[Video] $280 budget PC build

[Montoya]

I was looking to give my daughter a PC upgrade that could last here a few years.

Instead of building one power PC, I ended up building two and under the $300 budget thanks to parts from some TESTies!

AMD Ryzen 2200g, a PSU, a AB350M motherboard, 8gb DDR4 RAM for the little girl.

Also shout out to @Cool-Hand-Luke and @Stevetank who donated the parts needed to complete what become the second biuld!

 

[Stevetank]

Computers are expensive :|

 

[Stevetank]

Oh, and you can change the background with an unactivated Win 10.

Find a pic you like, right click and select 'set as desktop background'. :slight_smile:

 

[Montoya]

Oh, and you can change the background with an unactivated Win 10.

Find a pic you like, right click and select 'set as desktop background'. :slight_smile:

You can? I thought that was locked.

 

[Stevetank]

You can? I thought that was locked.

I've been doing it that way for months. You can't change it the normal way but you can do the right click trick to set an image as a background.

My current background is the Vulture and my Win 10 is not activated.

 

[Printimus]

it would have been cheaper to have had a drug addiction

 

[Shadow Reaper]

Thanks for this, Toys. (Can I call him that?) I am always interested to see what people can build. I was fascinated by your off hand comment near the end about APUs. I had no idea what that is.

For those of us who will want to build a new system, but don't want to just throw cash at a manufacturer like Alienware but want a contemporary build, I wonder if there is any conventional wisdom to share?

I haven't bought a new PC for almost 20 years just because I am currently a Mac user, but I do plan to build a dedicated gaming machine and I don't want to build something that isn't forward compatible. So my guess is I need to start with the latest motherboard and an i9 CPU? Is that right?

Not building now but hope to in just another couple months.

 

[Montoya]

So my guess is I need to start with the latest motherboard and an i9 CPU? Is that right?

Check out these builds listed here, they will give you the best bang for your buck based on budget

https://www.reddit.com/r/PCMasterRace/wiki/builds

 

[CosmicTrader]

TESTies are BESTies.

 

[NaffNaffBobFace]

Thank you, Glorious Leader!

I am about to install another two sticks or RAM and have just put an old SSD into my 9 year old PC, just need to upgrade the GTX750 to a GTX1050ti and I think i'll be set for another few years :)

 

[Mich Angel]

HA HA HA... This is awesome..

And..... yeah as I remember it was sticks and stones in my time, but did upgrade to real Lego further up the age ha ha.... :P

What a great thing you done for you kid... :D ^^

TEST SQUADRON ( is ) BEST SQUADRON!! Like it or look the other way we don't care... ha ha ha ha...

We got beer! :beer::beers::beer::beer::beer::beers::beers::beer::beer:
( Beer is yellow when glass is full and black when empty )

 

[DirectorGunner]

The PC I'm building my son when he turns between 3 to 5

Even that is probably over $280

 

[Montoya]

Even that is probably over $280

That will probably run Skyrim.

 

[Radegast74]

Thanks for this, Toys. (Can I call him that?) I am always interested to see what people can build. I was fascinated by your off hand comment near the end about APUs. I had no idea what that is.

For those of us who will want to build a new system, but don't want to just throw cash at a manufacturer like Alienware but want a contemporary build, I wonder if there is any conventional wisdom to share?

I haven't bought a new PC for almost 20 years just because I am currently a Mac user, but I do plan to build a dedicated gaming machine and I don't want to build something that isn't forward compatible. So my guess is I need to start with the latest motherboard and an i9 CPU? Is that right?

Not building now but hope to in just another couple months.

I'm actively looking right now. People post working builds all the time at https://pcpartpicker.com

The big news is, right now, with prices of RAM and GPUs so high, due to crypto-miners, you can find prebuilt computers on Amazon for not that much more than building it yourself (the companies get volume discounts on their parts).

 

[maynard]

I rely on tomshardware.com for good info on getting the most bang for your PC-building buck

they do lots of testing to back their recommendations up

 

[marcsand2]

Can @NinjaGirl play SC with her new Frankestein PC? Yeah, building a decent PC is expensive. I got lucky that I could replace my 8 year old limping PC with a decent new one and that I could replace my GPU with a good one before prices increased another € 300. Luckily I still don't have to build a PC for my 2 sons and my wife doesn't play games :grin:

 

[Radegast74]

The PC I'm building my son when he turns between 3 to 5

Even that is probably over $280

lol, Anandtech just released their "Best CPUs for Gaming Q2 2018" ranging from the $2000 down to the "$300 Potato Gaming PC"
https://www.anandtech.com/show/9793/best-cpus

 

[SullyQuindarius]

I'm actively looking right now. People post working builds all the time at https://pcpartpicker.com

The big news is, right now, with prices of RAM and GPUs so high, due to crypto-miners, you can find prebuilt computers on Amazon for not that much more than building it yourself (the companies get volume discounts on their parts).

Actually, GPUs are mostly back to normal, +~$50.

 

[SullyQuindarius]

Nice!

I'm nearly finished. Ordering the SSD this weekend (shhh, I do video editing, that's my excuse for buying a 1TB 970 Evo).

 

[Sirus7264]

The PC I'm building my son when he turns between 3 to 5

Even that is probably over $280

if each potato gives you .5V How many pototos to run a computer?