Inexpensive PC Build Guide!

Today I show you that you DON'T have to overspend for a VERY capable gaming PC!

Case - $100 Budget

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[goblincleaver]

I made(basically) this build (the red variation) over the past 3ish months and was really nervous about the decisions id landed on and seeing you put this together and then put the price up at the emd has been an incredible relief. I got this build but for almost 400 USD shorter. I feel like i can finally breathe. Good content as always, keep it up man!

[brianwr]

Duuuude!! This is almost EXACTLY the kind of build I did a month ago!!! I was upgrading from a 4th gen Intel build I did in 2013 and finally able to go into Microcenter during their Black Friday sale last month. I did the 12700K bundled with the exact same motherboard which they threw in for free with their combo deal. I did go with 32 gigs of 3200 CL16, a 1 TB M.2 drive, the BeQuiet! Shadow Rock 3 white cooler, Corsair’s RM750x psu and the Lian Li Lancool II Mesh type C case. Looks almost EXACTLY like yours!! I did have to go with the MSI 3060 Ti though as I hit the same budget as you mentioned of $1500 (including tax and their 2-yr protection plan on 2 of the parts). I wanted this build to do the same thing you said which is have room to upgrade down the road and last me another 9-10 years. I’m sooo happy you did this video vindicating my decision making process!! Thank you Jay!!!

[neekoohkumar]

Another update: Been using this build for 6 months now and it's just screamingly good. It handles everything I throw at it from games to spreadsheets without any bottlenecks or slow downs. My games are all played at ULTRA or MAX settings without issues and getting 144 FPS average. The best part is the price I paid. So cheap for the output I get and with options to upgrade later, it's a win win. Well done Jay and Thank You. Can't wait to see your budget 2024 build! Oh and it runs so cool as well. I LOVE IT.

[mhult]

Thank you very much Jay for your knowledge and tips in all your videos! I checked my i5-12600K Cinebench score and compared to your score, thanks to this video. Turned out I was having a lower score and a CPU temperature-throttling, I had, by accident, set my cooler-type in my BIOS to water cooler, when having a tower-cooler. This caused the CPU to get very warm during load. I corrected the setting and everything was fine. In addition I undervolted the CPU slightly with an offset, as you demonstrated in your video "You need to do this with your CPU, now" and I got great temperature and a totally stabel system. Thank you again, I seldom write comments on youtube but I want you to know that I really appreciate your videos and your knowledge, as well as the added humor (for example the shown video bloopers) :) and that the perspective of average gamer/pc-users are considered regarding component prices, how to choose the right components etc. Thank you again and a very happy new year to all of you! With best regards from Sweden

[TeamBulletSponge]

I can't say enough good things about the Lancool 216. Did my first ever PC build in one as a Christmas present for my wife and all the different paths for cable routing make it super clean and organized. I'd also give the Vetroo cooler a 10/10, bought it based on Jay's video and no regrets. Went 3070 as well for GPU, but did 5600x/B550m thanks to a significant cyber Monday mark-down and saved almost $150. Only stock case fans and the stock Vetroo cooler fan and still great thermals, steady 120-140fps in 1440p on the majority of games and happy wife = happy life.

[gqwerty]

I remember when 50 dollars used to get you a good computer case...

[kyoudaiken]

**TIMESTAMPS**
0:00 - Intro
2:05 - CPU / Why Intel [i5-12600KF] (i5-12600K shown)
5:40 - RAM / Memory [Corsair Vengenance DDR4-3200 2x8GB]
6:29 - Motherboard / Mainboard [ASUS TUF Gaming Z690-Plus WiFi D4]
8:01 - SSD / Why PCIe 3.0, Why Crucial [Crucial P3 500GB PCIe 3.0 NVMe M.2]
10:11 - Power Supply [NZXT C850 GOLD, fully modular, black cables]
11:17 - GPU / Why NVidia [NVidia RTX 3070 Founders or AiB]
14:31 - CPU cooler [Vetroo V5 Black]
15:42 - Case [LianLi Lancool 216]
17:13 - Build montage
18:22 - Finished build showcase (pretty B-Roll!)
18:52 - Show and tell
'- 18:55 - Case front panel and cooling fans
'- 20:10 - BIOS settings
'- 20:30 - CPU BIOS temps (It's NOT idle! One core is at 100% in BIOS!)
'- 20:55 - Intel turbo limits unleashed
'- 21:17 - Boot
'- 21:56 - Cinebench R23
'- 23:22 - Cinebench R23 score result, peak temperatures, comparison with old CPUs
25:41 - Conclusion with Forza Horizon 1440p gaming and FPS
26:44 - Parts list (also in the video description), further conclusion
28:38 - Subscribe frts [END]

[BashxSaiyan]

You have my dream job, Jay. There's a certain satisfaction to just building a PC and seeing it all put together.

[homelessperson]

With such a complicated, expensive, important, and quickly changing market, I really appreciate these videos that help compile observations of choices for X customer needs since most customers don't have much time to properly research.

[GiSWiG]

Totally agree on the Lancool 216! I just built a workstation PC for my wife in one and as an O11 Dynamic EVO owner, I was impressed. It can do 360mm, 240mm or 280mm AIOs (I recommend a 280). If you go with 280mm on the top, Lian Li provides a metal plate to cover the remaining gap to avoid turbulence. You can mount the GPU vertically as long as you get a separate PCIe extension cable. If you mount horizontally, you can put 2x 120mm on the bottom. The side panel below the glass is mesh so you will be bringing in fresh air. You should keep the 160mm fans instead of replacing them with fans/AIO as they provide for a better seal. We used Corsair AIO and fans and using ARGB to Corsair adapters, the front fans are controlled in iCUE (you tell iCUE that they are LED strips.) I love that the power/USB panel can be moved to the front left side of the case (no dangling wires, easy USB port access)

[anthonyholmes]

I’m running the Vetroo in my current build and have had zero problems. It’s never went over 75 c and that was running cinebench. I also slapped a higher performance fan o. It because I had it already too.

[brettsolum]

Very similar build here that I've been running for a couple of years. I bought my CPU before Intel 12th gen was out. EVGA RTX 3070 XC3 Ultra, Ryzen 5 5600x (hoping to upgrade to 5800x3d when pricing drops more), 32gb RAM, gen4 m.2, etx... Plays most 4k titles at high settings. I run 1440p for harder to run titles. great build!

[TheRazza]

I'm going to be looking to build a PC in a few months time and something that runs games at full spec at 1440p is exactly what I'm after. This video is a great reference point Jay, thanks for making it.

[TheJoebella]

Good job. Thanks. Targeting performance levels with an upgrade path is the way to go because prices change all the time, unless your rich that it.

[JeighNeither]

Hey Jay, how about segmenting your videos? You're quite the talker, & while you've got a lovely pleasant voice, most of what you're explaining I already fully understand. I've got a couple PCs & one being built currently that are above the specs here, but I'd still like to be able to peck around at this video, but without any segments it's very difficult. I think you'd have better retention if you added that feature. It's really not that much work either, it would take an extra ten minutes for your editor to segment the video.

[qasderfful]

This makes me depressed. My current PC costs about as much as a graphics card from this build - and I might have overspent, given my other circumstances.

[skentmar]

Thanks for this Jay. It's a great starting point for further expansion, but very strong in its own right. FYI, the Lian Li web page for the 216 Lancool says the fans are 160mm front (not 180mm) and 140mm rear. I'm looking forward to to your next video.

[JAN]

Fantastic video Jay, two thumbs way up!

You're like my big brother when it comes to building a computer. You spell it out simply and clearly and have my best interests in mind. A $1, 500 computer is exactly what I am looking for right now and this build seems to be perfect to me.

An added bonus was seeing you install the parts. It's a quick guide as to what may be the better way to put what on when. Likewise, the settings portion was cool to hear about as well, as I tend to ignore or fool around in them. Knowing what I am doing (in the settings) is so much better.

Thank you so much!

[Rockett]

I really enjoyed watching this video! It reminded of the old days when I started watching your channel.

[DWo]

Nice! :D I built almost the exact same PC a few months ago for a friend who wanted to game in 1440p (same board, same CPU, same GPU (Gigabyte Eagle), faster RAM). Different case (Fractal) and different PSU (BQT). Still satisfied with this choice.