thanks to Grandma you are finally one
step closer to your dream of eSports
domination she just gave you her old
computer you know the one she bought it
seven years ago on clearance but that's
not important all that matters
it's you've got your valor and invite
and you are ready to tear up the
battlefield there's just one small
problem your new computer is really
really slow so it's time for a quick and
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it truly is a fantastic time to be a PC
gamer pretty much all the biggest games
in the world right now can be enjoyed on
relatively attainable hardware and ok
your grandma might not be the type to
bequeath to you a PC mine sure isn't but
we specifically chose this machine
because it is the kind of thing but even
if it wasn't given to them a student
could obtain for him or herself without
spending a lot of money and we also saw
a pretty reasonable upgrade path for it
so we run with the delightfully mediocre
dell optiplex 90/10 a newer version of
the classic grade l tower of yester
decade now poke around the insides we've
got a core i7 3770 now that's not the
unlocked a variant but quite honestly if
not going to be doing it here
overclocking on this dell special
motherboard anyway - 4 gig sticks of sk
hynix
pc 3 1600 megahertz memory ok ooh
woof steady GT 640 graphics card oh that
is nasty oh wow this might actually use
a standard Bears play moment of truth
here we go man I do not miss hard drives
look at this even the images for the
shortcuts on the desktop take like 18
minutes to load in let's start with
something it should be able to handle it
let's play some legal legends huh well I
finally got in and now that I did dang
it's running just fine
look at that hundred and fifty hundred
and seventy FPS I always forget just how
easy it is to run this cable hmm we're
getting dips though I mean that is sort
of a function of this being barely up to
spec hardware I'm seeing some stutters
as I'm panning the camera around a
little bit
certainly better than I would expect any
other modern game to run on what was a
bad video card you know seven eight
years ago and it's definitely playable I
mean you're probably gonna you know
you're probably gonna get ganked at some
point if I'm
my terminology right because of a leg
spike but you know it is what it is all
right so this games running and aside
from some chug it's running pretty well
this says that 1080p medium quality
finishing loading it needs a separate
screen for finishing loading that's how
you know you're using a hard drive all
right let's go boys wow this is not as
good an experience definitely running at
a lower frame right now not to the point
where I'd say it interferes with my
ability to play the game though like
this is still a solid you know 45 to 55
somewhere in that range FPS it's usable
one thing I haven't noticed is never
mind there it goes okay it's it's
chugging it's struggling is that GPUs
fan even spinning oh yeah that's working
okay oh oh there's a hero wait I'm a
hero are you a hero Oh what there was
another hero there he was hiding how is
the easy AI so smart okay well anyway
that's enough of that game wow it's
really chugging we're getting down as
low as 30 plus FPS but those frame times
you can really see them spiking
so just cuz you've got 30 FPS doesn't
mean that you're actually getting
reasonable frame times and every time
your frame times jump that's when you
feel like a lag or a or a spike or like
a stutter okay hey partner how we doing
here bud oh we're not doing so good
neat yeah man yeah and we're dead well
that was quick what is this a shotgun a
coat the fuddy
pal how does that work oh lordy I died
um how many rounds do I have to play I
joined a server so I could benchmark a
graphics card I'm trying to quit and
it's like hey you're harming the
experience of the other players you
shouldn't do that how long do I have to
play this for what yeah so it's
whichever team gets to 13 first 13
I'm not playing 13 rounds with it who's
got time for this I think one of my
teammates is already gone because
they're just standing at the spawn so
could I could I guilt free leave at that
point okay cool I mean they're probably
gone because I'm terrible
so it's still my fault all right thanks
if anyone asks why I bailed on the match
imma let them know Colton said it's okay
for fun we're gonna try something a
little more demanding we've got pub G
running at 1080p sort of because the
render scale is 70% of 1080p and we've
got everything cranked to very low okay
that is not a lot of FPS and this is not
a good looking game at all though I can
barely even tell where like the towns
are in fairness to the GT 640 this looks
terrible but is running relatively
smoothly when boys run now there's a
dated reference oh oh oh oh why would
you do that what's wrong with you oh
okay well there you have it
unsurprisingly almost all the games we
tried we're at least functional if we
were willing to sacrifice visual quality
on our GT 640 so if all you want to do
is play these games then go ahead and
check out the eBay links below and get
out of here just just go for it
however if you were hoping to turn the
details up too high or get a smoother
experience in the games because what we
noticed was that even the ones that were
running at high FPS were stuttering and
hitching a lot of the time you're gonna
want to watch on step number one is
definitely for the sake of my sanity to
install a bloody SSD in this thing let's
get it shut down here going from a
spinning disk to a solid-state drive is
a monumental improvement now one
terabyte SATA SSD from a well-known
brand is gonna run you about $100 these
days but if
don't need that much capacity which you
might not and you're willing to just
kind of take a gamble there are some
deals out there just make sure that you
grab something with a dram cache so for
example the fatty dog racing 120 gig
that we checked out recently that did
turn out to have a D round cache only
cost us 20 bucks now in terms of mounts
well this case is pretty old it doesn't
have two and a half inch mounts but the
good news is that SSDs don't have any
moving parts and we can just chuck it
there now for system memory eight gigs
of ram might be enough if all you're
gonna do is play basic games with pretty
much nothing running in the background
but a cheap brand name 16 gig kit like
this HyperX fury set that we had on hand
will go a long way towards running more
demanding games and improving
multitasking eBay Craigslist and
Facebook marketplace are all good places
to find fantastic deals on ddr3 from
people who are upgrading whether it's to
rise in or something from Intel right
now now we were lucky our cheapo dell
motherboard happens to have 4 memory
slots so if all we wanted with 16 gigs
of ram we could just slot in two more 4
gig sticks and it's off to the races but
we don't have any matching memory and we
want the best chance that compatibility
here so what we're gonna do is what a
lot of people would have to do because
they might end up with a motherboard
that only has two slots on it is we're
gonna take out what we've got and we're
gonna replace it with our new round as
for the GT 640 graphics card in here
it's pretty tired in fairness to it it
was born tired as soon as you fire up
something much more demanding than
League of Legends you know it starts to
struggle the good news though is that
the core i7 3770 cpu in here is still a
very competent gaming processor even to
this day so we can add a lot of graphics
muscle to this machine before our CPU
becomes the bottleneck as long as we
stay within reason
our GPU upgrade ambitions are going to
be somewhat limited by the 275 watt
power supply that's included with our
system and while
could add a new power supply especially
with this system that does seem to use
standard ATX by the time we add a power
supply we're getting dangerously close
to new system kind of money and besides
opening up that can of worms can cause
more problems than it solves
even some proprietary motherboards that
look standard might have different pin
outs or specialty connectors for example
that make them a hassle to deal with now
we did go secondhand for our memory and
that is totally an option for graphics
something like a GTX 960 is a great
choice for under $70 but if we want to
max out our machine without having to
upgrade our power supply the to GPU
options for the most FPS / power
consumption are the gtx 1650 super so
this one right here is a hundred watts
and starts at about a hundred and
seventy dollars and the gtx 1660 TI this
is 120 watts and starts around the 250
dollar mark now since both of these
graphics cards require external power
and this power supply doesn't have pci
express power connectors we're going to
use these SATA 2 6 pin adapters i know
the same molex to SATA lose all your
data etc etc it's such a butt either of
these cards is gonna pull 75 watts from
the PCI Express slot leaving less than
the 50 Watts that the SATA connector can
handle to be drawn over the PCI Express
cable so we should be fine now I'm gonna
install the 16 60 TI because the point
of this video is to show you guys with
some choice upgrades what a machine like
this can be capable of but if you don't
have the budget for that right now you
can always get something else for now
and then pick up one of these later on
down the line once they fall in price
another point by the way guys if you
don't have any extra power available or
you were only able to find one of those
half-height desktops you do still have
an option the GTX 60 and 50 has a
low-profile variant
this one's from ZOTAC that does not
require any external power making it a
simple
drop in upgrade and most of the time
they'll include a low profile bracket so
you can install it in one of those slim
towers now here we are half an hour
later and depending on what kind of
deals you can scrounge the cost of a
game console or even less and we are
ready to boot up our system with that
next gen technology of solid-state man I
can already tell how much more
responsive this thing is just from
opening up control panels like a
resizing windows makes a big difference
let's kick it off with League of Legends
shall we see how long this game takes to
load on our SSD Wow
I bet I could even have Chrome open in
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wow we are right up against our FPS cap
here how about no FPS cap how about that
anything of that all right
a 370 of pillows and you can see as I'm
scrolling around here we're not getting
those those judders and stutters and see
that it's nice and smooth even though
I'm recording at only 30fps you can
still tell there's a market difference
wow those frame times three milliseconds
300 fps in the loading screen now that
shouldn't be that impressive but
compared to what we saw last time it is
well that really is a lot better we're
ripping around on the map at what 250
frames per second it really is amazing
how much game
these old 3rd gen core i5s and i7s have
in them even in modern titles like this
what a difference not only is it running
way smoother like you can just tell but
we've actually turned the details up to
medium so the game looks a lot better as
well
view distance in particular in this game
makes a big difference to your potential
success so the bottom line is you pair a
machine like this up with an inexpensive
120 or 144 Hertz display in a decent
Mouse and you're gonna be clicking heads
all day long and games like valent and
csgo and even getting a pretty darn good
experience in heavier titles now the
thing is
this setup isn't gonna make you a better
gamer only you can do that but as we
explored an hour does FPS make you a
better gamer series it will make it
easier for you to get better now even if
you don't go for the GPU upgrade for
grandma's old rig I would still
recommend the SSD one just because it
will make the experience that much
better as you're rising through the
ranks and the later titles on a really
tight budget so if you guys liked this
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