This £100 ($125) Gaming PC Was a BAD Idea

I tried to turn my cheap Cashies PC into a low-cost gaming system but it turns out the processor is just too weak. None the less, it wasn't all bad.

0:00 The PC and The Upgrades
3:28 Gaming - Skyrim
4:16 Kingdom Come Deliverance
5:16 Red Dead Redemption 2
6:19 Forza Horizon 5
6:48 CS:GO
7:26 Fortnite
8:09 GTA V
8:32 Overwatch 2
9:17 Final Thoughts

Thanks for watching :)

[connors]

Love your garden pc videos.. please never change. Something so comforting about a pc sitting out in the grass

[TechOrigami]

It's been a while since I saw a GTX 1060 being bottlenecked. That's a change of pace from seeing the 4090 being a bottleneck in some recent and extremely optimized (/s) games.

[IcebergTech]

Have you ever done a video about the old AMD Dual Graphics setup? Where you crossfire an APU with a discrete GPU? I believe that was a trick the A10-7850K was capable of, but only with a very small number of DGPUs.

[rometherevenant]

Man next to Budget Builds Official and RandomGaminginHD I will never get tired of seeing cheap gaming pcs that were purchased from the used marketplace. Its just something about seeing these pcs getting a second chance that just makes me happy.

[smalwex]

Honestly these videos are like a warm beverage.

Perfectly comforting, genuinely enjoyable and easy to digest.

Love weird old builds like this

[Nick_R_]

I love these experiments with older hardware. Real world computing for many people. I recently resurrected an old family PC for my nephews. Asrock FM2+ based, A10 7700K, SSD boot and mechanical HD for storage, 16gb RAM. I added a GTX970, replaced a dead HD and a front fan to help the airflow. The motherboard BIOS needed updating as it was overvolting badly at default, with scary temperatures and throttling. It still was with the new BIOS, though less so, so I manually undervolted the CPU. It could overclock with a better cooler, but the naked and ropy VRMs would hold it back. The good news was that it ran Total War Warhammer 2 well - the battle benchmark on medium settings and large units was 59 FPS, with some patches of 42 FPS. And in this real world of low income computing, the GTX 970 is still good enough to carry over to the next, more significant, upgrade - I'd happily pair it with a Ryzen and it would play their whole Steam library with ease.

[uglybob]

Wow that frame rate for RDR2 was quite impressive !!! Love seeing old PCs, keep them coming !

[joaovfg]

Fm2+ socket was my experience of HOW NOT! to buy a new gaming PC.
Few years ago, in my country (Brazil, wecolme) some online vendors and sellers were using marketplaces to sell pre-built pc games with accessible price, but most of them were Fm2 plus or old Sandy bridge intels. I had the unfortunate of buying one with the A4 7300 dual core chip and it even had no dedicate GPU, only the Igpu. At first i used for minecraft, csgo, LoL and half life 2 games and the gpu could handle just fine, but the cpu was a terrible bottleneck. Even in idle, it uses 50 or 70% of performance just by running windows. 2 years later i managed to change the cpu for an Atlhon X4 860k quad core, which has a huge performance than A4, but low core performance and high TDP sucked a lot in fewer games. The suffering ended when my Motherboard died and I bought new parts, and changed to Ryzen 5 pro 4650G, since gpus at time were so expensive, and the performance still holds anything, even modern games, in pair with an RTX 2060

[SgtMattBaker]

To think I'm watching you for 4 years. Thanks for the great videos. And inspiring me to build a pc again. I'm haven't touched my ps4 in a looong time lol!! All of the best guys

[lautarozaccagnino]

Strangely enough, today I dreamed that you stopped uploading videos. It was a bad dream, of course.

Never stop please, you're among the best!

[luheartswarm]

there is just something special about your garden b-roll
it's just nice!
don't know if I was out of the loop a few years ago, but never actually heard of this socket, although well, I was more of an intel fanboy back then, started daily driving am4 ever since

[JamesSmith-swnk]

Vsync is your friend when you have a cpu & gpu combo like this. You could probably overclock the cpu to 4ghz, it needs all the help it can get with a gtx 1060. Good video.

[GGaming.]

It's YouTuber's like yourself, which makes me glad I watched your pc building videos and finally built myself a half decent build 👌

[TheHangarHobbit]

Considering how small the board is it would probably make a damn good HTPC. IIRC Amernime drivers still work on those and should allow for HW accelerated video decoding.

[axelvlogs]

Here in Argentina the fm2+ platform is quite cheap, currently I have an a8 7860, 12gb ram (1x8/1x4) and gtx1650, I hope to switch to Ryzen sometime

[reik]

I have a heavily overclocked A10-7870K at 4.5GHz/4.7GHz boost paired up with two R7 250 2GB DDR3 cards in CFx.
In my limited experience with the platform:
1.- These chips perform better when you don't use the iGPU, using it means that the APU has to cut some frequency off the CPU cores, making them back down into C3-C4 core states, being very low (3.0GHz or smh on my case) due to Asfuck (asrock) getting wrong the VRMs and cooking the boards when both CPU and iGPU get hammered at the same time, and also to keep within the TDP limits in TDP-enforced models (Non-K ones). Disabling the iGPU frees up some RAM bandwidth that the chip can benefit from when overclocked.
2.- The cores need some seriously high frequency to run anything remotely modern, at 4.5GHz some modern stuff actually doesn't drop from 30FPS, but on stock these things suck hard, especially the A8s and Quadcore A6s due to the inherent low frequencies, being equal or lower than 3.6GHz, and getting further gimped down when using the iGPU.
3.- Memory frequency is king, in my experience, anything lower than 1866MHz DDR3 will cause severe bottlenecks on even iGPU-less chips (such as the Athlon x4 8xx ones), the only ones that will run ok with such subpar memory are the Dual core A4s or shit-grade E2s. RAM at 2133MHz is the standard for K chips, and I have seen some chips handling up to 2666MHz DDR3, the higher the RAM frequency is, the higher the increases in the efficiency of overclocks.
You could play around with some spare parts and check how the results vary.
Anyways, this was a good video, keep it up man!

[amer]

Isn't it better just to go with used first or second gen ryzen Build can be found for similar prices, and it would perform a lot better

[LiterallyLozyl]

Love the vid as always. Wondering if the next vid is gonna be about a Dell LP with i3 and rx 550

[kamikazemelon]

I love your videos and cheap secondhand stuff in general - you focus on gaming of course but lets not forget with an SSD this is a perfectly fine desktop system for general use and any much older or less intensive games!

[Redmage]

It might be interesting to compare this to a Sandy/Ivy Bridge system. I7-2600 is $25-30 in the US at this point.