Giving the cheapest new prebuilt PC a low-cost gaming makeover

[@Scornfull]

Low-cost PCs when under a high inflation economy are always a welcome inclusion

[@jesuschrist2284]

10% inflation isnt high lol

[@TerrorSyxke]

Welcome to the usa

[@jesuschrist2284]

@@TerrorSyxke not even close to high inflation was 20% hundred years ago

[@jesuschrist2284]

@@Ethananal inflation being high or not?

[@DanielMYT]

​​@@jesuschrist2284 Except that almost no-one here was alive 100 years ago, so it's a meaningless comparison. On the other hand, when comparing current inflation rates to those of the past 10/20/30 years, as is reasonable to assume the original commenter is doing, it is clear that inflation is indeed very high right now.

[@leighjenkins5601]

Love the low cost PC's. Not many can afford a 4090 and a 14900K.

[@droson8712]

This is the perfect channel for that, actually reasonable hardware

[@FreeMyVoxels]

There’s not much reason to get the 14th gen anyways, it preforms pretty much exactly like the 13th generation

[@groenevinger3893]

There are allot of pc´s between low cost and a 14900k tho..

[@smilingpolitely12345]

"can afford" , well depend where you are living I live in Sweden , I could buy such PC from one slary , I have buddy in Poland he have RTX4090 with ryzen and he is proffesional soldier , those are just PC parts , to be honnest , my first car have cost more that RTX4090 higer price in store , yeah people can afford such PC parts , but for most people RTX4090 is just useless , for me who is "upgrating" pc for a year , RTX 4060ti is enough , I will only play in 1080p .

[@Waldherz]

Because those two extremes are totally comparable.

[@ypoora1]

FSP power supplies are high quality, not surprised it held on. I really like this system. It's compact and VERY upgradeable. I think the major OEM's can learn something from this.

[@rel8m868]

yup theyre great, had one in a 2012 prebuilt that i added a 750ti to later on. been using the same PSU since 2018 to power my amp/subwoofer in my room

[@lozyl956]

These ultra budget pcs are what I live for ❤

[@Aruneh]

Slightly related, but I have to say, your channel is both entertaining and useful. I just upgraded a nephews “gaming” PC (it had a GT710…) to be much more capable for not much money, and this channel was definitely an inspiration. So kudos to you!

[@DJEylisium]

Honestly, the fact you can get thid off the shelf basic PC with 3 year warranty for less than £200 is great! I remember paying £499 for my core 2 duo e6600 512mb ram & 40GB HDD back in the day, came bundled with a copy of Vista and an AOC 720p LCD monitor too. God I loved that machine 😂

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Awesome. My granddads pentium 4 machine cost £900 when he got it. Was top of the range at the time. I see the same model go for £20 used now haha. I loved that PC, but how times change!

[@smilingpolitely12345]

@@RandomGaminginHD I am silly , when I see older high end GPU in adds , I get exited , but then come realization that that kind of hardware 2023 is only for playing retro games ... but that dont change fact I would like to have them all :)))

[@cydragon2.099]

it wouldn't've handled GTA IV well

[@SonicBoone56]

​@@cydragon2.099 GTA 4's PC port was unoptimized to begin with

[@blankmeme224]

Windows Vista 💀

[@LexyDaShmexxy]

i like the fact this pc is so easy to upgrade, especially for a prebuilt where nowadays they're completely proprietary

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Yeah could probably go for a better Ryzen and 1650 on the PSU as well

[@MattJDylan]

Yeah I remember back then, r3 + 1050ti used to be the go-to combo for whoever had a slightly bigger budget... while for the people who liked to live dangerously and for really cheap, the combo was: used Intel q6600 + 750ti from aliexpress 😂 "100$ gaming build" titles on youtube (which usually included also going through the trash to find a psu+case someone threw away lol) Good times for people on a budget!

[@mathiasmorrison1530]

This channel is so underrated. One of the best PC Channels on youtube.

[@NickHasntSlept]

i can picture as soon as we get a 5 minute break from rain in the uk you leg it outside to film, love it

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Exactly right haha

[@darthwiizius]

I'm convinced his garden sits at an energy nexus that repels rain from falling on it.

[@TheBlazegt]

Oh wow, I think this spec that my friend built for me, except it use i5-6500 and 500W psu. He put 2 SSD and 1HDD too. Glad he pick for me the msi gtx1050 ti for low power consumption as I just wanna emulate ps2 game and old pc game

[@RealEclipsed]

Quick bit of advice for certain games: In games like GTA V where the CPU is the bottleneck, actually increasing the video settings may actually lead to either higher fps/higher percentile lows, as removing the CPU bottleneck will generally make the game run smoother

[@sebaschan-uwu]

I've noticed that generally, the more fps the gpu is allowed to generate, the harder to cpu works to manage it, so it makes sense that making the load on the gpu harder leading to lower fps would free up some bandwidth on the cpu

[@rometherevenant8749]

I know that there are some tech heads that flip pcs for a profit but theres something about this channel that I love. You take in all these pcs, give it a nice clean, upgrade parts of it and resell it to buy more hardware to keep the channel and videos going is really stellar. This kind of content for me never gets stale and I love seeing used pcs going to other people.

[@antoniom.andersen6704]

I'd like to see you upgrade it to a 3100x/3300x and maybe a used GTX 1060 or GTX 1660/S/Ti if there's power enough for it. Could be a great value if someone found that PC used and just want a cheap upgrade. The 3100x/3300x are beasts in their own right. Great vid

[@qrogueuk]

Built a new PC for my Dad, in Dec 2019 (when mining dropped off a little, so parts pricing dropped a bit). He uses it for browsing, emails and office programs. Most of the time he prefers using android phones. I could have gone pre-built route or built a much lower spec and saved a bit of cash, for his user case. But with 20+ years of me building PC. I looked at the options and went for; msi b450 tomahawk, R7 2700, 16GB (3200) ram, Rx580 (8GB), 512GB Nvme, be-quiet 500w PSU, DVD-RW (we sometimes use), £600 all in at the time. Which I was happy to with and should see many years of use for his user case.

[@paulj5336]

Great video. I love seeing little office computers given a new lease of life. Keep up the great work.

[@diegoleiva7242]

I'm surprised to see that A6 still being sold in 2023. I'm pretty sure it's slower than my A8-6410 APU laptop from 2015 was and that thing was rough even back then. The 1200 is a huge upgrade and the price you got it for is just tremendous. Well done sir!

[@michaelthompson9798]

FSP make very good quality power supplies💪🤩😇👍and I’d trust one of their 200w psu over a 450w no name psu! Great video and a nicely upgraded compact pc!🥰✊

[@americasace]

This is a whole new level of "budget gaming" for me. But wow, it's nice to see that even with something this cheap you can still game on low settings but at 1080p without having to set it down to 720p. Very nice. thumbs up!

[@JimsTechNonsense]

Did the warranty mention anything about upgrading voiding it or is it assumed that if you don't break anything that the components are covered? Either way great content as always, it takes dedication to do what you do.

[@DanielCardei]

I love the Garden B-Rolls ever 2 weeks when it doesn`t rain in UK 🤣

[@colinwatt9387]

I got a neat little PC from ebay a few weeks ago for £25 - a cool small form factor Stone case with an i5 4690 and 256gb SSD - I put a low profile 1050 ti in it and an extra 8gb of memory and use it to play classic racing games with my nVidia 3D vision glasses. I had previously used a similar Lenovo M93 for that set up but I repurposed it as a Batocera box and gave it to my brother in law.

[@anomonyous]

This is why I love this channel. Interesting stuff like this.

[@thenoob8182]

First!

[@lolok.9656]

epic video, my fav tech channel

[@Trick-Framed]

Oh and thank you! I have about a dozen of the A320 A6/A8 systems and was pondering what to do with them. I totally spaced that most of the boards are Zen compatible so thank you for the reminder.

[@carlholmberg4205]

I had this combo as my first ever pc build back in the day! Lasted me for a while before I upgraded to a 144hz monitor and needed hardware to match, excellent for hitting 1080p 60fps on practically everything out there, even in the modern age!

[@GigaChad-lr2gx]

I love your vids man, thank you for making great content.

[@btmedic04]

I love cheap and cheerful builds. its a great reminder that you dont have to buy into the marketing tactics of companies in order to have a good experience while gaming.

[@ramiel7666]

I have 2 pc's, a main gaming pc, and a secondary, where I keep my movies and various older emulators and games. The secondary is about the same as this one, and cost only a bit more. Always nice to see budget pc's doing their best!

[@D3LB0Y]

pretty good game play for the price 👍

[@anomonyous]

Hell yeah. 1050Ti. The OG budget gaming BEAST!

[@firisrozley5768]

Definitely not a PC for triple A gaming but a nice candidate for Windows 10 LTSC or Batocera build. Slapped a low-profile graphics card, any Ryzen 3 series chipset, 2 sticks of 8GB DDR4 RAM and here you go, a machine for Esports, indie & older titles up till early era of PS4 / Xbox One.

[@tz8785]

From the look of the front and the interior, you could put a DVD drive in.

[@simonbannow3905]

Looks like it yes

[@simonbannow3905]

But not enough to actually do it?

[@curvingfyre6810]

am4 is still the sweet spot of entry level to be honest, dead platform or no. you can get SUCH cheap processors for it now and upgrade later, plus your same kit of ram will be fine all throughout a decades worth of hardware progress - and maybe even your motherboard too depending on what bios revisions are available.

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Yeah definitely still a great platform especially for budget gamers

[@RobVee.]

Great temps, goddang

[@greenprotag]

Oddly... I really like this chassis. I like Matx based small chassis in the mini tower and slip tower varieties. Some of these are nearly the same size as their ITX counterparts, but are often a little cheaper to build.

[@jotarokujo1127]

love your content man

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Thanks!

[@dianaalyssa8726]

Nice upgrade

[@anomonyous]

What a lovely little budget PC. Absolutely lovely that is. Could do with being a little cheaper still. Maybe under a hundred, but maybe that's being too hopeful. Love stuff like this. Looks solid, decent, affordable and reliable. A PC for the masses, as it were. Very nice. A little anemic perhaps. But I'm sure it does the job just fine.

[@MapOfEurasia]

Low budget PC are always welcome. Can you test next an Athlon 7120U/7220U APU based laptop? I heard good things about those little Mendocino APUs with RDNA2 graphics.

[@demimob_]

I wish case manufacturers can make low cost SFF cases. Sucks to see only OEMs do and no one else.

[@pitrochied]

love ur videos... I am a returning viewer ( subscribed for 2 years now) ... as a constructive criticism/ feedback., i suggest you to improve the thumbnails as they fly by the feed without catching the attraction even tho the videos peak my interest.... hope you find it helpful..👍

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Ah ok thanks! And thanks for sticking around so long!

[@emmett_shortt]

Always enjoyed your videos. Thanks for doing what you do!

[@Pepechan4561]

In Serbia, you can get a ryzen 5 4650g system (8gb of ram tho) for about 220 euros. Add a second stick of ram and you're good for basic gaming. Most games will run with reduced settings on vega 7 until you can afford a good gpu.

[@EestiGaming]

Seems like the 1050Ti is actually being held back a decent bit by the R3 1200. I wonder how much more you'd need to spend on an AM4 cpu to not hold back the 1050Ti. Considering the CPU and GPU don't seem to be consuming more than 150W according to the Afterburner OSD, there should be some headroom for a different CPU.

[@oscarmetal]

Nice built,you should have gone higher with the cpu. I made a cheap built for my nephew for basic gaming, buying components in cex or renew. Here are the specs: Cooler master 600w bronze bulk(new)--->30€+5€shipping Msi a320m a pro(renew)------>22€ R5 2600 in cex---->40€+2,5€shipping 2x8gb Kingston 3200mhz ddr4(new)----->37€ Gtx950 in cex---->35€+2,5€shipping I reused his old pc case. 175€, all components with warranty...and he can play all Star Wars games except Survivor(a rx570 8gb will do the job, i guess)

[@stratuvarious8547]

If you have a budget of $300 or less, a used office PC with some upgrades is the way to go. If you've got a budget of $500 and up, building your own is better. But, it's always interesting to see how much performance a office PC can give with the right upgrades.

[@vill2980]

for something that costs a little below 300, it performed good. Plus, you can always sell the a6 for cheap and get your money back, even by a little bit. By the way, is that Java Minecraft you tested? If so, then that is performing gloriously even at vanilla experience. Slap a few performance mods and it could maybe triple the frames. I rate it 8/10. Great video as always.

[@NoobSniper]

Awesome budget build as usual! I would be curious is the Ryzen 5 1600AF would be a suitable CPU upgrade for around £20-25 more. Going 4C/4T to 6C/12T and double overall cache at the same 65W TDP would offer a big performance bump 👍

[@Teste-gp7bm]

Indeed, it was what I was thinking... The 1600AF/2600 are also compatible with Win11, which the 1400 also isn't. Just that alone is prob worth it, as Win10 will EOL less than 2y from now.

[@dodgydruid]

Game that looks and plays awesome for me at mo is Return to Moria by Epic, 7am and have played it solidly since yesterday afternoon not realising a whole evening and night just whooshed on by... been a long long time since a game captured my attention like that, Burning Crusade and Wrath of the Lich King expansions on WoW I did pull all nighters and three dayers. RtM is a game really for those of us who are LotR nerds or for people who don't mind a bit of a grind sesh, no quick travel options available you pound the streets of Khazad Dum in real time, you also have to manage resources without a communal "chest" and you have to set up a big base and several sub bases to manage your crafting and building.

[@gtasomogyi]

Great video again! Would be interesting to see what it can just with the GPU upgrade. And was nice to see the Ryzen 3 1200, have the same, with single 8gigs and an RX570 4gb, powered by a 350W Corsair PSU. So far no issues, and was good to see, that I don't have to worry about perfomance for a while (for my use). Plus I have room for cheap upgrades.

[@pdunderhill]

Thank God you are doing this so nobody else has to, still not sure how Win 11 rollout will work so will keep an eyeout.

[@The_Man_In_Red]

Considering Microsoft wants to make Windows 12 a subscription service as if ANYONE would be happy to rent their frigging OS ......also with how well Proton and Linux gaming in general has improved I am 100% ready to say goodbye to Windows forever when that day arrives.

[@cecilb7927]

As you stated, it doesn't make sense todaty, but in the near future, if that same machine is available used for $100 USD or so, and something like an RX 6600M (the Aliexpress laptop ones on discrete cards) are around $100, this could well be an appealing option, especially if a Ryzen 5 4500 could be had cheap.

[@Beisepimp]

I never expected , that there are still new AMD A6 PC's out there.. :'D

[@gizarno]

"just does the basics just right out of the box, and sometimes that's all you need" "not us though" 😈

[@Kaaputenen]

That A6 chip was just made a few years ago but it's still Excavator, not Zen!

[@Yggdrasill8]

I would agree at the end, this PC is only good for office settings where a powerful computer is not required at all. The PSU and case, that doesn't allow for much space at all, is a huge bottleneck; the proprietary motherboard is pretty useless as well, I wouldn't even get this as a first computer for a son or daughter. It's better to get cheap components, and the microATX motherboards and case are usually the cheapest. A PSU of at least 600w to a max of 750w so that their is rarely a energy bottleneck when it comes to most low to mid-tier graphic cards. You can build a pretty competent system for only $500-$600, one with a plexiglass side-panel, large CPU heatsink, three RGB fans, 600w bronze PSU, $180 graphics card, 16gb of 3200mhz ram, and a ryzen 4000 series.

[@hamzamohammad3287]

Owned a Ryzen 9 3900x with 64gb of ram and RX6700XT back in June of this year but sold it cuz my car broke down and needed fixing (couldn't give up on my TT like that) and so I built myself a Ryzen 3 3100 with 16gb of ram and an rx580 4gb totalled to £260 as all parts were used except motherboard, really gonna think twice before upgrading

[@stormbreaker82]

Cool video

[@jesuschrist2284]

3 year warranty is amazing

[@vassilyknigge850]

Me seeing him run a 1050 TI with a 75 watt TDP and him being worried and then there is me with an RX 580 with a TDP of 185 running on a 240 watt PSU.

[@heatsflamesman6080]

Low cost pc's are fire, you get enough performance for a more than good price.

[@kkolakowski]

I like that even the cheapest PCs these days looks kind of "good" 🤔 I would love to check how those very low-budget computers handle older games, with no upgrades whatsoever. What would be the "cutting" point for such GPU? How could it handle late 2000s games for example? And how it would compare to machines of this era? 🙂

[@AndersHass]

First time I have heard about an A6 CPU from AMD. Interesting it does use AM4 socket so it could be upgraded to a more powerful CPU (if the motherboard has BIOS updates for it).

[@Timmy51m]

I put a 1050ti in my nephews X51 with a 240w supply and it ran fine for a couple of years, so no worries there unless the psu rails are utter trash.

[@lllIIllIllllIIIIl]

The Fortnite results will be way different in a month, the current OG season is very easy to run because of the old map. In Chapter 4 Season 4 I got around 240 FPS avg and in the OG season I'm getting over 350 FPS avg

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Good point. I’ll have to keep an eye on performance

[@harmless-kun]

That actually looks good... Unfortunately I'm in Asia so....

[@WildRapier]

Ouch CPU limited and only using ~50% of the 1050's potential. But it works!

[@MoultrieGeek]

It's pretty rare to see a 1050ti CPU limited these days.

[@WildRapier]

@@MoultrieGeek My kid limits his 3060....

[@ironphilly2366]

this company new to me as a bald eagle citizen. But definetely welcome if its atx.

[@ZipplyZane]

Interesting that an AM4 mobo isn't using NVMe. I was definitely expecting this to be older than that. Does it not have the slot, or was the SATA SSD just cheaper? I'd love to find what the oldest Intel CPU that would perform about the same as the original CPU. I'm seeing refurbished gen 7 Intel i7s for around the same price.

[@marlon.8051]

probably just not having the nvme slot is cheaper to make

[@BenAkenobi]

Intel's equivalent to AMD A6 series would be something like a Pentium G4400

[@thomasK-IT]

I am using a 160W Pico PSU that can peak up to 200W with no problem (230W external brick), on my Ryzen 7 5700x and Rx6400 combo😅 No problems at all with my type of use, movie encoding and light gaming.

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Haha if it works, it works

[@solidtl]

Go get a power draw meter. Basic ones are cheap and it will give you real power draw figures

[@lewzealand4717]

The R5 1200 can easily be OCd to 3.4 with no voltage increase and to 3.6 and sometimes even 3.8 with minimal extra voltage for 20+% more CPU performance

[@willmatheson]

I can't believe you can still buy pre-Zen AMD CPUs in new systems. At least you get socket AM4 with access to Zen 1-3.

[@rollingtroll]

I wonder what would have happened with just the GPU and RAM upgrade. I'd say with 8gb of ram and some low profile 970 or so you'd already have something quite workable.

[@cliffordgerona6023]

can you make a short video on how you set up your Afterburner/Rivatuner overlay?

[@aintaintaword666]

WHYYY did you not test that turd of a PC before upgrading, it's always the most fun part, to see it struggling in 20 year old games

[@dusanmilovic7421]

Good

[@immortaljellyfish1051]

The ryzen 1600 is £28 from cex and get a little trade in with the old cpu. Can't really see an upgrade unfortunately from the 1050ti.

[@manurz1]

I do rlly like the front panel in the bottom Im have the pc at the desk and i hate to see cables hanging

[@ShieyV2komputroniks]

how do they make money on this?

[@johnbeer4963]

No DVD drive... but it does have a slot for a slimline one by the looks. I actually really like that case. I wonder if they sell it seperately? edit: i googled, it appears they don't. What a shame. I'd buy one, i have a use for it but sadly not the componentry within

[@justhezo]

I didn't know A6 9500 was AM4 socket i thought it was am3 or fm2+

[@gejamugamlatsoomanam7716]

Should have put a low profile rtx 4060 by gigabyte and a ryzen 5 5600

[@Trick-Framed]

Shoulda went 1500X. Jawa had one for $25 a day ago.

[@chadbrick67]

The buffet plate is 12.50

[@Frightenerd]

This might be the madman in me talking, but isn't it possible, and cost effective to upgrade this system a little further? Like an ryzen 5 from the 3000 or 5000 series, or even testing if it can handle a ryzen 7 5700x and a more powerful graphics card with a power supply upgrade if necessairy and or possible. I didn't notice if the power suppley was a more common size and shape, and if it isn't maybe there are some power supplies that fit. I guess the vrms are somewhat limited on this pc, but what is the maximum upgrade that is sustainable long term in this pc?

[@MudSluggerBP]

You could have got an RX 480 for 50 quid from CEX 👍🏻

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Nice. Although the PSU wouldn’t handle that haha

[@MudSluggerBP]

@@RandomGaminginHD yeah I jumped the gun and posted before you mentioned the PasU in the system 🤦🏻‍♂️🤣

[@radradR0bot]

I like that case. Do they sell it stand alone?

[@Fin4L6are]

that's the exact SSD I've got...

[@wristygymnast1384]

How could you build a better new 'gaming' build from scratch? I don't see where the savings are to realistically to significantly improve

[@HenrySomeone]

This could do wonders with a 5600 and a 4060...

[@joeyhillers9460]

God, I feel old

[@huaqwe]

This is no sense to buy prebuilt 160 pounds, and change CPU etc. You can buy in parts New motherboard for 50 case and PSU for 30 both , and RAM for 15, SSD 20 . End save 50 pounds for buy GPU etc.

[@lc7ineo]

Great video as always¡ Now that AM4 is on the way to retirement, could you make a video trying to find the best AM4 CPU ever, on a price to performance basis? Not the 5800x3D or the 5950X which are amazing but amazingly expensive as well, maybe it is the 3600X? maybe something else?

[@CorbinsDedah]

5600 or 5600x, I would think. The non X version is well within 10% of the X version.

[@PureBassO]

I've been wanting to build an older pc ... I don't want to buy an Xbox original, PS2 or GameCube to play older games when cheaper copies of games are on pc ... Any advice on building a pc that would run 90's and 2000's games ? I'm a novice at this but I always look in cex and see pc games just so cheap and can't resist

[@MISTER__OWL]

Do you just have a closet full of PC parts lol where do you put all this stuff it must be a storage nightmare.

[@corneliusantonius3108]

Needs a Seagull

[@camotech1314]

I think this will easily take a Ryzen 5600 Or a 5400G with built in graphics