**Building a Budget PC: A Review of the Acer Aspire TC-885-UA92**

We're at 60 FPS and can see it dipped down around 58 every once in a while, but I personally would probably never notice this if that frame counter wasn't on at 900P. We can go up to high settings and some people might have a 900P monitor laying around that would work perfectly with something like this. Now, when it comes to GTA 5, I completely understand that this is an older game, I still really love playing it, and going into this, I actually wasn't expecting this kind of performance.

We're at 1080P normal settings, and we got an average of 86 FPS with the Acer Aspire TC-885-UA92 and a GT1030. Not bad at all. Finally, here we have Doom Eternal at 720P low with dynamic resolution scale turned on, I've got it set to try to get the 60FPS, but unfortunately, it's just not going to do it, and personally, I think this comes down to not having enough VRAM. This game is really specific about VRAM; if I try to turn any of the settings up past low, it gives me a warning, and will not let me apply it.

So, when it comes to PC gaming, it's really not that bad for the price, especially in the time we're in right now. A few years ago, this really wouldn't have been a good value, but with GPU prices, I mean, it's really not that bad. But where this thing really shines is emulation. Here we have PSP using the PPSSPP emulator Vulcan back in 6x resolution, and it's running great.

Moving over to some GameCube using the Dolphin emulator, here we have F-Zero on one of the harder levels or one of the harder tracks to emulate, we're at 1080P, and unfortunately with this game on this specific level, 1440P still struggles a bit, but at 1080, it runs great. The other games that I went through and tested did run really well at 1440P, but you will have to drop it down with some as you can see here.

PS2 is another one that actually performs really well on this chip paired with this GPU; we're using the DirectX 11 back in, not using the new developer builds with Vulkan. Shadow of the Colossus at 1080P with the DirectX 11 back in does run at full speed and when it comes down to it, there are games that are easier to emulate. You can take them up to 1440.

Here we have some 3DS using the Citra emulator 4x resolution, and this uses the OpenGL backend. If you have a card that's tough enough to handle it, most of the Radeon APUs that I've tested can only go to one to two x but with this GT1030 we're able to pull this off at four times the resolution of the original 3DS.

I also wanted to throw a little bit of Original Xbox in here using Cxbx Reloaded. We're at 720P, and checking out that GPU usage I probably could have taken it up just a bit more but at 720P I still think it looks good, and it plays fine on this machine.

And I know I'm going to get some people asking about PS3 emulation, unfortunately with the i5 7500 we don't have any extra threads, and our PCs3 really relies on those threads, and this system does struggle with even some of the easier to enable ATS three games. So overall it's really not a bad performer when it comes to emulation and you can definitely get some PC games out of the way.

It's not a top-of-the-line machine but the way GPU prices are right now, it's really hard to build something cheap if prices were normal I'd pick up a GTX 1650 and a mini tower variant of the same PC slap it in there, and have a great time with it. But if you're looking to build cheap this is about as cheap as you can get right now unless you got a friend who's selling you some parts on a super discount but in the end it's really up to you.

I mean if you like the performance you saw with PC gaming and emulation on this machine, you can definitely build something very similar for the same price or you can just wait it out until GPU prices come down. But we've been waiting for a little while now, and we really have no idea when that's gonna happen but that's gonna wrap it for this one.

Really appreciate you watching if you're the kind of person that does see value in a PC like this I will leave links in the description so you can go ahead and build one, and if you have any questions or you want to see anything else running on this rig just let me know what it is in the comments below.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey what's going on everybody it's eta prime back here again today we're going to try to put together a super cheap gaming pc and 2022 as a lot of us already know prices on new parts and used parts are absolutely ridiculous when it comes to the high end and even the mid-range market which does make it really expensive to build a decent pc in the time we're in right now so in this video we're going to take a look at a relatively inexpensive build that you can actually do using used parts from ebay and amazon and once this build is finished up it's going to cost me 218 us dollars now the price can go up by a little bit or down by a little bit it really depends on how the market's fluctuating and most of the time you can actually get out a bit cheaper because these office pcs are a dime a dozen especially locally around me but i did pick this one up on ebay so this is an optiplex 3050 i picked it up for 130 dollars shipped to the door and originally i had a little bit of a different plan i was gonna go with a gtx 750. it's only a one gigabyte variant but for emulation this should be a good card unfortunately when i was purchasing everything i didn't really think about the clearance on this card i thought the heatsink would be a bit shorter so he can't use the gt750 at least in this build but i will have a video coming up so instead for this small form factor optiplex 3050 i opted to use a gt1030 not the most powerful card on the market but you know if you try to buy the most powerful card on the market you're going to spend a ton of money i've seen these going anywhere from 65 up to 85 and this one here cost me 78 shipped from ebay and it didn't come with a bracket a little upset about that but i'll make it work so like i mentioned the base of this build is a small form factor optiplex 3050 came with a 500 gigabyte western digital blue drive and i'm still going to utilize this drive i'll store my games on it it's not going to be great for booting up your operating system but it does work out great for steam games and emulators so i don't want to run my operating system from this mechanical drive due to boot times and load times and originally i was going to go with the 2.5 inch ssd and i did pick one up pretty cheap you can get them for around 18 to 20 dollars but that was before i actually noticed that this unit here has an m.2 slot so i went ahead and ordered a super cheap 128 gigabyte m.2 ssd on amazon and i know it's not a lot of room for storage but i definitely wanted to keep the price as low as possible on this unit plus we have that 500 gigabyte mechanical drive to store our games on so when it comes to the other specs of this unit for the cpu we have an i5 7500 and a lot of the times you're going to see these 30 50s with the 6500 which should do just as well we've also got 12 gigabytes of ram and it was listed with 8 but there's an 8 gig stick and a 4 gig stick i'm not going to complain about it it is ddr4 but it's only running at 2133mhz and this unit does support up to 2400 megahertz and when it comes to the bracket for that gt 1030 the gtx 750s bracket actually fits right on here they're both made by zotac and i was actually surprised to see this so i did get kind of lucky with this and i can put it right in no problem and this is about the highest end card that i can get to fit in these optiplex 3050s due to the single slot design and really no room for a larger heat sink if you're not looking to build small form factor you can pick up the mini tower which is basically the same thing but we do have a lot more room for a bigger gpu now one thing i would recommend doing when buying an older pc like this is replacing the thermal paste on the cpu these are usually in an office and they're running non-stop that thermal paste can dry up i've run some tests on this without the gpu installed and the cpu temps look pretty decent so i'm going to kind of skip it here but it is good practice to go ahead and replace that because it can get quite old so i've got everything assembled i just need to plug everything in and install windows 10 to that ssd all right so here we are i've installed some games and some emulators that we're going to be taking a look at we've got that i5 7500 four cores no extra threads and with the higher end emulators like rpcs three this will struggle because we don't have those extra threads but you know if you're building a cheaper pc like this chances are this is going to be your only pc and one thing i always like to take a look at is just overall performance and so far it's really snappy for web browsing email checking document editing you could even get some photo editing and video editing out of the way i wouldn't do you know six streams of 4k on this but it'll definitely handle 1080p video editing and when it comes to 4k video playback from youtube or your favorite app that supports 4k video playback and real quick here we have a youtube video this is just a little demo 4k 60fps and the gt1030 can handle 4k video playback just fine so you could definitely use this as your everyday desktop but really when it comes down to it we put this together in 2022 to see if we could get some gaming and emulation out of the way on it and the first game i wanted to test was kinchen impact so i did try this at 1080p and at medium settings we do get some dips it actually runs at about 55 fps so i dropped it down to 900p medium settings i still think it looks great and it plays fine now if you wanted to go up to high 1080p you can set this at 30fps in the settings and you'll be good to go all day so i'm going to go ahead and plug this into my game capture we're going to test out some more pc games and then we'll move over to some emulation all right so here's forza horizon 5 720p low we're getting an average of 73 fps with setup like this we can take some of these settings up to medium but unfortunately even at 900p low it doesn't do 60 it's around 55 so you will have to go to very low settings which in my opinion just doesn't look good at all now i personally love playing this game at 60 or over but when it comes down to it if you wanted to do this at 1080p with a medium-high mix it's capable of 30 fps we can turn v-sync to half here and get it to run like this all day long it's really up to you still one of my favorite games this is skyrim special edition 1080p medium we're at 60. you can see it dipped down around 58 every once in a while but i personally would probably never notice this if that frame counter wasn't on at 900p we can go up to high settings and some people might have a 900p monitor laying around that would work perfectly with something like this now when it comes to gta 5 i completely understand that this is an older game i still really love playing it and going into this i actually wasn't expecting this kind of performance we're at 1080p normal settings and we got an average of 86 fps with this one on that gt 1030 and that i5 7500 not bad at all and finally here we have doom eternal 720p low with dynamic resolution scale turn on i've got it set to try to get the 60fps but unfortunately it's just not going to do it and personally i actually think this comes down to not having enough vram this game here is really specific about vram if i try to turn any of the settings up past low it gives me a warning and will not let me apply it so when it comes to pc gaming it's really not that bad for the price especially in the time we're in right now a few years ago this really wouldn't have been a good value but with gpu prices i mean it's really not that bad but where this thing really shines is emulation here we have psp using the pp sspp emulator vulcan back in 6x resolution and it's running great moving over to some gamecube using the dolphin emulator here we have f-zero on one of the harder levels or one of the harder tracks to emulate we're at 1080p and unfortunately with this game on this specific level 1440p still struggles a bit but at 1080 it runs great the other games that i went through and tested did run really well at 1440p but you will have to drop it down with some as you can see here ps2 is another one that actually performs really well on this chip paired with this gpu we're using the directx 11 back in i'm not using the new developer builds with vulkan but shadow of the colossus at 1080p with the directx 11 back in does run at full speed and when it comes down to it there are games that are easier to emulate you can take them up to 1440. here we have some 3ds using the citra emulator 4x resolution and this uses the opengl back end if you have a card that's tough enough to handle it most of the radeon apus that i've tested can only go to one to 2x but with this gt 1030 we're able to pull this off at four times the resolution of the original 3ds i also wanted to throw a little bit of original xbox in here using cxbx reloaded we're at 720p and checking out that gpu usage i probably could have taken it up just a bit more but at 720p i still think it looks good and it plays fine on this machine and i know i'm going to get some people asking about ps3 emulation unfortunately with the i5 7500 we don't have any extra threads and our pcs3 really relies on those threads and this system does struggle with even some of the easier to enable ats three games so overall it's really not a bad performer when it comes to emulation and you can definitely get some pc games out of the way it's not a top of the line machine but the way gpu prices are right now it's really hard to build something cheap if prices were normal i'd pick up a gtx 1650 and a mini tower variant of the same pc slap it in there and have a great time with it but if you're looking to build cheap this is about as cheap as you can get right now unless you got a friend who's selling you some parts on a super discount but in the end it's really up to you i mean if you like the performance you saw with pc gaming and emulation on this machine you can definitely build something very similar for the same price or you can just wait it out until gpu prices come down but you know we've been waiting for a little while now and we really have no idea when that's gonna happen but that's gonna wrap it for this one really appreciate you watching if you're the kind of person that does see value and a pc like this i will leave links in the description so you can go ahead and build one and if you have any questions or you want to see anything else running on this rig just let me know what it is in the comments below but like always thanks for watchinghey what's going on everybody it's eta prime back here again today we're going to try to put together a super cheap gaming pc and 2022 as a lot of us already know prices on new parts and used parts are absolutely ridiculous when it comes to the high end and even the mid-range market which does make it really expensive to build a decent pc in the time we're in right now so in this video we're going to take a look at a relatively inexpensive build that you can actually do using used parts from ebay and amazon and once this build is finished up it's going to cost me 218 us dollars now the price can go up by a little bit or down by a little bit it really depends on how the market's fluctuating and most of the time you can actually get out a bit cheaper because these office pcs are a dime a dozen especially locally around me but i did pick this one up on ebay so this is an optiplex 3050 i picked it up for 130 dollars shipped to the door and originally i had a little bit of a different plan i was gonna go with a gtx 750. it's only a one gigabyte variant but for emulation this should be a good card unfortunately when i was purchasing everything i didn't really think about the clearance on this card i thought the heatsink would be a bit shorter so he can't use the gt750 at least in this build but i will have a video coming up so instead for this small form factor optiplex 3050 i opted to use a gt1030 not the most powerful card on the market but you know if you try to buy the most powerful card on the market you're going to spend a ton of money i've seen these going anywhere from 65 up to 85 and this one here cost me 78 shipped from ebay and it didn't come with a bracket a little upset about that but i'll make it work so like i mentioned the base of this build is a small form factor optiplex 3050 came with a 500 gigabyte western digital blue drive and i'm still going to utilize this drive i'll store my games on it it's not going to be great for booting up your operating system but it does work out great for steam games and emulators so i don't want to run my operating system from this mechanical drive due to boot times and load times and originally i was going to go with the 2.5 inch ssd and i did pick one up pretty cheap you can get them for around 18 to 20 dollars but that was before i actually noticed that this unit here has an m.2 slot so i went ahead and ordered a super cheap 128 gigabyte m.2 ssd on amazon and i know it's not a lot of room for storage but i definitely wanted to keep the price as low as possible on this unit plus we have that 500 gigabyte mechanical drive to store our games on so when it comes to the other specs of this unit for the cpu we have an i5 7500 and a lot of the times you're going to see these 30 50s with the 6500 which should do just as well we've also got 12 gigabytes of ram and it was listed with 8 but there's an 8 gig stick and a 4 gig stick i'm not going to complain about it it is ddr4 but it's only running at 2133mhz and this unit does support up to 2400 megahertz and when it comes to the bracket for that gt 1030 the gtx 750s bracket actually fits right on here they're both made by zotac and i was actually surprised to see this so i did get kind of lucky with this and i can put it right in no problem and this is about the highest end card that i can get to fit in these optiplex 3050s due to the single slot design and really no room for a larger heat sink if you're not looking to build small form factor you can pick up the mini tower which is basically the same thing but we do have a lot more room for a bigger gpu now one thing i would recommend doing when buying an older pc like this is replacing the thermal paste on the cpu these are usually in an office and they're running non-stop that thermal paste can dry up i've run some tests on this without the gpu installed and the cpu temps look pretty decent so i'm going to kind of skip it here but it is good practice to go ahead and replace that because it can get quite old so i've got everything assembled i just need to plug everything in and install windows 10 to that ssd all right so here we are i've installed some games and some emulators that we're going to be taking a look at we've got that i5 7500 four cores no extra threads and with the higher end emulators like rpcs three this will struggle because we don't have those extra threads but you know if you're building a cheaper pc like this chances are this is going to be your only pc and one thing i always like to take a look at is just overall performance and so far it's really snappy for web browsing email checking document editing you could even get some photo editing and video editing out of the way i wouldn't do you know six streams of 4k on this but it'll definitely handle 1080p video editing and when it comes to 4k video playback from youtube or your favorite app that supports 4k video playback and real quick here we have a youtube video this is just a little demo 4k 60fps and the gt1030 can handle 4k video playback just fine so you could definitely use this as your everyday desktop but really when it comes down to it we put this together in 2022 to see if we could get some gaming and emulation out of the way on it and the first game i wanted to test was kinchen impact so i did try this at 1080p and at medium settings we do get some dips it actually runs at about 55 fps so i dropped it down to 900p medium settings i still think it looks great and it plays fine now if you wanted to go up to high 1080p you can set this at 30fps in the settings and you'll be good to go all day so i'm going to go ahead and plug this into my game capture we're going to test out some more pc games and then we'll move over to some emulation all right so here's forza horizon 5 720p low we're getting an average of 73 fps with setup like this we can take some of these settings up to medium but unfortunately even at 900p low it doesn't do 60 it's around 55 so you will have to go to very low settings which in my opinion just doesn't look good at all now i personally love playing this game at 60 or over but when it comes down to it if you wanted to do this at 1080p with a medium-high mix it's capable of 30 fps we can turn v-sync to half here and get it to run like this all day long it's really up to you still one of my favorite games this is skyrim special edition 1080p medium we're at 60. you can see it dipped down around 58 every once in a while but i personally would probably never notice this if that frame counter wasn't on at 900p we can go up to high settings and some people might have a 900p monitor laying around that would work perfectly with something like this now when it comes to gta 5 i completely understand that this is an older game i still really love playing it and going into this i actually wasn't expecting this kind of performance we're at 1080p normal settings and we got an average of 86 fps with this one on that gt 1030 and that i5 7500 not bad at all and finally here we have doom eternal 720p low with dynamic resolution scale turn on i've got it set to try to get the 60fps but unfortunately it's just not going to do it and personally i actually think this comes down to not having enough vram this game here is really specific about vram if i try to turn any of the settings up past low it gives me a warning and will not let me apply it so when it comes to pc gaming it's really not that bad for the price especially in the time we're in right now a few years ago this really wouldn't have been a good value but with gpu prices i mean it's really not that bad but where this thing really shines is emulation here we have psp using the pp sspp emulator vulcan back in 6x resolution and it's running great moving over to some gamecube using the dolphin emulator here we have f-zero on one of the harder levels or one of the harder tracks to emulate we're at 1080p and unfortunately with this game on this specific level 1440p still struggles a bit but at 1080 it runs great the other games that i went through and tested did run really well at 1440p but you will have to drop it down with some as you can see here ps2 is another one that actually performs really well on this chip paired with this gpu we're using the directx 11 back in i'm not using the new developer builds with vulkan but shadow of the colossus at 1080p with the directx 11 back in does run at full speed and when it comes down to it there are games that are easier to emulate you can take them up to 1440. here we have some 3ds using the citra emulator 4x resolution and this uses the opengl back end if you have a card that's tough enough to handle it most of the radeon apus that i've tested can only go to one to 2x but with this gt 1030 we're able to pull this off at four times the resolution of the original 3ds i also wanted to throw a little bit of original xbox in here using cxbx reloaded we're at 720p and checking out that gpu usage i probably could have taken it up just a bit more but at 720p i still think it looks good and it plays fine on this machine and i know i'm going to get some people asking about ps3 emulation unfortunately with the i5 7500 we don't have any extra threads and our pcs3 really relies on those threads and this system does struggle with even some of the easier to enable ats three games so overall it's really not a bad performer when it comes to emulation and you can definitely get some pc games out of the way it's not a top of the line machine but the way gpu prices are right now it's really hard to build something cheap if prices were normal i'd pick up a gtx 1650 and a mini tower variant of the same pc slap it in there and have a great time with it but if you're looking to build cheap this is about as cheap as you can get right now unless you got a friend who's selling you some parts on a super discount but in the end it's really up to you i mean if you like the performance you saw with pc gaming and emulation on this machine you can definitely build something very similar for the same price or you can just wait it out until gpu prices come down but you know we've been waiting for a little while now and we really have no idea when that's gonna happen but that's gonna wrap it for this one really appreciate you watching if you're the kind of person that does see value and a pc like this i will leave links in the description so you can go ahead and build one and if you have any questions or you want to see anything else running on this rig just let me know what it is in the comments below but like always thanks for watching\n"