Testing Out a Refurbished Gaming PC with a Ryzen 5 3500 and an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 Super

I recently had the opportunity to test out a refurbished gaming PC that caught my attention. The specs on this machine were impressive, with a Ryzen 5 3500 six-core, six-thread processor running at a base clock of 3.6 GHz with a boost up to 4.1 GHz. I also had 8 GB of RAM installed in single-channel mode at 2666 MHz, and it was paired with an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 Super 4 GB of GDDR6 VRAM. The PC came pre-installed with Windows 10 Home and had a lot of games and software already installed for me to test.

Testing Out PC Games

The first game I tested on this machine was Dirt 5, which ran smoothly at 1080p High settings. I was surprised that the frame rate didn't suffer too much, even when I turned up the graphics quality from medium to high. Next up was Street Fighter 5, which also handled well at 1080p Max settings, running a constant 60 FPS. However, with the 8 GB of RAM, I found it limiting to run at higher settings for games like Doom Eternal and Valorant. The latter is an easy game to run, but even then, I was limited by the amount of RAM. On the other hand, Street Fighter 5 ran smoothly at 1080p High with no issues. Another game that handled well was GTA 5, which ran smoothly at 1080p High settings, albeit at a slightly lower frame rate than some of the others.

Testing Out Emulation

The PC also came pre-installed with an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 Super, making it a great option for emulation. I tested out several games and found that it handled them well, including PS2 using PC sx2 with direct X11 back end GPU. The only issue I encountered was with the Windows Game Bar, which seemed to be struggling to keep up with the frame rate of some games.

In conclusion, this refurbished gaming PC with a Ryzen 5 3500 and an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 Super performed well in various tests. It handled PC games smoothly at high settings, although with some limitations due to the amount of RAM. Emulation also worked well, making it a great option for those looking to play classic games on their PC. With prices dropping in the market, this refurbished gaming PC may be a good option for those looking to build or purchase a new system.

Afterburner Logs

During my testing, I noticed that Afterburner was running in the background while playing some games. However, it seemed to be limiting the frame rate of one game - CS:GO - slightly. The average FPS on this game was 154 FPS. Nevertheless, the PC handled most modern games smoothly and with no major issues.

Walmart's Pricing

I was able to find this refurbished gaming PC at a price point that was significantly lower than what it would cost online, at $599 compared to its usual $899 online price. This is a great deal for those looking to buy a pre-built gaming PC without breaking the bank.

Check Local Stores

If you're interested in purchasing this PC or any other refurbished item, I recommend checking out local stores instead of buying online. Prices tend to be lower at physical retailers, making it a more affordable option for those on a budget.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey what's going on guys etaa Prime back here again today we're going to be taking a look at a pretty awesome little budget gaming PC that I recently picked up from Walmart and by budget I'm talking at the $599 range now if we were to take a look at this a year and a half ago it definitely wouldn't be worth it but since PC part prices and especially graphics card prices are skyrocketing right now this is actually a really great deal because if you tried to get a hold of all the parts they used to build this it would cost you a lot more than $600 now if you try to pick one of these up on Walmart's website you're not going to find it for $600 they're listed for around 8 to9 and that's because thirdparty companies swoop in buy all the online stock up and then immediately relist it for much higher than Walmart sold it for so what you got to do is go in store and see if they have them in stock NOW luckily there's two Walmarts within a 30m radius of me the first one I went to had one on the Shelf I went ahead and bought it and a couple days later I made it over to the other Walmart they actually had two in stock ready to go on the shelf for the same price $5.99 if you're a regular viewer of the channel this PC might look familiar to you because about a month ago I was able to pick one of these up for less than $500 on eBay it was a refurbished model it looked brand new and performance on these is absolutely amazing for the price when it comes to PC gaming and even emulation but since then all of those refurbished ones have been sold out I don't know if they'll ever come back in stock so I figured we'd go ahead and take a look at a brand new one from Walmart at that $600 price tag and see if it's worth it so along with the PC itself we're also going to get our keyboard and I believe this comes with a mouse it's just a plain Jane HP mouse and keyboard we also get our power cable and instruction manual let me go ahead and get this out of the box and here it is this is actually a pretty small form factor when it comes to gaming PCs and they claim that this is upgradeable we have a 400 W power supply 8 GB of RAM a 6 core ryzen 5 3500 and a gtx650 super and if you take a look at eBay right now or a third party site selling 1650 supers right now you'll see that when I go to buy it now and lowest price first 251 with $1 shipping but uh this already sold out I mean it's sold out immediately so the second cheapest one here is $350 this is an oem variant kind of like the one we have in the HP right now and this cost over half of what I paid for this whole PC so with the market like it is right now this coming in at $599 isn't a bad deal at all so I went ahead and pulled the side panel off and the hard drive cadd out just so we could take a look at the inside of this thing we have a 400 W 80 plus power supply that GTX 1650 super given it's an oem variant but it performs really well this comes pre-installed with a 256 GB nvme SSD and we have that 6 core ryzen 5 3500 we do have enough power supply to upgrade this GPU down the road to something like a 1660 super but if it was up to me there's two upgrades that I would do to this machine and kind of leave it like it is I would add an extra stick of ram bringing it up to 16 GB in dual Channel and I would add an extra hard drive to hold more games so taking a look at the 1650 super it's an oem variant there's no backplate on it we have that aluminum heat sink with a single fan 4 GB of gddr6 it is overclockable using something like after burner and I've had really good luck with 1080p gaming on the 1650 super so we should get some good performance out of this and like I said I've already tested this PC given it was a refurbished version so I kind of know how this thing's going to perform and it does really great all right so here we are this is running Windows 10 home right out of the box I've got a lot of stuff installed to test out here in this video we're going to test out some PC games and we're also going to go over a little bit of emulation as you can see we have that ryzen 5 3500 six cores six threads nothing extra here base clock 3.6 GHz with a boost up to 4.1 8 GB of RAM right out of the box running in single Channel mode at 2666 and we have that Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 super 4 GB of gddr6 vram so first up we have dirt 5 1080p High settings and I was actually surprised that I was able to take this up to high when I first started this up I put it at medium and I noticed I was getting a really good frame rate so I just jacked it on up and yeah you can definitely play this at 1080p High next on the list Street Fighter 5 1080p Max settings running at a constant 60 great little machine for Fighters impossible Doom Eternal 1080p High I got an average of 64 FPS and I think we're kind of limited here by that 8 gigs of RAM at high settings with 16 gigs I think we could get much better out of this when it comes to valerant it's a super easy game to run so here we have it at 1080p everything maxed out so we're at high settings and I got an average of 136 FPS by the end of this match if you want to run this game at 144 take a few of those settings down and you'll be good to go with this machine GTA 5 1080p High settings I got an average of 81 FPS and that's totally fine in my book if you wanted to run this at 60 you could lock it down and turn some of these up to very high but uh I think this turned out really nice Call of Duty war zone 1080p High settings now even with that 8 gigs of RAM we're right there on the edge if you take a look at After Burner up in the top leftand corner I mean it's almost maxed out all the ram I was still able to get an average of 86 FPS at high settings reload cyberpunk 2077 1080p low with Dynamic Fidelity FX C on I've got it set to 60 FPS and the minimum resolution at 70 so it will dip down to a minimum resolution scale of 70 but it's trying its hardest to keep it at 60 FPS and it's doing a pretty decent job and finally CSO 1080p very high settings now with this we can't use After Burner on screen anymore but it will run in the background I had to used the built-in Windows game bar and it looks like it's a little all over the place but at the end of this run I took a look at my afterburner logs and it stated that I had an average of 154 FPS but that game bar does look all over the place I'm going to wrap this video up with some higher-end emulation now I pulled all of this footage from the initial video I did with the refurbished version and this thing handles emulation like a champ first up PS2 using PC sx2 with the direct X11 back in way GPU prices and PC part availability are right now as making this video I think it would be worth picking something like this up or you could always save this money wait until these prices come down and we can get our hands on some good CPUs and build your own but if you're looking to game now this could be a good option and this is one of the best deals that I found on a brand new pre-built gaming PC in 2021 so that's going to wrap it up for this video really appreciate you watching if you're interested in checking out some more emulation on this thing I'll leave a link to that video in the description like I mentioned if you check out Walmart's website you're going to see these listed for way more than you're going to pay in store so you need to check your local stores to see if they have these for that $599 price tag if you have any questions or you want to see anything else running on this machine let me know in the comments below and like always thanks for watchinghey what's going on guys etaa Prime back here again today we're going to be taking a look at a pretty awesome little budget gaming PC that I recently picked up from Walmart and by budget I'm talking at the $599 range now if we were to take a look at this a year and a half ago it definitely wouldn't be worth it but since PC part prices and especially graphics card prices are skyrocketing right now this is actually a really great deal because if you tried to get a hold of all the parts they used to build this it would cost you a lot more than $600 now if you try to pick one of these up on Walmart's website you're not going to find it for $600 they're listed for around 8 to9 and that's because thirdparty companies swoop in buy all the online stock up and then immediately relist it for much higher than Walmart sold it for so what you got to do is go in store and see if they have them in stock NOW luckily there's two Walmarts within a 30m radius of me the first one I went to had one on the Shelf I went ahead and bought it and a couple days later I made it over to the other Walmart they actually had two in stock ready to go on the shelf for the same price $5.99 if you're a regular viewer of the channel this PC might look familiar to you because about a month ago I was able to pick one of these up for less than $500 on eBay it was a refurbished model it looked brand new and performance on these is absolutely amazing for the price when it comes to PC gaming and even emulation but since then all of those refurbished ones have been sold out I don't know if they'll ever come back in stock so I figured we'd go ahead and take a look at a brand new one from Walmart at that $600 price tag and see if it's worth it so along with the PC itself we're also going to get our keyboard and I believe this comes with a mouse it's just a plain Jane HP mouse and keyboard we also get our power cable and instruction manual let me go ahead and get this out of the box and here it is this is actually a pretty small form factor when it comes to gaming PCs and they claim that this is upgradeable we have a 400 W power supply 8 GB of RAM a 6 core ryzen 5 3500 and a gtx650 super and if you take a look at eBay right now or a third party site selling 1650 supers right now you'll see that when I go to buy it now and lowest price first 251 with $1 shipping but uh this already sold out I mean it's sold out immediately so the second cheapest one here is $350 this is an oem variant kind of like the one we have in the HP right now and this cost over half of what I paid for this whole PC so with the market like it is right now this coming in at $599 isn't a bad deal at all so I went ahead and pulled the side panel off and the hard drive cadd out just so we could take a look at the inside of this thing we have a 400 W 80 plus power supply that GTX 1650 super given it's an oem variant but it performs really well this comes pre-installed with a 256 GB nvme SSD and we have that 6 core ryzen 5 3500 we do have enough power supply to upgrade this GPU down the road to something like a 1660 super but if it was up to me there's two upgrades that I would do to this machine and kind of leave it like it is I would add an extra stick of ram bringing it up to 16 GB in dual Channel and I would add an extra hard drive to hold more games so taking a look at the 1650 super it's an oem variant there's no backplate on it we have that aluminum heat sink with a single fan 4 GB of gddr6 it is overclockable using something like after burner and I've had really good luck with 1080p gaming on the 1650 super so we should get some good performance out of this and like I said I've already tested this PC given it was a refurbished version so I kind of know how this thing's going to perform and it does really great all right so here we are this is running Windows 10 home right out of the box I've got a lot of stuff installed to test out here in this video we're going to test out some PC games and we're also going to go over a little bit of emulation as you can see we have that ryzen 5 3500 six cores six threads nothing extra here base clock 3.6 GHz with a boost up to 4.1 8 GB of RAM right out of the box running in single Channel mode at 2666 and we have that Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 super 4 GB of gddr6 vram so first up we have dirt 5 1080p High settings and I was actually surprised that I was able to take this up to high when I first started this up I put it at medium and I noticed I was getting a really good frame rate so I just jacked it on up and yeah you can definitely play this at 1080p High next on the list Street Fighter 5 1080p Max settings running at a constant 60 great little machine for Fighters impossible Doom Eternal 1080p High I got an average of 64 FPS and I think we're kind of limited here by that 8 gigs of RAM at high settings with 16 gigs I think we could get much better out of this when it comes to valerant it's a super easy game to run so here we have it at 1080p everything maxed out so we're at high settings and I got an average of 136 FPS by the end of this match if you want to run this game at 144 take a few of those settings down and you'll be good to go with this machine GTA 5 1080p High settings I got an average of 81 FPS and that's totally fine in my book if you wanted to run this at 60 you could lock it down and turn some of these up to very high but uh I think this turned out really nice Call of Duty war zone 1080p High settings now even with that 8 gigs of RAM we're right there on the edge if you take a look at After Burner up in the top leftand corner I mean it's almost maxed out all the ram I was still able to get an average of 86 FPS at high settings reload cyberpunk 2077 1080p low with Dynamic Fidelity FX C on I've got it set to 60 FPS and the minimum resolution at 70 so it will dip down to a minimum resolution scale of 70 but it's trying its hardest to keep it at 60 FPS and it's doing a pretty decent job and finally CSO 1080p very high settings now with this we can't use After Burner on screen anymore but it will run in the background I had to used the built-in Windows game bar and it looks like it's a little all over the place but at the end of this run I took a look at my afterburner logs and it stated that I had an average of 154 FPS but that game bar does look all over the place I'm going to wrap this video up with some higher-end emulation now I pulled all of this footage from the initial video I did with the refurbished version and this thing handles emulation like a champ first up PS2 using PC sx2 with the direct X11 back in way GPU prices and PC part availability are right now as making this video I think it would be worth picking something like this up or you could always save this money wait until these prices come down and we can get our hands on some good CPUs and build your own but if you're looking to game now this could be a good option and this is one of the best deals that I found on a brand new pre-built gaming PC in 2021 so that's going to wrap it up for this video really appreciate you watching if you're interested in checking out some more emulation on this thing I'll leave a link to that video in the description like I mentioned if you check out Walmart's website you're going to see these listed for way more than you're going to pay in store so you need to check your local stores to see if they have these for that $599 price tag if you have any questions or you want to see anything else running on this machine let me know in the comments below and like always thanks for watching\n"