 Thanks to LastPass for sponsoring a portion of this video more from them later ladies and gentlemen We build a lot of high-performance computers around here, but today is gonna be different We scoured the internet for the slowest Brand-new components that money can buy and we're gonna build it right here right now Then for comparison we also grabbed some sort of what I would consider to be budget components But sensible ones to see just how much more performance you can get if you balance your budget It's not really the packaging for that we're gonna get to that bit later though First don't worry the parts aren't in there. It's already built. Let's roll that intro Of Course my expectations may end up being subverted and our slowest possible compute Where's the CPU? Maybe this will end up being an amazing bang for the buck starting with our AMD Athlon 3000 G so this puppy right here is a 3.5 gigahertz Dual core that's not real impressive for 2020 and making matters worse This is based on AMD's older Zen architecture rather than Zen 2 but hey for $55 Plus it actually includes a cooler. I Guess you know it's hard to really it's hard to really complain like how is a CPU 50 bucks For our motherboard we've gone with MSI's a 320 M a pro So this is about as entry-level as it gets for an AM4 motherboard You've got just two damn slots although that will be enough for us to run dual channel assuming that our budget allows it Which it doesn't because we're building the slowest possible computer has a PCI Express 16 X Gen 3 graphics card slot We will be installing a graphics card And then you've got onboard video in case you want to use an APU and wow those PS 2 ports dang No NVMe for us today folks We're not even using an SSD And it feels like this should contribute to it being slow, but honestly with just two cores. I'm expecting this to do a pretty decent job of cooling I Feel like I should clarify that the parts that we picked were not necessarily the slowest ones that we could find But rather that we limited ourselves to things that are currently in production So the slowest brand new and technically modern parts that you can build naturally No slowest possible build would be complete without a single stick of DDR4 memory The CPU does have a dual channel memory controller But I mean if we're looking for the bare minimum to fire up the machine and get into Windows 4 gigs of RAM That's it wow you sure can build a computer quickly when there's like not much in it We're like halfway there already between our CPU motherboard and RAM. We've spent $125 that's less than like a gaming motherboard But while you guys might think that I'm impressed by that I'm actually kind of worried for the prospects of our slowest possible computer here because CPU RAM and motherboard on the secondhand market Pooey, let me tell you I could get some better stuff than that You know that's what kind of drives me crazy about this Entry level hardware as it gets branded really what it is is in my opinion Basically e-waste because you might say well, you know not everyone wants to put the work into putting together something secondhand, but It's not even a ton of work. I mean we did that video recently where we took an old Dell Optiplex basically through a graphics card in it for less than what we're gonna spend on this complete brand new machine and Let me tell you spoiler alert this thing is gonna run What's the opposite of running circles around something for our case? We've got a thermal take h17 which at the time was priced the same as the deep cool natrex that we had originally chosen So $35 point is that's about the cheapest you can get unless it's on fire So ill for a brand new computer case and then for our power supply. We've got a Corsair CV 550 This is your your entry level. Hey, I don't want my computer to blow up That would be a bad thing kind of power supply if you can get power supplies for $13 or whatever, but Even on a system like this. I would not recommend plugging them in. I mean, what's the point of ruining stuff? Huh four whole screws to put in the power supply Jeepers Just need to rehydrate So this is cool kind of like an SSD except just with some rubber grommets Should just mount your hard drive like that. Should I put in all the screws? I mean, there's really not that many of them We had a second fan that we intended to install in this puppy But I don't think we're gonna be doing that because there is only a single fan header aside from the CPU fan header on this motherboard more simplicity boom fan Installed cable managed. This is actually pretty nice for a budget case. Hey, wow We've got USB 3 on both our case and motherboard. I'm gonna show you guys a little trick You can just take all these little individual pieces and kind of make your own Block of connectors if you line it up just right Put it on just like that. Oh Dang it. I stabbed my thumb. I'm good fine 24 pin power connector just like that. You can see instead of an 8 pin power connector on this board We've got just a 4 pin. So we're gonna split apart our 8 pin power connector and just pop half of it into there This is crazy. Like if I was actually trying to speed build this I think I could do it in under 5 minutes and now for the pièce de la résistance our Zotac GT 210 this was a slow graphics card when I was still working at NCIX That's like eight years ago. You could still buy them. I don't even get it People who buy a card like this don't care about performance at all or They get kind of screwed into it because they don't know that the performance of a $50 card is not half of the performance of a $100 card. I remember talking to Zotac about these cards back when I was working NCIX I was like, well who the crap is buying these things? I'm like, oh, well, you know Best Buy is moving through them by the truckload and I was like, well who? Why are there salespeople selling these to them? It's it's a terrible value Point of clarification. This is 40 US dollars not 50 and it's still a bad deal Yeah for a 35 US dollar case. I'm I'm liking it crazily enough. That was it By the way, the keen-eyed among you might have noticed that we had an ATI Radeon fan installed on that graphics card That's cuz we weren't gonna go out and buy another GT 210 just to make this video It's one that we already had and it's one that the fan failed on a long time ago And we just kind of threw whatever on there as long as it runs cool enough time to fire it up I miss little whiny GPU fans. Hope it works That took a hot minute to post didn't it? Let's fire up some CS go shall we and while we wait for the game to load because that'll probably take a minute on the mechanical drive We're gonna go ahead and pull out our better value gaming PC here Our slowest PC came in at a price of just over 300 US dollars while our step-up model came in at just Under 600 which is a pretty substantial increase. We are spending almost twice as much But we're also getting More than twice as much computer. So we're going all the way up to a Ryzen 3100 Which happens to be based on their Zen 2 architecture That is going to be a big performance boost for gaming We managed to double our RAM going from 4 to 8 gigs, which also means now it's running in dual channel mode we've got a more feature-rich motherboard and a Big amount of our budget was spent on this puppy right here. So we've gone with an RX 570 Which is maybe you know last-gen at this point, but still a very very respectable budget gaming card if we're running a 1080p Already just how much faster it boots up and launches games is a huge difference for this one But of course, that's what happens when you spend a little bit of extra on an SSD And the funny thing about an SSD is that these days it doesn't actually cost that much extra If you look for the right deal, we got our Fatty Dove Racing 120 We got our Fatty Dove Racing 120 gig SSD for 20 bucks 8x anti aliasing ain't happening. Let's see if that helps a little bit. Gonna set the settings over here the same. Oh man, this one defaulted to 4k Oh lordy That's still loading holy crap 150 60 70 200 FPS Yep, this feels this feels pretty good Alright, this one's loaded up now Let's just make sure the resolutions right and this kids is why friends don't let friends buy entry-level graphics cards We are getting 10 FPS my ladies and gentlemen's We're charging in though. We're charging in We might hit something I got one 10 FPS gaming ladies and gentlemen Come on But Fred's got it out for me So the lesson we're learning here is that spending twice as much can yield more than just twice the performance improvement in this case We're looking at about anywhere from 15 X to 20 X the performance at the same settings And I actually missed another thing that is twice as fast about our higher-end system It's got USB 3 10 gig instead of 5 gig So if you really wanted to transfer things, you know quickly over USB you could do that Oh, no, there's a first time setup on this one While we wait for that one to complete setup we can go ahead and have a look at what our Rocket League performance is like Yes, I'm playing with mouse and keyboard. I'm sorry Oh, I pressed jump instead of go fast well, that's a shame. Okay. So what are we looking at? We're looking at a hundred plus FPS with a minimum of 48 the entire time We've been playing here and that minimum is honestly more important to the gaming experience than that average is Rocket Lake Is this game just not even gonna launch? Nope New plan just for the sake of giving our slowest PC its best possible shot We actually ripped the graphics card that wasn't letting us launch the game out and we are running off of the onboard graphics the problem with that is that we're running a single stick of memory because it's a bit of a misconfigured machine and now our APU graphics has to share memory bandwidth with the CPU Which was already half of what it ideally would be 15 FPS in the menu Big oof Linus that's the same settings as the other one. Oh boy You know having the game run in slow motion like this is actually kind of nice because it's not an online match So I think the game is actually running slow Finally, let's go for a good old-fashioned Cinebench drag race. Are you gonna are you even trying? Maybe it didn't register and one two three go. I think we've all seen enough And I think we've all learned the lesson that we're trying to teach here just because something is brand new off the shelf Doesn't mean that it is a viable option for building a system and you might say well look I've only got $50 to spend on a CPU and that's fine and that's fair But your best option at that point is to go back and look for something on the secondhand market that is gonna give you a better experience than this literally a fraction of the speed of even a value chip like the Ryzen 3 3100 really Fantastic CPU for the money. The other thing is Graphics, you know how there's a point of diminishing returns when you go into the very high-end stuff Well, there's a point of diminishing returns at the low end as well And it's something people don't really think about so I would give the same advice there In fact, I don't want you to get discouraged if you've only got $300 to spend on a new computer What I want you to do is head down to the comments where some of our savvy Bargain hunter viewers are gonna post some great spec lists that they think they can put together for $300 because I guarantee you If you head up eBay Craigslist and all those kinds of places it can be done Now for the portion of this video that is sponsored by LastPass. 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