How To Build a $500 Gaming PC in 2018 

Nssy x me

me

me also.untill i realise i don,t have the money ..:)

Already built mine.

Nssy planning to

how did watching desktop personal computer building videos turn from that all the way into a nasa computer? either you're a genius or delusional, I'm betting on delusional

also nasa computers are not meant to be the most advanced, they simply need to be reliable in space

r/woosh

@@SebastianRodriguez-dp9ch not whoosh, simply he doesn't understand that NASA doesn't necessarily use the world most advanced computers. Maybe get yourself educated boy

LMAOOO

William help me build a pc . I sold my ps4 pro because it was gay . But I hAve no idea what I would be doing building a gaming pc. I just want to play fort nite properly

@@xTriangle you're watching a video on how to build...

xTriangle dude ps4 pro can play fortnite at 4k 60fps how much better do you want

@xTriangle Completely agree. When the video was at 70% I was like, why am I watching this... PS: I'm a computer technician !!

Ive been building my own since AMD's 386/40. It's interesting to see what build choices others make and I often learn something.

I too remember using a screw driver to short the start switch, but that was way back when. Now I use a hammer...hahaha

i scrapped by on the mother of all potato pc's for 5 yrs, i do miss my potato, i miss the 24 frames per second :( then my grandad died and i bought a £800 gaming pc, and now 90fps hurts my eyes lol, i miss the stutter :)

I bought my PC in 2013. AMD Athlon II X3 455 3.3 GHz, DDR3 4 GB , AMD Radeon 6670 1GB. 500 GB HDD. I bought it for 250 $. It is time for new one.

ikr

i know right, its just so satisfying to watch

yeah, I guess it's really the whole process and parts that um...A M A Z E me

sorry, I had to put the spaced out meme words in. it gets to me

the time of typing this comment, I still never finished watching this video...1 MONTH LATER boi

Good stuff. Use all the remaining compatable weak bits for a new pc to use as a basic or nas or something.

WOW! With all your hard work, you gonna have to know your son will love it!

Hope your son likes it 🙂

Lmaooo

lol

But but but... I have a thing where I never remove the plastic film. #triggered 🤣

that makes no sense. why would they miss out on $$$ ? it snot like they're cheaper in bulk.

GotischerFFx Because the mining customers aren't reliable customers. Selling to them may be good in the short term, but it hurts in the long term because youre alienating your usual customers.

Still doesn't make sense to me. If there is a new customer base, especially if you know why, you raise inventory accordingly. Hiding product will greatly reduce sales from both sets of customers.

Fry's =/= known for their good customer-facing experience. *shrug*

I don’t get why mining customers buy in store anyway. They could just order bulk online.

@casiotechI Do you still have that nearly antique computer? :-)

This guy CANT PLAY MODERN GAMES, only crappy app type games: FAIL: You shouldn't call this a gaming computer because it has an APU. A real gaming computer MUST HAVE a dedicated card! A cheap RX550 card (Under $100) would blow this computer out of the water and still keep your build under $500.. I built a REAL GAMING COMPUTER for under $500 with the following items: AMD - Ryzen 3 2200G 3.5 GHz Quad-Core Processor , G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 8 GB (2 x 4 GB) DDR4-2133 Memory (This guy claims this RAM is well over $100?? I paid well under), Inland - Professional 120 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($21.99) , Hitachi - Deskstar 7K2000 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (I could have paid less if I bought 1TB), Gigabyte - B450 AORUS PRO WIFI (rev. 1.0) ATX AM4 Motherboard (I could have paid less but I wanted built in wifi), PowerColor - Radeon RX 550 - 640 2 GB Video Card (I paid $89 on ebay-NEW), DIYPC - Solo-T1-BK ATX Mid Tower Case ($30 new egg), Corsair - CX (2017) 450 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (I could have paid less but it came out to $30 after rebate), LG - UH12NS40 Blu-Ray Reader, DVD/CD Writer (I could have paid less but I wanted bluray and it was less than $50, this guy has no optical?!?) -- My total was around $480 after tax!!!!!!!!! Maybe i'll start making youtube videos - lol

Instead of splurging on a SSD and 16 GB system memory, he could have gone with a high performance hard drive and 8 GB memory. The money saved would be plenty for a proper graphics card. The results would have been better. (Even in 2018, very few games actually require more than 8GB system memory.)

It's not a bad build really. If it had a budget motherboard and case instead of overpriced mini parts you could have twice the ram and a cheap cooler to overclock it.

What games are you able to play on that set up may I ask? Like diablo, PoE, stuff like that? @ Aileen Chapman

But some don't have the luxury of an Xbox AND a PC!

Lol this ages extremely well

Can you type your homework on that?

@@SuperNoeld 😂

well, you kinda can, but that's gonna be your build

Yeah CPU: $150 GPU: $200 RAM: $60 Mobo: $60 Case+PSU+ Storage: $90 = So around $550 Those were the days....

Well you can if you go with both a used oem PC(like a i5 Sandy bridge Dell, or a 4c/8t Xeon westmere Dell like a t3500) around 100$ and a RX 480 around 300-400$ used still sucks but can be made to work and should rarely bottleneck the GPU and should never go under 60fps avg at 1080p(which is what you should have for a monitor at this budget)

Sheena1234ization dont know what case and psu AND storage youre getting for just $90 but i certaintly dont want it. 1tb hard drive is 50 alone, and since most will want an ssd of at least 120 gb, add another 45ish (good 120gb ssds used to be cheap) or 70ish for a 240. A minimum of like $35 for the psu and most should probably spend at least 40-50 on a case

Mathew Billy Stop buying overpriced Western Digital drives then

Feels a bit weird hearing Paul talking in such basic terms, but I get it. I just pretend I'm hearing it all for the first time, too.

@Emile - Same here, but I was curious about the APU and then perhaps later integrating a GPU. Looks great in 4K!

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demonpride1975 what benchmark I'm new at this

@a2x gaming any benchmark tool that gives you in depth examination of how the hardware setup works. like haven is a good benchmark program. heck even sites like can you run it. it would give better insight for people who don't want to spend a ridiculous amount of money like i did for my build.

demonpride1975 I don't understand still

Cpu = life of pc Ram = speed fps performance Graphics card = self explanatory Case = >:]

@@SageDucko smart very smart😏

he meant that a graphic card that should cost 250 cause of inflation cost 1000

My 1080 sli was the best investment sold one made profit on both

This isn't a bad option to go. You can get cheap Prebuilt PCs with decent processors and memory on the cheap, then toss in your own GPU and you'll have a decent rig. Just need to be mindful of the power supply, which isn't very expensive either.

Why do you curse bitcoin?

Juan Alonso *dinkleberg

Step 1: Buy Bitcoin 1 year ago Step 2: Now sell Bitcoin and use the gains to buy a higher end PC than you could possibly have gotten a year ago, and laugh at those complaining about hardware prices caused by cryptocurrency/shortages

CortMarshal you missed step 0: build a time machine

dan dan yeah under the desk

Ye

dan dan lol

Yepp lol

That was a dog? For a moment I thought we'd have to call in the space marines for a bug hunt... =p

thank you!!

No Paul, thank *you* :)

IBitePrettyHardSH so this apus are worthless ?

Well after you build a pc, you are always told to get the latest downloads first anyway...

Amd will send you a boot kit if you need one

Yea and announced they’ll send you a boot kit which is basically a a compatible cpu so you can do all the updates. And it’s free

Jacob Vega how do you get the boot kit?

AMDs get really hot especially at speeds like that so its better to invest in a cooler if you go this route imo

Leopoldo Hernandez no,that was a long time ago,this day amd more cool than before,and his stock cooler more better than intel cooler.

@@user-yf3nw2wq9d Back in the days we saw so many fried Amds, that we didn't even bothered looking at it, but fast forward now, it's looking too tempting to try, I think I will stick and strictly advise with a better psu for an amd rig, I heard they are providing good stock coolers for their CPUs so that might not be necessary. How is the drivers and software compatibility with games? Issues there?

@@samhigh81 i have a 2200g and it stays well below 50c with just the stock cooler it runs fine.

Peter Tan so sad so true... I haven’t built a PC since 2007, and it cost me $1200 back then. I just spent $2000 in the past 2 weeks building my new one. Then another $180 on fun new toys like a mod mat, and a test bench. pcpartpicker.com/list/cstMnH

Gtx 780 3gb 200 dollars on ebay Gtx 670 2gb 120-100 dollars on ebay Rx 560 (new 4gb) 170 bucks around the internet R9 280 2gb Around 120 bucks on ebay Gtx 770 2gb(4 if lucky) 100 bucks on ebay All of these cards have near or better performance than a GTX 1050 ti at a fraction of the rediculous cost. I beg to differ

Lil chapstick aka yung dimentia I’d be careful buying used cards now though. You never want to by a card that was used for mining.

dude no one used 770s on mining or at least the kind of mining that damages gpus nor a 670 either i think or the simple r9 280 with 2gb

what if you're a 720p gamer?

some of us don't want a hueg case eating the real estate on our desk.

@@bkisme Have you considered putting it somewhere else?

Monitor is definitely obsolete after time.

Humza Ali look at the apu review videos it will be about the same

If he did that then he would get too many dislikes cause he used an apu and no gpu so it wouldnt run very good

I agree...Maybe he should screw it to the bottom of his new case

Luke Parker Why

Truth Pill cause everything costs alot rn idk if costs are going down yet cause i wanna upgrade

Windows 7 was better $89 for an OS *Cries in Budget build*

DatSkrub im new to this stuff im jist wondering cause i have a radeon r7 360 and i wanna get a gtx 1060 would that work? I had a graphic card previous to upgrade si that means i have to right port right?

Windows 7 was better Im pretty new to this as well, i would suggest checking out some forum sites like Tom's Hardware.

I added my gtx 1050 to my rig when I have a apu it overrides it and only uses the 1050.

on older AMD cpus you could use an APU and a GPU of the same architecture in crossfire but that is no longer the case with raven ridge(ryzen CPU lineup). with ryzen APUs you can either use a discrete GPU or an APU but not both.

Rx550 and a 1400 ryzen destroys that for same price you lose ssd but only mathers in charging time fps are the same and to play lol you have to wait for people on hhd charge to start so.... This video is like how to put together the free stuff I get from partners. Not take seriously the set up cause for this price you can get much better..... The ssd on this cooler tells you that this is a medion(mediamarket brand) computer no gaming.

AMD has dualfire I think it's called for certain integrated graphics card where it can use both at once.

no it would blow up

a miners utopia man

The AMD has integrated graphics.

@@aliasgarr we know but it isn't even as powerful as like a rx550 or GeForce 1030

Jacket Spice if you could still play current games then it shouldn't be an issue.

@@willn8664 I know but just about any dedicated graphics would be better

I sure hope graphics card come back into stock

nVidia announced they're going to make mining specific cards now too, so hopefully that'll take the load off the consumer graphics card market.

Unfortunately mining specific cards won't be purchased by miners in the same way because they want to burn the GPU to ash and then resell it to re-cooperate some of the investment costs a mining card couldn't b resold as easily so they won't bother with them. And when, not if, crypto currencies get regulated with taxes and such and the bottom drops out the best thing we gamers can do is to leave all those greedy selfish bastards holding every single card they bought by only buying new and buy nothing used cause you can't trust any of them to not be mined on.

Vyacheslav Ivanov You were lucky to get a 1060....I got stuck with an RX 560....all they had at the time. At least I didn't really overpay for it, got it pretty close to MSRP thanks to their BYO deal. Still, more power would definitely have been welcomed.

Michael Livote what's a micro center?

Sad fucking truth.

I live in Canada kid, my computer struggled just loading your comment... The Struggle is Real Folks

It was in reference to the cost of a decent Pc in Canada

Bhahaha You haven't looked at prices in over a year hahahaha

Dominic Cerisano Latest Corsair RGB gear, yeah, if you need that? His community, only needing that 1080Ti every 2 to 4 years, not needing anything else, cheap parts, a cheap non bottlenecking CPU motherboard combo is good Paul!!!!, its LEGO!!! No 1080Ti level cards now on the market, so stop building Paul, sell them PS4 hardware now, building shit for that now, a new PS4 case, cooling that gear! delitted Jaguar high end PS4!!!!!!!

i builded, can play 1080 high esports and i can also run crysis xd

K2_SLAYER_ *Hey you*

Mr. WaffleZZZ 8Ball ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

you can over clock the ryzen 3 and it will play pretty much anything with at least console level graphics and it gets you by until you can afford to add a gpu. I did something similar I just got a rosewil nautilus case and evga 500w 80 plus white psu instead of his case and psu and love it. the thing did fine and got me by until I was able to grab a evga gtx 1050ti ftw and it does everything I want it to and more, but im not really a power user just modern gaming and light editing and a little light work station use.

I did. 8 gb ram GTX 1050ti. And ryzen 5

Chances are Paul didn't have the Bios revision issue since this B350 mobo was provided to him by AMD

You'll need an AM4 Motherboard that's "Raven Ridge ready", basically one that ships with an updated BIOS for 2200G/2400G support. If your Mobo isn't updated, you have options to update it like taking it to a PC shop or even having AMD "lend" you a 2017 Ryzen CPU that you can install to update the BIOS (and then return). I'll go over some more advice for this & options in the follow-up video, thanks for the comment!

love the vid

Yikes what a weird thing for AMD to do.

Dee Films, What CPU are you using, as long as it has integrated graphics you can use your computer without a discrete graphics card.

they were using a gimbal, their problem was crazy jumping autofocus. need to get on top of that so it doesnt keep jumping from point to point and making the shot blurry

MonoType I'm dead bike power xD

XDDDDD

I put my computer in the window cuz I can't afford a fan :( Lmao jk

Actually I'll have you know .. Potatoes run quite fast...

Prey Rez yeah. 200 Mhz

POWERTEAM9988 Cool, did you have any compatibility issues?

B350 for OC would be for me and 3000+hz RAM

Ultimate_Input none at all and I have been able to run fortnite at 60fps on med

lower the settings. In fps games your frames > your video settings

Can you overclock Vega on A320?

Aj Francis *pre applied to the heatsink ;)

He used his tears

Already on the cooler

Ialso thought it should have at least be mentioned in a tutorial type build

Gtx 780 3gb 200 dollars on ebay Gtx 670 2gb 120-100 dollars on ebay Rx 560 (new 4gb) 170 bucks around the internet R9 280 2gb Around 120 bucks on ebay Gtx 770 2gb(4 if lucky) 100 bucks on ebay All of these cards have near or better performance than a GTX 1050 ti at a fraction of the rediculous cost. Take your pick

Meh you can still build something half decent for $500 if you're patient or use used gpu... You can easily snipe an old 970 for $200 sometimes

Idtelos I built a 770 4gb build for 200$ LUL

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I'll probably give it a try, looks like fun 😁

lol me and my friend were looking for a game like that

Hunt The slugger24 me

busywl69 but will it run paint and minesweeper?

And also GTA 5...

YeezyMoney got u message me i will let u know

That Random sub hey I don’t know how to message you, could you maybe just drop it here? Thanks a lot man

Hey man I’m not going to build this pc there is a video he did in his channel if u want to check it out but I’m building a better pc which can run fortnite pretty high if u want a link or the channel I can send u too that one

That Random sub that would great, thanks again in advance

That Random sub Can you send me that link too

The apu will need more ram than just cpu but 8 would prob be ok

8 is not enough today

@@forrift7845 It is for minimum settings of 2019

yes!

no wayyyyy i always tough it was your hardware name ! lol

not Santos El Halper?

Hardware may be his last name, or his nickname on a frisky Friday night "let me take a look at your hardware honey"

No, it's Darude Sandstorm.

Bufferzz Mr. Vega graphics are pretty decent and you can get windows for free,the only thing is you will have a water mark on your bottom right

For $10-$20 you can order a key# for Windows and boom legal Windows. I do this and never had an issue

where do you get the install files for windows?

Clearly he said the Ryzen APU (Accelerated Processing Unit) or what you probably refer as the CPU has ONBOARD Vega graphics which Paul clearly said, meaning it's the graphics WITH the APU. A very thoughtful thing AMD did for us budget folks so we don't need a GPU to work with and currently at 2018 is QUITE expensive. Maybe clear out your ears and have some attention span for once and you'll probably save some bucks and learn something. The Windows bit is all up to you, some people can get a free copy into a USB from going to a internet cafe and install it into your new PC or just pay for a few bucks more for a real one on a USB. It's not hard to be flexible you know? Someone built 80-90% of the puzzle for you and all you gotta do is just fill in the other pieces in yourself, no biggie. *slaps lightly on your face* Alright big boy?

Just play your games on bios. You dont need windows

LOL

Not him but looks similar

>rig

not to mention $100 bucks for windows installation

???? who pays $100 for Windows? I have pro keys for

Torque You can get a windows installer off of Microsoft's website for free and just put it on a USB. You could also buy a windows 7 key for $10 and upgrade to windows 10 for free. The only thing the free version of windows doesn't allow you to do is change the home screen background.

How?

by increasing gpu prices supply and demand etc.

Obama is Gay can someone please explain what bitcoin has to do with graphics cards that were made for gaming? I dont get it.

@@spookytheblackcat7416 New graphics card are more demanded bacause of mining,so because they are so wanted prices go up,and better more powerful GPUs need a good PSU,so prices go up for them too,and that also explains why older cards are cheap,because they are not good for minig but for budget gaming.An example being the GTX 750 ti.

Obama is Gay crypto currency aficionados could not be farther from commies in the political spectrum but ok

alex b Kind of. Set to medium graphics if u have graphics card installed. 60fps i think? Should run easy i think.

50 FPS at the lowest settings... Maybe... Pubg is optimised terribly

zeckmon3 zeckee I've got a better computer than this and it just runs medium settings 60fps

That guy Lol i play pubg at highest setting fps 100-120 quality 1080 easily Ive checked task manager while i was playing and its at 90% gpu usage. Pretty cool :3 But i recommend you set it to medium settings cuz fps.

zeckmon3 zeckee specs?