Building a $500 Gaming PC: A Budget-Friendly Option

When it comes to building a gaming PC, one of the most important things to consider is budget. While some high-end components can be expensive, there are ways to build a powerful gaming PC without breaking the bank. In this article, we'll explore how to build a $500 gaming PC that still offers great performance and value.

The Heart of the PC: Choosing the Right Motherboard

One of the most important decisions you'll make when building a PC is choosing the right motherboard. For our budget-friendly build, we've chosen the Gigabyte H110-MA motherboard for around $40. This motherboard supports Intel's 6th Gen CPUs and has six DDR4 RAM slots, making it perfect for our build. With a micro-ATX case, this motherboard is also compact and easy to install.

The Graphics Card: The Real Powerhouse

The graphics card is arguably the most important component of any gaming PC. For our budget-friendly build, we've chosen the MSI GTX 1050 TI, which offers great performance for its price. With 4GB of GDDR5 RAM and a core clock speed of 1341MHz, this graphics card packs a punch. The Boost clock speed is even higher at 1455MHz, making it a great option for smooth gaming performance.

Powering the PC: Choosing the Right Power Supply

When it comes to power supplies, there are many options available, but we've chosen the EVGA 430W power supply for our build. This power supply offers more than enough power for our system and has a price tag of just $30. With a total budget of around $400, this leaves us with almost $100 left over to upgrade other components or add new ones later.

Upgrading Options: Where You Can Spend Your Extra Money

One of the best things about building a PC is that you have the freedom to choose which components you want to upgrade and when. With our budget-friendly build, we've left ourselves some wiggle room to make adjustments as needed. If we wanted to add more RAM or a faster storage drive, now's the time. And if we wanted to upgrade our graphics card, we could do that too for around $80-$100.

Benchmarks: How Does Our Build Perform?

Now it's time to put our build to the test. With a 6th Gen Intel CPU, 8GB of DDR4 RAM, and an MSI GTX 1050 TI graphics card, we're expecting great performance from our system. But just how good is it? We'll be running some benchmarks in a bit to find out.

The Verdict: A Budget-Friendly Option with Great Performance

Building a gaming PC doesn't have to break the bank. With our budget-friendly build, we've managed to stay under $500 while still delivering great performance and value. From the Gigabyte H110-MA motherboard to the MSI GTX 1050 TI graphics card, every component has been chosen for its price-performance ratio. And with a power supply that's more than enough to handle our system, we're confident in our build.

Conclusion

Building a gaming PC is an exciting project, and with our budget-friendly build, you can get started on your own journey without breaking the bank. From choosing the right motherboard to selecting the perfect graphics card, every component has been chosen for its value and performance. With a total budget of around $400, we've left ourselves some wiggle room to make adjustments as needed. Whether you're looking to upgrade your current system or build a new one from scratch, this article should have given you some great ideas on how to do so without overspending.

Components Used:

* Gigabyte H110-MA Motherboard

* Intel 6th Gen CPU

* DDR4 RAM (8GB)

* MSI GTX 1050 TI Graphics Card

* EVGA 430W Power Supply

Alternatives and Upgrades:

* Alternative motherboards: ASRock B450M Steel Legend Micro ATX, MSI MPG Z370 Gaming Plus

* Alternative graphics cards: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060, AMD Radeon RX 580

* Alternative storage drives: Western Digital Black SN750 NVMe SSD, Seagate BarraCuda 1TB Hard Drive

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's up guys I'm random Frank P today we're going to be building a $500 gaming PC for the holidays and with Black Friday and Cyber Monday coming up there is no better time to build than now if you haven't already so you guys can take advantage of the insane discounts and sales that will be available at the Time spoiler alert I actually only Built This for $400 so I'm going to put all the components in the description down below as well as some Alternatives because the main reason I built this was to give you guys an awesome gaming PC but also a PC that has a lot of room to be upgraded in the future so hope you dig this it's an awesome rig and spoiler alert I'm actually giving this away so make sure you follow me on Twitter at randomfrankp I'll be putting out a video on that giveaway very soon so first off our case of choice here is going to be the thermal Versa h15 I went with this for pretty much one reason and one reason only it's only $30 the price fluctuates between 30 and 35 I picked it up for 31 but for a micro at X case which is going to be the compact build we're going with you really can't beat that price has a nice compact form factor there's a ton of room inside so it's not going to be cramped unlike a mini ITX PC and there's great ventilation on the top panel and the front panel is all mesh which going to keep the temperatures down very nice and cool $30 on a case is a no-brainer here next up our Chip's going to be the Intel i36100 this is probably the best budget CPU you can buy it comes in at around a 120 bucks I picked it up on a Amazon flash sale for only 110 you simply can't beat the price for performance here the skyl like chip set means it's modern so it's going to work with all the new components it's great because it's not going a bottleneck our GPU out of the box it's clocked at 3.7 gahz so you are getting a lot of performance for that price point next up is RAM and we're going with 8 GB of hyperx Fury Ram it's only $38 so it's definitely more budget friendly compared to its competitors out there like cor stair and the ballistic sport Ram which is $5 to $10 more and at 2133 MHz you're still getting some solid speed now since we're using a microatx case we're going to be going with the gigabyte h110 ma motherboard I bought this for only 40 bucks on sale so like I said keep your eyes peeled for these Amazon flash sales throughout the holidays right now it's currently 50 bucks but these things are always dropping in price it's going to support our six gen CPU compatible with our dual Channel ddr4 RAM and since we're building this for Budget purposes the motherboard's just going to be just fine for this price point and then probably the most important thing that you guys care about is the graphics card we're going with the new MSI GTX 1050 TI at $140 this is a killer deal it's cheaper than some of the other aftermarket cards out there for this model and I think the 1050 TI gives you some of the best performance for that price point it's got 4 gigs of gddr5 RAM the core clock is 1341 MHz and the Boost clock is 1455 MHz the card itself is very small and Compact and only requires 75 watts of power and this thing definitely packs a punch for only 140 bucks we'll show some benchmarks off in a bit then for our power supply since altogether this build isn't going to consume much energy we're going with the EVGA 430 W power supply this is going to be more than enough power here considering how low everything is total and it's still going to give you some leeway if you choose to upgrade some components later on down the road this PSU is only $30 when you tally all these components up I spent a total of $397 183 that leaves almost $100 left in your pocket and like I said in the beginning of this video this PC is meant to give you the room and the choices to upgrade what you want now if you notice I did include something like a hard drive this is where you can funnel in that extra 100 I'm putting in a 120 GB PNY SSD which only costs $40 if you want you can choose upgrade to a 240 GB s SSD for only 65 and then picking up something like an internal 1 tbte hard drive which is only going to be around 50 so you went with both options there you'd be getting 1 tbte plus a 120 SSD for under 100 bucks giving you a ton of space for your games and also you'll notice a great performance in loading and textures and loading screen times so say you already had an SSD or a hard drive and you still have the $100 left over now this going be the time for you to upgrade certain components if you want obviously you can get a different case if you're worried about Aesthetics and how it looks there are different cases out there that are Micro ATX or even like a a mid Tower if you want that have windows that are nicer looking if that's what you care about but if there is one place where you want to put in your money and get a better performance out you could also upgrade the 1080 TI to a 1060 for around $80 to $100 more which would pretty much be depleting that $500 fund that you had to build your gaming PC but altogether this thing is is pretty solid for the price now I know you want to see how this thing performs so let's check it out all right guys so I hope you enjoyed my video on building a $500 gaming PC or like I said I spent around only $400 giving you guys the choice and the room to upgrade what you want depending on your budget I hope you liked it and you know I've done a lot of research on this stuff and I've seen other videos out there that are similar but when when you when you tally in everything they spent well over $500 so I wanted to keep this under that price point like I said giving you the freedom and the room to upgrade and pick the components you want don't forget check the description down below for all the components I used plus some great Alternatives so you can pick and choose what you want and follow me on Twitter at randomfrankp cuz I'm giving this away very very soon candid jumped in said they wanted to sponsor a giveaway for you guys so I'll be giving this exact PC away I'll put a video out on that very very soon detail how to win if you like this video please give it a big thumbs up to show your support feel free to comment Down Below on what you think about the build if you haven't already hit that subscribe button on random Frank P hope you enjoyed have a good daywhat's up guys I'm random Frank P today we're going to be building a $500 gaming PC for the holidays and with Black Friday and Cyber Monday coming up there is no better time to build than now if you haven't already so you guys can take advantage of the insane discounts and sales that will be available at the Time spoiler alert I actually only Built This for $400 so I'm going to put all the components in the description down below as well as some Alternatives because the main reason I built this was to give you guys an awesome gaming PC but also a PC that has a lot of room to be upgraded in the future so hope you dig this it's an awesome rig and spoiler alert I'm actually giving this away so make sure you follow me on Twitter at randomfrankp I'll be putting out a video on that giveaway very soon so first off our case of choice here is going to be the thermal Versa h15 I went with this for pretty much one reason and one reason only it's only $30 the price fluctuates between 30 and 35 I picked it up for 31 but for a micro at X case which is going to be the compact build we're going with you really can't beat that price has a nice compact form factor there's a ton of room inside so it's not going to be cramped unlike a mini ITX PC and there's great ventilation on the top panel and the front panel is all mesh which going to keep the temperatures down very nice and cool $30 on a case is a no-brainer here next up our Chip's going to be the Intel i36100 this is probably the best budget CPU you can buy it comes in at around a 120 bucks I picked it up on a Amazon flash sale for only 110 you simply can't beat the price for performance here the skyl like chip set means it's modern so it's going to work with all the new components it's great because it's not going a bottleneck our GPU out of the box it's clocked at 3.7 gahz so you are getting a lot of performance for that price point next up is RAM and we're going with 8 GB of hyperx Fury Ram it's only $38 so it's definitely more budget friendly compared to its competitors out there like cor stair and the ballistic sport Ram which is $5 to $10 more and at 2133 MHz you're still getting some solid speed now since we're using a microatx case we're going to be going with the gigabyte h110 ma motherboard I bought this for only 40 bucks on sale so like I said keep your eyes peeled for these Amazon flash sales throughout the holidays right now it's currently 50 bucks but these things are always dropping in price it's going to support our six gen CPU compatible with our dual Channel ddr4 RAM and since we're building this for Budget purposes the motherboard's just going to be just fine for this price point and then probably the most important thing that you guys care about is the graphics card we're going with the new MSI GTX 1050 TI at $140 this is a killer deal it's cheaper than some of the other aftermarket cards out there for this model and I think the 1050 TI gives you some of the best performance for that price point it's got 4 gigs of gddr5 RAM the core clock is 1341 MHz and the Boost clock is 1455 MHz the card itself is very small and Compact and only requires 75 watts of power and this thing definitely packs a punch for only 140 bucks we'll show some benchmarks off in a bit then for our power supply since altogether this build isn't going to consume much energy we're going with the EVGA 430 W power supply this is going to be more than enough power here considering how low everything is total and it's still going to give you some leeway if you choose to upgrade some components later on down the road this PSU is only $30 when you tally all these components up I spent a total of $397 183 that leaves almost $100 left in your pocket and like I said in the beginning of this video this PC is meant to give you the room and the choices to upgrade what you want now if you notice I did include something like a hard drive this is where you can funnel in that extra 100 I'm putting in a 120 GB PNY SSD which only costs $40 if you want you can choose upgrade to a 240 GB s SSD for only 65 and then picking up something like an internal 1 tbte hard drive which is only going to be around 50 so you went with both options there you'd be getting 1 tbte plus a 120 SSD for under 100 bucks giving you a ton of space for your games and also you'll notice a great performance in loading and textures and loading screen times so say you already had an SSD or a hard drive and you still have the $100 left over now this going be the time for you to upgrade certain components if you want obviously you can get a different case if you're worried about Aesthetics and how it looks there are different cases out there that are Micro ATX or even like a a mid Tower if you want that have windows that are nicer looking if that's what you care about but if there is one place where you want to put in your money and get a better performance out you could also upgrade the 1080 TI to a 1060 for around $80 to $100 more which would pretty much be depleting that $500 fund that you had to build your gaming PC but altogether this thing is is pretty solid for the price now I know you want to see how this thing performs so let's check it out all right guys so I hope you enjoyed my video on building a $500 gaming PC or like I said I spent around only $400 giving you guys the choice and the room to upgrade what you want depending on your budget I hope you liked it and you know I've done a lot of research on this stuff and I've seen other videos out there that are similar but when when you when you tally in everything they spent well over $500 so I wanted to keep this under that price point like I said giving you the freedom and the room to upgrade and pick the components you want don't forget check the description down below for all the components I used plus some great Alternatives so you can pick and choose what you want and follow me on Twitter at randomfrankp cuz I'm giving this away very very soon candid jumped in said they wanted to sponsor a giveaway for you guys so I'll be giving this exact PC away I'll put a video out on that very very soon detail how to win if you like this video please give it a big thumbs up to show your support feel free to comment Down Below on what you think about the build if you haven't already hit that subscribe button on random Frank P hope you enjoyed have a good day\n"