I have built many computers the past year for customers using that Thermaltake case and it is definitely one of the best cases in the $50 area. Solid case. I like the monolithic slab look. It is not a free air flow case like a mesh would be, but for low end gaming or business use, which my builds are for businesses, it is an excellent case.
There is, or was, a Versa H15 or H16 that has a mesh front. I bought it and used it for a build. The case is decent for a mid tower build. Another gem I found on Newegg a couple years ago was a SAMA Tank ARGB case. I snagged the case for $50ish on sale and it came with 4 ARGB fans and a fan hub. It is surprisingly well built and has good airflow. It's my current case.
Thanks for the video. Your game controller is a great one. Was looking for a controller to use in 2077 purchased a controller from china more expensive and garbage. Got another one that was approved by xbox and it was less garbage. The fenix is a great controller feels comfortable in the hands light weight wireless, and is a great price to start with then you have 50% off. I got two at the last sale. The sticks on the controller are great. Thanks for making a very good controller at a great price.
I’m building a machine for a first timer and I’m using a hand me down 3200g/a320m GameStop had an enermax psu for $17 in clearance I’ll be getting my windows key for $20 because I’m morally ambiguous
you can build a decent PC -minus a decent GPU. Back in 2014, I think i paid no more than $350 for a GTX 970. Nowadays, nvidia 70 series cards(3070ti or soon 4070) will easily cost 500-600, probably more. I don't even want to buy a 4080 or 4090 honestly, they look like refrigerators taking up 3 slots yikes.
This is a pretty good build! This would make a great Steam Machine if someone is curious about what Valve is doing. The 5600G is an underrated APU for budget gaming. With default settings and the 3200 MHz RAM it will meet or exceed a basic i5 11th Gen + GT1030 GDDR5 combo. I will warn people, from experience, that the Silicon Power memory listed uses a unique IC called CXMT. I found it very difficult to overclock and gave up after several hours of fiddling with it, so it's a set it and forget it memory. If a person were to throw a little more money and time in it to tweak the settings, you could get a tower cooler and higher clocked memory to get ~10% higher fps. Something like the Thermalright Assassin King SE ($24) and DDR4 4000 @ CL18 ($76 for G.Skill) will be a good step up. Although it will be about $60 for a 10-13% gain so it's your call. Tom's Hardware has a good review on the 5600G and the 5700G that might be worth reading if someone is interested in eeking out as much as they can. As an added bonus, you can get a mid range GPU later and pop it in without any worries on missing performance.
Great video! How would a build like this fare for use as a retroarch emulation machine for older games (arcade, nes, snes, sega, n64, etc)? Would the integrated graphics be good enough to handle steady performance in that? Thanks!
Hey man I wanted to ask, I have an I7-2600k lying around and I was wondering if it will do fine with 16GB of ram for casual TF2 gaming and photo editing. Also a little of coding here and there with visual studio
Yes that will be fine. Relative to when TF2 came out, the i7-2600k was still decent. For photo editing however you may notice some chugging depending on which software you are using but still usable. There are many great deals going on if you’d like to take advantage. But hey hope it works out 🤙
@@iMapleCreator thanks, we’ll I’ve got one lying around and I wanna use it up before discarding it. I’m trying to save as much money as I can with the build. This will be my first. I probably should wait till cyber Monday for better deals
The sweet spot for these APUs is 720p gaming. Computer monitors tend to be a blurry mess if playing games at a non-native resolution so keep that in mind. Newer games are coming out with FSR, which reduces the issue significantly. My advice would be to get a decent 1366x768 or 1280x1024 (this will give you the black bars at 720p, but it will be a perfect 1280x720) display (75hz would be a bonus but not necessary) second hand or use a TV. You could even source an old laptop screen and get a cheap adapter that can turn it into a regular monitor. One of the benefits of smart TVs is their onboard processing, which is able to upscale content real time (most do this) so you can get pseudo-FSR without needing to do anything on your end. The cost is more latency compared to a computer monitor. So lots of options to choose from. If you are playing older games (think Skyrim, Fallout 3), indie games, or some esports titles then you can still get decent fps at 1080p, just at lower visual settings and the 1% and .1% fps will be a bit worse.
Pretty soon (Well maybe not that soon, maybe 6 to 12 months from now) AMD might launch Zen 4 + RDNA 3 APUs to the public and imho that's when it might actually be the best deal for brand new starter PC (As i no used GPUs, no refurbishing older machines. Those are still valid options but let's assume brand new everything) then it should be fairly close in performance to 6500xt if not 3050 levels of performance. That's if we take what we already know of RDNA 2.0 APUs right now like the 6800 (Both H and U though the H ones are rarely included without a dedicated mobile GPU) with fast DDR5 ram it can match the 1650 in terms of performance which is 1) More than enough for even modest AAA games if you're ok with going down to FSR options and 2) Basically anything pre-2021 will run wonderfully on those chips, quite a bit ahead of the 5000 APUs But so far I've only seen those in either laptops, expensive hand helds or very sparingly on mini pcs. But giving Dr Su the benefit of the doubt and assuming AMD does release those Zen 4/RDNA 3 APUs I think that's going to be my new go to "Forget dedicated GPU for now but expand later if you need to"
It’s nice seeing PC build videos again on this channel. Your how-to build guide from 10 years ago was what got me started with my first build.
I think you probably don't like doing the buyers guides anymore, but I always appreciate them..
You helped me build my first PC! Great to see PC builds back! Looking to make my 3rd build so hoping to see some good ones here!
$320!!?? no way!! I love this!
i got 5600 non g most games require a ryze n5 3600 and up and or a rx 580 and rx 6600 for amd for my 1080ti it still has life in 2022
Really nice to see a build video from you, just like old times :)
building a desktop gig after 1500 years of laptoping and consoling; you upload this right on cue. OG Tek syndicate love you always bro
very good value build
Always appreciated your work on these videos , helped me plan and build my own computer .
Always great videos, brother!
Love you vids man
Starter? This is going to be my high end MAME machine lol
Ok. Now do canada
just bought windows 10 pro thanks man!
Affordable build videos were how I got in to Tek Syndicate back in the day. I'll always click these videos.
It seems you coming back to the roots with last videos. Keep up.
Literally just bought this pc about 2 weeks ago, waiting for it to arrive. I got the 5600g for 110$ though
Crucial P3 M.2 NVMe Gen3 500GB drive for $32.99. Worth spending another $5 on.
Great video, so refreshing as always 👍
I have built many computers the past year for customers using that Thermaltake case and it is definitely one of the best cases in the $50 area. Solid case. I like the monolithic slab look. It is not a free air flow case like a mesh would be, but for low end gaming or business use, which my builds are for businesses, it is an excellent case.
There is, or was, a Versa H15 or H16 that has a mesh front. I bought it and used it for a build. The case is decent for a mid tower build. Another gem I found on Newegg a couple years ago was a SAMA Tank ARGB case. I snagged the case for $50ish on sale and it came with 4 ARGB fans and a fan hub. It is surprisingly well built and has good airflow. It's my current case.
Thanks for the video.
Your game controller is a great one. Was looking for a controller to use in 2077 purchased a controller from china more expensive and garbage. Got another one that was approved by xbox and it was less garbage.
The fenix is a great controller feels comfortable in the hands light weight wireless, and is a great price to start with then you have 50% off. I got two at the last sale. The sticks on the controller are great.
Thanks for making a very good controller at a great price.
I’m building a machine for a first timer and I’m using a hand me down 3200g/a320m
GameStop had an enermax psu for $17 in clearance
I’ll be getting my windows key for $20 because I’m morally ambiguous
you can build a decent PC -minus a decent GPU. Back in 2014, I think i paid no more than $350 for a GTX 970. Nowadays, nvidia 70 series cards(3070ti or soon 4070) will easily cost 500-600, probably more. I don't even want to buy a 4080 or 4090 honestly, they look like refrigerators taking up 3 slots yikes.
what are these games @tek syndicate ?
This is a pretty good build! This would make a great Steam Machine if someone is curious about what Valve is doing. The 5600G is an underrated APU for budget gaming. With default settings and the 3200 MHz RAM it will meet or exceed a basic i5 11th Gen + GT1030 GDDR5 combo. I will warn people, from experience, that the Silicon Power memory listed uses a unique IC called CXMT. I found it very difficult to overclock and gave up after several hours of fiddling with it, so it's a set it and forget it memory.
If a person were to throw a little more money and time in it to tweak the settings, you could get a tower cooler and higher clocked memory to get ~10% higher fps. Something like the Thermalright Assassin King SE ($24) and DDR4 4000 @ CL18 ($76 for G.Skill) will be a good step up. Although it will be about $60 for a 10-13% gain so it's your call. Tom's Hardware has a good review on the 5600G and the 5700G that might be worth reading if someone is interested in eeking out as much as they can. As an added bonus, you can get a mid range GPU later and pop it in without any worries on missing performance.
5600g is amazing!
Great video! How would a build like this fare for use as a retroarch emulation machine for older games (arcade, nes, snes, sega, n64, etc)? Would the integrated graphics be good enough to handle steady performance in that? Thanks!
was that rtcw return to castle Wolfenstein
looked like it.
Indeed
Hey man I wanted to ask, I have an I7-2600k lying around and I was wondering if it will do fine with 16GB of ram for casual TF2 gaming and photo editing. Also a little of coding here and there with visual studio
Yes that will be fine. Relative to when TF2 came out, the i7-2600k was still decent. For photo editing however you may notice some chugging depending on which software you are using but still usable. There are many great deals going on if you’d like to take advantage. But hey hope it works out 🤙
@@iMapleCreator thanks, we’ll I’ve got one lying around and I wanna use it up before discarding it. I’m trying to save as much money as I can with the build. This will be my first. I probably should wait till cyber Monday for better deals
suggestion monitor for this build?
The sweet spot for these APUs is 720p gaming. Computer monitors tend to be a blurry mess if playing games at a non-native resolution so keep that in mind. Newer games are coming out with FSR, which reduces the issue significantly. My advice would be to get a decent 1366x768 or 1280x1024 (this will give you the black bars at 720p, but it will be a perfect 1280x720) display (75hz would be a bonus but not necessary) second hand or use a TV. You could even source an old laptop screen and get a cheap adapter that can turn it into a regular monitor. One of the benefits of smart TVs is their onboard processing, which is able to upscale content real time (most do this) so you can get pseudo-FSR without needing to do anything on your end. The cost is more latency compared to a computer monitor.
So lots of options to choose from. If you are playing older games (think Skyrim, Fallout 3), indie games, or some esports titles then you can still get decent fps at 1080p, just at lower visual settings and the 1% and .1% fps will be a bit worse.
Pretty soon (Well maybe not that soon, maybe 6 to 12 months from now) AMD might launch Zen 4 + RDNA 3 APUs to the public and imho that's when it might actually be the best deal for brand new starter PC (As i no used GPUs, no refurbishing older machines. Those are still valid options but let's assume brand new everything) then it should be fairly close in performance to 6500xt if not 3050 levels of performance.
That's if we take what we already know of RDNA 2.0 APUs right now like the 6800 (Both H and U though the H ones are rarely included without a dedicated mobile GPU) with fast DDR5 ram it can match the 1650 in terms of performance which is 1) More than enough for even modest AAA games if you're ok with going down to FSR options and 2) Basically anything pre-2021 will run wonderfully on those chips, quite a bit ahead of the 5000 APUs
But so far I've only seen those in either laptops, expensive hand helds or very sparingly on mini pcs. But giving Dr Su the benefit of the doubt and assuming AMD does release those Zen 4/RDNA 3 APUs I think that's going to be my new go to "Forget dedicated GPU for now but expand later if you need to"
5600G isn't Raven Ridge, it's Cezanne
What games where shown in this video (the indie games I mean, I recognized RTCW)? Would like to check them out
Greak, Ghost Song, and Anno Mutationem (love this game)
@@teksyndicate Thank you! :D
Thank you for thinking of us who don't have much money and giving us tips on how to still build a system that works with games 😍
I think your coupon code took 50 cents off lol
keys.... gimme bobkeys...
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Is he now rehashing his old school videos, this guy really got out of ideas
Why with that negative talks, be positive, atleast people have an alternative choices when it comes to build pc
Boooooo
Just used your Whokeys coupon :) on my new PC