Boson 4.0 - $400 Gaming PC Build (2017) #Helpful Post

hey guys this is Austin and welcome to

the boson 4.0 so for $400

no you're getting a system that's going

to be easy to build especially if this

is your first time building a gaming PC

we're also getting a lot of power so to

start with we have the thermal tech

versa h15 case so this is going to be

micro ATX which means that we have

plenty of room for all of our components

plus a little bit of upgrading in the

future but more importantly than that

it's going to be easy to work in so if I

pop it open here you can see that I'm

looking at the wrong side but in theory

it's easy to work on if I come at it

from this way so around back there's a

120 millimeter exhaust fan and up front

there's a USB 2 port as well as USB 3 so

well this might not be the most fancy

case in world it does have some cool

features including a removable dust

filter for your power supply but when

you put this on carpet and it gets all

gross and dusty for power we have the

430 watt EVGA supply now especially when

it comes to budget bills you do need to

be careful what kind of power supplies

are getting so well sure there are

cheaper options in this this is kind of

the heart of the build you do not want

to put a very cheap supply at your build

and have it explode maybe I explode but

seriously you do want to at least get

something decent and with 430 watts of

capacity this should be more than that

for the build as is so once we get the

power supply slid in here you'll see

that actually fits pretty well and while

this case doesn't have the best kill

management in the world we actually do

have some room back here to route some

of our cables for the motherboard we

have the NSI be 250m Pro VD because

motherboard names are awesome now what

is cool about this is it is with that

b250 chipset supporting not only skylake

but also the brand-new intel kb lake

processors so it's a little bit of a

basic board we do have some cool

features including check out that PCI

slot so I've actually never seen one

that's metal the idea is is that this is

going to give some more protection when

you're say traveling with a computer and

you have that heavy graphics card that's

trying to rip the whole thing out of the

slot trust me it happens on top of that

we also do have an m2 slot which you

know I supports SSDs but also the new

Intel octane powering the boson 4.0 is

new Intel Pentium G 4560 now typically

Pentiums haven't been good for gaming

builds what's special about this is that

it supports hyper threading essentially

turning this into a core i3 that costs a

whole lot less so even though it might

be

don't underestimate the Pentium so with

a clock speed of 3.5 gigahertz it

actually really isn't that far off from

even higher-end chips like the core i5

depending on the game but generally

speaking for a bill like this this is

gonna be pretty much perfect so this is

actually going to be my first time

trying the G 45 60 now as a guy who's

done just a couple of budget builds I'm

really excited to see what this thing

can do but from everything I've seen it

is no joke as far as performance goes

next up we have memory and here we're

using eight gigabytes of HyperX fury so

the cool things about skylake and KB

Lake chips is that they do support ddr4

so well it's not really a huge

difference compared to ddr3 it is a

little bit quicker and hey I'll always

take a couple extra frames and I can get

them so this is going to give us a

gigabytes of RAM in the boson which is

fine for now but if you ever do want to

upgrade we do have an additional den

slot so if you ever want to get this guy

up to 16 gigabytes it's no problem so

things are coming along pretty nicely so

far however next up we have the graphics

card which in this case is an EVGA GTX

1050 so the GTX 1050 is another one of

these parts that really does make a ton

of sense for budget builds so for about

a hundred and ten dollars or so we're

getting a lot of horse power here and

especially when you pair it with that

Pentium we should be good for some

pretty decent 1080p gaming while it

packs a punch the 1050 is a pretty small

little card now that's not exactly a bad

thing not only is it easily fit in our

case with tons of room to spare but it

also is completely powered from the

motherboard so what we have all of our

connectors for more beefy graphics cards

this guy pulls all power needs straight

from that PCI slots and that is about it

however last but not least we have an

SSD and yes this is an SSD in a $400

system so it is 2017 and I am a firm

believer that you should not be buying

or building a computer without an SSD it

makes such a huge difference to everyday

usability of a computer so much faster

so much less frustrating so for this we

actually went with the Kingston SSDs 400

and the only real downside with this

it's only 120 gigabytes so if you don't

like going just a little bit over the

400 our budget you can upgrade this to

240 gigabytes or since this is a gaming

PC and we have plenty of room for

expansion you can add an additional hard

drive here to have extra stuff like

games files that kind of thing so you

kind of get the best of both worlds

it's simple as that to build the boson

4.0 so now I'm going to do a little bit

of kill management get this guy all up

and running and we'll see what it can

actually do so this is Grand Theft Auto

5 running on the boson so right now

we're playing at 1080p high settings and

we're getting anywhere between about 70

to 100 frames depending on what we're

doing so this is a 144 Hertz monitor so

that extra frame rate actually does look

nice and smooth but if you're playing on

a standard display you can actually

crank the setting it up even more and

still get a very smooth output next up

we have overwatch and this is one of

those games that really does look better

on PC versus console really does the

graphics look nice at 1080p on high

we're also getting a super smooth a -

about 100 frames per second now I think

I mean sure it's totally playable on

console and even if you're playing at 60

Hertz it's fine but being able to have

the option of actually really cranking

that graphics settings up while still

getting a nice solid frame rate is

really helpful for $400 the boson 4.0 is

a pretty solid little gaming PC so as

always the links to everything you guys

need to actually build this guy will be

in the description and I'm curious what

do you guys think about the latest boson

let me know in the comments below and I

will catch you on the next one