A $300 Gaming PC You Can (Maybe) Build in 2022
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- Опубликовано: 26 июл 2024
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:34 The System
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3:00 The System Cont
6:20 Hollow Knight lol
6:33 COD Warzone
7:08 Minecraft Java
7:28 CSGO
7:50 American Truck Sim
8:08 DOOM Eternal
8:22 Deep Rock Galactic
8:46 Microsoft Flight Sim
9:31 Halo Infinite
10:07 My Thoughts
11:55 Ebay Listings
13:51 Alternatives
14:39 Closing Thoughts 
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Recently built a Ryzen 5500 build with GTX1070. My old i5 3470 will be re-purposed as a standalone Midi Keyboard and music beats clip launcher PC for fun. Just got to tidy up my room, get another desk and glue an old case together lol.
My man finally getting a sponsor congrats!
Once you get sponsored, you are on the track to the silver play button.
A good sponsor too.
great to see a high quality sponsor on this video, your channel is one of the most interesting (and actually applicable to the average person) ones around, your "awesome home server" video and the budget ssd videos were super useful
Thanks for the kind words my lord! Haha glad you like them
The part where you show similar options on eBay was a great addition
And seeing my name at the end wasn't bad either 😅
Good to hear! And of course! I’d like to start doing that more to some extent
Awesome video! Video quality is great, nice upgrade!
As for the PC, it's pretty amazing what you can build for barely any money! I had a lot of "fun" finding the right workstation for my personal server needs... The number of choices for off lease workstations is daunting when you look on good ol' eBay.
Again, great video! Looking forward to the next one!
Glad to see you're alive, man! I know how life goes with kids and other life requirements!
Great content for you to come back with as well
EDIT: Realized you uploaded only two weeks ago. Felt like forever!
Even with the edit, I appreciate this haha. Finding the balance is definitely tough, but worth it lol
@@HardwareHaven You got that right! Out of curiosity, what's your audio setup? It sounds incredible
SM7b into a Presonus Quantum interface
You wife must be awesome being chill with you taking components out of her computers almost for every video. Congratulations man!
This was just awesome! Thanks a lot!
This channel is great, got some pc's from a local school and your videos are great for looking for ideas.
Man this music is so addictive. I can't stop watching you XD
Hey, here in Brazil there's been a big hype around the Xeon E5 series that are being sold by Chinese manufacturers with desktop mobos adapted to the LGA-2011/2011-3 sockets, you can find some combos for less than 150 dollars that come with some pretty decent looking CPUs (specially if you find one that is overclockable, like the Xeon E5 1650 V3). I was wondering if you'd be interested in testing those out and maybe showing this market for budget users from around the world (or maybe even debunk the claim that the Xeon can be equal to i5/i7/i9 CPUs on gaming performance). Thanks in advance and love your videos.
Hey Haven your videos have given me so much knowledge Thanks
Love to hear it!
Great video!! Your videos always keep me going!
Love to hear it ❤️
Another great video. I love creators talking about the used hardware niche even if the value is dubious in light of the speed of current improvements in PC hardware. You've done gaming PCs, servers, and NAS, but I'd like to see something that has piqued my interest as of late. How about making a build for use as a volunteered/distributed computing system like for folding@home or BOINC? It's a lot more niche since it's unappealing to be wasting power on projects that are hard to see the results of but I think it's a very unexplored topic on youtube.
Even though old hardware runs a lot less efficiently powerwise (125W xeons compared to 65W Ryzens), it could be very possible to optimize a used system distributed computing. GPUs tend to outpace CPUs in most of these tasks, so pairing a relatively weak low power CPU just to host the system with power efficient GPUs would probably be the goal. Options I've checked out using F@H's power efficiency list would probably be the GTX1650 and 1050 alongside the ti's for the most obtainable power efficient cards, whereas the GT 1030 and NVS 300/310 are probably best for extremely low power systems. Checking out the power usage and software setup in Windows vs Linux is something I'd really like to see, since I'm also thinking of trying this out myself.
My first ever gaming computet was an e-wate Dell XPS 8500 with a i7-3770 and later that Christmas I got a gt 1030 and since then I have a better and custom made computer. But now I collect old desktops and restore them.
Nice! Isn’t it fun?
A lot of these workstations get on the market after 3-5 years when they are introduced when the machines sold to enterprise customers come off warranty and that’s when the prices on these specific models on eBay and local listings become attractive- and a lot of the times the “real” cost for a gaming conversion is lower if it comes with a workstation GPU (like your k1200) that can be sold.
I have even gotten Dell Precision 5810 and the sold the GPU (Quadro M4000) to cover the entire purchase price. It was a lucky find on a local deal, though
Local lucky deals are the best haha!
It is easier to find them near a big city- with lots of companies who have fleets of Dell/Lenovo/Hp computers.
My favorite at the moment are the Dell Precision 5810 and, if you can find them at a good price 5820. These tend to have good PSUs (80-plus gold 425, 685 and 950w) and inexpensive HEDT-Equivalent CPU options.
Can't believe I missed this videos release. Another great video, my only thought is that casual vanilla Minecraft isn't that demanding. Once mods are downloaded, farms are made for every item, or trying to build a redstone computer. That is when Minecraft gets truly resource demanding.
Awesome Video!
Thanks!
Testing Games
Battlefield V
Valorant
Fortnite
GTA V
Apex
Cyberpunk
Also make a video on how to create a cache server for your games so that each time you need to do testing you can pull the games from your cache server, resulting in a faster download speed.
I've been watching your channel for a while now, and I really like what you're doing.
Thanks for the helpful ideas, input, and continued viewership ❤️
@@HardwareHaven no problem 👍. Continue doing what you always do
YO finally got a sponsor! W
good content i love it
Theres a simple workaround to get msi afterburner to work with CSGO for any future benchmarks:
1.Go to your steam library and right click on CSGO and go to PROPERTIES
2. In the general tab, you should see an input box labelled LAUNCH OPTIONS
3.Populate the box with "-allow_third_party_software"
That will allow rivatuner to work properly in game, but keep in mind this lowers your trust factor a bit, so if you like competitive play, remember to get rid of the launch option when not benchmarking
I recently got super lucky and got 2 free i7 4th gen systems with 32gb of ram from my university and was thinking of making 1 of them a Minecraft computer for my gf. That 1650 would probably be perfect.
LTT just did a video on the Z420 system not long ago, the only game I would say should be added to your benchmarks is red dead 2, that game can really hit the CPU and GPU and great video been binge watching your channel to catch up and can say this is the 1st new upload i have watched.
I’m not sure if you’re saying they’re the same, but the LTT video is the 420, and I showed two 240s. I think the 420 is Ivy Bridge CPUSs which is how they got it for cheaper.
And I’ll look into getting RDR2
LTT also didn’t count the substantial shipping cost- which actually was higher than the nominal purchase price of the computer.
The eBay seller was in Calgary so I don’t imagine that Linus could have done a local pickup from Vancouver
I`ve also got a Thinkstation P310 and I think about replacing the PSU by a new ATX PSU (by the help of an adapter). But new PSUs are built different with the fan up or down. How should I place the new PSU without getting problems with the Lenovo's airflow?? If I put the PSU with the fan upwards there's no headroom for fresh air!? And do you reccomend any PSU for this older workstation?
Super happy you are getting sponsorships. Love your channel and built my mini home server based on your video of Truenas Scale. Now I have a working NAS/Jellyfin server and just upgraded my Ram so I can run pi hole and maybe some other Apps/dockers. Keep up the amazing work. I love the idea of repuposing older systems for some amazing niche uses. Reduce the ewaste.
That’s so awesome! Love to hear stuff like that
If you want to avoid any adapters, you can simply buy an ATX12VO power supply. This is a non-proprietary standard, so you can buy it from some 3rd party manufacturers.
I could definitely be wrong, but I don’t think that Lenovo 10 pin is the ATX12VO standard. I might check when I get home haha
@@HardwareHaven It's not ATX12VO. It's proprietary-ish connector, but uses standard voltages. They're really easy to adapt and I've made a bunch of my own adapters.
Bro good video. please make a video for Acer veriton m4630g 🙏🥺
Wait you said that the PSU could be upgraded, but does it mount properly inside the case?
If anyone is trying to do this now, I've seen several systems with these Xeon and 6th or 7th gen Core CPUs in the $100-125 range. You can also find them barebones so you can go ahead and get a 7th gen i7, but it's usually a better deal to spend more on a system with a 6th gen i5 or i7, then sell that CPU to make back most of the cost of buying an i7-7700
Just going to drop a 1650 super, just need to play sims 4 for my daughter. You think
This will be enough? When I looled at system requirements for the CPU I was a little confused
I started watching you when you posted a video about unRAID and convinced me to run my own file server.
nice video
Nice video, also is it a face reveal too? I am a newcomer so can't say for sure.
I enjoy your channel alot! 👌
Hey thanks! And no, I’ve been on camera a few times. First face on a thumbnail though haha
@@HardwareHavenoki nice, thx for the vid anyways, love to see em none the less
For future graphics card reviews, gta5, fortnite and maybe shadow of the tomb raider for ultimate graphics testing would be good to add to the rotation!
I'm noticing a trend. I've seen a couple of videos where the power supplies die soon after adding a video card.
I just ordered a p310, for $50. I may consider a new case/power supply. I'm building a PC for a friend. I have most of the parts needed.
This makes me wonder, and worry about a 1660ti.
I wanted a small computer to play indie games and to stream from my main gaming computer in my living room, I got an old HP Compaq 6200 with a i5 2400 for free at work (we have like 15 of those after selling over 20, they don't care if I take one), I bought a 20$ Radeon R5 430 on eBay and I put an old 128GB SSD I had (but a brand new one cost like 15$ right now). All in all, I paid around 40$ for something that can play quite a bit of games, going with older office machine is definitely the way to go, we're actually selling our older 7th Gen i5 machines with 8GB of RAM and 1TB HDD for like 175$ because they're literally useless for us right now.
That’s really interesting! How’s the streaming latency?
@@HardwareHaven To be fair, pretty poor, but I think it has more to do with the fact that my gaming computer is running Linux and Steam Remote Play seems to have a lot of problems with that, I have the same problem with an 8th Gen i7 that should be plenty fast enough to decode a local 1080p stream. Moonlight runs a lot better, it's just kinda annoying to set up and the GUI isn't great.
Gotcha thanks!
I’m doing literally the same right now! Grab an old HP 6200 from work and threw in some ram, low profile gpu and a ssd. I’m all in about 80 dollars total for ok pc.
grab a tesla P4 for around $100 (a 1080 with a 75w tdp and no video outputs. Either use windows to choose which video card to use and run local or use Parsec to stream). ebay is flooding with them at the moment. You will need to figure out cooling, but even a 40mm noctua and a 3dprinted or cardboard shroud easily handles the heat load.
bonus - since this is a tesla, you can carve it up into multiple video cards and have multiple gamers - each with their own dedicated resources)
you should try the thinkstation p500 next
I’ll keep an eye out!
I like the ebay thing... Though if you could do maybe 1 ebay, 1 amazon, and 1 ali express option that might hit a more world wide demographic.... I live in Hawaii, so shipping a computer is typically not free for me except on amazon prime or ali, and as I understand it international viewers can't access the same ebay/amazon deals and have to resort to ali.
A 4th or 6th gen Dell Optiplex is a great option as well
The only issue with those is many seem to use non ATX form factor PSUs and motherboards (if I recall correctly)
@@HardwareHaven Alright so I have a Dell Optiplex 3020 MT I'm planning to put a GTX 1650 but I'm pretty sure that it will work with the stock power supply. I'm talking about the 1650 models without an external power connector
@@nahpets2345 Should work fine! Those pull up to 75W from the PCIe slot, which should be standard.
@@HardwareHaven Yeah definitely
Pretty damn good considering i payed that much for just a 1050ti (im not stupid its just that local computer shops are expensive and my parents wont buy anything online for me)
Ah that’s a bummer.. thanks for the comment though!
i mean i still to date have a 4790k 16gb ddr3 1600 at the moment soon to be 32gb as a streaming pc however i have a 1080ti n geez i never see above 60 percent utilization on the gpu... not good however with a 1440p monitor bottleneck is nowhere near as bad then playing on a 1080p 60hz monitor at first now got a 1440p 165hz but i run it at 120 as my cpu may kill itself but i mean i can still stream to twitch and play any game iv thrown at it even cyber punk when it was nothing but a disc or download of bugs at 60 fps at low settings yes but now i run med 1440p setting on it.....
would have it loaded up on their laptop and I’d ALWAYS assu they stole it. I’m older and I thought about cracking it again but I plan on
This is an amazing 300$ build. I have a lower end 200$ build and it runs any game just fine. Also one question: do you have any good gaming mic recommendations under 100$? Otherwise I enjoy your videos... Keep it up, you are going great!
Thanks!
And are you wanting to record/stream with it or just for chat and such?
@@HardwareHaven Probably record.
@@tesselis I would attempt to find a decent used interface and something like a Shure SM58. It's a bit more, but worth it to get something more "pro-audio". It will last longer, sound better, and have better resell value
@@HardwareHaven thanks, I'll look for it...
gosh dang! my pc cost 800 to 900 usd and runs warzone 20 to 10 fps, I mean it was prebuilt so... but I don't think my pc shouldnt be running that bad! Oh congrats on getting a sponser! I don't play worlds of warships unfortunately, but I think people will be interested! after time, your videos are getting better so as editing! I think you can hook up people easily with ur editing style and thumbnail! nice video by the way!
I’d definitely look into that… and thanks!
For about same money you can buy ryzen 3400g with lower tdp, power consumption and great integrated graphics so you don't even need graphics card and lower power consumption even more, imo much better kombo than this.
1:05 Wait. You swiped a GPU from your wife's PC and you're still alive? HOW?
I gave her a 1650 so she can play Dinkum no problem haha
Please get sponsored by linode :)
I’d be down
My na is Michael to
Soooo, if the power supply failed, how come you consider this a $300 dollar gaming pc, when the power supply is faulty?
Because the majority of systems like this wouldn’t have a faulty power supply, and if they did, you can return it and get your money back.
@@HardwareHaven oh i see. ok, fair point.
Fair question, thanks for asking 👍🏻
Does it play world of warships? :P
Very well haha
You have a GTX 1650S,,,,,,
omg face reveal
With respect save abit of money and for gaming buy a xbox series s. And 85c on a gtx 1650🔥
Yeah it’s an HP prebuilt card, so not great thermals haha
I want to make Lo-Fi soft and today i started to soft soft tutorials. I see that you are teacNice tutorialng us very carefully and simple, i like that
With American Truck Simulator you must be the first RUclipsr who tests a game I actually play 😃
got lucky and scored $60 for used asrock b550M mobo on ebay shipped. Paired that with ryzen 5 5600G and voila, a decent 1080p gaming rig with future proofing for under $400.
That wasc ust daft, faulty hdd and faulty psu ... should've contacted seller for partial refund ... but youtube content creators seem to have cash to burn
It's less about "cash to burn" and more about time. If I sent it back and didn't make two videos, I would be way behind on my schedule.
pleas test gta5
I prefer the sponsors at the end of the video >:-(
I hear ya, but it’s tough to find sponsors that agree. I try to make it pretty easy to skip through if you check the chapters on the timeline
@@HardwareHaven ok 👌