Using Extra Money to Upgrade Your PC

If you have some extra money, one thing you might consider doing is upgrading your PC's hard drive. A 3.5-inch 7200 rpm hard drive can make a big difference in performance, especially if you're playing games like PUBG that require fast loading times and responsive gameplay. However, it's worth noting that the recent update to PUBG did bring some optimizations that might have improved performance, but the author didn't notice a significant difference in raw performance increases.

Cleaning Your PC

There has been a lot of interest lately in getting a guide on how to clean your PC, so I'm planning to do just that soon. To make this process easier, I recently got my hands on a new tool called the Data Vac, which is an electric air blower that blows away dust and dirt from your PC. I compared it to another popular cleaning tool, the 25 Cooler, and found that it did a slightly better job of getting rid of grime and debris. For more delicate tasks, like cleaning the GPU die or applying thermal paste, I use brake cleaner, which is great for removing old thermal paste and other stubborn substances.

The Build Behind Me

Behind me, you can see an old PC build that's been neglected over time. People often assume that these old PCs are no longer capable of performing well, especially if they have outdated hardware like the first-generation Intel Core i5 processor or the AMD Xeon. However, with a little TLC and some careful overclocking, it's possible to extract a lot of performance from these older builds. The author saw potential in this build and decided to give it a try, and after making some changes, they were able to get good gaming numbers on their 1080p monitor.

The Power of Overclocking

One of the things that's most impressive about overclocking is its ability to unlock the full potential of your PC. The first-generation Intel Core i5 processor, for example, was capable of running at much higher speeds than it originally came with, thanks to careful tuning and optimization. Similarly, the AMD Xeon processor can be pushed to much higher frequencies than it originally came with, making it a great candidate for overclocking.

What's Making This PC Special

The build behind me is special because it was once considered "trash" by some people, but turned out to have a lot of potential when properly modified. The author saw this potential and decided to take on the challenge of getting it up and running smoothly again. They used their knowledge of overclocking and hardware modifications to extract as much performance as possible from this old PC build.

The Future of Upgrading PCs

When it comes to upgrading PCs, there's a lot of potential for growth and improvement. With the right tools and knowledge, even older builds can be turned into powerful machines capable of handling demanding tasks like gaming and video editing. The author is excited to share their expertise with readers and help them get the most out of their PC upgrades.

Building on Existing Knowledge

The build behind me shows that it's possible to take an old PC and turn it into a powerful machine through careful modification and overclocking. By applying this knowledge, others can also unlock the full potential of their own PCs. Whether you're looking to upgrade your existing hardware or start from scratch with a new build, there are many resources available online to help guide you through the process.

The Importance of Community

As I mentioned earlier, the author is excited to share their expertise and knowledge with readers. They believe that by working together and sharing information, we can all get more out of our PCs and achieve greater things. Whether you're a seasoned PC enthusiast or just starting out, there's always something new to learn and discover when it comes to upgrading your PC.

Upcoming Video: A Step-by-Step Guide to Cleaning Your PC

In an upcoming video, I'll be sharing my own process for cleaning your PC using the Data Vac tool. This will include a step-by-step guide on how to use each of the tools mentioned earlier, from brake cleaner to WD-40. I'll also be discussing some common mistakes to avoid when cleaning your PC and providing tips for keeping your build clean and running smoothly.

The Importance of Experience

As someone who has been working with PCs for a long time, the author knows firsthand how important it is to have experience and knowledge when it comes to upgrading and maintaining these machines. Whether you're looking to upgrade your existing hardware or start from scratch, having the right skills and expertise can make all the difference.

The Value of Second-Hand PC Parts

One thing that's often overlooked when it comes to upgrading PCs is the value of using second-hand parts. By sourcing used components from online marketplaces, thrift stores, or other sources, you can find great deals on high-quality hardware that would otherwise be out of reach.

A Look at My Favorite Builds

As someone who has worked with many different PC builds over the years, I've had my fair share of successes and failures. However, I've also learned from each of these experiences and have developed a keen eye for what makes a great build. In future videos, I'll be sharing some of my favorite builds and explaining how they were put together.

The Potential for Overclocking

One of the things that's most exciting about overclocking is its potential to unlock new levels of performance from your PC. By pushing your hardware to its limits, you can achieve speeds and resolutions that would otherwise be impossible.

Conclusion

Upgrading your PC doesn't have to be a daunting task. With the right tools and knowledge, even older builds can be turned into powerful machines capable of handling demanding tasks like gaming and video editing. The build behind me shows that it's possible to take an old PC and turn it into a great machine through careful modification and overclocking. Whether you're looking to upgrade your existing hardware or start from scratch with a new build, I hope this article has provided you with the inspiration and knowledge you need to get started.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: entoday is a story of a pc that got neglected it got abandoned by its previous owner to the state where it was the worst jungle sandwich that i have seen yet however the previous owner thought that this was a pc that was similar to the likes of a pizza that had been left in the microwave for three days and it was now uneditable but when i saw this pc i saw a pizza that simply had no topping on it all it needed was a bit of cheese a bit of garlic and then a bit of mushrooms and then we going to put it back in the oven and make ourselves one juicy meal so let's take you on a journey and show you how i brought this 154 pc from trash to treasure which cost less than a 2400 g the apu on its own and this is a whole system and we're gonna do it in the one the only i mean i have a pc which features a first gen i5 these are a four core four threaded cpu and you can overclock them quite well even with the stock intel cooler it's also got a 7870 which in today's standards is still a really good graphics card it's actually becoming one of my favorite used graphics cards because it's so underrated and the performance is actually really good and you can still get really good overclocks out of them with keeping the temperatures low there's also an antec 500 watt power supply a gigabyte p55 ud4 motherboard a deep cool tesseract case eight gigabytes of ram and also 160 by 5400 rpm drive now the great thing about today's build is i'm only going to be changing around one part and that's the two sticks of two gigabytes of memory i'm gonna swap that for one four gigabyte stick of memory but anyway with that aside let the transformation begin so my so oh i get ready hey so here's the pc here we've booted it up and it is looking so fresh i mean the power supply was even around the wrong way so i've switched that around and that enabled me to get the eight pin cpu pin connector behind the back of the motherboard and cable manage absolutely fine however what about these parts we've got the 7870 which as much as people hype up the 7970 in the 7950 and they're still really good cards to this date the 7870 in my opinion is one of the best cards it's really underrated this thing's scoring around about 7 000 gpu score when we overclock it and it's up from about 6200 so we managed to get about 1200 megahertz on the call we overclocked it got a little bit more out of the memory as well and the temperatures in games are still absolutely fine the cpu running on the stock cooler the stock cooler of course being a limitation but of course we're not putting any extra money into this computer we managed to get this from two point i think it's 2.67 gigahertz all the way up to 3.6 gigahertz so we saw a 30 boost in performance on the stock cooler and in games it's still not doing too bad this is at an ambient temperature by the way of around 30 degrees so it is summer here so this is like a worst case scenario and the results are phenomenal at least with the overclocks so let's get into some games and see how this you see behind me and it is running so well that i'm really shocked at how much performance you can get out of a pc that costs you literally next to nothing if you want to get into pc gaming and you're on a budget you can see there the fortnite results we're playing 1080p high settings and we're getting around 60fps drop it down to medium we can get more fps if we want to pubg 1080p very low settings we're getting around 70 fps up to 80 sometimes really good experience and then we move over to destiny 2 it's the same deal high settings 1080p this thing can do it at around 70 fps so all these three games which are very popular games are playing extremely well at 1080p which is a great sweet spot for gaming in my opinion especially if you're on a budget so what we've got here 154 us dollars 200 australian dollars so on this current cryptocurrency apocalypse you can still get really good deals and really good gaming performance by the way it'll play games like cs go dota 2 absolutely fine if we can run pubg it'll run practically any competitive multiplayer title out there overwatch as well so that's why i usually run pubg as a baseline benchmark this thing can definitely do it now the one thing i would change in this build would be that hard drive it's like a laptop hard drive it is very slow it did take me a while to install games and sometimes in the games they will start it due to that drive so it was one thing you had to do if you had a little bit of extra money would be to drop in a three and a half inch 7200 rpm hard drive also one game in particular was pubg that people told me to take a look at is there was a recent update that apparently helped with optimization i didn't really notice a whole lot of difference between this update and i've tested i5s the exact same i5 in the past the fps was around the same one thing i did notice however the new desert map seems to be running a lot smoother so that's maybe where the optimizations were applied but again for what it was worth it really didn't make a difference in raw performance increases so now one thing i wanted to talk about also was the process of cleaning this pc a lot of people have been asking me lately to do a guide on how to clean your pc and i'll be doing that very shortly because there's a lot of requests an updated guide on how to clean your pc in 2018 because i did recently get a new tool it's the data vac this thing's just essentially just blows a lot of air out it's an electric air blower it'll do a great job of cleaning your pc i recently compared it against the 25 cooler and it did a little bit better it's a really good tool for initially getting all that grime out dirt and then i'd use the brake cleaner for things like gpu dies anything that's sort of real finicky and it needs a good clean to get all like old thermal paste off and then of course the wd-40 is the new look shine but i'll be going through a guide on how i use all those in an upcoming video so stay tuned but what we've got behind me is something as i said in the intro it's been neglected people think that they can no longer get any performance out of it because it might be throttling due to some old thermal paste on the gpu die maybe the cpu die as well that needs a thermal paste change but once you do all that and you overclock it because this generation of computers has so much potential the first gen i5s and the xeons they got so much potential when it comes to overclocking if you can extract that potential then you're just going to be getting some really good gaming numbers on your 1080p monitor but really when it comes down to it one man's trash can be another men's treasure i really saw potential in these builds i see potential in any used pc parts it just comes down to how much time you're willing to spend i mean this would really not take me that long if i didn't have to film and record everything but there is a part of me that's happy with this pc i mean i can turn around and flip it make a bit of profit but there's another part of me that makes me sad because someone just completely abandons this pc they go out and buy a new pc and a lot of the times people message me and like wow my new pc is not performing anywhere near these used pcs you're putting together and that's because some of the parts just aren't as powerful as some of this old used stuff i mean the 7870 is practically double the performance of a 2400g that's amd's latest ryzen apu the the best one they've got they've got two skus they've got the 2200 g they've also got the 2400 g this thing is performing a lot better and this is a graphics card that's going on nearly six years old now so you can see the amount of performance you can extract out of these old used pc parts it's absolutely phenomenal you just got to apply a bit of magic to it and give it some techies loving anyway guys i hope you enjoyed today's video if you did then be sure to slap that like button and let me know in the comment section below if you like this pc or if you would change anything personally love reading your thoughts and opinions as always and if you've got any requests as well be sure to bang them out in the comments as well there's a lot of requests coming in lately and i'm going to be fulfilling them for you guys so i'll catch you in another tech video very soon peace out for now bye you are probably wondering what is going on welcome back guys so today guys we have okay awesome so what we're gonna do is we're gonna the build also came with an antec 500 watt power supply a gigabyte p55 ud4 motherboard a deep cool case that i would like to change around would be the memory changing those two two gigabytes i'm gonna swap that for one four gigabyte stick of memory so we can run tool so we can run a true dual channel memory consistent so we can run truetoday is a story of a pc that got neglected it got abandoned by its previous owner to the state where it was the worst jungle sandwich that i have seen yet however the previous owner thought that this was a pc that was similar to the likes of a pizza that had been left in the microwave for three days and it was now uneditable but when i saw this pc i saw a pizza that simply had no topping on it all it needed was a bit of cheese a bit of garlic and then a bit of mushrooms and then we going to put it back in the oven and make ourselves one juicy meal so let's take you on a journey and show you how i brought this 154 pc from trash to treasure which cost less than a 2400 g the apu on its own and this is a whole system and we're gonna do it in the one the only i mean i have a pc which features a first gen i5 these are a four core four threaded cpu and you can overclock them quite well even with the stock intel cooler it's also got a 7870 which in today's standards is still a really good graphics card it's actually becoming one of my favorite used graphics cards because it's so underrated and the performance is actually really good and you can still get really good overclocks out of them with keeping the temperatures low there's also an antec 500 watt power supply a gigabyte p55 ud4 motherboard a deep cool tesseract case eight gigabytes of ram and also 160 by 5400 rpm drive now the great thing about today's build is i'm only going to be changing around one part and that's the two sticks of two gigabytes of memory i'm gonna swap that for one four gigabyte stick of memory but anyway with that aside let the transformation begin so my so oh i get ready hey so here's the pc here we've booted it up and it is looking so fresh i mean the power supply was even around the wrong way so i've switched that around and that enabled me to get the eight pin cpu pin connector behind the back of the motherboard and cable manage absolutely fine however what about these parts we've got the 7870 which as much as people hype up the 7970 in the 7950 and they're still really good cards to this date the 7870 in my opinion is one of the best cards it's really underrated this thing's scoring around about 7 000 gpu score when we overclock it and it's up from about 6200 so we managed to get about 1200 megahertz on the call we overclocked it got a little bit more out of the memory as well and the temperatures in games are still absolutely fine the cpu running on the stock cooler the stock cooler of course being a limitation but of course we're not putting any extra money into this computer we managed to get this from two point i think it's 2.67 gigahertz all the way up to 3.6 gigahertz so we saw a 30 boost in performance on the stock cooler and in games it's still not doing too bad this is at an ambient temperature by the way of around 30 degrees so it is summer here so this is like a worst case scenario and the results are phenomenal at least with the overclocks so let's get into some games and see how this you see behind me and it is running so well that i'm really shocked at how much performance you can get out of a pc that costs you literally next to nothing if you want to get into pc gaming and you're on a budget you can see there the fortnite results we're playing 1080p high settings and we're getting around 60fps drop it down to medium we can get more fps if we want to pubg 1080p very low settings we're getting around 70 fps up to 80 sometimes really good experience and then we move over to destiny 2 it's the same deal high settings 1080p this thing can do it at around 70 fps so all these three games which are very popular games are playing extremely well at 1080p which is a great sweet spot for gaming in my opinion especially if you're on a budget so what we've got here 154 us dollars 200 australian dollars so on this current cryptocurrency apocalypse you can still get really good deals and really good gaming performance by the way it'll play games like cs go dota 2 absolutely fine if we can run pubg it'll run practically any competitive multiplayer title out there overwatch as well so that's why i usually run pubg as a baseline benchmark this thing can definitely do it now the one thing i would change in this build would be that hard drive it's like a laptop hard drive it is very slow it did take me a while to install games and sometimes in the games they will start it due to that drive so it was one thing you had to do if you had a little bit of extra money would be to drop in a three and a half inch 7200 rpm hard drive also one game in particular was pubg that people told me to take a look at is there was a recent update that apparently helped with optimization i didn't really notice a whole lot of difference between this update and i've tested i5s the exact same i5 in the past the fps was around the same one thing i did notice however the new desert map seems to be running a lot smoother so that's maybe where the optimizations were applied but again for what it was worth it really didn't make a difference in raw performance increases so now one thing i wanted to talk about also was the process of cleaning this pc a lot of people have been asking me lately to do a guide on how to clean your pc and i'll be doing that very shortly because there's a lot of requests an updated guide on how to clean your pc in 2018 because i did recently get a new tool it's the data vac this thing's just essentially just blows a lot of air out it's an electric air blower it'll do a great job of cleaning your pc i recently compared it against the 25 cooler and it did a little bit better it's a really good tool for initially getting all that grime out dirt and then i'd use the brake cleaner for things like gpu dies anything that's sort of real finicky and it needs a good clean to get all like old thermal paste off and then of course the wd-40 is the new look shine but i'll be going through a guide on how i use all those in an upcoming video so stay tuned but what we've got behind me is something as i said in the intro it's been neglected people think that they can no longer get any performance out of it because it might be throttling due to some old thermal paste on the gpu die maybe the cpu die as well that needs a thermal paste change but once you do all that and you overclock it because this generation of computers has so much potential the first gen i5s and the xeons they got so much potential when it comes to overclocking if you can extract that potential then you're just going to be getting some really good gaming numbers on your 1080p monitor but really when it comes down to it one man's trash can be another men's treasure i really saw potential in these builds i see potential in any used pc parts it just comes down to how much time you're willing to spend i mean this would really not take me that long if i didn't have to film and record everything but there is a part of me that's happy with this pc i mean i can turn around and flip it make a bit of profit but there's another part of me that makes me sad because someone just completely abandons this pc they go out and buy a new pc and a lot of the times people message me and like wow my new pc is not performing anywhere near these used pcs you're putting together and that's because some of the parts just aren't as powerful as some of this old used stuff i mean the 7870 is practically double the performance of a 2400g that's amd's latest ryzen apu the the best one they've got they've got two skus they've got the 2200 g they've also got the 2400 g this thing is performing a lot better and this is a graphics card that's going on nearly six years old now so you can see the amount of performance you can extract out of these old used pc parts it's absolutely phenomenal you just got to apply a bit of magic to it and give it some techies loving anyway guys i hope you enjoyed today's video if you did then be sure to slap that like button and let me know in the comment section below if you like this pc or if you would change anything personally love reading your thoughts and opinions as always and if you've got any requests as well be sure to bang them out in the comments as well there's a lot of requests coming in lately and i'm going to be fulfilling them for you guys so i'll catch you in another tech video very soon peace out for now bye you are probably wondering what is going on welcome back guys so today guys we have okay awesome so what we're gonna do is we're gonna the build also came with an antec 500 watt power supply a gigabyte p55 ud4 motherboard a deep cool case that i would like to change around would be the memory changing those two two gigabytes i'm gonna swap that for one four gigabyte stick of memory so we can run tool so we can run a true dual channel memory consistent so we can run true\n"