**The BIOS: A Lockdown System**
The BIOS on my system is really terrible. It's very lockdown, you can't actually manually change anything, so you're just kind of stuck without Ram speed after that. I did some research on the internet and it was a forum post where somebody was talking about je de si verifications that this motherboard actually uses to see how fast it should clock the ram. The exact profile that it's looking for is called DDR4 2666 V, which is basically RAM that runs in 26.66 megahertz with a case latency of 19.
**The Problem with Upgrading Ram**
This all seems very convoluted and that's kind of the point because manufacturers of Ram don't really seem to list this information anywhere. If it runs in 2666 megahertz but has a case latency of 18, it's gonna get it down to either 2400 megahertz or 2133 megahertz. I tested four different kits of RAM from different manufacturers at different speeds and different configurations. Three of them ran at 21.33 megahertz, and one of them ran at 2400 megahertz. And then the stock ram that it came with ran at 26.66 megahertz. Basically upgrading your ram on this system is a real pain in the butt.
**A Close Call**
And then on top of all of that when I was testing one of the kits of RAM when I switched the PC on, I actually got a puff of blue magic smoke. I had this brief panic because I thought I had just destroyed this pre-built that I bought. But luckily it only killed this thick of RAM you can see here on the pins and actually shorted it out and the stick caught on fire.
**The Conclusion: A Pain in the Butt**
Now, not only is upgrading ram a pain in the butt, but it's also extremely inconvenient. Luckily Intel isn't that sensitive to ram speed, but still that's just for a PC that's designed around being can that's hella inconvenient and then not only that it may just set fire to your ram now.
**Benchmarks: A Mixed Result**
The 4x2 gig kit that I'm gonna be testing is gonna be running at 21.33 megahertz, where the one by eighth gig kit is going to be running at 26.66 megahertz. Let's see what that does for the benchmarks as you can see even though the 2x4 sticks of RAM were actually running slower than the 1 by 8 in some of the games, you get a little bit more performance in a couple of them.
**Fortnite: A Surprising Winner**
There was kind of just it's within the margin of error and for some weird reason Fortnite actually performed better on the 1/8 gig stick. I ran that test several times in each configuration and I got the same results each time, so I don't know, guess it has something to do with how Fortnite interacts with the RAM.
**The Verdict: Not Worth It**
There wasn't really a noticeable performance difference between the two different setups, this may be down to the fact that they're not both running at the same speed but again unfortunately we couldn't make that happen for this video in conclusion these two changes really wouldn't have cost them that much to do it didn't give us that much more gaming performance. But the day-to-day usability of the system feels a lot more 20/20 and a lot less 2005.
**The Final Word**
It really does make a big difference in the Windows user experience and then when it comes to the whole RAM thing, that's just another pain in the butt. Luckily Intel isn't that sensitive to RAM speed but still that's just for a PC that's designed around being can that's hella inconvenient. And then not only that it may just set fire to your ram now.
**Conclusion**
Brian from Tech Yes City did do a video about the system, he had way more problems with his than I had with mine so I'll have that video linked in the description below so you can see all of the stuff that he had to deal with. So there's a video coming soon where I'm gonna compare it to a more boutique pre-built option so subscribe if you want to see that video cuz that's coming next week anyway.
**Final Thoughts**
With that thank you very much for watching, if you like this video subscribe to the channel for more videos like this one again go check out the gaming channel I'll have it linked in the description below and until the next video bye.
WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: entoday we're gonna have a look at a couple of small things that a sir could have done to this version of the Nitro 50 pre-built gaming system that I bought from Best Buy to make it just a generally better gaming / user experience but before we get into that just a quick word from today's video sponsor which is raid shack are you worried there for a second weren't you know worried they didn't sponsor the video the video was actually sponsored by my new gaming channel that I started with a friend of mine so if you want to see the two of us use dwarves to fight aliens on the inside of what I think is a woman's body maybe then go subscribe to that channel linked in the description below in the first video that I did off this $710 gaming prebuilt that I bought from Best Buy there were a couple of compromises on that system which I thought was unacceptable for the amount that the system cost so today we're gonna address those two and we're gonna see how much of a difference it makes just to the general user experience when it comes to the first thing that we're gonna deal with I feel a little bit like a broken record at this point so I feel like we can all probably say it together now it's put an SSD in it which is just it's a 710 dollar system can't not have an SSD in it in my opinion and considering the fact that there's also a huge amount of bloatware on that system it just it's pretty slow when it comes to just browsing the internet and launching applications and stuff like that on the desktop when it comes to actually just deleting the bloatware it's surprisingly persistent the bloatware on this Acer machine is a little bit like herpes it kind of just keeps coming back every time you thought you got rid of it it'll do things like oh no uninstallation failed we don't know what happened but maybe you should try again and then you try again in it and it just it's it's a perpetual cycle so I actually reinstalled Windows on it to show you an example of a fresh install of Windows on a hard drive so here we have three different boot speed tests the one is just in the stock configuration the one is with the normal hard drive but with a fresh install of Windows on it and then the last one is with an SSD that also has a fresh install of Windows on it and as you can see it's a lot faster when it comes to launching applications and stuff as well it's so much faster with an SSD in it it kind of feels like a completely different PC in the stock configuration it was really sluggish it felt like a very old clogged-up system and I guess it's because of all of that herpes now when it comes to the second thing that we're gonna fix today I'm actually taking a little bit of a different approach because in the original video I complained about it not having 16 gigs of RAM but a lot of people commented in that video that the biggest issue isn't the fact that it doesn't have 16 gigs of ram it's the fact that it has one 8 gigs stick so then it doesn't have dual channel memory which gives you a lot more memory bandwidth so what I decided to do was instead of testing 8 vs 16 gig I'm gonna put 2 4 gig sticks of RAM into the system I'm gonna use this Patriot VIPRE 26 66 megahertz Ram which is the same speed as the RAM that comes in the stock configuration of the Nitro 50 just a quick disclaimer before I get into the actual comparison I was having some real problem with ram speeds on this system now the actual Patriot kit that I was using is supposed to run at 26 66 megahertz but if I looked at task manager on the desktop it was only giving me 21 33 megahertz which obviously is an ideal and because the BIOS on the system is really terrible it's very lockdown you can't actually manually change anything so you're just kind of stuck without Ram speed after that I did some research on the internet and it was a forum post where somebody was talking about je de si verifications that this motherboard actually uses to see how fast it should clock the ram now the exact profile that it's looking for is called ddr4 2666 v which is basically Ram that runs in 26 66 megahertz with a caste latency of 19 now this all seems very convoluted and that's kind of the point because manufacturers of Ram don't really seem to list this information anywhere because if it runs in 2666 megahertz but has a caste latency of 18 it's gonna it down to either 2400 megahertz or 2133 megahertz I tested four different kits of RAM from different manufacturers at different speeds and different configurations three of them ran at 21 33 megahertz and one of them ran at 2400 megahertz and then the stock ram that it came with ran at 26 66 megahertz so basically upgrading your ram on this system is a real pain in the butt and then on top of all of that when I was testing one of the kits of RAM when I switched the PC on I actually got a puff of blue magic smoke I had this brief panic because I thought I had just destroyed this pre-built that I bought but luckily it only killed this thick of RAM you can see here on the pins and actually shorted it out and the stick caught on fire now I'm not going to rectly blame the PC for it but this is my sacrificial kit of RAM which I've used in many different dodgy pcs and none of them have destroyed the RAM yet so yeah that's that's a bit dodgy now basically the point of this whole long ridiculous disclaimer is a upgrading Ram is a pain in the butt on this system and be the 4x2 gig kit that I'm gonna be testing is gonna be running at 21 33 megahertz where the one by eighth gig kit is going to be running at 26 66 megahertz so let's see what that does for the benchmarks as you can see even though the 2x4 sticks of RAM were actually running slower than the 1 by 8 in some of the games you get a little bit more performance in a couple of them there was kind of just it's within the margin of error and for some weird reason fortnight actually performed better on the 1/8 gig stick now I ran that test several times in each configuration and I got the same results each time so I don't know I guess it has something to do with how fortnight interacts with the RAM there wasn't really a noticeable performance difference between the two different setups this may be down to the fact that they're not both running at the same speed but again unfortunately we couldn't make that happen for this video in conclusion these two changes really wouldn't have cost them that much to do it didn't give us that much more gaming performance but the day-to-day usability of the system feels a lot more 20/20 and a lot less 2005 it really does make a big difference in the Windows user experience and then when it comes to the whole RAM thing that's just a whole nother pain in the butt luckily Intel isn't that sensitive to RAM speed but still that's just for a PC that's designed around being can that's hella inconvenient and then not only that it may just set fire to your RAM now Brian from tech yes city did do a video about the system he had way more problems with his than I had with mine so I'll have that video linked in the description below so you can see all of the stuff that he had to deal with so there's a video coming soon where I'm gonna compare it to a more a more boutique pre-built option so subscribe if you want to see that video cuz that's coming next week anyway with that thank you very much for watching if you like this video subscribe to the channel for more videos like this one again go check out the gaming channel I'll have it linked in the description below and until the next video byetoday we're gonna have a look at a couple of small things that a sir could have done to this version of the Nitro 50 pre-built gaming system that I bought from Best Buy to make it just a generally better gaming / user experience but before we get into that just a quick word from today's video sponsor which is raid shack are you worried there for a second weren't you know worried they didn't sponsor the video the video was actually sponsored by my new gaming channel that I started with a friend of mine so if you want to see the two of us use dwarves to fight aliens on the inside of what I think is a woman's body maybe then go subscribe to that channel linked in the description below in the first video that I did off this $710 gaming prebuilt that I bought from Best Buy there were a couple of compromises on that system which I thought was unacceptable for the amount that the system cost so today we're gonna address those two and we're gonna see how much of a difference it makes just to the general user experience when it comes to the first thing that we're gonna deal with I feel a little bit like a broken record at this point so I feel like we can all probably say it together now it's put an SSD in it which is just it's a 710 dollar system can't not have an SSD in it in my opinion and considering the fact that there's also a huge amount of bloatware on that system it just it's pretty slow when it comes to just browsing the internet and launching applications and stuff like that on the desktop when it comes to actually just deleting the bloatware it's surprisingly persistent the bloatware on this Acer machine is a little bit like herpes it kind of just keeps coming back every time you thought you got rid of it it'll do things like oh no uninstallation failed we don't know what happened but maybe you should try again and then you try again in it and it just it's it's a perpetual cycle so I actually reinstalled Windows on it to show you an example of a fresh install of Windows on a hard drive so here we have three different boot speed tests the one is just in the stock configuration the one is with the normal hard drive but with a fresh install of Windows on it and then the last one is with an SSD that also has a fresh install of Windows on it and as you can see it's a lot faster when it comes to launching applications and stuff as well it's so much faster with an SSD in it it kind of feels like a completely different PC in the stock configuration it was really sluggish it felt like a very old clogged-up system and I guess it's because of all of that herpes now when it comes to the second thing that we're gonna fix today I'm actually taking a little bit of a different approach because in the original video I complained about it not having 16 gigs of RAM but a lot of people commented in that video that the biggest issue isn't the fact that it doesn't have 16 gigs of ram it's the fact that it has one 8 gigs stick so then it doesn't have dual channel memory which gives you a lot more memory bandwidth so what I decided to do was instead of testing 8 vs 16 gig I'm gonna put 2 4 gig sticks of RAM into the system I'm gonna use this Patriot VIPRE 26 66 megahertz Ram which is the same speed as the RAM that comes in the stock configuration of the Nitro 50 just a quick disclaimer before I get into the actual comparison I was having some real problem with ram speeds on this system now the actual Patriot kit that I was using is supposed to run at 26 66 megahertz but if I looked at task manager on the desktop it was only giving me 21 33 megahertz which obviously is an ideal and because the BIOS on the system is really terrible it's very lockdown you can't actually manually change anything so you're just kind of stuck without Ram speed after that I did some research on the internet and it was a forum post where somebody was talking about je de si verifications that this motherboard actually uses to see how fast it should clock the ram now the exact profile that it's looking for is called ddr4 2666 v which is basically Ram that runs in 26 66 megahertz with a caste latency of 19 now this all seems very convoluted and that's kind of the point because manufacturers of Ram don't really seem to list this information anywhere because if it runs in 2666 megahertz but has a caste latency of 18 it's gonna it down to either 2400 megahertz or 2133 megahertz I tested four different kits of RAM from different manufacturers at different speeds and different configurations three of them ran at 21 33 megahertz and one of them ran at 2400 megahertz and then the stock ram that it came with ran at 26 66 megahertz so basically upgrading your ram on this system is a real pain in the butt and then on top of all of that when I was testing one of the kits of RAM when I switched the PC on I actually got a puff of blue magic smoke I had this brief panic because I thought I had just destroyed this pre-built that I bought but luckily it only killed this thick of RAM you can see here on the pins and actually shorted it out and the stick caught on fire now I'm not going to rectly blame the PC for it but this is my sacrificial kit of RAM which I've used in many different dodgy pcs and none of them have destroyed the RAM yet so yeah that's that's a bit dodgy now basically the point of this whole long ridiculous disclaimer is a upgrading Ram is a pain in the butt on this system and be the 4x2 gig kit that I'm gonna be testing is gonna be running at 21 33 megahertz where the one by eighth gig kit is going to be running at 26 66 megahertz so let's see what that does for the benchmarks as you can see even though the 2x4 sticks of RAM were actually running slower than the 1 by 8 in some of the games you get a little bit more performance in a couple of them there was kind of just it's within the margin of error and for some weird reason fortnight actually performed better on the 1/8 gig stick now I ran that test several times in each configuration and I got the same results each time so I don't know I guess it has something to do with how fortnight interacts with the RAM there wasn't really a noticeable performance difference between the two different setups this may be down to the fact that they're not both running at the same speed but again unfortunately we couldn't make that happen for this video in conclusion these two changes really wouldn't have cost them that much to do it didn't give us that much more gaming performance but the day-to-day usability of the system feels a lot more 20/20 and a lot less 2005 it really does make a big difference in the Windows user experience and then when it comes to the whole RAM thing that's just a whole nother pain in the butt luckily Intel isn't that sensitive to RAM speed but still that's just for a PC that's designed around being can that's hella inconvenient and then not only that it may just set fire to your RAM now Brian from tech yes city did do a video about the system he had way more problems with his than I had with mine so I'll have that video linked in the description below so you can see all of the stuff that he had to deal with so there's a video coming soon where I'm gonna compare it to a more a more boutique pre-built option so subscribe if you want to see that video cuz that's coming next week anyway with that thank you very much for watching if you like this video subscribe to the channel for more videos like this one again go check out the gaming channel I'll have it linked in the description below and until the next video bye
