We Bought a CRAZY $220 Gaming PC

It’s red… It has ok specs…. It’s custom? This red Lenovo MT gaming PC that someone decided to create on eBay looks interesting. With 20GB of RAM, an Intel i5 6500, GTX 1050 Ti, and Windows 11, this thing is wild!

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[thejimmichanga]

$220 is absolutely not cheap for 8 year old hardware in an office chassis w/ proprietary hardware

[EBIKEScott]

this is like a $80 PC and then once painted its worth about $40

[toufusoup]

For the benchmarks like Fortnite, you should probably cap the FPS to limit the bottleneck and explain why so people aren’t put off by lower end hardware. A friend of mine ran an i5-6600 and a 1050 Ti for a good while and the 60FPS cap was a godsend for CPU intensive games. People who are buying these PCs probably have a 60-75Hz monitor anyway, so it only makes sense

[TheRealTGC]

the toasty bros are cooked with those shirts

[figuresix]

That soundblaster box is prob worth more than the whole computer.

[SmithBeatZ]

These are some of my favorite builds to do. We can all assemble a PC with all brand new parts, but this takes some skill. Whether or not it looks good is a different story 😅

[internziko]

The 20gb of ram is a death sentence. If they took out those two 2gb sticks it would run much much better

[patricktrakzel]

The president of the USA has a red telephone, you have a red computer! So you are totaly there. You guys made it!!
Highly probable that the 2 X 2GB sticks slow down everything. The timing is not matching with the 2 X 8 GB sticks.

[willn]

I lost it when I saw that Soundblaster box. 🤣

[darrenvail]

Chipset drivers from manufacturer. People tend to slap windows on and forget the motherboard drivers.

[scvic]

A can of paint = "extensively modified"?? Cmon.

[johnhudson]

I love the hp PSU in the Lenovo case. I’m betting the motherboard is an hp as well.

I totally wrote this as y’all were discovering the hp PSU. 😂

[grampagamer-vl]

Love all your videos. I myself just bought a used, in great shape, lenovo erasure gaming pc off ebay with an i5 8 gen. cpu, 32 gigs of ddr4 ram, a 1 tb crucial ssd, and a 2tb sata storage drive, and an nvidia 1660 ti video card for $129 + $25 ground shipping. People are selling stuff dirt cheap just to pay high rent and put food in their mouths.

[nicholasbuddy]

My favorite of all, Toasty Bros at it again, I love these flip builds you do I Love your work guys 💗

[novaflame]

just two minutes and thirty two seconds in, and already, this looks super promising, the seller went above and beyond what most sellers do to ensure it gets to you in good condition and even willing to replace it if it arrives broken, the other thing I noticed, is the laminated insert taped to the plastic wrap on the pc itself, that in itself is something most do not do, they either just shove it in loose, leaving it liable to get lost if customs were to decide to open it and inspect the package to make sure it is what it claims to be, or tape it to the packaging without so much as laminating it first, leaving it vulnerable to being torn when you go to remove it, thus you lose a bit of that important information, then they go about showing a picture as to where to plug in the monitor so that the customer doesn't get frustrated trying to set it up and wondering why they aren't getting a picture, or able to set it past 800x800 pixels, so that's 2.5 stars right there, now if it plays half as well as it boasts, then that's the other 2.5 stars, bumping it to a full five stars simply because they went to infinity and beyond to ensure it all arrives in one piece and the insert is laminated and taped, and they even provided some double sided glue tape to ensure that the power button is reattachable, that is a bit questionable, but it is a custom job, and sometimes things happen, and they at least owned up to the fact this might happen and provided an easy fix for anyone who needs to reattach it, Now to see how well it plays, I am aware that it's gonna have some limits due to it being an i5 on a nvidia 1050 GTX Ti, I got an older generation i5 and with the card I got, a 1650, it's graphics are better than the potato pc's I had before, it blows my previous cheapo pc's out of the water, and this was after I upgraded the gpu because I had an old 1030 and while it was okay'ish, it wasn't cutting it for what I needed it for, and I plan on upgrading sometime to something a bit better like an rtx 2030 sometime in the future when money permits to bring in some ray tracing action.

Edit: I had just seen what it can do, and well? for what it costs? it's not bad, just the set up and configuration could have been better and perhaps they could have easily put in a third party wireless card in it, or at the least put a usb wifi receiver in that would provide better download speeds, that way you're not stuck with slow speeds, my custom pre-built did not come with onboard wifi or bluetooth, but came with a receiver that is both a wifi receiver and bluetooth receiver so I didn't need to have two seperate receivers taking up valuable usb slots. so final verdict if I were to buy this, I would rate it 4.5 out of five, which is pretty generous because they DO offer amazing customer support, so I will give credit where it's due, and for it's price point, it's sorta what you expect, something that's not exactly high end, but for what it's worth, it still does a decent job at what it does do, fortenite requires some setting tweaks to make it run at optimal speeds and a better wifi card, but apex legends seems to run buttery smooth, I would also maybe remove the two 2 gig ram sticks because twenty gigs is too much for that motherboard to handle, you might find some increase in performance just by reducing it to sixteen gigs.

[BOT-yjyl]

Toasty.... MAKE A PC WITH THE THEME OF ONE OF THOSE SHIRTS

[SmithBeatZ]

Apparently magnets are fine on SSDs when I Googled it. Obviously not old mechanical HDs though lol.

[greenprotag]

Lenovo case, HP PSU and mobo, antec & be-quiet fans, Thermaltake cooler, mis-matched ram, random generic Chinese SSD... REEEEKing of cheap red paint...
What is this build... what does this persons inventory look like? The laminated pages are the most professional things about the build

[nimrodgyurko]

The shirts in the intro are legendary.

[shockcrew]

Watching this on my Lenovo M83, Xeon E3-1270 v3 & RTX 2060-S. It has the original motherboard, though. HP would have been a downgrade.