- Today, my task is simple,
to build the cheapest possible gaming PC on Amazon.com.
I need to be able to find brand new components,
with Amazon prime shipping.
That's it.
So this my friends is everything we need
to build our cheapest Amazon gaming PC.
Oh boy, AMD Athlon processor!
How much was the 3000G?
The cheapest processor we could find that wasn't ancient.
- [Jared] You are sitting on,
$93 worth of performance right there.
- Here's the thing, when this first came out,
I'm pretty sure it was like 50 bucks.
And 90 bucks though, I mean, that's like what
a Core i3 should cost.
- [Jared] Speaking of Core i3.
I think your entire PC is gonna
be mute against this little guy.
- What is this?
- [Jared] That's a nice, cheap,
or should I say budget, laptop.
- So it's a, an Asus with a Core i3-1005G1.
Oh, that's, that's better.
How much was this laptop though?
- [Jared] That was 350.
- Dude, are you trying to invalidate this entire video
by saying that you should just buy a laptop,
and try to build the cheapest game PC on Amazon
and get five frames per second with your potato graphics?
- [Jared] I mean, I'm not telling you that,
but we're gonna find out.
- [Austin] The led monitor!
- [Jared] This was $70.
I mean, that's less than $10 an inch.
- Oh my God.
Jared, what the.
- [Jared] Oh yeah.
I like that.
- This is like for a security camera.
It has BNC, it has AV and VGA, but it has HDMI,
which is a port that is non-existent.
It's got a slot for HDMI, but there's no actual HDMI.
- [Jared] Whoa, wait, so we,
we can't plug in our HDMI? - We have to use VGA.
- [Jared] Does our, does our motherboard have VGA?
- I hope so.
All right, we've got ourselves a little stand.
- [Jared] Wait, what?
- Am I missing a piece?
Ah! - [Jared] You know what?
We don't, we don't need a, a stand.
We have a perfectly good case,
that maybe we can integrate it with.
- I didn't actually order a case.
- [Jared] You didn't?
What?
- It's the cheapest Amazon gaming PC.
So, I'm gonna build it in the Amazon box it came with.
To save myself $20.
All right, next, we have the MSI A320M-A Pro Max.
So this is not a high end board by any stretch,
but importantly, it was cheap.
- [Jared] It was the same price of a brand new video game.
Unless you have a PS5, $60.
- 60 bucks.
It doesn't have VGA.
It has DVI and HDMI.
- [Jared] So we can't even use our PC?
- Jared do I have enough budget to buy an adapter?
(both laugh)
Next up, got ourselves a Logitech MK120,
the plug and play USB combo.
This tried and true, guaranteed to function
as a mouse and a keyboard for,
not many dollaridoos.
Next up in my bag of goodies is, oh-
(screaming)
- [Jared] Wow.
- 400 watt, Coolmax power supply.
- [Jared] It was $19.
- [Austin] $19 power supply!
What could possibly go wrong?
Josh, I swear to God,
if you put up another shot of my house on fire video.
I could see, he was dragging the clip on the timeline.
He's like, "I'm ready for it!"
All right, we're almost to the end here.
Astra-gear, DDR4 memory!
I mean the back is completely blank.
You could lick it and it's fine.
I wouldn't recommend that, but there's nothing on the back.
So it's, it tastes like Astra-gear.
All right, and inside, we've got our,
Adroitlark 2.5 inch SSD, baby.
You know what, can I date myself for a second?
- [Jared] I mean, you're married,
but you can date whoever you want.
- My first SSD was a 120 gig,
and it was, I wanna say 400 bucks for 120 gig drive.
This 120 gig drive, is probably just as good realistically,
and this cost less than $20.
- [Jared] This was $18.
- $18.
Modern technology is truly a marvel.
Let's get building, shall we?
Funny thing about building the cheapest gaming PC on Amazon,
it's pretty easy. (laughs)
There's like four thing we need to build here.
All right, so I'm gonna install ourselves
that Athlon 3000G.
(upbeat music)
All right, CPU installed.
Look how simple that was.
I feel like this is the fastest PC I'm ever gonna build.
Oh, I shouldn't probably say that.
- [Jared] When you buy cheap, you're given the luxury
of not having a lot of parts to put together.
- Why do I have my tools here?
I just realized, I brought tools out instinctively.
- [Jared] Well you gotta, you gotta screw it into your case.
(scoffs)
- This is the only tool I need.
(both laugh)
Wow. This box is way too big.
Jared, this box is too big.
- [Jared] No, no, no, no, no, no.
It's the perfect size.
It fits everything doesn't it?
I mean, that's all the PC case needs to do.
- Now, full disclaimer, static electricity is a thing.
But this is probably not particularly safe,
especially with the power supply
that is so high quality and well grounded as this one.
As always, do as I say, not as I do.
(upbeat music continues)
So with my expert case modifications complete,
this actually, look I'm not gonna lie.
I'm pretty happy with this.
I mean, that's sturdy.
Like I could pick up the whole box.
- Okay, okay, okay.
But you spent all that time working on that.
And this takes almost no setup at all.
- [Austin] Did you just break my monitor?
- [Jared] I would never.
No, no, no.
It was an accident, I mean you can't,
look, it's fine, this is durable.
So this,
although,
a little bit more expensive
and technically it was on sale.
- [Austin] Wait, what?
- I mean.
- [Austin] Wait, how much was it?
- Well, we paid 350.
but the actual price, was you know, about 450.
- [Austin] 450? Jared!
You're trying to beat me on price or performance,
so you got some clearance special for 350 bucks?
- Look, it's not my fault Best Buy has some good deals.
- [Austin] Best Buy? - You had to go-
- [Austin] This is Amazon.
- It's a computer and it will out perform yours.
It doesn't matter where it's from.
- [Austin] Wait, hang on.
You know, I would make fun of your build quality,
but it's not cardboard, so I don't think I can.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no!
It's fine.
- I'm sorry, did that, did that just flex?
- [Austin] Don't don't break my,
don't, don't break my case Jared.
You got HDMI? Damn.
- [Jared] Wow. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- [Austin] Is that USB-C?
You got USB-C, Jared?
- [Jared] Yeah. We actually have I/O on this.
- [Austin] Ohh. - [Jared] Look at that,
we're already in Windows.
Do you even have Windows?
- Okay, so I have taken the liberty of installing Windows
on my system, using an actual real monitor,
because Jared had to get me an adapter.
$22 will now be added to my total
for this HDMI to VGA adapter, to make my monitor work.
I'm almost positive that this is the point
at which, I could have spent the $20
and got an actual real monitor.
- You definitely could have.
- So here's my very expensive HDMI to VGA adapter.
So I'm gonna unplug my actual monitor.
Gonna change input.
AV. Okay.
VGA.
No, BNC. I don't want that one.
Where's VGA?
Yo!
Let's go!
All right, wait, hang on, so I got my mouse.
Okay, that is terrible, but it is actually working.
Now, I think it's time to install this
in the side of my case.
Woo. Look at that!
All right.
Okay! There we go!
All right, with my build complete, I have run my benchmarks.
So, let's see who's got the better score.
So I had to screenshot because the screen is so low quality.
I actually have to screenshot my score and zoom way in.
- [Jared] It's hard enough that it's really tiny.
- [Austin] Yeah.
- [Jared] And then the viewing angles,
make it a even more difficult.
- [Austin] So my Cinebench R23 score,
is 1,639 points.
- Really?
- [Austin] Yeah. What are you at?
- Not that much less. - [Austin] Really?
- I'm at 1,201 points. - [Austin] Ooh!
- I am actually very surprised by that.
- [Austin] Clear win on the CPU side.
- Only on the CPU side, we still have graphics.
And for graphics,
I came in with a Fire Strike score of 1282.
- [Austin] Oh! Wait.
- [Jared] Whoa, whoa, wait,
there's no way you beat me in graphics too.
- [Austin] So, Firestrike score of 1047.
- So you beat me on CPU, but on graphics,
I'm outperforming you.
- [Austin] But okay, we've gotta do the math on this then.
So my total for everything you see here,
mouse, keyboard, monitor, case
all of my high quality components, $315.
- 318, don't you try and cut yourself short.
Really trying to, really trying
to get that price performance score, aren't you?
So again, this one over here, for a 15 inch screen
and pretty much the same specs, 350 bucks.
1282 divided by 350 puts me at 3.66, points per dollar.
- [Austin] So 3.66 is where you're at,
price to performance.
My score is.
- [Jared] 1047 divided by 318.
You're looking at 3.29.
- [Austin] Okay.
- So in the end, just as I fully believed in,
the entire time and never had an ounce of doubt,
the laptop is the better value.
- [Austin] Well, slightly when it comes to gaming.
Slightly - Slightly, very slightly.
And again, this was on a $100 discount.
So in reality, it's a $450 laptop.
But we don't need to worry about that
and the editors are gonna cut that out,
and it's just gonna make me look like
I'm way better in every way again.
And it'll be great.
Just like usual.
- [Austin] I think Josh will have
to put you back in your cage.
(both laugh)
- I don't like this.
This, what this has become.
- [Austin] It was your idea to be fair.
So with the price to performance settled.
There's really only one thing left to do.
See if the cheapest gaming PC
you can build on Amazon, can actually play any games.
We've detected the following hardware issues,
system memory doesn't meet minimum requirements.
Ignore warning.
- [Jared] (laughs) That definitely won't lead to any issues.
- I'm about to see three frames per second right now.
I think that's actually what I'm gonna see.
So this is my viewing angle on the actual display.
So on the front, you can't see,
but if you move it this way,
for some reason it actually looks better,
which is ridiculous.
Like, I mean, if you get low,
it's a little bit better, but like,
you really wanna be all the way out to the side
to have any hope of seeing
what's actually going on on the display.
It's just taunting me right now.
This is the point where it just tells me it crashed.
- [Jared] Dude, that's what I'm waiting for.
- [Austin] (gasps) Oh!
Wait. It's loading! It's loading!
It's loading! It's loading!
- [Jared] Come on SSD, you got this.
Dude, I could have completed like four races by now.
- [Austin] This is where it crashes.
Oh boy.
- [Jared] Dude, that's not looking good.
- [Austin] This does not looking good.
(Jared laughs)
- [Jared] You know it's bad when
it's lagging on the loading screen.
- [Austin] It's one FPS.
- [Jared] No! (laughs)