full disclosure I filmed this video last week and somehow I have no audio for it
so time to film it again so before you say this isn't clickbait this is
actually a genuine PC list that I put together for you because I love you a
few things I want to say first that yes you could build an a PC with older parts
that could potentially be more powerful but since this is 2018 and the last
generation for motherboards has been phased out I want to do everything up to
spec with brand new parts that also being said crypto miners have made this
incredibly difficult but this would actually be a good time to start
because crypto mining is going down and some of the parts are starting to become
a little more reasonably priced so if you want to build something entry-level
that you could definitely by all means upgrade in the near future when graphics
cards plummet in price then this is a good video to watch so let's begin first
off I think it's important to talk about the CPU now CPUs are not as important as
some people think when it comes to gaming some people think that you need
like an i7 or a high scale i5 but this isn't true the games as of now
don't really take on that much older CPUs yes will be taxed a little bit more
than newer CPUs because new CPUs are tend to be faster for what they do that
being said if you ever watch any of my videos you'll know that I'm a big fan of
AMD's Ryzenn series well to have the very slim budget that I've put together I had
to add the intel pentium g series usually when you think pentium you think
of garbage town when it comes to processing but some of the newest
pentium processors are actually in fact dual-core with hyper-threading which is
pretty impressive a 3.5 gigahertz a dual-core isn't AMAZING
but it will like I said to be good enough not too many games so far
required quad-core especially when I remind you that this is a budget
computer so if you're planning to kill it in the gaming high-end gaming arena
then your you're expecting a lot from $372 so this is 7 generation kaby lake
processing so it's pretty good for the price of $72.95
so with that processor you need the right type of motherboard to go along
with it that being said the gigabyte micro ATX motherboard that I've put here
the ga-h110m-a-LGA 1151 why do they make these so uninteresting I don't know
but anyway it's a ddr4 motherboard which makes the price go up a little bit but
since ddr3 is left behind in the past ddr4 is where it's going so while it is
a little more pricey this is what you need when it comes to upgrade ability
that being said it has two ddr4 Ram slots again to is it amazing but yeah
you can still you can still work with this so those two Ram slots will support
up to 32 gigabytes of RAM which is a little absurd when it comes to budget
pcs so you don't need to worry about that but in the future you could pop two
16s in there and then get 32 just so you know it offers everything else that you
would expect with the motherboard especially a PCIe slot which you'll need
for the graphics card which this is where things get interesting but all the
other stuff is relative so at first in the first video I suggested in the GT
1030 which is
when it comes to gaming on the budget side 96 bucks 80 bucks 70 bucks and
whatever you can find it for it's okay but since I did a little more digging I
found the Asus Radeon of rx 550 turns out it's usually around the same prices
in the 1030 but typically offers a much better performance except when it comes
to OpenGL games which Nvidia kind of crushes today however the Radeon
graphics cards are built for DirectX 12 titles so you will do much better with
that for the same price and better performance I have to suggest the Asus
Radeon when I say better performance that's typically sometimes there's
random titles that the ten-thirty will perform slightly better at but generally
speaking the Radeon rx 550 is a better card
I can't list every game that you might want to play on it look up videos just
type in the name of the game that you're most interested in and then add the rx
550 afterward and pretty much everyone as video on some game being played with
this card but on average it seems that you can play pretty much every title at
least on respectable settings now that being said you're going to want to
upgrade this card eventually but this is by all means a great start you'll be
able to play just about anything at playable settings at least the power
it's real simple EVGA 400 watt power supply 80 plus gold you want quality you
don't want to skimp too much on the amount of power it can give now prices
on power supplies vary not by much I mean it was like a $10 difference
between the 400 watt and the 500 watt to save a little bit I dropped down to the
400 watt because you could still upgrade a little bit from there but honestly
don't go too much lower than this it'll be a pain to replace that later you
could but this is just the one I recommend for
$34.99 it's not a bad deal less interesting also is the Western Digital
blue one terabyte satus excuse by the left pretty much every build I put
together I put this hard drive in there because one it's a fast hard drive for
not being SSD and it's not a bad price is $49 so it's almost always around $50
you can you can go down to 500 gigs if you want to shave off $20 at best
ah that's half of the hard drive really so it's it's up to you more and more
things are taking there's some games out there that take 50 games of space so if
you want to shave off a little extra money and bring it down a little bit in
price go ahead after that also another thing that is really pricey right now is
the RAM for this bill I found this ballistic sports LT 8 gigabyte kit
that's two 4 gig cards put together to be one of the best prices I could find
right now for an actually really fast random card if you wanted to shave $30
off you could go down to 4 but I do not recommend it I think 8 gigabytes is
where you want to be for RAM when it comes to gaming for you can get by but
it will greatly improve if you have 8 especially when you're already dealing
with a pretty low profile graphics card oh yeah I almost forgot where you gonna
put all these parts pretty much anything that's around $20 right now that would
be the Roseville micro ATX mini tower it's not a great case but at 25 bucks
what do you expect well yeah pretty much anything will do for this I mean if you
wanted to not do that you could just get some wood and some screws and you could
just recycle an old computer case that you have laying around that's from like
I don't know really to thousands or something if
really had to but you might just want to get a new case
so all total that brings it up to boom four hundred and twenty two dollars well
I may have cheated just a little bit if you apply for the Amazon Rewards Visa
card they shave fifty dollars off your grand total bringing you down to 370 232
okay so if that makes you mad you can do the things I suggested for shaving off
the price if you really want this computer you could go down to four gigs
of RAM for now if you absolutely must have that that budget and if you go down
to 500 gigs you could shave off another $20 so you have $50 off that replaces
where the gift card would have helped you out both both of these are kind of
easy fixes for later say you need to absolutely build a computer today for
$372 well you could if you don't want to get a Amazon credit card that's fine
just cut back on those other things I really looked around for other prices
for things and couldn't find better deals on Amazon than that this was the
best I could find of all things without actually skimping on quality but really
it wouldn't be terrible if you had to just keep in mind upgrade the RAM as
soon as possible that's them I feel that's the most important thing that
you'd have to upgrade the graphics card will be decent enough for a little while
so that's it for today's video I hope you liked it I hope it was helpful
leave a like if you liked it remember all the parts that I have mentioned will
be listed in the link below for you to get while you can now the graphics cards
keep in mind will typically be out of stock the ones that are at a good price
you can buy it anyway and they will just ship it to you once it comes into stock
which is fairly often you'd be surprised but it's more or less good at the price
that is listed for a while you can because it's kind of hard to beat these
prices are always changing so what do you think of these pc build guys do you
want me to make more I was playing around with the idea of making one from
a ddr3 perspective where you just want raw power from older parts that aren't
too old just last gen just a couple years with
the power to supersede anything else if you want to see that video let me know
look that I've got some work to do so I'm gonna get to that I'll be seeing you
guys later