I Built A $100 Gaming PC in 2024...

[@kumbaya69421]

IN THIS ECONOMY!? BRO is cooking 🗣️🔥

[@ToBeAnArchon]

12 year old alert

[@kumbaya69421]

@@ToBeAnArchon I deeply apologize for commenting something common. I pray that you will find forgiveness in your heart.

[@goldenbenjamin2.0]

You should let him cook

[@Fidious]

​@ToBeAnArchon nah leave, bro be

[@dawg7962]

Bro fought wirh kindness

[@phr3dmcc0y]

One thing to consider: the "ancient ports" are there because many of the business units are industrial, and may have hardware that requires PS2, Serial, and VGA connections.

[@YuProducciones]

"many of the business" LOL yeah sure.. "may have hardware" of course buddy. the points is 98% of motherboards since 2011 should not have PS2 ports... and there should only be some motherboards with horrible aesthetics and strange prices specifically for the industrial or medical work sector... but that is not the case.

[@DJ-ce8yh]

yeah , "ancients ports" are still on these pre-built desktops to accommodate the pre-existing hardware a business may already have.

[@peterwstacey]

PS/2 ports are there for some work environments to disable USB ports for security and still have a functional PC (e.g hospitals, defense companies). Modern ASUS motherboards for industrial / OEM use still have 2 PS/2 ports for this reason

[@SeeJayPlayGames]

Is there any use for a PCI (not PCI-Express; OG dinosaur PCI) slot these days? I have room for a half-height card but it's vexing me, trying to think what it could possibly be useful for. Drawing a blank. Sound card? Already have sound. Serial/Parallel? No need for either. Network? PCI is only about as fast as Gigabit, and I already have THAT. Is this slot just utterly useless in 2024?

[@brokeandtired]

@@SeeJayPlayGames Some people add 10gb ethernet cards, pci elgato cards, or extra usb port cards, etc.

[@joemcdonnell5069]

I know it's a bit of an unfair advantage but I built a system similar to this using an HP prodesk of some sort that I got for free from a local office when they were doing a clean out of old systems. It had an i7 6700, 32gb ddr4 RAM, and a 400w 80+ gold power supply. I spent about $150 to get a gtx 1660 super and a 1tb ssd, which is the best I could squeeze into the system without needing a better power supply. It absolutely crushes games at 1080p.

[@tylerfreal6472]

damn thats kinda fire hows temps ?

[@joemcdonnell5069]

@tylerfreal6472 surprisingly good for only having 1 intake and 1 exhaust fan, under typical gaming load it's about 75-80 degrees celsius

[@josejuanandrade4439]

Lol. On a similar story, one of the companies i work with was tossing out a "defective" pc, they told me i could have it, just in case there were parts i could use. The pc was built inside a cheap low profile case.. When i tested it, it would not boot... i re--seated the memory ram and it worked LOL. It ended up being an i7 8700, with 1 stick of 8gb ram, on a very smal h81 mobo, and it even had a wifi card. The system booted straight into the bios, but i just had to select the ssd as boot drive... Yes it came with a 240gb ssd and 1 tb hdd! Crazy!. The thing is tho... i took out all the components and put them in a better case and flipped them for a profit, from which i bought a 5600g and 16 gb of ram, b550 mobo with wifi, and an nvme 500gb. I put all in the same case, to wich i added a handle, and attacked a laptop screen 15.6", to make an "all in one" pc that could run games. Later tho, i sold the internals again LOL. And now that pc has an i5 12400f, 1tb nvme, 2x8gb ram sticks, and an rtx 4060 low profile LOL.

[@Lurch-Bot]

$150 is a bit much to pay for a 1660 Super but OP's build is only $100 because of a unicorn deal. Meanwhile, I theoretically could have built a machine with an i7-4790S and a 2060 this year for right at $200 and crushed it even harder than you. I paid $120 for the 2060 6GB that was used for mining; I had to refurbish it but it scores very well on benchmarks. The machine I actually built has a 670 SC for playing older and vintage games on digital services that now need Windows 10. But that GPU cost $25. The rest of the system was $75. I didn't get any unicorn deals but I got good deals on everything. Deals most people could get with a small amount of effort. So if I put my $120 2060 in there, it would be a solid budget 1080p machine for $200. OP is definitely losing out on frames because of the non-HT quad core. Skylake was a dead generation - essentially no better performing than Haswell. Same feature set. Generally an abortion of a generation. The only thing more pathetic were the Broadwell dual core i7 mobile CPUs. And, of course, all of the 13th and 14th gen CPUs are more pathetic than that. They will all fail prematurely.

[@steveharper2857]

@@Lurch-Bot Does refurbished mean cleaning the dust out and renewing the thermal paste?

[@infuse4448]

in dec 2022, i bought 2 office pcs for 100 bucks. one had i5-6500 and the other has a i5-8400. both 8gb ram. i bought it locally and the guy delivered to me at my friends house along with 2 hdmi monitors. i gave my friend the 6th gen on the spot as a christmas gift and i kept the other one since we were wanting to start pc gaming at the time. i have a rtx 3050 6gb low profile and 24 gb ram now. its small form factor

[@crystalftw8986]

Can get the product link?

[@extrememobilegamer1450]

Wow, good build man. I just finished mine today. My first build, pretty basic though 8Gigs Ram, 3TB storage i7 so today I managed to swap it toa new A290 ATX case and it looks 👌🔥🔥🔥 can't wait to make more upgrades especially on the performance side🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@fra.20_10]

GG bro I finished building my Pc (6900 xt and r5 7600) and for my friend’s birthday i will gift him an ultra budget pc build

[@internziko]

Matt. You are the low key king of budget builds on KZbin. Been watching you for years bro. Keep up the amazing work

[@Lauterec]

I picked up an HP workstation a while back with an i7 6700, 16gb ram, and a Quadro M4000 8gb. All for $100, shipped to my door. The quadro wasn’t even that bad it performed like a 950 but I swapped it out for a 1080ti I got for another hundred bucks and off to the races.

[@theonewhoknocks797]

What about the power supply restraints?

[@DJ-ce8yh]

@@theonewhoknocks797 I think workstations actually have a decent power supply. like 500w 80+ gold with 6pin pcie

[@cecilb7927]

A lot of the higher spec workstations come with pretty solid PSUs, up to 850W with two and even three PCIE power connectors. A 6700 and 1080ti is an absolutely capable gaming PC. I sold one a few months ago, custom build with an i7 6700 and an RX580 8GB, and it was capable of running Starfield with medium settings, I tried a 2070 Super in it, and the bottle neck wasn't as bad as you might think.

[@walterlegere1403]

@@DJ-ce8yh Most HP workstations during that time didn't have Intel Core CPU's in them. They came with Xeon processors and used ECC RAM and many of them had proprietary PSU's in them as well.

[@nabeelhamza1647]

I can't believe how you were able to sell a cd drive and WiFi card for 20😮

[@TechByMattB]

I sold the power supply and wifi card, I kept the CD drive.

[@nabeelhamza1647]

@@TechByMattB Oh sry my bad

[@Sykxezn]

​@@TechByMattB the real gold mine with those is if you find one with alot of SD card reader attached, then any physical media is yours to store things on

[@dinozaurpickupline4221]

There are people😳

[@caliginousmoira8565]

isn't that a dvd r drive?

[@mr.waffentrager4400]

I could smell the used rx 580 from 5 vids away.

[@USArmyVet91]

I always appreciate your budget builds. You prove that you don't have to spend a fortune to get into PC Gaming. Well Done. 👍👍

[@19bendunk]

20 years ago when i was in my teens you couldn't even get near this type of performance at around 1000 $ , this is a gem bro

[@HarbiJakhu]

no shit

[@demonzero677]

Honestly it's impressive to get a machine together for just a hundred bucks, bit realistically I'd recommend saving up another hundred. With a 200 buck budget you could upgrade the gpu to something like a 1660 super/ti and get a reasonable bump on the gpu end, and could possible squeeze in a used 6700 cpu, which has hyper threads which would sure up the 1% lows you were seeing. Honestly 200 is probably the more realistic super budget goal to aim for if someone were realistically looking to game on a budget system.

[@VZR_]

I've been doing research on it a lot lately and you can get an 8th gen i5 optiplex for like $100 and chuck a 1660s in there for like another $50 then u can use a double sata to 6 pin adapter or find a case and psu for cheap and grab an m.2 sata nvme and ram upgrade. Easily a monster of a rig with a 6 core 12 thread cpu

[@TuskActD4C]

​@@VZR_dayum $50 dollar 1660s, i'm jelly of your location price

[@andersenpeters]

I've used a very similar HP system for a previous build for a friend. It adds a bit to the total budget but you can get a slim USB 3.0 header extension cable that will just fit under the GPU in order to keep the front IO working.

[@GiziBrat]

Hey, Those errors upon bootup can be removed so you dont have to hit f1 every time you turn the pc on. Google about the pinout on the usb 3.0 connector and short the sense pin to the ground and the pc will think that usb cable is connected, I've done this a couple times with great success... wish you the best. cheers

[@GiziBrat]

also works on the audio connector as well. just google a bit and trial and error

[@chrismichaelyoung]

The only thing I have to say is about the Helldivers 2 benchmark. My current pc has an i5 7500 and a GTX 1660 Ti with 16 Gb DDR4 RAM at 3200. Anything over "Hard" difficulty is entirely unplayable, at least as of a few months ago. Had to drop the game due to constant stuttering and egregious input latency with large groups of enemies due to what I assume is cpu overload, and you can't really progress past a certain point unless you can play at higher difficulties. If possible, I'd recommend running a benchmark at max difficulty for that game specifically, or any game that has cpu-intensive gameplay at any given point. I know Borderlands 3 can have very large groups of enemies also, but I haven't tested it on my pc yet.

[@SeeJayPlayGames]

4:29 ...two DIMM slots... yeah and it looks like they COULD have put four on the board when they built it, but they didn't want to SPLURGE on the DIMM slots! Penny pinch much, HP? I wonder if anyone good with a soldering iron could add them, maybe salvage them from a donor board, and it would just work? Don't see why not as long as the traces are connected to the socket.

[@abd_cheese7353]

Bruh its a product made for office spaces and work stations. Its not really made with upgradability in mind, its made to be as cheap and sturdy as possible

[@scoscgaming]

Odds are, this was a lower end configuration for that line. Not having those DIMMs was probably a choice made for costs saving purposes. As for soldering the additional DIMMs on, and please know I'm not a hardware expert, it could be possible but my concern would be chipset compatibility. And, even if it did work, unless you had those DIMMs around and recreationally soldered, the cost/time to solder on those additional DIMMs would probably be more expensive than just buying another ~$50 computer with four slots. Either way, well met on being a dissenter of HP. My day job is in an IT shop that exclusively works on Dells, and every HP we've ever had in shop has been H(ighly)P(roblematic).

[@SeeJayPlayGames]

@@scoscgaming It's not up to the chipset to control memory anymore. It's integrated into the processors, and it has been for quite a while. But yeah, is it worth your time? IDK. Maybe if you're Necroware or Bits und Bytes. I guess what I was mostly driving at was that this was a hell of a thing for HP to cut a few pennies off of production, and on a professional workstation, no less. For as much as customers pay for those things, that's a level of greed that's just evil.

[@scoscgaming]

@SeeJayPlayGames Not up to the chip set anymore? Are you sure? I just gave a quick search and chipset has an influence on maximum quantity of RAM, not to say the processor isn't equally important. I should've clarified that I was speaking on the quantity of RAM that a controller can manage, I wouldn't put it past HP to say "X chipset only had two DIMMs, so we only allow a max of 16GB of RAM". I'm not surprised in the slightest from HP, in all the examples of HP systems I've worked on have been of the design philosophy of: Lowest functional product. That's printers, laptops, and workstations. Cutting pennies while charging a premium

[@SeeJayPlayGames]

@@scoscgaming thought it was up to the processor more, but maybe that's only for the upper theoretical limit, not any limits imposed by the motherboard. Regardless, the memory controller is in the processor ever since the first Core i-series chips.

[@ven7165]

You know it'd be great if kids these days learned a bit more about computers. I remember gaming on the office pc my family had, something that was maybe $400, obviously low end and never meant to be gamed on. But if kids knew more they could do small upgrades like this to get a basic gaming set up without breaking the bank.

[@NoobSniper]

This was an awesome build on a budget! 👍 I would love to see a future video, showing reasonable upgrades (ie, E3-1270 v5 if the mobo supports it, selling the RX 470 and picking up an RTX 2060) to see if it would be worth investing a bit more into the system OR if it would be best to sell the unit as a whole and build out an AM4 system.

[@internziko]

And you know what? He could sell the i5 and RX 470 and only only have to invest another $30-$50 bucks for those upgrades.

[@nalo1728]

was still using a 6600 until april this year. currently on a 5700x3d now. and the 6600 is a dedicated arcade machine/plex i built, it has a rtx 1660ti.

[@yoonvsaechao]

The thing is that most people don't actually consider buying used parts. They insist on buying new 🤷🤷

[@donaldnemesis393]

and the thing is that they insist with wasting money on something that cost at least twice of the used parts while slower performance kzbin.info/www/bejne/bmnPq6V_odeenposi=58jBvzd7E_DyyB5z with how fucked up the gpu market are, you either accept the risk of used parts or stop being poor and pay for prenium

[@Lurch-Bot]

Based on the number of DOA and underperforming new GPUs I've seen in recent years, buying a GPU with a couple years use on it is a better bet than buying new. Think of it like an extended QC check..I bought a mining used 2060 this year that is solid as a rock (after I refurbished it) and outperforms most 2060s in benchmark testing. But if it weren't for people like that buying new cars, I couldn't get a bargain on a used car. Same goes for GPUs. So let them be ignorant and stop pointing it out. When I consider budget PC building, the most important thing to remember is that trying to cobble together hardware that is several years old to make a cheap gaming PC is not something a lot of people can do effectively. Even the scouring of Ebay that is often involved is a skill unto itself. I can get great deals on hardware. But your average noob, trying to claw and scrape their way into current AAA gaming, usually can't. Knowledge of hardware and the relative performance thereof is crucial. It allows you to avoid the many pricing traps you can run into where certain hardware is just more expensive for no good reason. Pricing is not well correlated to actual performance. Skylake is one of those pricing traps. OP could have had a Haswell i7 for what they paid for a Skylake i5. The performance difference between Haswell and Skylake is margin of error. Instruction set and features are the same, with the exception of the DDR4 support with Skylake. But it is irrelevant because Skylake only supports up to 2133MT/s. DDR4-2133 will always perform worse than DDR3-1600. So even if you have a Skylake CPU, it is going to be better to run it on a DDR3 MB. I tried to warn people about DDR5 but people took a noticeable step back just to get on DDR5 to get worse RAM performance for more money. Early adoption is never a good idea and that comes from more than 3 decades of experience. Early DDR5 is why the gaming performance difference between the 5800X3D and 7800X3D is miniscule. DDR4-3200 barely outperforms DDR3-1600. DDR5-5600 is worse performing than DDR4-3200. You need expensive DDR5-6400 at CL30 to slightly outperform cheap DDR4-3200 CL16. Transfer rate and clock latency determine actual bandwidth and a new iteration of DDR may double the former but also double the latter. Actual efficiency increases from one generation to the next are minimal. In terms of theoretical bandwidth, DDR2-800 CL4 = DDR3-1600 CL8 = DDR4-3200 CL16 = DDR5-6400 CL32.

[@kuldipjadeja7838]

I always look for used PC parts like GC , MB and Processor which I can find. For PSU, SSD go for new always.

[@thealmightynjections3858]

The only new components in my PC are CPU, Storage and the case. I bought everything else second hand. Runs absolutely amazing no issues whatsoever and i saved quite a bit of money compared to buying it all new.

[@Midori_Ringo]

The people that know what they're doing will buy 2nd hand. 1st time builders? Most definitely not which is understandable. The thing is if you know where to buy 2nd hand equipment you can get great deals and well looked after equipment. I've been a member of an overclocking forum for almost 15 years now and the trading there is still as busy as ever. I've got a $5-10k in trades there everything from custom waterblocks, delidded CPUs to sticks of RAM. I'm not into hardcore overclocking anymore but those forums are still useful. All the long timers know each other and there's a degree of trust. But as for Facebook marketplace/ebay/craigslist etc? Yeah no that's a massive crapshoot

[@NerdsoftheRealm]

Right here with you. Recently built a $90 PC with an i5 4590, 12GB RAM (not my configuration but pre-done) XFX R9 270X, 1TB HDD and 256GB SSD. Plays all the games I wanna play just fine :)

[@VASHUBAJPAI]

good bro i think if have a budget get a gtx 1050 ti or something youy would be good

[@scoscgaming]

I second the first reply on getting a 1050 ti, in terms of driver accessibility, NVIDIA is the better choice

[@VASHUBAJPAI]

@@scoscgaming yea thats true 👍

[@Midori_Ringo]

It's such a shame you couldn't find something nearby for local pickup a quarter of the build went to delivery, $25 could've gone to an RX580 possibly. I also think you could gone as low as high end Haswell cpu (i7 4770-4790) to pair with anything up to a 1060/rx580 so they're not bottlenecking each other. Have to also understand the people making these type of builds aren't going to be using monitors with high refresh rates, so more likely 1080p 60FPS is kinda ideal. Anything more is wasted. Also just as a sidenote for anyone doing this be a bit careful when buying Dell/Acer/HP OEM desktops, they tend to randomly have proprietary power connectors to the motherboard, sometimes within the same model series. You may need to buy an adaptor so you can use your ATX PSU

[@IT3DDYl]

Fortnite has A LOT of Shaders to compile, outright freezing the Game for up to a second, frequently. Epic Games, unfortunately, gives you no option to Compile them beforehand, forcing you to compile them while playing. The good news is, once they have been compiled they are stored on your computer and ready to go... until you reinstall windows or install a new GPU. In my Experience Fortnite also has a bit of a spiky processing behavior, giving your CPU a lot of tasks at once every now and then. That's not a big deal if you have a lot of cores, but sucks for everyone else. Streaming / Downloading the textures for the vast amount of cosmetic items available constantly, does not help either. Fortnite was once a very performant and rather simple game, but since the Boom, more and more content has been added and Epic Games choose Fortnite as their showoff piece for their Game engine. I still enjoy playing it, it's just, different now, even the OG mode.

[@CuriousGamer022]

I recently put together a gaming pc using a rebuilt dell precision t5810,the specs r xeon 2680 v4,32gb 2400 ddr4 ram,2tb hdd, 500gb ssd and I put a rx 6600 xt in it and does 1440p and 4k gaming around 70 to 90fps on high settings,actually surprised me alot tbh and only cost me £285 which is a little over 300 usd.

[@scoscgaming]

Those Dell Precisions are insanely capable with the right GPU. I watched someone turn a Precision 3610 into a medium quality VR gaming system once, a 5810 is leagues beyond that in terms of power. Great find!

[@man_decoy]

Awesome work. Would be cool to see how steam os could imrpove triple a performance

[@MattTheriot]

I love seeing these extreme budget builds! It can be intimidating as someone who is broke, and/or doesn't know about PC hardware to consider PC gaming. Approaches like this using used hardware can get you VERY far for not a lot of money.

[@CoolTI-Daniel]

I love the video! Awesome job and computer for litterally 100$ I am also sad that you didn't fall on a 20$ 8GB RX580, that would have made a fair difference. As much as I always had AMD's, even during their bad times, the old Intel chips are legendary for ultra cheap gaming PC's. Pre and during covid I sold my ITX Ryzen to a friend and got myself a cheap I5-2400. I later upgraded it for a Xeon1230v2 chip (like a lower clocked I7) Later a friend simply gave me his old I5-6600K GPU wise I went from a used GTX570 that died shortly after buying used, I RMAed it and Zotac sent me a GTX680 which I used for a while. Just at the start of covid before the crazy GPU Prices I snagged myself a 250$ GTX1070. Honestly if your budget was 200$... the HDD can go up to 500GB with a GTX 1070... the performance would almost be double.

[@andrewmutavi590]

Damn ive missed this Matt😍😍

[@1Fracino]

For $100 it's damm good. Wish I could do as well.

[@vojtechadame5860]

I personally don't like spending too much on PC hardware. My PC definitely proves that. If you set your strategy right, you can have a pretty good gaming experience for reasonable price. If you lower your expectations, you'll have a great time.

[@Babbages]

you can get them mining 4gb rx 470s for 25 bucks all day only downside it either only has just dvi or hdmi port only also with quad core cpus for fortnite use performance mode but also run resolution at 1600 by 900 or 1360 by 768 with 83% res scale it will up the performance by a lot.

[@spoobspoob2270]

After building multiple office gaming pcs with 4th and 6th gen CPUs, I can definitely tell you that the Fortnite stuttering issue is something related to shaders. Once you play a game or two, the stutters go away. They are a one-time thing, and once the lag is gone its mostly gone until the next game update. (I die on purpose and spectate somebody until the game ends, it gets all the stutters out of the way). I recently built a sub-100 dollar pc (i5-4590 and rx570 4g) and its working great in Fortnite after some HUGE stuttering. I also tried dx12 and the stuttering was gone, but had tons of missing textures and audio cutout. Dx11 is the way to go, you just need to power through the initial unplayable lagfest 😅

[@TheDefeatest]

Amazing!!

[@LexusLFA554]

This is actually a pretty neat build, even if you got screwed a bit on the GPU. I like the sleeper look of those office PCs. You could put a monster in those and nobody would notice unless they open the case.

[@SenileOtaku]

Removing the optical drive? That cuts you off from a LOT of options. Having at least one optical drive in a desktop is an absolute requirement for me (for laptops I would prefer it, but may have to rely on a dock/port replicator for that).

[@BigDrewski1000]

"Very fair and balanced Crucible Knight fight." 😂😂😂

[@lewisthegeek4307]

Very nice my friend! My daughter found an old Gateway that had an i-7 2600 8 gigs of RAM and a 1 TB WD hdd also had a HD 6850. I loaded Windows 10 and was able to play Fortnite pretty well on it not too bad for something that was in the trash.

[@reecer999]

I just built a old gaming pc for less than $90, an alienware alpha "broken". Needed a new c-mos battery, cost $5 on amazon. Had a newer i5, to upgrade the i3 so that was free. and threw in a 500gb sata ssd to replace the hdd, and all i play is tf2 and its perfect for that

[@allen7520]

You should try testing this system with the mod that allows you to use AMD or NVIDIA's frame generation technology on older cards. I tried it with cyberpunk on a old 1070 and it got me a pretty decent FPS boost.

[@Holycurative9610]

I set my son, aged 17, up with a decent PC for not a lot of money (about GB£120), it has a 1050Ti, a 4th gen i7, 512gb SSD, a 750W gold PSU, a 1TB HDD and 32GB of DDR3 ram. There is a CEX by him and we mapped out an upgrade path for him with new mobo, DDR4 ram and a better CPU for about GB£75 so he can get up to 6th or 7th gen i5/i7 which means he has a really capable gaming PC for about GB£200 if he goes with upgrades and if he sells the parts he no longer needs he knocks £20-30 off that price.

[@scoscgaming]

100% Well done! Excellent way to introduce him to computing, the idea of building and upgrading, and getting firsthand experience with working on computers overall. If I could make only one suggestion, it would be to recommend looking for 8th gen processors for Windows 11. Perfect setup with the 1050 ti, all of my coworkers agree that the 1050 ti is a spectacular card for any situation.

[@whataboutdis.]

Wasn't he using an i5 4690? and a 1tb ssd?

[@WellBeSerious12]

Dude, that's a super-amazing deal for PC and GPU! Make sure to thoroughly undust/cleanse all parts (even PSU), and change CPU/GPU Thermal Compound. Optionally repaint it; at least outside (ModsTek ideas?).

[@Noseflap-watching]

You can get 4th and 6th gen systems very easily for a sub $100 PC

[@unclem4626]

This pc really sets the bar for cheap esports used pc's. Though I would think finding a similar 16gb with and i5 6600 is hard to find for $60 with shipping. I'd be interested to know what this would sell for on ebay or fbm.

[@BlueShotgunShells]

I enjoy doing it the first way you described. Collecting all the parts and putting it together myself. And since budget is really an issue where I am from used parts is the only way to go. I have not tried the equivalent of 100USD though. My recent build cost the equivalent of 500USD. Nice one going the used pre-build route. I might just try this too.

[@cosminmilitaru9920]

Incredibly well done! As for the GPU, no regrets, even the RX 470 is being pulled down by the i5 6600, so, at least it's balanced.

[@karstenswiridjuk4747]

I just seen your subs hit 225k...lol congrats!

[@zerof0rce]

I'm a big fan of repurposing office PC's into gaming rigs on a budget. These projects get more / new players into PC gaming, which is good for the community. Keep it up!

[@ficsongeorge]

I have the same videocard. Great production quality!

[@rumirules5351]

Last month i found a sweet deal at a local shop for a 500w 80+ silver PSU for around 11 dollers and then traded my for old one 3 dollars, so I got it for only 8 bucks and the blacks sleaves around the cables a nice touch too

[@pokepokepoke64]

you could get rx 470s for like $20 a while back buy it now and there was no sketchy listing

[@brajanubgan88]

I had that PC, I mean the base PC, which I bought with the intention of converting it into a gaming PC. I was annoyed about the front usb errors during boot, luckily you can do something about it - buy a 90 degree adapter, so you can connect front usb3 to your pc As for audio - you should be able to just plug it in, I don't see a reason to just leaving it unplugged, since it was plugged previously BTW - if you're going to case swap motherboard from this pc please make sure that the power supply cables have enough length to connect to your motherboard I was waiting for new PSU and decided to throw original PSU to new case just to find out that the cables were too short

[@zlatanmorrison8182]

Good video, I assume something like this would easily run older titles? Fallout 4 / Skyrim / D2R - that sort of thing? What about some of the FTP titles out there like Warframe or Crossout?

[@internziko]

Warframe runs on almost anything (it's been ported to Switch) lol

[@enayatulkabir]

A year ago you built a pc inside a xbox. I would love to see a pc inside a ps5 if possible.

[@jr540123]

I would love to see stats of machines like this running less than 1080p, I know this isn't for everyone but I'm someone that likes gaming on smaller ress monitors, some for the retro and some because it is a great way to make a pile of crap run an otherwise really good game very well, Used to do this with Half life and L4d back when I had a core 2 duo barely clocking 1.8ghz. Good video though and darn nice finds.

[@repairstudio4940]

Good job .... 🎉

[@Pond6]

I bought the same exact computer for around $50 CAD plus shipping off eBaY. It runs but I gotta give it some upgrades.

[@legoboy-ox2kx]

I like looking for cheap LGA-2011-3 or 6th/7th gen intel boards as well. You can find Xeon processors for super cheap, and you get NVME support on most motherboards.

[@lonster3000]

So how standard are the other connectors on that motherboard? Just wondering how tough it would be to swap it into a better looking standard atx case. Although it’s kind of cool that it has an inverted layout.

[@elys.fthi_]

daily dose of internet is that you?

[@infinity2z3r07]

just for funsies i found that "gtx 570" gpu listing on ebay. another bidder also bid $20 but you got it bc your bid came 2s sooner lol

[@bauer9101]

This looks to match the minimum specs just released for COD Black Ops 6. Nice!

[@Khinh-xq6lx]

the dell 4 usb ports up front is so convenient

[@titustech337]

The cpu is at 100% in the esports titles which is why the fps is so low

[@giovaanflores7019]

I found this same PC but with the i5 6500 at a recycling center for free. And bought a GTX 970 locally for $20 , and a 512GB SSD for $25 . Then flipped it for $120 .

[@PlanetNateGaming]

If I were to try to build a budget PC I'd set my budget at £300 and build the PC with new and used parts like this: Gigabyte A520M K V2 Motherboard - £54 from Amazon New Fanxiang M.2 SSD 512GB, 512GB SSD PCIe Gen3.0 x4 2280 - £26 from Amazon (New) Cooler Master MWE 750 Gold V2 Fully Modular PSU - £70 from Amazon (New) GAMDIAS TALOS E3 MESH Gaming pc case £67 from Amazon (New) RX580 8GB for around £55 from CEX used Ryzen 5 2600 - £32 from CEX used and when it comes to RAM i have two 8gb sticks just sitting around. And the grand total of this is £304 for a system that could run most games on medium settings at 1080p This setup could easily run Red Dead Redemption 2,Spider-Man Remastered,Elden Ring,Tekken 8 and many other recent games. Great video for 100 though, totally insane build for the price.

[@darthwiizius]

For a oner you can get a machine that can play all PS4 & Xbone era games like a champ?

[@randomcontent8234]

Bro i swear he was going to say" Hey everyone this is your dailydose of internet"

[@jgdudex7]

Would love to see this again but at 200 dollars, I feel like the performance bump would be pretty wild

[@Lazered17]

Did you try to run Fortnite in performance mode? I think the default setting is DX11 and changing to performance mode actually helps a lot especially on older hardware. But a solid build for $100, great vid mate.

[@tahmidrzishan]

I expected "This is YOUR daily dose of internet"

[@Henchmen98]

Setting an fps cap will significantly improve your performance

[@pixel7071]

Here's a single problem I have with the "actually getting into gaming is way cheaper than you think" argument. Whoever wants to get into gaming, and has little budget for it, probably doesn't know how to build PCs. They don't wanna search all over the internet and make sure everything they need is compatible and get the best offers and then put it all together and then troubleshoot if needed and go through hoops of selling stuff and praying to whatever they believe in that someone actually buys it. The amount of people that want to get into gaming, have a 100$ budget (without tax which I think is misleading because the person still has to pay tax at the end of the day), but also know their ins and outs of building a pc and will be able to troubleshoot, is VERY low, near-zero. This is the kind of a fun project someone WITH money to spare and pc building experience would do. 100$ isn't a lot of money to throw out, you can have your fun, see what kind of performance you can achieve etc. But for an average Joe that just wants his PC to work and wants to have a warranty to get it replaced if needed, this kind of thing just isn't viable. This isn't the kind of video that should be addressed towards those, the video for those people should be what kind of pre-built PC should they get, what to look for, and what to avoid. Don't take this as hate, I really like the video a lot, because I love budget builds and your content is good, I just think it's not addressed to who it should be and I wanted to say all of that to any potential average Joes watching this video :3

[@scoscgaming]

You make some good points, I've put together about 7-8 custom builds now and work on Dells for a day job, I have to agree with a lot of what you're getting at. What landed me as a consideration for my job was having gone through the process of learning to build a PC, which was VERY handy when I screwed up the front panel connectors and found the processor I had bought to update the BIOS was damaged and not functional. That one PC laid a foundation for troubleshooting hardware in many ways. A prebuilt would probably be the safest bet for warranty, likelihood of being plug-and-play out of the box, and for lack of frustration. A good disclaimer would be "If you are not familiar with computers and plan to get a $100 PC for entry level gaming, make sure to know someone who has some experience with computers". Or, advise them to have KZbin ready for if you follow this strategy for if/when issues arise.

[@tapioka375]

fortnite downloads textures while you play, that might have been the issue? you can force download everything at once but for first boot it usually stutters if it doesnt have all the resources (download pre-streamed assets or something)

[@rantandvlog7072]

I just picked up a free lot of 3 old hp workstations ended up flipping them for 600+

[@RandomGuy-lv2ob]

0:00 this is your daily dose of Internet

[@raikoh05]

I need this but for ryzen

[@nightstalker673]

I have literally never played fortnite before in my entire life but even I know enough to know that the first couple times you load into a map on fortnite it is compiling shaders in the background and it is not indicative of actual performance in game until that has been completed. Everyone knows this.

[@Darky4525]

i found a decent desktop with an i5 8500 for $12 locally

[@Reigh992]

I was expecting after the hello everyone is the "this is your daily dose of internet".

[@brianjay9357]

Does his "Hello Everyone" sound like daily Dose of internet? Or is it just me.

[@RoEmi-E11217]

Yeahhh! “Hello Everyone, This is YOUR Daily Dose of Internet.”

[@Cheesicle_]

Same

[@zackfair1868]

shipping is really hard on the knees that is why i want meet up or deal with other local so it will defeat the purpose of shipping expense

[@martinbozik3524]

The games you tested are more expensive than the pc

[@DoomWalker42]

Sadly even if you tell people this they won't care because it requires effort and lots of research to know what parts are compatible. And putting them together can be very daunting. It is easy to break parts like CPU motherboard pins or dropping a GPU if you are not super technically minded. Even installing an OS can be overwhelming for some people. They will always make excuses. That said, games are getting more and more demanding. My Ryzen 5 2600 and RX 580 8gb cannot even start Indiana Jones because it requires RTX in order to run so I had to get Geforce Now which is actually a decent alternative to gaming on the cheap though it mainly works for single player games. But these days you can get an Xbox series S for a decent price and is a great entry point to gaming and the line between consoles and computers is very thin these days. You can do a lot on modern consoles.

[@MoswenMedia]

You did NOT need to change out the power supply for an RX 470 💀

[@cosminmilitaru9920]

yes he did, that 300w PSU did not even have PCI-E power connectors. you know CPU and GPU feed of +12V right? you know if you use sata or molex adaptors it's wrong because those are +3.3v and +5v not +12v right? you know you risk smoking the system when the PSU pepsies?

[@MoswenMedia]

@cosminmilitaru9920 then why do manufacturers include them in the GPU boxes?

[@NahFYM]

I LITERALLY got this pc just now for 20 dollars on facebook marketplace, this video was literally recommended to me by the heavens above since I was looking through KZbin endlessly on how to give it a necessary upgrade.

[@vaulz_]

the fact it runs better than my laptop is crazy

[@SomePotatoChannel]

Can you show the performance in the same games with fsr

[@Lemon10.5]

Imma be able to do this for £50 because my dads work is giving me some desktop pcs to tinker with 😈

[@SleepyDogg]

I'm very curious what's the highest this type of PC can emulate? Like any Wii or GameCube games?

[@Cave_Monster]

If you had sold the DVD drive, what would you have done with the gap it would have left in the front fascia? Would you have covered it with something? Or just left it open?

[@carrickgames]

But can it run SSBM?

[@fabsenbmx]

Nice video and PC. I just don't get why HP has this weird upside down PC layout. looks weird to me

[@themistoclesnelson2163]

What about with FSR?

[@internziko]

I was thinking the same thing.

[@psiloccpsi]

ive heard that after 5 matches the stuttering auto goes away, and that its just a normal thing. Ive yet to test this out tho considering i stutter alot as well and quit after 2 matches.

[@Ilovegaming-h5u]

“This is more than enough performance “ *gets constant screen tearing * 😂😂

[@MikJames-d1g]

Quad cores that old just aren't enough for a smooth experience. I'd at least upgrade it to an i5 8700. Though if you can afford $100, you can probably afford 200$ to get something twice as good.

[@dc5fallout]

I wonder how it does for video editing or live streaming, I remember when I was a kid I had a craptop and I used to max the shit out of that CPU to livestream roblox and minecraft, ahh good times lol.

[@namecannotbeblank8920]

this pc with a miners RX 580 would be kinda crazy actually

[@Derpingtonshere]

Of all the games you tested you didn't test the most important game of all... Can it run Doom?

[@mahmoudsaied1164]

Hey bro I'm watching from Egypt I was able to find an HP z230 workstation system that comes with a 4 cores 8 threads cpu with 3.8 ghz boost I'm not talking about i7 4770 it's the xeon e3 1245 v3 Wich actually the same With 16 gb of ram and 512 ssd plus 500 hdd for an 100$ Considering that the ssd was new sealed it's very competitive price for the system the advantage of this z230 is the big free space for vga cards and the 400w psu which is able to power an rx 580 or gtx 1660 ti

[@enriquequinones2737]

I am a noob to the pc modding world. Just curious, is that it? Is there nothing that would push this to a higher level on a budget? Cooling, more ram, better hard drive? I understand the hard ware parts, I just have a hard time understanding how to diagnose what limits what when it comes to a pc. I don't game. Im a cnc machinist, and my cad/cam software fusion 360 is constantly taking very long to process some of my more complicated designs. I find very few useful videos on the topic except for gaming rigs.

[@scoscgaming]

Cooling is absolutely important, but honestly your two biggest bottlenecks will almost always be processor or GPU (and given your CAD/CAM software, I'd almost be willing to bet GPU). Fusion 360 shows very LOW recommended minimum requirements, and I view those minimums as "It will technically run but it will not be good". For diagnosing limits on a PC, here's how I'd recommend looking at it but please know this will be a watered down explanation: RAM and GPU, both RAM and VRAM are measured in Gigabytes. This is how much you can do simultaneously. Say that 4GB is a 4 lane highway, 8GB is an 8 lane highway, etc. One thing in common between CNC work and gaming, both are like rush hour in a metro. The more, the better. GPU heat is a problem, but that's why most capable cards have fans on the dedicated cooler. Unless you're in a very hot environment, this shouldn't be a huge factor for your use case. Processors don't run by quantity of memory, but by "How quickly can it calculate, how fast it can do one calculation, and how many cores does it have to do simultaneous calculations". A 2 core processor at 3.20Ghz will run faster than a 4 core processor at 2.30Ghz, but will only be able to calculate 2 formulas instead of 4. Fusion 360 recommends at least 2 cores and 3+ Ghz. Generally speaking, more core is better. Same point about heating as the GPU. Storage: This would probably be the second most important thing, next to the GPU in terms of CAD work. Fusion 360 recommends the minimum be a hard disk drive (HDD). I think this is a poor recommendation and irresponsible of them. Your use case should really use a solid-state drive (SSD). The best way to think of the differences between the two, imagine trying to find information in a library by following the Dewey Decimal System, manually walking to each shelf, and checking each book; Good SSDs function more like having a catalog of each book, which shelf it is on and what position it has on the shelf. You could go straight to that shelf and that position instead of having to manually trudge through each book to find it. For your use case, look for a PC that has: A processor that's a Core i5 or higher (8th generation is best for when Windows 10 reaches end of life), 16GB or more of RAM, a modern GPU that's at least 4GB of VRAM (NVIDIA GTX 1050 ti or higher would be my recommendation) and at least a 1TB SSD. Unless you work in a hot environment, don't be too concerned with heat but make sure the reseller or someone you know with computer knowledge checks the thermal paste on the processor. If you have any more questions or need any additional assistance with this information, feel free to reach out!

[@enriquequinones2737]

@scoscgaming I really appreciate the response! Thank you! Iv poked around in comments here and there asking questions, but no one ever really responded. The few that have typically say, "You can run that on a potato," which is definitely not my case. I figure it's because it's not gaming related. I actually bit the bullet and got an i91200k bundle from microcenter as well as an artic 3 aio. My current i7900 none k(omen 25l) is sporting 2 samsung evo ssd's that I put in a few months ago. One m.2nvme and one ssd. I'll be re-using them in the new build for now. I would re use the 32g of rip jaw ram as well but it's ddr4 and the new build requires ddr5. I'll be using what the bundle came with for now but will definitely be being ran asap. I'll be looking to go with 64g at a minimum. Iv been doing my home work and will definitely read over your response a few more times before starting my build in a couple of weeks. Thanks again for your assistance.