two years it was two years ago to the day the last time we
built a 500 gaming pc with an actual
freaking GPU unit that is how long gamers have waited for graphics card
pricing to come back down to earth but it has hasn't it the crypto bros may be
crying but right now gamers are rejoicing at the tsunami of cards
hitting the used market rtx 3090s
a thousand dollars 30 70s how about 500
bucks for a non-lhr version but wait hold on i hear you guys 500 that's still
a freaking ton of money for just a GPU so today we're gonna build an entire
budget gaming pc that was inspired by an
ebay listing that i would have thought impossible just a few short weeks ago an
rtx 2060 for just 200 bucks impossible
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i'm just in such a good mood today guys because the main premise of this channel
that anyone can build a computer and that it doesn't have to be outlandishly
expensive is finally true again for our motherboard we've gone with the
h610me-d4
yeah it doesn't have the greatest io and
there's no cooling on the vrms but this puppy can be had for a hundred dollars
brand new or for around 65 on ebay all
with support for the latest 12th gen Intel processors it's got two m.2 slots
for SSD storage albeit at gen 3 speeds support for dual channel ddr4 memory and
it's even got one of the older style 12-volt non-addressable RGB headers
but hold on a second Linus what are you doing building a budget rig with current
gen Intel ah that is where my good friend the core
i3 12 100 comes in there is a lot to
like about this chip starting with the fact that it has four of the same golden
cove p cores that you would find in the rest of Intel's 12th gen lineup it also
has support for up to pci express gen 5 and ddr5 like the rest of the 12th gen
lineup now there's only four of those cores eight threads total so you're not
going to be setting any cinebench world records but they will turbo to up to 4.3
gigahertz meaning that this chip is a low-key gaming monster and
i haven't even mentioned the best parts yet it's just over a hundred dollars and
you can get it down to 105 if you go for the f version of the sku which doesn't
include onboard graphics that's wild and
unlike AMD's closest competitor lga 1200 has a clear upgrade path you can either
go to an i5 or an i7 12th gen or you can
move to the upcoming 13th gen raptor lake which is confirmed to be backwards
compatible and it gets even better unlike the rich people k skus Intel's
basic processors actually come with coolers in the box they're nothing
amazing and our particular one seems to receive some touch-ups at the factory
but they are super easy to install look pretty decent and are perfectly capable
of taming the 89 watt maximum boost TDP
of a chip like this one
RAM ended up being a pretty straightforward choice for us this 16
gig kit of 3200 mega transfer per second cl 16 ddr4 is pretty much the sweet spot
for price to performance and it also happens to be the maximum transfer rate
that this particular CPU and motherboard combo supports
as for why we chose a team group t-force vulcan z
frankly it just came down to price it was about 50 bucks and you'll actually
find plenty of comparables from other brands and the budget hits keep coming
we've gone with a crucial p2 500 gig for our boot SSD why you might ask because
at 45 dollars it is cheap as chips it
might be pci express gen 3 and it might not have a dram cash but at this kind of
price point your only other options are maybe a wd sn570 which is going to be
around the same price anyway or a mechanical hard drive which frankly is
not what you want to be booting off of in a modern system which isn't to say
that mechanical hard drives don't have their place for bulk storage their cost
per Gigabyte is absolutely untouchable which is why we made sure to find a case
that has support for at least one hard drive this is the fbm x1 from roswell is
it the greatest case ever no but it can be had for as little as
like 10 bucks on ebay and hopefully between the front 120 millimeter and
rear 80 millimeter cooling fan we will have
enough cooling you know what else you can never get enough of fun exclusives
and behind the scenes which are only available on Floatplane.com
and i took that personally this is a budget build so we won't find
any fancy features like built-in i o shields we'll be
popping our shield in the old fashioned way oh so hard oh should have spent
twice as much on my motherboard it's fine i'm kidding then as long as we've
got our standoffs in the right locations please do make sure you double check
that we'll just go ahead pop our board in how you doing there buddy oh yeah look
at that man how cool is it that even budget components can be color
coordinated now like this build looks awesome
oh oops it's still not really worth the extra
cost but this wouldn't have happened with the built-in i o shield i accidentally got the little tabs here
for grounding uh inside the ports rather than on top of them
so i'm going to need to take the board out and put it back in
yeah there's not much cable management yeah much in the way of cable management
in this case that's okay we'll make it work that's a pretty cool hack to get
some cable management room on the back just kind of pop out the panel a little
bit i like it Linus approves
oh what the hell whoever disassembled this last time ripped the oh plastic
housing for the usb 3 header off of the motherboard you know i talk about how
fragile and horrible these connectors are all the time this is what i'm
talking about look at this it ripped the female housing right off
the last motherboard that it was in
that don't worry little h610m that won't
happen to you doesn't it just kind of feel like summer
don't you just want to wear a party shirt from lttstore.com
yeah we showed up wearing the exact same
thing today i swear we didn't coordinate this twins twinsies oh wow this is cable
management it's going to be horrible this is just gonna
traverse the motherboard like this apparently boom
cable managed you can call me the cable guy
just kidding my career hasn't sunk that way
our power supply was a pretty obvious choice we went with the cv650 from
Corsair it's non-modular and it's not going to have bells and whistles like
you know silent zero decibel fan modes or anything like that but it's 650
freaking watts it's still 80 plus bronze so it's reasonably efficient and it's
got all black sleeved cables so our finished rig is not going to have any of
that ketchup and mustard look like an older one would even when you're working
with a non-modular power supply it can be a useful little trick to plug in hard
to access connectors like the cpu8 pin connector before you actually install
the power supply there's our 24 pin for cable management the only thing we're
going to leave accessible is our pci express 6 plus 2 pin connectors and the
rest we can just cram in the five and a quarter inch bays
old school style now we paid forty two dollars brand new for this bad boy but i
would hazard a guess that in the coming months we are going to see much like
gpus a surplus of power supplies on the second hand market probably not lower
wattage ones like this but i would expect to see wild deals on 850 000 and 1200 watt
units as miners try to divest themselves of this hardware
finally it's time to talk GPU now i gave
a 200 price for an rtx 2060 but the
truth is it's a little bit more complicated than that you probably
aren't getting a founder's edition for 200 but we've seen other rtx 2060s which by
the way will perform the same sold for as low as 160 dollars if you're more of
a team red type of character you can also get a 5600 xt for about the same
price 160 at the low end and those top
out around the 190 dollar range it's a ton of GPU for the money especially in
the context of the last two years uh-oh
uh this is going to be a little tight oh no it seems fine never mind never mind i
lied it's all good it does take a bit of maneuvering to get
it in there but it's in now we just need our power
connector oh you know what i bet i can look through here to see
what i'm doing okay you actually probably even have hi camera i'm having
so much fun right now you know like i can't believe we can finally build
budget rigs again this might not be the best gaming rig for 500 but that's kind
of the fun of it there's a lot of different ways to tackle a budget rig
whereas with a high-end one buy all the most expensive stuff and slap it
together here we've got to make sacrifices are we more focused on CPU
are we more focused on GPU what's our risk tolerance for used hardware that is
something to be aware of if you're picking up these crypto mind gpus yeah
they might not last as long as a brand new one and you're certainly not going
to get any warranty coverage on them so it's a die you got to be tempted to roll
i mean i certainly was back in the day don't take my word for it though all
we've got to do now is close it up and show you guys the results obviously
these peripherals are a bit of a mismatch for our system but i'm using
them to emphasize the capability of this rig and i dare say it actually looks
pretty good too oh she's nice
uh-oh the case is in the way that fit of our ports look uh oh that's stupid
yeah i think i remember that being a problem in this case it's got this little folded piece of metal here that
makes it so that you can't can't actually get a displayport cable in
there um
um i think i made it worse yeah i think you did no
time for another power fist
there you go fix that for your rosewill percussive maintenance
moment of truth time here we go 16 gigs RAM
CPU detected m.2 detected
boom everything good to go that's a bit of a concern the only front air intake
is here and these feet are super low profile
it's possible that we're going to need some speed holes
to ask you how you are you just have to say that you're i think it'll be okay
i think that i'm gonna get prepared to make speed holes don't until we actually
test yeah and a third and a 20 60. like i
think it'll be fine you heard it here first
ploof says thermals will be fine with a solid front panel it's low end hardware
it'll be okay it's not a 30-70 or like a
12-700 k i think it'll be okay definitely some
minor quality of life challenges um can't get
i can't get a plug into this boy there it goes just give it a little
bend there can you get it better i'm sure i can get it out yes yes i can get
it out oh now i can't get it back in though
in cs go we're running at 1080p with everything basically cranked and
something else to note as we're going through this exercise is that i am screen recording at the same time that's
right this machine is not only capable of playing games it is also capable of
streaming something that you could not do for 500 bucks just a few short weeks
ago as always it won't actually make you a good gamer but
yeah just low key 250 300 frames per second let's go
oh it feels good doesn't it 12 year old game does it feel good wait look hey 300
FPS in anything for 500 bucks i'll take
it after this last freaking couple of years
it's worth noting that even though this is an older esport-centric title so not
the most demanding game a big part of why we're able to push these extremely
high frame rates which actually have a benefit even if you don't have a high
refresh rate monitor because they reduce input latency is due to those golden
cove p cores now you could spend another 40 bucks and you could get six of them
rather than four but we were trying really hard to hit that
500-ish dollar price point 12 100 man
what a steal oh wait wait where's my knife oh boy
i went to press a melee button forgot my game i was playing
we're getting halo infinite where's the because you set it to
install only
this is one area where this CPU is going to hold us back
downloading games poor thing we're only at uh 300 megabit
it's at 48 CPU usage
oh we should have a look at what our temps were in game our CPU maxed out
around 65 degrees and our GPU maxed out around 69 degrees that's nice i'd say
that's pretty nice but i don't know if we had actually
reached peak sure okay sure we're gonna run a more demanding game now
obviously this is a little bit more impressive we've got halo infinite
running at medium at around 75 frames
per second that is more than smooth enough for actually a pretty oh no crap
well that was a tactical error
ah whoops oh man
that was a bit of a fail but what's not a fail is that we're sitting at 90 cp
utilization 98 GPU utilization the
system is still freaking quiet and we've peaked at 76
degrees on our GPU and around 80 on our CPU so we are
nowhere near thermal throttling territory
i told you you were right when you're right you're
right ploof thanks and reminder of course i'm still recording this game
okay i want one kill and then i okay and then i'm good to leave get the guy in
the coast ah
i just got milade it's embarrassing that's it then the 500 gaming pc it's
back ladies and gentlemen great performance damn near silent adequate
thermals and you can go even cheaper if
you're willing to get more of the components used we're gonna have all the ones that we bought by the way linked in
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out the one from two years ago and while you're at it check out the comments
people got real mad about how impossible it was to buy a computer like this what
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