Yes, You CAN Build a $200 Budget Gaming PC!

Thanks for watching! Would you consider making a $200 gaming pc?

Just built my first PC with zero experience and it was for sure a rewarding experience. I've never felt more nervous in my life tho 💀

next 50 dollars gaming pc, for my budget

Did you have to use the Thermaltake Smart power supply? I think there were better options...😬

it's always nice when youtuber's include the troubleshooting part of wondering why your new pc doesn't work.

10:50 This is exactly why the 'working' Dell Optiplex 3020 (LGA 1150) upgraded with a Xeon 1270 v3 or similar is the much better choice just like you said. PC building from scratch with used parts can be very time consuming and stressful when something goes wrong. Upgrading a working Optiplex can eliminate a lot of that Enjoyed the video.

My first pc back in 2020 was an optilex with a i5 3470(I think) that I bought on ebay and a rx 570. Earlier this year I found a newer optiplex with i7 4790 at a thrift store for 10 bucks and swapped over my gpu and power supply. Then 4 months ago I realized starfield was around the corner, I now have a custom built from the ground up pc that I greatly enjoyed building We all have to start somewhere

“Gamers Nexus said it’s ok”. That works for me. 😂

The older Xeons were baller. They could run in regular desktop boards without any special work, and a cheap way to get double the threads as an alternative to the i7 if you didn't want to pay extra for overclocking.

Love the editing and soothing voice. Build was fun to watch too. Subbed

This can even be done for cheaper! $150 is possible. My formula was to use a similar H61 board ($20), an i5-3575S ($5), Intel Stock Cooler ($10), 16GB DDR3 (2x8GB) ($15), RX 570 4GB ($35), a 480GB SSD ($25) and an Allied Gaming Case and Power supply bundle that was on sale for just $40. Acrylic side panel, RGB, and more storage. The performance is generally lower with such a tight budget, but the system is very balanced and perfectly useable.

Sorry you got flamed for your choice of power supply. Around 6 years ago I recycled an old office PC from work that had a bad hard drive, built a gaming PC out of it using that power supply! It still runs to this day and my house hasn't burned down haha. Yeah I could've just thrown in a better gpu and called it a day, but moving all the components into a new case adding new fans and a cpu cooler was a much more rewarding experience. Such a rewarding experience that it renewed my passion for building PCs, something I hadn't done since my late teens/early twenties! Now I've built a much better gaming rig and currently saving for a high end PC on the AM5 platform. Thanks for the video! I love seeing people push these budget builds!

the leaning psu when its mounted in that case scares me but this was an awesome budget build!

i bought a ryzen 5 4600g, 16gb vengance ddr4 ram, msi A320M pro mobo for £160 and a second hand case with a 400 watt psu for £15. i can game at 720p 60fps using the vega intergrated graphics

Love your sense of humour, will definitely sub and watch future videos. Keep up the great work ❤

those optiplex's are always good starters. it was my first gaming pc. paired it with a 750ti. was getting boring for a while, then just bought used rgb case and gutted the optiplex and transfered it to the rgb case.

I love your sense of humor man! Love your content!!!!! Just started haggling on Ebay and FB marketplace to upgrade my i5 8400, looking at am4 (5500 or 3600)

im building a super budget emulation station / pc for my younger step brother and sister so they can do some gaming and have pc for them selves. i deiced to use this cpu from a few video reviews. this was a great video as well

Thanks, JW. You did a great job.

I'm new to your channel and I think that you are doing great!