Assuming you're not planning to sell this build immediately, I'd love to see each piece get upgraded and tested as part of a series of tests to see which component someone would want to upgrade first.
1st upgrade would need to be the videocard: a 6600 or a 6700 that are now so cheap. 2nd would be the cpu, upgrade bios if needed and upgrade to a 5600x, or a 5600x3d if you live near to a microcenter, or finaly best upgrade posible is a 5800x3d, that chip is so good still.
@@rx10 Depends, biggest bonus anyone will ever see on a per dollar basis is usually if their system isn't using an ssd or has under 16 gb of ram. Beyond that though, the gpu is *usually* the biggest bonus if the person has atleast 4 cores.
Just today recieved all the parts to finally move on from my lga1155 , got a ryzen 5 5500,b550,and ram for 200, got an rtx 2080 for $150 on ebay, and reusing my PSU. Also got a nice m.2 drive for $30. For like 400$ I'm stoked to finally try 165hz!!! Love your budget videos bro.
I think you could save up some money on B450 mb as that 5500 only supports PCIe 3.0 so PCIe 4.0 fucntionality of B550 is useless. But all in all, I wish you a long serving PC that will handle pretyy much any game that you want to play!
You're officially my favorite tech RU-vidr! I'm tired of seeing 4090 and high end component crap. Well, it's not crap at all, but many of us modest gamers can't afford these high end system. I'm glad that there is a RU-vidr (RGIHD) who actually focuses on budget options for PC gaming. ;)
Yeah that's the downside of all the bigger RU-vid tech channels. Almost every single build they do is a 2000+ dollar build full of sponsored parts and almost never anything less than a 4080 or a 7900 XT, combined with the latest and greatest current gen CPU and really expensive cooling and so on. Once you've seen a dozen of those builds that are all essentially identical, it gets boring. It takes so much more skill and knowledge to build a well-performing PC on a budget. You really have to know your hardware, be up to date on used part prices and how the components interact with each other to get the most out of each dollar spent. Compare that to just throwing unlimited amounts of cash on a build and simply getting the fastest parts available, with essentially identical results as everyone else who built a top tier rig. So boring.
Even if one can afford, it simply doesn't make sense to spend so much on a gaming machine. I personally think a slightly higher than a console price will be ideal, considering the PC can do other stuff. Spend wisely, don't fall into the corporate traps
@@sc337 Exactly, it's not worth it especially when some newer PC ports release in a broken state. It's just better to wait for the next generation of GPUs. I'd rather buy a console or Steam Deck than spend $1600 on a GPU.
To save urself a massive headache u should atleast go with a 3060ti and a decent 5k ryzen. even if u do buy all brand new parts u gonna end up below 700 bucks. if ur willing to buy used maybe even 500. a nvme is a must, don't trap urself with harddrives, ever. the slow speed is not worth the savings. always get at least SSD storage. always get at least 16 gigabytes of ram, gskill agesis is a nice 3000mhz kit that costs new less then 50 bucks. The perfect mid range system for me is the one I have rn. Ryzen 5800x3D 32GB of corsair ram 3060ti 2tb wd black nvme decent cooler and psu decent budget mb. New all those parts are less then 1grand, pushing 800 when ur good with just a ssd. Absoluty shreds 1080p and can very easily push 2k gaming. A budget build is fine. but spending 300 bucks more if possible for a system like this lets u game 3-4 years no problem.
@@mannydcbianco I totally agree with you! It actually requires creativity and ingenuity to build budget PC's. I like scouring the used market for the best deals and getting a banger budget build in the end. It is so much more fun, and is the aspect that I enjoy the most about PC building. It's reassuring to know that people feel the exact same way as me.
This PC will not run the latest games at decent framerates. Anything made after 2020 will need to be ran at the lowest settings barely getting to 60 fps
If you're making a build like this, make sure to check on the second hand cost of AMD options like the RX 580 and RX 590 8 GB cards. They perform as well or better than the GTX 1060 and those 2 extra GB of VRAM will be a huge help in 2023.
AM4 is in a very good place price wise right now. Best performance for the money, most of the time anyway. The 1060 6gb and the rx580 8gb are both extremely cheap for the performance as well. After the scalpocolypse, we are finally back in a sweet spot for finding cheap used parts that also offer great value! Why build new when the better deal is used?
The thing with buying used stuff is that, not only do you not have warranty, there is plenty that can go wrong when you uss the part you just bought. So I understand someone for wanting to buy new.
@@thorham1346 and the motherboard VRMs (no radiator! sweet jesus) are quite literally going to explode if you try to run a 5600x or, god please no, 5800x3d. It's an upgradable system, sure but the main components are "replace immediately" tier.
@@crispybottomyep, rule Number 1 in PC building is: Never, ever, on your life, skimp on the PSU!!! Because a faulty PSU can wreck all your other components. And bad power delivery also helps causes coil whine at much lower fps than udual. Additionally that board has only 1 m.2 slot and he's not using the SATA ports so the system fails the upgradeability test right there. Next issue is 16 GB of RAM, not enough for today, it should be 32GB and it's not much of a price increase. Also one of the best ways to save on a budget build is to carry over working storage. Carried over 2 of my old SATA SSDs, they still work, why throw them away?
@@efeloteishe4675 Games, if I wanted to run professional programs on it, I'd recommend 64 GB at least. Look at any moderately new game, they profit massively from 32 GB of RAM. And I'm not even talking about DCS, then I'd have to recommend 64 GB instead of 32GB. 16GB has no longevity and it costs next to nothing to upgrade it. 25 Euros for 16 GB, 50 for 32GB. That's less than 30 Euros for. Also it's a 6GB VRAM card, so it's very likely that it will run out of VRAM, which means more RAM usage, on top of the game+System's requirements.
I always love it when the channel does something in relation to their username. This system is similar to one I built my friend! Their system was a R5 3600, B450M, Zotac GTX 1660S, 1TB MP34 M.2, 16GB Crucial 3200MHz, EVGA 600GD, all in a little sleeper office PC case, just a little over $300 :)
Same here also built by brother a PC for online class, with a used tray cheap* cpu R5 2600 that cost 40$ back covid, a RX580 2048(570), and oh god I can't help but smile seeing the corsair vengeance LPX; i highly thank Corsair for that; a seasonic M12, and a M.2 WD Green. RX580 2048, Tray chip used AM4's, Vengeance LPX, a used motherboard, might be the staple of budget gaming here in Asia.
@@btd1114 Some people do a 256/512 for the boot drive and are okay with games on a HDD, but yeah, I definitely agree that a 1TB drive is less hassle and just easier to work with. I'm a weirdo and my main system has 12.5TB of space and that 0.5 is my boot drive, an SN850 M.2 from WD lmao
@@ANN1H1LATE89 In my eyes 1660 super/ti is still 1080p sweet spot gaming. Maybe a 2060. I have a 2060 super and find I can have an enjoyable 1440p experience.
I would love to see a timeline of the different budget pcs you have build over the years as it would be interesting to see how trends and prices change over time.
That's an awesome platform to start with. I really love the flexibility of Mid Tower cases. You could add additional 2.5 ssds or old hdds that are laying around. A simple video card swap would do wonders. I love this build, great job!
i recently built a PC for a family member with the Hellcrack Classic case and i was genuinely baffled by just, how good it was for that price, great video as usual!
Back in 2014 my build was a very good one. Still running daily and had some good luck oc'ing it. 4670K i5, 16 gb ddr3 ram and 1070ti. The gpu's where always upgraded. Gtx460 sli, 660ti sli, 970 in sli and the 1070ti is likely the last upgrade this old beast got.
If your handy at repairing cpu socket pins you could probably get a cheap z690 and an i5 12600K used, just make sure its DDR5 because you'll want Hynix A die ram
Dam good cpu i had one up untill my upgrade to am5 . I still feel very privileged and lucky that i have had the ability to build my pc and am grateful.
Saw a couple of RX 5600XT's go on eBay the other day for around £80-85, they're so overlooked now a days! definitely a card to look out for, for budget systems
Love these affordable builds u keep making vide on really helping out most of us who can't afford to get a 4090 and a Ryzen 9 keep up the great work 👍❤
but only to play older games ,lately games are released that have rtx 2080 as minimum spec and only do 55fps on that ,on gtx 1080 they become unplayable in 20 fps range (Immortals of Aveum)
@@bassax7045 Not really I just built a client of mine custom PC for $1,600USD ish. Has a R5 7600 240 rad cooler 128 gigs ram 2060 Super 750 watt PSU two 2 tera SSD and a 500 gig SSD. all with RGB. He's getting a better GPU later on.
Nice one! Mine's as follows: Deepcool Matrexx 60, used AMD A320M board & Ryzen 3600 w/Prism cooler. ebay 3600MHz DDR4. Used 1070Ti. Decent power supply, some cheap solid state storage (I used a repurposed 512GB NVME from a dead laptop and got a good deal on a 2TB SSD) and call it a day!
Nice minimalist build with no RGB :) Some really mega cheap cases still have a slot for a DVD drive on the front with ample HDD bay space. I really love to turn those machines into pseudo servers filled up with old HDD I have laying about. Plus you can turn your old DVD games into ISO to use on other devices.
GTX 1060 is cheap but at the same time it's on it's last legs. Needs replacement within two years. A RX 580 / RX 590 would have been slightly better for (less) money. However the RX 5600XT and RX 5700 (XT) have come down in price a lot, this should be the preferred option.
great video! i've built and flipped dozens of budget builds and i am always impressed with the performance you've been able to get in recent years for the $250-$400 budget
Subbed to this channel back in college because im a poor fuck looking to squeeze every bit of performance on old components now im rocking a high end setup and still here keep it up boys you can do it
A build after my own heart, I have built several similar systems and sold them locally with great results . Never had one come back for any reason. Usually used an RX570 class card as they are a personal favorite
I done a second build based around budget and performance. I ended up with a CIT F3 case (Black/Blue) for £26, EVGA 600W PSU for £35 new, 32GB DDR4 RAM for £35, Ryzen 5 1600X for £70, GTX 1050TI for £35 and a 2TB Crucial P3 SSD for £70 and I got the same Mobo Gigabyte B450M-K for £60. Runs games like world of warcraft and FF14 at around 60-70fps at 1080p medium settings ish. I loved the rubber holding mechanism for the SSD, I ended up chewing the SSd screw in my wife's PC and had to get creative when we upgraded her M.2 SSD earlier this year
Not bad, but there's much better parts newer parts for the money out there, namely the Ryzen 3600 and GTX 1660 Ti/Super. Swapping out to those would've only added 20 pounds to the cost and been 30-40% faster, more efficient, and less likely to fail. The GTX 1060 is old enough now that there's good likelihood it won't have a much longer life before failing especially if it's an OC model running at high factory voltage.
Why would the GPU be more likely to fail just because it's old? That's only determined by the use case of the person who you bought it off of. Unless the GPU was absolutely hammered in a use case such as crypto mining, the GPU can last for many many years, worse case scenario you have to repaste it.
Very well priced build and the segment about the front panel conenctors reminded me of my first build in 2020, where my build hadn't booted because I incorrectly plugged the front panel connectors. Luckily plugging them in correctly and it posted.
An alternative to the case for the same price you can get the hellcrack midi which is atx,has a mesh front panel,a tempered glass side panel,three front fans and magnetic dust filters
My personal choice for low to modest budget PC build that relies on some used parts: Second hand Ryzen 3 3300X OR Ryzen 5 3600 (you may consider the R5 5500 as well) Asrock B550M HDV 16GB (8x2) of DDR4 3200 RAM Any 1TB NVME with DRAM AMD card: Second hand RX580 8GB OR RX6600 (you may consider RX5700XT if the price is better in your country), OR Nvidia card: Second hand GTX1070 OR RTX 2060 Super Any 80+ Bronze 600w - 650w PSU from known brands (Semi Modular if possible) Any mATX case similar in type and pricerange that RGHD uses Cooling fans that correspond to what the case supports (ID Cooling and Cooler Master for budget, Arctic if you can up the budget) --- I do not know what's the pricing on your side of the world and what you can build for similar pricerange (do share in the replies to my comments!), but this build may cost between US$400 - US$500 or below that depending on what deals you find in your place, which is great considering the price to performance that you're getting.
Well not really, considering that the closest priced 5000 series card in the UK, the RX 5500XT shows slower performance than the 1060 on average. I’d say the better choice would be the RX 580 but there’s much less of an upgrade path for that compared to the 1060.
@@akturosu Wow, i understand that people prefer Nvidia but this is something else. 5500XT can trade blows with a GTX 1660 and is considerably faster than the RX-580. Very hard to understand how someone can say that is slower than a 1060, a card that can't even beat the 580, not to mention the 5500XT incredible efficiency.
@@akturosu No worries, it can happen to anyone. Maybe you confused the 5500XT with the 6500XT that is crippled by it's PCIe running at x4? That is a really problematic card indeed.
I have ryzen 5 1600 AF (which is basically ryzen 5 2600) and gigabyte 1660 super and i'm playing everything just fine, just amazing parts! didn't cost me that much too I bought every piece seperately from fb market place!
I purposely build an AM4 PC since I needed to do it on a serious budget. I have a 3700X which is honestly fine for me and doesn’t bottleneck my 6650 XT. Someday I can upgrade to a 57/5800X3D and have several more years of acceptable gaming performance.
The only thing I would change is getting a 256gb M.2 and leaving it solely as your windows boot drive and then have a 1tb sata SSD as your games storage. Having games on an SSD and not an M.2 won’t affect load times but not having your boot drive filled with games will keep the PC responding faster for longer and keep windows snappy with no discernible input lag.
I built a similar computer yesterday for my girlfriend, I got a Ryzen 3600 for €60 and a GTX 1660 Super for €80, both in excellent condition. The rest of the build was made with new parts (I also used this Corsair memory) and in the end everything cost ~€350. It's pretty crazy to think how cheap you can build a gaming computer now, I paid €450 just for my 6600 xt at the time. Btw, I really like your videos and it inspires me to build good and cheap computers. I'm even thinking about making a business out of it or maybe recording some videos. A hug from Portugal!
Always nice to see a budge build, 1060 6gb isn't something to sniff your nose at. Recently I got a pc from Cex for 290 with a ryzen 1500x, 16gb ram and a rtx 2060s.
Really nice build! Hope you turn this into a series where you gradually upgrade the PC over time and see how it handles. Possibly the GPU to a 2060 or 590, CPU to a 5600 or i5, etc. As someone who built a PC during the shortage crisis it’s crazy just how cheap building a fairly powerful gaming PC today is. Great video!
This is almost my exact same build from 2020 with a slightly different case that has optical drive bays. A Sata 3 SSD (M.2 is way cheaper now) and an RX 580 (comparable to the 1060 and $50 on the used market)
A little piece of advice for everyone if you buying cheap case at least make sure it has some sort of front cuts to take air in, and it would be wonderful if it also had at least half of space on the top with holes to let that hot air out... Some recomms: FSP/Fortron CST130BASIC, Cooler Master Masterbox Q300L, MSI MAG Forge 100M, Deepcool CC560 White
Should have gone with: Ryzen 5 5500 (6c/12t) - supports RAM speeds of 4000+ (in 1/1/1 ratio) because it is monolithic. A hidden gem for budget gaming. Gygabyte B550m DS3h - same-ish board that you used with a couple of improvements for same-ish price. Improvements include: VRM heatsink (important in case of upgrade to more powerful CPU), 4 ram slots (to upgrade later), link to chipset is at PCI-E 3.0 speed/bandwidth instead of 2.0 on B450.
a small investment into a M.2 heatsink would be a good ideo. a nvme ssd can get really hot sometimes and that tiny bit more for a cheaper heatsink is not thrown out money.
Nice deals to start the build. Nice case but a few £10 more and you get more fans, a mesh front and tempered glass side panel. Felt the 2600 was held back by the 1060 a bit. Great build overview, but for the new builders who might watch your video I would add the recommendation to build outside the case before putting it in to check everything works, particularly if some parts are 2nd hand.
The GREAT thing about this pc is how upgradable it is and you can do it over time. Upgrade the psu.. a month later put in a ryzen 5600 cpu that you got a deal on.. then a month after that put in a gtx 1070ti or rtx 2060 etc that you got for a great deal. 3 or 4 months later you have a much more powerful pc for cheap and it was easy to do. Good video.
The value of AM4 is still amazing, it supports a very wide range of CPU's in both pricing and performance. I really don't get the people who say you "need" to go for AM5 or Intel for future upgradeability.
9:38 that drift into the parking space was smooth lol. I was hoping this build wouldn't go over 1k of my currency but it's just over 1.5k, so a bit disappointing but it should be worth it for the upgradability. Also, I'm new to this channel but have you ever done a gaming build that's power efficient while being fairly cheap? I think that would be interesting to see
I have a 2600 and RX560. I just spent some dough on a 6650XT, next upgrade should either be a Samsung 970 Evo Plus 1TB NVME for 70 euros, or a 5600X for 170-180.
Just finished building using this as a guide - picked up at RX 590 and a different branded SSD as well as AX3000 WiFi card as I'm not close to an ethernet port at my desk, but still came in around £350! Bargain I think with a slightly better GPU in there as well. Can only switch on and install Windows tomorrow now so fingers crossed! Also got the CPU from CeX, but mine didn't come with a fan so had to pick one up separately which added a little on!
I think its a staple now for budget builds to get a used 1060 or an RX580 2048, tray chip AM4's, and the corsair Vengeance LPX. Built my brothet one during covid online classes
A really nice and cozy build, and that 1060 is beautiful. A month ago I found the same one as showed in the video but couldn't make a deal with the seller for €100... Too bad for him I got a 2070 super 3 days ago for €180. I'm thankful towards him ahah.
Something I would add to a system like this, is a HDD to store games and other data on. A 2TB HDD is pretty cheap nowadays and gives you some extra storage, which is definitely nice to have.
With "upgradability" in mind, I would've chosen a board with 4 RAM slots, for a very cheap upgrade to 32 gigs in the future, and an RX 580 8 GB for those 2 more gigs of VRAM that you never thought you needed, until you do. But outside of these nitpicks, I think it's quite a nice budget build.
nice budget gaming is cheap now on AM4, I did new MSI 520A with a second hand(cex £30) Ryzen 3300 with the same nvme, case was a £50ish pounds with a new ram and new PSU and second hand graphic card GTX 980. total price around £350 , this will be my office computer and very light gaming. AM4 give cheap gaming pc for those people on a cheap budget.
I built nearly this (different B450, 1600 instead of 2600x, RX580 instead of 1060) in 2018 because I thought it'd age well as a gaming and content creation PC and honestly, though the upgrade path is fantastic, I haven't bought anything else for it.
Yeah, unless you want to play the modern AAA games, something like that is perfectly fine for 1080p gaming. I only just upgraded my RX 480 a month ago after six years.
well even for 1080p its ruffy^^@@EnglishMike ppl dont understand it, 6cores/16gb of ram aged like spilled milk, for new tripple a games heh would need to build an intirally new machine cuz the foundation of that silly B450 wouldnt allow for a 5900X/RTX 3080 for example, cuz its a cheap psu, cheap case, cheap nvme (probly DRAMLESS-.-) and 16gb of ram would be the same as putting the same parts 5900x/3080 onto an X570S, 64gb of RAM and a Corsair MP600, would be miles better of a complete experience so the upgrade path aint that fantastic as u might think ^^
@@tyonorshapzc7tjfvb7-caz Whet the hell is this comment doing on a channel dedicated to low budget gaming? I think you took a wrong turn somewhere. You don't need a 5900x or 3080 for 1080p gaming. That's just silly.
I build my first ever pc around 2-3 years before ryzen 5 3500 pair with rx 550 2gb Asus Ex-a320 gaming mobo single 8gb ram stick gigabyte 550 80+bronze ant eSports cabinet 256gb nvme 1tb hdd.. basically to do my College/university projects for my degree.. finally passed.. looking for job as soon as I get my first and second salary going to shove a new GPU.. but my rx 550 runs a like a champ in eSports title like valo around 230-250fps average on 1080p low csgo dota2 apex legends.. I enjoy every time I play games on it.. 720p high -1080p low/vlow still a capable card for games like 2017 or lower.. my main priority is to Double the ram stick as fast as I can.. I have 3200mhz CL16 I think coz it written like cl 16-20-20 all the products were new including the mouse keyboard monitor basic speakers cost me around 50k INR 2-3 years ago.. would you suggest me.. did I made a good pc for my first time.. is my CPU capable of doing anything if yes wht is best GPU brand new I can pair with it without bottlenecking.. wht should I upgrade first.. GPU or something else.. ram I on my mind..
7:50 you can have more than two: I bought a SATA power to three header for my next build from aliexpress where you have the one header for rear fan and power for front fans directly from PSU 🥰
nice, but for a much more upgradeable path, you should've scored a motherboard with 4 ram slots with just for a few dollars more. you're capped at 16gb now, unless you replace them with 2x16 sticks. on a four slot, you could just add another pair of 2x8.
I recently upgraded to AM4 for cheap. Found brand new open-box cheap board from biostar, Ryzen 5 1500X and 8GB of the same RAM (just slower at 2666MhZ). AM4 is a great choice for budget builds. U finally moved on from 1155 and i5 2400.
@@Ciffer-1998 It was a weird board that didn't support 3rd gen and old i7s are ridiculously overpriced where I live, so I was better off paying a bit more for what i've got.
thanks a lot although i have a some what similar gpu using an rx 580 an asus rog one my cpu is really old because a relative gave it to me its a A4 6300 so the bottle neck is literally at 60-70% specially on cpu intensive games im planning to upgrade soon so this video really gave me a much more in depth guide specially on the motherboard because i was only planning to get a really cheap a320 board but with this guide it made me think more better on how i can save more in the future upgrades
I got almost the same setup, a 2600, gtx 1060 6gb, 32GB RAM, same SSD and an MSI B450 Gaming Plus MB, these work great combined, and as you mentioned, It's room for upgrade down the line since I just built mine in the past 2 months :D
@@hrvojemilicevic3309 I've currently changed my whole setup, upgraded to new AM4 parts & Graphic card (R5 5600, Aorus B550 Elite, GTX 1070) but the previous parts were pretty cheap when bought because those were used (only SSD & RAM was new) I think I paid like 90-100 Euros for MB, CPU & Graphics Card.
For those that want a bunk for the buck PC with a bit more power, I recommend looking for a GTX 1080 ti, or the AMD 5700 XT, second hand. With the new FSR available on all of these, these two rather old cards still fair very well for 1080p.
hm... i know it's easy to say, but if you have future upgrades in mind then i'd absolutely recommend trying to get a better motherboard. one with a more confidence-inspiring VRM and some heatsinks where it matters
I've had two B450m motherboards for three years. Zero problems with them. Unless you're going to stick a high end 8, 12, or 16 core chip into them, and you're going to try overclocking (which is barely worth it these days) then the lack of heatsinks isn't an issue. I know there was a lot of concern about the issue, but I don't think it's been as big a problem as originally feared, and almost nobody pushes their computers to the limit these days.
