Awesome Budget Gaming PC for under $399 you can Build Now!
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- Here is the full build of my sub $399 gaming PC that performs very well.
CPU: i3 10100F ($80 and outperforms the i7 7700)
Gigabyte B460m with wifi/bluetooth ($65ish on Newegg)
GPU: GTX 1060 6GB ($150 on eBay auction... prices are falling for these)
512GB M.2 SP SSD ($39 on Newegg)
RAM: 16GB Samsung DDR4 2666 (took it from a prebuilt that I sold for parts).
Case: Allied Stinger with RGB fans ($45 on Amazon... Don't wast money on RGB when you can find cases that give it away at no extra cost).
Power supply: 600 watt semi modular Cooler Master Silent Pro 80+ bronze (took out of a different PC).
This build was focused on price/performance, not looks (yes, with a little extra money you can make it prettier). The RGB case just happened to have the best airflow for the price range in the mATX form factor. You can find some similarly priced DIY PC cases on Newegg, but I thought this one was better. Case prices change a lot though, and they frequently go on sale.
Games Tested (all at 1080p):
Fallout 4, Ultra
The Witcher 3, High
Borderlands 3, High and Medium
Bright Memory Infinite, High
Shadow of the Tomb Raider, High
Notes on how to get the parts for this PC:
Prices on the i3 12100F are currently dropping since filming this. So, if you can find a 12th gen motherboard for a good price then this CPU is better. At the time I ordered these parts the 12th gen was $40 more and motherboards were like $30 more. So, that put me $70 over budget for an unnoticeably slight performance gain.
Watch out for boards being sold without I/O shields. It's annoying....
The board I picked in this build isn't the best, but it was the best price for what you get.
When hunting for a GPU check local deals first. If using eBay check both auctions and buy it now frequently to find best deals. Look for best offers and make offers. Make sure the seller has good ratings and the GPU has been tested and has photos with no visible damage.
SSD prices fluctuate a lot. So, one brand is the best deal one day, but not the next. Shop around.
You can often find RAM in prebuilts or motherboards that you can resell after taking the RAM out. It's not too hard to get RAM like this at no cost. But you can also get it on eBay or Amazon for pretty cheap.
Cases: You do not need a new case. People are often throwing away good case and power supplies. Even old prebuilt cases usually work if they have enough ventilation. Air flow matters 1000x more than RGB does. Unless you are reselling the PC: people are attracted to RGB like moths to bug zappers....
Alternative new budget GPUs to consider:
GTX 1650, RX 6500, RX 6400
Alternative used GPUs:
GTX 970, 980, 1650, 1070, 1080, 1660
RX 470, 480, 570, 580, 5500, 5600
Alternative CPUs to Consider:
i5 9th gen, i5 10th gen, i3 12100
Used options:
i5 6500/7500/6600/7600, i7 6700, 7700, i3 9100
At this price point I can't really recommend any AMD CPUs right now, but I expect that will change soon.
P.S. I chose to show my face in this one because I get a lot of comments assuming I'm a teenage boy 😂
Maybe my interests shown on this channel [and my voice] fit that demographic better, but I am, in fact, a middle aged woman 😎
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Ur actually so underrated. This is such a simple yet informative video for building on a budget!
Thanks so much! I really appreciate the support. Times have been rough for me the past few years, and it means a lot to hear that someone appreciates my skills ☺
Keep it going. Price to perform is tops.
Thanks. I appreciate the support 😁
I would be happy to have a pc built like this i cant complain
Perfect kinda build for the younger crowd. I built something similar for my 9 year old.
I totally agree. I built something similar years ago with my son as well: an i5 6600k, 256GB m.2, 1TB HDD, a 4GB GTX 960, and 16 GB of RAM. We used mainly used hardware though, and it cost a little more, but this is basically the modern equivalent of that, but better. My son still uses that system (though he's upgraded it a bit) and he's about to start his first professional programming teaching job (he's still a teen). It's amazing the difference $500 (that was the cost of his) and a bit of effort can have in a kid's life with a little direction.
My kid is actually the one who inspired me to get back into tech stuff because he wanted me to teach him what I knew and he also wished I had finished the games I started making in the '90s (which is what Sky Realm, the game I show off on this channel is) before that I had gone many years without even owning a desktop PC, after working in IT for a decade, almost going blind and feeling burnt out with technology.
I started building PCs from parts I got out of a dumpster behind a local business when I was about 13 because my family was poor. It's nice to be able to give our kids better opportunities than we had.
11:23 I spy a Lego Mindstorms EV3 😁
25:04 Your character is wearing the same dress as you wore in the video 🙂
Great job on the build, I always find budget builds more interesting than expensive ones. I like the case, a great budget option!
It is indeed a Mindstorms EV3 with NXT parts (since I only bought the EV3 brick). I use mindstorms robots a lot when I teach physics. They are great for analyzing various kinds of motion. I may make a few mindstorms videos as well. I love your channel by the way. 😁
@@IronwingTechHaven Thanks! I'd love to see some Mindstorms videos from you! I have an EV3 I won in a goodwill auction online, I cleaned the battery acid damage but haven't used it for anything yet. I tend to use the older stuff since I'm more familiar with it. I'm sure I'll get around to the EV3 eventually 🙂
The proper way to magnetize a screwdriver is to rub it across the magnet one way only. Also keep the magnet away from mechanical hard drives.
I didn't use any mechanical hard drives in this build. So, that is not a concern I felt like addressing. Also, is there really a 'proper' way if just rubbing it on a magnet any which way works? Yes, I have tried several ways, and they all work. However, I would love to hear your explanation of why this is the proper way.
Also, thanks for stopping by my channel! ☺
@@IronwingTechHaven I don't know fir sure what the benefit of proper technique is but my best guess is that it is faster. Also you are one of the few channels that care about power consumption thank you for providing useful information.
@@grahamgamedev perhaps it stays magnetic longer as well? I'll have to give it a try. Also, you can magnetize them with a coil and a battery too, but that's more effort, but can sometimes last quite a bit longer if done right.
I'm planning on doing many more videos in the future on low power gaming. I'll probably start by showing how to undervolt a system like this one to dramatically reduce the power consumption with very little impact on the gaming experience.
@@IronwingTechHaven I have thought about undervolting but modern hardware makes it difficult.
Your eyes are gorgeous and enigmatic gothic look.. wooooo You should be world class model.
This is like what i am building, i like ryzen so i am using a Ryzen 5 1600, with 16gb 3000mhz ram, 500gb m.2 ssd (unfortunatly sata but it should be fine), a b350m motherboard, and an EVGA 1060 6gb (actually indecisive on the GPU)
The 1060 should be good with that CPU.
are you using kdenlive video editor around 34:40 ? Because this is my go to video editor
This is very similar to what I built 2 years ago. I changed my main rigs mobo cpu & ram to a gigabyte h310, 9100f & 16gb gskill 2400. ($167 iirc) I struggle in tasks that need more cores/threads so I'm thinking of building a older oem xeon rig to replace my secondary pc and selling it for more than the oem cost. Wii U & PS3 emulation I'm willing to bet do better on old xeons than these fast but low thread count i3's.
It would be interesting to see if you are right about old Xeons outperforming these in certain tasks.
From Raven to Raven, you are so lovely and I wish you everything that you dream of
Aw, that is so nice of you to say. I bet you are lovely as well. Thank you for the kind words and I wish you all the best in all of your life's pursuits.
Your videos are really relaxing! Ever thought about doing ASMR?
I take that as a huge compliment. It has crossed my mind actually. ☺
I definitely would need a better microphone though.
Awsome !!
I want to build a budget pc like this because i dont want to spend $500 or more.
will the i5 3570 + GTX 1060 be the bottleneck?
I think you're asking if that i5 will bottleneck the GTX 1060, and from what I can tell, in most cases the answer is no. That CPU should be fine for most games, but that's really the tricky part. It depends on whether the game is CPU intensive or GPU intensive and it also depends on if the CPU takes advantage of higher core counts than 4, not just on the hardware, but I think that i5 should be fine. Either way, it will provide a playable experience in a lot of titles, so it's not a bad paring. Just to give you an idea, with all of my games with an i3 10100f (which outperforms that i5) the CPU is only at around 40% before the GPU is makes out on 1080p high settings. So, the GTX 1060 will most likely be maxed out before that CPU hits 100%, but like I said, it depends on the game too.
@@IronwingTechHaven ok thanks so much
@@dayummm217 good luck with your build!
Was it pair of 8gb ddr4 or 16gb per module?
A pair of 8GB DDR4 2666MHz.
I don't think more than 16 would have benefited this system at all.
@@IronwingTechHaven ok, gocha, but having more ram usually will lasting longer and save money from future upgrade. Currently I have 64gb ddr4 on my 11400f, 128gb ddr4 on 12400f and 256gb ddr4 on my 7920x. All of them will expect to be in service until 2030s. My last built was q9650 w/16gb ddr3 and e7300 w/8gb ddr2 that made in 2008 and it last me 12 years until i got my 7920x in 2020.
@@hanrinch well, if I need more RAM the board has 4 slots. So, finding two more matching sticks in the future is pretty trivial. I have never had trouble finding matching RAM on eBay for almost nothing.
My 10 year old laptop has 32 GB of RAM, and I never use more than 8. 😂
So, I'll believe that future-proofing statement I hear from a lot of people when I actually see it.
But I wasn't building this for myself anyway. I was building it to show people how to build an inexpensive but effective gaming PC. I have since resold it, and there was no point in spending the extra money for extra RAM that no one cares about in a budget build anyway.
Also, I got the 8 GB sticks for free.
So, my goal was not to make the best PC, but to make a good PC I could easily resell to get a bit of profit.
Also, I think the money you spent on all that RAM probably would have made more sense to put into a better CPU, GPU or PSU unless you plan on using it as a server or running a load of VMs.
How much RAM you need above 8GB really has little to do with how long you expect to use your PC and more to do with what you plan on doing with it.
I mean, my main computer is my Lenovo T420 from 2011 and for what I do with it (including video editing) 8GB has always been more than enough.
So, we can't make blanket statements like "you would have been better off doing such and such instead" unless we also know the kinds of work loads the user will be working with.
@@IronwingTechHaven true, always get yourself in the balance between cost and quality/lifespan. I liked to max out because I hate to open the case again once I finish the built. Again, your comment taught me well, thank you!
The main reason why I got rip off q9650 is because the processor is aging to the fact it is no longer running newer programs that require FMA instruction and graphic card is also outdated, however the 16gb ddr3 is still going strong after 12 years of used and sold all modules together for 100 bucks. The board was giving up to goodwill and cpu/gpu gave away to the recycling.
I need for programming, what configuration I will need?
It depends on what kind of programming you will be doing: general coding or 3D game dev, or something else. I mean, you can program on any computer. I do most of my programming on a ten year old Lenovo laptop.
@@IronwingTechHaven I'm want to learn python??
@@beerendratravellingfiles you should. Python is a great language, but you don't need a particularly fancy computer. You can even program in python on a Raspberry Pi. Now, if you want to use Unity to make games, then I'd recommend a system like the one in this video or better if you can afford it.