This $500 Budget Gaming PC Is AWESOME 

Can't believe you have done this.

We need more benchmarks plz

I'm sure Colton is gonna get fired for this

YOU, yes YOU RUINED MY LIFE with THIS mistake Linus😭😭😭😭

This is a life altering mistake

MSRP is irrelevant and will be until the market as a whole normalizes.

Years after launch and close to replacement too

not for so long. just keep praying that crypto will crash so hard

rtx 2060 was 350$ msrp tho.

@@ryanwallace983 Why all the miners are dumping them now. By the time the market is back up the newer and more profitable cards will be out.

He sold a 6600xt to me for $600

Scrapyard Wars? No offense, but I believe the UK version was Scrapheap Challenge, and the US version was Junkyard Wars. I loved that show so much.❤️

@@SyzygyNoon ScrapYard Wars was Linusses own format of this Show but with PC gaming in mind

@@linsetv I stand corrected.🙂

Scrapyard wars was so good, i miss those

A even R9 270x or GTX 660ti type of graphics card will let you play at least at high settings above 30fps: Hard West, XCOM2, GTA V, Wasteland 2, Tides of Numenera, Disco Elysium, STALKER games, Starcraft II HotS, Wasteland 2, Dragon Age Inquisition, Dying Light, E.Y.E. Divine Cybermancy, Endless Space 2, Stardrive 2, Crusader Kings II, EU IV, Planescape, KOTOR II, VTMB, Homeworld Deserts of Kharak and Homeworld 2 remake, Outlast 2, Pathologic, Satellite Reign, Tropico 6 (and every other Tropico game), Cities Skylines, Fortnite, Dawn of War II, Company of Heroes 2, The Division, Battletech, Call of Cthulhu, Dishonored series, Endzone a World Apart, maybe Farcry 5 (and anything less recent), Darkest Dungeon, SOMA, >Observer, F.E.A.R. 2, Amid Evil, Dusk, Seven, Grim Dawn, Gris, Journey, Thea 2, WH40k Mechanicus, Little Nightmares, Magic the Gathering Arena, Mafia, No Man's Sky, Stygian, STASIS, This War of Mine, CSGO, Sunless Sky, Opum Magnus, Cliff Empire, Battlefleet Gothic Armada 2, Atom RPG, Cliff Empire, Cultist Simulator, South Park, Darkwood, Alien Isolation, Eurotruck Simulator 2, Galactic Civilization III, Metro 2033, Deadspace 2, Fallout New Vegas, Tyranny, Dungeons 2, Doom (2016), Microsoft Flight Simulator X, Kerbal Space Program, Elite: Dangerous, and basically pretty much any game Ssethtzeentach, Mandalore, and Grimbeard talks about among many others. So yeah go ahead and tell me you can't find good games to play on cheap old hardware))) That's to say, it may not run the newest games but older games don't keep requiring better and better hardware to play at 1080p, and, that's to say, there's some not only GREAT titles out there but also you can literally game a bunch of those at 1080p on even a R9 380 or GTX 780 on ultra settings provided it's got the API support and doesn't run out of VRAM (this makes nVidia sucks at this, bad Vulkan support and limited VRAM makes their cards worth much less than used Radeon cards) so, so long it doesn't require 4gb+ of VRAM and it doesn't require DirectX 12, and doesn't matter to you gaming at 1080p, you can play pretty much anything on $100 graphics cards so long it's not Cyberpunk or Red Dead Redemption 2 or something. Linus did a great video about this too, where some of them age really badly more from bad API/driver support. But, even then I can liteally play The Witcher 3 at 1080p with a GTX 660ti at medium or high settings and get playable fps, so who give a fuck. Or, a used gaming laptop with an old GTX 970m, or a Radeon 270x, or if you have R9 380x or 980ti or RX 470, you can play at even higher settings and higher framerate. This is what the corpos doesn't want you knowing about: you don't actually need to have the highest end or even new hardware at all to have a really great time playing great games.

Wow, thats basically exactly my old rig that I bought back in 2019! Its great, you're going to love it. Only reason I even upgraded my GPU is because of AI & Rendering and thats it.

damn, nice find

If you ever decide you want to game with that you can slot in a used 10s series card and be off to the races

@@llynxfyremusic 590 more than enough

This quote is going down in the history books XD

As an ex-field engineer... I can confirm.

The good old "can't replace unless damaged" eh?

Percussive maintenance tends to fall either at the very beginning or very end of things... in the beginning, its THIS IS IN MY WAY at the end its like, well, I can break this more so I can replace it, or knock something either back into place or loose, and maybe it will work. Just don't leave boot prints in the printer, voids your warranty :)

nothing some lube cant fix if u know what i mean..

Yeah. I’m selling my Xbox and building a pc lmao

@@vollkerball1 Why would it? These are completely normal temps. A single fan doesn't suck anywhere near as much air to cause a problem. PSUs are built to handle acting as an exhaust.

@@vollkerball1 Trust me, it won't.

@@vollkerball1 That 650W psu will probably run at 50% of its capacity during load with this configuration so it should stay cool enough even when acting as an exhaust.

It doesn’t help enough in that case.

@@vollkerball1 It already went through suffering from the miner's rigs

I think I know what you mean. Donut media has a show where they do something like that with used car sites

basically scrapyard wars?

not sure if new viewer or making a joke but they already did the idea they have a series on it i'ts scrapyard wars

@@bigassmf1923 You missed “old school”.

Return of Scrapyard Wars! Go for it!

Compared to me spending around 600+ for a Ryzen 5 3400G build using integrated graphics about 2 years ago, its a pretty sweet deal.

@DestructiveEnergy well 70%+ of viewers are probably from the EU and US area

@@notpaulmacca lol i did the same and put my old 980ti strix in it after replacing the psu.

What's to gamble with second hand hardware? If it breaks within first 30 days (you should have it stress tested and know any problems by then) you get a full refund with eBay?

@DestructiveEnergy Doubtful in the EU either. Not quite, at least. The EU rarely is able to match US prices.

Isn't that how it usually goes other than the last 2 years?

@@akiraigarashi2874 Pretty much. The bar got kicked real low by the GPU shortage. Though there are some mildly concerning trends in the upper tiers where cards are becoming significantly more power hungry with each generation in order to keep showing the expected improvement (and justify their price tag).

At the moment, I'd say 800 for a new parts system you want to last

Yeah its morbing time

I reckon you could probably make a half decent 1440p machine for around 700

Depending what all you expect out of such deal, even 850 might be that area nowadays.

My sweet spot for an entire system has been about 1500 with monitors etc. Last build was a 3600 and 5700xt and twin viotek 32in monitors

You nailed it, has that good times vibe here again.

Same

did you use this build because i wanna know if its worth it

I agree, and think they could do builds for different price points, too.

100%. I'm personally just happy they seem to be shifting away from videos about Linus' living room and back to content everyone can get on board with

I am currently gaming on an AMD Phenom II X6 1100t. However, the bottleneck with my 1060 3gb is real. But yes, new budget PC every now and then would be AWESOME.

yeah

yes

Funniest thing is I actually had to do the same thing to that case. It's a great case with nice features, but that metal fold is a problem!

I hope that embarrassed Gigabyte into fixing that case soon. Such a big content creator just slaughtering the front of the case was absolutely hilarious to watch.

Whats the video?

Yep things no person who has just barely afforded a pc would ever even think of doing

@@jinx8624 If you haven't seen that video the whole point was that the case had like no airflow, and he was so mad at the case maker that he drilled giant holes in the front in front of the fans just to get airflow. He wasn't suggesting anyone do that with their brand new rig, he was saying not to buy such a stupidly designed case in the first place. Same could really be said for this case, there's no reason they couldn't have designed it with just a bit more airflow in the front and budget gamers shouldn't have to deal with that lack of care

thats a cool story

I love linus's energy, however I can't help but get annoyed every time they make this kind of video. Whoever they have in charge of buying these parts as if they are the best deals isn't very good or aware of the best products for the price. Like saying your only storage options at the $55 price range is the P2 or SN570 or even worse an HDD... When you can get an XPG SX8200 Pro for the exact same price which has a DRAM cache and MUCH faster writes. Or for $5 more you could get a WD Black SN770 which would blow all of those options out of the water.. GPU is preference but I would rather get a 1080 over a 2060 as it gives more raw performance and more vram for the exact same price used. Sad to see people already forgetting about one of the best GPU lineups ever made just because it doesn't do raytracing or DLSS

@@pcmasterracetechgod5660 agreed linus doesn't really care and its all crappy deals on new parts anyways, if you really wanted to make a 500$ bang for your buck pc you'd go ebay used for everything except maybe storage and power supply

@@elijahevo6859 are you for real? He went out of his way to make arrangements with manufacturers to sell through his company GPUs at msrp.

@@pcmasterracetechgod5660 he forgot about sata 2.5” ssds as a whole

@@jamesbarlett246 yes I'm for real, for 500$ that computer sucked

Nice! Congrats. Yeah I'd say older GPUs going 3-5 generations back is really great for 1080p, only TDP become an issue when you find really inefficient 980ti and have to reconsider PSU setup like on reusing the dangerbox on an XPS or Optiplex to power everything with 460w, otherwise 980ti/1070 for $100 is where the market is at now and it can well play almost anything you throw at it. 4k RT is memes. Costly memes, made out of caviar and gold toilet seats. For normal people a really fantastic gaming laptop or desktop rig can be had for $300-400 using used parts. If my laptop can play Witcher 3 at least at 40fps on high settings I am happy with it)

Enjoy your ascension!

Good for you! You're going to save a lot on games being cheaper, and now more former exclusives are coming to PC, too!

WAIT A BIT BRO the RX 6600 non XT and XT are the best price to performance gpus in the market atm and don't bottleneck the i3-12100f

welcome to the club, soon

Save a bit more and get a better case than the one in this vid so you can continue using it as you upgrade to more power hungry parts

You do you know if this will run gtav with mods??

@@Ghost-vd5mc Yea it should be able to play GTA 5, I saw a video of this GPU playing at 1440 Very High getting around 70-80 fps. So with the weaker CPU you should be getting probably about 55-60fps which is really good

@@MrPicklepod thanks a lot bro,do you think if I add car and clothes mods it could still run it ok?

@@Ghost-vd5mc Yea it should still run great, especially if you're just using a standard 1080p monitor then you're gonna have a ton of headroom to install mods

@@Ghost-vd5mc bruh a potato could run gta💀

"splurge"

@@soupdev3309 thats a pretty good word for his context ngl

i try so hard.. i can get enough.. dont know what it is about this linux tech tips.. but i like it i love it....

bee movie irl

That’s what pee said

of course he means the ltt mearch

Make it hurt, crypto miner, make it hurt!

Only problem I see is I'm not sure he dropped anything.

I don't know, Linus slaughtered the competition in Halo during that Gamer GPU tournament thingy they did a while back. I think he's better at FPSs then he leads on.

@@Nagol93 okay then I need to find this and watch it! Thanks for letting me know!

@@kg4wwn he dropped into that lava pretty good

@@Nagol93 A large part of him sucking at games is probably he sucking at playing and trying to follow a script/talk to an audience at the same time. Watching something like a GDQ (which has honestly felt a bit weak in recent years) some speed runners can talk and play impressively well at the same time while others will have a team of people that have at least some knowledge of the game to explain things. Even with a team they rarely do their best while playing at an event because it's harder to focus.

same

They discussed it on a WANshow. Linus is too famous at this point. They'd have to use proxies.

new contestants

Make the guys who don't make a lot of appearances do the buying

I was just about to ask that , we want scrapyard wars now

beet farm not doing so good uh?

@@harlesveersalu4311 I thought Schrute's were hunters

Good shit Dwight.

You young kids!

As assistant to the regional manager you need a good rig sir.

I think that “free” pc is a scam

@@user-lc8ml9gv9x It is , just report it.

*their

Just do what I do and only spoil one of the kids, send the other out to work

@@wing0zero My wife wouldn't let me. Some mumbo jumbo about child labor.

@@andromydous 🤣 Bah women

ya i find it strange that whenever they mention budget hardware on this channel they say stuff like “save up your lunch money” as if the market for cheaper stuff is kids and students and not adults who just have other financial responsibilities and can’t drop $1000+ on a pc

Tech tip: Don't have kids. You'll have more money for things you actually like.

Is it 1060 3gb?

@@itsmarvin6999 Actually, it's a 1050ti. I keep forgetting the exact model.

@@goolash1000 Oh ok.

Look into Z690I aorus lite. High end Z690 board brought down to $150 because of a PCIE gen 3 limit

Ironically, it would be easier to build a SFF build with parts like these, instead of trying to cram high end hardware into a small case. The lower CPU thermals and smaller GPU mean you need less cooling and less space, which is incredibly important with SFF builds.

@@alexlowe2054 honestly the CM nr200 is amazing in that regard, small enough o be sff big enough to fit a 6900xt and 3090 , as well as a 280mm aio, i carry it around with me everywhere when travelling

@@jasonselsley if I'm being honest, i wouldn't even touch those given the firmware issues users have reported. as of now the ASRock offering is honestly a lot more compelling as it's priced similarly now.

@@maximus3294 what board? ITX?

Yes

Still gonna wait a year for certain reasons, but this really helped.

Good luck brother stay positive you’re gonna get there

Adobe eats ram for breakfast, dinner and supper. Start at 32 GB and work up from there!

I don't know if I'd exactly refer to 20-series cards in a "back in the good old days when people knew how to make GPUs"... they're literally just one generation away from current gen.

@@wolfshanze5980 Plus everyone was still too busy riding the high of the 10 series and scoffing at RTX to appreciate the 20 series at the time.

Turing had out of the box silicon failures that required them to be RMA'd lol

@@FeintMotion your not wrong. But my point was on wear, not yields and quality control. Modern stuff seems to just degrade a lot faster. I guess that's what happens when you run at max temps and voltages.

@@FeintMotion Don't I know it. Had to RMA my EVGA 2080 Ti twice before I got a functional card, which is still thankfully going strong (knocks on wood).

Ya bro no GPU is worth 1.5k. Never. Ever. Unless you can run 8k 244 fps ultra settings HDR ray tracing at least in my case

If you're in the market for top-of-the-line gear like a 3090 then I don't think I feel bad for your wallet xD It's the folks that are "splurging" to pay $200 for a used 1660 that I feel bad for.

Pick up your cross and follow Jesus! The world is quickly headed for destruction, and sooner or later you will have to sit at the judgement seat and give an account for your actions. Belief in messiah alone is not enough to grant you salvation - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36). Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life! - Revelation 3:20. Contemplate how the Roman Empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13. Revelation 17 confirms that it is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years going back to Babylon and before, C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate once you start a relationship with God tho. Can't get a response from God? Fasting can help increase your perception and prayer can help initiate events. God will ignore you if your prayer does not align with His purpose (James 4:3) or if you are approaching Him when "unclean" (Isaiah 1:15, Isaiah 59:2, Micah 3:4). Stop eating food sacrificed to idols (McDonald's, Wendy's etc) stop glorifying yourself on social media or making other images of yourself (Second Commandment), stop gossiping about other people, stop watching obscene content etc and you should get a response. Have a blessed day!

@@kuza3991 sounds cool, where can i hit up this god guy. does he have a discord?

Try to save up another 200 bucks, and try to find some discount cupons, makes your hard earned money worth bro 💪.

@@comiumapedra5397 Or build this system now without the dGPU, saving that $200 for now until prices comes down even further, while still being able to do do some light gaming now on the iGPU.

@@ej_tech true, but how's the price diff between APUs and CPUs ? Is it small enough to consider doing it like that ?

It's hitting almost $700 on Amazon for all the parts

go outside, look for a job.