I Bought a Cheap Ryzen 3 2300X Gaming PC On eBay...

The AMD Ryzen 3 2300X is a pretty rare OEM CPU, so when I found a £365 ($500) prebuilt gaming PC with one inside online, I couldn't resist.

But is it much of a gamer in 2021?

0:00 Introduction
1:56 PC and Specs
4:25 Cyberpunk 2077
5:05 The Witcher 3
5:48 CS:GO (Brief)
6:10 Crysis Remastered
6:27 Red Dead Redemption (Issue)
6:55 Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War
7:36 Assassin's Creed Valhalla
8:16 Ryzen 3 2300X Final Thoughts

Thanks for watching :)

[adebowalekonstantinov]

Off topic, but I just realized you're probably the most upstanding uncorrupted large TechTuber on this platform: You don't have any sponsors, refuse to receive items for launch reviews, heck, even your merch isn't outsourced somewhere and is literally manufactured by your sister. In this day and age, you're truly one of a kind and I hope you stay that way for as long as you're doing this!

[riven]

An RX 570.

An elusive product in today's day and age.

[hollol]

my friend has a 2300x prebuilt so this is interesting... With an rx570 too.
it did have an ssd though.

[iMac]

prebuilt companies be like: yes lets put this ITX motherboard in a (relatively) giant ATX case

[UncleMikeRetro]

Early for a change. A little surprised that the video card was a bottleneck here and there this time. Thought for sure that CPU would have been.

[Prellium]

Hitches and micro freezes can also be because you have a hard drive and not an SSD.

[patrickmcgovern]

I love the fact that your channel tends to focus more on low end hardware. Especially with the gpu and cpu market being what they are right now I think there's still a lot of people out there playing on old hardware and it's nice to see that. I like building low spec gaming pcs from older hardware as a hobby and I think it's a very good thing to try and reuse the parts as opposed to letting them go to the landfill as e-waste. And I do like the fact that you don't have a bunch of sponsors etc as we can pretty much count on your videos being your honest opinion. Keep up the good work!

[SuperLaziboi]

We struggling to get one part and this guy's getting whole
Systems every week

[robz]

ngl this guy should have nearly as much subscribers as the bigger tech youtubers like Linus or Bitwit

[redoxosu]

The tech channel that I watch the most. Thanks for another awesome video!

[Chriva]

I have the mesh version of that chassi.
There's a fan controller tucked in somewhere that is ONLY controllable by a wireless remote and the fans has custom connectors.
They are, however, using standard addressable RGB diodes inside the fans so you can modify them for regular use if you really wanted to :)

[OslerS]

You know the world isn't the same when a prebuild it's more rentable than making your own pc ;-;

[Numcelot]

That case is the CIT Raider RGB. Usually it has an RGB Fan controller included which allows for the motherboard reset switch to be connected for fan control. Might be why the fans aren't spinning.

[iffy_too]

Your production style is pretty good now. Suits your content really well. I'm loving the paint splattered B-roll display chair, its works so well. Great improvement in the last 6 months

[justinbuckley]

That case I believe is the CIT Raider, to get the fans to spin you need to look for the fan hub, you can see that at 3:52 on the right hand side labelled “BOX” there will be two little pins on it that you want to short out with something like a old motherboard jumper and they should spin right up.

[TridonsEve]

I'm running a 2300X now, but I'm running 2933 MHz RAM with fairly tight timings. This CPU is impressive for only being 4/4 c/t, and out of the box it will boost to 3.87 GHz all cores (roughly 800 MHz more than a stock 1200).

About half of retailers here sold this CPU, so it was quite easy to buy until mid last year. Now I can only find it sold by two retailers. Red Dead Redemption 2 runs well on it too.

[skozra]

Looking forward to more videos on this, as I’ve got the exact same system which was purchased new back in early 2019. All I’ve done with it is increase the memory to 16gb and update the bios, but have recently been thinking of possible further upgrades.

[GoobyGooby]

I had a supplier thatd sell me 570s for 80$ a piece and ive built so many computers with about these specs. id usually do 16gbs of ram and a SSD though.

[GamerNthn]

I bought a 2300x a few weeks back for about 80USD, for a secondary system, and it performs well enough for the price. Definitely wish it was threaded, but as a test machine CPU it works out just fine. Glad to see someone do more with it

[joeburns]

Would you be able to maybe compare old Nvidia and amd cards such as the gtx 780 to and 970 on their 1080p performance these days?