you are looking at a build right here that i was going to build
for the new release of valorant but then i checked the minimum system
requirements, and i was shocked they're recommending a GT 730
for like recommended system requirements and i was going to put in an rx470 (for this gaming pc)
and i thought to myself... that's way too good for this title if they're
recommending a gt730 so what we're going to do
is we're going to scrap this build right here this will be for a later date
and it was still going to be of course good price performance but we're going
to be putting together something under a hundred dollars which
you guys have been requesting this is a gtx 645 and we're going to see
if we can get some smooth fps in valorant and look at this
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and the link in the description below and with all these parts on the table
this is what we are now looking at gtx
645 we got this for 27 aussie dollars in a recent parts hunt
and now the funny thing about this is it's pretty similar in performance to a
gtx 650 except it was made for oem dell systems
and it didn't need a six pin or anything like that which is going to go perfect
with this motherboard and power supply and i5
2400 combo right here so this power supply
is a 200 watt power supply so very low power we can't
do much with that but we only paid 15 aussie dollar reduce
for this whole combo right here but the problem is is it's untested i don't
know what could be wrong with it so we're going to fire it up soon and
see if it works but if it does all work out then we also have a 60 gigabyte ssd
and a 500 gigabyte hard drive which i got in a combo for 20 aussie dollars
and then last up is the 8 gigabytes of ddr3 ram
which we got for 25 aussie dollars though
this case right here this was actually free it was just a
dumpstered hp pavilion case which i got from someone who was uh
selling us a heap of parts and like a lot of them were broken and
stuff so this was just a chuck away so i mean hopefully the power switch
works that's really all we've got to get out of it
so this leads this whole tally now to 87 which in usd terms is 60 usd
roughly so we have come well under that budget so let's see if we can
actually get this thing to boot first and if we can then we're going to clean
everything up and see how it performs in valorant
[Music] guys we are out here live with heavy
winds reporting from the lenovo think headquarters but you just need to
hook up this thermal sensor and then it should all go away
that's much better much better so lenovo thinkcentre is working fine
here on its first boot it's recognizing the ssd
we've just got a basic two gigabyte ram stick in here because
uh that's pretty much the simple thing you can do when you're
booting up oems for the first time is just boot with a single two gigabyte
stick because sometimes and we've recently
done this in a previous video where it these boards can actually
suffer from a thing called bit rot so what i'm going to do
is i'm going to now put in my 8 gigabytes of ram and if that boots fine
then we can start putting that in the build
but if not then we're going to have to update the boss on this motherboard
so we're now trying to boot this up with the blue memory
and it's just not taking it's not giving us out any signal so it's
kind of just like we thought where this board is really old
pretty dirty and so i'm gonna just get on with that bios update right now
[Music] and after a lot of trial and error and
troubleshooting we now have a setup with eight gigabytes of ram i5
2400 and a gtx 650 it's not a 645 it's a 650
so let me get some rest now because i'm super tired after doing all this
and i'll come back in the morning and tell you guys how you can get a lenovo
think center m81 to work again
with i guess uefi boot gpus and fear not think center for you have
been out thought [Music]
that
it is up now done that exercise freshened up and that elliptical rider
by the way i picked it up like for like a quarter
of the price you get it brand new for and then i cleaned it all up and it's
good to go but this story right here this is the
lenovo h61 uh motherboard that is called the m81 now these won't work
with newer graphics cards to an extent and so there was a bios
update that's needed to support newer graphics
cards and that was last released in 2014 so when you update to that bias you'll
then gain access to six and seven series cards that will now work but you
don't get the option to disable what's known as secure boot
and you'll need to disable that in order to get
the graphics cards or any graphics card to work if not you'll have to go through
a list and so that's reliant on lenovo adding cards
like this onto that list so we're now able to use
a gtx 650 but not a gtx 645
since this was an oem made for dell so i'm a little bit disappointed about that
because this was five dollars cheaper than this
so we have to take 27 off the budget and then add in 32 aussie dollars for this
but the biggest thing that i'm concerned about here is this needs a six pin
and our budget power supply here doesn't have a six pin
so what i'm going to be doing is i'm going to be adding a one dollar
connector here and i'm going to have to solder that on
and i've also got since we need two sata ports still i'm
going to use a starter splitter so another one dollar extender on this
power supply so that's two dollars extra in
our connectors we've also got five dollars extra on the gravis card now the
last problem that we had with this motherboard was the memory the
two four gigabyte sticks here they don't work
in dual channel funny thing is though they both work on their own
and they work on other motherboards in dual channels so
going through other memory sticks trying to get dual channel to work it just
simply did not work on this board so the board is inherently
semi-faulty but i guess the good news and the saving
grace is it one of these slots and only one of these
slots that's the fourth dim slot works okay so we're going to put an
eight gigabyte stick in instead of two four gigabytes six now
we're going to take 25 off the budget and then we've got to add
28 to the budget because this one costs an
extra three dollars when i picked it up in a used deals hunt so overall we're
adding 10 aussie dollars to the budget roughly 7 usd
we're still coming well under 100 for this budget build
so let's finally get this thing cleaned up and built
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and now it is time to talk about the under 100 pc and it is working
it is working absolutely fine so we're running a stress test right here while
we download valorant and i've downloaded the latest graphics
card drivers which are important for a newly released title like valorant
and the good thing about the gtx 6 series
at the very least is that it still gets new driver
updates as opposed to say a 5 series and below
nvidia stops supporting those cards quite a while ago
so this should work fine in valorem well i got my fingers crossed but the game's
actually pretty quick to download i'm just running a stress test now to
make sure everything's fine nothing's out of the ordinary nothing
crashes everything's working 100 before we boot this game up and i've
also done the inspector taking off those security update
things that make my i5 2400 run slower and we've tuned this pc up so it is
ready to go and you may notice i decided to mount
the drives in a weird way on the power supply
that's because i was just feeling a little bit different with this build
and the 3.5 inch drive trays are missing i decided to leave the front panel
off the plastic front panel protector just mainly because i didn't like the
pavilion branding the hp pavilion especially second gen is
one of the worst pcs to work with in terms especially in
terms of motherboards and the bios updates there like is no
bias update i'm actually grateful that lenovo did at least give
a bios update so this gtx 6 series card could work and with that aside there's
only one thing left to do and that is boot up valorant and see how
this gaming pc performs
[Music] and now here we have it for under a
hundred bucks and against all odds we built ourselves a pc that can run
valorant really smoothly and this was at 1080p
low settings so as soon as i jumped into the game i took a look at the settings
and basically there is one setting i would change if you're jumping into this
on something like this a low spec machine that would be the anisiotropic
filtering it had it on one x and i set it up to 16x and everything
looked pretty good and the fps this was an even better
response here where we're getting over 100 fps average
going around 120 to 130 most the time while we're playing on
this map ascent and it seemed to pick this map i played
three full rounds in a row and it seemed to just keep picking this
map for me and it's basically a five verse five
mechanism like cs go so if you're used to playing cs go
then valorante you'll be able to just jump into this game and start playing it
no problems now the abilities are a bit different
and so there is some differences between the two games but overall the feel of
the game is pretty much identical and i dare
say that this has better sort of server registry
and bullet rage even though cs go was really good for that this feels like it
was just that little bit better so very responsive game and it did run
really smooth even on an i5 2400 and a gtx 650 which we had here today
though i will say the one percent lows were looking pretty good though around
60 to 70 most of the time but the 0.1 percent lows did dip
and this especially happened when it was on big events like if someone was
planning the spike or if it was changing between rounds i
noticed it would sometimes dip to around four or five fps
but all the other times it was going around
thirty to forty point one percent low so the game ran really smooth it's just be
careful of those big events it could especially if you're in a clutch play
for example it could affect your ability to get that w but other
than that i mean we look at how this pc came together and it was
just a miracle that it ended up working i mean that single stick of ram
seems to work fine for valor ant though of course i do recommend dual channel
that'll make things run that bit better though the gtx 650
that's a perfect card for 1080p low settings on this game
i would say even something like a gt640 would work
but i wouldn't go any lower than a 6 series car just because of that driver
support and if you're on the amd side of things
hd 7000 series card or better i'd say even something like a 7770
that would work fine for this game too so this thing here will play cs go
valerant and all those other easy to play games like league of legends
dota 2 absolutely fine though what about fortnite and that's where i've already
tested the gtx 650 it's good for around 720p low settings epic distance
so this thing will still play fortnite it's just won't play it at 1080p
that well anyhow some other benefits involved with this build since we're
going with the open air design if you guys haven't checked out the
previous build i did put the link to that up there where we
just used open-air chassis this is kind of going off the same formula where we
paid nothing for the case and the temperatures were really good 50
degrees on the cpu or under 50 most the time and same with
the gpu that was under 50 and the noise wasn't that half bad so
the pc itself is running really nicely and that ssd this is the like funniest
thing was we put a 60 gigabyte ssd in i expected the 500 gigabyte backup drive
that we used here to be needed though valerant was like i
think it was like a four gigabyte download or something like that
it was pretty small game you could download it within an hour on most
internet connections and it just fit completely fine on the
ssd to begin with and with all that out of the way that
leads us to the best part of today's video
and that is valerian is free to play so it matches perfectly
with a budget potato so if a lot of your friends are playing this
and you just want to get into it and say you've got a console but you just want
to play on pc then you can definitely get away
with building something super cheap like we've done here today though keep
in mind all the problems that we've gone through in today's video
that was it was a bit of a task to get here
and also another thing that i had to do was the this is a hp
case so the power switch was actually routed a lot different you didn't get
the standard 2 pin it came in like this this 10 pin pack
so i actually had to keep adjusting it until i found the right configuration
for the power button to work properly and that about does it for
this valerant gaming pc right here if you guys
enjoyed this one then be sure to hit that like button also let us know in the
comments section below what's your experience with building
budget pcs or if you've built a pc for valerian
yourself what's your thoughts on the game love reading your thoughts and
opinions as always and one more thing before we get on the
question today this system didn't juice up a whole lot of power either it was
using around 125 watts from the wall whilst we were playing the game itself
so that was good to see not juicing up a whole lot of power
getting some really good fps you'd be able to match something like
this with 144 hertz monitor if you could find one of them for cheap
then you'd have a really good experience on this game
though speaking of the question of the day it comes from ken patchy strength
and they asked what's the highest gpu you would pair with an
e3 12 30. they're speaking of the e3 1230 xeon
this is a sandy bridge part very similar to the i7 2600
for course eight threads i'd personally pair this maximum with like a 1650 super
rx 470 something like that will match really
nicely with that cpu you'd be able to play
a lot of different titles at 1080p and get smooth fps
hopefully that answers that question and if you guys have stayed this far
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very soon someone's banging some wood outside now
so i'm going to get on out of here peace out for now bye
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