extension that helps you get the information that you need before making a purchase decision i'm talking about trusted in-depth reviews from well-known sources that we all know in the tech community sources that i've already been using for years except now it's automatically gathered and organized for me it also recommends similar products and groups some of a different price point so i can make the comparison myself and choose what's best for me and my own budget i really like it and i think you will too you can learn more about luster by clicking on the link down in the description below and if it seems useful to you definitely give it a try thanks for checking it out and now let's get back to the video i've actually opened up this pc and started cleaning it out live on stream which by the way i stream every wednesday at NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN p.m pacific time be sure to stop by and hang out with me as i work on projects for the channel deal hunt and more but in case you missed that stream let's quickly run over what's inside for the core specs it's got a NUMBER_TOKENth gen intel iNUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKENk paired with the gigabyte zNUMBER_TOKENx udNUMBER_TOKENh motherboard and a stock intel heatsink it has NUMBER_TOKEN gigabytes of hyperx fury ddrNUMBER_TOKEN ram at NUMBER_TOKEN megahertz and the graphics card is the asustrix gtx NUMBER_TOKEN with two gigabytes of video memory these are going to be the primary contributors to the gaming performance and right off the bat you can see we have a cpu that was considered mid to upper mid range back in NUMBER_TOKEN and the graphics card was mid-range in NUMBER_TOKEN. remember that consumer iNUMBER_TOKENs didn't have hyper threading until intel's NUMBER_TOKENth gen and they didn't even have more than four cores until intel's eighth gen so we're talking about four core four threads here which is starting to show its age for the remaining parts there is a NUMBER_TOKEN gigabyte samsung NUMBER_TOKEN evo ssd which is still very usable it's a bit small for today's games but it's enough to function as a boot drive and maybe fit a couple of games there's also the power supply which is a pretty dated corsair txNUMBER_TOKEN this was a well regarded power supply when it released but that was way back in NUMBER_TOKEN and last but not least is the case which is the practical design defined rNUMBER_TOKEN this is a pretty nice case but it's also pretty old it came out in NUMBER_TOKEN. what i don't like most about it is the large optical and hard drive cages in the front which aren't really necessary for builds nowadays as well as the lack of airflow as configured now to be fair it does have a lot of sound dampening materials to make it as quiet as possible but i'm not really a stickler about fan noise and the way this case achieves silence means it trades off a lot of airflow because most of the panels including the openings for fans get covered by sound dampening material there was a lot of dust build up near the single exhaust span in the back and at the expansion brackets so it seems like there was a negative pressure situation going on with the exhaust fan
START_SPONSOR_TOKEN extension that helps you get the information that you need before making a purchase decision i'm talking about trusted in-depth reviews from well-known sources that we all know in the tech community sources that i've already been using for years except now it's automatically gathered and organized for me it also recommends similar products and groups some of a different price point so i can make the comparison myself and choose what's best for me and my own budget i really like it and i think you will too you can learn more about luster by clicking on the link down in the description below and if it seems useful to you definitely give it a try thanks for checking it out and now let's get back to the video i've actually END_SPONSOR_TOKEN