Gadgetory

what's up guys so with my insanely expensive liquid-cooled PC nearly complete I thought it'd be fun to switch things up a bit and test my frugality by building the absolute cheapest PC money can buy the goal of this build is to create a low powered office workstation or HTPC for as little dough as humanly possible we're also going to stay away from buying used components in this video so we don't have any doubts about how much mileage our parts have been through I should also mention that everything here had to be purchased from US retailers and that the final cost of the build does not include an operating system so diving right into it let's check out the parts and prices for our dirt-cheap PC for the CPU I've chosen the Sempron 3850 from AMD which is rocking their 28 nanometer kabini architecture this a 1 socket apu sips on 25 watts of power at one point 3 gigahertz features the Radeon HD 8220 integrated GPU and sports 4 physical cores making this quad-core CPU in absolute steel at just 30 bucks I'll be pairing the chip with the AM 1b ITX from asrock the Mini ITX board supports ddr3 up to 1600 front panel and rear i/o USB 3.0 and a variety of video outputs for connecting up to 2 monitors I managed to pick this up for a measly $35 to cut costs down will only be populating one of the board's DIMM slots so for memory we have a 4 gigabyte ddr3 module from Kingston at 1600 megahertz this single stick set me back a whopping 21 dollars for storage I found this 160 gig hard drive on Amazon for just 14 bucks its 5400 rpm 3.5 inch and so cheap it doesn't even have a brand name listed on the product page it wasn't until unboxing the drive in person that I learned it to be a Samsung unit and apart from being the cheapest drive I could find online I'm fairly curious to see just how far this thing will go before kicking the bucket and finally to kill two birds with one stone I searched high and low for a small form-factor case with a built-in power supply what I found was this Lodge assist 6801 with an included 350 watt unit despite its shoddy construction it manages to squeeze in an external to dry Bay USB 3 port card reader and the ability to stand vertically which is ideal for the living room that is until it goes up in flames thanks to the cheapy power supply however at just 40 bucks I suppose I have no choice but to roll the dice on this questionable combo when all is said and done the total cost of our poor-man's build comes out to just 140 USD that's more than I spend on gas in a single month or about how much YouTube money I make in a single week sure it's rather sluggish when traversing through the OS and it certainly can't play games worth a damn but it handles simple tasks like 1080 video playback and OpenOffice without a hitch which is exactly what it's intended for well this is definitely the cheapest PC I've ever put together I'm almost positive that you guys can find some way to make it even cheaper so go ahead and leave your suggestions or PC port picker lists in the comments below but that's going to do it for now guys before you go feel free to share this build with your friends and toss me a like on this video if you enjoyed it also check the description where you can buy geeky shirts or bookmark my Amazon affiliate link and use it when you buy stuff it helps me a lot till next time I'm Calvin awesome doesent Network thank you guys for watching subscribe to the channel if you haven't already and I'll see you all in the next video