The Experience of Buying and Using the Cheapest Pre-Built PC in the UK

I decided to try out Windows 10 on this system, despite the operating system that it shipped with not running all that well. Initially, I thought perhaps Windows 7 would fare a little better, but unfortunately, it wouldn't detect my keyboard or mouse no matter what USB port I used. Looking into this a little more and it seems that I'm not the only one who's experienced this, and in order to fix it, I'd have to run through a few different commands etc. I think that for the everyday general user who might pick up a machine like this doing so might be a little bit too complex or just time-consuming.

If anyone buys this and they decide they're going to update to Windows, all likelihood that operating system will be Windows 10. So after installing the standard Home Edition of Windows 10 64-bit it was time to quickly jump into Cinebench r15 and finally discover the exact extent of these specifications and to what is probably no one's surprise it turned out that we did indeed have an built-in seller on which by all means wasn't fantastic. It was slower in fact than a single core Celeron G 460 from a few years back scoring just 66 in the multi-core test. We've got two cores here with no hyper threading and onboard Intel HD 400 gram themselves probably aren't that capable of anything.

What I will say though is that Windows 10 seemed to run a little bit smoother than Ubuntu, but I did have to make a few changes. Changes that I'll explain now so I had to go into the system properties into the Advanced section and disable pretty much all of the animations. You know those animations you get when you might open a Start menu open a set of folders something like that. I had to disable everything so whenever you clicked on something the program just opened with nothing special occurring.

In some ways I prefer it but it's a good job really because this is something I needed to do in order to get better performance out of Windows 10 when just doing even the most simple of tasks. When I was in Windows I decided to take the opportunity to run a game not much if I'm honest will likely run on this configuration so I decided to Far Cry 4 and Big rigs over the road racing probably one of the greatest video games to come out in the last 50 years that's just my opinion of course but as you can see here this game ran absolutely flawlessly.

Now we will be exploring more in the way of gaming on this system in another video. I didn't want to cram it all in today as one because I thought it would go on far too long but we will be looking at more in-depth gaming experience on this system very soon seeing what sort of settings we can make to triple-a titles in order to try and get them running on this if it's even possible.

Unfortunately, this computer is okay running on the stock operating system out of the box and it may be just fine for one of your relatives or yourself if all you're doing is basic browsing. For everything else well it really isn't that capable at all. No I read that the motherboard actually supports eight gigs of ram but if I'm being totally honest I don't think upgrading it would do it the world of difference that processor is simply too weak there's no options to add a graphics card either on the board and even if you do install Windows 10 instead of Ubuntu on here the experience may be a little bit better if you disable all of the animations but it still might lead to the point where you're frustrated after every day's usage.

For that reason I cannot recommend this system if money is tight you want a computer to get online keep in contact then yes this will suffice but for everything else well I'd seriously consider taking a look at the second-hand market not just in terms of desktops but laptops as well because for this sort of money you will certainly find something that's a few years old five or six years old in fact that will do a lot better than this machine and with that well I think it's time to wrap up. Good effort but unfortunately you're going back in the box so thank you for watching this has been a look at what's inside the cheapest pre-built system here in the UK.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello everyone welcome to another video now today I'm joined by this box say hello anyway inside this box is a prebuilt pc that my friend bought for me now the reason my friend purchased this was because I didn't want to know what specifications were inside no I wanted to do a little bit of an investigation into the world of low-cost pre-built systems if you or someone you know is pretty uh knowledgeable when it comes to computer hardware and you just want to purchase a cheap computer that's going to handle all of your daily tasks with ease or at least you hope it will should you go down this route and if you do what should you expect if you spend as little money as possible now obviously the specifications will vary from country to country as well as the price but here in the UK this one costs one hundred and fifty pounds and it comes from eBay accom a pretty good company that I've used on multiple occasions let's take a look at the box itself now although it's for me by other PC seems to come from a company called punch technology and after looking them up it seems that they're actually really good in terms of their Trustpilot ratings they seem to be a very decent website indeed for purchasing pre-built gaming rigs at least they have very good customer feedback now as I said I wouldn't buy a pre-built computer myself but if you are looking for something cheap then they don't come much cheaper than this so without further ado I guess it's time to open this up and see what specifications we can expect from the cheapest PC on the Internet excluding those perhaps sold by third-party sellers and some of those small form-factor boxes you could find right so the box is open and it's time to take out our shrink all accessories what have we got in here is it keyboard and mouse oh I thought we'd be getting a keyboard a mouse but never mind power cable there and an instruction manual as well as a driver disc which is a nice touch and a little box of sorry bag of screws and cables but now it's time for the fun part just some basic setup instructions there I'm sure we can manage to do that without reading those and there it is here is the 150 pounds PC in questions so let's get it out of the box see what exactly is inside alright so after fighting with the box and the packaging for 5 minutes this is our PC as you can see the case is very basic but I sort of like basic cases our GB and all those flashing lights have never really appealed to me too much we've got USB 3 at the front here a couple of USB 2 ports as well and the standard headphone and microphone jack along with a very nice central power button here for the nice click to it right so I've taken these little screws out and the first thing I have to say is that this system is very light when I light it on its side it just seemed very very light indeed as if there was nothing in here so perhaps there isn't but here goes what is that what has happened here ok right we've got an SSD which is an excellent start an ITX motherboard which actually sits quite well inside this case a little cooling fan at the back there a contour power supply without output of 300 watts and we're back to this hmm so it looks as though this is one of those boards where the processor is embedded are there any specs in the box no right so it actually looks like that we're gonna have to turn this on obviously for for specifications because I can't really make out what that is so far I know we've got a PNY SSD PNY actually among my favorites in terms of SSD makers I try and always go for those if I can which is a good start we've got ram in here or laptop ram at least and from what I can see there's also no room for upgrading this rig there's no PCI Express slot here and by the looks of this processor I don't think we can upgrade that either we've also got no DVD drive but I know that most pcs don't include those anyway these days and most people building them don't even consider them I still do I like having one but that's no surprise really to see a lack of one of those I can't imagine this as Windows 10 on it I don't think that little thing will be able to handle it but what else could it have maybe it's got Linux or Ubuntu or something but let's get into it and see what it's like to use and try and work out what specifications we have here we have the PC connected to the television keyboard Dell mouse let's switch this bad boy on no it was nice to see the inclusion of an HDMI port on the motherboard that's always very handy but we've also got a VGA port there as well for those of you with that cable absolute silence this is making no noise at all and I love that you know the specs might not be brilliant but one thing that always gets a few extra points with me is when a computer makes no noise why is nothing happening the fans gone off come on what's happened we had a bit of a false start there the computer did not want to cooperate but now it seems to be working fine I apologize for the flickering oh and it's got a band too that's really no surprise to be honest so we've entered all of our details and now the system is just configuring that initial setup stage seem pretty quick pretty snappy but of course the real test will be as to whether this feels fast enough to use on a daily basis now if you're shopping around for a new PC then it's fair to say that a lot of people would prefer Windows I think for the general user and basic user windows is in my opinion the better choice because not that many people are familiar with things like Ubuntu and if someone who is really not that knowledgeable purchase is one of these then they may be off to a bit of a shaky start though I think when you've actually got the specifications in front of you and like I had you're going to notice that nowhere does it say Windows 10 and that may stop you purchasing it in the first place which of course is good if you're looking for Microsoft's LS but I'm gonna give this a chance I'd quite likely bun to and after this after we've tested out the sort of general capabilities of this machine I'm going to be installing Windows 10 as well to see how this handles that but first of course let's see what general usage is like when we've got this lightweight operating system installed so for the initial first few seconds the whole user interface seemed a bit laggy when I fired up the apps page I also took this as the first opportunity to test out some gaming in the form of the inbuilt solitaire now I have no idea how to play so forgive me but it was quickly time to take a look at the general browsing of things and immediately I noticed that we hit a bit of a snag in the fact that this doesn't come with a Wi-Fi adapter but this was quickly rectified once I had installed my Wi-Fi USB dongle something that you'll also need if you purchased this PC now the main aim here was of course to see if this is an okay everyday system and as we opened up Firefox it was clear that it was a bit laggy now Ubuntu isn't exactly the most intense operating system and seeing it struggle here didn't exactly sound promising especially when I was about to see how Windows 10 performed as well I also then moved on over to YouTube to see how video playback when I looked up this fat kid with a big head started to play one of his pretty cool videos whoo you should definitely subscribe to and yeah it ran ok 720p was a bit stuttering and 1080p was pretty much a no-go it was a similar experience to how my old MacBook Air that I tested the other day performed it's quite slow when you want to watch HD video but at anything under 480p then you'll have a good enough experience but is that really good enough in this day and age I mean you should expect to at least be able to play 720p video back on a PC right especially any brand new desktop being sold today I mean hey at least minesweeper ran ok as well or whatever this version of minesweeper is called either way I'm still just about as good as this as I am as minesweeper on Windows but this is sort of B aside to the point actually it's not really that much beside the point because as far as games go from what we've seen of performance so far I shouldn't really expect to be able to play anything but we won't be exploring much in the way of gaming at least not today right so at this point it was clear that Xubuntu was a little too demanding for our system the operating system that it shipped with still didn't exactly run all that well so I decided nonetheless to try out Windows 10 anyway now initially I thought perhaps Windows 7 would fare a little better so I began the installation process but unfortunately it would not detect my keyboard or mouse no matter what USB port I used looking into this a little more and it seems that I'm not the only one who's experienced this and in order to fix it I'd have to run through a few different commands etc and I think that for the everyday general user who might pick up a machine like this doing so might be a little bit too complex or just time-consuming in general I think if anyone buys this and they decide they're going to update to Windows in all likelihood that operating system will be Windows 10 so after installing the standard Home Edition of Windows 10 64 bit it was time to quickly jump into Cinebench r15 and finally discover the exact extent of these specifications and to what is probably no one's surprise it turned out that we did indeed have an built-in seller on which by all means wasn't fantastic it was slower in fact than a single core Celeron G 460 from a few years back scoring just 66 in the multi-core test we've got two cores here with no hyper threading and onboard Intel HD 400 gram themselves probably aren't that capable of anything what I will say though is that Windows 10 seemed to run a little bit smoother than Ubuntu but I did have to make a few changes changes that I'll explain now so I had to go into the system properties into the Advanced section and disable pretty much all of the animations you know those animations you get when you might open a Start menu open a set of folders something like that I had to disable everything so whenever you clicked on something the program just opened with nothing special occurring in some ways I prefer it but it's a good job really because this is something I needed to do in order to get better performance out of Windows 10 when just doing even the most simple of tasks when I was in Windows I decided to take the opportunity to run a game not much if I'm honest will likely run on this configuration so I decided to far up and excellent piece have abandoned we're by the name of big rigs over the road racing probably one of the greatest video games to come out in the last 50 years that's just my opinion of course but as you can see here this game ran absolutely flawlessly now we will be exploring more in the way of gaming on this system in another video I didn't want to cram it all in today as one because I thought it would go on far too long but we will be looking at more in-depth gaming experience on this system very soon seeing what sort of settings we can make to triple-a titles in order to try and get them running on this if it's even possible and hopefully we can well this has certainly been an experience I hope you've enjoyed a look what is the cheapest pre-built PC you can buy here in the UK I would say I've certainly enjoyed using it but if I'm being totally honest that is simply not the case here this computer is okay running on the stock operating system out of the box and it may be just fine for one of your relatives or yourself if all you're doing is basic browsing for everything else well it really isn't that capable at all no I read that the motherboard actually supports eight gigs of ram but if I'm being totally honest I don't think upgrading it would do it the world of difference that processor is simply too weak there's no options to add a graphics card either on the board and even if you do install Windows 10 instead of Ubuntu on here the experience may be a little bit better if you disable all of the animations but it still might lead to the point where you're frustrated after every day's usage and for that reason I cannot recommend this system if money is tight you want a computer to get online keep in contact then yes this will suffice but for everything else well I'd seriously consider taking a look at the second-hand market not just in terms of desktops but laptops as well because for this sort of money you will certainly find something that's a few years old five or six years old in fact that will do a lot better than this machine and with that well I think it's time to win good effort but unfortunately you're going back in the box so thank you for watching this has been a look at what's inside the cheapest pre built system here in the UK I hope you've enjoyed it if you did leave a like on this video down below leave a dislike if you didn't subscribe to the channel if you haven't done so already and hopefully I'll see all of you in the next onehello everyone welcome to another video now today I'm joined by this box say hello anyway inside this box is a prebuilt pc that my friend bought for me now the reason my friend purchased this was because I didn't want to know what specifications were inside no I wanted to do a little bit of an investigation into the world of low-cost pre-built systems if you or someone you know is pretty uh knowledgeable when it comes to computer hardware and you just want to purchase a cheap computer that's going to handle all of your daily tasks with ease or at least you hope it will should you go down this route and if you do what should you expect if you spend as little money as possible now obviously the specifications will vary from country to country as well as the price but here in the UK this one costs one hundred and fifty pounds and it comes from eBay accom a pretty good company that I've used on multiple occasions let's take a look at the box itself now although it's for me by other PC seems to come from a company called punch technology and after looking them up it seems that they're actually really good in terms of their Trustpilot ratings they seem to be a very decent website indeed for purchasing pre-built gaming rigs at least they have very good customer feedback now as I said I wouldn't buy a pre-built computer myself but if you are looking for something cheap then they don't come much cheaper than this so without further ado I guess it's time to open this up and see what specifications we can expect from the cheapest PC on the Internet excluding those perhaps sold by third-party sellers and some of those small form-factor boxes you could find right so the box is open and it's time to take out our shrink all accessories what have we got in here is it keyboard and mouse oh I thought we'd be getting a keyboard a mouse but never mind power cable there and an instruction manual as well as a driver disc which is a nice touch and a little box of sorry bag of screws and cables but now it's time for the fun part just some basic setup instructions there I'm sure we can manage to do that without reading those and there it is here is the 150 pounds PC in questions so let's get it out of the box see what exactly is inside alright so after fighting with the box and the packaging for 5 minutes this is our PC as you can see the case is very basic but I sort of like basic cases our GB and all those flashing lights have never really appealed to me too much we've got USB 3 at the front here a couple of USB 2 ports as well and the standard headphone and microphone jack along with a very nice central power button here for the nice click to it right so I've taken these little screws out and the first thing I have to say is that this system is very light when I light it on its side it just seemed very very light indeed as if there was nothing in here so perhaps there isn't but here goes what is that what has happened here ok right we've got an SSD which is an excellent start an ITX motherboard which actually sits quite well inside this case a little cooling fan at the back there a contour power supply without output of 300 watts and we're back to this hmm so it looks as though this is one of those boards where the processor is embedded are there any specs in the box no right so it actually looks like that we're gonna have to turn this on obviously for for specifications because I can't really make out what that is so far I know we've got a PNY SSD PNY actually among my favorites in terms of SSD makers I try and always go for those if I can which is a good start we've got ram in here or laptop ram at least and from what I can see there's also no room for upgrading this rig there's no PCI Express slot here and by the looks of this processor I don't think we can upgrade that either we've also got no DVD drive but I know that most pcs don't include those anyway these days and most people building them don't even consider them I still do I like having one but that's no surprise really to see a lack of one of those I can't imagine this as Windows 10 on it I don't think that little thing will be able to handle it but what else could it have maybe it's got Linux or Ubuntu or something but let's get into it and see what it's like to use and try and work out what specifications we have here we have the PC connected to the television keyboard Dell mouse let's switch this bad boy on no it was nice to see the inclusion of an HDMI port on the motherboard that's always very handy but we've also got a VGA port there as well for those of you with that cable absolute silence this is making no noise at all and I love that you know the specs might not be brilliant but one thing that always gets a few extra points with me is when a computer makes no noise why is nothing happening the fans gone off come on what's happened we had a bit of a false start there the computer did not want to cooperate but now it seems to be working fine I apologize for the flickering oh and it's got a band too that's really no surprise to be honest so we've entered all of our details and now the system is just configuring that initial setup stage seem pretty quick pretty snappy but of course the real test will be as to whether this feels fast enough to use on a daily basis now if you're shopping around for a new PC then it's fair to say that a lot of people would prefer Windows I think for the general user and basic user windows is in my opinion the better choice because not that many people are familiar with things like Ubuntu and if someone who is really not that knowledgeable purchase is one of these then they may be off to a bit of a shaky start though I think when you've actually got the specifications in front of you and like I had you're going to notice that nowhere does it say Windows 10 and that may stop you purchasing it in the first place which of course is good if you're looking for Microsoft's LS but I'm gonna give this a chance I'd quite likely bun to and after this after we've tested out the sort of general capabilities of this machine I'm going to be installing Windows 10 as well to see how this handles that but first of course let's see what general usage is like when we've got this lightweight operating system installed so for the initial first few seconds the whole user interface seemed a bit laggy when I fired up the apps page I also took this as the first opportunity to test out some gaming in the form of the inbuilt solitaire now I have no idea how to play so forgive me but it was quickly time to take a look at the general browsing of things and immediately I noticed that we hit a bit of a snag in the fact that this doesn't come with a Wi-Fi adapter but this was quickly rectified once I had installed my Wi-Fi USB dongle something that you'll also need if you purchased this PC now the main aim here was of course to see if this is an okay everyday system and as we opened up Firefox it was clear that it was a bit laggy now Ubuntu isn't exactly the most intense operating system and seeing it struggle here didn't exactly sound promising especially when I was about to see how Windows 10 performed as well I also then moved on over to YouTube to see how video playback when I looked up this fat kid with a big head started to play one of his pretty cool videos whoo you should definitely subscribe to and yeah it ran ok 720p was a bit stuttering and 1080p was pretty much a no-go it was a similar experience to how my old MacBook Air that I tested the other day performed it's quite slow when you want to watch HD video but at anything under 480p then you'll have a good enough experience but is that really good enough in this day and age I mean you should expect to at least be able to play 720p video back on a PC right especially any brand new desktop being sold today I mean hey at least minesweeper ran ok as well or whatever this version of minesweeper is called either way I'm still just about as good as this as I am as minesweeper on Windows but this is sort of B aside to the point actually it's not really that much beside the point because as far as games go from what we've seen of performance so far I shouldn't really expect to be able to play anything but we won't be exploring much in the way of gaming at least not today right so at this point it was clear that Xubuntu was a little too demanding for our system the operating system that it shipped with still didn't exactly run all that well so I decided nonetheless to try out Windows 10 anyway now initially I thought perhaps Windows 7 would fare a little better so I began the installation process but unfortunately it would not detect my keyboard or mouse no matter what USB port I used looking into this a little more and it seems that I'm not the only one who's experienced this and in order to fix it I'd have to run through a few different commands etc and I think that for the everyday general user who might pick up a machine like this doing so might be a little bit too complex or just time-consuming in general I think if anyone buys this and they decide they're going to update to Windows in all likelihood that operating system will be Windows 10 so after installing the standard Home Edition of Windows 10 64 bit it was time to quickly jump into Cinebench r15 and finally discover the exact extent of these specifications and to what is probably no one's surprise it turned out that we did indeed have an built-in seller on which by all means wasn't fantastic it was slower in fact than a single core Celeron G 460 from a few years back scoring just 66 in the multi-core test we've got two cores here with no hyper threading and onboard Intel HD 400 gram themselves probably aren't that capable of anything what I will say though is that Windows 10 seemed to run a little bit smoother than Ubuntu but I did have to make a few changes changes that I'll explain now so I had to go into the system properties into the Advanced section and disable pretty much all of the animations you know those animations you get when you might open a Start menu open a set of folders something like that I had to disable everything so whenever you clicked on something the program just opened with nothing special occurring in some ways I prefer it but it's a good job really because this is something I needed to do in order to get better performance out of Windows 10 when just doing even the most simple of tasks when I was in Windows I decided to take the opportunity to run a game not much if I'm honest will likely run on this configuration so I decided to far up and excellent piece have abandoned we're by the name of big rigs over the road racing probably one of the greatest video games to come out in the last 50 years that's just my opinion of course but as you can see here this game ran absolutely flawlessly now we will be exploring more in the way of gaming on this system in another video I didn't want to cram it all in today as one because I thought it would go on far too long but we will be looking at more in-depth gaming experience on this system very soon seeing what sort of settings we can make to triple-a titles in order to try and get them running on this if it's even possible and hopefully we can well this has certainly been an experience I hope you've enjoyed a look what is the cheapest pre-built PC you can buy here in the UK I would say I've certainly enjoyed using it but if I'm being totally honest that is simply not the case here this computer is okay running on the stock operating system out of the box and it may be just fine for one of your relatives or yourself if all you're doing is basic browsing for everything else well it really isn't that capable at all no I read that the motherboard actually supports eight gigs of ram but if I'm being totally honest I don't think upgrading it would do it the world of difference that processor is simply too weak there's no options to add a graphics card either on the board and even if you do install Windows 10 instead of Ubuntu on here the experience may be a little bit better if you disable all of the animations but it still might lead to the point where you're frustrated after every day's usage and for that reason I cannot recommend this system if money is tight you want a computer to get online keep in contact then yes this will suffice but for everything else well I'd seriously consider taking a look at the second-hand market not just in terms of desktops but laptops as well because for this sort of money you will certainly find something that's a few years old five or six years old in fact that will do a lot better than this machine and with that well I think it's time to win good effort but unfortunately you're going back in the box so thank you for watching this has been a look at what's inside the cheapest pre built system here in the UK I hope you've enjoyed it if you did leave a like on this video down below leave a dislike if you didn't subscribe to the channel if you haven't done so already and hopefully I'll see all of you in the next one\n"