$250 PC builds are SUPER hard: Budget PC build Challenge!

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

So I realised that I cut the final score for my Firestrike score, my final score was 7920. No go watch Timmy Joe's awesome video. 😁

[@gospelachuenu8873]

Your too spoiled

[@MrHerbs666]

@@gospelachuenu8873 you're

[@gospelachuenu8873]

If not that you love to spend money this challenge should have been easy

[@Chrissy-xo]

How about a custom PC case build challenge with a budget of like 50 USD?

[@ttvnebulus5859]

You spelt now wrong

[@RandomGaminginHD]

This was a wild ride 🤣

[@dimactavicus]

indeed it does, mr. low budget gaming hero

[@budgetgamerzconnor7184]

I love everything you do random gaming!!! Your my favorite channel!! You inspired me to build and sell locally!!! I would love to send you a few pic of my rig for you to feature in your gaming set up reviews!! Dont let your #1 american fan down!

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

This challenge was the gift that kept on giving. 😂

[@David-ye1nb]

@@DawidDoesTechStuff time to do a collab ;) Also keep up the amazing work both of you :D!

[@JapantunersRedlineGaming]

Hi

[@FlyinTonite]

"You have many failures, and then you lie about it." This is now my life's motto.

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

😅

[@shaneeslick]

Well it's good enough for those with KZbin Channels trying to prove the Earth is Flat or Space Doesn't exist

[@julianbarron5293]

Hahahahaha

[@whyers4782]

Soo... i know im a faliure... so does that mean m-my life... IS A LIE?!?!?!?

[@thedoofguy5707]

When you tried to install Windows on a drive to be used in a Mac and subsequently corrupted two other Windows drives, I'm pretty sure Steve Jobs was watching you and giggling like an insane schoolgirl in hell.

[@TimmyJoePCTech]

I am going to have to refer to the reff on your methods of acquiring your hardware lololol. I mean the fact that you bought a Mac Pro... Something fishy is going on here lol

[@SacrificeForYourSins]

Hi!

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

Hahaha!! Fair enough.

[@josejuanandrade4439]

That's cuz he dosen't have a friend Taylor to provide him with everything he needs for his YT channel :P

[@shaneeslick]

🤔 So does this mean there can be no winner as Technically you both failed to build a Gaming PC for LESS THAN $250USD

[@MrHyde-wv8wi]

1/4 mile Drag Race, Start... Dawid Hits the wall and bounces back and forth, comes to stop just over the finish line. BgThmsUp.

[@ShroomRPG]

dawid: that was too expensive and wouldn't work me: okay seems fair enough dawid: ....so i tried to install windows on a mac pro me: ah

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

Haha!! Yeah that wasn't my best idea. 😅

[@ShroomRPG]

@@DawidDoesTechStuff It's what we love you for man.

[@shaneeslick]

@@DawidDoesTechStuff it seems it was the the way you were doing the W10 install, why didn't you just make a W10 Boot USB, disconnect your OS drive & network to do a fresh OS install on a SSD, then before it loaded any drivers install the SSD & transfer it to the MAC, I've used my Athlon200GE HTPC for this a few times now, First time I tried it worked for my nieces LGA1155 PC as it didn't have a ODD drive & for some reason wouldn't load W10 from USB, gotta do it disconnected from the net so it doesn't load & activate the W10 Activation key stored on the donor Motherboard into the OS

[@TheRealFobican]

Just get a new sata SSD with a fresh install then put it into the Mac pro.

[@ThePesident]

I remember my first build was in a $260 setup back in 2018, and it was built around a 2500k, Z68, and RX 580 8gb. I do live in Jacksonville, Florida though, so local deals definitely made it easier.

[@Bukki13]

>2500k >rx 580 ^ how to make a bottleneck

[@17473039]

Ahh, the joys of UEFI vs Legacy bios installs...

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

Exactly. The moment I started reading about using virtual machines to get windows running, I knew I was out of my depth.

[@17473039]

@@DawidDoesTechStuff there was about a solid week where it got so bad I actually bought a 16gb Optane m.2, put it in a usb enclosure and made it a windows install device because the time saved installing windows off it vs a normal usb flash drive not only saved me from insanity but actually made financial sense...

[@Raggyraggz]

@@17473039 dawg I dont usually comment on youtube videos but that's actually genius. I wish I had thought of that whe. I upgraded my motherboard last month

[@BenJylovesJodii]

Never install Windows on a HD while you have other hds in the system.

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

Haha!! Yeah, I learned that the hard way. 😂

[@cracklingice]

@@DawidDoesTechStuff, if he's anything like me, he means literally all the time any time, including fresh builds. Windows is willy nilly about where it'll put the boot files sometimes and you end up with two drives stuck together for the life of the install. Remove one or the other and the system stops booting.

[@TheRealFobican]

What if you only have SSDs in both ends instead?

[@cracklingice]

@@TheRealFobican The only drive that should be plugged in when installing an OS is the drive you want the OS on.

[@iceyberq]

@@cracklingice willy nilly

[@alexm8226]

PCs on a budget and used market: *exist* Dawid: "What is this place?"

[@hArDsTyLe2259]

kek

[@SirNickyT]

I'm sorry for laughing so hard at the Windows corruption chain of events. It was just so unfortunate I couldn't help but laugh.

[@heyitsdazy]

I guess I dodged a bullet by doing clean installs of Win on all my drives... I didnt even know Win could install another Win on another drive. Is that a native feature or a black majick hack software?

[@jragonwriter6316]

Love your channel, man! So funny, good insights, real know-how and humble openness when something goes wrong. Thanks for sharing!

[@Macauley7272]

"i ended up buying more than $250 on this build" Me: Yep typical dawid

[@raven4k998]

so he failed he admitted it by saying that one lol

[@jay-gi9dk]

i used to buy refurbished pcs and turn them into gaming rigs for ppl.mostly friends and family. i'm gonna check out your channel.thanks for the video

[@AbdulMalik-lm4je]

I like this guy. His speech/narration 100/100

[@amnottabs]

I guess the 'install Windows on another pc" needs a core2duo or something without an uefi bios in order to boot on that old Mac

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

Oh that's interesting. I have a couple things I'll try when I have more time. 👍

[@thisismynamethisismyname5956]

@@DawidDoesTechStuff you need to make a new video about installing Windows on that mac This isn't a request, this is an order

[@yntjamari]

@@thisismynamethisismyname5956 yes.

[@Boemel]

thats why i keep an old dumpster q6600 pc around. at the moment its literally a footrest.

[@CoalitionGaming]

Saw $250 and challenge in the title and thought you finally got to my challenge from August. *RIP*

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

Eyy, I'm so sorry. I spent a bit of time looking for options and then completely forgot. Although as you can see, budget build challenges aren't my strong suite. 😅 I'm really sorry about that.

[@voyg2]

now that all this silliness is over I want to see a Windows build in that Apple case

[@benwrth]

Streaming today? Great content Dawid!

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

Yes! Ill be live soon.

[@hexearth8258]

Windows breaking another working Windows and then breaking yet another working Windows system... it's just Windows being Windows.

[@fortune8771]

Would just like to say your pronunciation of 30s and 50s cures my depression 🤣

[@reptilez13]

Hahaha I am currently unloading 5 of those old Mac Pros. The earliest ones too, they are a nightmare haha. You can't turn them on without the side panel on, that alone drove me insane for a while. This is hilarious timing.

[@heyitsdazy]

So if the latch breaks your screwed???

[@thomasbinieda990]

Dawid: calls himself stupid Me: somehow installs a cpu upside down and then plugs the hdmi into the power socket

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

Oh wow! That is pretty next level. 😅

[@-cryogena9290]

@@DawidDoesTechStuff a GPU I own appeared in the vid I kinda want you to find it :/

[@TheRealFobican]

Now you have spare parts for future projects gathering about dust such as the motherboard/cpu combo and an old Apple mac pro which could be kind of cool to see being used together.

[@CameronL211]

that Gigabyte Mobo has to be the coolest Motherboard I ever seen

[@Blind-Ambition]

Heh, caught this video 11 seconds after it was uploaded. Quality content as always

[@aerntlol]

we can all see this budget builds and maybe even build them. but deep down we all want a $5000 maingear PC.

[@Trick-Framed]

The two of you are neck and neck in EVERYTHING. From subscribers to prebuilt systems in this challenge...Dawid is West Coast Canuck, Timmy Joe is an East Coast Canuck.....so interesting.

[@gabe._.is._.bored69]

To be fair it is harder in Canada to fight people to the death on Craigslist and eBay because of worse deals

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

Haha!! Yeah it is a bit of a challenge. 😁

[@frommatorav1]

Its fair because they're both Canadian though. Also Timmy Joe said the $250 was based on US pricing which might have helped.

[@220Hawkeye]

Although Dawid had better CPU benchmarks, I had to give Timmy some bonus points for craftsmanship and aesthetics. Well done both of you. It isn't easy finding even a normal web browsing computer for $250.

[@HrutkayMods]

@Dawid Does Tech Stuff I could've helped you get Windows on the Mac Pro. I used to specialize in doing it. I feel like you need a follow up video

[@amanfern]

Nice to see dawid getting sponsored

[@alpha3836]

2:33 *_Please vote for me or I'm screwed_* Damn sometimes I feel like a screw too.

[@davehill9951]

Really enjoy your video's! I just built a new one with a 3700x and a EVGA 3070 and all the bells and whistles to go with it and people on you tube says a nice entry level computer. keep the great videos coming! Merry Xmas from Kitchener Ontario.

[@Nakiato]

Both videos have been watched. Vote has been made. Dawid, hoping the best for ya, man.

[@greenprotag]

Recently I was able to build an $80 i7 2600 dell optiplex, with 8GB of ram, 240GB SSD w/OS, and a $100 gtx 1060. Add in a mechanical drive and/or +8GB of ram and you are pretty close to a full fledges gaming PC under $250. But it was not when I wanted it, it was more of a situation where I saw the deal and decided to make Christmas presents for my younger relatives.

[@Bitshift1125]

I got a 2006 Mac Pro years ago and put Windows on it pretty easily. I had similar problems to the ones you described, so I put Linux on the machine instead. When I couldn't get that to work and OS X was being a pain (as it often is), I just booted into Linux from the CD I made and fully erased the HDD, then I was able to boot into the Windows installer on a USB because no other bootable media was in the device. A couple hours later, I had Windows installed and I got drivers for all but two pieces of hardware (that I still can't identify because Apple evidently doesn't want to share). Now the only thing is, it won't go back to OS X now that I'm trying to get rid of it.

[@elliothunter2579]

*Explosions not included*. Aight, I'm out! Good video as always Dawid, my tasty new Ryzen 7 3700x arrived today...still no luck with stock in general with graphics cards!

[@johnjohn40100]

It's just so happened that I recently picked up an evga x58 digital storm PC for $60usd. 1000w corsair psu, haf cooler master case, i7 920 cpu, v8 cooler master cpu cooler included. No hard drive though

[@CoolDudeClem]

And I thought building my PC for around £600 was a "budget" (and bear in mind I already had all the other parts I needed)

[@dhanajon5528]

600 euro budget? Idk man even 500 usd is kind off a stretch

[@bobfill5809]

Hey just want to say I’m happy with my $285 build. I bought an old optiplex and some used parts and I have 16gb of ram, i5-4590, gtx 970. Also with a ssd

[@TheGameBench]

This is a tough call. The gaming performance is pretty similar since Timmy's system is bottlenecking the crap out of his GPU. But... you could drop an i7 in there and and be GPU bound for the most part. If he wins, I'd say it because his system has more flexibility and a better upgrade path, making it the better PC.

[@dr0ybox64]

Can't wait to see a video with that beautiful motherboard you got.

[@lilsleeper7043]

I got a computer with a i5 7400 and 8gb of ddr4 and a 500 gb hard drive with windows installed. I think it’s a prebuilt dell and someone was selling a blower oem rx 580 8gb. 200$ goes far if you look really hard.

[@CaveyMoth]

It's so hard, yet it doesn't turn on. 3:26 How did you buy an Amurrican mobo in Canada?

[@Brianreese83]

and dont even get me started on your 2006 mac pro idea lol, good video at least. always entertained.

[@joebiggs5408]

Love your viddys man, you're one funny dude 👍

[@asharigada4956]

I've been there, I couldn't install windows 10 on my old Mac (2009 MacBook) because it was unsupported. I tried using Xcode and Atom to change the code so that it was supported and but I was still having some problems in bootcamp. I tried doing the bootcamp partition manually and installing windows via a usb copy and it worked but then when I wanted to boot again into windows it would crash because the partition I did manually was missing some key things for Windows (that's why you need to use bootcamp). Finally I tried downloading windows 7 via bootcamp (so it partitioned my drive correctly) and from Windows 7 I downloaded windows 10 and it works like a charm. Good luck

[@eveexpertguides995]

love the budget build videos so fun

[@a.sanford8731]

Can't deny the snazzy of throwing a 1650 into a cheap office PC. That's gaming done right.

[@tobiwonkanogy2975]

you also got a g1 killer . the best looking fps board XD Gimme dat magazine . we need more gimmicky stuff again. 90's renaissance

[@georgeprice4212]

*explosions not included* Keith Moon: challenge accepted, mate.

[@lbsiuk]

UEFI vs Legacy. A mistake I’ve made, many, many times. In general, PCs made before 2013 won’t have UEFI boot support. UEFI is something you should use if you can.

[@frommatorav1]

The advantage of Dawid getting the NZXT pre-built is no electrocution for him.

[@njord1697]

He is so wholesome when sponsored

[@JeffWaynee]

To setup Windows on an Intel Mac you first need to install Mac OS, then use Boot Camp in Mac OS to create a Windows install. That method is very common, and easy to find instructions for.

[@ironlungthe3rd]

That's why you don't listen to random forums, if you're careful you can install windows onto a drive while your main boot drive is still in the pc, but a lot can go wrong.

[@Carlos-lq7ey]

Good job dawid good video as always

[@Ryanhaapala1]

I've flipped many, many Mac Pros. 2006's are the most difficult to deal with. I've found if you want to run Windows 10, your best bet is to use a 2008 or newer (or 2007 flashed 3,1). They run it pretty flawlessly. I would however recommend a 2009-2012 x58 based Mac Pro if you plan on running any games.

[@lovedeathhatepoison8737]

Got a i7 880 with 8 gigs ram 500gb hard Gtx 950 2gb gddr5 With decent casing With stock cooler And a Fujitsu workstation motherboard Old one but dual sli supported For 220$

[@gregdepot]

To avoid jacking up windows, i pull the drive out of my old lap top and do fresh installs on it then transfer it the new pc if the pc wont let me load windows onto to

[@jimmyjoejoyce]

Had to give it you purely based on how easy this build is

[@tnecniv4_nl752]

7:46, listen closely and you know where the minecraft Steve taking damage sound comes from 🤫

[@DangItshere]

"can't get RGB for cheap" Smh it's December I think anyone has christmas lights somewhere

[@baselmohamed2557]

you can literally get rgb strips for 10 bucks

[@djkilla3711]

“Please vote for me or I’m screwed.” I’m dead

[@CC-bn2ws]

When I was building pcs more frequently, I was always a cheap build builder as I buy everything on sale/clearance/discounts! It takes a while, I never bought anything used aside from a couple of open box items. But it can be done, or it could. The market now seems far different.... The combo deal I got at microcenter was more than some of the pcs I built, and it wasn't even close to the most expensive mb cpu ram combo.

[@Insominagaming]

I got a decent LGA1366 Motherboard recently with an Xeon X5650 for around 80 Bucks! Love your build

[@92roadie]

Just watched Timmy's video. A used 1660 ti is like $230 usd here in Canada. He was well over the $250 budget. You win.

[@Joel-ew1zm]

Having a 2010 dual socket mac pro, i ran into some issues installing windows on it as well, but i was successful installing it to another drive, then throwing that drive into the mac and booting to it. Also with an RX580

[@ShirtlessMenNetwork]

So, I couldn't vote anymore, but I have to confess that I would have voted for Timmy Joe. You're still king, but fair's fair. 😁

[@aynt_2065]

In my area, sometimes you can find a god-tier deal from people who undervalue their hardware. I was able to build a i7-6700, GTX 970, and 16GB RAM system for $200.

[@josejuanandrade4439]

About a year and half ago, i built an htpc for my living room, to also emulate and play some pc games. With exactly 250 bucks. It was a very good, compact rig with a 2200g, 8 gb of ram in dual channel of course! (2x4) a decent gigaby b450, and even an ssd 240 gb!. It ran dolphin and neo geo games like a charm, and even some pc games i put there for my little nephews (spiro remaster, crash bandicoot, Ori and others) I even had Overwatch and World of Warcraft in there! Tho i ended up deleting those because i wasn't realy playing them in that pc and the ssd had very limited space :P

[@crawfordbrown75]

My first gaming pc was an optiplex sff with an i5 4590, 1650 and 16gb ram for £250

[@sburton015]

I think my older gaming PC would be well within that budget which has an Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550, 4 gb ram, and a GTX 570.

[@DerToasti]

Challenge idea: most lightweight powerful gaming pc. Motivation: gaming laptops are pretty chunky, so why not build a pc that's only a little bit heavier and just as powerful for like half the price. Bonus points if you can jerry rig a portable monitor to it. More bonus points if you can turn it upside down and shake it without any parts inside coming loose. even more bonus points if it doesn't catch on fire.

[@LeMMingSlayeR]

TIMMY JOE RULEZ!!! But so do you 😁

[@Xenoray1]

tl:dr: ALWAYS UNPLUG ANY DRIVE BEFORE INSTALLING WINDOWS It happend to my WD SN750 too, i rescued my old ssd with windows through using command lines but the wd sn750 didnt work anymore :/

[@rob5435354]

Hey just saw the video as a long time viewer for the second time. I hope you are doing well, stumbling blocks happen and I hope you realize that from the "other side" it looks like you are taking it in stride. That said creator anxiety is real and I hope you are not feeling self doubt when stuff like this happens. Keep up the great work and all the best. - fellow canadian

[@LPOeli]

The Dawid way of building a budget PC: 1. Buy a falsly advertised Mac Pro 2. Brake all expensive PCs in your house 3. Cheat 4. Profit

[@jonmayer]

Now I see where you got the Intel processor for the 6 core modern comparison video.

[@EdgyShooter]

Ah, you've created a Windows drive of deadly death!

[@ikannunaplays]

Windows installer changed the BCD database on your NVME and other PC. You just need to fix the BCD entries for those windows using the recovery console command line using bcdboot c:\Windows /s b: /f ALL Do not have any other disks connected to the system besides the windows boot disk and the disk with windows installed on it during this process. It did this because the installer used the NVME for booting and the other drive for windows, this unfortunately links the two disk together and they will not work separately unless corrected. The NVME needs it's BCD registry entries for the UUID of the disk for the windows location to be corrected. BCD is just a tiny windows registry with boot disk and windows location(s) data, and can actually be mounted in regedit but you will not be able to modify the entries this way. The new windows install destination disk needs a new boot record and BCD to be created on it before it can boot. Here is a full walkthrough for such issues on MS Windows since Vista www.disk-image.com/faq-diskimage-windows8.htm

[@goqwertygo]

oof i would have installed windows on my sidekick pc and disconnected all other drives so windows wont interfere the MBR

[@igors_lv]

You could get 1-5$ rgb strip or just single colour led strip and find how to power it, solder few wires if nothing else ;)

[@amahmood3799]

Ironically, you have arrived at a build which is used for Zwift - a 4th series processor, 8gb ddr3, a 1650 (regular) as its going into an office refurb device

[@legorclfactory611]

I've built one for €160,- and it's amazing, it has a i5 6400 processor, a MSI 750 GTX Ti graphics card, it has 500gb SSD and 1 TB HDD, 8gb ram and an Acer motherboard, with some contacts you'll get there

[@sergiobarros6102]

Man, I use PCs since the IBM 286. Fast forward to january of 2020. I tried to install an SSD with Windows 10 on a 2006 MacPro, AKA 1,1. This was the final boss fight of my computer nerd life. It was awful, I spent all month passing a ton of hurdles until I got it to run, but then Windows 10 refused to work running in AHCI mode, so there was not all that speed and joy to it. Then some months later the PSU died. Now the machine is gathering dust as my side bed table kkkk.

[@dingusmagee3326]

Dawid is like a pc gaming nerd Canadian Jeremy Clarkson

[@esemes16]

If all he needed were benchmark numbers you could of tried installing *linux* onto the Mac and trying Proton.

[@ArtisChronicles]

Chain reaction corruption was pretty scary

[@BlxxmYT]

0:29 my guy is still using iOS 10 ????

[@scorpio896]

I have a SFF PC with only 180 watt power supply, can I put any graphics card in or is my power supply too low?

[@famousfighter2310]

I didn’t watch timmy joes video yet but i feel dawid already won

[@MrSkateboy375]

Whats the software you use to show your cpu temp gpu temp ram speed and all that? i wanna get it for my pc build

[@CaptainSpud80]

Nice shirt I have a similar one :) been enjoying the videos

[@HimmelWeint]

"Explosions not included" but fires sure are if you get the NZXT H1.

[@gameguru3112]

Hi bud, if you don't mind me asking, what is the guitar riff song you play in the background during the videos? Cheers!

[@janwitkowsky8787]

In Denmark, for 1600 DKK (256-ish USD) I managed an old office PC along with upgrades. Lenovo M71e: i3-2120, 4 GB RAM, 500 GB HDD, 250W PSU Upgraded: i5-2400 - bought used - essentially made the M71e into a M91e, lenovo mobo doesn't support 3rd gen iCore-series (iH61) 8 GB RAM - bought new - max ram possible on the lenovo mobo. G.Skill Ares w/ orange heat-spreader. New CPU cooler, since the i3 is a 65W TDP CPU. i5 is 95W. - Bought new. Orange fan, matching the new RAM. GTX 960 - bought used - xp compatible ;) 1 TB HDD - salvaged from old external USB HDD 150 GB SSD - salvaged from dead laptop 630W PSU - bought new (quite dodgy, but works) Playing Far Cry 5 1080p medium on around 40-50 FPS. :)

[@olol333]

I just found this channel today by yt proposials, I waoul really like to have beer with you, unfortunetly im from europe. So cheers mate :)

[@AmaraTheBarbarian]

If I took part in such a challenge it would be so incredibly stupid. Is there a form factor limitation here? Like if I ripped out the board of a dying laptop I got for $20 would it be acceptable to M.2 to PCIE my way into giving a normal laptop a desktop GPU, or is that too outside the box?