The BEST $250 Gaming PC 2022 - Step-By-Step Guide 

Constructive criticism, when you make a mistake in putting the CPU cooler sideways, mention this. Otherwise if someone buys it and follows you in changing the thermal paste, they may end up putting the cooler sideways like you did and then not notice that you changed it at the end. This will help a lot with CPU temps, otherwise you choke it with no air passing through it.

You guys put the heat sink on the CPU in the opposite direction and that may cause heat issues.. review the video and you can see your error. Love your videos still.....

😍 FINALLYYYYY! I have watched maaaaaany PC build videos by now and this is the FIRST TIME in which I actually HAVE what is featured in the video. The models aren't identical, I think this one might be a bit newer than mine, BUT they look very, very similar inside and out and I got mine last year so I could do this to it. It's got a 480GB SSD in it along with its 1TB hard drive for storage, the same CPU (I believe) and all its missing is the damn graphics card. 😂 Hopefully I will get one for it soon, I love my damn old office PC. It does everything great.

I’ve been waiting for thisssss

I have the HP 8000 ..seem like I might need the same upgrade for my PC.. cool video 😎👍🏽

"Small is fine" I tell myself that everyday.

Great video guys

I have the HP Z220 which is the same as this HP 8300. I put a GTX 1650 LP in it and it works very well.

Would love an evaluation of gamepass for pc on a system like this

Looks at their build. Looks at my little war machine. Happy feelings all around. Always love your budget builds!

You guys should try to do a budget build with good deals on all the parts to see how much price to performance you can get.

For Minecraft, could you test it with optifine or sodium installed? I don’t think anyone plays without one of those and I keep wondering why your frame rate is so low, you should try installing one of those for the benchmark since it’ll make it way more playable for every pc.

How long did it take to find out that the cooler was installed incorrectly? I was wondering how hot the CPU would get but then it was fixed in the next shot! Please do another video with this same PC, incorrectly install the cooler, see what happens, and go through how you troubleshoot the problem. I make mistakes like that all the time, and misery loves company!

I’m not even going to build this it’s just satisfied to watch I don’t know why

2:03 me talking to my gf

One day love your videos

I hope you guys can test out Genshin Impact and what settings this setup can run comfortably on. Another suggestion is to try out Breath of the Wild on Cemu emulator, if that won't cause any problems with RU-vid and Nintendo.

Small is fine That words made my day

Idk nothing about PCs but i have an upgraded optiplex 9010 with 8gb of ram and an intel core i5-3570 cpu 3.40GHz processor and I was wondering if I buy that same graphics card, will it be able to run those same games that you guys tested smoothly?

I know the 6300 and 8300 are quite similar, but can the 6300 be upgraded like this as well?

i literally just got this 🥳

Can you list all the components used? I have this same pc and I want to upgrade it as my first build. Love the channel, subscribed 🙌🏽

How long did it take to figure out the heatsink was installed wrong?

Budget? These bros got you, fam!

I'd like to see a game upgraded HP 280 G2 SFF. It's a nice little machine but it's got it's limits. ie single slot graphics and only 2 sata ports one of which is for the DVD. Where do you go with that?

Not only gaming but that pc can be used to watch movies, surf, do some office work/home work, ect.. great for kids first computer and let them upgrade it.. kids games with run great also.

Did you put the cpu cooler back on right? You would think the finsd would face the fan shroud, that way air is drawn through the fins. The way you put it in, looks sideways. Makes too much sense, but hey it's Compac.

Would it run emulators well? Like Nox Bluestacks etc?

I have the exact same PC but with a gt 1030 and a Kingston ssd and I can play valorant and fortnite perfectly

Can you do a vertical monitor gaming review I can't seem to find one. I'm saving for a triple monitor vertical set up for gaming but no one really has done a review on this can you?

Great video guys. Would there ever be a reason for someone to consider buying an FX8320 based system? I've had mine for almost two years and it's not a bad system. I never see videos on this CPU anymore and was curious as to why.

I think you guys should do a budget build that plays vr games...

I fee l likke you should test rust on the buget pc

Would a RX 560LP be plug and play as well with this HP system?

please do test more games on this machine

there is a thing called hard drive cloning software you can use and some are free so always do not have to re-install windows

hey toasty bros, i have a question, idk if you know the answer but i have a amd radeon rx 570, and it performs really bad, it will drop bellow 60 fps on fortnite, all of my pc cost about 1,000 dollars and my cpu is a ryzen 5 2600x so it shouldn’t bottleneck from the cpu, i was just wandering if there was any way that you know i could fix it, i am on performance mode when i play fortnite, and it’s just really frustrating, iv tried a variety of other pc tweets and adjusting radeon software settings and nothing seems to help:/ but anyways thanks and have a good day!

Ive actually got an Optiplex 9010 MT with an i7 3770 im wondering what graphics card i can get.

this would be great for ProMod or SM2

i have a dell optiplex 390 any suggestions as to what i can upgrade it with

lol, you block the airflow which is coming through the fan I mean you mounted the heat sink by the other side feel bad for the Cpu :(

I did that same thing today with a gt103

You fixed the cooler orientation but something was off in your benchmarks... I've ran one of these for almost 3 years as my daily driver with a 1050 Ti and my I7 3770 CPU never got that hot, even during CineBench tests. Most likely the front fan needs to be replaced (and the PSU actually uses the same size fan, 92mm one. Just be careful with the orientation, HP was tricky here).

use Sodium and fabric loader when showcasing minecraft helps a lot for optimization and FPS

Hello am having hp Compaq tower I upgrade to 20gb ram, gpu gtx 1070 Asus but am having a slow network and good speed test

The hq first gaming pc u showed me is the EXACT pc I had at my school it was monitors and that in the library we had laptops too but they were better plus every teacher had them in there classroom it’s just giving me memories because we would put it on the side and put the monitors on it 😂 Edit: reading this back it’s not a gaming pc lul

Great video! Thanks for the No filler, No BS Content! You both def know what ur doing and explain it in a way anyone can understand imo. My mom is 71 and she understands how y'all say it better than when I explain it. Haha My question is, what kind of build would work for me if I literally only want (NEED) to play XCOM 2 WOTC with Mods... That game alone is why I'm switching to PC from console, it's my favorite game hands down by far, on the Xbox one. But no mod support is garbage trash and it actually runs pretty decent til about 2/3 game... Then it's a nice crash fest once every 2-2.5 hrs. I want to run XCOM 2 with Long war 2 and WOTC with LongWOTC and not have the issues. Currently I have a Dell optiplex 3040 with the Pentium G4400 in it and no gpu, only 4 gigs of ram, ddr3 also... Lol I installed it and ran just Xcom2/LW2 and played gate crasher. I was prepared for a long mission but this was like a slide show LMFAO... It took about 2.5 hours to finish gate crasher and as much as I love Xcom2 and want to experience the amazingness of the longwar overhauls... Not gonna do that. I hate the pixel graphics trend, it's not immersive at all for me. So I definitely can't condone slideshow Xcom and I need your help more than I've ever needed help with anything before... BTW Gaming keeps me sober, I quit alcohol over 5 years ago and without my Xbox I'd have definitely relapsed and prolly be dead right now... Gaming took me to the place where I could actually manage it and the harder, more strategic the game, and the more I need to use the thinking part of my brain while gaming, the less difficult it was to to bypass cravings and manage triggers. So yeah, this is huge for me and I need to make the switch to PC, I just don't have 4k for a top ender... I don't have 1k either. I'm looking at around $500. So far I've struck out, I've really brainstormed and learned a lot, from you Bros Toasty, Linus Tech and Kyle Bitwit, I've been the tech Specialist at an independent record label for over 2 decades as well so I'm comfortable with building my own. Definitely. My constraint is money. So I have $500 and an Xbox One S hahaha guide me to the Gaming PC world and I'll put a plug out on my channel for you guys... My professional channel just hit 100k and I got a plaque haha definitely 100k new fans for y'all cuz they're not part of this world regularly but I bridge that gap haha. Anyways thanks again guys! Awesome vids and hope you guys drop a savage budget build option as a reply comment. P.S. I've really been tossing around the idea of a mini PC like The minis forums or beelinks and an external GPU... Cuz versatility per price point. But am I trippin or would that work maybe? -PiFF

can i upgrade my pc? its rlly old so im wondering - i5 2500 - geforce 210 - 4gb ram - 500gb ssd

Kinda avoided subscribing because you guys never show on-screen text in your videos and I'm not always using sound. But I'm definitely subbing because of this video.

I Got an pc with gtx 970 evga and i7 4790 with 12 gb ram i have upgraded that to 16 and a new fan i love it my total is 250 dollar

Could you do Everquest 1 and Everquest 2?

Do a video of a buget gaming pc focused around minecraft,terraria please!!!!

Can it handle streaming while gaming?

Would this be able to run rocket league good in performance mode?

Why the pcie x4 is that big ? Should it be shorter ?

What screwdriver do they use?

Can I use this pc to Adobe premiere pro cc and after effect 2021?

Epic.

Where can we buy this pc?

if i put in the rx 550 do i have to uninstall the integrated graphics

where does one place the Lexar NM620?

Questions can it record 1080 60 fps video in obs with capter card for console recordings cause I want to record footage of my nintendoswitch and ps4 60fps ?

Test a shooting game in roblox to see the performance. I am playing on laptop currently and some game can be quite laggy at time, I am new to pc and just want to test and see how I like it. Would love to see more videos of this budget pc before buying

2:03 Thanks man 😭

CAN 2 GPUS Fit?

Could I put ddr4 ram into this Computer?

I’m still gonna watch this vid tho

I love how they are advertising fancy ram on a $250 rig

could you use a 1050ti instead of the rx 550??

Im a bit late but even a 660 760 is around the price of the rx550, but gives a bit more performance even with less vram.. at least by prices right now

Yes but the rx 550 lp is hard to find in Germany, so can a normal rx 550 card work✋

looks like you fixed the sideways cooler off video good deal lmao.

Can i add a 1650 ti and a new case??

Lovely

If the old drive still has windows 10 pro you are wasting a free license by doing a fresh install to your dad. Use macrium reflect to clone the HDD to the SSD. This takes a long time due to the bottleneck of the HDD but it is totally worth it to use the license you already paid for. Another consideration is that the license number is on a sticker on these prebuilts. You're welcome

Could u buy this but remove the parts and put it in a normal case?

Would I be fine to play warzone without problems?

Mine just got wrecked 2 weeks ago just because the Ram sticks overloaded the motherboard. I just gave up.

Can you do valorant and cs go in the next video with this please

In our country you can get a used system for 116 dollars ( including shipping ) the specs are : Cpu : i3 540 Gpu : Gtx 560 ( small chance seller will give you a ti ) Ram : 4g ( they didnt say what the speed is ) Im saving up for it then im buying 2 4gig ram sticks with the fastest speed the motherboard can handle do you think that its worth it?

Toasty bros I found a deal that is better then the budget gaming pc is a dell optiplex 3050 you find some for 120 to 200 and it has a core I5 6th gen and it a good deal for cheap and have more of a upgrade path and play some higher end games and add a ssd to make it faster

Could you do a cheap PC that can run almost all new Lego games..?

Would you get the same FPS with the i5 3470?

bro did i have to buy all the things u guys mention

Does anyone know what pc parts I should get for a 1000$ pc

saw a woman getting rid of a dozens of these to the recycle center some months back, i should have asked for a few

Can someone explain how Fortnite runs at 140fps with minimum stutters on an I5 3570 and a gt 1030 (oc) and 4 gigs, yes only four gigs of ram (granted it has an ssd) 🤯 i built that sistem 3 years ago and i can't believe how powerful it really is 😲

Can you guys benchmark rust the survival game

can this psu handle rx 6400?

I got a budget of 370$ and im trying to get a pc could someone recommend what to do and btw only games I want to play are valorant and minecraft not high end games

Why dont you guys try to find an Dell Xps 8500 or Dell Xps 8700 system to upgrade? Those are underrated systems that people have slept on. I've flipped more than two dousins of those for easy profits. Just add in a gtx 1060 and you're golden.

You guys should make it 16gb ram

A year later, you can do even better. The RX 5500 XT being $110 really helps

i run i7 3770 with a gtx 1650 4gb

I mean it's good for a workstation or running a virtual machine

I would say test this build in dead by daylight rust red dead redemption 2 apex legends

Next build How to game using potato and gpu in 4K.

can you do a $450 pc that can run halo better

The gt710 would be a good cpu to put in this build

Will this pc setup play gta5