This Gaming PC Under $500 is Awesome!

In this video, I built an awesome budget Gaming PC for just $430.66, with second-hand parts for the best price-to-performance ratio. I’ll walk you through each part, show you how to put it together, and break down the total cost. Stick around for the benchmarks to see how this budget build can handle your favorite games!

🔵 BUILD THIS PC (RYZEN 5 3600 + RX 5700XT)

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Elijah Guerrero
57556 Twentynine Palms Hwy # 23
Yucca Valley, CA 92284

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[evilbenny]

I"m so tired of people calling $1000+ pcs "budget", its nice to see an actual budget pc :).

[arch]

not just for the temoerature, the noise is important, if you use a ood heatsink, fans can spin slower and noise will be under control all the time, instead of making noise like a jet taking off it can be completely silent

[Gamingever]

That 91c on the GPU is worrying for extended use.

[Ancient_West]

I have two PCs in the house with 3600’s and 5700xts. Built two different versions for my wife and son. They both already had 3600s, and I got two 5700xts for $115 each. Dell Oem models, but they still work great.

Both of them love their computers.

[PovSWEATYBETTY]

You have to hit 100k next year. It's gonna be hype. Keep up the videos they are so fun to watch.

[gtman]

The 5700xt is in the list for one of the GOATs, right in there with the 1080ti

[LatrellDub]

im building my first ever pc today and its using the same cpu/gpu/case. motherboard is a different b450 but similar enough, so glad I found this video as a mini tutorial and guide

[haydenvasile]

Hi there, Elijah. I just started PC flipping and I had a question about the after process after you build a computer. What do your steps for installing windows, stress, testing, and all of that stuff. Do you reset the computer after that and then give it to the customer so they can log into Windows, or do you log into Windows for them and leave only the drivers installed in the computer? I’m sure some other people have this question so maybe you can make a video on this process?

[D.Feenstra]

Cool, I'm building almost exactly this pc. 3600xt, 5700xt, 16g, 1tb. In a jonsbo rm3 case. Just need a motherboard...

[MrSamadolfo]

I have all three cards. They are very different. So it depends on the build senario. If its your main rig the only two 5700XT i recommend looking at is the Red Devil or Sapphire Nitro. This card is very power hungry and it gets hot fast, it uses TWO 8pin plugs and its going to pull a bunch of watts if your not capping the performance, you need at least a 650w power supply and it better be a dam good power supply, this video card is great to have around as a tester if you like messing around with used power supplys because this is the kind of card thats going to really test the power supply under a load, if it can pull the 5700XT at full power at full load then your power supply should be OK cause theres no way you can get around this, either the power supply works with this card or the power supply is no good, this is where the rubber meats the road and separates the boys from the men. Another thing all Radeon cards have the Fan Curve set too low so it doesnt matter how much thermal paste or cleaning you do cause the fan curve is set too low. The only way I know getting around this is you have to have Afterburner running in the background and turn on the fan curve in Afterburner, that will over ride the firmware curve and speed up the fans. Of course you only have to do this for heavy games. If its an indie game then no worries. The 3060, 12 is in a different league, its a boring looking card, it just works, you dont need to set any fan curves, you can use any 450W power supply from Seasonic or Corsair or EVGA and it just works, if your ok with boring and you just want something that just works and you dont want to be messing with anything then get that card instead. Also if you got money to burn you can spend double the money and u can get the 6650XT which is the same card as the 5700XT but with only a single 8pin, that card is pretty much plug and play just like the 3060, 12 and the same mediocre power supply requirements. So there you go. Take your pick and choose wisely. 🐢😊🐢

[xxspawnxx]

If you do get a 5700xt. Get the xfx version. The cooling on the xfx 5700xt is far better

[BangHJL]

My guess is that one or more of the GPU fans isn't spinning or is faulty or the heatsink might be dirty. Try opening up the fan side of the heatsink to see there's any big chunk of dust stuck in between the fins.

[BuiltbySteel]

@4:36 honestly just depends on the deals in my area at the time BUT ive gotten 3060Ti's for as little as 145 and completed builds with 5700XTs for 250. just gotta be on top of those "just listed" posts to get the deals... missed out on 8 600w gigamax PSUs all for 150 and 20 cases for 350 from the same guy two days ago (everything brand new)

[Tboy-xxz]

Yo quick question, since the motherboard is pcie 3.0 and the gpu is pcie 4.0, will the performance of the gpu be limited?, as I want to use the same model you have but an rx 7600, please respond as soon as you possibly can

[jrose_]

thanks for this going to help a friend build a pc soon!

[luispzl]

To attenuate the excessive temperature of the GPU, a liquid cooling of 120mm or 240mm could be installed, so that it can stop radiating heat from the CPU to the GPU

[BudKing]

11:56 wonder if gpu temps cud be extra high coz its so close to psu shroud, kinda choking gpu not much room for air to get to it

[sahraouirami]

tips for the gpu check if the thermal pads are the correct thickness and make sure the heatsink is firmly tightened on the gpu die

[Tboy-xxz]

Yo what psu cable extensions are you using?

[voteDC]

An A320 is a perfectly acceptable AM4 motherboard. You have access to XMP to get the best out of a 3200MHz RAM kit and while there are only two slots that can still get you 32GB of RAM, which will easily keep up. Sure you don't get CPU overclocking but that's really not a need.

Always check the case when orientating a power supply. A year or so ago now a friend had a computer that they'd built following online guides but it kept shutting down. Turned out the case he'd bought didn't have ventilation at the bottom for the power supply so it was overheating. When asked why the response I got was "the videos all said to have the fan pointing down."

When using liquid to clean a PC part, even isopropyl alcohol, make sure it is dry before trying to use it. Sure isopropyl alcohol isn't a great conductor of electricity but it can still do it.