How NOT to Buy a Gaming PC #Helpful Post

ey guys this is Austin today we're

going to find out how not to buy

yourself a gaming PC after years of

doing custom builds I have one question

is it possible to get a decent gaming PC

from a big-box store this is an area

we've checked out before a few months

ago we picked up a $750 pre-built system

from CyberPower that actually wasn't bad

but this time we wanted to step up the

challenge what would happen when we walk

into his store with $600 and ask to see

what they have um

so I'm kind of looking for a light

gaming PC for around 600 this is Ken he

usually lives behind the camera but

today he has a mission immediately the

salesman offers him a $750 CyberPower PC

you know the one we just did a video on

and definitely not inside the saxena

dollar budget soon however another

option comes up

I'll point terabyte of hard drive

getting at four point six out of nine

hundred and twenty four reviews oh

that's that's really good people must

really like it what'd it do it I can

price met two weeks ago okay going for

four forty nine oh wow okay would you

mind if I called my dad first cool dad

AMD FX forty three hundred eight gigs of

RAM one terabyte 7200 rpm hard drive Rx

for 6450 dad doesn't approve okay let's

uh I guess we'll keep looking then

perceive you as my real dad he'd get me

in GT X 1080 TI do you want anything

one Starbucks excursion later ken was on

to another big box PC store where the

halls were filled with promise well if

you looked hard enough at least really

oh yeah I'd imagine yeah let me actually

call my dad first core i3 6100 t eight

gigs of RAM one terabyte hard drive gtx

750ti

yeah for 449 that's what I thought are

there any other alternatives

alright 480 before gigs and they also

have a soft state hard drive this is a

great good machine but yeah so

originally was 700 and I think he's

gonna take off like 30 40 bucks cuz it's

a floor model so the graphics card is

basically worth more than half of the

price of this computer I'm like it's

actually not a pet to you alright that

actually does look bad so HP Pavilion is

a quite fine sticker yeah what's the

deal so this is an HP Pavilion something

something something something great

really long name it has a core i5 our X

480 480 ok 8 gigabytes of RAM alright it

has a 1 terabyte hard drive with a 100

gig m2 SSD okay yeah so how much was

this it was 664 that seems like a pretty

good deal so you said it's a 480 it's a

core i5 is that skylake is that KB Lake

3400 so it's kind like okay so it's a

little bit of an older system like a

2016 why did you get a floor unit

because this was the only one that they

had left because everyone apparently

that was my case for yeah everyone I was

looking for those cards just swiped the

computers for the cards probably just

sold everything else this is very small

480 it also has new branding on it so I

wonder who actually made the card 300

bucks

what's in 80 plus bronze unit 300 Watts

actually is that's really low

for a 480 I bet it'd probably just

barely works I'll do there's a card

reader and USBC up front

well USB yeah right there oh wow I did

not even see that Wow like 660 bucks

this seems like a pretty good deal I

mean you've got Wi-Fi you've got an SSD

you've got a solid graphics card

congratulations you successfully

defeated the the big box stores but I

actually want to see what we can

actually do at this I been session gonna

be pretty good at gaming first test will

be rocket League and uh good feeling

about this so right now yeah we're 120

frames per second on high at 1080 so

what were you expecting when you ended

about a + or sorry mmm random PC part

retailer what were you actually

expecting to get scammed next we have

dirt for now this is another game that's

fairly new that I think the 480 should

be able to handle pretty well um when

you look at a system like this for about

like 650 bucks what you're getting here

something that you really should be able

to play at 1080 on high with most games

to be fair all those stores that we

visited had options that were just

really overpriced that were basically

like that like we're talking $1000 for

like a 10 60 and you obviously want to

avoid that kind of stuff right I think

the mid-range is probably a little more

of the sweet spot of when you're buying

something that's pre-built

it can actually sometimes make a little

bit a sense as I go flying off so next

we have battlegrounds and cents

ken is way better at this game than I am

once you take it away yeah what God what

settings can actually play on let's find

out cuz backgrounds I know it's been

getting better with optimization but it

still does not well no it'sit's pretty

awful unlike a lot of systems well it's

defaulting to 1080 high that's not bad I

mean we could see how it plays first a

little bit loud but then again I mean

it's a fairly powerful graphics card and

what is not a super well ventilated case

so yeah this is actually running really

well though again 1080p high we're

getting 50 and 60 frames which on pub G

I think is actually not bad not crazy

okay all right so Ken what is your

conclusion here with this whole

experience of trying to actually get a

decent pre-built ganky see the deals

exist

keep your eyes peeled that's really what

it comes down to such great advice just

pay attention and life will be okay hey

look there are a lot of people that will

egg on you for getting a prebuilt PC

when sometimes maybe it is the better

deal this is a good deal look you did a

good job I know you had to shop around a

little bit you had to argue with some

salespeople but you're able to get a

system that honestly is a better deal

than what you actually could get on your

own so I mean the numbers on this and if

you tried to build this system today I

mind you to be a little bit nicer with a

KB like I 5 and rx 580

but it's gonna cost you about 870

dollars now mind you that 580 is way

overinflated in price right but even

once you cut that down you hear some

stuff like the DVD drive and the Wi-Fi

you're still looking at something that's

going to cost you over $700 which is

more than what you paid for this so what

do you guys think about how can date

with the pre-built gaming PC honestly I

think you actually did a lot better than

I was expecting

so thanks dad anyway let us know what

you think in the comments below and we

will catch you in the next one oh maybe

I'll catch you in the next one ken will

probably behind the camera like usual

but you know the way it should be