If you have been looking for a gaming pc recently you may have noticed that the prices to buy a
gaming pc are just ridiculously high right now, especially if you want to build say an rtx 3000 pc
then you may even have to sell a body part in order to obtain one of those gaming pcs but don't
worry in today's video we're not going to be doing any of that we're going to be building a pc for
under 200. that's not only easy to put together but also the parts are readily available on the
used market and even the new market in the case of the gt 1030. now this gpu here is not going to
give you ultra gaming performance but what it is going to do is still give you a decent experience
at 720p or 1080p and another good thing about this card is that cryptocurrency miners are simply not
targeting this graphics card at all because it won't make them the profits and it's not worth
the time for them to invest in something like this which means that it's relatively well priced for
what it is on the market so let's take a look at what other parts we're going to put inside this pc
and then of course we'll quickly put it together and see how well it performs hey bro are you tired
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there's three other components besides the gt 1030 that we're going to need the first is this right
here and i'd call this the star of the show this is a small form factor hp 8300 third generation
system it has an i5 3470 eight gigabytes of ram however we got this for 50 and it didn't include
any drives so we will have to add our own drives which we're going to be using a 120 gigabyte ssd
you can get these for around 20 even brand new if you're looking for one used you may be able to
get it cheaper then we've got a 500 gigabyte hard drive i picked this up off the used market for 10
so the price tally that we paid for these parts i'll put them up on the screen as well as put some
links in the description below but building this thing is really easy so first of all we just take
off this side panel and then we have to install the graphics card however you may notice that
out of the box we have a bracket that is longer than what will fit in this pc and that's because
it's a small form factor pc so there's actually a different bracket that we need to quickly install
on our graphics card now i've got the zeus model here for the gt 1030 but if you're
buying these off the used market just make sure they include the small form factor bracket or ak
the low profile bracket and so the one that we got here from the store we got this
from a local store here for about 90 dollars brand new and it did include this bracket from
the get-go we then took the normal bracket off and installed the low profile bracket
and then it slotted into the pc absolutely fine now it's time to install our drives and
i like to use for this since some of these pcs can be a little bit complicated in installing
the drives i personally like to use double sided tape it makes the job hassle free
and just very quick and easy to install then after applying the double-sided tape on both the ssd
and the hard drive i like to in this particular hp case right here i like to put the hard drive where
it originally was and then put it upside down actually and then mount it to the metal bracket
with the double-sided tape and then for the ssd i actually found just under the power supply
was a nice location and then i've reused the solder power and the sata data cable
from the cd-rom drive and we've relocated that to the ssd and so we don't have to add
any additional cables or power cables we don't even need any thermal paste in case of this
build right here since it is an i5 iv bridge it didn't use much power to begin with even back in
the day let's give this thing a quick clean down install windows and then see how it performs in
me and you games and me was a dream at first i got lost in your world
in your universe i never thought
i messed up made it worse pushed you away
all that fight and it paid till you left one day wish i could take back all those
and i things that you miss me too so let's get over our issues and go back to me bless you i
it know knows you
let's go back i can't believe i'm a mess i'm a wreck when i see your face and i know that you're
feeling exactly the same but stop pretending we should stay apart tried to meet someone new but
they can't compare and i know that i'm feeling a bit unfair but you're the only one that's in my
heart
i know perfect but i think it's worth it nobody knows you
and there it is with the under 200 pc some people may be laughing at something like
this but i was enjoying playing games on this thing and the fps was really good at 1080p
dota 2 i had it on medium settings with maximum screen res the picture looked pretty good and
the fps was actually really good where i was getting near close to a hundred and twenty and
i did benchmark this for the entire game that i played on a turbo match five versus five with
one of my favorite heroes sam king and it was actually quite an intense game and it ended up
being a victory for your boy but then we move over to cs go and this was giving out pretty good fps
again around that 120 range seems to be a sweet spot for this gt 1030 at 1080p and the i5 3470
was also delivering and able to match the frames with this gpu even on the lower settings so
we had a blend of high and low settings and that seemed to max the gpu and cs go then moving over
to fortnite same thing with 1080p but this time we chose to play on what's called competitive
settings where they put all the settings to low 100 screen res but then the epic view distance
and we're getting over 60 fps most the times and it was a smooth experience you'd definitely be
able to find out if you've got the skills on something even as cheap as this pc right here
and then the final game we tested out was valorant i'm finding valorant does give very similar fps to
that of cs go we had this on low settings at 1080p and we're getting around 120 fps again but i did
find with valerian it was a bit more of a smoother experience in terms of the 1 and 0.1 lows than cs
go was so if you're undecided on which of the two games to play then i'd say that valoran is perhaps
even more slightly budget friendly in terms of the hardware that you can use to play the game
though with those four games aside we had the power consumption another good factor with
this pc where we didn't even break 100 watts we were getting from the wall around about 75 watts
while we're playing games so very low on power consumption if you need to save money and on your
power bill for instance and this thing's going to do a great job of doing that so the budget costs
on the machine itself does match very closely with the ongoing costs and i was just overall pretty
impressed with this machine especially since as we said in the intro a lot of the other pcs out there
if you want to get the fancy rgb lights and then an rtx 3000 series grabs guard you're just going
to be simply paying for it in this current market though with all that out of the way i hope you
guys enjoyed today's budget gaming pc that we put together here if you did then be sure to hit that
like button also if you have any questions about today's build then be sure to drop a question
in the comment section below and i'll get back to you as soon as i can just like this question
of the day here which comes from taimur and they ask i am wondering what brian does with those hp
elites transplanting into gaming cases so this case right here this pc you can transplant them
into a rgb case if you wish to it does require a bit of extra work and in some cases it might not
fit in bigger cases so usually for the transplants i picked the micro atx cases with the power supply
module or opening area up the top of the case and then you can just change all the hardware
put it in a better case even use the same power supply because some of the hp systems and also
some of these oem systems they use proprietary connectors so if you're going to go out and do
this transplant make sure you do a little bit of research before you do that but in case of
what i'm doing with them i'm mainly using these ones here for budget gaming pcs and also office
pcs and also the other i7 pcs that i picked up in the parts i'm going to put the link up here for
you guys i'm going to be using some of those i7s for an rgb transplant into a gaming pc so i do a
lot of different things with the parts that i get in here hope that answers that question and if you
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you