Assuming you're not planning to sell this build immediately, I'd love to see each piece get upgraded and tested as part of a series of tests to see which component someone would want to upgrade first.
1st upgrade would need to be the videocard: a 6600 or a 6700 that are now so cheap. 2nd would be the cpu, upgrade bios if needed and upgrade to a 5600x, or a 5600x3d if you live near to a microcenter, or finaly best upgrade posible is a 5800x3d, that chip is so good still.
GPU would be first. That CPU can go up to a 6600 with ease in FHD. Or you could just get the 6600 from the start, since the price on it isn't that much these days. As for "upgrades", you can put in a 5800x3D which tops out a 6800XT in FHD or a 6950XT in QHD or a 7900XTX in 4K. This would be the most possible performance you could get on the AM4 platform. As for the most sensible option, it would be a 5700x with a 6700XT in FHD, 6800 in QHD, 6950XT in 4K. Each combination between the sensible and the most powerful option is twice the money but not twice the performance. It's somewhere around +30% more performance.
Just today recieved all the parts to finally move on from my lga1155 , got a ryzen 5 5500,b550,and ram for 200, got an rtx 2080 for $150 on ebay, and reusing my PSU. Also got a nice m.2 drive for $30. For like 400$ I'm stoked to finally try 165hz!!! Love your budget videos bro.
I think you could save up some money on B450 mb as that 5500 only supports PCIe 3.0 so PCIe 4.0 fucntionality of B550 is useless. But all in all, I wish you a long serving PC that will handle pretyy much any game that you want to play!
If you're making a build like this, make sure to check on the second hand cost of AMD options like the RX 580 and RX 590 8 GB cards. They perform as well or better than the GTX 1060 and those 2 extra GB of VRAM will be a huge help in 2023.
This PC will not run the latest games at decent framerates. Anything made after 2020 will need to be ran at the lowest settings barely getting to 60 fps
AM4 is in a very good place price wise right now. Best performance for the money, most of the time anyway. The 1060 6gb and the rx580 8gb are both extremely cheap for the performance as well. After the scalpocolypse, we are finally back in a sweet spot for finding cheap used parts that also offer great value! Why build new when the better deal is used?
The thing with buying used stuff is that, not only do you not have warranty, there is plenty that can go wrong when you uss the part you just bought. So I understand someone for wanting to buy new.
I always love it when the channel does something in relation to their username. This system is similar to one I built my friend! Their system was a R5 3600, B450M, Zotac GTX 1660S, 1TB MP34 M.2, 16GB Crucial 3200MHz, EVGA 600GD, all in a little sleeper office PC case, just a little over $300 :)
Same here also built by brother a PC for online class, with a used tray cheap* cpu R5 2600 that cost 40$ back covid, a RX580 2048(570), and oh god I can't help but smile seeing the corsair vengeance LPX; i highly thank Corsair for that; a seasonic M12, and a M.2 WD Green. RX580 2048, Tray chip used AM4's, Vengeance LPX, a used motherboard, might be the staple of budget gaming here in Asia.
@@btd1114 Some people do a 256/512 for the boot drive and are okay with games on a HDD, but yeah, I definitely agree that a 1TB drive is less hassle and just easier to work with. I'm a weirdo and my main system has 12.5TB of space and that 0.5 is my boot drive, an SN850 M.2 from WD lmao
@@ANN1H1LATE89 In my eyes 1660 super/ti is still 1080p sweet spot gaming. Maybe a 2060. I have a 2060 super and find I can have an enjoyable 1440p experience.
@@thorham1346 and the motherboard VRMs (no radiator! sweet jesus) are quite literally going to explode if you try to run a 5600x or, god please no, 5800x3d. It's an upgradable system, sure but the main components are "replace immediately" tier.
@@crispybottomyep, rule Number 1 in PC building is: Never, ever, on your life, skimp on the PSU!!! Because a faulty PSU can wreck all your other components. And bad power delivery also helps causes coil whine at much lower fps than udual. Additionally that board has only 1 m.2 slot and he's not using the SATA ports so the system fails the upgradeability test right there. Next issue is 16 GB of RAM, not enough for today, it should be 32GB and it's not much of a price increase. Also one of the best ways to save on a budget build is to carry over working storage. Carried over 2 of my old SATA SSDs, they still work, why throw them away?
@@efeloteishe4675 Games, if I wanted to run professional programs on it, I'd recommend 64 GB at least. Look at any moderately new game, they profit massively from 32 GB of RAM. And I'm not even talking about DCS, then I'd have to recommend 64 GB instead of 32GB. 16GB has no longevity and it costs next to nothing to upgrade it. 25 Euros for 16 GB, 50 for 32GB. That's less than 30 Euros for. Also it's a 6GB VRAM card, so it's very likely that it will run out of VRAM, which means more RAM usage, on top of the game+System's requirements.
I would love to see a timeline of the different budget pcs you have build over the years as it would be interesting to see how trends and prices change over time.
2:06 Only 2 RAM slots on the motherboard, that's bad! I would personally save a bit more and look for a motherboard which at least offers 4 RAM slots, for the best in upgrade options.
That's an awesome platform to start with. I really love the flexibility of Mid Tower cases. You could add additional 2.5 ssds or old hdds that are laying around. A simple video card swap would do wonders. I love this build, great job!
i recently built a PC for a family member with the Hellcrack Classic case and i was genuinely baffled by just, how good it was for that price, great video as usual!
Subbed to this channel back in college because im a poor fuck looking to squeeze every bit of performance on old components now im rocking a high end setup and still here keep it up boys you can do it
9:38 that drift into the parking space was smooth lol. I was hoping this build wouldn't go over 1k of my currency but it's just over 1.5k, so a bit disappointing but it should be worth it for the upgradability. Also, I'm new to this channel but have you ever done a gaming build that's power efficient while being fairly cheap? I think that would be interesting to see
Back in 2014 my build was a very good one. Still running daily and had some good luck oc'ing it. 4670K i5, 16 gb ddr3 ram and 1070ti. The gpu's where always upgraded. Gtx460 sli, 660ti sli, 970 in sli and the 1070ti is likely the last upgrade this old beast got.
If your handy at repairing cpu socket pins you could probably get a cheap z690 and an i5 12600K used, just make sure its DDR5 because you'll want Hynix A die ram
great video! i've built and flipped dozens of budget builds and i am always impressed with the performance you've been able to get in recent years for the $250-$400 budget
Love these affordable builds u keep making vide on really helping out most of us who can't afford to get a 4090 and a Ryzen 9 keep up the great work 👍❤
but only to play older games ,lately games are released that have rtx 2080 as minimum spec and only do 55fps on that ,on gtx 1080 they become unplayable in 20 fps range (Immortals of Aveum)
@@bassax7045 Not really I just built a client of mine custom PC for $1,600USD ish. Has a R5 7600 240 rad cooler 128 gigs ram 2060 Super 750 watt PSU two 2 tera SSD and a 500 gig SSD. all with RGB. He's getting a better GPU later on.
Well not really, considering that the closest priced 5000 series card in the UK, the RX 5500XT shows slower performance than the 1060 on average. I’d say the better choice would be the RX 580 but there’s much less of an upgrade path for that compared to the 1060.
@@akturosu Wow, i understand that people prefer Nvidia but this is something else. 5500XT can trade blows with a GTX 1660 and is considerably faster than the RX-580. Very hard to understand how someone can say that is slower than a 1060, a card that can't even beat the 580, not to mention the 5500XT incredible efficiency.
@@akturosu No worries, it can happen to anyone. Maybe you confused the 5500XT with the 6500XT that is crippled by it's PCIe running at x4? That is a really problematic card indeed.
7:50 you can have more than two: I bought a SATA power to three header for my next build from aliexpress where you have the one header for rear fan and power for front fans directly from PSU 🥰
0:20 I would have gone for an AeroCool CS-107 v2 Case £29.99 from Scan... it has a Perspex side window and 3 x fixed RGB Molex powered fans meaning they just show a rainbow static effect and wont cycle through the colours. Probably one of the best bang for buck budget cases out there at the moment... would definitely like to see an upgrade video on this though.
I bought an Aerocool case recently (Trinity Mini I think it was called?) and the build quality is super cheap, and the fans are very loud, and have no way of controlling the speed. Don't know if the CS-107 is the same, but I'm not buying another Aerocool again.
@@BillyBoy444 oh yeah, I didn’t expect amazing quality of course. Tempered glass side panel and three rgb fans for that price is pretty good, but the case itself is just SO cheaply made, and a pain to build in. I could have gotten a Coolermaster for a similar price, but without the glass and fans for the same price, and I will probably do that next time.
Nice minimalist build with no RGB :) Some really mega cheap cases still have a slot for a DVD drive on the front with ample HDD bay space. I really love to turn those machines into pseudo servers filled up with old HDD I have laying about. Plus you can turn your old DVD games into ISO to use on other devices.
Dam good cpu i had one up untill my upgrade to am5 . I still feel very privileged and lucky that i have had the ability to build my pc and am grateful.
I built a similar computer yesterday for my girlfriend, I got a Ryzen 3600 for €60 and a GTX 1660 Super for €80, both in excellent condition. The rest of the build was made with new parts (I also used this Corsair memory) and in the end everything cost ~€350. It's pretty crazy to think how cheap you can build a gaming computer now, I paid €450 just for my 6600 xt at the time. Btw, I really like your videos and it inspires me to build good and cheap computers. I'm even thinking about making a business out of it or maybe recording some videos. A hug from Portugal!
Very well priced build and the segment about the front panel conenctors reminded me of my first build in 2020, where my build hadn't booted because I incorrectly plugged the front panel connectors. Luckily plugging them in correctly and it posted.
Saw a couple of RX 5600XT's go on eBay the other day for around £80-85, they're so overlooked now a days! definitely a card to look out for, for budget systems
I done a second build based around budget and performance. I ended up with a CIT F3 case (Black/Blue) for £26, EVGA 600W PSU for £35 new, 32GB DDR4 RAM for £35, Ryzen 5 1600X for £70, GTX 1050TI for £35 and a 2TB Crucial P3 SSD for £70 and I got the same Mobo Gigabyte B450M-K for £60. Runs games like world of warcraft and FF14 at around 60-70fps at 1080p medium settings ish. I loved the rubber holding mechanism for the SSD, I ended up chewing the SSd screw in my wife's PC and had to get creative when we upgraded her M.2 SSD earlier this year
An alternative to the case for the same price you can get the hellcrack midi which is atx,has a mesh front panel,a tempered glass side panel,three front fans and magnetic dust filters
These are really close to my current specs lmao, except I'm running a gtx 1660ti that is in desperate need of repasting. I'm planning on getting 2x16gb 3600mhz ram, a Ryzen 5 5600x, and for gpu I am pretty torn between 3060 ti, 6750xt, or an Intel Arc A770 for all that precious vram
@@ANN1H1LATE89 I like to play older pc games too which Intel cards struggle at so I prob will go AMD. Nvidia isn't looking good for the mid-range consumer crowd
currently running a 5600x, 6750xt, and cl16 3600mhz ram. 1% lows are really low and games are stuttering a bit but it's a much better experience than before.
Nice one! Mine's as follows: Deepcool Matrexx 60, used AMD A320M board & Ryzen 3600 w/Prism cooler. ebay 3600MHz DDR4. Used 1070Ti. Decent power supply, some cheap solid state storage (I used a repurposed 512GB NVME from a dead laptop and got a good deal on a 2TB SSD) and call it a day!
6:34, I`m pretty sure you got our Front Panel Power button cable the wrong way around. Unless it don`t matter. I always have the writing showing at the top.
GTX 1060 is cheap but at the same time it's on it's last legs. Needs replacement within two years. A RX 580 / RX 590 would have been slightly better for (less) money. However the RX 5600XT and RX 5700 (XT) have come down in price a lot, this should be the preferred option.
A build after my own heart, I have built several similar systems and sold them locally with great results . Never had one come back for any reason. Usually used an RX570 class card as they are a personal favorite
I built nearly this (different B450, 1600 instead of 2600x, RX580 instead of 1060) in 2018 because I thought it'd age well as a gaming and content creation PC and honestly, though the upgrade path is fantastic, I haven't bought anything else for it.
Yeah, unless you want to play the modern AAA games, something like that is perfectly fine for 1080p gaming. I only just upgraded my RX 480 a month ago after six years.
well even for 1080p its ruffy^^@@EnglishMike ppl dont understand it, 6cores/16gb of ram aged like spilled milk, for new tripple a games heh would need to build an intirally new machine cuz the foundation of that silly B450 wouldnt allow for a 5900X/RTX 3080 for example, cuz its a cheap psu, cheap case, cheap nvme (probly DRAMLESS-.-) and 16gb of ram would be the same as putting the same parts 5900x/3080 onto an X570S, 64gb of RAM and a Corsair MP600, would be miles better of a complete experience so the upgrade path aint that fantastic as u might think ^^
@@tyonorshapzc7tjfvb7-caz Whet the hell is this comment doing on a channel dedicated to low budget gaming? I think you took a wrong turn somewhere. You don't need a 5900x or 3080 for 1080p gaming. That's just silly.
Really nice build! Hope you turn this into a series where you gradually upgrade the PC over time and see how it handles. Possibly the GPU to a 2060 or 590, CPU to a 5600 or i5, etc. As someone who built a PC during the shortage crisis it’s crazy just how cheap building a fairly powerful gaming PC today is. Great video!
Nice deals to start the build. Nice case but a few £10 more and you get more fans, a mesh front and tempered glass side panel. Felt the 2600 was held back by the 1060 a bit. Great build overview, but for the new builders who might watch your video I would add the recommendation to build outside the case before putting it in to check everything works, particularly if some parts are 2nd hand.
My personal choice for low to modest budget PC build that relies on some used parts: Second hand Ryzen 3 3300X OR Ryzen 5 3600 (you may consider the R5 5500 as well) Asrock B550M HDV 16GB (8x2) of DDR4 3200 RAM Any 1TB NVME with DRAM AMD card: Second hand RX580 8GB OR RX6600 (you may consider RX5700XT if the price is better in your country), OR Nvidia card: Second hand GTX1070 OR RTX 2060 Super Any 80+ Bronze 600w - 650w PSU from known brands (Semi Modular if possible) Any mATX case similar in type and pricerange that RGHD uses Cooling fans that correspond to what the case supports (ID Cooling and Cooler Master for budget, Arctic if you can up the budget) --- I do not know what's the pricing on your side of the world and what you can build for similar pricerange (do share in the replies to my comments!), but this build may cost between US$400 - US$500 or below that depending on what deals you find in your place, which is great considering the price to performance that you're getting.
I think its a staple now for budget builds to get a used 1060 or an RX580 2048, tray chip AM4's, and the corsair Vengeance LPX. Built my brothet one during covid online classes
Always nice to see a budge build, 1060 6gb isn't something to sniff your nose at. Recently I got a pc from Cex for 290 with a ryzen 1500x, 16gb ram and a rtx 2060s.
A little piece of advice for everyone if you buying cheap case at least make sure it has some sort of front cuts to take air in, and it would be wonderful if it also had at least half of space on the top with holes to let that hot air out... Some recomms: FSP/Fortron CST130BASIC, Cooler Master Masterbox Q300L, MSI MAG Forge 100M, Deepcool CC560 White
hm... i know it's easy to say, but if you have future upgrades in mind then i'd absolutely recommend trying to get a better motherboard. one with a more confidence-inspiring VRM and some heatsinks where it matters
I've had two B450m motherboards for three years. Zero problems with them. Unless you're going to stick a high end 8, 12, or 16 core chip into them, and you're going to try overclocking (which is barely worth it these days) then the lack of heatsinks isn't an issue. I know there was a lot of concern about the issue, but I don't think it's been as big a problem as originally feared, and almost nobody pushes their computers to the limit these days.
With "upgradability" in mind, I would've chosen a board with 4 RAM slots, for a very cheap upgrade to 32 gigs in the future, and an RX 580 8 GB for those 2 more gigs of VRAM that you never thought you needed, until you do. But outside of these nitpicks, I think it's quite a nice budget build.
Just finished building using this as a guide - picked up at RX 590 and a different branded SSD as well as AX3000 WiFi card as I'm not close to an ethernet port at my desk, but still came in around £350! Bargain I think with a slightly better GPU in there as well. Can only switch on and install Windows tomorrow now so fingers crossed! Also got the CPU from CeX, but mine didn't come with a fan so had to pick one up separately which added a little on!
This is almost my exact same build from 2020 with a slightly different case that has optical drive bays. A Sata 3 SSD (M.2 is way cheaper now) and an RX 580 (comparable to the 1060 and $50 on the used market)
The only thing I would change is getting a 256gb M.2 and leaving it solely as your windows boot drive and then have a 1tb sata SSD as your games storage. Having games on an SSD and not an M.2 won’t affect load times but not having your boot drive filled with games will keep the PC responding faster for longer and keep windows snappy with no discernible input lag.
A really nice and cozy build, and that 1060 is beautiful. A month ago I found the same one as showed in the video but couldn't make a deal with the seller for €100... Too bad for him I got a 2070 super 3 days ago for €180. I'm thankful towards him ahah.
a small investment into a M.2 heatsink would be a good ideo. a nvme ssd can get really hot sometimes and that tiny bit more for a cheaper heatsink is not thrown out money.
Have you done a low power/idle home server style build? I'm looking at a few options at the moment whether that's re-using an old enterprise machine or building from scratch. Would be an interesting video including some power stats (if you've not already done a video like this?)
Plug in the EPS (CPU) power cable before actually installing the board. So much easier than trying to find some long pliers or something to try to get the thing in it's spot.
I got almost the same setup, a 2600, gtx 1060 6gb, 32GB RAM, same SSD and an MSI B450 Gaming Plus MB, these work great combined, and as you mentioned, It's room for upgrade down the line since I just built mine in the past 2 months :D
@@hrvojemilicevic3309 I've currently changed my whole setup, upgraded to new AM4 parts & Graphic card (R5 5600, Aorus B550 Elite, GTX 1070) but the previous parts were pretty cheap when bought because those were used (only SSD & RAM was new) I think I paid like 90-100 Euros for MB, CPU & Graphics Card.
Board is not sufficient for 5000 processors. For example B550M-K doesn't support PBO. It's missing in BIOS, completely. I was very dumbfounded, TBH. You should go for any of MSI VDH B450 stuff.
I recently upgraded to AM4 for cheap. Found brand new open-box cheap board from biostar, Ryzen 5 1500X and 8GB of the same RAM (just slower at 2666MhZ). AM4 is a great choice for budget builds. U finally moved on from 1155 and i5 2400.
@Ciffer-1998 It was a weird board that didn't support 3rd gen and old i7s are ridiculously overpriced where I live, so I was better off paying a bit more for what i've got.
hope u stay on budget and not ppla NEW tripple a titles cuz that thing gonna make u cry, 4c/16gb ram, uuuuf, 3770k called and is bloddy mad^^ and it also wants its ram back XD
nice, but for a much more upgradeable path, you should've scored a motherboard with 4 ram slots with just for a few dollars more. you're capped at 16gb now, unless you replace them with 2x16 sticks. on a four slot, you could just add another pair of 2x8.
Really nice video. A beginner pc builder like me can learn a lot. In spcific what components to chosse for upgradability: - High Watt PSU - Motherboard with a socket that supports a lot of CPU generations (AMD seems to be the only option xD) The rest of the system can be adujsted to what your wallets weight. Nice video, I will remember it for when I need it again!
The GREAT thing about this pc is how upgradable it is and you can do it over time. Upgrade the psu.. a month later put in a ryzen 5600 cpu that you got a deal on.. then a month after that put in a gtx 1070ti or rtx 2060 etc that you got for a great deal. 3 or 4 months later you have a much more powerful pc for cheap and it was easy to do. Good video.
Someone who builds this or similar with a 60Hz Monitor or HDMI capable 1080p TV laying around, the specs will suffice the expectations. The budget case is lovely, I like the front panel options, the only issue with me would be that the front panel unfortunately not on the front, instead put on top, to easy collect and accumulate dust. But apart from that, temperature wise it's good for a budget build with 2 fans.
The case may be cheap but the front I/O cables were all black, which is very nice. Unlike those expensive cases that are still using colored wires for their cables.
Dont forget the ASUS Strix GTX 1060 has additional fan headers built on it for adding those front fans. I think the software also will allow for gpu temp speed controlling for better quality fans for adaptive case intake cooling.
Not bad, but there's much better parts newer parts for the money out there, namely the Ryzen 3600 and GTX 1660 Ti/Super. Swapping out to those would've only added 20 pounds to the cost and been 30-40% faster, more efficient, and less likely to fail. The GTX 1060 is old enough now that there's good likelihood it won't have a much longer life before failing especially if it's an OC model running at high factory voltage.
Why would the GPU be more likely to fail just because it's old? That's only determined by the use case of the person who you bought it off of. Unless the GPU was absolutely hammered in a use case such as crypto mining, the GPU can last for many many years, worse case scenario you have to repaste it.
The Gigabyte B450M DS3H variant of that motherboard is also cheap and it has VRM cooling that helps with overclocking and any powerful CPU if you want to put on it.
Can you do the upgrade path and show us your shopping process w commentary? Even if it isn't the optimal min/max I would love to see how you shop and pick deals. I have adhd and I love to build pcs but the shopping and deciding is the hard part for me.
I built my PC 5 years ago with the similar specs, and it runs still great until now. But it's a little bit sad, that the resell value of the PC drops so much.
I purposely build an AM4 PC since I needed to do it on a serious budget. I have a 3700X which is honestly fine for me and doesn’t bottleneck my 6650 XT. Someday I can upgrade to a 57/5800X3D and have several more years of acceptable gaming performance.
I have a 2600 and RX560. I just spent some dough on a 6650XT, next upgrade should either be a Samsung 970 Evo Plus 1TB NVME for 70 euros, or a 5600X for 170-180.
Assuming you're not planning to sell this build immediately, I'd love to see each piece get upgraded and tested as part of a series of tests to see which component someone would want to upgrade first.
1st upgrade would need to be the videocard: a 6600 or a 6700 that are now so cheap.
2nd would be the cpu, upgrade bios if needed and upgrade to a 5600x, or a 5600x3d if you live near to a microcenter, or finaly best upgrade posible is a 5800x3d, that chip is so good still.
always the gpu
@@Blackfatrat since we're speaking about a specific build with 16gb ram and a 2600X, GPU all day
5600g, 5600x isn't worth it tbh@@josejuanandrade4439
GPU would be first.
That CPU can go up to a 6600 with ease in FHD. Or you could just get the 6600 from the start, since the price on it isn't that much these days.
As for "upgrades", you can put in a 5800x3D which tops out a 6800XT in FHD or a 6950XT in QHD or a 7900XTX in 4K. This would be the most possible performance you could get on the AM4 platform.
As for the most sensible option, it would be a 5700x with a 6700XT in FHD, 6800 in QHD, 6950XT in 4K.
Each combination between the sensible and the most powerful option is twice the money but not twice the performance. It's somewhere around +30% more performance.
Just today recieved all the parts to finally move on from my lga1155 , got a ryzen 5 5500,b550,and ram for 200, got an rtx 2080 for $150 on ebay, and reusing my PSU. Also got a nice m.2 drive for $30. For like 400$ I'm stoked to finally try 165hz!!! Love your budget videos bro.
Nice :)
I think you could save up some money on B450 mb as that 5500 only supports PCIe 3.0 so PCIe 4.0 fucntionality of B550 is useless. But all in all, I wish you a long serving PC that will handle pretyy much any game that you want to play!
@@prosecanlik4296 I wanted to go 450 but all the stuff about having to update bios possibly scared me lol, thanks for the advice tho I appreciate it!
What would be a good upgrade cpu when the time comes? Same socket obv.
@Ciffer-1998 good to know!
I'd love to see another video about this machine with upgrades in place. To show the potential it could have.
If you're making a build like this, make sure to check on the second hand cost of AMD options like the RX 580 and RX 590 8 GB cards. They perform as well or better than the GTX 1060 and those 2 extra GB of VRAM will be a huge help in 2023.
Yeah great suggestion
The RX580 is too slow to utilize that extra 2gb of vram.
@basshead. Not quite true, had one in my rig about a year ago. It was surprising how much it could still do.
@@tarvest Yeah, if you are happy to play AAA games at low settings lol.
@@basshead.The same applies to a 1060 6 GB also.
In fact Tom's hardware's gfx card hierarchy puts the RX590 8 GB ahead of the 1060 anyway
Thanks!
i loved this build so much, its simple, fast and it runs the latest games at a fairly decent framerate
I think a 1660 Super or RX580 would have added a lot more value for little cost.
I think the GPU choice was rather disappointing.
@mistermudpie considering i got an RX580 8GB used for $60 yeah
This PC will not run the latest games at decent framerates. Anything made after 2020 will need to be ran at the lowest settings barely getting to 60 fps
AM4 is in a very good place price wise right now. Best performance for the money, most of the time anyway. The 1060 6gb and the rx580 8gb are both extremely cheap for the performance as well. After the scalpocolypse, we are finally back in a sweet spot for finding cheap used parts that also offer great value! Why build new when the better deal is used?
Wouldn't really recommend the old gfx card generation, you're not going to have much fun with it. RDNA2 is on clearance sale right now.
The thing with buying used stuff is that, not only do you not have warranty, there is plenty that can go wrong when you uss the part you just bought. So I understand someone for wanting to buy new.
Zen 3 and alder lake are both really good value these days
I always love it when the channel does something in relation to their username. This system is similar to one I built my friend! Their system was a R5 3600, B450M, Zotac GTX 1660S, 1TB MP34 M.2, 16GB Crucial 3200MHz, EVGA 600GD, all in a little sleeper office PC case, just a little over $300 :)
I'm happy to see you used a 1 tb drive. storage is so cheap yet i still see 512 so often
R5 3600's and 1660super/ti's go for next to nothing these days and are still very capable in loads of games
Same here also built by brother a PC for online class, with a used tray cheap* cpu R5 2600 that cost 40$ back covid, a RX580 2048(570), and oh god I can't help but smile seeing the corsair vengeance LPX; i highly thank Corsair for that; a seasonic M12, and a M.2 WD Green. RX580 2048, Tray chip used AM4's, Vengeance LPX, a used motherboard, might be the staple of budget gaming here in Asia.
@@btd1114 Some people do a 256/512 for the boot drive and are okay with games on a HDD, but yeah, I definitely agree that a 1TB drive is less hassle and just easier to work with. I'm a weirdo and my main system has 12.5TB of space and that 0.5 is my boot drive, an SN850 M.2 from WD lmao
@@ANN1H1LATE89 In my eyes 1660 super/ti is still 1080p sweet spot gaming. Maybe a 2060. I have a 2060 super and find I can have an enjoyable 1440p experience.
It's funny how all budget builds almost always use am4
Built a junkyard pc for 200 with a 2700, sold it for 250. Buyer said he’s popping a 5600 with a rx5700xt..alls to say, am4 mad value lol
Why is it funny? I dont understand
There aren’t really any good cheap Intel options if you want something that came out recently
*upgradeable builds
@@jiggybucksington That or something that came out years ago.
That EVGA W1 PSU is listed on Cultists Network as "F-tier: replace immediately"
Indeed, and even worse, it's second hand.
@@thorham1346 and the motherboard VRMs (no radiator! sweet jesus) are quite literally going to explode if you try to run a 5600x or, god please no, 5800x3d. It's an upgradable system, sure but the main components are "replace immediately" tier.
@@crispybottomyep, rule Number 1 in PC building is: Never, ever, on your life, skimp on the PSU!!! Because a faulty PSU can wreck all your other components.
And bad power delivery also helps causes coil whine at much lower fps than udual.
Additionally that board has only 1 m.2 slot and he's not using the SATA ports so the system fails the upgradeability test right there.
Next issue is 16 GB of RAM, not enough for today, it should be 32GB and it's not much of a price increase.
Also one of the best ways to save on a budget build is to carry over working storage.
Carried over 2 of my old SATA SSDs, they still work, why throw them away?
@@LupusAries 16GB of ram is enough, what are you even going to run on it? blender?
@@efeloteishe4675 Games, if I wanted to run professional programs on it, I'd recommend 64 GB at least.
Look at any moderately new game, they profit massively from 32 GB of RAM.
And I'm not even talking about DCS, then I'd have to recommend 64 GB instead of 32GB.
16GB has no longevity and it costs next to nothing to upgrade it. 25 Euros for 16 GB, 50 for 32GB. That's less than 30 Euros for.
Also it's a 6GB VRAM card, so it's very likely that it will run out of VRAM, which means more RAM usage, on top of the game+System's requirements.
I would love to see a timeline of the different budget pcs you have build over the years as it would be interesting to see how trends and prices change over time.
Yeah I was just thinking about this the other day
@@RandomGaminginHD 🤔Having a Playlist of the Build videos would be good too
Best tech tuber there is. Simple. Wholesome. Relatable. Being British is also a plus!
Your 2021 budget build is what introduced me to you back then, thanks for all your hard work!
This is literally my old build except with a b450 gaming x, did me proud for the past 6 years.
2:06 Only 2 RAM slots on the motherboard, that's bad! I would personally save a bit more and look for a motherboard which at least offers 4 RAM slots, for the best in upgrade options.
Well deserved 500k subs keep up the good work
That's not a bad build for the money, you've got some real bargains with that hardware!! Nice one!
That's an awesome platform to start with. I really love the flexibility of Mid Tower cases. You could add additional 2.5 ssds or old hdds that are laying around. A simple video card swap would do wonders. I love this build, great job!
i recently built a PC for a family member with the Hellcrack Classic case and i was genuinely baffled by just, how good it was for that price, great video as usual!
Just who decided to name it though ? Hellcrack ? Lol.
@@Gatorade69😂ikr
Got me intrigued on what other cases they had to offer
Yes
I have been awaiting such a video from you for a while,i'm at the beginning of it but its 100% gonna be awesome i can already tell.
0:52 Is that sound dampening on that side panel? If it is, what I WIN! And the standoffs are in place! 😀
Good video. Impressed you could get that setup for under £300. I have been looking a new components but perhaps I should lower my expectations.
I agree with what some have said about creating a series of slowly upgrading this build to show us what can happen if you choose to do so.
I have tis same motherboard and was having an issue, Thanks to your video I found the solution! Thank you!
Quality content as always, Cheers from the US. Keep us updated on this Build!
The thing with watching your videos is that you can instantly give it a thumbs up before viewing it, and i haven't been wrong yet :D
Subbed to this channel back in college because im a poor fuck looking to squeeze every bit of performance on old components
now im rocking a high end setup and still here keep it up boys you can do it
Love your vids mate, thanks for the great content !!!
Glad you like them!
9:38 that drift into the parking space was smooth lol. I was hoping this build wouldn't go over 1k of my currency but it's just over 1.5k, so a bit disappointing but it should be worth it for the upgradability. Also, I'm new to this channel but have you ever done a gaming build that's power efficient while being fairly cheap? I think that would be interesting to see
its always been gtx1650 for low powers
The 1650 sucks, most mid tier GPUs are power efficient anyway
Excellent video. Love the fact that you reference the specific parts, where you can get them from etc.
Back in 2014 my build was a very good one. Still running daily and had some good luck oc'ing it. 4670K i5, 16 gb ddr3 ram and 1070ti. The gpu's where always upgraded. Gtx460 sli, 660ti sli, 970 in sli and the 1070ti is likely the last upgrade this old beast got.
If your handy at repairing cpu socket pins you could probably get a cheap z690 and an i5 12600K used, just make sure its DDR5 because you'll want Hynix A die ram
great video! i've built and flipped dozens of budget builds and i am always impressed with the performance you've been able to get in recent years for the $250-$400 budget
Whats the cheapest you think you could do a pc that could run starfield at minimum requirements (its not for me, someone asked me recently)
For how much PC's I've built, this video is just something ordinary, but the way you are talking about it makes me watch more, as always!
Love these affordable builds u keep making vide on really helping out most of us who can't afford to get a 4090 and a Ryzen 9 keep up the great work 👍❤
You can get a decent build for about $1,200 if not about $800
but only to play older games ,lately games are released that have rtx 2080 as minimum spec and only do 55fps on that ,on gtx 1080 they become unplayable in 20 fps range (Immortals of Aveum)
@@bassax7045to be fair 2023 releases are really bad so far, so yeah playing older ones is not a bad thing at all
@@bassax7045 Not really I just built a client of mine custom PC for $1,600USD ish. Has a R5 7600 240 rad cooler 128 gigs ram 2060 Super 750 watt PSU two 2 tera SSD and a 500 gig SSD. all with RGB. He's getting a better GPU later on.
I feel like a better gpu choice would have been a radeon 5000 series card given todays gpu market but other than that nice build
Well not really, considering that the closest priced 5000 series card in the UK, the RX 5500XT shows slower performance than the 1060 on average. I’d say the better choice would be the RX 580 but there’s much less of an upgrade path for that compared to the 1060.
@@akturosu Wow, i understand that people prefer Nvidia but this is something else. 5500XT can trade blows with a GTX 1660 and is considerably faster than the RX-580. Very hard to understand how someone can say that is slower than a 1060, a card that can't even beat the 580, not to mention the 5500XT incredible efficiency.
@@Brazkainetsb My bad, I got the performance of the 5500XT confused for another card. Should've double-checked before making my comment.
@@akturosu No worries, it can happen to anyone. Maybe you confused the 5500XT with the 6500XT that is crippled by it's PCIe running at x4? That is a really problematic card indeed.
7:50 you can have more than two: I bought a SATA power to three header for my next build from aliexpress where you have the one header for rear fan and power for front fans directly from PSU 🥰
0:20 I would have gone for an AeroCool CS-107 v2 Case £29.99 from Scan... it has a Perspex side window and 3 x fixed RGB Molex powered fans meaning they just show a rainbow static effect and wont cycle through the colours. Probably one of the best bang for buck budget cases out there at the moment... would definitely like to see an upgrade video on this though.
I bought an Aerocool case recently (Trinity Mini I think it was called?) and the build quality is super cheap, and the fans are very loud, and have no way of controlling the speed. Don't know if the CS-107 is the same, but I'm not buying another Aerocool again.
@@Aruneh yeah I can't argue but for the price they are what you'd expect really. Just think they look better than the all black with no side window.
@@BillyBoy444 oh yeah, I didn’t expect amazing quality of course. Tempered glass side panel and three rgb fans for that price is pretty good, but the case itself is just SO cheaply made, and a pain to build in. I could have gotten a Coolermaster for a similar price, but without the glass and fans for the same price, and I will probably do that next time.
Cant say how many times i install the motherboard and screw it down just to find out i forgot to install the i/o shield
Nice minimalist build with no RGB :) Some really mega cheap cases still have a slot for a DVD drive on the front with ample HDD bay space. I really love to turn those machines into pseudo servers filled up with old HDD I have laying about. Plus you can turn your old DVD games into ISO to use on other devices.
Dam good cpu i had one up untill my upgrade to am5 . I still feel very privileged and lucky that i have had the ability to build my pc and am grateful.
AM5 is such a great platform :)
Gosh watching all these pc builds makes me feel excited to build my own pc in November. I plan on using it for 3D software like Blender.
The case in this video I was actually considering, thanks for confirming the quality of the case! 👍
I built a similar computer yesterday for my girlfriend, I got a Ryzen 3600 for €60 and a GTX 1660 Super for €80, both in excellent condition. The rest of the build was made with new parts (I also used this Corsair memory) and in the end everything cost ~€350. It's pretty crazy to think how cheap you can build a gaming computer now, I paid €450 just for my 6600 xt at the time. Btw, I really like your videos and it inspires me to build good and cheap computers. I'm even thinking about making a business out of it or maybe recording some videos. A hug from Portugal!
I thought I was immune to off-brand PC component names. HellCrack proved me wrong.
After living through 2 renovations (living at home during the renovations) you have my sympathy 💐 ✊🥳
Very well priced build and the segment about the front panel conenctors reminded me of my first build in 2020, where my build hadn't booted because I incorrectly plugged the front panel connectors. Luckily plugging them in correctly and it posted.
Saw a couple of RX 5600XT's go on eBay the other day for around £80-85, they're so overlooked now a days! definitely a card to look out for, for budget systems
5600xt are surprising! I nearly bought one, but i found a 5700xt for 10$ more.
I done a second build based around budget and performance. I ended up with a CIT F3 case (Black/Blue) for £26, EVGA 600W PSU for £35 new, 32GB DDR4 RAM for £35, Ryzen 5 1600X for £70, GTX 1050TI for £35 and a 2TB Crucial P3 SSD for £70 and I got the same Mobo Gigabyte B450M-K for £60. Runs games like world of warcraft and FF14 at around 60-70fps at 1080p medium settings ish. I loved the rubber holding mechanism for the SSD, I ended up chewing the SSd screw in my wife's PC and had to get creative when we upgraded her M.2 SSD earlier this year
An alternative to the case for the same price you can get the hellcrack midi which is atx,has a mesh front panel,a tempered glass side panel,three front fans and magnetic dust filters
These are really close to my current specs lmao, except I'm running a gtx 1660ti that is in desperate need of repasting. I'm planning on getting 2x16gb 3600mhz ram, a Ryzen 5 5600x, and for gpu I am pretty torn between 3060 ti, 6750xt, or an Intel Arc A770 for all that precious vram
Go for the 6750xt it outperforms the other two
@@ANN1H1LATE89 I like to play older pc games too which Intel cards struggle at so I prob will go AMD. Nvidia isn't looking good for the mid-range consumer crowd
currently running a 5600x, 6750xt, and cl16 3600mhz ram. 1% lows are really low and games are stuttering a bit but it's a much better experience than before.
There's something satisfying about large GPUs, they are intimidating and you can really tell that they packed a lot of power!
Nice one! Mine's as follows: Deepcool Matrexx 60, used AMD A320M board & Ryzen 3600 w/Prism cooler. ebay 3600MHz DDR4. Used 1070Ti. Decent power supply, some cheap solid state storage (I used a repurposed 512GB NVME from a dead laptop and got a good deal on a 2TB SSD) and call it a day!
DDR4-3600 on a320? Is that compatible?
@@FreddyFazbear-ent well, the board is flashed to take the 3600 so hey it might've been part of that revision. Either way it's a stable 3600.
@@boingkster oh cool
6:34, I`m pretty sure you got our Front Panel Power button cable the wrong way around. Unless it don`t matter. I always have the writing showing at the top.
*Just sold my 2600x, 1660 super, 16GB rig today for £300 today :)*
GTX 1060 is cheap but at the same time it's on it's last legs. Needs replacement within two years. A RX 580 / RX 590 would have been slightly better for (less) money. However the RX 5600XT and RX 5700 (XT) have come down in price a lot, this should be the preferred option.
this build is a beast on some esports title especially on vsync off 1080p 144hz, great build!
It’s only 1060, you can find cheap 1080 too, or use your own old 1080 Ti
A downside is that the Ryzen 2000 series on Zen+ cannot run TPM 2.0 that Windows 11 needs.
missed watching this guy. Quality videos everytime
A build after my own heart, I have built several similar systems and sold them locally with great results . Never had one come back for any reason. Usually used an RX570 class card as they are a personal favorite
The case very much reminds me of the one I've been using for years now. Nice build!
I built nearly this (different B450, 1600 instead of 2600x, RX580 instead of 1060) in 2018 because I thought it'd age well as a gaming and content creation PC and honestly, though the upgrade path is fantastic, I haven't bought anything else for it.
Yeah, unless you want to play the modern AAA games, something like that is perfectly fine for 1080p gaming. I only just upgraded my RX 480 a month ago after six years.
well even for 1080p its ruffy^^@@EnglishMike
ppl dont understand it, 6cores/16gb of ram aged like spilled milk, for new tripple a games heh would need to build an intirally new machine cuz the foundation of that silly B450 wouldnt allow for a 5900X/RTX 3080 for example, cuz its a cheap psu, cheap case, cheap nvme (probly DRAMLESS-.-) and 16gb of ram would be the same as putting the same parts 5900x/3080 onto an X570S, 64gb of RAM and a Corsair MP600, would be miles better of a complete experience so the upgrade path aint that fantastic as u might think ^^
@@tyonorshapzc7tjfvb7-caz Whet the hell is this comment doing on a channel dedicated to low budget gaming? I think you took a wrong turn somewhere.
You don't need a 5900x or 3080 for 1080p gaming. That's just silly.
Really nice build! Hope you turn this into a series where you gradually upgrade the PC over time and see how it handles. Possibly the GPU to a 2060 or 590, CPU to a 5600 or i5, etc. As someone who built a PC during the shortage crisis it’s crazy just how cheap building a fairly powerful gaming PC today is. Great video!
Nice deals to start the build. Nice case but a few £10 more and you get more fans, a mesh front and tempered glass side panel. Felt the 2600 was held back by the 1060 a bit.
Great build overview, but for the new builders who might watch your video I would add the recommendation to build outside the case before putting it in to check everything works, particularly if some parts are 2nd hand.
My personal choice for low to modest budget PC build that relies on some used parts:
Second hand Ryzen 3 3300X OR Ryzen 5 3600 (you may consider the R5 5500 as well)
Asrock B550M HDV
16GB (8x2) of DDR4 3200 RAM
Any 1TB NVME with DRAM
AMD card: Second hand RX580 8GB OR RX6600 (you may consider RX5700XT if the price is better in your country), OR
Nvidia card: Second hand GTX1070 OR RTX 2060 Super
Any 80+ Bronze 600w - 650w PSU from known brands (Semi Modular if possible)
Any mATX case similar in type and pricerange that RGHD uses
Cooling fans that correspond to what the case supports (ID Cooling and Cooler Master for budget, Arctic if you can up the budget)
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I do not know what's the pricing on your side of the world and what you can build for similar pricerange (do share in the replies to my comments!), but this build may cost between US$400 - US$500 or below that depending on what deals you find in your place, which is great considering the price to performance that you're getting.
I think its a staple now for budget builds to get a used 1060 or an RX580 2048, tray chip AM4's, and the corsair Vengeance LPX. Built my brothet one during covid online classes
Always nice to see a budge build, 1060 6gb isn't something to sniff your nose at. Recently I got a pc from Cex for 290 with a ryzen 1500x, 16gb ram and a rtx 2060s.
A little piece of advice for everyone if you buying cheap case at least make sure it has some sort of front cuts to take air in, and it would be wonderful if it also had at least half of space on the top with holes to let that hot air out...
Some recomms: FSP/Fortron CST130BASIC, Cooler Master Masterbox Q300L, MSI MAG Forge 100M, Deepcool CC560 White
I would always recommend a 4 dimm motherboard for upgrading and the pieces aren't too far off
hm... i know it's easy to say, but if you have future upgrades in mind then i'd absolutely recommend trying to get a better motherboard. one with a more confidence-inspiring VRM and some heatsinks where it matters
I've had two B450m motherboards for three years. Zero problems with them. Unless you're going to stick a high end 8, 12, or 16 core chip into them, and you're going to try overclocking (which is barely worth it these days) then the lack of heatsinks isn't an issue. I know there was a lot of concern about the issue, but I don't think it's been as big a problem as originally feared, and almost nobody pushes their computers to the limit these days.
I bought a hellcrack case before very cheap to buy new but very good for price nice to see one being used.
With "upgradability" in mind, I would've chosen a board with 4 RAM slots, for a very cheap upgrade to 32 gigs in the future, and an RX 580 8 GB for those 2 more gigs of VRAM that you never thought you needed, until you do. But outside of these nitpicks, I think it's quite a nice budget build.
Just finished building using this as a guide - picked up at RX 590 and a different branded SSD as well as AX3000 WiFi card as I'm not close to an ethernet port at my desk, but still came in around £350! Bargain I think with a slightly better GPU in there as well. Can only switch on and install Windows tomorrow now so fingers crossed!
Also got the CPU from CeX, but mine didn't come with a fan so had to pick one up separately which added a little on!
Good to see AM4 being so affordable these days! Nice build and great video as always!
great as always !!!
This is almost my exact same build from 2020 with a slightly different case that has optical drive bays. A Sata 3 SSD (M.2 is way cheaper now) and an RX 580 (comparable to the 1060 and $50 on the used market)
i did same mistake about PCIE covers on my case but luckily for me, mine are screwed in - no need to break them off so i was able to screw it back :D
The only thing I would change is getting a 256gb M.2 and leaving it solely as your windows boot drive and then have a 1tb sata SSD as your games storage. Having games on an SSD and not an M.2 won’t affect load times but not having your boot drive filled with games will keep the PC responding faster for longer and keep windows snappy with no discernible input lag.
A really nice and cozy build, and that 1060 is beautiful. A month ago I found the same one as showed in the video but couldn't make a deal with the seller for €100... Too bad for him I got a 2070 super 3 days ago for €180. I'm thankful towards him ahah.
a small investment into a M.2 heatsink would be a good ideo. a nvme ssd can get really hot sometimes and that tiny bit more for a cheaper heatsink is not thrown out money.
Have you done a low power/idle home server style build? I'm looking at a few options at the moment whether that's re-using an old enterprise machine or building from scratch. Would be an interesting video including some power stats (if you've not already done a video like this?)
I suggest 4 slot ram motherboard if you really want upgradibity, 16gb is still enough but not for long time from now
Plug in the EPS (CPU) power cable before actually installing the board. So much easier than trying to find some long pliers or something to try to get the thing in it's spot.
Very good point.
I got almost the same setup, a 2600, gtx 1060 6gb, 32GB RAM, same SSD and an MSI B450 Gaming Plus MB, these work great combined, and as you mentioned, It's room for upgrade down the line since I just built mine in the past 2 months :D
How much did you pay for that setup?
@@hrvojemilicevic3309 I've currently changed my whole setup, upgraded to new AM4 parts & Graphic card (R5 5600, Aorus B550 Elite, GTX 1070) but the previous parts were pretty cheap when bought because those were used (only SSD & RAM was new) I think I paid like 90-100 Euros for MB, CPU & Graphics Card.
Board is not sufficient for 5000 processors. For example B550M-K doesn't support PBO. It's missing in BIOS, completely. I was very dumbfounded, TBH. You should go for any of MSI VDH B450 stuff.
I recently upgraded to AM4 for cheap. Found brand new open-box cheap board from biostar, Ryzen 5 1500X and 8GB of the same RAM (just slower at 2666MhZ). AM4 is a great choice for budget builds. U finally moved on from 1155 and i5 2400.
@Ciffer-1998 It was a weird board that didn't support 3rd gen and old i7s are
ridiculously overpriced where I live, so I was better off paying a bit more for what i've got.
If the bios is unlocked try clocking that ram. There is a 99.99% chance that ram will run at least 2933 C16 and possibly with a latency of C14.
Biostar seems like not a very reputable brand for motherboards iws. Even their Valkyrie X670 E mobos are having VRM thermal issues
@@baoquoc3710 If you are buying a Biostar, you are probably using a stock downdraft cooler blowing across the board and not a tower.
hope u stay on budget and not ppla NEW tripple a titles cuz that thing gonna make u cry, 4c/16gb ram, uuuuf, 3770k called and is bloddy mad^^ and it also wants its ram back XD
nice, but for a much more upgradeable path, you should've scored a motherboard with 4 ram slots with just for a few dollars more. you're capped at 16gb now, unless you replace them with 2x16 sticks. on a four slot, you could just add another pair of 2x8.
Ooow the reason I started my own channel! RGinHD budget builds 🤩
Really nice video. A beginner pc builder like me can learn a lot. In spcific what components to chosse for upgradability:
- High Watt PSU
- Motherboard with a socket that supports a lot of CPU generations (AMD seems to be the only option xD)
The rest of the system can be adujsted to what your wallets weight.
Nice video, I will remember it for when I need it again!
The GREAT thing about this pc is how upgradable it is and you can do it over time. Upgrade the psu.. a month later put in a ryzen 5600 cpu that you got a deal on.. then a month after that put in a gtx 1070ti or rtx 2060 etc that you got for a great deal. 3 or 4 months later you have a much more powerful pc for cheap and it was easy to do. Good video.
Imagine upgrading a major component every month instead of just building it with a 5600 and a better card
great build 👍 .. also recommend budget gaming laptop under 650$
Someone who builds this or similar with a 60Hz Monitor or HDMI capable 1080p TV laying around, the specs will suffice the expectations. The budget case is lovely, I like the front panel options, the only issue with me would be that the front panel unfortunately not on the front, instead put on top, to easy collect and accumulate dust. But apart from that, temperature wise it's good for a budget build with 2 fans.
The case may be cheap but the front I/O cables were all black, which is very nice. Unlike those expensive cases that are still using colored wires for their cables.
Dont forget the ASUS Strix GTX 1060 has additional fan headers built on it for adding those front fans. I think the software also will allow for gpu temp speed controlling for better quality fans for adaptive case intake cooling.
Not bad, but there's much better parts newer parts for the money out there, namely the Ryzen 3600 and GTX 1660 Ti/Super. Swapping out to those would've only added 20 pounds to the cost and been 30-40% faster, more efficient, and less likely to fail. The GTX 1060 is old enough now that there's good likelihood it won't have a much longer life before failing especially if it's an OC model running at high factory voltage.
Believe it or not, there's some people for whom an extra 20 to 40 quid would mean they can't afford the computer at all.
Why would the GPU be more likely to fail just because it's old? That's only determined by the use case of the person who you bought it off of. Unless the GPU was absolutely hammered in a use case such as crypto mining, the GPU can last for many many years, worse case scenario you have to repaste it.
then they have gottn other problems and should be building a PC AT ALL, omg ppl go cheap cheap cheap and complain :P@@EnglishMike
The Gigabyte B450M DS3H variant of that motherboard is also cheap and it has VRM cooling that helps with overclocking and any powerful CPU if you want to put on it.
Can you do the upgrade path and show us your shopping process w commentary? Even if it isn't the optimal min/max I would love to see how you shop and pick deals. I have adhd and I love to build pcs but the shopping and deciding is the hard part for me.
Damn a respectable build for a tiny budget! Good work
I built my PC 5 years ago with the similar specs, and it runs still great until now. But it's a little bit sad, that the resell value of the PC drops so much.
I purposely build an AM4 PC since I needed to do it on a serious budget. I have a 3700X which is honestly fine for me and doesn’t bottleneck my 6650 XT. Someday I can upgrade to a 57/5800X3D and have several more years of acceptable gaming performance.
I have a 2600 and RX560. I just spent some dough on a 6650XT, next upgrade should either be a Samsung 970 Evo Plus 1TB NVME for 70 euros, or a 5600X for 170-180.