hey welcome back to the channel today we're going to look at another gaming PC
on a budget, this is kind of a follow up to a video that I did about a year ago this
one uses an older machine but it has a much better graphics card much better
processor in it and you get much better performance that you ever could have
gotten with that other budget machine but it still stays under 200 bucks
so here we go
so for this build I'm using this HP elite 8300 small form-factor that I got
off of Craigslist for about 60 bucks it's got an i-5 3470 processor when I
got it had four gigs of ram and a 250 gigabyte hard drive that had Windows
seven loaded on it and no video card so obviously I'm gonna need to do some
upgrades on this if I'm gonna use it for gaming so I had an additional four gigs
of RAM to bring that up to eight I swapped out the 250 gigabyte hard drive
for a 500 gigabyte SSD drive and I loaded Windows 10 on there instead of
Windows 7 that was on there and I put in a gtx 1050 video card it's a two
gigabyte video card the reason why i use that is they're really affordable they
provide really good performance and again I'm trying to keep this a budget
gaming machine there's other video cards that you could get but you have to
remember that this machine doesn't have a power supply that would supply power
directly to the card so you have to get a card that doesn't require the the
direct power to it alright so even though this machine is a small
form-factor it's actually got some really good port selections it has six
USB 2.0 ports that's two on the back and then four on the front and then four USB
3.0 ports that are all on the back so I love the GeForce experience on this
machine and then I let it optimize all the games I'm about to show you so these
games are played with that optimized settings so you can get a little bit
better performance and sacrifice a little bit of equality or you can get a
little bit better quality sacrifice some of the performance there's a lot of
tweaking that can be done this was just with the recommended settings no other
changes so the first thing I tried was GTA 5 and I was actually really really
impressed with how well this performed again with those recommended settings I
was getting between 60 and 80 frames per second it was verging right around 70
frames per second which is extremely playable it worked really well and looks
beautiful not all the options are set to high but it still looks great
even at those recommended settings next up is battlefield one and I was
averaging right around 60 frames per second on this one and the video that I
have is just the single-player but I did play some multiplayer as well
and I was getting right around the same frame so it's a really viable option for
even playing multiplayer 60 frames per second you can get away with you're not
gonna want to play this professionally obviously but for the average grant
gamer it works great again you can sacrifice some of the quality and get
much higher performance out of it but this worked great again just with the
recommended settings next up is Star Wars Battlefront now this is the older
Star Wars Battlefront this isn't Star Wars Battlefront 2 because simply
because I don't own that yet but I was getting 60 to 70 in Star Wars
Battlefront again that's both in single-player and multiplayer this
worked great as well and looked really good this one would require some
tweaking I think because the recommended settings the graphics was set a little
bit lower than I think it needs to be so with some tweaking I think you can get
just as good performance but improve the visuals a little bit the last one I
tried is pub G because pub G tends to not be optimised very well and a lot of
machines even really powerful machines struggle with this again with that
recommended settings I was really surprised that I was getting 60 to 70
frames per second so that's indoors of course I was getting a little bit higher
frames and then outdoors it would occasionally drop below 60 but for the
most part it was between that 60 and 70 again you could probably tweak the
settings get a little bit better performance I know a lot of people like
to set the detail real low and pub G and just optimize that performance and again
it works great so all in all I'm actually really impressed with how this
build performs that I 530 470 processes are still actually a really good
processor by today's standards and that gtx 1050 card that actually really blew
me away I was not expecting that card to perform as well as it did especially
since it's only a 2 gigabyte card the performance that I got in these games
they were all really playable now if you're a pro gamer or you want to max
out your graphic quality and get the highest frames per second you're gonna
be playing in 4k this obviously is not gonna be the machine for you you can't
want to build your own machine but if you're just getting started into PC
gaming you want to get in there for under 200 bucks or your casual
gamer and you just want to have a machine to play some games now and then
this is actually a really good solution look for an older machine and then buy
those you know low end of the 1000 series gtx cards those are great there's
also some really good radiant cards but again remember that you have to get a
card that does not require the external power so you're either going to use an
older car or you need to be really careful and you also need to look for a
video card that is specified to be able to fit in a small form-factor case
because you can't use a full-height card in this case so thanks so much for
watching guys I really appreciate you stopping by again and come see me on
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