- Hey 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 a store with $600 and asked to see what they have? - Um, so I'm kind of looking for a, like, 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 http://centericearena.net/ultimate-100-bedroom-gaming-battlestation/. You know, the one we just did a video on, and definitely not inside the $600 budget. Soon, however, another option comes up. - Oh that's, that's really good. People must really like it. Okay. - Oh wow. Okay. Do you mind if I call my dad first? - Sure - Cool. Dad, AMD FX-4300, eight gigs of RAM, one terabyte, 7200 RPM hard drive, RX 460 - $450? - $450. - That's not crazy for $450, but it's not really good. - Dad doesn't approve. Okay, let's uh, I guess we'll keep looking then. See if he was my real dad he'd get me a GTX 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. - Oh really. - Oh well yeah, I'd imagine. Let me actually call my dad first. Core i3-6100T 8 gigs of RAM, 1 terabyte hard drive, GTX 750 Ti. - 750 Ti? - Yeah, for $449. - That is really old system. 750Ti is like three generations old. - That's what I thought. - See that's not crazy terrible for $450, it's not going to be very good though. - Are there any other alternatives? - Yeah so, originally it was $700, and I think he's going to take off like 30 or 40 bucks because it's a floor model. So the graphics card is basically worth more than half of the price of this computer. I'm like, that's actually not a bad deal. - All right, that actually doesn't look bad. So, HP Pavilion, you can see the Core i5 sticker, - Yep. - What's the deal? - So, this is an HP Pavilion something something something something. - (laughs) Sounds about right. - A really long name. It has a Core i5, RX 480. - 480, okay. - Eight gigabytes of RAM. - Alright. - It has a 1 terabyte hard drive, with a 128 gig M.2 SSD. - Oooh. Okay. 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 Kaby Lake? - Is that older? - Uh, 6400? - So Skylake. Okay. - Skylake, yeah. - So it's a little bit of an older system. Probably 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 looking for-- - Oh, cryptominers. - Yeah. Everyone that was looking for those cards just swiped the computers for the cards. Probably just sold everything else. - This is a very small 480, it also has no branding on it, so I wonder who actually made the card. A 300 watt power supply! Well it's an 80PLUS bronze unit. 300 watts actually is, that's really low for a 480. Um, I bet it probably just barely works. Oh dude, there's a card reader and USB-C up front? - Wait, USB-C? - Yeah, right there. - Oh wow, I did not even see that, wow. - For like $660 this seems like a pretty good deal, I mean you've got wifi, you've got an SSD, you've got a solid graphics card. Congratulations, you successfully defeated the big-box stores. But, I actually want to see what we can actually do with this. I bet it's actually going to be pretty good at gaming. First test will be Rocket League.
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