I Built A Reasonable $500 Budget Gaming PC!

[@DirkdeZwijger]

budget PC's really aren't too bad. A lot of people tend to only play older or light games anyway and PC's like these are perfect for that

[@BudgetBin]

@@DirkdeZwijger 100% agree with you. I do think there are some merits to some new parts or certain build mindsets, but yeah. Honestly a GTX 1650 will get you pretty far if you aren't always playing the latest and greatest.

[@Stefan_xd]

​@@BudgetBini have GTX 1650 paired with I7 4790 and it's okay for most games that I play even in 2024

[@iamhardwell2844]

enough for most competitive games

[@kmonkey4138]

Yup I have a GTX 1060 6GB / I5 10600k and I barely see the need to upgrade. It's perfectly fine for 1080p and I'll only build a new computer when I decide to get a 1440p or 4k monitor

[@DirkdeZwijger]

@@kmonkey4138 i have an i5 6500K and I really am starting to notice a drop in performance sadly. Will upgrade next year to newer gen so i'll be fine

[@bar7381]

even as someone who has a 5800x and a 3080 I still am interested in what budget options are available for people getting into this hobby, great video

[@24kwaxxvy]

i have the same cpu but when i bought it i forgot to buy a new gpu.... 5800x w a 6650xt hhahaha

[@john-ek9gv]

@@24kwaxxvy still very good

[@Hyackeed]

you can get better price to performance if you buy used parts

[@baddestmofoalive]

I have a 7950X3D and 4080Super and still like looking at budget/upcycled systems, especially stuff that helps keep serviceable hardware out of landfills

[@juanpa4313]

man, your videos are trully what ive been looking for, chill computer shenanigans with old nintendo and pseudoregalia music, thanks man

[@Weatherman_Ace]

Grew up in a poor family and played very simple old games on my mom's PC then later on aka after moving out.. I built my very own first PC on a $500 budget by buying part by part over 6 months. I'm really happy and proud of it. Playing games and using mods.. I thought would never happen while growing up. This vid put a smile on my face and keep up with the good work.

[@MarkHyde]

The key with budget systems from a used perspective is living in a location with a massive amount of parts selection at reasonable prices. But there are some great priced new parts that when paired with reasonably powerful value options can really deliver...it's all up to doing searching around your location and having realistic expectations in general.

[@justalittlefella]

always get excited to see a budget bin video in my recommendations, by the way i have a ton of experience with that set of oloy 16gb ddr4 ram i actually ran it for 3 years and never had any issues.

[@BigRichG]

Just found your channel today and I've already seen 6 of your videos, and you are immediately one of my new favorite youtubers!

[@FranzJx]

awesome name for that case

[@pinko-fish]

the real deal????

[@chipwitgaming]

This was an extremely reasonable and very repeatable all new budget build, thank you!

[@awkwardUsopp]

Great video! Not gonna lie, there's always room to improve, but this is really impressive. Keep it up

[@RabbittCarrott]

Another day, another Budget Bin video for the OG's

[@breadman4470]

Love the content. For sure coming back for the review or the "redo" for the Arc A380 and maybe a look at the new intel gpu in the future

[@voteDC]

If you are operating on a tight budget then go for a A320 motherboard. All the AM4 budget builds on KZbin recommend B450 boards, including this one, and then never never overclock the CPU, also often having boards with just two RAM slots. Just go for an A320 in this situation as you get the same amount of RAM slot, can still enable XMP, and you're not overclocking anyway. Now there's the argument about upgrading but even on higher end builds how often do you see TechTubers overlocking the CPU?

[@Dylanj8795]

But doesn’t that limit the speed of the ram and the storage?

[@voteDC]

@@Dylanj8795 I was able to set the XMP profiles for the 3200Mhz RAM on the A320M-K motherboard I have in my TV PC. As to storage speed I've never actually measured it but games load fast, so I'm going with it's okay.

[@hbzero2605]

​@@voteDC The reason why you should get b450 instead of the a320 is because upgrade . A cheap a320 can not handle a powerful cpu like the ryzen 7 5800x3d or the ryzen 5 5700x3d

[@justarandomdude457]

There are many very cheap b450 boards out there

[@TheInnerHalo72]

Love your content man! Inspired me to work on a longer format video myself!

[@BudgetBin]

@@TheInnerHalo72 I'm glad to hear, and go for it!

[@OmaAkaOma]

did not expect to hear the pseudoregalia ost in this vid, based

[@danielhulan3058]

Ive never heard the pandemic referred to as the panny-d. If its okay im gonna steal that and use it. Lol i love it.

[@TheRealRuddRants]

Viewpoint OST mentioned in BGM.

[@Ava_Hart]

you make the impossible seem so possible - thank you Budget Bin!!!

[@chihua-mi]

Man, that Corsair PSU comment hit weirdly for me, after just RMAing a RM850e, which is fairly highly rated and recommended. I bought it for a PC I'm building for a relative, but it had unbearable coil whine, which I found out is a common issue with that series specifically, and made a really suspicious sound when the PC shut down. At the end every product can end up being a dud. Anyway, first time commenting, but I've been watching your channel for a bit and enjoy your stuff. Always good to come back to budget conscious builds after going "But if I spend just 40 dollars more..." seven times in a row. Suddenly the "I'm spending 300 max on the GPU, not a cent more!" turns into "Well, if it's my main hobby, and I enjoy my time with it, 1200 bucks isn't that much". Also, as I think you may have said in an earlier video of yours, there's something so nostalgic about getting the game you want to play to barely run and still having a blast. Reminds me of my turns using the family PC to play Age of Empires (1) back in the day, playing a mixtape in the background that I made by holding my tape recorder to our TV whenever a cool song came around. Good times. Anyway, again, love your content!

[@BudgetBin]

Sorry to hear that you got a faulty, DOA-ish, lesser than, Corsair PSU. In a way, like you said, sometimes it can be just luck of the draw. But hey! At least that Corsair whined instead of making you whine by deleting your whole system and catching on fire! But seriously though, I have heard that series has had that common whining issue. I just hope you got a new PSU to replace it at the end of the day. And thanks. People honestly say sometimes that I, underdeliver, or that it could be done WAY better, and I never deny that. In fact, I even said in this video you have better chances getting a better result building with used parts. Otherwise that slippery slope of, "I'll just spend a little more..." does happen more often than you or I could even imagine. As for the last thing you said, I couldn't relate anymore than I do already lol. Like, the feeling of building a PC and running at 720p but getting just over 30 FPS, it takes me back. But I am glad you enjoy my vids, and I hope you see you around more. Take care!

[@Noer-e6j]

In that situation I think I would’ve gone for the Rx 580 for the better support of older games because the arc card’s support of such older games is a bit hit or miss.

[@BudgetBin]

@@Noer-e6j Fair enough. I do think once I get to testing a plethora of games for the upcoming A380 re-re-review that it might be more surprising considering how far Arc card drivers have come.

[@Ryy192]

I have been waiting ages for your next video. Budget bin, I spent £350 on a pc build with a rx5700xt a 3600x CPU 750w PSU. 1tb m.2 x570 motherboard also I've always wondered, is this your voice or a paid for one?

[@BudgetBin]

@@Ryy192 I'm pretty sure it's me speaking, but I could ask myself just to be sure.

[@BudgetBin]

Yeah, it's me speaking.

[@emperorarasaka]

My budget build from back in July was a i3 12100F, 16GB DDR4, & RX 7600

[@DITIBOII]

Loved the video you deserve more subs❤

[@rmgaminguk7079]

Fine build for an all new build, but I think its why at a $500 budget a 2nd hand GPU should be considered. However there is something to be said for buying new and having a warranty (and return policy) for someone's first build. Great find on the m.2

[@Olu_]

*gasps for air*

[@NethanielBee]

the ssd you used is actually 89 USD on amazon rn

[@WouldYouRatherEmprie]

Can I just say, while I love the build I would have opted to go for 1tb still, becouse it could save 20-30 bucks and another 20 on the case maybe some cheaper ram and bam you are able to fit a titan xp 11gb vram gpu if u live in the states and dont mind the used market but even if you do there are still some alternativer that are better and im sure you know it doesnt change the preformance that much aucaly not at all unless the storage is slower. Great vid thu!

[@wardyousef02]

1:31 love the humour 🤣

[@lmcdon11]

OLOY is a great option good performance and so for 5 years it is still doing great.

[@skrappr3649]

A good budget GPU is the RX 6650 xt you can find them on sale for $200 (same as the RX6600 while being better). Planning on using one for my new build

[@samcadwallader2899]

Go very lightly used and it's hard to beat a 11400F, RX6700x based system given the cheap ass price for Z490/Z590 boards these days where you can run the Intel chip at max power target. $500 target like yours but 20%+ performance boost.

[@neuronoc.7343]

Good to see you again.

[@melone3113]

Another Budget W

[@polar_inertia]

you did the best you could really going with this budget and going with only new parts. One thing I wonder is the performance hit of going with a sata sdd insteas of nvme to spare money for a better gpu. how big would be the hit but also is the money saved enough to afford a better gpu?

[@Yappenise_speaker]

I don't like online games so I don't need too much for a pc so I might use this as a bit of a guide. Thanks!

[@Kasei4444]

Is there a video in the making to upgrade your budget PC to a Win11 budget gaming PC? Because my Mainboard isn't supporting any supported CPUs sadly. Not really experienced with building PCs and knowing how to get future proof stuff for upgrades

[@xthatwhiteguyx]

I just spent $719 last week for a ASROCK z790, 14600k, 1tb M.2, 32gb DDR5 6400, 850W PSU, a 5.25" bay that holds and powers 2 SSD's and a HDD, Windows 11 and 5 fans. Kept my existing USB expansion 3.5, BD Drive, PC case (largely because it has expansion bays), 3tb's worth of secondary hard drives and my 3060ti. I think I could have saved another $180 more by just keeping my existing Windows 10 account and getting a 650w PSU. Perhaps even drop 5.25 thing I bought, and just let the SSD's float in my case somewhere. Ultimately, that is still just over $500, without even buying a case or GPU ;_; And I thought I was being frugal.

[@Cal316326]

Remember to download the latest bios for the CPU so it won't bleed to death. Google 13 & 14 gen intel GPU voltage problem for more info.

[@butai2116]

Another banger video!

[@stokesystillplay]

Hey how do you get your voice sounding so crisp on the voice over

[@thecour8379]

Where did you get a key for $12? That's crazy value dude.

[@BudgetBin]

G2A

[@xx_peace_xx5300]

@@BudgetBin You do know you could've used Massgrave and activate your windows for free right?

[@justalittlefella]

bought one on g2a for $12bucks 3 weeks ago

[@Corolla2014-wy3xj]

Where is your dell optiplex from your $100 pc build video?

[@KingDanny98765]

Good video as always sir

[@TrusteftTech]

First of all, good video. I don't know if I would go for this build, if I had money. The main reason being the GPU. I don't trust Intel's work on drivers and I still think it's utterly insane the requirement for elastic pub when aiming for budget buyers. Anyway, I am sure this PC, even with this GPU, would destroy my computer (Lenovo laptop from 2014 with a i7-4710HQ , 16GB of RAM, GTX860M), though I have a feeling my already over 10 year old GPU might end up having longer and better driver support than this one from Intel. Joking not joking. As for older games, who knows, perhaps it will beat this Arc lol. After all Intel is too cool to care about old games. Fun video.

[@BudgetBin]

@@TrusteftTech I think when I re-review the Arc A380, I will try a ton of older games to see if there is any issues anymore. As of right now, it's seems better than it once was.

[@TrusteftTech]

@@BudgetBin That's a good idea. My direct experience with Intel's graphics' drivers are with their iGPUs alone and they SUCK, if nothing else the length of time they keep releasing the drivers after the product. They (Intel) disgust me on that regard. Good luck.

[@NicholasBrown-oj4tq]

I originaly was going for a budget pc then i spent way more then i thought and so now i want to build a budget pc as like a backup

[@Gureenu]

isnt the rx 580 better than arc a380 ?

[@BudgetBin]

@@Gureenu For sure! But I wanted to keep this build all "New" for the challenge sake of it, and because, while the RX 580 is a great option, I wanted to try something just a bit different since normally in build videos, it's always whats popular or the most commonly used parts. And half the time, those parts don't always go for super cheap. So, I choose the Arc A380 because, while there are other cards out there, especially used, this card works very well despite it being scary to the average PC veteran who has heard of Arc. Hopefully my next video on the GPU will alleviate those fears.

[@matthewdill353]

I would have put in a used 1660 super goes for the same price but I understand the whole new parts thing for the he build

[@BestluigiplayerYT]

Couldnt you squeeze an rx 6600 into this budget tho?

[@nyuganation9507]

Unrelated but has anyone ever told you that you sound like the voice actor Steve Blum a little?

[@FunkadelicPeach]

rx 6600 is over twice the performance of the a380 at less than twice the price!! I probably would've grabbed one on ebay and maybe made some compromises to other components like the case, SSD, and PSU. Good vid tho!

[@shimmywow3613]

you cant just flash stalker 2 without giving results here

[@BudgetBin]

Don't you worry, I plan to talk about it a bit when I do my final Arc A380 follow up video!

[@Ryhillchibulls]

I think this video title should mention new parts since most $500 builds are using used or ali express stuff.

[@acsysin]

I love you Budget Bin

[@l1zardxd933]

he's back

[@BronxBoys81]

The Ryzen 5 5500 is a revised laptop CPU, the 5600 is the much better choice. And you can save money with the NVMe. It's a bit strange how you set your priorities. A520 motherboards don't have PCIe 4.0. A better option would be Ryzen 5 5600 + 32gb Ram 3600mhz & Arc B580, as a B550 or X570 motherboard. If you run it with the standard settings you don't necessarily need heatsinks on the VRMs. Only the BIOS settings should be set properly. But laptop CPUs with bad motherboards and graphics cards that don't even have 8Gb VRam shouldn't be bought at all.

[@opfax163]

"for $500" what you're proposing is more expensive .

[@Greasy__Bear]

wouldn't an old rx590 be better? not by a lot, but they are real cheap now too.

[@kushy_TV]

i wouldve gone for a 1tb drive, and gone for a 6600 instead of the a380

[@InsaneBean122]

lol you had me until the arc 380, id much rather go used card like the 6600 amd 8 gig for around same price as the arc , used but much better performance

[@Chonsonyourman]

W video

[@frikhx]

honestly the build is really cool considering the fact that you didn't exceed the 500$ budget but I honestly think that the best budget for a good gaming computer is 600$, if we keep the same specs you chose and just add 100$ to the gpu budget the computer will turn out to be marvelous.

[@BudgetBin]

Oh 100%. I do think that if we had just enough scratch to upgrade our GPU, it would do wonders for our system. I do think there is less value GPU's nowadays though, so in some ways, I like what I got. But I just feel like Arc might have a shot this next generation and change the landscape a bit. I just hope I don't eat my own words. lol.

[@frogslayer4849]

SATA SSDs literally are not cheaper than Gen 3 m.2 SSD. No reason at all not to go m.2 unless your motherboard doesn't support it. These days the standard is about 1TB/$55 .

[@jessyhu1064]

love the vid

[@All_of_space_is_dead]

Google said Oloy is Taiwan brand that specialized in RAM questions. And Taiwan is pretty technically advanced place with many famous brands and also tlmc that gives us newest CPU, so why not to this RAM? And i still don't believe in intel cards, sorry And if someone wants better experience, this PC can easily handle cards like 1660 super or maybe even 3060/6700 xt? From the other side with cards like 3060/6700 you can get CPU bottleneck because this level cards are really powerful and demand better processor. But if someone would try it at home I strongly recommend buy cards like gtx 1660 super or rx 6600, it will be much better performance with not so much price extension. Anyway so nise and lovely budget build 9/10, and great video

[@ningunoZyZ]

Crazy how in my country the A380 and the RX6600 are the same price lmao

[@ningunoZyZ]

Trust me, it's not because the RX6600 is insanely cheap

[@Migoiscool]

Day 2 of asking for 300 dollar budget pc

[@BudgetBin]

Lol I will do it sometime next year, it's already in the works. I just need to find a few more parts.

[@Migoiscool]

@@BudgetBink

[@MrSamadolfo]

😒👍 12100F + DELL HD 7570 1 GB DDR5 = FTW 🐢🎮👾😊

[@PetarVidackovic]

wow such a nice channel im note hope im first i tell you but you do things diffrently

[@spo0kieghost]

where tf did you get 15 russian rubles

[@Forakus]

Modern games are bad now anyway, I only want to play Darkest dungeon and slay the spire and monster train and such now, those games never get old to me

[@rotm4447]

dude the a380 is a piece of garbage, you can do this budget with a 6650xt.

[@sanji663]

Everything was decent, until I saw the gpu. Save 50 bucks more and get a real gpu.

[@NikhilSingh-007]

Let me guess, you need more?

[@jericotimtim]

HELLO

[@The_Jack_Doe]

I would rather buy rx 6500 than Arc

[@mills9402]

its pronounced o-loy

[@shyrocket4889]

if you only have 500 dollars for a gaming pc to plahy red dead 2 at 45 fps.. you have bigger problems than gaming.. get your money right and dont settle for 45 fps.. bro 45 is so eyestraimning it phisically hurts your eyeballs!!

[@EmberShot_]

Intel GPU? Reeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[@walterlegere1403]

Ok so lets analyze this system compared to a used system I just put together using all used parts for about the same cost and you people can tell me which one you would rather have. Motherboard - ASRock A520M/ac AMD4 MATX $50 CPU - Ryzen 9 3900X 12 Core/24 Thread AM4 $145 CPU Cooler - AMD Wraith AM4 stock cooler - $12 GPU - Radeon RX 6600 8MB GDDR6 RAM $120 RAM - Micron 32GB (2X16) PC4-3200 $47.99 PSU - EVGA Supernova 850 watt Modular 80+ Gold $50 NVMe - Western Digital 512GB PCIe Gen3 x4 M.2 $28 Case - EMachines T5212 Legacy OEM case - Free Storage Drive - Western Digital WD6003FZBX 6TG 3.5" HDD - Pulled from another system Total - $452.99 Which system do you think will perform better in gaming? All these parts came from EBay used over the last two weeks! I realize the Radeon 6600 is probably going to hold back the Ryzen 9 quite a bit but I can upgrade to a better GPU later if it bottlenecks the system too badly. New off-brand parts are rarely ever better than even used top grade stuff and you can get 5X the performance if you just shop around and look for good deals on used components. If you're going to blow $500 on a system then at least get one you can game on!