gonna just start out with a processor.
Okay, well I found a Ryzen 7 3800X
and this is sold from Walmart.
Sold and shipped by Walmart.
I found a thing.
They sell processors directly from Walmart.
I mean a 3800X is a slightly weird choice.
But I mean 340 bucks.
That's all reasonable.
Ooh this is gonna be tough though.
Wait can I sort out?
Yeah, retailer, Walmart.com.
Oh wow.
They literally have one CPU.
I have no other choices.
Everything else is sold through third party.
That's gonna make this slightly more complicated.
Uh oh.
Oh, they have them.
They sell motherboards.
I mean, $270 for a B550 board is a little bit extreme
but I mean that counts.
An X570-P for $127.
That's actually.
- That's real good
- That's a good deal.
- Huh?
- Let me see hang on.
So for the X570.
Which one is that?
But it's still actually cheaper.
It's $150 at Micro Center.
- [Ken] Walmart's got them rollbacks
- Now where I think we're gonna have an issue,
is a graphics card.
Okay so, we have a GTX 730.
We have a
8400-GS,
5450.
- Wait.
- [Austin] A 5700, wait what?
- [Ken] Why?
- Why does Walmart sell this?
I am not, oh, don't make me use this.
- That's shipped and sold on, oh that's funny.
- [Austin] What kind of Ram does Walmart have?
They actually have several options.
3200 megahertz for 105 bucks.
- [Ken] That's not terrible.
- That's not bad.
I mean, there's wait, there's a single one-star review.
Why is there a single one star review?
Paid for it but did not get it.
Jacob.
(laughing)
Should we try it?
- [Ken] Yeah sure. - Okay.
Oh, wait, wait, what about case?
Do you think their gonna have a PC case?
- [Ken] They might.
They might have like a few.
- Ooh, not a lot.
Oh, oh.
No, they have some options, they have some options.
I kinda wanna do this one.
Okay, let's find a power supply.
65 bucks for a 750 watt, EVGA power supply.
They have a 600, 500.
It's all EVGA
And we can just get the bronze, 65 bucks.
I mean, this pricing seems fine.
Oh, do you want a Hyundai SSD?
- [Ken] Excuse me?
They make SSDs?
- [Austin] Hyundai SSD.
- [Ken] Do they have Kia graphics cards?
- I'm just gonna check one thing while I'm here.
We're just missing one thing for the, it's free shipping.
So I'm just gonna take advantage of it.
All right, you know,
I'll just grab a few Pokemon cards while I'm here.
(coughing)
All right.
So technically I have found everything that I need
to build a Walmart gaming PC.
The only questionable bit really is the graphics card.
- The rules of this video are very clear.
We have to buy all of our PC components from Walmart.
I think I might have a way to skirt the rules.
'Cause for as long as Walmart has our money,
it shouldn't really matter.
(upbeat music)
- Headphones.
Audio.
Oh PC, okay.
Oh, there's a Pavilion Desktop here.
Ryzen 5 3500 and 1650 Super.
That's actually not bad, that's not bad at all.
- [Ken] How much is it though?
- $599 I think.
- [Ken] We actually have made that system before
just with a Ryzen 3 and it was the same price.
- This is probably going to be just about as good
as our system that we're spending 3 times the price on.
- [Ken] Okay, well, now's a good time to tell you
that we came to the electronics section for nothing
because we don't need anything in this section at all.
- We have no graphics card.
We have no graphics card, no onboard video, nothing.
- [Ken] Come with me.
- I don't go to Walmart every day
but if I had to take a guess,
I'm gonna say that there's not a lot of graphics cards
inside Walmart.
So there's probably some shenanigans going on.
That seems like a very safe bet at this point.
- So ignoring the copyrighted music,
in the foot of every Walmart,
they have the section of impulse buy, palooza,
including gift cards as far as the eye can see.
And by as far as the eye can see,
I mean literally here.
- [Austin] Look, you got a lot of dumb ideas.
This is up there among like the top seven.
- How much is a graphics card?
(laughing)
- Look, I'm walking to the back of the store.
Ken's all confident about the electronic section,
I see gaming PCs
I'm like, okay, I can see where this is going,
we're just going to buy a gaming PC.
But no, it's somehow even more stupid.
And we're buying a prepaid gift card
to purchase said graphics card on Walmart.com
like I could have from the beginning.
But if it's that or throwing a prepaid gift card
at my system without a graphics card, I guess.
Okay, so we have now received
all of our mini, mini Walmart gaming PC components.
All right, so let me refresh what we actually got.
Oh, I think I know what this is.
Actually I opened this one before,
I actually know what this one is.
- [Ken] Is it your M2?
- No, I didn't get M2.
I got a Hyundai
- [Ken] Oh it's a Hyundai drive.
(motor rumbling)
- Now of course one of the most important components
of any build is what's inside this box,
which are my Pokemon cards.
So I will be unboxing these.
- [Ken] Wait.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah let's get all this stuff out of the way.
Let me open up my Reshiram box.
So Walmart is the fine purveyor of many things.
Wait, what are you doing?
Are you opening Pokemon cards with me right now?
Oh, okay.
Why'd you put the camera on the tripod and walk away?
- [Ken] I can't be bothered to walk away.
- Oh you've just given up?
Okay, fine.
That's fine.
(upbeat music)
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
- [Ken] Huh, what, what, wait, wait.
- Stop, stop, stop.
- [Ken] What, what, what, what?
- I brought sleeves.
- [Ken] Oh, oh.
- Don't bend them.
I need my PSA 10.
Look, I like Pokemon cards okay?
Deal with it.
I'm gonna be all defensive now
because people keep throwing the word addiction around
and I don't like that word.
I prefer to think of it as a
very well fulfilled hobby.
- That's what addicts say.
At some point, I wouldn't be surprised if he bet his car
or bet the company on a couple of gen one decks
or boosters or whatever, whatever it is that he buys.
- Another Pikachu, a Cottony, and oh,
a full art trainer card, look at that.
That's worth like multiple dollars.
Maybe like two, I don't know, but we'll sleeve that.
That's actually pretty cool.
I'm curious to see what this case looks like.
All right, let's see what we got
What is this?
Why?
Why should I be able to put my finger in the fan blade?
I mean I guess it's for airflow
but couldn't you put some mesh on it or something?
- [Ken] No, too much money.
- I mean, I will say this tempered glass side panel
is definitely half the weight of the entire case.
Looks pretty standard in here, very simple.
We've got enough room for a full sized board.
We have direct air flow and we do have a little bit
of a basement for a power supply.
Should be easy enough.
- [Ken] This probably isn't gonna make it in the video.
Something interesting.
- So they have put the sticker on the side, right?
So when you put it face down in your chassis,
when you know that you're going to hide it, that's fine.
You're gonna see this.
It's just there.
However, if you're going to be putting this power supply
in facing up, what they've done is
they've actually given you the nice little embossed EVGA.
So essentially if you have a cheaper system,
and your showing off the power supply,
it actually looks a little bit better.
(upbeat music)
(upbeat music continues)
All right, so we are almost done
building the Walmart gaming PC.
So, some of our cable management
in this case is not stellar.
I also don't know how we're gonna control these fans
because there's no way to connect them to the motherboard.
But that seems like a problem for future us.
Let's install our very expensive
work station gray, graphics card.
More box, why?
Why?
Okay, so makes this different
from a standard Radeon card
besides the very attractive blue coloring,
is more so what's on the outside than on the inside.
Because on the inside, this is a very similar GPU and set up
to what you would have if you were using a standard 5700 XT.
Now here you'll see something a little different.
We have five mini display ports and a USB-C.
So this is designed really as a card that you can connect
to multiple monitors.
Six, if you're counting.
Or you could also use it for things like
3D rendering and what not.
And a lot of the differences really do come down to
the software that you use to run the card.
Specifically, the drivers are different.
You're going to want to use the specific Radeon Pro drivers,
which have a lot of optimizations for things
like blender and other professional grade applications.
I will say our color scheme,
maybe looking a little bit unusual for this.
All right, let's swap this in and see how it looks.
(cheerful music)
I mean, that's not going anywhere.
All right.
And so this is the completed Walmart gaming PC.
So as you can see, there's RGB everywhere.
We have it all around, not only the power button
and all of our LEDs here, we have two giant 200 mil fans.
So inside we have a Ryzen 7 5800 X,
32 gigs of Ram, the Radeon Pro graphics,
as well as we have our Hyundai SSD.
So to compare, we have our Micro Center mid-range special.
Now this is the system that we built
for the last episode of Broke VS Pro.
So this is a roughly $1,100 system.
Inside, we have a core I5 9400.
But importantly, we also have a 36 DTI.
So while the CPU is not particularly powerful.
What is, is should at least be the graphics card.
Now mind you, that's a $450 graphics card
compared to 700 bucks.
But importantly, this is actually meant for gaming.
If this doesn't win, I'm gonna be very surprised.
Although, you know, I feel like
when I was doing the test against Kyle,
it was like 8,000 something, wasn't it?
- [Ken] I think so.
- I think it was like 88 or something and he was like 91.
So just to confirm, we have a Ryzen 7 3800 X.
No slouch of a CPU whatsoever.
And our Radeon Pro W 5700 graphics.
If I had to take a guess, I'm gonna say
this is somewhere around 7500.
So this is similar to a 5700 XT,
but there are some differences, the memory is different.
And also typically, although I don't actually know
if it is card, but typically the pro cards don't have
like these crazy game booth clocks,
they're a little bit more stable
because then you want to render
and blender for 20 hours at a time or whatever.
Oh, oh that's actually a lot closer than I thought.
So not only is this boosting way higher
than it's supposed to, but that score,
that's actually really good.
Look, I'm actually pretty impressed
with the Walmart gaming PC.
I mean, no, it's not gonna crush your
Crisis Cyberpunk 4k benchmark or anything
but it's actually completely usable as a gaming PC.
And obviously it has all of the pro level performance
of a Radeon Pro card.
However, I still think that once we fire up
the Micro Center special, it'll easily wipe the floor
with the Walmart system.
All right.
And the reveal is.
Come on.
Woo, okay.
All right.
So Walmart was 8690 this is 9831.
Okay, so my memory was off, this is better.
All right, we're safe, we're fine.
The Walmart gaming PC was a bad idea.
It's really the CPU score was what was dragging it down
because the graphic score was way higher.
This backs up that I'm not a crazy person
and that I only buy dumb things on Walmart
for Clickbait title.
Yeah, I think so, yeah.
I don't think there's any.
Was there a point for this video?
- [Ken] No, no one's gonna do this ever.
- So wait, so I'm not giving like useful consumer advice on.
- [Ken] No. - Oh, okay.
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