hello and welcome to this episode of
broke versus pro sponsored by our
friends at microcenter i am going to be
building the pro setup to go up against
ken who is building a broke setup to see
who truly is the better gamer the timer
starts right
all right
so i'm going to start with the glorious
10 keyless board and i'm going to
actually build this so i have never
built a keyboard before clear which
include blue keycaps silver switches
do you even know what silver switches
are yep they're silver which is a great
color you're going to love them also
need a model o wireless of course you
got about two and a half minutes all
right are you teaching 50 x's because
it's 2009 again wow you chose the wonder
bread of headphones my guy i still have
no microphone or webcam yeti nano
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you're the pro setup
gamepad
gamepad gamepad gamepad gamepad
gamepad you got about 30 seconds there's
so many deals at microcenter you're
running out of time man
oh
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right at the last second austin fills up
his cart and it looks like there's only
one thing in here worth getting at least
i do have one ace up my sleeve where's
my monitor i hit it up front because it
wouldn't fit in my card
ken are you ready three
two
one
go
i am the essence of comrades wow i think
this set is gonna be pretty simple micro
center does have a lot of low end
microphones so this thing right here i
believe is a fairly affordable kit yeah
for fifty dollars a mic stand
and a pop filter look at that don't need
a light save some money i actually don't
think i need a webcam either i got some
plants to save some money okay we can
make this work all right so i got an
apex 3 over here we've used these before
actually these are not mechanical but
they're kind of mechanical feeling kind
of in the middle of membrane and
mechanical it's also only 45 bucks ken
and austin had very different strategies
i would say that ken is way more
prepared on where to go within the store
to find his stuff looks like he did a
little bit more scouting than austin did
but i feel like he kind of has to do
that with the broke setup you have to be
much more budget-oriented where austin
was budget-oriented but he didn't need
to be and we're gonna have to see if
that works out for him
i'm so short yes pebble one of my
favorite speakers oh i need a monitor
ken's only got about 20 seconds he
doesn't have a monitor
what do you got
what do you mean
i mean i'll this 144 hertz 24 uh
is there anything else is there anything
else i need yeah about 10 seconds uh
what else do i need oh i think that's it
i think i'm done three oh wait no two
one
this
is barely right at the one barely okay
so this is my setup here in all of its
glory all of its cheap
broke glory ah but to be fair i'd like
to i'd like to interject uh this is a
144 hertz freesync premium display yeah
premium and broke are two very different
things how much that 180 oh that's
actually yeah for 24 inches 144 i also
have this
i'm going to be using my phone as my
main streaming input source so you're
including the price of your phone in
this setup no
because we all have phones this looks
great oh no oh whoops oh i'm sorry my
setup i think is going to be far
superior to that nonsense that ken has
built it's all over the floor so not
only am i going to spend some real time
building myself ken what are you doing
gloria's keyboard
help me okay okay he won't stand a
chance against the two of us stop it
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that's already broken oh
brokers pro off to a great start yes i
have already gotten ahead of the game by
having ken flip my box over so this is a
big monitor if you hadn't noticed 49
inches is about as big as the display
gets unless you're buying a tv it does
say two people though it recommends two
people to pick up the box but i am two
people's worth of ego so it should be
fine
nope nope
don't do that
no that styrofoam just realized the back
of your shirt
makes no sense
it applies a three-player tic-tac-toe
you're just not having fun in life ken
you just need to be a little more
adventurous
our use
this is a really nice size austin and i
have the same desktop we're not using
the same exact one he has a mirror copy
of mine ryzen 5 56 5600 x with a 30 3060
gpu wow what a broke setup compared to
you know
i am actually making quite excellent
progress however because i want to be um
very
thorough with my setup i'm gonna check
in with an expert hello
hey hi my discord's broken hello this is
tiny and tiny's gonna help save the day
right i will do my best yes so i'm
assuming this looks pretty familiar to
you is there anything here that looks
like i am wildly making a mistake right
now uh not that i
can see i have big faith in your ability
austin that makes one of us that has
faith in your abilities in anything
welcome back to judging day for broke
versus pro where i'm about to be
victorious with my hubris and confidence
now this is the
pro
setup start of the show is my enormous
30
49 inch we might want to get the specs
for this 49 49 5k by 1440p
120 hertz now i know that you're
typically not a huge fan of mechanical
keyboards is that fair to say look at
you just outing me like this i will sit
down in this wonderful chair
chairs are part of the broke first pro
setup okay
it's not bad that's not bad look at the
beautiful image quality of this 1080p 60
camera and that beautiful audio quality
that sounds beautiful pop those on your
ears and see how you feel about that is
that a blast from the past
i mean
it's a little
it's cable management little tight are
these pro great i would recommend these
to almost anyone yep however i do feel
like with your pro budget you could have
gotten
something a lot more
flashy i actually made a denki video on
150 headphones and i'll tell you are
they still the micro center
irrelevant i'm sure there's a reason why
this is on the screen but i'd like to
point out that he has not he has not
thought that far
i know
no it's just the screenshot so
this right here is the broke setup i
think you'll be pleasantly surprised
with the value of the stuff that i have
here now for streaming because we both
streamed unlike austin but i would
prefer a dual monitor setup because
obviously with multitasking with obs we
can make do with that and most
importantly in the theme of making do as
you can see i don't have a proper webcam
no you are utilizing
an iphone iphone how much cam well how
much is that i am using epocam pro so i
did pay the eight dollars i already own
the app to be fair so you could add that
to my budget look i know that sometimes
ken gets a little um
creative however
i think it you'd be hard-pressed to find
someone who's got a gaming setup that
doesn't already have a cell phone in
their pocket right now that can utilize
something like this it uses the iphone
cameras over wi-fi usb usb would
probably be the better move but i didn't
have a lightning cable on me so we're
just going to use wi-fi the iphone
camera is really good it does a great
job of raining in
all of the exposure getting the color
temperature right most importantly it
looks better than austin's webcam that
he spent what like a hundred something
dollars on where are you walking
the setup's right here so
he's back
my v tuber kentama yeah thomas cool and
by by extension ken
he's just got the tunnel laughs now do
you hear this
he's a different person now i was on
board for all of this setup until thomas
showed up let's see how their setups do
in gaming let's do
one game of death match whoever has the
most kills wins wow my dpi is very high
yikes i
can you have any kills yet because i
have zero i got kills okay i have a two
i'm two and five which is not
great
oh
wow
dude this is actually embarrassing
oh oh oh
okay okay okay okay we're good we're
good this ring light i didn't think it
was possible
but makes you even whiter so i can't
hear you i'm too busy gaming oh
all right
that was one of the most like up and
down matches all right so with f1 this
is where my setup is really going to
shine because i have the 49 inch display
now don't let the black bars on the side
fool you this is just the ui as soon as
i get into the game i'm gonna be
immersed in the cockpit of a formula one
vehicle that is gonna blow away ken's
tiny little puny screen okay just right
off the bat
seeing the ultra wide yep compared to
the smaller monitor okay he's less than
a second ahead of me i still got him
right in my sights
what was that ken has a 1.5 second gap
on me right now i've got drs if i can
reel him in just a little bit oh
why is it yellow why is it yellow what
happened
because i spun out wait i'm in the lead
oh he didn't know
how am i in the lead i don't know how
that happened i just realized i'm in the
lead all right a 20 second gap on ken
right now oh my god i can't hear
anything anyone's saying because these
headphones sound amazing there's no way
i'm gonna catch 20 seconds on him so
just like ah
oh oh god no no no no not like this not
like this not like this not like this
not like this i lost some time there but
i'm good i'm just gonna limp at home ken
is gonna catch me very fast this is
actually really bad michael
mikey this is so not right i see him
he's in there he's there
i see him here
wait wait no no no no no no no no no no
oh he's going he's gonna win
i won
i won i ended up winning by less than
one second i went to that last lap with
a 20-second lead we'll put the score on
the refrigerator for you champ thanks
it all right so after we have gamed
a rare victory for austin but you still
got your absolute butt kicked in
valorent which i mean that's pretty
common so the real question we have now
is
did the pro setup make austin any better
and i actually have to say
with the ultra wide setup
there is a distinct advantage in a game
like f1 austin had a way better view
with the ultra wide for a game like f1
however we're talking less than a second
to win
i still think that ken was not hindered
by this smaller screen here i was not
with the exception of the ultra wide
there is nothing that your setup can do
that ken's can't
and we haven't even talked about pricing
yet so yours was about two thousand
dollars a little over holy for
everything now half of that was the
monitor yeah oh
i know it was that yeah ken setup was
around 450 450
416 specifically i feel like you could
have spent a little bit more on some
things and a lot less on others like
your broke setup you should not always
just buy whatever's cheapest you should
buy what's cheapest but still has some
quality to it so something like this mic
where it sounds amazing i'm happy to
announce
we have a little trophy oh my whoa
i proudly present this egg holder to ken
whoa this is really sturdy this is
adorable