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Can we build a PC for $350?

I’ve taken the challenge to get a PC that can run modern games at least 60fps. Of course, we are on the used market here and we are limited at not running max settings, but it can get the job done for those who need a good budget option without really burning the bank. Here’s my build for $350

*Ps* All the parts are USED here, this price can go up or down depending on the time of purchasing the products.* Expect to run games at low, or medium. Maybe high, but like I said. Don’t expect the highest frame rates. Anyways let's get into the build!

CPU - Link. The Ryzen 1200 isn’t the best thing, but it works. Since we’re at a budget of a console, expect performance of one. No it’s no a PS4 Pro, but it does provide the gaming experience that you would want. Upgrading this to a Ryzen 5 would be a great improvement for most things. That also goes out the price limit. So for $350 this is one of the best things we can find so far. 

GPU - Link. One of the best cards back in the day! R9  290x can do many games at decent frames. There is a bit of a bottleneck between this and the CPU. So, if you’re willing to spend a bit more money on a new CPU, that would really help the performance. Anyways this one is going for $105. If you can find an RX 580, or 480 around this price, you should probably get that one instead. 

Ram - Link. Here we have a single stick of DDR4 ram from HyperX, we only have single channel here. So if you can find a DDR4 2x4gb pack. I would recommend that more than this. But for only $40 this is a steal! 

PSU - Link. Used PSU’s are always looked down on. That’s not always the case, here we have one that is just being sold because of upgrading. It’s 750w, way more than needed for this PC so it can support a lot of upgrading in the future. 

Case - Link. This case isn’t anything amazing, we’re on a budget and this just gives us what we want. Somewhere to put our parts that fits. We aren’t going for looks in this build.

SSD - Link. This is a used SK Hynix SSD. Not bad for only $30, has 256gb of storage, so if you can get a hard drive somewhere, the addiction to that with this SSD would be great for the budget consumer! 

Motherboard - Link. Just a used motherboard! It’s a MicroATX for. Since we have a first gen Ryzen, we don’t have to update the BIOS and we can just plug and play!

So here’s a pretty decent PC build, I would advice to change a couple of the things here, but the motherboard and PSU are amazing deals I would put into my own PC build. Hope you guys enjoyed my last post! 

-Tre

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Is YouTube Dying? - 2018 Review

Currently, YouTube is undergoing lost of hate and attacking recently due to the newest release of “YouTube Rewind 2018: Everyone Controls Rewind | #YouTubeRewind”. Users are stating how the video is disconnected from it’s viewers and YouTube refuses to accept what the viewers really want.

When it comes to Rewind, I don’t like it myself, but their are certian parts that YouTube did well, only one part. This year YouTube introduced animators into rewind, having them draw their own parts. I found this AMAZING, compared to the rest of the video. Everything else was pretty bad, it did a poor job of really expressing what made YouTube. First off they opened up with a celebrity, Will Smith. Don’t get me wrong, he’s great, but he’s not a YouTuber. Then they showed some 2017 trends, like ASMR. It was really big last year, but that’s not terrible. The bigger things are they included Baby Shark, the kids song. What is this doing in a year recap about things that REPRESENT YouTube? It shouldn’t be there. There are so many YouTubers that are included that RARELY upload. So with the constant barage of things they included, they didn’t include many things that make YouTube. No PewDiePie (Largest channel) No Logan Paul vs. KSI. Not many highlights of the year. YouTube is killing is creators and viewers every year. This years Rewind has 13 MILLION dislikes so far. It’s only destined to group.

YouTube is really killing it’s creators everyday, they can still recover. I don’t know how, other than start to include people that matter more, and stop with this attempt to seem perfect when it’s run by humans, not machines.

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Counter Strike Global Offensive Is Now F2P + Battle Royale

The world famous game CSGO is now free to play.

Valve recently updated the game to include a free to play full game that includes everything the paid version have expect one thing. Not to get it confused with the other free to play version where the player is limited to bot matches only and no skins. This new update does no have one thing that the paid players have. Prime game service. This is the “Protected” version of the game that verified to have less cheaters and more stable matches with players in your skill. Without buying the game, players are limited to running into more of the “Toxic” community of gaming. 

Personally, I understand the move to F2P. Only issue is, the free accounts are going to have a harder time getting into the game when it’s going to be thrown with the accounts that aren’t verified. This means more hackers, more smurfs (players who lower their skill rank purposely to dominate lower skilled players.) and more stress which might end up to the player just quitting the game. Of course the anti-cheat system found in CSGO is still active, but it’s not exactly the best at catching hackers in the moment. Smurfing technically isn’t a bannable offense either. So it’s hard to really accept this for the new players.

Battle Royale - This is supposed to also bring in new players into the game, and it works just like the main game. Only difference is new map, and 13 players per game. It’s a rather small map, and has a unique way to acquire weapons (having to find money, buy your weapons, wait for them to be delivered, then you have your weapon.) Of course this is jumping on the battle royale trend lately. But it shouldn’t affect the competitive scene of the game too much so there’s not a major outrage or anything.

Overall, the update is cool, it does bring some new stuff to the CSGO community, but not all at a good cost. If you haven’t played CSGO, please go and give it a try, you never know, you might just love it!

-Tre

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Used GPU’s 2018 - December

Now with the recent crash in the whole “Bitcoin Mining Problem” the whole market of used GPU’s are going down and now allow for some solid deals! That’s what today’s article is about, similar to my last blog, going over the best three graphics cards in certain price ranges! I’ve been waiting to do this one for a while now! So let’s get started!

*PS* I should probably say the budget is $150

RX 580 4/8gb - Now, I recently got one of these myself! Gotta say, for only $135 I was able to get an 8gb variant of the card! This preforms fairly close to the GTX 1060, but comes in around $20 cheaper in the used market! Now for around $110-$125 you can find the 4gb version on the card. I personally wanted to get the 8gb because I think it’s going to be needed in the future. I’ve seen these cards go as low as $110 so really, I recommend to get one of these soon! Prices range from  $110-$150

GTX 970 4gb - Being one of NVIDIA’s older released cards, it still can give the performance needed for 2018′s gaming standards. Now is every game going to run on highest? No. Compare it to a slightly worse GTX 1060, and on the used market these are going fairly well. Now if you want to spend around $30 more, you can get a GTX 980 4gb *Which I would recommend more* but they hover around the $155 price limit so I can’t include it on the list but still want to include it just in case someone is interested. 970′s have been going for $100-$120. Some of them even cheaper. 980′s go for around $150-$200. You shouldn’t pay more than $160 for one personally.

R9 390 8gb - This beast of a card, being the oldest on this list, is one of the best steals I’ve seen recently. It’s slightly worse in some games versus the 580 listed above. It was considered high end back in the day, but of course age kills it. Not kills but limits it’s true power. Speaking of power, this thing is hungry for it. Currently going for $120 I think if you have the power need, or just want to pay a little less, sure go for it. But do keep in mind, there are better for the price. Depends on how cheap you can find one.

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Budget Smartphones - Part 2 $400 Phones for Only Half the Cost?

This is my second post on smartphones if you haven’t seen the first one. I would recommend reading it here. Give me any types of criticism, there’s only one way to learn! Anyways, let’s start with this new post on phones. The limit here is a bit more because I feel that there are MANY phones that can be a lot better just for the extra $100s or so. So here’s my top pick for these phones! Enjoy!

OnePlus 3T - The famous “OnePlus” brand. Known for packing a punch, at a cost that’s a lot more affordable than most. Here we have the overall good phone for this list. It covers everything that everyone would want, performance, battery, but lacks in the newest trends in smartphones (Full-Screen Display, Dual Cameras). But that doesn’t mean at all that you wouldn’t want to get this phone. For $222.00 I call this a pocket monster! 

Vivo X20 - This phone is for people that want to show off what they have, with the biggest screen to body ratio. It’s one of the trend followers, from a good brand. There’s no much to say about this phone that doesn’t directly explain the Mi A2. So I can say that it has the wost connectivity in America, but does have that great camera resolution in trade. Coming in at $240.00 USD it’s the most expensive on this list. 

Xiaomi Mi A2 - Saving the best for last, the Mi A2. This phone is great. Great brand, new Andriod One installed, great performance, great camera. Everything about this phone is amazing. I would choose this one out of any if I had the chance. Mainly, the reason why I’m putting this so high is the 128gb of storage this thing has to get even more on this small, but deadly package. If you don’t need that much storage, then there’s a 64gb version that is $198.00 USD. The 128gb version is $235.00 USD.

Now, the thing about all of these phones is they’re all great. They all have a minor setback too. The end decision is yours on which one to get. Good luck with your next purchase! 

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Budget Smartphones - December 2018! How Cheap Can We Go?

Okay, Welcome! Today I just wanted to make a post before I make my videos on my content. I’m playing on making a bunch of post regarding technology, and this happens to be my first one!

The whole point of this Blog/Article is to explain and open peoples eyes in the world of smartphones. Each section will have a different price, and the best phone I would personally say of each price. Now here’s the catch, these phones must work in the states. So that this blog helps the American audience. Okay, let get started!

$100 and Under 

Now, I’m going to sum this up so the average consumer can understand what I’m talking about. These phones aren’t the best in the performance department. Non on these are. They’re $100 or less, anyways let's get into the first phone.

Umidigi A3 Pro -  This is is the iPhone X clone, all because of the notch. The performance, around what you would expect for $100. But what really stands out for this phone is the camera, you’re getting one that is better than most of the phones that are released in America for sometimes double the price. Of course, the phone just looks amazing. So, I’d personally say this is a great option for only $90.00 USD

Sony Xperia Z3 - Here’s an older phone, but that doesn’t mean it’s bad. From Sony, it’s the Xperia Z3. This one is the BEST performance wise out of the bunch, but also the oldest. It also has the best camera spec wise. But doesn’t match to the Umidigi’s dual camera setup. It’s also running the oldest version of Android. Maxing out at 6.0 (Marshmallow). But once again, it’s performance is very high for its price, coming in at $87.00 USD

LeEco Le S3 - This is the perfect in between, great performance, great camera, greet everything. I would recommend this if you just care about straight the phone and how good it does in everyday life. The only problem, it has pretty large bezels and doesn’t come in black. Silver, but not black. This just something I personally don’t like about the phone. But when it comes to raw power, and a camera? This phone is great in this. Balancing out the other two listed above. But also coming it at an amazing price of $90.00 USD