Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “The ETSY Gaming PC Build”.
We’Ve had a mixed track record when it comes to Etsy, because for every cool thing that we’ve found in the past there’s something equally horrible that is also lurking on the site., But this time around we have a game plan.. On one end, we are going to be building the most mid PC of all time, using the Steam hardware survey, as well as bestselling on Amazon and Newegg.. But then we’re going to be spicing it up with some accessories and accoutrement from Etsy.com.. What could possibly go wrong? Getting flashbacks to the Charmander PC. Now you’ll see that when choosing the most average PC you’re gon na get some components that are decidedly not a good idea., So take our graphics card..
So this is a GeForce 3060., So that is by far the most popular GPU in the Steam hardware. Survey. Makes sense: it’s a pretty decent mid-range card from a few years ago.. However, that version is the eight gig which you literally just can’t buy anymore.. So the obvious choice, if you were buying this today, would be the 12 gig. Same thing goes for the CPU.. It’S actually a little bit of an odd choice.. So this is the Intel Core.
I5 10600K. You’ll probably be sensing a little bit of a trend here. In that the average PC on Steam is a couple of years old, which makes a lot of sense, but this is still quite a reasonable CPU.. It’S gon na have a lot of performance and actually goes for a lot of our other components.. But at the end of this I wan na find out how good is the average Steam user’s PC setup. Now it’s time to actually build this most average PC and to complete the package we’re going to be grabbing a bunch of the bestselling accessories that go along With it., So we have mouse keyboard, monitor which best matches the actual performance that you’re gon na get out of a 1080p display that is used by the majority of Steam users., Starting with this, the Razer Ornata V3 gaming keyboard. And it’s well. It’S not great. Sounds like a bag of bones., Hey where’s. The mouse Did I forget, to buy the bestselling mouse from Amazon. Oh wow, look at that A G502 Hero, the bestselling mouse on Amazon that I definitely already had and didn’t forget to order. ( laughing ).
Look at that. Real talk, though this actually is one of the bestselling mice for a reason.. It doesn’t look super exciting, but it is a very competent mouse for not a lot of money. Mouse is good.. Keyboard is fine. If you have no taste.
To round out the boring setup, we have the most popular monitor, which actually, I think might be good, unlike some of this other stuff, which is a little bit questionable.. Now it’s always a test when you pick up a cheap monitor., How light is it? Oh, it’s not ultra super light. It’S just regular light..
I mean that seems fine right. 90 bucks.. Let’S start looking at some Etsy items and let’s begin upgrading this setup into something that you can actually be proud: of., Okay, so I’m gon na start out real broad.
We’re just gon na type in gaming PC.. Now I do not wan na purchase an actual gaming PC, which I know there are plenty of.. So this is a 1.3” OLED that you can plug into your PC as an accessory.. So they’ve got here like Ethereum pricing, but you also could see like your CPU or GPU temperature or something.. That’S really neat.. What is an ice PC set Ice-themed decoration for your PC., So basically it’s a whole icy setup that you can magnetically attach to your PC.. That’S actually kinda neat.. This is so sick. Absolutely..
I hope that we have a white case right: A Glorious Model, O Wireless Charging – Dock.. Oh that’s neat.! So, instead of using Qi or something when you actually do it, it will attach the mouse to the top.. That’S really sick.
Create your own custom printed, RGB, GPU backplate., Oh yeah. We should do this., That’s actually really cool.. So it looks like it’s got like RGB built into the actual back plate.. If we can use Etsy to take the most mid PC of all time and turn it into something which not only is super functional but also looks really cool. Man two thumbs up for this., I’m excited dude., We’re finding so much good stuff here.. Oh God, It’s cat ears tail and feet for your PC.
( Alex laughing ). You know what we were doing so good with this aesthetic sort of picks and now we’re just gon na throw it all away. Look at this boring setup..
If only we had a wide variety of wonderful items from Etsy to make it less boring and less normal., Oh wait. We do. This first one.
I saw it on Etsy and I was like you know what I need this in my life. And I would argue, a lot of gamers probably need this in their lives too. And no, it’s not deodorant..
Behold my friends. The one and only smells like video game rage. Candle.. Now you might ask what Austin does video game rage smell like And to that I would say: ( audience: jeering ), like a candle, okay., ( cricket, chirring, ), Hey Okay., [ Joanna ]. Is this a fire hazard having it like right next to your PC Candles have never caused. Are you trying to insinuate that candles could start fires Boy? I really do not have a-, Oh, maybe not over the fire.. Don’T put that over the fire. Oh, oh! Oh yeah yeah, good point., Oh wait! All your followers Did someone somehow figure out who I am based on placing an order for a bunch of PC parts on Etsy under the name, Austin Evans [, Alex ]. What You’re, not Pierre Luigi, what I forgot to order as Pierre Luigi., That was very nice Etsy..
Thank you for giving us some extra bonuses.. I can’t be mean to you, because you wrote a nice note.. You can still be mean to them.
No. No. [ Alex ]. All right can I be mean to him. Apparently, if you scan the QR code, you get 35 % off.
Yeah, you can be mean to me.. That’S fine. [ Alex ]. Yes, So this is what we actually ordered..
So this should go something like this. On the bottom of our system.. [ Alex ], Damnit Zeke, it’s good.. I can’t roast you., That’s legitimately terrific.. That’S really really cool. Wait! A minute.
Am I about to put a huge amount of white accessories into a black case. I hope that we have a white case right, So after unboxing most of our Etsy items, I realized that with a black case and all white accessories, I made a little boo boo.. So it’s time to go back to the drawing board and see how we can fix.
This. Also, did I just say: boo, boo, unironically, (, upbeat music, ) Ooh that smells like success. My friends.
Welcome to the most boring gaming PC, or so it was because now I’ve got ta say that when you look at the Etsy-ified system we have built here, it is one of the coolest PCs, I’ve ever built., And by me I mean y’all did most Of the work’cause, I got frustrated yesterday.. So since we originally built the system, we obviously swapped it out to the white version of the Corsair case.’Cause. I forgot to order the white one to begin with. So that part’s fine.
We had to swap the motherboard, because the super cheapo board that we originally worked with had no RGB headers whatsoever. Between that between our desk mat between our fact that we did have to Swap the keyboard, because when we realized the Razer keyboard didn’t have easily swappable keycaps we swapped over to this, which is the Royal Kludge.. We have our full Unown set of key caps and by full I mean just the QWERTY ones.. All that was left was we had to swap out the cooler, because some of our accessories we later realized after we ordered them, were meant for an AIO and not a air cooler., Which is fine because look how lovely this is.? Okay, let me walk you through all the things we’ve done, here. So, starting out with we have all of these icicles.. So this is all purchased from a single Etsy seller.. So we have them along the top.. We have them along our AIO tubing..
We have it on our AIO pump on the fans. Those are actually really cool because it’s not only a grille, but also it has a little spikes.. We have’em on the bottom., And on top of that we have augmented it with some actual legitimate, real crystals..
We have a large amount of Overclock logos, everywhere. In fact even on our desk mat.. So if you’re a big fan of Overclock Media and white, then this is the system for you. Might be describing myself right now maybe.. But you know what It’s fine..
So we’ve got ourselves this bottom display., So it has a small 3.5 inch display that has we’ve got it programmed with a little Pikachu set up. So we can see CPU temperature SSD, that kind of stuff., But it also does have the Overclock logo etched in it, and it has some LEDs inside.. We also have a custom LED back plate for our RTX 3060., So this is specifically designed for the MSI card. So it just attaches right, like that..
On top of that, we also have some of these Overclock fan shrouds, which is actually kindly given it to us by one of the Etsy sellers who recognized the channel.. So shout out., Oh God did I just do the … Blessed Hmm. Blessings.? Is this a silly setup and way too much work for the most boring computer Absolutely.? Does it look sick, Yes.
And look at the giant Overclock logo, which is our GPU support.? The GPU does not need a support, but it’s a full 3D printed, Overclock logo.. How cool is that Not to mention the fact in case you forget my name: it’s right! Here., Oh and we’ve got this really really dumb. Little cart for the PC, which I will say not a big fan of, but luckily all this was very affordable.. I was no, it was priceless.
Wait. We didn’t spend more on Etsy than we did build at the PC. Did we [ Alex ] (, laughs, ) Well., The PC, including all the accessories? So that’s, including the headphones? The mouse, the keyboard., The whole setup. [, Alex ] The whole setup.
Yep. [, Alex ] Is a little bit. It’S $ 1,100.. We spent $ 1,100 on the most average PC.. I mean to be fair. It is monitor everything but okay.
[ Alex ], All the Etsy stuff was over $ 800 and that’s, including all the various discounts that Etsy was like “, Hey since you’re spending. So much you want a discount on stuff ?”. Oh, my God., So you’re telling me that we spent over $ 800 on Etsy, and people gave us a bunch of free like half the stuff was free extra bonus, goodies and then the rest of the stuff is little …. Let’S put this all to the test and see., While the extra money we have spent certainly has not given us any extra FPS it’ll give us some extra CPS., ( disc, scratching ), Not Child Protective Services. Cool points and style.. So just as a refresher.
This system, as flashy as it is, is using very much standard components.. This is an Intel Core, i5 10600K, as well as an RTX 3060 and 16 gigs of RAM., So I mean according to Steam. This is, as average as average components get. Time to get number one Victory. Royale., Let’s go. There we go.
Look at that., I’m so good at Fortnite. I mean this is obviously a great experience right. Ah Nope nope, nope nope runaway runaway. We’re rocking 120 FPS 1080p..
No problems whatsoever., If this is what the average person is using they’re, actually getting a pretty good experience. Like realistically I mean uh-oh, I disconnected what Wait. I lost internet and yet the game is still continuing. What Well I got confused.. I really think that if this is the average system that people are using, it’s actually really not bad.. Now, I’m not gon na talk to you at all about the price to performance of taking the most average system and upgrading it., But once you can play a game at a nice smooth frame rate at decent settings, everything else on top of that, it’s nice for Future proofing and blah blah blah., But look ultimately, are you really gon na notice that big of a difference Is this gon na change? Your experience that much, I would argue, no.
If you really want a PC to exemplify your creativity. If you really wan na show off what you’re all about you could actually save some money in instead of buying a 4070 Super or whatever put that towards some cool Etsy accessories. Like. I actually think that for a lot of people, the wow factor of this system is worth something., Maybe not $ 800., But I legitimately this is a very usable setup., I’m pretty happy with how we were able to turn the most boring gaming PC in the universe Into something that honestly, it’s a vibe., Is it your vibe, I’m not sure.. Did I win by doing literally nothing? Yes, I did., But sometimes in life, much like with Etsy, you get what you get and you’re, either happy with it or you got ta, go and return your crystals. [ Joanna ] On the bright side, you’re a crystal girl, now.
[, Alex ] Eyy, shout out.. I well ever since Mercury’s been in retrograde, I’ve been feeling a kind of way like I spent too much money on Etsy .