This Little $250 Gaming PC is WILD

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In today’s video I’m showing you exactly how to build a budget gaming PC that costs $250 and it’s in the ITX small form factor! This is a tiny gaming PC that’s capable of some serious power for the price and I show you exactly how to build one for yourself. We’re using some old hardware such as the i5 4590 and GTX 1050Ti but they can still definitely get the job done in 2023 for 1080p gaming.

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[ItsABassDammit]

I built a basic PC for someone using my old i5 4590 and that exact off-brand motherboard. I'm not even joking, that's the first motherboard that worked right out of the box for me. A year and a half later it still runs.

[UToobSteak]

Wow, I built my pc a few years ago with a 6th gen i5 and rx 580 and still use it. Thanks for this, it makes me feel like it's still got a few more years to go

[drunkwaffle]

I think a better cpu option for that board and only costing a little bit more would be a Xeon processor like the E3-123 V3 or E3-1241 V3. Looks like they're going for $20-$25 and are i7 4770 equivalent cpus that would offer better gaming performance. I have that mobo as i bought it for $40. Why idk but I'll figure something out lol.

[Nottheone]

This build is roughly $450 usd now maybe $500 for those wondering. Edit:LEARN ABOUT MSRP FLUCTUATIONS AND HOW COMPONENT CHAIN MARKETING WORKS. Especially silicon chips, the shortage and how it affected the industry, yall think we just be saying this to discourse yall, no that’s not the case. These things are said for those that want to do the builds but need to understand DAILY, prices fluctuate, due to stocks, how MUCH y’all buy these EXAXT parts. Becuase of videos like these. That ties you into using affiliate links etc dude makes money off those which isn’t bad but at the same time understand exactly wtf it is you are doing in this community of pc building and maintaining, nonetheless just accept the fact that it’s a real think. So before you comment literally look into wtf MSRP is then come back and re have this convo

[ThailandDantotherescue]

no... You lost me at console... Steam games are so much cheaper and.... you can pair a used GPU with a dell office PC ( i got an i7 with 16g ram a small ssd and 1tb mech drive for 40$ ) that leaves 160$ for a used gpu ( i went with a 1650 non super, but could have gone with way more power )...

There is absolutley NO reson to go with console unless you simply just love only console.

[ssjcarlo]

I wanna use it for school and games like Roblox in Minecraft yeah you can make fun of me but those are the games. I’m really enjoying and having fun with my friends on right now and my brother only really plays Minecraft so this would be a perfect build, I think, plus we only have like $500 for everything at most and most of that isn’t even our money it’s borrowed money from our mom

[andyfernandez]

I wonder how the aliexpress $75 rx580 would perform on this bad boy

[UnknownThrive]

I just picked up a PC for $250 it has a Intel i3 9100f, 1050ti, Asus prime z390-p mobo and 16gb ddr4
250gb SSD
In a Corsair case was this a good deal?

[Elixirs_mp]

Xbox (and im sure Play Station aswell) actually sells their consoles at a net loss! Meaning they lose money every time they sell a console and that they will almost always be a better price to performance compared to building a PC. The reason they are able to sell so cheap is because they know that they can recoup their losses via subscriptions such as xbox live, and cuts they take from people selling games on the xbox store. If you're looking for a great upfront price to performance, a console is the way to go! (I feel like a representative from Microsoft or something lol)

[QubedSteak]

Sometimes building a PC like this just for the sake of the experience is very satisfying!

[Jwalker]

I actually have a old PC with this CPU. Last time I used it, it was really slow. I think that is because of the SSD in it only being a 120gb and being full just from windows 7. I just tried to boot it and it seems the PSU is dead, it was a pretty crap PSU from like 2010, I do actually have a spare PSU so will test. I was of the opinion that this CPU wasn't good for much being only 4 core 4 thread. After seeing this video I think I will get it going again, just needs a new PSU and a new 2.5 SATA SSD, a 512gb would be fine. Could sell it to someone in need of a cheap gaming PC for games like counter strike.

[Antonio_Ortiz]

I give you props for showing a price in the thumbnail that *actually includes a graphics card*

I've seen 2 other budget build videos now where they have thumbnails that show a price and a graphics card, but when you watch the video, they bait-and-switch you into an APU build, which isn't bad, but still a bit behind being a suitable graphics card replacement, even with older cards.

[adams]

I had a friend that had the same back panel problem. He drilled a hole through one of the cutouts of that back panel. He used 2 washers a machine screw and a nut. To hold in place, if you didn't know you swore it was part of the back panel.

[iamdjamel]

Typical youtuber budget build.
>This PC is dirt cheap.
A few seconds later:
>> I got this CPU/Mobo combo for free. (It's really 120$+ on eBay).

[bloomth]

dude none of these prices are repeatable. lol the case alone is $100. So within 4 hours of you posting this video its already not possible.

[joshd]

I’m about $500 deep into a budget baller optiplex. Sometimes I wish I did something like this, but you gotta start somewhere! Learned a lot and gave me confidence to build from scratch in the future.

[jackycheung]

In my country, better save another 30 Bucks to get i7 4790 or 35-40 Bucks for I7 4790k🙂

[mn]

and then i spend almost 400 euros on a r3 3100 gt 1030 pre build

[ImCooler]

I think my friend is going to try something like this he got a old hp prebuilt for like $50 and i want him to upgrade from the default 4 gb of ram to 16 and get a 1050 ti

[rixei]

I like how you did the gameplay instead of just the chart great vid