BEST $400 Budget Gaming PC Build in 2023! - XEONS FOR THE WIN

Budget gaming PCs can be more powerful than EVER! And going for $300-$400 price point gets you something thats still impressive! What do you guys think? Parts list and clean boot instructions below! Special thanks to Zalman for sending over the PSU, Case, and Coolers!
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Parts used:

-- Steps to make these clean boot: --
-Use a 4-pin PWM fan on the Rear Fan PWM header
-DO NOT USE MORE THAN 4 STICKS OF RAM. I know these have 8 DIMMS but if you use more than 4 ram sticks, it will throw a MEMORY FAN boot error. ONLY USE 4 STICKS MAX.
-Front panel USB 2.0 plugs right in to the USB 2.0 header, no workaround needed.
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[uco]

Xeons for the win! You're right. Xeons forever! I have Dell 5820 with xeon W-2195, 256GB DDR4 ECC reg. 2400MHz and RTX 3080 Ti.

[jazfromhouston]

Love this video!

I fix computers for my community when away from my day job, and a client gave me an ASRock X99 Extreme with 64GB DDR4 2666MHz and a 18 core Xeon with a 240mm AIO. I repasted it, bought a $30 600W PSU, $50 test bench frame, two 512GB m.2s and a 1660 Super.

I already have a 12700k, 64gb DDR5, and 3090. Now my wife lets me sleep on the couch.

[jayechottv]

the z440 is a great platform. with businesses always upgrading, there will never be a shortage of workstations to tinker with. my usecase for my z440 is for streaming, but i know i could do 1080p gaming on it as i've upgraded it with a 1650 oc.

i do know to temper my expectations though as chris brought up a great point about core count. higher core counts doesn't always necessarily mean better. games have to be optimized for the hardware. in my case, i have the 12 core 24 thread xeon. while this is fantastic for workload and multitasking, there are games that won't be able to take advantage of those extra cores and threads, so won't run as well.

[jordangospelministryinc.]

Just picked up a cheap z440 workstation minus HD off the bay', thanks for the inspiration and great content !

[MRL]

Wow man i watched a video long ago from you about a x5687 several years ago and am glad at how well you have grown this production is really good.

[Robloxian_ChannelReal]

i never had a pc before and i seen alot of build videos and this is the best one

[LOUDXCLOUD]

I'm trying to build one for my daughter and man you just gave me hope that it could be done thank you again with another banger

[jaimert]

awesome videos Chris! appreciate them. Very impressive you got it down to about $400.00 Bro as soon as you find a Xeon build with NVe m.2 s capability, please upload. huge fan on these budget friendly gaming

[styler]

Just built a x58, xeon x 5690 is still a beast, gtx 960 4gb and playing everything on medium to high on 1080p

[jb]

Currently running with the following build:
CPU=E5-2696V3 (18core/36thread, with turbo unlock, price $51);
GPU=GTX1080Ti (with undervolt, price $350 at the time);
4x8GB DDR4 (3000Mhz) in 4 channel (price $45);
Motherboard=HuananZhi X99TF ($50...two for $100 given full refund on first due to AliEx failed delivery...motherboard surprisingly arrived at door 3 months after dispute resolution);
CPU air cooler=PCCooler GI-D66A ($70);
ADATA 1TB XPG Spectrix S20G RGB ($120);
PSU=Corsair TX650M ($90);
Vertical testbench in lieu of case ($70).
Total build=$846.
Between the GPU, case, PSU, cooler...reduced specs would take the price below $550.
CB R15 CPU score=2460 pts
CB R20 CPU score=5489 pts
CB R23 CPU multi-score =13, 711 pts

[RappinAcoustic]

Aside from gaming the broadwell Xeons are an even better value for multithreaded workloads. You can build a whole 40 core/80 thread rendering server with 128GB of ram for $650 that will score 30, 000 on Cinebench while running silent at full workload and you can even bring down the price to $500 if you go for slightly lower specs.

[DanielLopez-qhji]

Great Video, and need to get that Zalman cpu cooler!!

[hendrixc]

Love xeons. Thanks again for showing me the dell da-2 power brick back in the day.

[tiger]

Z440 gaming PCs are great. I bought a board for 30, 2630v3 for 5, 1660 for 100 anAll in all I am in for like 140 just reusing the old case ram and psu. I can comfortably game at 1440p and it’s a great workstation when I need it for that

[MrRyudragon]

always love the xeon builds so much bang for buck. Dont forget to sub, leave a like, comment and ring that bell also check out chris's video description on where to find him to talk tech ask about pc problems and anything in between hope to see u around

[codingfun]

ive got a x99 mobo 2650 v4 and rx 580 8gb 2048sp, 32gb ddr4, 520w psu, great system able to play new games easy .and soooo cheap.

[marcc]

the one side of xeons for gaming which quite a few don't consider is the power consumption, sure the xeon might be cheap to buy and build a rig, but long term...longthy gaming sessions may potentially impact the electricity bill. I'm a Xeon owner also, but my xeon rig is for my office/work machine. I have a xeon e5-2650 v2 w/16gb ddr3-1333 ecc in quad channel. Running Linux Mint 20.3, my video out is just a palit geforce 8600gt 1GB. Built that rig in Oct of 2021. Snce it's a low workload oriented use, my electircity build hasn't been severely impacted even tho I use maybe 2 hours a day. If I were gaming tho..I'd likely look at e5 v3 or e5 v4 xeons and not the e5 v2, since the v2 xeons lack the avx2 instructions. But are okay for office/work machines.

[michaelthompson]

It’s amazing to see more budget friendly PCs can be built🥰💪😇 ….. the only thing is I, like many, don’t live in the US including north and south US and aren’t able to get such good deals on parts 🤕😢…… but at least this ox can get something capable of playing vast majority of titles for cheaper than even 6 months ago and equivalent / similar builds can still be had regardless

[kaptinnolife]

Great pc I was able to make a 400 dollar pc with a i7 16 gbs ram and a 2060 6gb extreme i recently sold it for what I bought it for but it was a really good build especially for last year when I build it around the market crash ..

[viralprimenetwork]

Great build! Very helpful and enjoyable to watch!