Fixing Up And Testing The Dodgy CEX Gaming PC

Today the previously showcased CEX budget gaming prebuilt PC gets a bit of a makeover. We'll also be seeing how the FX 8320 and R9 380 combo inside this system handles a few games.
Thanks for watching :)

[@BrunoMoreiraTorres]

That Seagull is NOT amused by that case's sorry state 😎

[@nertz4579]

Dave doesn't like messed up cases

[@MarkTheMorose]

@@nertz4579 He flies into a rage.

[@turbowolf302]

Meanwhile I'm still waiting on the day when RandomSeagullsinHD becomes a thing.

[@chrisallan6069]

M Harris ummmm ......

[@alexm8226]

@M Harris wtf

[@alexm8226]

@M Harris oh

[@leuymasleucine7878]

They're not random😂

[@leftturnsmatter7555]

One day

[@embracemasculinity6725]

now that´s a cexy build...

[@edwardvd406]

Nice

[@level8473]

get laid

[@nathanh.9767]

Delete this

[@zahidshabir4038]

The joke here is that many people in the UK pronounce "CeX" as "SEX" instead as a joke not that it is one letter off

[@rpsproject5349]

Have you considered that this PC was a trial build on the Verge.

[@OliverDavidson-em8hj]

I swear to god that seagull stalking you!

[@iamarabicandiloveamericanp7137]

Lol

[@nertz4579]

Dave is a regular member of the channel

[@JT-ko2ib]

@@nertz4579 First subscriber

[@amaniqbal2321]

Already know I’m gonna love this video when you mention cex,love your recent vids Steve

[@neonrubber5204]

The main problem of this PC is single channel RAM that causes terrible framedrops

[@marcomassella2186]

Yeah I was going to post the same thing, single channel ddr3 is just a big NONO

[@yourlocaldavid6656]

I have a similar system with the same single stick of ram, if I stick in another 8gb stick of the same ram will this sort it out? Or would it be better to get two 4gb sticks instead?

[@marcomassella2186]

@@yourlocaldavid6656 there should be no problem at all but you'd better check the supported ram list of your motherboard (should be easy to find with Google). Also be sure to put your sticks in a dual channel configuration 😊

[@greg2943]

The problem is the weak CPU

[@KainArkanos]

@@danimayb It is not a myth and I suggest you do actual research before you start spouting BS. In most cases, it may not, infact, be an issue. However, in games that have heavy CPU usage already, running single channel increases CPU usage more than dual channel does, effectively making the CPU more of a bottleneck than it otherwise would be. Your CPU can only interact with the rest of your system so fast, and the speed and bandwidth of your memory affects this. The more work you cause for your CPU by running less channels of RAM, the more its usage increases, the more likely it is going to become a bottleneck.

[@D-2-the-no]

you have such well put together videos and very clear talk throughs. subbed

[@9nxt]

I'm glad I found this channel. It's so nice watching old rigs get cared for :') makes me excited for when I can get my old raidmax case on a build. It's a very small mid tower but I think I'll use the old girl in my ryzen build.

[@lightunicorn1371]

I love your vids you come from my perspective of having no money

[@MadIIMike]

I'd like to see a video with this PC comparing single channel vs dual channel RAM... I know Intel doesn't care much and the Ryzen love fast dual channel memory, but no clue about older AMD CPUs.

[@BenState]

I am a long time viewer, stumbling across vids i missed. You sir, are popular because you're so humble, honest and non-egotistical. You're lucky man, you and your sister were loved!

[@RainMan52]

how is it always sunny in your backyard bro? how is this Britain?

[@pushed2civilized]

Seagulls appearance is indication of glitch in the matrix, may abuse weather anytime. -neo, prophecy

[@wsketchy]

probably a southerner smh

[@2011jaydog]

Nice to see I'm not the only one that will look in the screw bins to fix pc problems :) glad the build turned out good for you!! Love the vids buddy!!

[@utkarsh5220]

I'm a simple man, I see dave the seagull, I drop a like...

[@mislav2002]

RGinHD : You're not getting a tenner from me corsair. *Next video* Fixing the Water cooling on the Cex PC

[@GummyBearRacing]

But Corsair didn't make any money from him.....

[@Apollo-16]

I wanna take this time to say you're my favorite youtuber. #teamRGHD

[@joedoran6994]

Tbh I got my first pc build perfectly first time tho I watched hours of pc building while waiting for parts to arrive many of them vids where by you love these vids so interesting to see what lives these computers have lived defo worth the sub

[@akrstanda9852]

Corsair: We want 10 pounds for bracket kit RGHD: I just made makeshift one and it works Corsair: Wait, that's illegal

[@aaldrich1982]

Your comedy musings with the hammer lifted my mood, thank you.

[@captainwasel8377]

I love this channel i think i watched all the videos and even some videos i watched them more than once. Greetings from Saudi Arabia.

[@maddhatter0]

I love your videos and the whole concept is really cool to me, that being said I was watching some of your old content as I usually do to see old parts that I use to want or have, I watched you typing on an alienware laptop and noticed that you didn't know how to type or at the very least have a very strange way of typing without looking. I was wondering if you learned how to type yet or if I am just wrong. I just figured since you make a living off of computers(which again I really do enjoy your videos I swear) that you would know how to type by now. Keep up the great vids M8!!!

[@2H2K]

"Your not getting my 10er corsair!" xD

[@alpha3836]

RandomGaminginHD: **Casually builds a computer** *_SEAGULL: I SHALL OBSERVE_*

[@elikirkwood4580]

Ive done a similar mounting setup on the cooler for a friends pc. Big 775 stock cooler and an 1156 xeon with 4 machine screws. works like a charm and was free

[@prinnydood587]

Love your videos! :)

[@MrSamadolfo]

✌️😏 nice job with the repairs

[@Markito09]

Hey dude been watching your channel for a while now and I've been wondering how many PCs and components do you have now, if you do keep em. Itll be awesome to see your collection, like a collection montage or something! So yeah awesome videos as usual mate! 💪😎

[@outpost23]

You're a legend man. Love your vids. Did you get onto Cex about the damage. Likely it was mostly down to handling during shipping as Cex test everything before they buy it off people . But maybe not. Either way you should be entitled to at least a partial refund as what was delivered to you was unusable. Keep up the great work dude 😀

[@LordofKings_]

''Oh my god what are thooooose?!'' looking at those shiny golden boots with that armor combo in The Witcher 3

[@two_number_nines]

8320 also 120 water here. My hd7850 died a week ago, so now im rocking hd6570 and trying to fix my 7850 board. Was a great combo. Could play any pc game ever.

[@flaek1337]

this videos are so satisfying

[@420architecMindNDesign]

That sapphire card looks so good

[@MidStick]

Loving that in many RandomGamingInHD videos there is a zoom in on a seagull.

[@lifelightv2]

His name is Dave.

[@majorsemboina15]

I fucking love this channel the close up on the seagull made me laugh loudly

[@twmbarlwmstar]

My approach would to be start again with a new case (I’d recycle the case for parts). I think a repair is always harder than a new build, so always try to get as close to a ‘new-build’ as I can justify. That said you did a good clean-up job on it. But you can’t hide that sub £30 damaged case. On eBAY you might be looking at £170, but that is a loss, a replacement case another £30 would only just increase the sale price to £200 but would make it shift faster- especially with some RGB and a transparent side-panel. People buying things like this like a bit of bling because they know/should know that £200 doesn’t really get them a gaming rocket ship- but something that will pass muster for light gaming/productivity while looking good at a quick inspection. As regards CEX I avoid them, to be honest eBay isn’t that great either these days- hard to make a profit. When I was, I would wait until I had about 10 PCs worth of parts, order 10 bling cases from China (for the discount) and do a straight weekend build. These days it is barely worth it for the profit unless you get lucky and some bidding war erupts because you just got lucky on picking a novel PC case design that grabbed attention. That said the Chinese prices aren’t what they used to be which squeezes margins to the point that you’d struggle to make any profit.

[@navad5965]

I do love Sapphire products. I've not used one for years now (Palit 1060 atm) but they just have the thing that gets my thing doing things :O

[@Tutankhamun1333]

That is exactly why i prefer to build my computer myself as i know the exact components that go into it and it's built, optimized and performing correctly.

[@AussieHackz]

"A few gentle taps" yeah ok sure let's go with that hahaha

[@TheSpotify95]

Nice video :) Though I'd definitely upgrade that RAM; single channel RAM isn't going to be the best solution. Plus, it supports 4x RAM sticks, so 4x 4GB RAM (16GB total) is easy to get, and you could even get 2x 8GB or 4x 8GB for 32GB max.

[@JDL16]

Smart thinkin on that AIO socket mount! Great vid as always.

[@mz.second]

First to like! I love your videos and have began building PC's because if inspiration from you!

[@mrtuffguy2769]

I just watched the previous video and this came out god I'm so lucky

[@zwerker]

Yeah. Bought a used i7 machine last month. Tossed the included dual fan Corsair AIO-cooler (was loud, didn't cool the cpu properly) and installed an Arctic 33 Freezer plus (whisper quiet bliss!)

[@drazenbakarcic225]

I very much like your videos, but there's one small thing i dislike in this one, the "I dislike liquid cooling" part. I can understand you if you look at liquid cooling just through AiO's (they don't really perform all that better than air coolers), but believe me, as someone who also came from budget building and grinding to get my system just a bit better step by step, custom water cooling is the biggest step you can take in custom building. In fact, i'd like to see you do a budget custom watercooling loop, be it used parts or new from aliexpress or something; it's not just about aesthetics, temperature gains (or rather losses) can be significant. Keep these good videos coming =)

[@codykamminga9667]

I love liquid cooling, i use them from my i5 3330 ( Will be upgraded ) to my Pentium 4 ( oc’ed to 3.9 GHz, its now a very good spaceheater)

[@BillyBoy444]

Grandads old tools came in handy :) - nice job though.... I get PC's arriving like this and it makes me wonder why people don't bother cleaning them up first and they could then get a better price for them.

[@HairyScrambler]

That’s a pretty solid deal

[@joenodden]

4:13 I like the way he said that.

[@bhuvangunessee]

01:50 in the video, you can see that you have bottom holes, only one of the bottom feet should have been removed to balance the case (front up back down on table), this way there'd have been space under the case for airflow (like for example the MSI Nightblade MI 3 or the ASUS M32AD)

[@mOddEdLiKeHeLL]

here! getting popcorn ready

[@WellBeSerious12]

- Make sure to shorten, paint, or tape the bottom of the cooler screws to avoid short circuiting! - Should've air dusted it before wiping it. - And did you use thermal compound?

[@battlebunnykai2295]

A good OC on the 8320 will go a long way. It's architecture is old but it is still fine for a lot of games.

[@Turnbull50]

Always interesting

[@Spawndex]

Ah, the joy of cex

[@c1apifi3dgames6]

Lol my 2nd hand air cooler is held on in a very similar way, works a treat.

[@raiyu1985]

FX 8320 still rocking in mid 2019, wait couple more years before 144hz 4k gpus, and 8 cores become mainstream. oh yeah.. gotto buy a house too by then.

[@ApkHeaven]

I am giving you a like and i love this video very much.

[@paulsdickmold2289]

Are you gonna be doing another video where you overclock everything? My fx 8350 at 4.6 on air scores 700 in cinebench staying under 50c

[@kbbbb7]

Your friends are real hard heads, I wouldn't want to throw my weight around with them.

[@lexavaritia7596]

I like how you record the gaming without using internal capture software/device. can see how it actually runs

[@AndrewWoodford]

I miss the bike pump ASMR episodes

[@alexc3504]

I can tell you my old system which was an FX-8320 with a R9 380 and 16gb of memory was pretty good. I even gave it an SSD. Then I threw a vega 64 in before I bought my Ryzen. I still have the SSD and Vega. The system is being used still by my mother to replace her now dead Phenom X3 720.

[@Ksandur]

Was waiting for it, amazing job.

[@StAlchemyst]

If you OC the 8320 it usually helps alleviate the stuttering problems. I had a FX 8320 that I replaced with a Ryzen 1600X. You should be able to get 4.2 to 4.5 GHZ (or more if you're lucky) fairly easy if your motherboards up to the task. 970 chip set might be harder to get that 4.5 but a 990 FX chip set usually has a better VRM and should be able to handle a good OC if the CPU is up to the task.

[@jakegarrett8109]

Mostly about cooling (both board and CPU). 970m (micro ATX board, garbage 4 phase) at 4.8 GHz above stock Xeon in terms of stability (does Intel even test the chips? They don’t always handle my tests). It took $3 in mods, some 15mm square heatsinks and 2x 40mm fans, but it was rock solid for 24/7 fluid flow simulation/rendering/etc on a 120mm AIO for FX-8350. I now have it cranked at 1.7 Vcore for 5.5 GHz on phase cooler (sadly, that’s the BIOS voltage limit on my board), but it does fine.

[@DJzSith]

I have the same motherboard, same hyperx ram, cheaper AIO, asus 750w psu + fx6300 and random gtx660 :D Its an awesome build!

[@sitordan]

Some tests results suggest a push configuration is more efficient than a pull.

[@DaxtonAnderson]

Check out your local dollar store for some "furniture pads", the thick rubber ones make great feet for laptops/desktops/amplifiers/keyboards pretty much anything missing feet.

[@FireMrshlBill]

If you can't use screws to attach the foot that came off, you could just have used 3M (double-sided) tape. I did that to attach feet to my cable box since it gets hot and wanted airflow underneath. Whenever I turn it back in I can just pop the feet and 3M tape off.

[@IndyMiraaga]

My only critique is that you talked about integrated graphics, the FX series of processors are notorious for not supporting integrated graphics. I have a mATX motherboard where the gpu covers the pci slot for a network card, and because the motherboard ethernet drivers weren't preinstalled I had to use my laptop to download the drivers, then transfer them via usb to my pc just because of that issue.

[@mitsostechtips9047]

1:20, Dave got amused because he wasn't prepared yet for the camera

[@sn3os546]

Nice

[@strongato1702]

It just works -legends will understand

[@o0PRiNGER0o]

whats the benefits of putting the fan in first then the radiator , i put the radiator on the back first then have the fan blowing in out the back? does it matter?

[@fedeterra42]

Hello everyone, and welcome to another video!

[@firenado4295]

you think that is bad? I have an am4 cooler on an am3 socket that is only held on by 2 screws which hold it on at an angle

[@niloaguilar6970]

Firenado But... why?

[@firenado4295]

@@niloaguilar6970 it was on sale for cheaper than the one I was going to get so I got that one and didn't read the specs further than the tdp

[@a.sanford8731]

Were it not that we are separated by an Ocean, I'd happily buy a Random Gaming in HD refurbished PC from you directly.

[@DoomWalker42]

Can you test the Ryzen 3 1200 in 2019? And maybe overclock it? Nice restoration by the way. It looks much better and the washer idea is quite clever. I am just sure if my Ryzen 3 1200 and RX 570 are behaving as they should. I have the latest drivers and enough power, etc.

[@plaingaming566]

Im glad the bird is ok

[@lego_minifig]

I ran into some guy by chance at my college. He asked me if i new how to build a PC because his wouldnt boot. I ended up taking a look at his pc an OH BOI! He installed the standoffs OVER the motherboard. You can imagine how the rest of the build was. Had to start over but it was a beauty by the time i was done with it

[@dylanbut]

i feel it should be said, from someone who has experienced this, but using hardware and tools for securing a cooler to a CPU that doesn't have a hard stop or a spring for relief. or at the very least use a torque screw driver or wrench, because it is very easy to brick a motherboard or damage a CPU by applying to much pressure, on top of that almost every LGA socket requires a set amount of torque to allow for proper contact with the pins, and PGA doesn't require much, this is why Epyc and Thredripper come with a torque wrench with a special bit to prevent some random Pearson using a drill to secure there several thousand dollar CPU down to its death

[@skmskmx]

I had that cpu in old Times in my system to remove dips in fps you need change cooling for realy big, its auto overclock and overheat.

[@Glasrandkante]

4:55 Just one week ago I replaced my 10-or-so-year old Watercooling with a Noctua NH-D15 - the temps are better (but the thermal paste was 5 years old and dry) and it looks way cooler (hehe) plus the PC weighs like 1.5 Kilos less. It was a nice journey with watercooling, but it always didn't seem 100% right.

[@strumminronin]

The seagull got you the like!

[@dcikaruga]

Could of been a rush job, a CEX employee packaging used parts togeather, hoping it would sell better that way. I'd try something like that, if I had some parts that didn't sell well.

[@LUNATIC75]

4:55 That's what I like to hear! Liquid cooling, especially AIO's gets me all twitchy.

[@czbrat]

im new to pc's. can you tell me why AIO's are bad?

[@Afn3u13u]

Indo Aryan there not bad, they are quieter and cool better but some people hate the looks of it, how to install it or stuff in that category

[@scavengerspc]

The Vishera cpu would benefit quite a bit with a dual channel ram config brother.

[@bluescluessuperagent]

for cpus with such large core or thread counts, you really need a core by core (thread by thread) break down on the monitoring software

[@GavinLawrence747]

RandomGaminginHD - i've noticed this a few times and I only ask out of concern ... do you know your hands shake a bit? (I once had a stressful work environment and on top of that I was extremely stressed about my dad and my sleep suffered and someone mentioned my hand shaking while I was holding a bit of paper) Hope your OK dude

[@bluescluessuperagent]

not everyone has steady hands

[@redragorflag8892]

He might have essential tremors, I've developed it recently and I'm only 15 ;/

[@spyrex3988]

i love animal themes in between lol

[@TheSpotify95]

Ooh, 6x SATA slots and quad channel RAM? Pretty nice if I say so. Ideal for all of my hard drives, an optical drive, and 32GB RAM :)

[@hystericalwolf]

I have that EXACT mobo but no RAM because reasons..could you put an amazon link to that RAM so I can buy it???

[@bongfartz1036]

Hello. Just wondering have you ever messed with the nvidia menu? So the GPU can perform to its fullest?

[@prashrad2382]

Maybe add some threadlocker to the nuts for the CPU cooler?

[@ThomasMehiar]

Thanks!

[@NathanKirgis]

Don't know if this was mentioned yet but, you need a fan on that AIO radiator.

[@spacecy]

Well done mate. I believe those stutters might go away if you install 2x4 gigs of ram. One stick is holding the system back.

[@MercuryDNB]

So, I used to work at CeX. Want to know how they test their hardware? They don't. I worked with the company for five long years and not once have I ever seen any tester ever plug in RAM, CPU's, GPU's or anything else. The only thing they test is HDD and SSD's. Anything else, they simply give it the "Sniff" test. If it smells burnt out then they won't take it, but nothing is ever tested. All they do when testing towers and laptops is make sure there's no corrupted parameters on the drives, they check the windows licence to make sure it's legal and that it can run for more than two hours without crashing, freezing or lagging. Then they factory wipe it and out it goes. Desktops aren't checked internally to make sure cables aren't loose or split, the parts aren't checked and they buy it in as what is says in DXDiag. Parts that are brought in over the counter such as RAM, GPU's and CPU's aren't brought in with anti-static bags and the staff at the counter touch all the components that they shouldn't be touching. Then they're stuffed onto a phone stand and put into a display window. NEVER BUY HARDWARE FROM CEX!

[@forennightcore]

Ouch the AMD FX-8320, my old computer used the 8320E

[@MrRadioGypsy]

Looks like a GTX-1060 would have done that build a treat.