$125 Budget Gaming PC Build! (2023)

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[Holycurative]

I put together a sub GB£200 build for my son. The pc has a 1050Ti, an i5-4690, 16 GB of DDR3 ram, a 1TB ssd and a 1TB hard drive (7200rpm), cooler master 650w gold psu, a decent BeQuiet cooler and a generic case with NO RGB... The reason for this build is to give my son a decent upgrade path so he learns something about computers although I did include a wifi dongle and all the leads and peripherals for him.

[MrElliot]

I think benchmarking Doom Eternal is interesting because it can be surprising how well such a game runs on low end hardware.

[thcriticalthinker]

A good option for single slot cards is old workstation cards. Technically you could modify a card with a single slot cooler if you are feeling jiggy enough

[thedungeondelver]

You should be able to get a right-angle 24 pin adapter, if you've got the clearance on the bottom of the board, you're set. If it were mine I'd do exactly what you did, and I'd cover it with some carbon fiber or vinyl covering to fix the look of the outside of the case.

[voteDC]

I think it is a shame the optical drive couldn't be retained in the PC. A cheap system like this would be perfect for older games that come on disc, opening up a vast library of games.

[TechnoYacy]

Hey Matt always loved watching your budget builts as it is very relaxing. Keep doing it!

[DaisyHollowBooks]

I’m impressed with this. My first foray into building something like this ran into a lot of snags. I don’t need something with weird lights, color coordination and all of that, so I really like what you are doing here and plan to do something similar.

[pdog]

Hey Matt, great video! I did a build like this. What ended up doing was hacking and swapping it into an ATX case. The pcie extension goes over the top of the psu connector. I was able to mount the card below the motherboard in 2 slots of the case.

[grizzlyindustries]

Love these jank builds. I have a LGA771 build now with an RX560(had a broken fan that I replaced jankly) with a 160gbHDD running Linux and emulation or anything else. The power supply also dangles on one screw :D

I have a better PC. Just love building jank.

Also, three games I've been recently using for testing hardware is:
ABZU for color and picture quality.
Katana Zero for framerate, frametime, and latency.
And
Metro Exodus for hardest hitting performance.

I mean. Pick and choose any games you want. Yet, I always test these three games personally to check all around gaming for different GPUs, CPUs, Ram, Power Draw, and Thermals in different cases and setups.

For what I see with this build. You could make it an open air case by either grinding away parts like the top, front, and that DVD caddy. Screwing the caddy as a GPU plate for the extension(above the PSU;below the motherboard), and painting it. I don't know. Seems like a fun project to not the waste parts of the case and use them another way.

Enjoy the videos.

[Gab_]

Awesome video man, just did the same and scored a i7 2600/20GB Ram/256GB SSD and a 1060 3GB which is basically a 1650S with 1 less gb of vram for around 80/85$

Thank you!

[RobertFixit]

I tried to make a $100 system and it was difficult.

Definitely buying the PC online hurts the budget. I always look locally first there are some super cheap deals.

In contrast, the GPU deals are typically better on ebay.

Even though your setup is only $20 more than mine, it appears to perform way better!

[certs]

Fun video. My budget gaming system and main computer in general is an old T3600 workstation. Runs great. The old Xeon is still kicking a decade later along with 64GB of RAM. Just upgraded to an RX 5600XT. Makes for a great Linux gaming and work PC.

[auteurfiddler]

I would suggest swapping cases to a big old obsolete case with back openings for many slots. Then using that riser cable to mount the gpu at the distant case opening past the edge of the motherboard.
I am always shocked when low budget gaming builds ditch the hard drive and replace it with a ssd hard drive with a quarter of the capacity. I saw a video that basically said, "Brace yourself. 250gb games are coming. Get ready to expand your storage." So, you can put one big game and the os on the ssd, and four more on the 1tb hard drive. But not if you sell it for ten dollars. Who would want to have a gaming pc that only played one game?
Also, a 6th gen intel computer should support a NVMe drive on a pcie card. This is probably totalling only a bit more in price than a SSD Sata drive through the SATA bus.

[mysketchbook]

Nice. You.can use a small form factor gpu. Like an rx 6400. I know its more expensive but still a cheap system over all. There's also the arc a380. You can try removing the heatsink and fan. Mock up a small passive heat sink and Fab a fan mount at the end of GPU at 90 degree angle like old school cards.Then check temp once you by pass 24 pin.

[snakeeyes]

II worked with this same exact chassis. It has a i5 7400 that I upgraded to a 7700. The motherboard doesn't like ram speeds faster than 2400 mhz, anything higher will make the OS unstable. For the graphics card, I used a Zotac mini 1060 6 gb. Took the shroud off and it was just barely able to fit over the 24-pin with no real fuss. I put some electrical tape over the wires and plastic where they connect to make sure a spark wouldn't short anything and cause a fire

[jessicabruno]

Nice result. What I would have been tempted to do with the PSU is get a low profile 90 degree adapter (they do exist for a few dollars) and then get an SFX PSU so there was space to route the power cable away from under the GPU. Still terrible design by HP but it might just work...?

[Namiz]

i think benchmarking BeamNG can be interested, its very physics based for the CPU, but as of recently its now pretty graphically demanding as its hugely upgraded with stuff like PBR, better motion blur, shading and lighting upgrades etc, they also have a dedicated Vulkan renderer to play around with but its currently experimental

[jessragan]

It tends to be a luck of the draw kind of thing. I wound up getting a 750W power supply for $20, a used case for $10, an M.2 drive for $20, and a CPU (Ryzen 5 5500) for $40. The mobo and RAM I had to buy new from Amazon, and that was about $120. It still needs more storage and a better GPU, but still, not too shabby.

[mrtims]

with the cable attached you could convert the back of the case for verticle mounting of the GPU. Looked like there was enough height there

[yams_yams_]

Really great performance! The 1650 super is an awesome card and those older i7s work super well for low end gaming PCs