Well, I'm building a Linux PC out of some spare parts that were given to me along with other parts I had to purchase. The PC wouldn't really be meant for gaming, though it could still be upgraded with a better graphics card than what I'm getting for it in the future for that purpose. I'm using a plain black tower that was home to my old Linux PC on an ASUS K8V-MX with an AMD Athlon 64 3400+ with 2 GB RAM and a Geforce 7800 GS AGP card. I was given some computer parts for salvage and what I wound up with is an Intel DQ35JO motherboard. I will be replacing its Celeron CPU with a Core 2 Quad Q9650 as well as installing 8 GB RAM and a Geforce GT 640 PCI-E card. Those parts all ought to produce a Linux PC running either Mint, Ubuntu, or Fedora in 64-bit that's more than adequate for fairly light gaming and watching videos up to 1080p at 60 FPS without a hitch. I do have a Windows 10 PC with a Core i5 (HP Envy 700-214) which was given to me broken and which I got up and running again that does have room for upgrades, provided I can scrap together a budget to make it possible. The dream list would be a 750 watt PSU from PC Power and Cooling or Corsair, a Geforce GTX 1070, an Intel Core i7-4790, an 8 GB DDR3 module to increase the total memory to 16 GB, and a Samsung 850 EVO 1TB mSATA SSD.
I do the same with parts of Dead-PCs. Named it Zombi. Specs: Core 2 Duo E8400, 4 GByte DDR2 Memory, GTX570 and 2 x 500 GByte Harddrives. Its my Gaming-PC for older titels that are on DVD like Mechwarrior 2, 3 and 4. No one lives forever 1+2, James Bond 007 Nightfire. The Monitor ist an 19" 1248x1024 ASUS. Its fun to play the Old Games on it, like i played them from 2000 - 2011.
Alexandre Ball Because they are great games. Without them Zombi wouldn't exist. My main rig is far more high end (i7-5820K, 16 GByte RAM, GTX1080, 18 TByte HDDs and 768 GByte SSDs), but i like the feeling to play this old titels like i've played them in the good old days with an 5:4 Monitor. Jerry Ray Good idea. I don't do it for Zombi because the idea of this gaming rig was the use of old parts that i have by my spare parts. No costs at all.
Hamza Killer. Maybe with the next build in a 2-3 years. In the moment the rig is decent enough for all the games i played. I dont prefer any CPU or GPU company. If i need new parts, i get the best parts for my use. No matter from with company they come. Ryzen looks pretty decent to me. I hope the real world tests prove this.
I did something similar, I had spare parts and didn’t need them so I bought a asus lga 1150 motherboard and got a Xeon 1220 v3, I paired these with a RX580 8GB (Previous graphics card before upgrading to a RTX 2070 Super) 16GB DDR3 1600MHz (idk why I had some) and a random 1TB drive I had sitting in a 2010 iMac that does not work right and a free 2000s era case (with a 650watt 80plus Corsair power supply)
bill billings Yes it is. I have a CQ57 laptop which has a Celeron B800 CPU clocked at 1.5GHz. It had an old 250GB drive that would always run hot and slow (CPU probably wasn't doing it any justice either). I went on eBay and bought a cheap ADATA 120GB SSD, running smooth as butter for about a year now.
Love you videos dude. This build reminds me of a build I did with a friend a while back. We called it "The Dirt PC". It actually was pretty decent, and totally free. Anyway keep up the good work as always. This channel is pure awesome.
I've been watching your videos since about 3.5 thousand subs. You've inspired me to help my friends with their own budget PC's, please keep up the content you do as it is very interesting.
Yes make this the next budget machine! I love the videos you make on the LGA775 platform, they inspired me to do another new build that i just finished. Core 2 duo E7500 6GB ram Gt730
I also built a spare parts PC. It has 16GB of DDR3 RAM, a G3258, an old laptop HDD, a Quadro K4000 (yes, a $1000 GPU), an old Thermaltake PSU, a Gigabyte z87 motherboard, and an old Cooler Master case I found in the dump.
I was going to say you could probably make a couple of PC's out of all your spare parts you have accumulated over time. Good videos man, sucks about the £5 Dell though I was looking forward to more videos on it but I guess buying used is a gamble sometimes.
I'm nearly ready to build a PC like this one out of entirely used spare parts (again!) Got a Socket 775 MB, Xeon CPU converted to a Q9650, 4x2GB rusty sticks of DDR2, aged DVD burner, an ancient case from a 2003 build, an R9 380X, an old 1TB HD and even older heat-sink+fan for OC-ing! Missing just the PSU atm. Don't want to spend any money to complete, it so I'm waiting around just to find one that's been discarded or being given away for free x)
Mate, if you could do a review about tv's for pc use like gaming or browsing (media purposes) it would be awesome, of course in the budget market. Keep up with this awesome content.
Also depends on resolution. I almost had permanent eye damage from using a 720p TV as a monitor. One day one of my eyes was so out of focus (even hours later), I couldn't tell from 10 feet away if it was a person in a red shirt, or a red barn when watching TV in another room. That day I went out and bought some $5 monitors (1024x1280 75Hz LCD 17" VGA monitors) from a thrift store. Best investment for the price of a cheeseburger I've made. Immediately I wasn't having nearly the eye focus problems (I had only used the TV for maybe 2 hours max/day for a week). For the love of your eyesight, just skip a cheeseburger or eating out once and get at least some kind of real monitor. It doesn't have to be a 4k monitor, just any monitor with a smaller screen (higher DPI) will help save your eyes.
If any of you think bestec makes bad power supply's that don't. It was only the atx-250-12e that was used in eMachines, the power supply had a bad 5 volt standby rail and it was capable of putting 12 of more volts through a 5 volt connector and killed the motherboard in return. I will admit that bestec didn't use the best components but that did deliver their rated wattage.
sure go for it first time commenting btw I subscribed to the channel since 25,000 subs love ur vids man keep up the good work and I wish the best for u
Great job on the channel man i have been here around the 200 sub days. Not going to call a i7 3770/RX480 a budget build '' did get the rx480 4GB for $143 so it was at a budget price,been enjoying Bioshock Infinite at 1080p/60fps uncap it's well over 160fps maxed settings.
You should consider going a PSU guide for used budget builds. One focusing on builds where 500W may not be enough, where overclocking and SLI/CF setups might be needed, someone who picked up a couple of GTX 580 for $30 each
i would rather see you search for a new pc to continue the biget pc series than use this one so that people can see what you can do with little money, or pre built. also i love all of your content. keep up the good work !
I've got a spare parts PC laying around too. Four of them, actually. My favourite uses an Athlon X2 4200+, GTX 280, and 3GB of RAM. It's great for retro gaming on XP since the GTX 280 was a powerful card but doesn't support DX11 and is thus sort of useless for modern gaming.
Since you want to change the name of the channel, here's an idea: BudgetBattle or something similar. Keep up the good work! I have noticed you are uploading often so great!
i used to have a pile of old PC parts i called it the graveyard. Whenever i had to use a part i was never sure if it would work or not but now all i have is a stack of old broken laptops.
I managed to procure an Emachines Mobo (old family pic)with 2 GB ram and an and Athelon 64, CPU cooler, 300w PSU, 60gb SSD, and GTX 210 for free. All I need is the case, HDD, more fans, and cables. This is gonna be my first "practice" build before I build my real $600 Ryzen PC.
A sort of time period correct gpu for this would be a nvidia 8800 gts or 8600 gt, or maybe a radeon hd 3850 or hd 3870 if you find a working one. You could probably make due with a 50w tdp gpu (as its a older pci-e port you dont have 75w like the newer 3.0 slots.)
Thats the motherboard I have. I have hackintosh Sierra and Windows 10 running on it. Its great with E8400 Core 2 Dual running. Runs Great. Just maining use it to play old Gamecube games in 1080p
i really like your video .....keep it up bro can you tell which software you use for video editing you have really inspired me to built an indian channel...thanks bro
That case reminds me of how terrible PCs used to look back then... it was either something like that or those cheap "gaming" ones with ugly transparent plastic and LED fans, which would bend as soon as you look wrong at them.
You should get a full tower optiplex, some 990 models have i5s in them, but if you can't get a full tower for cheap small form factor is better than nothing
I just put together 7 desktops with spare parts easily visible. one is similar. gateway mobo, e6850, 8gb ddr2, and a geforce 620. 450w power supply, and 500gb seagate barracude 7200rpm drive.
You should do a review on the Xeon W3550. It's the processor I'm using in my build right now, along with an OC'd GTX 950, and 16GB of G.Skill ram. I can run Doom on ultra and most other titles on med/med-high. It's a really good processor for the money.
I'm going to be putting together a Pentium III 600E parts build like it's 1999. With a GeForce 6200 128GB DDR2 card, Sound Blaster PCI 128, a Compaq 815e ATX motherboard, and stuff like my first ever PC case, it'll be a dual boot 98se/XP gaming system.
Just finished my budget pc. It has a i5 2400 3.1 ghz. 8 gb ram and a gtx 750ti and finally a 1tb Samsung hard drive. Total cost. $50 (The pc I built it on was trash picked . I found it and got it for free it's a dell vostro 260. It works 100%. The 750ti was bought for $50)
I have that exact motherboard! :D It's kinda picky about the CPU and RAM configuration and it always beeps when there's no "system fan" connected which makes it kinda shit for basic use :P
Thank you for showing the community that you don't need a lot of money to build a decent "gaming" pc
respect!
YSF this isnt a decent gaming PC xd
Ik know but i mean his videos in general
YSF "i know know"?
wut
Good job, love working with old parts. Brings back good memory's.
i buy and test video cards for over a year!
i burn 3 motherboards until now.
Yes! You need a 1kW PSU just in case you want flames!
Im using G1600 PSU .-. but i get no flames, am i doing something wrong?
nope! you just need to find the right video card with bga chip shorted and have strong PSu to burn the mosfets off the face of this planet
so, you need a welder.......
LMAO i got s spot welder at work :))
@@DanielCardei hi... im from the future
Well, I'm building a Linux PC out of some spare parts that were given to me along with other parts I had to purchase.
The PC wouldn't really be meant for gaming, though it could still be upgraded with a better graphics card than what I'm getting for it in the future for that purpose.
I'm using a plain black tower that was home to my old Linux PC on an ASUS K8V-MX with an AMD Athlon 64 3400+ with 2 GB RAM and a Geforce 7800 GS AGP card.
I was given some computer parts for salvage and what I wound up with is an Intel DQ35JO motherboard. I will be replacing its Celeron CPU with a Core 2 Quad Q9650 as well as installing 8 GB RAM and a Geforce GT 640 PCI-E card.
Those parts all ought to produce a Linux PC running either Mint, Ubuntu, or Fedora in 64-bit that's more than adequate for fairly light gaming and watching videos up to 1080p at 60 FPS without a hitch.
I do have a Windows 10 PC with a Core i5 (HP Envy 700-214) which was given to me broken and which I got up and running again that does have room for upgrades, provided I can scrap together a budget to make it possible. The dream list would be a 750 watt PSU from PC Power and Cooling or Corsair, a Geforce GTX 1070, an Intel Core i7-4790, an 8 GB DDR3 module to increase the total memory to 16 GB, and a Samsung 850 EVO 1TB mSATA SSD.
I do the same with parts of Dead-PCs. Named it Zombi.
Specs: Core 2 Duo E8400, 4 GByte DDR2 Memory, GTX570 and 2 x 500 GByte Harddrives. Its my Gaming-PC for older titels that are on DVD like Mechwarrior 2, 3 and 4. No one lives forever 1+2, James Bond 007 Nightfire.
The Monitor ist an 19" 1248x1024 ASUS.
Its fun to play the Old Games on it, like i played them from 2000 - 2011.
FortuneHunter2305 I have the e8400 3.0ghz and a gt 730. I think gonna upgrade to a q9550.
FortuneHunter2305 Why did you have to mention NOLF... Now i really need to play them again...
Alexandre Ball Because they are great games. Without them Zombi wouldn't exist.
My main rig is far more high end (i7-5820K, 16 GByte RAM, GTX1080, 18 TByte HDDs and 768 GByte SSDs), but i like the feeling to play this old titels like i've played them in the good old days with an 5:4 Monitor.
Jerry Ray Good idea. I don't do it for Zombi because the idea of this gaming rig was the use of old parts that i have by my spare parts. No costs at all.
FortuneHunter2305 very nice are you going to upgrade to ryzen
Hamza Killer. Maybe with the next build in a 2-3 years. In the moment the rig is decent enough for all the games i played. I dont prefer any CPU or GPU company. If i need new parts, i get the best parts for my use. No matter from with company they come. Ryzen looks pretty decent to me. I hope the real world tests prove this.
I also think its time for a pentium 3, matrox, 512mb ram system and fire up half life.
i bet cyberpunk didnt exist 3 years ago ;)
I did something similar, I had spare parts and didn’t need them so I bought a asus lga 1150 motherboard and got a Xeon 1220 v3, I paired these with a RX580 8GB (Previous graphics card before upgrading to a RTX 2070 Super) 16GB DDR3 1600MHz (idk why I had some) and a random 1TB drive I had sitting in a 2010 iMac that does not work right and a free 2000s era case (with a 650watt 80plus Corsair power supply)
Do a video about "Is it worth putting a cheap SSD into an old computer"
bill billings Yes it is. I have a CQ57 laptop which has a Celeron B800 CPU clocked at 1.5GHz. It had an old 250GB drive that would always run hot and slow (CPU probably wasn't doing it any justice either). I went on eBay and bought a cheap ADATA 120GB SSD, running smooth as butter for about a year now.
Love you videos dude. This build reminds me of a build I did with a friend a while back. We called it "The Dirt PC". It actually was pretty decent, and totally free. Anyway keep up the good work as always. This channel is pure awesome.
I've been watching your videos since about 3.5 thousand subs. You've inspired me to help my friends with their own budget PC's, please keep up the content you do as it is very interesting.
Yes make this the next budget machine! I love the videos you make on the LGA775 platform, they inspired me to do another new build that i just finished. Core 2 duo E7500 6GB ram Gt730
I just bought a q8400, mobo, ram and gtx 580 all under $90 :)
i got most of the parts from amazon, but i got the gt730 from my local computer shop.
IAMBEASTATMGS4105 That is a serious bottleneck you have there
I also built a spare parts PC. It has 16GB of DDR3 RAM, a G3258, an old laptop HDD, a Quadro K4000 (yes, a $1000 GPU), an old Thermaltake PSU, a Gigabyte z87 motherboard, and an old Cooler Master case I found in the dump.
Bullshit build lol xd
Jeez man your channel has exploded!! Over 100k subs already!!! Congrats!!!
nice vid dude, love these type of videos! :)
I know that it's just me but i just love the looks of that case. And yes. turn this into your next budget PC build.
Congratulations for the 100k subs ;)
YES!!! Perfect build mate. Use this as the uber budget one and expand on it. Thumbs up.
I love how you upload quality videos nearly every day.
This is the channel that put me on to PC Gaming. Love your content, you deserve way more subs
I love how frequently you upload, I find your videos very interesting.
The shipping on a build like this costs more than the hardware.
Another great video. It's always entertaining to watch what you do next!
+1 for making it the budget gaming system.
Yes please make a budget build out of this pc, that would be awesome even if it was a dos gaming pc / older titles
I was going to say you could probably make a couple of PC's out of all your spare parts you have accumulated over time. Good videos man, sucks about the £5 Dell though I was looking forward to more videos on it but I guess buying used is a gamble sometimes.
Cant wait to see how you make it a gaming PC!
Whenever I see you upload a video,I stop everything that I am doing and i watch it.
Robert Dujmić thanks :)
wow man your chainnel grow soo fast... you are at 4-5k just a couple months ago, and now you are more than 100k. Good job man...
You found the next budget gaming pc.
I'm nearly ready to build a PC like this one out of entirely used spare parts (again!) Got a Socket 775 MB, Xeon CPU converted to a Q9650, 4x2GB rusty sticks of DDR2, aged DVD burner, an ancient case from a 2003 build, an R9 380X, an old 1TB HD and even older heat-sink+fan for OC-ing! Missing just the PSU atm. Don't want to spend any money to complete, it so I'm waiting around just to find one that's been discarded or being given away for free x)
Mate, if you could do a review about tv's for pc use like gaming or browsing (media purposes) it would be awesome, of course in the budget market. Keep up with this awesome content.
TVs are terrible for gaming, they add a lot of input lag.
They're ok for couch games like rocket league or Dirt.
Also depends on resolution. I almost had permanent eye damage from using a 720p TV as a monitor. One day one of my eyes was so out of focus (even hours later), I couldn't tell from 10 feet away if it was a person in a red shirt, or a red barn when watching TV in another room. That day I went out and bought some $5 monitors (1024x1280 75Hz LCD 17" VGA monitors) from a thrift store. Best investment for the price of a cheeseburger I've made. Immediately I wasn't having nearly the eye focus problems (I had only used the TV for maybe 2 hours max/day for a week).
For the love of your eyesight, just skip a cheeseburger or eating out once and get at least some kind of real monitor. It doesn't have to be a 4k monitor, just any monitor with a smaller screen (higher DPI) will help save your eyes.
If any of you think bestec makes bad power supply's that don't. It was only the atx-250-12e that was used in eMachines, the power supply had a bad 5 volt standby rail and it was capable of putting 12 of more volts through a 5 volt connector and killed the motherboard in return. I will admit that bestec didn't use the best components but that did deliver their rated wattage.
Your videos always cheer me up.
sure go for it first time commenting btw I subscribed to the channel since 25,000 subs love ur vids man keep up the good work and I wish the best for u
Great job on the channel man i have been here around the 200 sub days. Not going to call a i7 3770/RX480 a budget build '' did get the rx480 4GB for $143 so it was at a budget price,been enjoying Bioshock Infinite at 1080p/60fps uncap it's well over 160fps maxed settings.
I'm new to building pcs thanks for helping me make mine
Green Ham Gaming but with a better upload schedule, I love it!
Great video man, keep up the great work!
I love doing this with spare parts.
I want that case. That's pretty retro.
Nice Video mate, Well done on 100,000 Subs :)
Max
thank you RGiHD, very cool
Please do I enjoy 775 builds. Great work keep it up!
You should consider going a PSU guide for used budget builds. One focusing on builds where 500W may not be enough, where overclocking and SLI/CF setups might be needed, someone who picked up a couple of GTX 580 for $30 each
congratulations ,u r in 1lakh subscribers list,congrats dude
another high quality video, thanks man.
i would rather see you search for a new pc to continue the biget pc series than use this one so that people can see what you can do with little money, or pre built. also i love all of your content. keep up the good work !
Great budget gaming PC! Chuck the 1050 you got in there and see what happens. Could be a great budget gaming rig.
bottleneck?
I built a spare PC today aswell
Core 2 Quad q9300
4gb ddr2 800mhz
Windforce Amd Radeon HD 6850
hey, awesome video. i have my old computer that i used today. and i was awesome. awesome content :)
Although not as in depth as I like to see pc builds, its a great video and I'd love to see more of this! mabey benchmark this pc?
Best way to get Money.Thanks For Making All those videos
could you maybe consider doing a really indepth pc build which shows us how to do everything ? like where each and every component and wire goes ?
I've got a spare parts PC laying around too. Four of them, actually. My favourite uses an Athlon X2 4200+, GTX 280, and 3GB of RAM. It's great for retro gaming on XP since the GTX 280 was a powerful card but doesn't support DX11 and is thus sort of useless for modern gaming.
Since you want to change the name of the channel, here's an idea: BudgetBattle or something similar. Keep up the good work! I have noticed you are uploading often so great!
Next gaming build I do think. Maybe do a fun overclocking video, seeing how high you can get it.
definitely need benchmarks for it sir
Have u thought of giving it away?
Probably not worth it at the time
Shipping will probably cost more than the parts themselves.
i used to have a pile of old PC parts i called it the graveyard. Whenever i had to use a part i was never sure if it would work or not but now all i have is a stack of old broken laptops.
your videos are simple but sooo fucking addictive!!!!
I was building a spare parts pc and came across this video Haha !
really likes this channel :)
making it the next budget gaming PC
I managed to procure an Emachines Mobo (old family pic)with 2 GB ram and an and Athelon 64, CPU cooler, 300w PSU, 60gb SSD, and GTX 210 for free. All I need is the case, HDD, more fans, and cables. This is gonna be my first "practice" build before I build my real $600 Ryzen PC.
I'm curious as to if you have any HD 1080p HTPC builds coming up?
I did this pc project too I had spare parts just sitting in my garage.
For the next budget build mod implement the socket 771 to socket 775 cpu upgrade. That would be great to add a Xeon CPU!
Really nice.
this should be the budget pc
A sort of time period correct gpu for this would be a nvidia 8800 gts or 8600 gt, or maybe a radeon hd 3850 or hd 3870 if you find a working one.
You could probably make due with a 50w tdp gpu (as its a older pci-e port you dont have 75w like the newer 3.0 slots.)
Thats the motherboard I have. I have hackintosh Sierra and Windows 10 running on it. Its great with E8400 Core 2 Dual running. Runs Great. Just maining use it to play old Gamecube games in 1080p
this channel is very similar with green ham gaming, like it!
i really like your video .....keep it up bro
can you tell which software you use for video editing you have really inspired me to built an indian channel...thanks bro
That case reminds me of how terrible PCs used to look back then... it was either something like that or those cheap "gaming" ones with ugly transparent plastic and LED fans, which would bend as soon as you look wrong at them.
You should get a full tower optiplex, some 990 models have i5s in them, but if you can't get a full tower for cheap small form factor is better than nothing
The moment you realize your only fan in your basement is a intel stock that works like a heater
I got 3 pcs like this yesterday from my local supermarket
I've always wondered what all those vacant PCI (not PCIe) slots are good for aside from LAN cards and sound cards.
And now, you clean the dust :P
You have alot of spare parts :0
Eqqu overrun with them haha
I just put together 7 desktops with spare parts easily visible. one is similar. gateway mobo, e6850, 8gb ddr2, and a geforce 620. 450w power supply, and 500gb seagate barracude 7200rpm drive.
You should do a review on the Xeon W3550. It's the processor I'm using in my build right now, along with an OC'd GTX 950, and 16GB of G.Skill ram. I can run Doom on ultra and most other titles on med/med-high. It's a really good processor for the money.
i wish i had your job... building pc's and having some fun...
you definitely should make this into.the new "Dell" series
with modern 75 watt cards like the 1050Ti, i actually have a use for a bestec psu like that. it powers my i5 4440 machine.
I'm going to be putting together a Pentium III 600E parts build like it's 1999. With a GeForce 6200 128GB DDR2 card, Sound Blaster PCI 128, a Compaq 815e ATX motherboard, and stuff like my first ever PC case, it'll be a dual boot 98se/XP gaming system.
yes please, make more Videos about this!
Just finished my budget pc. It has a i5 2400 3.1 ghz. 8 gb ram and a gtx 750ti and finally a 1tb Samsung hard drive. Total cost. $50
(The pc I built it on was trash picked . I found it and got it for free it's a dell vostro 260. It works 100%. The 750ti was bought for $50)
Now I want to do this.
Bro this is better than my laptop
I would like to see some budget builds with alternative OS's.. Perhaps Steam on Linux or SteamOS? Should be fun..
nice idea!
Compaq? Now that's a name I have not heard in a long time.
I bought this dvd drive as it came out and I still have it in my new pc
RandomGaminginHD you are the best man!!!
you should do a raid 1 config with the 500g
Great vid bro!
I have that exact motherboard! :D It's kinda picky about the CPU and RAM configuration and it always beeps when there's no "system fan" connected which makes it kinda shit for basic use :P
_Lolucoca_ yeah I got that error switching on! Think it can be turned off in the bios so I'll have a look and see
When lower end Ryzen CPUs release, do you think you can do a video on them?
that motherboard looked like one that is in our schools "do u know how to build pc" PC we tried to build it with tape and such it worked lol