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hey guys this is Austin and this is the

cheapest gaming PC we've ever built at

just under $300 let's put this thing

together and see how it actually

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build a PC if you remember the very

first 300 ollar boson we did it was

taking advantage of an AMD Athlon

processor so it's only fitting that this

newer version has a much much newer

version the Athlon 200 GE unlike older

Athlon this is taking advantage of the

newer rise in architecture so inside we

have choose n cores which are clocked at

3.2 gigahertz they do support hyper

threading as well as importantly we also

have AMD Vega graphics built in mind you

it's Vega 3 so it's about the smallest

version of a you can get but this is a

big step up over those earlier Athlon

and actually should give us enough

performance for gaming I hope so

it's a $55 processor himself backing it

up we have a good bytes of Corsair

Vengeance lpx Ram now it's important

about this is that anytime you're using

something with integrated graphics such

as the Athlon 200 GE you want to give it

as much memory bandwidth as possible

which is why we're going with dual

channel memory and while eight gigs

isn't a ton especially for such a cheap

system that's less than $300 it should

be just fine everything is going inside

the gigabyte a 320 M s2h there's a very

cheap motherboard but importantly

because we are based on the new horizon

chipset where you have a lot of the

higher-end features so not only will

support our Athlon processor but you

could go all the way up to something

like a rise in 720 700 X if you ever

want to upgrade although that might be a

slightly ambitious upgrade but we do

have support for ddr4 and importantly an

m2 SSD that's important because we're

using a 128 gigabyte a data into SSD now

first of all an SSD is always faster

than a standard mechanical hard drive

one of the nice things about budget

builds is that this is actually cheaper

than a full harddrive now with only 120

gigs of capacity it's not going to be

great but it definitely should be enough

to install a few games and get us up and

running again this computer is all about

getting us ready to go right now

with plenty of upgrade potential later

like buying a hard drive or more memory

or a graphics card or better processor

all these things are possible at some

point but not today when you build a

budget computer there are a lot of ways

that you can cut corners and save a

little bit money one area you shouldn't

cut corners on is with the power supply

so this is a 450 watt EVGA 80 plus

bronze unit now the 80 plus is important

yes you could say probably like 15 20

bucks by getting a cheap Diablo tech

power supply and it would work for like

15 minutes if you're building a backpack

PC there's something that's actually

going to last you a few years and

importantly give you a little bit of

great capacity in the future going to

something a little bit high quality is

definitely worth a few extra dollars

that it costs so what I like about this

case is like I was saying it actually

has some features which is not always a

given when you spend a very very small

amount of money on a case so with this

guy we do get an 80 millimeter exhaust

fan and it also has a full USB 3.0 port

like a single one but you know USB 3 is

nice on a very very cheap case look at

this we even have a little dust filter

on the bottom which is actually not

super important because the power supply

is on the top but uh ok I'll take that I

like how it is ridiculously lightweight

this case is so we do have our USB 3.0

port on the side you also do have a pair

of USB twos on the front and once we get

the motherboard and we'll have a few

more around the back I'm guessing that

would open up our optical drive we had

one but in true cheap PC building

fashion instead of an optical drive that

so we're gonna stuff all our extra

cables that we don't need so we've

actually built a system in this case

before and it is a little bit tight but

it's not too bad and one of the nice

things is it is a full micro ATX case

which me

you're gonna save a little bit of room

on your desk or underneath your desk or

wherever you want to put it

the main issue here is that there's

basically no room around back for cable

management but uh for a system like this

especially considering how basic it is I

think we'll be just fine I'm not doing a

full PC bill tutorial in this video if

you guys want to check that out we do

one every year and I'll link it in the

description as well as in a card but the

system itself actually should be pretty

easy to put together one of the nice

things about this is because it is so

cheap there are very few components it's

not really that difficult to work inside

the case basically what I'm saying is is

that if this is the very first time

you've ever built a computer it is hard

to go wrong with something like this it

is about as simple as it gets

I'm not she kind of excited to see just

how well this performs so I did take a

look at the rise in three and the rise

in five chips with integrated graphics a

little bit earlier in this year and they

were impressive but they're also like

double the price of this mind you this

is like half the CPU cores and less than

half the GPU but considering that we can

build this entire system for less than

$300 I really just want to see how good

is it really also wow that is some

incredibly well applied federal piece do

you see that like what color perfect it

is I feel bad about ruining it squash

because Ram is so expensive these days

the eight gigs of ram is actually the

most expensive part of this build and

you could get away with four especially

if you're not really trying to do all

that much gaming you'll be just fine

but considering that I actually want to

have enough RAM to you know open up a

couple tabs in chrome and also play a

game of fortnight I feel like eight gigs

is they were the investment and the nice

thing about this board is that even

though it's not really super simple to

upgrade since you only have two DIMM

slots you couldn't theory bump this up

to 16 gigs later once ran prices

eventually you know come back down to

earth so if we screw our SSD into place

we're actually almost done this is a

very simple build all that's left now is

to put the motherboard inside the case

get everything wired up and we can

actually see how well our awesome 300

ollar system performs or how not awesome

it performs a little bit of cable

management installing windows and a

couple of software updates later let's

see how the actual system performs the

spiritual successor the boson so start

out with we have the good old classic

Cinebench now this is not an incredibly

powerful system with only a dual-core

rise in base CPU as well as those Vega 3

graphics but well I have to benchmark

things cuz that's what I do not too bad

so we've got 121 single core and 355 on

the multi-core now the only issue with

these Athlon chefs I make guesses are

call

there's really no overclocking

capability unlike the rising chips but

because this is a full desktop processor

we look like we're pretty much running

at 3.2 gigahertz across the board

13:22 so definitely not setting the

world on fire but again this is better

than the equivalent Intel integrated

graphics getting into a real game we

have csgo now on medium settings at

1080p we've got somewhere between 50 to

60 fps we want to go a little bit higher

we can turn the settings down but this

is pretty playable is they still they

still got you yeah all right

Wow we all died together so fortnight

does run it's at 720p at medium settings

but we do get a pretty respectable 35

frames per second I would love to show

you overwatch but for some reason when I

actually try to open the game even

though it's running here it just turns

off the monitor like legitimately just

turns the whole thing off like I can all

tab back in and windows pops right up

nothing is crashing just the monitor

doesn't like overwatch yeah there we go

hamster do wins again so overwatch is

actually kind of playable now mind you

we are running it on low settings and

it's at 75 percent scale at 1080p which

is I think roughly 1600 by 900 ish my

math is right but it's totally playable

we're getting about 40 frames per second

or so next up we have call of duty black

ops for a game which should not be able

to run in the system but I'm going to

try anyway yep yep yep CPS or whatever

yeah yeah it's fine low low low low low

off off off off off low low low off off

off off off off off off perfect that

sounds exactly like what we need right

now based on the twelve frames per

second loading screen I don't have high

hopes right now I don't think it's gonna

work the problem with black ops is it

actually just needs too much RAM so on

addition to having CPU memory we also

have to keep in mind the graphics is

sharing that same 8 gigs of ram so when

you combine it all together black ops is

just not being cooperative J guys has

reasonable sense that it's very

specifically told me the beginning that

it was not going to work but I want to

try it anyway that my friends is the

cheapest gaming PC we've built in a very

very long time as always links to check

out all this stuff will be in the

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