whenever we put together a list of recommended parts for building your own
pc there's one complaint that oh shows
you dumb canadian
yeah that you know that was pretty mean but
the random stranger i've never met and never will has a point
maybe it's just as viable and maybe it's
way cheaper to build a pc on ebay
maybe within the same budget you could build a much more kick-ass rig than you
could by going through newegg or amazon maybe
none of this is a maybe because maybe we
already did it and maybe i'm gonna tell you guys all
about it
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out at the link below so we began our journey with a spec list
for like a decent gaming pc on pc part
picker that ended up at just over a thousand dollars for all new parts at
retail prices now we didn't choose this price point for any particular reason
other than that it's just kind of what we ended up with for a good
bang for the buck gaming pc so with any luck ebay is either going to
increase our bang or decrease the buck
now of course regardless of price the main disadvantage of ordering off ebay
is that you're going to be stuck getting all of your parts piecemeal which for us
meant that we actually had to wait about a month in between ordering all this
stuff and making this video here for you
people which is going to be an eternity if you're just looking to
fire up some apex legends with your buddies now to mitigate that somewhat we did
actually limit ourselves to buy it now
items rather than furiously refreshing auction pages so you can assume that
with some more patients you could actually do a little bit better than us
but then how well did we do
it's time for a haul video
let's start off with our case then okay this honestly didn't matter much we were
going for cheap and functional and it ended up
being a rosewill nautilus that won the
day it was packed
well enough and it's arguably a reasonably
attractive case too if you're into the whole kind of glossy
uh plastic look now you might be thinking to yourself
when you first open up the case doesn't the nautilus come with two
fans in the box and yes it does
they just happened to be loose in the box for us for some reason
actually if we're being honest the shipping was overall quite
horrible for this thing and worse the
nautilus is supposed to have a windowed side panel and as you guys already saw
it does it just was installed on the wrong side so
clearly they were packing it up in a freaking hurry
i mean this is what you get sometimes when you go with ebay and the thing is
that with cheap cases we actually found that the pricing for used ones on ebay
wasn't really any better than just buying an entry-level case at retail
unless of course you count the extra value
ah yes not one not two
but three extra SATA cables were included in the
box
so then once we get all of our wires managed and kind of where they're
supposed to be right gotta take that off that's a
it's a window there we can move on
zero gravity that seems to be what whoever packed this was
hoping for because that's the only way it was going to survive
next up next up is our power supply an 80 plus
rating for the power supply of any modern computer is pretty much
non-negotiable and we're gonna want about 500 watts of continuous power for
our build to live and to give us some room to expand now
despite its shortcomings like its lack of modular cabling and if we're being
honest middling overall performance evga's 500b fit the bill for us nicely
now this one right here is an open box model so
it hasn't been used very much if at all actually doesn't have a speck of dust on
it so this looks like a pretty good score for 25 us dollars
now for the platform that's going to go into our
kind of rat's nest over here we wanted something that was going to have at
least eight threads with enough per thread performance that games won't end
up slowed down by our CPU so ryzen is
kind of a no-brainer at this price point and there were some very decent deals to
be had on the gen 1 ryzen 5 1600x
now we had considered an engineering sample core i7 8700 non-k
but it has a locked multiplier
and no heat sink in the box if we're
going to have to buy a CPU cooler anyway we want to be able to overclock so we
ended up by the way let's just gonna get this up there we go with a deep cool
gammaxx 400 which cost us about 24
now with just a six core CPU and a single graphics card we don't need the
fanciest motherboard on the block so we went hunting for a b series board with a
decent vrm layout for that overclocking
now virtually all the options available on ebay with decent pricing were refurbs
which means that they only come with io shields
if you're lucky although we did also get a wi-fi antenna so that's nice but
thankfully that's actually not a big deal for us thanks to our
for it bonus SATA cables
anyway the choice really came down to between
two boards from ASUS the b350 plus and
the b450 plus now the chipset difference doesn't
really matter for us because we're running first gen ryzen but we decided
to spend the extra five dollars on the newer b450 board if only because it's
likely to get firmware updates for longer
next up is RAM now 16 gigs was our target for
comfortable gaming and multitasking including running the notorious memory
hog chrome web browser
but the thing that we kind of ran into here
is that memory deals on ebay were few
and far between so we ended up going with this
like the definition of bog standard no
name ddr4 2400 and this stuff is weird
like there's no visible branding even on the chips themselves where you'd
normally see you know some kind of name you recognize like samsung or sk hynix
and when we fired up these modules to test them we couldn't even find a vendor
id string spooky i mean at least it was cheap this is
funny too warranty void if removed what warranty
from who nobody knows
anyway speaking of cheap our storage options now we wanted an SSD that was
large enough to handle our operating system and our key applications so a
crucial mx 500 250 gig fit the bill just
nicely not only is it yes dirt cheap but
it also has a dram cash which is important for its long-term performance
the one thing it can't do is handle a big steam library so we also grabbed
this two terabyte western digital 7200 RPM enterprise drive which was a steal
at 49 so both of these are either new or open
box because buying heavily used storage is
just not the brand of fun that we're gonna get into today
finally we come to the single most important piece of any gaming rig our
graphics card so our goal was to pick up something that's capable of running
1440p at 60fps or 1080p at much higher frame
rates like you know 120 or 144 hertz and
so we quickly narrowed down our search to either the GeForce gtx 980 ti or gtx
1070 ti which are surprisingly quite
similarly priced at around 300 us dollars right now which is a bit strange
when you consider that the 980 ti is actually closer to a regular 1070 rather
than a 1070 ti so obviously we ended up
then with the 1070 ti at least though to the 980 ti's credit it's not as bad of
value as some of the older titans that we were considering early on so right
now this looks like about the sweet spot in the used market so i guess a lot of
the folks who bought 1070 ti's are upgrading or else we got
a mining card which is possible it's clean but it looks
cleaned as opposed to clean
so after a not insignificant amount of cable management thank you Anthony
we've got our build and all of its second-hand glory all in we spent about
776 dollars before shipping which if we
were in the continental us would have been about 50 bucks which is just about
250 dollars saved versus our retail
build now there are a couple of small issues like that wireless antenna i was
so pleased about being included doesn't plug into our motherboard and
that io shield that we were so happy to have
is also not correct for our motherboard but hey
gamey is gaming so why don't we take it for a spin
all right oh we need to turn vsync off oof
okay hold on just need to turn off that uh motion blur ew motion blur ew ew
all right resume the game dang
Anthony this is one cheap
130 FPS at 2560 by 1440 and doom
look at that responsiveness i mean you'd never know
sort of looking at the frame rates we're running at here that this is like a you
know ghetto jank ebay pc i mean it doesn't make your skills any
better but like not bad at all
oops hit him in the ankles oh no oh no
CPU temps for sitting nice in the just 40 plus range
although bear in mind of course AMD does record CPU temperatures slightly
differently from Intel when we do shadow of the tomb raider something a little newer everything working exactly as we'd
expect why don't we crank this puppy too
exclusive full screen turn that v-sync off
highest no motion blur so here we're stuck with the built-in
benchmark but that'll still give us a pretty good idea of how this guy's gonna
run were you using hot glue for this build
a few tweezers Anthony well someone got hot glue on the tape oh
you know what i think that was me not bad so remembering that we were
targeting 1440p 60fps
that is looking pretty darn
nice so yeah we're a little on the low side but remember we absolutely cranked
this game and this is one of the top triple a titles from 2018 so
oh good he gave me a gun oh that's so nice
i'm a nice person and inspect weapon really that's a
button to stare at your weapon so we're in apex legends now
i'm aware that the hd textures are not done downloading but for some reason
they've stopped coming down and i don't really know
what the issue is with that so we're just gonna go ahead and assume
that it'll be some performance amount that's a little lower than this the good
news is that's honestly pretty fine
because we're looking at like
70 80 plus frames per second
not bad at all i'm officially better than half of the
people who joined this match do i have any bullet guns button gun bullets
yeah he's he's done oof all right and we're dead
so that was it for um my apex legends
career could have gone pro if only i had any
skills and uh practiced so
at the end of the day some of the items were either the same price or more
expensive on ebay compared to retail but
if you're strapped for cash and you need a cheap way to get some gaming grade
hardware at least some of them were a better deal as long as you don't care
too much about warranties now the risk of getting something that's
just dead on arrival is not as much as you might think thanks to ebay's from
our experience anyway excellent buyer protection so
what it really comes down to then is your willingness to deal with a
premature failure that doesn't come with any kind of manufacturer warranty
support as for me well
as a tinkerer the way that i've always looked at it is that if i save
nearly the cost of my single most expensive component on a build then i
can literally afford to replace any piece of it that fails and worst
case scenario i'll be back where i started then
if it doesn't fail well then i get to keep that money in my pocket
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