@ShadowAngel You must have a sad life, you should try to enjoy the little jokes here and there, so your life might not end up as depressing as you act like it is.
Asus back in the day was pretty awesome. I had a strix card that was priced similarly to other OEMs but ran a lot cooler and quieter. Now Strix cards are so overpriced its not really worth it anymore.
@@jonathansoko1085 Yeah, it does look like them in certain ways ig, especially the general design and form factor, and that was the intended goal I guess. I think both PS4 and PS5 look neat(I'm a PS4 & PS2 Slim owner and a PS fanboy in general, so that might explain I'm biased over the looks lol), but I can easily see why someone can think that they look like abominations lol.
I flipped one of these I bought off Craigslist a few years ago, I think mine had a GTX 960 and i7. Had the dual power bricks, 400W of power brick isn't exactly convenient to deal with unsurprisingly.
@@baoquoc3710 good to know lol, I figured it would at least be able to run, my 1070 does, even after rescuing it from a miner. Was probably golden stock at one point, cause even after that, she holds a significant OC without any overvolting (no overvolting to reduce silicon wear and keep her alive as long as I can)
Yes, weird configuration. Why they didn't used much cheaper FM2 Athlon with similar performance and that price gap could brought quite a bit nicer GPU in it. Pre-built systems are sometimes so hard to understand. In that system they were spent like 20..30% of total cost into integrated graphics what never got even used. Or perhaps pricing for big companies are so different compared with retail it does not bother them at all.. who knows.
@@RamkrishanYT Check out his prebuilt PC videos, especially the more recent videos. There was a Dell which I think he did a video on about 3 or 4 months ago where he tried ordering a PC with 16GB of RAM in dual channel but he ended up getting a single 16GB module.
Finally! I had one of these, still have parts of it. My father bought me one for my birthday when i turned 15, came with an i7-4790 and… well, a gtx 760. The computer came with only 8 gigs of memory and A 27” 1440P 144HZ MONITOR. IN A BUNDLE ON AMAZON. It was an awful pairing but I didn’t know, still loved it. Eventually put 16gb of 1866mhz ram in (only ran at 1600, blunder #1) and a gtx 1660 (asus pheonix non-blower card, blunder #2) and significantly increased performance. Also tried to install a 1 TB samsung ssd in place of the seagate 1 TB SSHD… but the motherboard would not have it (blunder #3). Also barely ever got the new gpu to work in the mobo, literally hot swapped it in to trick the motherboard. Because it was my only pc and I hadn’t taken one apart before + needing to learn how to take it apart while doing it due to its highly proprietary nature, I never measured max GC size (blower would have fit perfectly ugh). I ended up using vice grips and a hammer (with the motherboard IN THE CASE) to break off parts of the frame to mount the GC in place. It was a miracle it worked, and i have since taken the GC and SSD and built a proper well planned PC to game with. I have plans to use the processor and SSHD from the g20 in a spare gaming pc setup for my place in the future. Still using the monitor with my current PC atm. Thankyou for reading my long comment!
yo, having 1440p 144Hz monitor back in the day in 2014 made you feel like a God then! Like going ahead of the time, until now when 1440p is just going to be popular!
@@baoquoc3710 it was certainly an upgrade and it still holds up decently where i use it till this day, but I wouldn’t pay more than $150 for it new now. The best aged feature is the stand
WAIT! have you tried crossfire? technically it should be possible to enable Dual Graphics between the 255 and the A10-7800! it would require more tests!
@Russell White the last game i tried was zen drift and disabling crossfire really got the game playable. Really haven’t find a game that got real advantage from crossfire tho now w your suggestion I’ll look for more titles to try.
@@malatpop I had a laptop with an A10 and Radion graphics and tried that. It would shut down half of the CPU. So unless you wanted a single core performance it was a no go. Yes, I know they had "two cores per module" but each module shared FPU and scheduler.
Man, this makes me feel old. I remember when Asus launched these at Best Buy when I worked there and it was hyped up. I haven't even seen one since then. Thanks for the flood of memories my dude. 🤙
I used to have one myself, it had i5 4460 and GTX 750 Ti which I later upgraded to GTX 1050 Ti. At the time I knew nothing about computers but managed to swap the gpu without any problem. It was ok PC but after 6 years of use the cpu died due to the fans dying. Luckily the 1050 Ti survived and I built my first parts PC around it :)
Tbf as someone whom had owned one of these at top spec I can say from my experience it really wasn't that bad as long as you were running both power banks and you could also adjust the settings via Asus dashboard that was pre installed
Hey man, I just wanted you to know that I've been seeing your vids now for many, many years but despite that, I always skip them to what I'm really interested in. Not a compliment lol but not an offense either, I mean...I always find what I came for and you get the views. Nice job. 👍 I buy and sell PCs as a hobby, sometimes for extra cash and I always use vids, many of them yours, as a benchmark and guidance point to my pricing when reselling here in Spain.
By making this PC, Asus made it impossible to find better looking PC case. Seriously, they should make a PC case like this for ITX DIY PCs. I own one of those and it is still amazing. The only flaw is that it has a special, dedicated motherboard, which severely limits upgradeability. You are stuck with older cpu socket, so you can not use better cpu. Also, memory is limited to 16 gigs max (2 slots). Only thing worth upgrading is to replace HDD with SSD for better gaming (sata 3 only, as this motherboard does not have nvme slots). But, even today, this machine from 2014 with I7 4790 & GTX 980 is still amazing for 1080p 60+ FPS, even in newer titles.
Yeah it’s awesome. I think it’ll be difficult to do as the motherboard is entirely custom but it could be done with some patience and an ITX board I guess
I had a ROG G20aj, that version had a i5 4460, 8gb ddr3, gtx750. Bought another 8gb of ram, the second psu and upgraded to a gtx 1060. Finding the psu was a pain in the ass btw
My brothers first and only OEM PC was an Asus ROG G20J with an i5-4460, 8GB DDDR3, and a GTX 750 Ti. I upgraded it with a GTX 1050 Ti, switched to 16GB (2X8GB) and a brand new 240GB SSD in it. It still going strong at a friend.
I actually purchased the rog g20aj few months after release I upgraded the gpu to a Gtx 1070 and left the stock cpu which is a i7-4790 which isn’t bad is 2021 I use it now as a backup pc this little machine has held its own for many years
Im currently using a Lenovo prebuilt that i bought in 2015 with an AMD a10 7800 that I recently (somewhat jankily) added an aftermarket 450 watt power supply and a 4gb RX570 to... and I'm honestly still surprised at how well this thing runs all these years in!! (it did also come stock with 12gb of ram for some reason, glad ive not had to upgrade that) if you pair the hardware right, these old APUs have a bit of life left and are good for a low spec build in my opinion
back in 2014 I had a Lenovo Erazer entry level prebuilt with the R9 255, It was pretty rough. Sure it handled some stuff but it definitely didn't like most games released after 2011. Being an OEM card there isnt much info on it online either
I find it crazy how my i9-10850k’s integrated graphics surpass the gpu in there😂 I remember playing gmod on my dual core celeron at like 10 frames having the time of my life
-I have one of these. They work very well and I still game on it. Mine has the i7 7700, Nvidia 1070, 16gb DDR4. My daughter loves this little machine. :)
I had a Alienware Alpha R1, a ultra small form factor PC. It had 4th Gen i7 4785T, GTX 860m (essentially low powered GTX 750ti), and 1TB HDD (I later on upgraded it to 512 GB SSD). The Alpha came out around 2013 like the ASUS ROG PC in this video and was marketed towards console gamers. It was a cool tiny unique computer, but there weren't many paths to upgrade it. The motherboard, GPU, power supply was completely proprietary to Dell that was why I no longer use it as my main system. I bought it used 5 years ago for $300 US from a local seller and I sold it last year to a friend.
I actually own a R9 255 with 1GB of GDDR5, and it actually is surprisingly okay. I pulled it from a Lenovo prebuilt that had a dead mainboard. For Games released before 2012 it's perfectly okay, if 1080p/30FPS is what youre looking for.
Hey RandomGaming, this might be an interesting read for you as I am currently using this pc. I actually have this same model of pc but I purchased mine refurbished in 2017 for around $900. It had an i7 6700, gtx 1070, and 16gb of ram. However, it was really disappointing because it ended up failing on me as the GPU started artifcating and died 3 months later (ironically 2 days after the warranty too). I ended up buying a gtx 1080 but at that point i'd sunk too much into the pc.
I have one of the more powerful supplies left. My friend owned one of these recently and tearing it apart to put a 1060 was a nightmare. It worked regardless lol.
bought around 2014 my PC which was a cheap prebuild which cost me exactly 935€ which had a bad motherboard and a bad psu (720W) but a FX8350 ,a GTX980 and 16 gb DDR3 1600 mhz and its still working today even after the motherboard is slowly dying it really makes me happy to see that this PC nearly cost the same around 2014
i have the G20CB which came with the 2 PSUs and a i7 6700, GTX 980 configuration. Changed the 980 for a 2060 super and ive been using it with no issues!
It would be most interesting for me to see if you can swap out all of the components with more high end ones. Or is it close to impossible thanks to custom mainboard and the missing PSU?
@@vipervidsgamingplus5723 why not? 8gb will be just fine for 1440p. The memory doesn't hold this card back whatsoever. It's actually good since you can crank texture details for better visuals with no performance drop
I had one of these! Tossed a Gtx 960 4GB into it. Was a decent rig but I hated taking off the rear red trim to open it up. Always broke pieces off. I always used to pinch cables too
The two questions that come to mind for me: 1) Would the onboard graphics of the A10 perform better? 2) Is the hardware there to allow you to add a second power brick? These machines look really nice. I wonder if they use a standard ITX board or if it is custom.
No an a10 would not preform better especially due to it only having 1gb gddr5 and for question 2 I do not believe it is possible with the space availabe
So this was my first ever PC that I could game on. This thing overheated a whole lot and resulted in my FPS just dropping to a slideshow so I changed out the GPU to a 950 (no idea what was originally inside) and then had more issues as the GPU was not designed for the small form factor case for cooling wise. I then completely ripped it apart and just have it sitting in pieces in my garage somewhere and thus started building my own PC. If that thing wouldn't have been so horrible, I probably would of never learned and jumped into the custom PC building community. The GPU in that computer is nowhere near the one I had. I want to assume it was around when they first came out and I want to say it was maybe a 750 but I sold that GPU to a friend at school so I have no idea on what it was.
mine came with a 750, I still have it. It was a nice card for the time, and still works well. The design was super wacked with that dumb pcie right-angle riser they had to put it on, but they somehow managed to stuff a full-width gpu in there lmao
Found a much higher grade version (with a 1070) of this for 15 bucks at a garage sale, I think they thought it was a dvd player considering it was on top of a vcr.
if your going to use this make sure you check the firmware update on that old kingston ssd. those drives had a firmware fix that helped them not just kill them selfs
I remember the first time I heard of this PC. I was getting a haircut before I shipped to bootcamp. nice. time flies lads. 2:57 damn I remember when GDDR3 was brand new in 2004. There is actually an OEM version of this GPU that has GDDR5.
I had the ROG G20 with the i7 and a GTX 1080 and it lasted me for quite a few years before I decided to build my own PC. When I cracked it open, I was really surprised at the inside. It still performed like a champ till the end of last year with Control.
That Cape Verde R9 255 is equivalent to an R7 250/HD7750. I used to have R7 250 Cape Verde card albeit in GDDR5 version which can run games on1366x768 on 1080p well forget about it
It would be really cool to try out hybrid crossfire. There are a couple GPUs you can crossfire with the integrated graphics on that APU. Good video as usual.
@@RandomGaminginHD I had the A8 6600k and a hd6450 it wasn't a supported gpu but you can force it with a setting in the bios most HD gpu and r7 r9 could be forced I would try it with a hd7000 serise card try for somthing 4gb it was a huge performance increase I went from not playing far cry 3 to getting 30fps low 720p with a 2gb hd6450
Oh god that's my exact PC right there, mine has a gtx750 and a 4790k in it though. I'm also running mine with a single power supply and I think that it's under powering the GPU because it often crashes while playing games at decent settings
I had a similar pc, there's a few good tutorials on RUclips on how to upgrade the graphics card. I had one with a decent power supply block so I was able to fit a blower style reference gtx 980, overkill for the processor you have but I had a higher spec machine. It's definitely the best looking pc I've had for my personal rig.
I guess it's at least twice/thrice than the reviewed PC, Athlon 3000gs have become relatively pricey compared to last year, the CPU in central Europe sells for +89€, full systems from what I can see start from at least 300€ (and I guess they come with single channel 8GB RAM, meaning you will probably want to add another RAM stick).
I have one of these, 4790, 1050ti and 16GB of ram. I fitted a 256GB SSD as a boot drive and its still holds its own against newer systems. If the mining market hadn't forced the price of newer graphics cards into the stratosphere then I would consider building a replacement, until then this does what I need and more.
Ah the Asus G20AJ was my first gaming PC. It came with 2 power bricks. Was pretty loud while gaming due to the blower fans. Stock: i7-4790, OEM blower GTX 760, 1x LPDDR3 8GB 1600, 1TB 3.5" SSHD. My mod: +1 8GB 1600, +1 64GB SSD, swapped to GTX 1070 founders
The four main areas for upgrading the 'local experts' will probably be advising you on are - Processor (Worth finding out how good a processor you can install in the socket before upgrading the GPU), Ram (16gb is a sweet spot for gaming and on this machine is more than enough) , Hard Drive (The 128gb ssd boot drive already installed so ok and the 1tb hdd for storing games is fine.), Graphics Card (This upgrade will be determined by how good a CPU you can get, no point going to high with a GPU if your CPU is limited. Also if you don't want to set up the second brick, the GPU upgrade will be limited as it will only be powered off the motherboard, using the single power brick.) A RX550 maybe possible, it needs about 10% more power than a GTX1050 which I know runs fine when I tested it on a single power brick.
bought a version of this in 2017 from Best Buy was the best decision I ever made lasted 4 years no problems though I had to replace the gpu because the fans failed on it
My friend had one of these with a 4700k and GTX 760 and he begged me to upgrade it for him. Ended up putting a capture card on it so he could use it as a 2nd streaming system for a gaming system we built. Absolutely hopeless upgrade path lol
I recently donated my old system to a friend's kid . It had the A10 6700 and a gtx 970 4gb with 16gb 1600mhz ram it's still a decent system for low settings 1080p gaming the motherboard is the fm2 not fm2+ so I basically can't go higher for the cpu . I also like the fact the last A series APU where on the am4 socket . Maybe you should try and stick a hd7000 series gpu in it and force crossfire I did with a a8 6600k and hd6450 back in the day and noticed a nice performance increase
You got 30 fps at 1080p in medium settings with 100$ pc. This performance is a miracle from this computer, i think you should be happy that you will be sorry for Gddr3. There are those who use computers with lower system specs at a higher price than that.
Gotta be honest, I expected *worse* results as soon as it came back as using DDR3 for it's GPU. The performace difference between generations of GPU memory is usually massive and I was stunned to see any of those titles hit a playable framerate, let alone 30-60 stable.
I remember before my first pc build I had been talking about a gaming PC and my dad got me one for my graduation with this exact same case and I cant remember the CPU it had but it had 8gb of ram and a gtx 750 and he paid like 1k for it and I felt bad about making him return it but Went to microcenter and built a way better rig with a gtx 970, 16gb ram, and 6700k
had this with an i5 4460 and 980 back in 2014 man it was nice but even back then the i5 did struggle in some games should had pay more for the i7 4970 version. but i do miss the pc anyway cost like 1200usd for the whole pc here in sweden cooling was great and decently queit at least mine was.
"please, don't try gaming on me, I'm begging you" ngl i laughing so hard hear that
english on point
@ShadowAngel respect the joke . the joke respects you back .
@ShadowAngel what happened to you man? It just lightened the mood and he doesn’t make jokes very often.
@Monochromatik-Vision The "Low-end Republic."
@ShadowAngel You must have a sad life, you should try to enjoy the little jokes here and there, so your life might not end up as depressing as you act like it is.
Ah the chassis still looks great imo
@jackthegamer Oh it does
Agreed, this design/chassis could be used today, and it would still look fresh imo.
Asus back in the day was pretty awesome. I had a strix card that was priced similarly to other OEMs but ran a lot cooler and quieter. Now Strix cards are so overpriced its not really worth it anymore.
@@tanmaynegi3169 well it looks like a ps4 and ps5 n ways, so yeah. Even though i find them all abominations
@@jonathansoko1085 Yeah, it does look like them in certain ways ig, especially the general design and form factor, and that was the intended goal I guess. I think both PS4 and PS5 look neat(I'm a PS4 & PS2 Slim owner and a PS fanboy in general, so that might explain I'm biased over the looks lol), but I can easily see why someone can think that they look like abominations lol.
I flipped one of these I bought off Craigslist a few years ago, I think mine had a GTX 960 and i7. Had the dual power bricks, 400W of power brick isn't exactly convenient to deal with unsurprisingly.
I never thought I’d see a upload very early in the morning, yet here I am!
11a.m. not that early
@@fur_avery *EST enters the chat*
@@Graphics_Card he lives in the UK though
@@fur_avery well there are tons of subscribers that are from the US. More specifically around this time
6 PM here in my timezone.
Fun fact: the codename of that a10 is kaveri which means friend in Finnish
Oh cool I didn’t know that, although this PC is not my friend 😂
It's also the name of a river in India I think
@@alanv1233 more toward the river than Finnish ones.
AMD vishera? River in Russia.
I remember austin evans video playing battlefield 4 only using APU code named Kaveri
Saatana
me going to do my assignments
rgihd: so anyway i started uploading
you can watch a youtube video at ANY time, it's not going away!
bruh wtf 😂
i was literally just going to start my assignment and I saw the notification
@@RobTFilms its going to run....catch it for me
same lmao
@ShadowAngel thanks 😙
This thing was also available with a 4790 and a GTX 980 and I’m pretty sure this one is still pretty good
@Russell White yes
4790 still slaps for non multitasking gaming - at least the K with overclocking does. not sure how well a 980 would hold up these days though.
@@curvingfyre6810 the 980 even it's non-Ti still flies for few years to come tho
@@baoquoc3710 good to know lol, I figured it would at least be able to run, my 1070 does, even after rescuing it from a miner. Was probably golden stock at one point, cause even after that, she holds a significant OC without any overvolting (no overvolting to reduce silicon wear and keep her alive as long as I can)
@@curvingfyre6810 ye its good teh only reason I upgraded from 980 to 3060 ti was that I ply on 1440p now.
Imagine... paying the ROG tax on a potato configuration.... :(
Yes, weird configuration. Why they didn't used much cheaper FM2 Athlon with similar performance and that price gap could brought quite a bit nicer GPU in it. Pre-built systems are sometimes so hard to understand. In that system they were spent like 20..30% of total cost into integrated graphics what never got even used. Or perhaps pricing for big companies are so different compared with retail it does not bother them at all.. who knows.
@@KasparOnTube To put it in perspective, I looked it up in the price history ... approx. 1000 USD for this configuration with only 8 GB of RAM ...
@@WirrWicht amazingly terrible
@@KasparOnTube That is to add stickers.Prebuilts are made for laymen,not people who know about hardware.
I yearned after this pre-built a few years back, I found one on my local classifieds with an i5 I believe for $500 cdn. No GPU though, which is fine.
Your GDDR3 reaction reminds me of Dawid(does tech stuff) seeing a pc with single channel memory.
😂😂
link?
@@RamkrishanYT Check out his prebuilt PC videos, especially the more recent videos. There was a Dell which I think he did a video on about 3 or 4 months ago where he tried ordering a PC with 16GB of RAM in dual channel but he ended up getting a single 16GB module.
Looks like he's crying inside, or wonder "Why did I bough this?" 😂
you can still buy laptops with gddr3 memory on GPUs. LIke 10thgen intel levels of new.
Finally! I had one of these, still have parts of it. My father bought me one for my birthday when i turned 15, came with an i7-4790 and… well, a gtx 760. The computer came with only 8 gigs of memory and A 27” 1440P 144HZ MONITOR. IN A BUNDLE ON AMAZON. It was an awful pairing but I didn’t know, still loved it. Eventually put 16gb of 1866mhz ram in (only ran at 1600, blunder #1) and a gtx 1660 (asus pheonix non-blower card, blunder #2) and significantly increased performance. Also tried to install a 1 TB samsung ssd in place of the seagate 1 TB SSHD… but the motherboard would not have it (blunder #3). Also barely ever got the new gpu to work in the mobo, literally hot swapped it in to trick the motherboard. Because it was my only pc and I hadn’t taken one apart before + needing to learn how to take it apart while doing it due to its highly proprietary nature, I never measured max GC size (blower would have fit perfectly ugh). I ended up using vice grips and a hammer (with the motherboard IN THE CASE) to break off parts of the frame to mount the GC in place. It was a miracle it worked, and i have since taken the GC and SSD and built a proper well planned PC to game with. I have plans to use the processor and SSHD from the g20 in a spare gaming pc setup for my place in the future. Still using the monitor with my current PC atm. Thankyou for reading my long comment!
yo, having 1440p 144Hz monitor back in the day in 2014 made you feel like a God then! Like going ahead of the time, until now when 1440p is just going to be popular!
@@baoquoc3710 it was certainly an upgrade and it still holds up decently where i use it till this day, but I wouldn’t pay more than $150 for it new now. The best aged feature is the stand
WAIT! have you tried crossfire? technically it should be possible to enable Dual Graphics between the 255 and the A10-7800! it would require more tests!
Spoiler, si worst, i have an old system with similar specs and the igpu just slows down everything.
@Russell White the last game i tried was zen drift and disabling crossfire really got the game playable. Really haven’t find a game that got real advantage from crossfire tho now w your suggestion I’ll look for more titles to try.
@@malatpop I had a laptop with an A10 and Radion graphics and tried that. It would shut down half of the CPU. So unless you wanted a single core performance it was a no go. Yes, I know they had "two cores per module" but each module shared FPU and scheduler.
I had one of these with a 4790k and crammed a 2080 super into it with an upgraded power supply. It was awesome. Worked and fit flawlessly
That's insane
Man, this makes me feel old. I remember when Asus launched these at Best Buy when I worked there and it was hyped up. I haven't even seen one since then. Thanks for the flood of memories my dude. 🤙
This R7 255 may be working in crossfire with integrated graphics of CPU, you need to check that
Replying for him to maybe see this comment
Good point, my gt730 got 30fps 1080p at gta v too. The performance weird
@@kientrungmai5598 Dafuq my GT 630 got like 15fps.... I played far cry 3 at 600x800 at a slick 20fps...Idk why it was so bad
@@AlpineTheHusky maybe you should check the thermals or maybe it's old. Tech degrade through time
@@kientrungmai5598 It was at 60C max but it was a messed up thing anyway.
oh these looked so cool back in the day, i remember one i looked at purchasing back in the day with a 750ti
I used to have one myself, it had i5 4460 and GTX 750 Ti which I later upgraded to GTX 1050 Ti. At the time I knew nothing about computers but managed to swap the gpu without any problem. It was ok PC but after 6 years of use the cpu died due to the fans dying. Luckily the 1050 Ti survived and I built my first parts PC around it :)
Man it's like you upload at the perfect time when there's nothing else worth watching
I remember going absolutely nuts over the LTT video when this thing came out
@Denis Stop Spam, eat reports.
@Denis Spam, its repeating the same thing over and over again, also this "picture" and your pfp is against the youtubes terms of service.
@Denis What does it look like.... (it's considered porn) it looks like a female undressing.....
@Denis Go right on ahead. I'l show YT all of this...
@Denis Good luck. You will need it.
Tbf as someone whom had owned one of these at top spec I can say from my experience it really wasn't that bad as long as you were running both power banks and you could also adjust the settings via Asus dashboard that was pre installed
1:43 this face will certainly haunt me for years to come. This PC is clearly sentient.
I remember this two plug thing, it could hold upto GTX 780
Hey man, I just wanted you to know that I've been seeing your vids now for many, many years but despite that, I always skip them to what I'm really interested in.
Not a compliment lol but not an offense either, I mean...I always find what I came for and you get the views. Nice job. 👍
I buy and sell PCs as a hobby, sometimes for extra cash and I always use vids, many of them yours, as a benchmark and guidance point to my pricing when reselling here in Spain.
By making this PC, Asus made it impossible to find better looking PC case. Seriously, they should make a PC case like this for ITX DIY PCs. I own one of those and it is still amazing. The only flaw is that it has a special, dedicated motherboard, which severely limits upgradeability. You are stuck with older cpu socket, so you can not use better cpu. Also, memory is limited to 16 gigs max (2 slots). Only thing worth upgrading is to replace HDD with SSD for better gaming (sata 3 only, as this motherboard does not have nvme slots). But, even today, this machine from 2014 with I7 4790 & GTX 980 is still amazing for 1080p 60+ FPS, even in newer titles.
7:00 nice, looking forward to that one :)
The case is still sick. You should do an upgraded custom build inside
Yeah it’s awesome. I think it’ll be difficult to do as the motherboard is entirely custom but it could be done with some patience and an ITX board I guess
I bought G20 in 2017 that had these specs un ussa: i7-6700
Memory: 16GB
OS Version: Microsoft Windows 10 64-bit (Build 15063)
GTX 1070 & loved it!
I had a ROG G20aj, that version had a i5 4460, 8gb ddr3, gtx750. Bought another 8gb of ram, the second psu and upgraded to a gtx 1060. Finding the psu was a pain in the ass btw
The desktop computer with the heart of a laptop! ❤
Damn... that design looks really cool. It's like a modified PS4. It even uses my old computer's processor (which my brother is now currently using).
My brothers first and only OEM PC was an Asus ROG G20J with an i5-4460, 8GB DDDR3, and a GTX 750 Ti.
I upgraded it with a GTX 1050 Ti, switched to 16GB (2X8GB) and a brand new 240GB SSD in it. It still going strong at a friend.
I actually purchased the rog g20aj few months after release I upgraded the gpu to a Gtx 1070 and left the stock cpu which is a i7-4790 which isn’t bad is 2021 I use it now as a backup pc this little machine has held its own for many years
Im currently using a Lenovo prebuilt that i bought in 2015 with an AMD a10 7800 that I recently (somewhat jankily) added an aftermarket 450 watt power supply and a 4gb RX570 to... and I'm honestly still surprised at how well this thing runs all these years in!! (it did also come stock with 12gb of ram for some reason, glad ive not had to upgrade that) if you pair the hardware right, these old APUs have a bit of life left and are good for a low spec build in my opinion
back in 2014 I had a Lenovo Erazer entry level prebuilt with the R9 255, It was pretty rough. Sure it handled some stuff but it definitely didn't like most games released after 2011. Being an OEM card there isnt much info on it online either
2:52 u got me good I thought my screen frozed
I find it crazy how my i9-10850k’s integrated graphics surpass the gpu in there😂 I remember playing gmod on my dual core celeron at like 10 frames having the time of my life
I had a pentium 6gb ram laptop with intel HD 2000 back in 2014 lol. Now running a ryzen 7 5800x, rtx 3080, 32gb ram system
I got my son one for Christmas last year. 200$. I5-4590 and a rx560 4gb with 16gb of ram. He loves it
-I have one of these. They work very well and I still game on it. Mine has the i7 7700, Nvidia 1070, 16gb DDR4.
My daughter loves this little machine. :)
I had a Alienware Alpha R1, a ultra small form factor PC. It had 4th Gen i7 4785T, GTX 860m (essentially low powered GTX 750ti), and 1TB HDD (I later on upgraded it to 512 GB SSD). The Alpha came out around 2013 like the ASUS ROG PC in this video and was marketed towards console gamers. It was a cool tiny unique computer, but there weren't many paths to upgrade it. The motherboard, GPU, power supply was completely proprietary to Dell that was why I no longer use it as my main system. I bought it used 5 years ago for $300 US from a local seller and I sold it last year to a friend.
I actually own a R9 255 with 1GB of GDDR5, and it actually is surprisingly okay. I pulled it from a Lenovo prebuilt that had a dead mainboard. For Games released before 2012 it's perfectly okay, if 1080p/30FPS is what youre looking for.
Ah the A10, R9 combo. I had this in my cheap old laptop from 6-7 yrs back
Hey RandomGaming, this might be an interesting read for you as I am currently using this pc. I actually have this same model of pc but I purchased mine refurbished in 2017 for around $900. It had an i7 6700, gtx 1070, and 16gb of ram. However, it was really disappointing because it ended up failing on me as the GPU started artifcating and died 3 months later (ironically 2 days after the warranty too). I ended up buying a gtx 1080 but at that point i'd sunk too much into the pc.
I have one of the more powerful supplies left. My friend owned one of these recently and tearing it apart to put a 1060 was a nightmare. It worked regardless lol.
Used to have this one with the GTX 750 and i5 back in 2015 until the GPU and the hard drive fried back in 2018. I really miss using this computer.
bought around 2014 my PC which was a cheap prebuild which cost me exactly 935€ which had a bad motherboard and a bad psu (720W) but a FX8350 ,a GTX980 and 16 gb DDR3 1600 mhz and its still working today even after the motherboard is slowly dying it really makes me happy to see that this PC nearly cost the same around 2014
Dude, you should try to upgrade this PC. Put a better CPU and a 1030/1050 and this baby will fly. I would love to see such a video.
i have the G20CB which came with the 2 PSUs and a i7 6700, GTX 980 configuration. Changed the 980 for a 2060 super and ive been using it with no issues!
I still have my ROG G20AJ which I bought at launch! i5 4460 with 16GB and a GTX960, I now use it for light editing.
It would be most interesting for me to see if you can swap out all of the components with more high end ones.
Or is it close to impossible thanks to custom mainboard and the missing PSU?
Fm2+ doesn't have much to offer as a socket
@@thefirstbushman So no Mainboard swap possible?
"oh no, oh no, gddr3"
I'm using a 2gb ddr3 graphics and I'm still *kinda ok* with it
Few months ago mine was also GDD3 and was doing well. GT 750M 4GB.
8gb of gddr5 in a rx580, kind of good but not what I would call great still today
@@vipervidsgamingplus5723 why not? 8gb will be just fine for 1440p. The memory doesn't hold this card back whatsoever. It's actually good since you can crank texture details for better visuals with no performance drop
@@adrianrylski8794 at 1440p ultrawide thats gonna suffer
@@vipervidsgamingplus5723 my uncle has it
I had one of these! Tossed a Gtx 960 4GB into it. Was a decent rig but I hated taking off the rear red trim to open it up. Always broke pieces off. I always used to pinch cables too
The two questions that come to mind for me:
1) Would the onboard graphics of the A10 perform better?
2) Is the hardware there to allow you to add a second power brick?
These machines look really nice. I wonder if they use a standard ITX board or if it is custom.
No an a10 would not preform better especially due to it only having 1gb gddr5 and for question 2 I do not believe it is possible with the space availabe
My older brother got one of these at an auction for about $20 and flipped it in like a day for $300 I think. It had a 750ti
Torrented Cyberpunk desktop icon 👀
Love the design. If they released this as the PS5 design, I wouldn't be mad. It looks great still.
I like the looks and aesthetics of that case. It would make for a nice itx mod/build.
So this was my first ever PC that I could game on. This thing overheated a whole lot and resulted in my FPS just dropping to a slideshow so I changed out the GPU to a 950 (no idea what was originally inside) and then had more issues as the GPU was not designed for the small form factor case for cooling wise. I then completely ripped it apart and just have it sitting in pieces in my garage somewhere and thus started building my own PC. If that thing wouldn't have been so horrible, I probably would of never learned and jumped into the custom PC building community. The GPU in that computer is nowhere near the one I had. I want to assume it was around when they first came out and I want to say it was maybe a 750 but I sold that GPU to a friend at school so I have no idea on what it was.
mine came with a 750, I still have it. It was a nice card for the time, and still works well. The design was super wacked with that dumb pcie right-angle riser they had to put it on, but they somehow managed to stuff a full-width gpu in there lmao
Found a much higher grade version (with a 1070) of this for 15 bucks at a garage sale, I think they thought it was a dvd player considering it was on top of a vcr.
i want to see if an itx machine with pico power supply can be fitted in this chassis.
Me too. I'd like to see if something like a 1650 could be fitted to this with a new motherboard
Oh i remember seeing this in a pc shop back in the day. Think it was the top spec model which still holds up to this day
Man good luck in there with the upgrades. I have bashed my head against that thing forever.
if your going to use this make sure you check the firmware update on that old kingston ssd. those drives had a firmware fix that helped them not just kill them selfs
I remember the first time I heard of this PC. I was getting a haircut before I shipped to bootcamp. nice. time flies lads.
2:57 damn I remember when GDDR3 was brand new in 2004. There is actually an OEM version of this GPU that has GDDR5.
When you did the extended facepalm for some reason I was sure you were going to do an AngryJoe 'Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!' Lol
Haha why do gddr3 cards exist
I have one of these. It’s configured with a i5-4460 and a GTX 750. Although I have since upgraded it with a 1050 and bumped up the ram to 16GB
Remember seeing this in a bestbuy in 2014, wanted it so bad.
It's weird saying this but that Tomb Raider on low settings looked pretty in a stylized sense, specifically Lara husf looked really nice
If you're feeling intrepid, I'd like to see a modern PC packed into one of those cases. The case itself really did stand the test of time.
that case is a NIGHTMARE, what do you mean?
I had the ROG G20 with the i7 and a GTX 1080 and it lasted me for quite a few years before I decided to build my own PC. When I cracked it open, I was really surprised at the inside. It still performed like a champ till the end of last year with Control.
That Cape Verde R9 255 is equivalent to an R7 250/HD7750. I used to have R7 250 Cape Verde card albeit in GDDR5 version which can run games on1366x768
on 1080p well forget about it
I still have an old MSI laptop from this era, it had an A-10 5750m, and a Radeon HD 8970. The CPU holds it back in almost every aspect.
It would be really cool to try out hybrid crossfire. There are a couple GPUs you can crossfire with the integrated graphics on that APU. Good video as usual.
Yeah hybrid crossfire has always interested me. Not sure if I’ve done it before but always worth a revisit even if I have
@@RandomGaminginHD I had the A8 6600k and a hd6450 it wasn't a supported gpu but you can force it with a setting in the bios most HD gpu and r7 r9 could be forced I would try it with a hd7000 serise card try for somthing 4gb it was a huge performance increase I went from not playing far cry 3 to getting 30fps low 720p with a 2gb hd6450
The case looks really sexy ! Black and red.... I guess if you are picky , you can find other parts to replace the CPU/ GPU.
Nice !
Oh god that's my exact PC right there, mine has a gtx750 and a 4790k in it though. I'm also running mine with a single power supply and I think that it's under powering the GPU because it often crashes while playing games at decent settings
I can't believe that this is now only for 140$, when this was released in my country way back 2013 it cost around 1,000$
its useless junk without any option to upgrade, look cool but shit can
Lol your reaction to GDDR3 😂
I had a similar pc, there's a few good tutorials on RUclips on how to upgrade the graphics card.
I had one with a decent power supply block so I was able to fit a blower style reference gtx 980, overkill for the processor you have but I had a higher spec machine.
It's definitely the best looking pc I've had for my personal rig.
For a little more you probably buy an Athalon 3000 system and get way more performance.
I guess it's at least twice/thrice than the reviewed PC, Athlon 3000gs have become relatively pricey compared to last year, the CPU in central Europe sells for +89€, full systems from what I can see start from at least 300€ (and I guess they come with single channel 8GB RAM, meaning you will probably want to add another RAM stick).
I used to see this on display at my local GAME years ago and I really loved the look!
I have one of these, 4790, 1050ti and 16GB of ram. I fitted a 256GB SSD as a boot drive and its still holds its own against newer systems. If the mining market hadn't forced the price of newer graphics cards into the stratosphere then I would consider building a replacement, until then this does what I need and more.
Honestly it's not too dirty. I'm shocked tbh. Thanks for all your videos. I appreciate your content.
I had one of these with the i7-6700 and 1070. Awesome little PC.
I have that pc 3-4 years ago. Still using for watching movies sometimes :D
i was just thinking the other day how cool this case looked, but it was only a prebuild you'd have to buy.. wish ASUS made a full custom tower version
Ah the Asus G20AJ was my first gaming PC. It came with 2 power bricks. Was pretty loud while gaming due to the blower fans.
Stock: i7-4790, OEM blower GTX 760, 1x LPDDR3 8GB 1600, 1TB 3.5" SSHD.
My mod: +1 8GB 1600, +1 64GB SSD, swapped to GTX 1070 founders
Awesome upgrade :)
i like the case, bet you could build a really nice unit into that, maybe an APU build would suit it.
The four main areas for upgrading the 'local experts' will probably be advising you on are -
Processor (Worth finding out how good a processor you can install in the socket before upgrading the GPU), Ram (16gb is a sweet spot for gaming and on this machine is more than enough)
, Hard Drive (The 128gb ssd boot drive already installed so ok and the 1tb hdd for storing games is fine.), Graphics Card (This upgrade will be determined by how good a CPU you can get, no point going to high with a GPU if your CPU is limited. Also if you don't want to set up the second brick, the GPU upgrade will be limited as it will only be powered off the motherboard, using the single power brick.) A RX550 maybe possible, it needs about 10% more power than a GTX1050 which I know runs fine when I tested it on a single power brick.
bought a version of this in 2017 from Best Buy was the best decision I ever made lasted 4 years no problems though I had to replace the gpu because the fans failed on it
This apu should work as dual graphic card with the r9 255. Review if there is something to activate both gpus...
That was my first pc desktop and as soon as I upgraded to a 970, the PSU smoked lol
I have a GR8 with a 4510u and a 750ti, really showing it's limits nowadays
Looking forward to the follow up video!
wow that pc case lid is sure is powerful
My friend had one of these with a 4700k and GTX 760 and he begged me to upgrade it for him.
Ended up putting a capture card on it so he could use it as a 2nd streaming system for a gaming system we built. Absolutely hopeless upgrade path lol
holy early in the morning mr rgind
I think it's noon in the UK, lol.
@@DavidRomanKC its 11 a.m. in the uk
@@DavidRomanKC lmao that would make sense as I live in the us
I recently donated my old system to a friend's kid . It had the A10 6700 and a gtx 970 4gb with 16gb 1600mhz ram it's still a decent system for low settings 1080p gaming the motherboard is the fm2 not fm2+ so I basically can't go higher for the cpu . I also like the fact the last A series APU where on the am4 socket . Maybe you should try and stick a hd7000 series gpu in it and force crossfire I did with a a8 6600k and hd6450 back in the day and noticed a nice performance increase
You got 30 fps at 1080p in medium settings with 100$ pc. This performance is a miracle from this computer, i think you should be happy that you will be sorry for Gddr3. There are those who use computers with lower system specs at a higher price than that.
Gotta be honest, I expected *worse* results as soon as it came back as using DDR3 for it's GPU.
The performace difference between generations of GPU memory is usually massive and I was stunned to see any of those titles hit a playable framerate, let alone 30-60 stable.
I remember before my first pc build I had been talking about a gaming PC and my dad got me one for my graduation with this exact same case and I cant remember the CPU it had but it had 8gb of ram and a gtx 750 and he paid like 1k for it and I felt bad about making him return it but Went to microcenter and built a way better rig with a gtx 970, 16gb ram, and 6700k
had this with an i5 4460 and 980 back in 2014 man it was nice
but even back then the i5 did struggle in some games
should had pay more for the i7 4970 version.
but i do miss the pc anyway cost like 1200usd for the whole pc here in sweden
cooling was great and decently queit at least mine was.
I genuinely love this channel.