Upgrading a $400 Gaming PC #Helpful Post

hey guys this is Austin recently Ken

went out and found a surprisingly good

700 game PC that was pre-built from a

big box store so that got me thinking

what happens when you want to spend $400

I build a lot of custom gaming pcs and

the math is really simple you're almost

always getting better price to

performance when you build it yourself

versus buying a pre-built however things

have been changing lately in this 3 and

$30.00 novo is a great example of that

one of the nice things about a pre-built

system is that you at least do get some

accessories so this looks like a

keyboard and while I'm sure it's not

going to be particularly high quality

it's better than nothing and especially

if you don't have any accessories right

now something that this will get you off

the ground now we have the computer

itself so something is a little bit

interesting about the skies that is

considerably smaller than most desktops

because of that as you'll see little bit

later it does limit some of our upgrade

options so it might not look like much

but this guy has some potential

so it's powered by a core i3 7100 paired

with 4 gigabytes of RAM and a one

terabyte hard drive and that might not

sound too impressive yet but with one

major upgrade I think it can actually

handle some pretty decent gaming this is

the Nvidia GT 1030 typically lower-end

graphics cards just don't make a lot of

sense but the 1030 is surprisingly good

and with a $70 price tag it puts the

entire price of this bill that $400

which I think actually might just be

able to challenge Ken's 700 ollar system

well at least when you consider price to

performance so open this guy up and one

of the main issues is that it always

supports a low profile graphics card

which just so happens to fit perfectly

with our GT 1030 so I think the only

thing we have to do here is just move

the Wi-Fi antenna out of the way but

besides that it printed should be good

to go and with that we had the graphics

card installed so as I'm looking inside

here there actually is some upgrade

ability so on top of the graphics card

you can't easily put another four gigs

of ram in here and while it does have a

one terabyte hard drive to start with on

the bottom there actually is a slot for

an into SSD so if you want to spend

another say 30 40 dollars on RAM and

maybe another $80 on SSD for less than

$500 you're getting a pretty decent

system so if we would have actually got

the correct GT 1030 which is about a

half an inch smaller it would fit no

problem

however with this one

not so much so normally I would try to

cut out a little bit of the metal just

so we'll be able to clear but the

problem is because the system is so

small the hard drive is literally right

here up against the lip so if I did that

basically I would have to pull out the

hard drive this one's like literally a

half an inch too big so um so can we

just do the rest of the video with the

computer case open like can we just can

this just be the rest of the video

because it's not gonna close anymore

than that a few windows updates later

and the system is alive so well yes it

might not look ideal right now we're

actually do have some decent specs

inside that core i3 is clocked at are

pretty impressive 3.9 gigahertz while

the GT 1030 might not be the most

powerful graphics card around it should

definitely be able to handle some pretty

decent gaming so our first game is going

to be csgo

now should be no surprise that the

system is easily able to handle it even

on high settings at 1080p we're gonna

you err between 110 140 frames per

second now sure it might not be the most

competitive thing in the world where

some systems can write 3 or 400 frames

but I would say this qualifies as

playable you know if I could actually

find someone I could just plant the bomb

that's also an option next we have

rocket League now this is another game

that isn't particularly demanding but it

actually looks pretty good running here

on the 400m so at 1080p on high settings

we're doing anywhere between 50 to 60

frames per second next we have Middle

Earth shadow of Mordor as I almost kick

so this is a slightly older game however

even on low settings I think it looks

pretty decent at 1080p and we're getting

a pretty solid 55 to 60 frames per

second so if we would have you know

gotten the correct sized graphics card

for our case I think this actually be

looking pretty good and what's kind of

impressive is what kind of price to

performance you're actually getting out

of this guy if you're going to build the

system today it would cost you around

450 dollars that's not including stuff

like the optical drive or Wi-Fi card now

mind you if I was going to build the

system for $400 I would probably make a

couple of adjustments like drop the core

i3 for a Pentium and maybe consider a

slightly faster graphics card but

considering there were 400 ollars in it

didn't have to build anything besides

not being able to close the case it's

not bad if you guys want to see how Kim

was able to get an even better deal on a

pre-built system definitely be sure to

go check this video out here but what do

you guys

think about our Franken monster for $400

let me know in the comments below and I

will catch you on the next one