Gadgetory

the goal of this content was to put together a budget build with just things that I had lying around and available and see how many corners I could cut and what a very budget gaming PC is capable of these days could have cut a few more corners a cheaper motherboard for instance would have certainly drop price by 10 or so dollars maybe 15 but I didn't have any in stock I did however have an athlon x4 845 which is just about the cheapest gaming grade cpu currently on the market it's a $68 CPU or thereabouts-- and we also had a GTX 1050 about 110 115 dollars and opted for a fifty-dollar coarser case 50 after rebate anyway so that's the 200 are so this build is looking at really how does it perform and if you wanted to spend about in this instance 467 dollars on a PC what should you expect from it in terms of gaming frame rates power draw thermals and boot times now there's a few things here as stated again we've got an app on x 4 845 at 68 bucks there's a GTX 1050 game in from EVGA $115 and Asus 888 X plus which includes a free copy of doom I suppose if you care about that and an 8 gigabyte kit of 2133 megahertz corsair vengeance pro memory that I benchmarked years ago that's pretty cheap now and then the case that's on the table there's also a 500 watt EVGA 80 plus white power supply for about thirty eight dollars and interestingly this system could actually be run with a lower wattage power supply is something we talked about in the GTX 10 series the 1050 in the 1050 TI is specifically those to review pieces talk about the power supplies now and how you could technically run a 300 watt psu and power this thing just fine even if you're pushing the CPU and the GPU pretty hard through game and scenarios but the power supply market for those cheaper power supplies is really not that mature yet I mean they've been around for a while but these are things that are often the really cheap no brand Chinese power supplies that are 20 bucks and would you really be better off not buying at all and join with something a bit more expensive and overkill quote-unquote on the wall or the price just doesn't really quite line up with things so using a 500 watt psu it's a bit overkill but it's not that bad and if you ended up upgrading maybe to an i3 with a higher-end GPU or just whatever any kind of upgrade there will be head room for it in the future as for storage you've really got one main option but there's an optional option it's a lot of options the main option of course is a 7200 RPM hard drive at one terabyte you can get those from sigue Inc of those from Western Digital they tend to be fifty to sixty dollars at this point pretty darn cheap and a lot of storage so that's kind of where you generally go for this type of build the optional version would be something like an SSD I picked up in m7 vplex or SSD they are fifty dollars for 128 gigabytes right now which is pretty darn cheap not the cheapest i've seen but pretty good considering the performance of them so i would be and the reason i picked that up my kind of thinking with this is because i've been doing this long enough that I'm ok with waiting on upgrades and things like that I would rather have a stable OS drive that I don't have to worry about refreshing later if my plan is to get an SSD after I get a hard drive I'd rather have a stable OS I don't have to screw with if i upgrade and invest money later and other components now the alternative to this of course and it's a good point to make is that if you buy something like a fifty dollar hard drive you could invest that fifty dollars you would also spend on an SSD because you probably need to you need one for storage and one for your OS because one quick gigabytes is decent but can't fit many games on that so you probably need to that fifty dollars extra of course you can put towards an i3 cpu that would boost performance pretty reasonably you can put it towards a GPU I would put it forward toward the CPU in this case but still m7 b is what I went with just because I am a bit spoiled by SSDs at this point so I wanted to test with one of those we're also sticking with amd's stock quote unquote near-silent solution for the cpu since the export 845 really doesn't need anything more powerful than that and it's a bit cheaper that way the entire build took me about 30 minutes obviously bit of experience here but after KO management time the build itself getting it in the case it was about half an hour of work so pretty trivial to set up let's start the test with thermals that noise an FPS for full testing methodology as always check the link in the description below our thermal values r delta t / ambience so add your own house ambient temperature into the results to get an idea for performance in your environment for most houses it's probably about 70 72 fahrenheit which would be about 20 21 22 celsius because we can't take an accurate temperature measurement of andy cpus unfortunately they don't report properly to software and always appear colder than ambient which is impossible by the way unless you're using ln2 or something where I looking at GP attempts here we can have delta T values the GTX 1050 game Ian from EVGA is hitting about 26.8 Celsius under a simple gaming workload and adding your ambient temperatures of that for an idea of where to land ultimately probably generally be in the 40s just under 50 Celsius or thereabouts Idol is about 3.85 Celsius delta T over ambient and really not bad the case here is providing adequate cooling for these components and it is just a two fan case at 50 bucks but for a low-end build like this that's perfectly fine here's a look at the builds power consumption power draw is about 143 wats when running a CPU and GPU intensive gaming workload with idle desktop consumption at about 39 242 watts and that's after accounting for PFC and efficiency when measuring from the wall under a gaming workload and with max case fan speed and auto controlled CPU and GPU fans that were seen noise levels about 37 decibels with this particular build you could lower the noise levels significantly by opting for a tower cooler and using the SSD does also lower noise levels a bit because the hard drive occasionally will do what you would expect it would do it spins and makes noise so 37 DBA is what we see with the SSD and with auto controlled CPU GPU under gaming workload and then obviously the tower cooler would help but this is cheap so for thermal reasons it's not really necessarily worth the investment for a tower cool or aftermarket option but for noise reasons it might be that's up to you very quick test here for boot up times with the SSD and the build our boot up time about 15 seconds to get fully into windows will soon be benchmarking this drive though against other SSDs that we have and against hard drives to keep an eye out for that content in the future let's get to FPS testing with GTA 5 at 1080p with high settings configured across the board though with three sliders maxed we're seeing an average of about 60 FPS with lows around 36 FPS 1% and 23 FPS 0.1% low it's not terrible especially when you consider that this is a $68 cpu and $115 GPU stutters can be partially resolved by reducing CPU intensive graphics options further but they are infrequent enough that a builder on a budget this strict could reasonably enjoy gta5 at high settings at very high in ultra settings again sort of surprisingly performance is actually not bad it's still it's about 10 FPS lower than what we saw with the high settings you're bit more stuttery obviously but not terrible the CPU is hurting performance of the most with GTA 5 we've shown that in the past let's look at overwatch we're seeing an average FPS output of an impressive 75 with overwatch though the low metrics do hurt the system's ability to avoid stuttering during more intense battles but again this is with ultra settings if you were to drop settings down to a mix of medium and high with care taken to lower quality and the CPU bound effects you'll resolve those stutters pretty quickly overwatch is reasonably playable on this setup it you could definitely have fun with it and is exactly the kind of game that the 1050 and 845 are meant to play just know that you'll have to reduce settings down to again a mix of medium and high speaking of games that these devices are meant to play battlefield one is not one of those it is definitely the opposite but I still tested it because it's a new game and I was curious we're seeing performance with 1080p medium settings at around 47 FPS average 26 FPS one percent lows and 20 FPS 0.1 percent lows the dips in frame times and frame rates are definitely noticeable here we saw about an 8 FPS improvement moving from ultra at 39.7 fps to medium but you might still have to shift down to low settings and then you'd be dealing with difficulties when running multiplayer if you have your heart set on battlefield one it's probably best to invest a bit more than something more powerful and I three would be a good start we show that in our CPU benchmark for battlefield one as would a 1050 TI both of those would be capable of playing at about 60 FPS with ultra settings at 1080p a bit below depending on your multiplayer match ups an rh 470 of course would be another good option but it is stepping a bit higher in the price area dota 2 is next it's got medium settings at 1080p and produces an average FPS of 60 17 with low is hovering around 35 and 19 FPS really again not bad overall that with occasional stutters dota is a bit harder to control for with the stutters we generally notice that it's not as consistent as frame times as some other games we test but you can still account for some of that in these settings by fine-tuning for the CPU and next with doom at 1080p and medium settings in OpenGL we're seeing an FPS output of about 53 average 21 and the one percent low is 18 and the 0.1% blows and remember this is a game that was provided for you with one of the components Vulcan negatively scales of this particular setup and isn't worth the showing we tested it with ultra against OpenGL at ultra and negatively scaled so you should be running OpenGL for this particular game and system so then the question of course is this type of system worth building it's pretty cheap like I said if you were going to do this yourself this is a good starting point for a system guide I'll have all the links on description below you could alter a bit lower end motherboard i did use this one because we had it and because it will fully support the memory spec and that's actually beneficial in some titles append what you're looking at and you could probably shave a few bucks off maybe in the video card department five dollars saved if you go for zotac instead of EVGA so yeah it could be dropped probably to about 450 pretty safely and that's without getting bad untrustworthy power supply or things and entering into the territory of components that will more likely die without actually putting any load on them that's severe enough to kill a normal component so this is a safe baseline for a cheap build under five hundred dollars is it worth it depends on what you're doing so overwatch and dota 2 performed pretty decently the lows were kind of iffy depending on which game you're looking at what settings those can be mostly accounted for all these titles really had kind of poor low performance depending again on the settings but if you end up opting more towards medium settings and take care to look through and sort of step down anything that CPU bound because that's the big limiter here then it would be fine and the average FPS for things like GTA overwatch and dota is great for all three of those titles it just becomes a minimums game and GTA 5 the minimums were actually pretty bearable when actually playing the game and looking at it more heuristic alee it's it's pretty tolerable so not a bad build if you're looking to play something more intense than overwatch and dota maybe battlefield one it does make sense to step into i3 territory on a 1050 TI at sort of a baseline you could get x 1050 but it's a bit rough 1050 tii through kind of be my baseline then from there if you've got more money look into an RX 470 things like that and we'll be doing another one of these build guides pretty soon the idea is to do something like a 700 750 dollar build hit this against that and then see what the difference is with a two hundred fifty dollar additional investment and hopefully show kind of is it worth stepping up for users who haven't done this before and don't necessarily know now of course there's a million ways to criticize builds I've seen you all do it to Linus and to others there's a lot of ways to build a computer that's the cool thing about PC building so like I said these components are off the shelf here you could opt for a different case you get out for a different power supply whatever you want to do feel free to do that but that's what I put together it's pretty cheap I would recommend it to a friend who's playing pretty lightweight games but other than that it's a step up so thank you for watching as always patreon link lip postural video I know this content was a bit lighter but technically a holiday tomorrow or today when the video goes live so have a good one of those if you're in the US subscribe for more I'll see you all next time you