- Hello, welcome back
to a very special Broke vs Pro episode.
Ken pick a box, literally any box.
- Okay.
- So today the challenge is simple.
So inside each of the mystery boxes,
Matt and I have put together a list of components
and it's all thanks to our wonderful sponsor Micro Center.
Inside of each of these mystery boxes
is either a great, an okay, or a not so great PC component.
But the real kicker is
will it actually be a well-rounded system
or will it be a Frankenstein's monster
of random pc goodness.
Well, maybe not goodness in some of these cases
- Oh, this is an AMD Ryzen 5 3600, 3.6GHZ 6-core
with the Wraith cooler.
- For round two, we only have two boxes to choose from.
Are you going to get something great?
Are you gonna get something terrible?
Who knows?
- 50 50 shot.
Austin is trying his best to fumble around
with these boxes and try to throw me off the trail.
But there's no real way of me telling which box has what?
So actually I don't even think he knows
what's in these boxes.
So there's no rhyme or reason here.
I just...
It's up to chance.
It's really all it is.
It's just up to chance.
I'll pick this one.
Okay.
Just before we get too carried away.
- Okay.
- Ooh, okay, okay.
MSI X570 MPG Gaming Edge Wifi motherboard.
X570 let's go.
- X570, hard to get much higher end than that.
Too bad you didn't pick what was in this box
but I guess you'll never know.
- Is it a B550 by chance?
- Yes, checkmate.
What do we have next?
- So here come the big marbles, does even say here
comes the big marbles here comes the big Chalupa,
here comes the big Chungus?
- Okay. Are these are these graphics cards?
- These are graphics cards.
- Okay.
- Which graphics card do you want?
All right.
What'd you get?
- It's not awful.
- Go ahead.
- MSI GeForce GTX 1660
Which is actually not a bad pairing with my processor.
- None of that pairing at all.
So you're building a pretty mid-range system.
Yeah. I'll just take these to much
much better graphics cards and hide them away.
So don't worry about those.
What items are left?
What can you possibly be going for right now?
Do you know what's up?
- Ram
- Yeah, this Ram.
Okay, good, good guests good job.
- This is going to be like two gigs of Ram.
Isn't it?
- We would never
Go ahead, what's in there.
- Crucial eight gigabyte DDR
four to six, six, six single channel memory.
- Oh no.
Ken, is that not enough Ram for your game PC bill?
Do you wish you would've picked this box?
That'll be enough to run fortnight.
I mean, you've got single channel.
Does anyone need more than a single channel of memory?
I don't think so.
That's really the sweet spot for Ryzen five.
All right.
How are you feeling? Confident you like your system?
- Mostly confident.
The Ram is still a little bit of a, yeah, that's a
that's a thing,
but I am curious to see what you have next here.
What is this?
- This will be your storage devices.
We almost had a third option, which was just going to
be a USB drive that you had to put windows off of.
But we decided that that was going to be a little bit
too mean.
- You mean not the 32 gigabyte flash drive
that Micro center gives you when you visit the store.
Every time you walk in?
- You mean the promotion that if you sign
up using the link in the description
and you can get now a free 32 gigabyte micro SD card
but also a free USB flash drive?
But no, instead you have to work
with what's inside of these boxes.
You want to do this one, right?
- Actually. Yeah.
Why not?
- Oh, you did do that one.
Okay. Wow.
- No. Why not?
I mean, what's the worst that can happen.
That is the worst that can happen.
Oh, Toshiba one terabytes 7,200 RPM
Hard drive.
- I'll just take your much faster SSD out of the equation.
So we'll just put that down there.
I'm feeling bad for you. So...
- Are you?
- No, absolutely not.
But here we go.
Here are three options that are for your peripherals, right?
So we're talking mouse, keyboard, headset
all that kind of fun stuff.
Right? Okay.
Middle option.
What you got ?
- This is going to be bad.
This is going to be bad.
- Oh, it's not bad at all.
All it says is best.
- Yes, because these are some peripherals that were
kindly provided to us by steel series.
So you have an entire array of the best that you can get.
So if you would like right now, you can lock your system
and you can go home proudly to build yourself this exact PC.
And that's the end.
- Okay.
- Or
- I happen to have a few boxes you didn't pick.
If you'd be willing to, I don't know, barter
for some of your items, you might have a couple upgrades.
- Wait, so I can, I can exchange.
I can actually try to negotiate.
- I'm accepting all offers.
- Right? I'll put it back Components in there.
So I'm going to be trading
the eight gigabytes of single channel memory got crucial.
- Okay.
- And the Toshiba one terabyte hard drive.
These are the two things that I feel
like are going to hold me back the most.
- So problem here is Ken is starting to catch on to the game
because of cause this is sponsored
by our friends at Microcentrum, he's starting to realize
that we don't actually have anything bad right?
No matter what he picks, it's actually going to be fine,
which puts me at a disadvantage because he's not gonna be
as afraid of the other boxes that I have prepared,
knowing that I don't actually have any
literal garbage inside them.
I don't have enough components to do proper trade.
So I'm just going to make sure it's okay with my boss.
- That's what I thought.
- Don't dump it.
- That's what I bought.
- And this counted. Okay. I have to, Oh yes.
Yes. We're going to, Matt
and I are going to confer on how we're going to do this.
- They weren't expecting me to outsmart them.
- No, I expected you to outsmart Austin.
- All right.
After conferring with my co-conspirator Matthew,
we have now given you two boxes, inside one of these boxes
are the components that you gambled.
- Okay.
- Inside the other box are upgrades
to the components that you put up on offer.
However, regardless of which box you choose
there will be a penalty because you have broken the rules
of the game and angered the game show God.
So just know that you're already screwed in some way.
We're going to steal something from you.
- Okay. Well, I don't got a choice now.
So eeny, meany, miny moe.
Okay Cool. Oh, cool.
Wait. Okay Cool. Same ones.
- In the other box well you could have got,
it was 32 gigs of 4,000 megahertz memory and an SSD.
However, you did not get these crucial components
which means that you're stuck
with that now because you opted to go for it.
We've now taken something from you.
Be a shame if you were say to lose your CPU cooler
and instead go down to the most basic cooler possible.
I'm ripping your box up right now
'cause I'm stealing it from you.
'Cause I'm a vengeful game host.
So now comes the twist.
I am now building a game PC today.
Instead I am taking advantage of the last broke
versus pro game PC that I built alongside Kyle.
- Oh
- However,
not only am I just using the system that was very powerful
and completely ready to kick your ass already,
I'm now going to take all the best components
that you didn't get.
Matt, if you would please.
So you could have had a brand new Ryzen nine 50
900 X also something I'm going to personally be stealing.
So enjoy all of this.
Have fun
- Right? With this AOC 27 inch monitor and everything else
on the table that you saw in the game show portion earlier,
I have everything that I need, or
at least was given to beat Austin at mystery box broke
versus pro.
I also have this NZX T H five 10 that we've built in a lot.
I built a lot in this case
over the past couple of years that I've worked for Austin
and all of that will hopefully mesh well aesthetics wise
with what I have.
- (upbeat music)
- Welcome to day two, where we have two completed systems.
If you're wondering why it is four 30 in the afternoon
because we spent all day waiting
for Ken to install his games.
How are you coming there?
- I finished. That one terabyte 7,200 RPM hard drive
making my life absolutely miserable, but I got to say,
I think I'm pretty confident
with how the performance is going to go on this.
- Okay. So let's take a look at the actual systems.
Just as a recap, I am using the Ryzen nine 5900X
that Ken so graciously donated to the cause.
I also have that RTX 3060 TEI
from the original Micro center bill.
I also have 32 gigs
of super fast 4,000 megahertz course their memory.
- So in my system, I have a GTX 1660
a Ryzen five 3601 terabyte ,
7200 RPM Toshiba hard drive,
an eight gigabytes of 2666 megahertz Ram.
So I have the apex pro keyboard
which has adjustable switches.
You can change the actuation point if you want,
this artist pro wireless headset as well.
This is a, this has been really good.
And it comes with this nice little Dak module too here,
which shows you what input you are on.
- Well I have my art to seven headset,
which might not be the best,
but, it's the next best thing.
I also have really the mouse is really what kills it for me.
This thing is incredibly lightweight.
- On my end, we have this gigantic gaming desk pad
that has the really cool RGB also brings steel series.
The three XL.
The only thing is that technically this was my win
from the card that I pulled, but because it's the size
of the desk, I decided to share it with Austin
- Literally fits almost our entire desk.
We couldn't even fit two of these if we tried.
You've also got the AOC display, which is much
better than my old faithful that lives in our review table.
- You have a 10 80 P monitor, right?
- Yes. That is 10 80 P 146 hertz.
- Right, and this is 1440 P it has a 1500 curve on it
which is actually really aggressive when you look at it
on front of the side here.
But the colors on this are really good.
They're really good considering that they're not
like an IPS display.
Most importantly, great for gaming 144 hertz.
- While we each have good systems, mine's better
and case in point benchmarks.
So we've taken the Liberty of running centimeter ahead
of time.
And I got a school 1,579 in a single threat and 21,000
on multi what you're looking at over here?
Is that half my multi-course?
- My thing here is that Austin's bill is actually way more
higher end than mine.
I think in terms of value, and in terms of gaming prowess
I don't really think it matters all that much
- But we have more benchmarks including 3d Mark.
Here we go.
On 11,501 3d Mark time, Skype, Skype time sky.
I'm so excited.
Ton of spike. Ken, time sky spike.
- I don't think the sponsors would like that one
- Where, where are you at?
Where are you at?
- Misally 5,573.
- So less than mine.
So not only do I have double the CP performance
I have double the gaming performance.
- Yes. That is quite the difference between a 30
60 TEI and a 1660.
I will say that Valorant
literally takes nothing to run.
We ran it on a $500 computer and I streamed
from that computer in 10 ADP as well while playing Valorant.
I think I'm going to get a decent amount
of frame rate, like 144 frames, probably maxing
out this monitor with the hardware that's in here.
I am not worried whatsoever.
- Okay.Let's do it then.
Felon one.
Do you want me
bro?
- Oh, wait. Well, no, we're just going
to death match because,
I don't think you can handle team games at all.
- I'm not a team player.
All right.
- All right.
- Let's get in the game.
Woo. 500 PS.
Let's go.
- Whoa, Whoa, Whoa.
I'm lagging.
Oh, there we go.
162 frames. Nice.
I'm loving the artist pro a lot.
'Cause Valorant is a particularly loud game
and the sounds are very important.
So I'm like totally down with this.
It helps me figure out where people are pretty quickly ,
while Austin is dying a lot.
- All right.
I'm not off to a good start.
I'm one in four, I definitely just spine camp
someone and I don't care.
I need my, I need my kills.
- Oh, here we go.
Here we go.
Those are you.
That was you.
- That was me. That was me.
- Ha Ha. All right.
All right.
- How did I not get that?
Oh my God, that was terrible.
- Don't run and shoot.
- No, I wasn't running. I just missed.
I am at seven and 14.
This is a deep hole to get out of.
Wait a second. Hang on.
There we go. I died.
You just killed me as I was pulling up my mic.
Cool. Thanks.
This is embarrassing.
Yeah. Why is everyone good?
- Hi Austin.
That flick, that flick though.
- I Hate everything right now.
All right.
What was your final score?
- 27 kills.
- I think I was at 11, 12 and 33, 27 and 27.
So surprise, surprise.
Ken wins the round of Valorant.
I thought I was going to do better.
I actually legitimately thought I was going to do better
because like with these peripherals and with like 500 FPS
I have such an advantage.
- Well, at least you have the advantage in F1, right?
- Yeah. All right.
Let's move on to F1 where I hopefully have a much
better shot at not dying horribly.
- Can you die in F1? Because if you can't,
I'm sure you'll find a way to do it.
- I can crash
- Can crash, like like the first time we played F1.
- Wait, wait, wait, hold on.
Hold on.
Nope. Let's restart.
- What, what, what?
- It gave me an immediate penalty.
- Yeah, because you started before I did
Wait, wait, wait.
Let's let's let's restart.
Let's restart
Nothing. You didn't miss anything.
We're totally, totally not started the race the second time.
Cause Josh cut that whole section out.
I got a great jumpstart on you.
See, I practice my lunch because I don't want
- 'cause I didn't want to spin out.
So I'm just gonna
I'm just gonna trail you and then we'll go from there.
- Where you at?
- I'm coming. Don't worry.
- Oh Jesus.
Okay. Why is there a yellow flag, Ken?
Okay. Now I'm just going to cruise the fishes.
- Oh jeez. Oh my God. I keep.
- Oh, am I doing good?
Okay. It's okay.
It's okay.
You just got to hope.
I screw up.
If I drive nice and slow.
Now I've got this one.
- I just got to catch up 24 seconds.
Not a big deal here.
- You're 24 seconds behind?
- Yeah no, it's no big deal.
- I can taste a victory right now.
The champagne spring of my mouth.
I have an idea.
- Oh, what do you got? What do you got?
- Just doing some victory donuts, don't worry about it.
- Are you sure about that?
- Yeah, victory donuts .
- Oh Jesus Christ. Man am just trash today.
- Although, unfortunately I did so many victory doughnuts.
My rear tires are melted and I can't,
I have no grip now.
- You probably should have just finished the race
while you were doing your victory donuts.
- It's okay.
I'll catch up.
You'll crash again.
- Wow I'm 19 seconds ahead now. Cool
- Sometimes you do too many victory donuts.
That's fine.
Do you usually do them after the race?
- Yeah, I was going to say, all right, here it is.
Here it is boys.
Here it is.
- Oh, you won?
Oh. I fast slap.
- You do. Congrats.
- All right. What did we learn today?
Victor donuts always worth it.
And I will claim honorary when I can't you do that
- Gaming skill is all that matters.
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Until next time I'm going to go do victory donuts
in the parking lot to make myself feel better.
- That's just donuts, not victory donuts.