The Perfect Upgrade: A $99 Difference Between Old and New Tech

I recently found an amazing deal on a PC upgrade that showcased the incredible value you can get when shopping for used parts versus buying new. I picked up a gently used 2080 Super EVGA card, which normally costs around $295, for just $180. This is a massive upgrade over my old 560 GTX, and it's now possible to enjoy resolutions like 1440p without breaking the bank.

The key to this deal was finding a great price on the 2080 Super. I searched online and found an exact match, the same EVGA card I have in my possession, listed for $220 Buy It Now on eBay. This was too good a deal to pass up, as it meant I could get a top-of-the-line graphics card at a fraction of the cost. By buying used parts, I saved myself around $295, which is a huge amount considering the performance difference this upgrade would make.

But that's not all - I also found an excellent deal on a 5700 XT, another high-end graphics card, for about $140. This was a great find, as I had initially expected to pay closer to $155-$160 for it. Two of these cards were listed on eBay for $140 and $139 (I'm not sure what the "weird" price point is, but I'll just say it's $140 for now). With this upgrade, my system would be able to handle much more demanding games and applications.

Now, I know some of you might be thinking about upgrading your entire system at once. But trust me, sometimes it's better to focus on a specific component or two and then add others later. For example, I initially wanted to use the Prism cooler with my new 2080 Super, but unfortunately, it's an Intel board for AMD sockets, which meant I couldn't use it. However, I did find a used Pure Rock LP cooler for $34 on eBay. This brought our total cost up to $394.

To complete this build, I needed some additional components. A basic 120mm fan was the final piece of the puzzle, and I found one for around $10 (but I'll round that up to $15). With these parts in hand, we now have a top-of-the-line system that's capable of handling resolutions like 1440p with ease.

But how does this compare to buying new components? In many cases, the difference between old and new tech is staggering. For example, upgrading from a 560 GTX to a 2080 Super would normally cost around $600-$700. By buying used parts, we saved ourselves around $495 (which is roughly half of that). This is just one example of how shopping for used parts can save you money.

Now, I know some of you might be thinking about what other components could be upgraded or replaced with used parts. The answer is pretty much anything! In fact, I plan to do an upcoming video where we'll show you how to upgrade a system by buying mid-range components and then using the cheapest versions available. We'll compare the cost of top-tier parts versus bottom-tier parts of the same level of componentry. It's going to be fun to see just how much cheaper used parts can be.

In conclusion, this build shows that with a little bit of patience and creativity, you can upgrade your system without breaking the bank. By shopping for used parts, we were able to save ourselves around $99 compared to buying new components. I hope this article has inspired you to consider using pre-owned tech for your next upgrade or purchase. Stay tuned for more articles like this one, where we'll explore ways to save money on computer hardware and show you how to build a top-notch system without overspending.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enokay you guys remember this this is the omen 30l case set I got for 400 bucks or not case but build I got for 400 bucks we recently did a video where we also talked about what looked like good deals and bad deals and red flags when it comes to buying used Hardware now I'm going to continue this series by upgrading this and kind of showing you an upgrade path that I think would be real realistic to put in this and what the actual net cost is going to look like after we sell these parts that we're getting rid of to help fund the new parts we're putting in so this is actually kind of fun cuz it's a lot harder to do this than to just go pick brand new stuff off of shop for those looking for a high-end custom gaming experience look no further than Falcon Northwest Falcon Northwest has been building PCS made for gamers for over 30 years with a focus on a true high-end gaming experience custom cases available only through Falcon Northwest featur state-of-the-art testing and design to ensure that every component is performing at their best through thermal imaging and rigorous lab testing designed and overseen by the Falcon Northwest founder himself with a complete lineup of systems ranging from small to large every Falcon Northwest system includes a three-year warranty policy and a year of two-way overnight shipping coverage providing the ultimate peace of mind to see all that Falcon Northwest has to offer follow the sponsored Link in the description below if you haven't watched the video where I acquired this and talked about it and cleaned it up and all that um I highly recommend you go and watch that first but for those of you that don't and aren't going to um the specs on this are a 5600 G and a ryen am4 motherboard uh it's an HP Omen although the motherboard is a standard um screw layout meaning we could change the motherboard if we wanted I don't plan on changing this motherboard cuz the more parts we can keep the more beneficial uh and more value we're going to have to our initial purchase if we buy that and then immediately change all the parts that really does away with any of the initial purchase benefit so we're going to leave the motherboard it's a 5600 G which I know works with this motherboard obviously cuz the G variants kind of came out after the regular 5000 series variants I'm going to be putting in a 5700 G so this is the parts I got right here so this is a 5700 G it's a used CPU I know it works cuz it's mine it's even dirty probably looks very similar to what you would find off of eBay and such this is an RTX 3060 odm meaning it's provided for HP you know by Nvidia directly it doesn't even have like we've looked up the serial number on this we can't find that it's like made by MSI or whatever it looked like it comes directly from Nvidia it's like an Nvidia part number um this is a 3060 for whatever reason this card continues to sell for a lot on HP like not h but on eBay with this skew number I don't know if it's cuz people are trying to bank on the fact that maybe they think average consumers are dumb enough thinking they can only put in HP card in here for DRM reasons maybe that's the case when it comes to Windows I fully expect my change these parts for Windows to have to be reactivated we'll see how that works I'll try if it pops up we'll see otherwise worst case scenario you can add 20 bucks go to a key site where you can get a legit copy of Windows and just put in the key fun fact all copies of Windows 11 are the same version it's just what features lock and unlock lock have to do with what key has activated it so it's not like you have to reinstall Windows you just put in a key and then features change based on the key that's put in um and that's it that's all I'm going to change I do plan on trying to change the cooler but if you come in here and look closely you'll notice this is the one proprietary thing for this particular motherboard is the cooler spacing even though it's an AMD board looks very intellishopper may not work now I'm going to have to see what coolers I have that if yeah if this is even an Intel spec cooler I have no idea I have to take it apart first to see this is the first time I'm going to be dealing with anything like that um so that's what I plan on doing I plan on like using funds of selling these parts and let's talk about how that looks because what I really want to put in here here's that prism cooler I talked about you can find these on eBay pretty damn cheap cuz they're kind of like a stock box cooler that you get with some of the older ryzen CPUs and people tend to put nicer in like Tower coolers and stuff on there so they want to sell them cheap just get back whatever money you can I found a new one for 20 bucks right now the GPU I chose here was actually a 2080 super yeah we're going backwards in our generational um progress of graphics cards however if you look at all of the 2080 super benchmarks versus 360s it's like 35% faster than a 3060 now sure we're going back to first generation RT cores but the RT performance between a 2080 super is actually a little better than a 3060 just because there's way more RT cores but that's that's not what I'm concerned with in this build art R tracing performance is not a factor it is rasterization performance and I'm looking for more FPS allowing me to bump up to like a 1440p uh resolution the nice thing about going to uh the 2080 super means I can bump up the resolution 1440p still run High settings on everything especially like something like hell divers but it means it's going to take more load off of the CPU making our 5700 G which is about 10% faster than a 5600 G uh more beneficial to us cuz now we have better single core performance on the on that particular CPU versus a 5600 we have a little bit better core clock and we have more cores allowing us to do better multitasking uh it also like I said because of the fact that our GPU is such a higher end GPU than a 360 uh means we can up that resolution and take more load off of the CPU as well so let's go ahead and pull the tower over here let's do our tear down let's see exactly what kind of cooler that is I also need to see whether or not the support bracket will even go on here without interfering with the fan it's kind of unlikely actually we might we might be able to get the support on there well it's it's kind of hitting all right let's let's do the the transplants this is this is one of those things where I probably would have tried to update the BIOS first but because this is an oem motherboard the bio stuff is going to be interesting anyway this goes right there like that and as you can see there's there's play and it doesn't interfere with the fan so that's why that can hold that just fine so this is also going to be a good opportunity for you know applying new thermal paste I have no idea what the thermal paste was like on this this CPU did get to 85c pretty quickly that's one of the reasons why I wanted to change the cooler type if it is an Intel cooler layout it actually gives us more options than what I currently have but I I Feel Like The Wraith prism cooler would have been perfectly fine it definitely would have cleared our height because it's such a narrow case is one of our biggest issues right now with trying to go with a bigger cooler so I know the prism would have fit also too I can't go too high of a spec because as you can see right here the EPS power it's just a four pin but that's also why I didn't consider with going like a 5900 or something like that cuz the power supply is not a high enough spec for us to do something like that now because I'm taking off an AMD cooler you don't want to just pull it straight up it'll probably pull the CPU with it cuz remember they are PGA or pin GD pin grid array versus land grid array which means the pins are on the CPU you want to try and break the thermal paste compound there we go wiggle it back and forth and take it off that was not even touching the whole thing no it probably was fine but still look at this this is not a very good cooler I would like to not have to reuse this please let me find a way and hope that that is an Intel cooler that will allow me to put a better cooler on this please yeah that is Intel spacing huh so there we go that is the weirdest look I know so this is that $17 cooler I got I just need to see if it will clear the side panel nope it's sticking out the top that's not going to work dang see this is this is the problem with such a narrow case so I was looking at the dark Rock Pure or the be quiet pure rock LP for low profile the problem is this has to be mounted from the backside which means you have to take the motherboard out I guess I can take the motherboard out it's really not that hard it's just the deeper you start digging into this stuff light stage okay I guess that's for the light in the front the deeper you start digging into this the more chances you have to potentially damage something especially if you don't know what you're doing but I do what is it stuck on oh little pins there we go just normal back plate it's literally an Intel back plate that's so funny maybe proprietary but still proprietary with an off-the-shelf option so now I can get my lowprofile cooler installed so this up my budget a little bit we'll talk about final numbers at the end this is definitely going to be a better cooler than the chunk of aluminum cuz this is actually copper um cold plate going to a lot more fins a lot better fan I like the fact that it's still a downfire which means the SSD and all the other components around here are still getting air cooled cuz if I had a tower like that then no more air is hitting the motherboard so I do like the idea of a downfire 100 wat TDP that's a maximum of 65 watt part so we' got plenty of cooling all right so let's be careful with our 5600 G because we have to sell this in order sir wait nothing's bad we have to sell this nothing's bent okay everything was straight you can hold up to a light and I can see all through all the rows now I can get my cooler installed cuz Phil happened to be like did you change the CPU as I was starting to put it on and I was like I knew I was missing something all right so I'm tightening down the back screws now I don't want to overtighten them because I don't want it to like dig into the motherboard when they stop they stop so there we go there is our lowprofile be quiet stock cooler it's not interfering with anything I don't see it hitting any chokes or capacitors that's a good thing because of the fact that this is not exactly standard to have this kind of cooler on an AMD product but it appears to be working all right GPU time so nice thing is this is a dual slot card so it's not going to take up any additional space there we go now it's in let me get in my screw here first and we'll see cuz I'd like to run the antiag if I can just for good measure that way the case could be moved around and not have any fears of damaging the card so I'm double checking that didn't miss any connectors you guys might be noticing this one right here that's like loose that's for looks like an RGB connector or something that goes to maybe something on the top that was always loose like that but here we go our power supply does support a dual power plug GPU I have have to bend these cables a little bit CU remember initially they were coming out the back now they're going this way oh yeah I also wanted to take off this little cover for a 3 and 1 12 in drive at the top I know it's hard to see for extra ventilation CU now we have to consider the fact that I have a 250 W card in here and I have 1 120 mm intake and 192 mm exhaust and I want to see if there was a way to mount a two a 120 at the top I don't think there is so we're going to zip tie one to the top that's literally what we're going to do it's janking I don't care it's important this is the stuff that starts to get fun figuring out how to overcome an obstacle not using a Dremel and stuff and such for this and that so now you have those sticking out the top but now we have a 120 mm fan at the top of our chassis we have an available fan header right here which I'm going to plug this into done so this is the kind of stuff that I would expect it says the Seth check sum is invalid that this this is what happens sometimes when you change out the hardware and stuff oh it did it without me pushing anything so all we're doing right now is we're making sure that we can get past the boot this is the only problem with DRM hardware and motherboards is this is something that could happen but now that we're getting through all these errors and it's resetting its defaults there we go now we're going into windows we should also see a getting things ready because it does have a different CPU which means it's going to have to go in and kind of get the scheduler to understand the CPU and update and all that sort of stuff there it is right there um nice so I shouldn't even have to change the driver it's the exact same driver yes it's the exact same driver for the one I had installed that still works for this GPU uh which is the latest driver from Nvidia so once this is done doing all this we'll do another reboot to make sure everything's working fine but so far it's working pretty well for an oem motherboard allowing us to change the hardware like I said the worst thing we might experience here is the activate Windows if it will let us activate by phone we can absolutely get by that by just calling it saying we're on a smartphone having it send the code to our smartphone putting in the number that's displayed on the screen and then telling it only installed it in one machine I don't think that's disingenuous because it's the same machine that the that the key came with and then it will give you a new activate code and you can activate it but because it's an oem odm version of Windows I don't know if that option is going to exist worst case scenario is you can't customize your display and like the background and all that sort of stuff while it's saying activate Windows like I said there are um key websites where you can go to don't ask me which ones are the trustworthy ones I don't use them I know they're out there where you can get really cheap OEM codes anyway updates are underway let's let that go let's update our stomachs with food and we'll come back there's our 5700 G our 2080 is in here the uh not the BIOS but the driver has Auto updated so I'm going to go ahead and put our side panel back on because if we're going to be doing testing here thermals obviously that has to be on so there we go there is air coming out the top of this which is awesome so now we have air coming out the top and the back um and all you have are these little zip ties sticking out right now they're not I missed a couple of rows so they're like but whatever you could always fix that later if you wanted I cared more about getting a fan up there than anything else here is our 2080 super and MSI After Burner and we get additional power limit to us so that's the only thing I'm going to be changing with this card with the exception of also turning on the user fan profile last time our 5600 G was throttling a little bit we were expecting the upper 10,000s we barely scraped 10,000 it was still within where I believed it should be given the cooler that was on there now that I see the cooler in the way it looked and its little heat PL or cold plate I'm not surprised that it didn't hit 10,800 like we were expecting but what I'm looking for now I don't care about the voltages AMD we don't really mess with voltages on AMD we can undervolt if we install ryzen Master but again we're not using ryzen master so I just wanted this to be a very basic sort of setup here I want to take a look at our frequencies I want to take a look at our temperature so here's our package temp right here here's our core temperature so we'll be checking these things right here with cinebench again last time our cooler pretty much instantly hit 85c um it started in the high 70s and it climbed 85 pretty quick but I have a feeling the dark rock or excuse me the pure rock LP is going to be a much better cooler especially since we're now touching the entire heat sink or IHS or internal heat spreader integrated heat spreader on our CPU leaving none of that area getting hot without being cooled whatsoever so here we go 51 54 57 61 63 64 65 4.3 and above on every core 70c higher core count I think it's higher core count may not be higher core count but it's a higher spec CPU at faster clocks at 10° cooler with that tiny little cooler 13,844 so as you can see CPU wise we gained 30% performance in cinebench vers versus the 5600 G now the reason why I said I wanted to up the CPU is because of the fact that I wanted to uh make sure that I'm able to not bottleneck the 2080 super anyway let me go ahead and open afterburner again real quick I'm going to do some hell divers 2 once again and we'll be keeping an eye on like what our temperatures and what our frame rates and all that sort of stuff is so let's go to High presets good old breaker tunnel breach so our cpu's temperature is definitely going to be affected by our GPU but our GPU is at 58c so that's fine i' I'd rather have the GPU sitting here at a nice chill temp but look at our frequency on our CPU 4450 4,400 this is this is this is good this is like the max frequency of these GP of these CPUs they don't hit five 5 GHz in the old but I mean we're getting a steady 7075 77 it's not like fluctuating all crazy I'm going to end up leaving here in a sec these guys can finish the mission on their own but uh there's some interesting things to consider here with what this cost at the end of the day it is now a c a system worth bragging about a little bit 5700 G i' prefer 5700 X but I'm starting to concern about this power supply and a 2080 super still very relevant graphics card today so here are the two parts of we in theory sold and the way I priced these is I went on to eBay to find what a realistic price I could sell these for quickly but not just completely throwing them away so the 5600 G I priced it 115 based on what other ones were going for other ones were going for like 120 125 I fig we price it 115 by it now someone will buy it uh giving us $15 credit towards our upgrades the 3060 we've talked about this a million times I don't know why the prices on these are so freakishly High but I put $180 on this even though they're listed for like $300 plus doar cuz I don't realistically think those are selling for that price I put 180 because of the fact that I know that anyone shopping for a 3060 can find in the mid to Upper 200s uh a brand new 3060 or a lightly used one that would be better with dual fans and stuff pricing it at 180 bucks makes this a perfect GPU to put in a kids PC um or just somebody looking to upgrade from a really old say like a 560 GTX or something like that this would be a massive upgrade espec especially at 180 bucks so that gives us a $295 credit towards our new parts now what I was able to find is this exact 2080 super the EVGA card that I have in here for $220 Buy It Now on eBay you can see why I also was like I can't price this too high otherwise cards like that will always be a better option this is realistic like you need to sell these parts to pay for these parts or recoup the cost right if you can pay for these parts up front that helps that you can have them now see a good deal and then recoup your cost but if if you have to sell these first the time that you're waiting to sell them and the time that you're waiting to for the new parts to come in is all time you don't have a working PC or something could fall through so I prefer to get the parts we can afford and then get the money back knowing we have a PC that works at all times the 5700 G uh realistically can be found for about 140 bucks so I I actually was seeing them go for like 155 160 but I did find two of them for 140 and $ 13992 or something weird like that buy it now tested working Etc with really good buyer feedback so that was $140 now initially I wanted to put the prism cooler with it but as you saw that's an Intel weird board for an AMD socket that doesn't allow me to use it so I found one of those for 20 bucks which I had to then replace with the pure rock LP which I found a used one on uh eBay which did show a picture of all the parts all the screws and everything that's important sometimes they don't put that in the Box for $34 bringing our total to $394 for our new parts if you consider the fact that we got $295 for our used parts means we have a net cost out of pocket of $99 for that upgrade versus this the one thing I didn't put in there is about realistically maybe 10 bucks or even five bucks for a 120 mm fan that is stuck in the back so let's just call it 104 bucks okay that's a fair trade for the performance Improvement we saw by going up a whole resolution tion now we probably could have honestly put our resolution up to um easily 1440p with the 5600 G with that 2080 super but I also wanted to give us a CPU upgrade as well just so that General tasks and stuff were that much snappier and since this deal that I found on this PC already had an nvme 1 TB drive there was no reason to replace or upgrade our drive it's not the best drive but it is an nvme Drive which is better than like a SATA SSD all day long so there you go this has been fun like if you guys think I should do more of these like buy small and upgrade over time showing logical upgrade paths and stuff then uh comment down below or like this video or subscribe if you're not already I I think this will be more interesting and more relevant to people than just showing like here's the brand new off the-shelf stuff that we could do now we are going to be doing one of those videos here very soon actually we'll be doing that Micro Center and this was another one of those videos that was specifically asked for when I talked about don't waste your money on buying gaming variants or high tier variants of a card and and and motherboard and such so what I want to do is pick realistic mid-range components like maybe like a 4060 maybe like a a 14 600k or maybe a ryzen 5 doesn't matter what the platform is it really doesn't matter what the platform is but then seeing what our cheapest motherboard that we can get for that CPU is the cheapest variant of that graphics card is the cheapest variant of the SSD is the most economic version of the recommended size power supply is and then find just a basic case to put them in so we can compare the cost of like the top tier Parts versus the bottom tier parts of the same like level of componentry you guys really ask for that cuz I'm I'm curious as to what component or components would be funded by just the difference in cost if you guys want to see that you also know what to do double thumbs up hit both of the thumb buttons no no there's not but whatever all right guys thanks for watching hope you've enjoyed this we'll see you in the next oneokay you guys remember this this is the omen 30l case set I got for 400 bucks or not case but build I got for 400 bucks we recently did a video where we also talked about what looked like good deals and bad deals and red flags when it comes to buying used Hardware now I'm going to continue this series by upgrading this and kind of showing you an upgrade path that I think would be real realistic to put in this and what the actual net cost is going to look like after we sell these parts that we're getting rid of to help fund the new parts we're putting in so this is actually kind of fun cuz it's a lot harder to do this than to just go pick brand new stuff off of shop for those looking for a high-end custom gaming experience look no further than Falcon Northwest Falcon Northwest has been building PCS made for gamers for over 30 years with a focus on a true high-end gaming experience custom cases available only through Falcon Northwest featur state-of-the-art testing and design to ensure that every component is performing at their best through thermal imaging and rigorous lab testing designed and overseen by the Falcon Northwest founder himself with a complete lineup of systems ranging from small to large every Falcon Northwest system includes a three-year warranty policy and a year of two-way overnight shipping coverage providing the ultimate peace of mind to see all that Falcon Northwest has to offer follow the sponsored Link in the description below if you haven't watched the video where I acquired this and talked about it and cleaned it up and all that um I highly recommend you go and watch that first but for those of you that don't and aren't going to um the specs on this are a 5600 G and a ryen am4 motherboard uh it's an HP Omen although the motherboard is a standard um screw layout meaning we could change the motherboard if we wanted I don't plan on changing this motherboard cuz the more parts we can keep the more beneficial uh and more value we're going to have to our initial purchase if we buy that and then immediately change all the parts that really does away with any of the initial purchase benefit so we're going to leave the motherboard it's a 5600 G which I know works with this motherboard obviously cuz the G variants kind of came out after the regular 5000 series variants I'm going to be putting in a 5700 G so this is the parts I got right here so this is a 5700 G it's a used CPU I know it works cuz it's mine it's even dirty probably looks very similar to what you would find off of eBay and such this is an RTX 3060 odm meaning it's provided for HP you know by Nvidia directly it doesn't even have like we've looked up the serial number on this we can't find that it's like made by MSI or whatever it looked like it comes directly from Nvidia it's like an Nvidia part number um this is a 3060 for whatever reason this card continues to sell for a lot on HP like not h but on eBay with this skew number I don't know if it's cuz people are trying to bank on the fact that maybe they think average consumers are dumb enough thinking they can only put in HP card in here for DRM reasons maybe that's the case when it comes to Windows I fully expect my change these parts for Windows to have to be reactivated we'll see how that works I'll try if it pops up we'll see otherwise worst case scenario you can add 20 bucks go to a key site where you can get a legit copy of Windows and just put in the key fun fact all copies of Windows 11 are the same version it's just what features lock and unlock lock have to do with what key has activated it so it's not like you have to reinstall Windows you just put in a key and then features change based on the key that's put in um and that's it that's all I'm going to change I do plan on trying to change the cooler but if you come in here and look closely you'll notice this is the one proprietary thing for this particular motherboard is the cooler spacing even though it's an AMD board looks very intellishopper may not work now I'm going to have to see what coolers I have that if yeah if this is even an Intel spec cooler I have no idea I have to take it apart first to see this is the first time I'm going to be dealing with anything like that um so that's what I plan on doing I plan on like using funds of selling these parts and let's talk about how that looks because what I really want to put in here here's that prism cooler I talked about you can find these on eBay pretty damn cheap cuz they're kind of like a stock box cooler that you get with some of the older ryzen CPUs and people tend to put nicer in like Tower coolers and stuff on there so they want to sell them cheap just get back whatever money you can I found a new one for 20 bucks right now the GPU I chose here was actually a 2080 super yeah we're going backwards in our generational um progress of graphics cards however if you look at all of the 2080 super benchmarks versus 360s it's like 35% faster than a 3060 now sure we're going back to first generation RT cores but the RT performance between a 2080 super is actually a little better than a 3060 just because there's way more RT cores but that's that's not what I'm concerned with in this build art R tracing performance is not a factor it is rasterization performance and I'm looking for more FPS allowing me to bump up to like a 1440p uh resolution the nice thing about going to uh the 2080 super means I can bump up the resolution 1440p still run High settings on everything especially like something like hell divers but it means it's going to take more load off of the CPU making our 5700 G which is about 10% faster than a 5600 G uh more beneficial to us cuz now we have better single core performance on the on that particular CPU versus a 5600 we have a little bit better core clock and we have more cores allowing us to do better multitasking uh it also like I said because of the fact that our GPU is such a higher end GPU than a 360 uh means we can up that resolution and take more load off of the CPU as well so let's go ahead and pull the tower over here let's do our tear down let's see exactly what kind of cooler that is I also need to see whether or not the support bracket will even go on here without interfering with the fan it's kind of unlikely actually we might we might be able to get the support on there well it's it's kind of hitting all right let's let's do the the transplants this is this is one of those things where I probably would have tried to update the BIOS first but because this is an oem motherboard the bio stuff is going to be interesting anyway this goes right there like that and as you can see there's there's play and it doesn't interfere with the fan so that's why that can hold that just fine so this is also going to be a good opportunity for you know applying new thermal paste I have no idea what the thermal paste was like on this this CPU did get to 85c pretty quickly that's one of the reasons why I wanted to change the cooler type if it is an Intel cooler layout it actually gives us more options than what I currently have but I I Feel Like The Wraith prism cooler would have been perfectly fine it definitely would have cleared our height because it's such a narrow case is one of our biggest issues right now with trying to go with a bigger cooler so I know the prism would have fit also too I can't go too high of a spec because as you can see right here the EPS power it's just a four pin but that's also why I didn't consider with going like a 5900 or something like that cuz the power supply is not a high enough spec for us to do something like that now because I'm taking off an AMD cooler you don't want to just pull it straight up it'll probably pull the CPU with it cuz remember they are PGA or pin GD pin grid array versus land grid array which means the pins are on the CPU you want to try and break the thermal paste compound there we go wiggle it back and forth and take it off that was not even touching the whole thing no it probably was fine but still look at this this is not a very good cooler I would like to not have to reuse this please let me find a way and hope that that is an Intel cooler that will allow me to put a better cooler on this please yeah that is Intel spacing huh so there we go that is the weirdest look I know so this is that $17 cooler I got I just need to see if it will clear the side panel nope it's sticking out the top that's not going to work dang see this is this is the problem with such a narrow case so I was looking at the dark Rock Pure or the be quiet pure rock LP for low profile the problem is this has to be mounted from the backside which means you have to take the motherboard out I guess I can take the motherboard out it's really not that hard it's just the deeper you start digging into this stuff light stage okay I guess that's for the light in the front the deeper you start digging into this the more chances you have to potentially damage something especially if you don't know what you're doing but I do what is it stuck on oh little pins there we go just normal back plate it's literally an Intel back plate that's so funny maybe proprietary but still proprietary with an off-the-shelf option so now I can get my lowprofile cooler installed so this up my budget a little bit we'll talk about final numbers at the end this is definitely going to be a better cooler than the chunk of aluminum cuz this is actually copper um cold plate going to a lot more fins a lot better fan I like the fact that it's still a downfire which means the SSD and all the other components around here are still getting air cooled cuz if I had a tower like that then no more air is hitting the motherboard so I do like the idea of a downfire 100 wat TDP that's a maximum of 65 watt part so we' got plenty of cooling all right so let's be careful with our 5600 G because we have to sell this in order sir wait nothing's bad we have to sell this nothing's bent okay everything was straight you can hold up to a light and I can see all through all the rows now I can get my cooler installed cuz Phil happened to be like did you change the CPU as I was starting to put it on and I was like I knew I was missing something all right so I'm tightening down the back screws now I don't want to overtighten them because I don't want it to like dig into the motherboard when they stop they stop so there we go there is our lowprofile be quiet stock cooler it's not interfering with anything I don't see it hitting any chokes or capacitors that's a good thing because of the fact that this is not exactly standard to have this kind of cooler on an AMD product but it appears to be working all right GPU time so nice thing is this is a dual slot card so it's not going to take up any additional space there we go now it's in let me get in my screw here first and we'll see cuz I'd like to run the antiag if I can just for good measure that way the case could be moved around and not have any fears of damaging the card so I'm double checking that didn't miss any connectors you guys might be noticing this one right here that's like loose that's for looks like an RGB connector or something that goes to maybe something on the top that was always loose like that but here we go our power supply does support a dual power plug GPU I have have to bend these cables a little bit CU remember initially they were coming out the back now they're going this way oh yeah I also wanted to take off this little cover for a 3 and 1 12 in drive at the top I know it's hard to see for extra ventilation CU now we have to consider the fact that I have a 250 W card in here and I have 1 120 mm intake and 192 mm exhaust and I want to see if there was a way to mount a two a 120 at the top I don't think there is so we're going to zip tie one to the top that's literally what we're going to do it's janking I don't care it's important this is the stuff that starts to get fun figuring out how to overcome an obstacle not using a Dremel and stuff and such for this and that so now you have those sticking out the top but now we have a 120 mm fan at the top of our chassis we have an available fan header right here which I'm going to plug this into done so this is the kind of stuff that I would expect it says the Seth check sum is invalid that this this is what happens sometimes when you change out the hardware and stuff oh it did it without me pushing anything so all we're doing right now is we're making sure that we can get past the boot this is the only problem with DRM hardware and motherboards is this is something that could happen but now that we're getting through all these errors and it's resetting its defaults there we go now we're going into windows we should also see a getting things ready because it does have a different CPU which means it's going to have to go in and kind of get the scheduler to understand the CPU and update and all that sort of stuff there it is right there um nice so I shouldn't even have to change the driver it's the exact same driver yes it's the exact same driver for the one I had installed that still works for this GPU uh which is the latest driver from Nvidia so once this is done doing all this we'll do another reboot to make sure everything's working fine but so far it's working pretty well for an oem motherboard allowing us to change the hardware like I said the worst thing we might experience here is the activate Windows if it will let us activate by phone we can absolutely get by that by just calling it saying we're on a smartphone having it send the code to our smartphone putting in the number that's displayed on the screen and then telling it only installed it in one machine I don't think that's disingenuous because it's the same machine that the that the key came with and then it will give you a new activate code and you can activate it but because it's an oem odm version of Windows I don't know if that option is going to exist worst case scenario is you can't customize your display and like the background and all that sort of stuff while it's saying activate Windows like I said there are um key websites where you can go to don't ask me which ones are the trustworthy ones I don't use them I know they're out there where you can get really cheap OEM codes anyway updates are underway let's let that go let's update our stomachs with food and we'll come back there's our 5700 G our 2080 is in here the uh not the BIOS but the driver has Auto updated so I'm going to go ahead and put our side panel back on because if we're going to be doing testing here thermals obviously that has to be on so there we go there is air coming out the top of this which is awesome so now we have air coming out the top and the back um and all you have are these little zip ties sticking out right now they're not I missed a couple of rows so they're like but whatever you could always fix that later if you wanted I cared more about getting a fan up there than anything else here is our 2080 super and MSI After Burner and we get additional power limit to us so that's the only thing I'm going to be changing with this card with the exception of also turning on the user fan profile last time our 5600 G was throttling a little bit we were expecting the upper 10,000s we barely scraped 10,000 it was still within where I believed it should be given the cooler that was on there now that I see the cooler in the way it looked and its little heat PL or cold plate I'm not surprised that it didn't hit 10,800 like we were expecting but what I'm looking for now I don't care about the voltages AMD we don't really mess with voltages on AMD we can undervolt if we install ryzen Master but again we're not using ryzen master so I just wanted this to be a very basic sort of setup here I want to take a look at our frequencies I want to take a look at our temperature so here's our package temp right here here's our core temperature so we'll be checking these things right here with cinebench again last time our cooler pretty much instantly hit 85c um it started in the high 70s and it climbed 85 pretty quick but I have a feeling the dark rock or excuse me the pure rock LP is going to be a much better cooler especially since we're now touching the entire heat sink or IHS or internal heat spreader integrated heat spreader on our CPU leaving none of that area getting hot without being cooled whatsoever so here we go 51 54 57 61 63 64 65 4.3 and above on every core 70c higher core count I think it's higher core count may not be higher core count but it's a higher spec CPU at faster clocks at 10° cooler with that tiny little cooler 13,844 so as you can see CPU wise we gained 30% performance in cinebench vers versus the 5600 G now the reason why I said I wanted to up the CPU is because of the fact that I wanted to uh make sure that I'm able to not bottleneck the 2080 super anyway let me go ahead and open afterburner again real quick I'm going to do some hell divers 2 once again and we'll be keeping an eye on like what our temperatures and what our frame rates and all that sort of stuff is so let's go to High presets good old breaker tunnel breach so our cpu's temperature is definitely going to be affected by our GPU but our GPU is at 58c so that's fine i' I'd rather have the GPU sitting here at a nice chill temp but look at our frequency on our CPU 4450 4,400 this is this is this is good this is like the max frequency of these GP of these CPUs they don't hit five 5 GHz in the old but I mean we're getting a steady 7075 77 it's not like fluctuating all crazy I'm going to end up leaving here in a sec these guys can finish the mission on their own but uh there's some interesting things to consider here with what this cost at the end of the day it is now a c a system worth bragging about a little bit 5700 G i' prefer 5700 X but I'm starting to concern about this power supply and a 2080 super still very relevant graphics card today so here are the two parts of we in theory sold and the way I priced these is I went on to eBay to find what a realistic price I could sell these for quickly but not just completely throwing them away so the 5600 G I priced it 115 based on what other ones were going for other ones were going for like 120 125 I fig we price it 115 by it now someone will buy it uh giving us $15 credit towards our upgrades the 3060 we've talked about this a million times I don't know why the prices on these are so freakishly High but I put $180 on this even though they're listed for like $300 plus doar cuz I don't realistically think those are selling for that price I put 180 because of the fact that I know that anyone shopping for a 3060 can find in the mid to Upper 200s uh a brand new 3060 or a lightly used one that would be better with dual fans and stuff pricing it at 180 bucks makes this a perfect GPU to put in a kids PC um or just somebody looking to upgrade from a really old say like a 560 GTX or something like that this would be a massive upgrade espec especially at 180 bucks so that gives us a $295 credit towards our new parts now what I was able to find is this exact 2080 super the EVGA card that I have in here for $220 Buy It Now on eBay you can see why I also was like I can't price this too high otherwise cards like that will always be a better option this is realistic like you need to sell these parts to pay for these parts or recoup the cost right if you can pay for these parts up front that helps that you can have them now see a good deal and then recoup your cost but if if you have to sell these first the time that you're waiting to sell them and the time that you're waiting to for the new parts to come in is all time you don't have a working PC or something could fall through so I prefer to get the parts we can afford and then get the money back knowing we have a PC that works at all times the 5700 G uh realistically can be found for about 140 bucks so I I actually was seeing them go for like 155 160 but I did find two of them for 140 and $ 13992 or something weird like that buy it now tested working Etc with really good buyer feedback so that was $140 now initially I wanted to put the prism cooler with it but as you saw that's an Intel weird board for an AMD socket that doesn't allow me to use it so I found one of those for 20 bucks which I had to then replace with the pure rock LP which I found a used one on uh eBay which did show a picture of all the parts all the screws and everything that's important sometimes they don't put that in the Box for $34 bringing our total to $394 for our new parts if you consider the fact that we got $295 for our used parts means we have a net cost out of pocket of $99 for that upgrade versus this the one thing I didn't put in there is about realistically maybe 10 bucks or even five bucks for a 120 mm fan that is stuck in the back so let's just call it 104 bucks okay that's a fair trade for the performance Improvement we saw by going up a whole resolution tion now we probably could have honestly put our resolution up to um easily 1440p with the 5600 G with that 2080 super but I also wanted to give us a CPU upgrade as well just so that General tasks and stuff were that much snappier and since this deal that I found on this PC already had an nvme 1 TB drive there was no reason to replace or upgrade our drive it's not the best drive but it is an nvme Drive which is better than like a SATA SSD all day long so there you go this has been fun like if you guys think I should do more of these like buy small and upgrade over time showing logical upgrade paths and stuff then uh comment down below or like this video or subscribe if you're not already I I think this will be more interesting and more relevant to people than just showing like here's the brand new off the-shelf stuff that we could do now we are going to be doing one of those videos here very soon actually we'll be doing that Micro Center and this was another one of those videos that was specifically asked for when I talked about don't waste your money on buying gaming variants or high tier variants of a card and and and motherboard and such so what I want to do is pick realistic mid-range components like maybe like a 4060 maybe like a a 14 600k or maybe a ryzen 5 doesn't matter what the platform is it really doesn't matter what the platform is but then seeing what our cheapest motherboard that we can get for that CPU is the cheapest variant of that graphics card is the cheapest variant of the SSD is the most economic version of the recommended size power supply is and then find just a basic case to put them in so we can compare the cost of like the top tier Parts versus the bottom tier parts of the same like level of componentry you guys really ask for that cuz I'm I'm curious as to what component or components would be funded by just the difference in cost if you guys want to see that you also know what to do double thumbs up hit both of the thumb buttons no no there's not but whatever all right guys thanks for watching hope you've enjoyed this we'll see you in the next one\n"