Building a Budget Gaming PC: A Journey of Trial and Error

As I embarked on building my budget gaming PC, I had high hopes that it would meet all my requirements and provide smooth gaming performance. However, as we will see later, things didn't quite go as planned.

I started by selecting the CPU and motherboard for my build. After careful consideration, I decided to go with an i3 550 processor, which seemed like a great deal at the time. The motherboard was a bit of a gamble, though - I had high hopes that it would be the star of the show, but unfortunately, it proved to be faulty from the start.

After removing the motherboard from my previous build, which didn't work, I knew I needed to find a new one. After searching online for days, I finally found a deal on an X79 board that seemed too good to pass up. However, as soon as I plugged it in and started building, I realized that something was amiss.

The problem with the X79 board was that no signals were coming through - nothing. It was like trying to run a car without fuel or water. I was disappointed but not surprised, given my experience with faulty parts before. Despite this setback, I decided to push on and see how far the build would take me.

As I began to assemble the rest of the PC, including the GPU and storage, I realized that I needed something more powerful than the GTX 560 to get smooth frame rates in games like CS:GO. So, I added a 250GB hard drive just to balance out the system and give me some breathing room for future upgrades.

With my components assembled, I plugged everything back in and started up the PC. To my surprise, it booted up quickly and seemed to be running smoothly, even playing games like CS:GO with frame rates around 80 FPS at 100% on both CPU and GPU. The temperatures were also surprisingly good, and I was impressed by how quiet the PC was - it was almost as quiet as my old laptop.

However, as we all know, PC building is not without its challenges. When you're working with used or pre-built parts, there's always a risk of encountering faulty components that can bring your entire build to a grinding halt. In this case, I had been feeling hopeful about the X79 board, but when it turned out to be faulty, I knew I had to take it in stride.

Despite the setbacks and frustrations that came with building this PC, I have to say that I'm fairly impressed with how it all worked out in the end. The balance of power between the i3 550 and the GTX 560 was surprising, and I found myself enjoying smooth frame rates in games like CS:GO and League of Legends.

When it comes to advice for those looking to build their own gaming PC on a budget, I would say that the most important thing is to be prepared for unexpected setbacks. You never know when you'll encounter a faulty part or two (or three) - so make sure you've got a solid backup plan in place and don't get discouraged if things don't go as planned.

In conclusion, building a budget gaming PC may not have been the easiest experience, but it was certainly rewarding in the end. With patience, persistence, and a willingness to take risks, I was able to create a system that exceeded my expectations - even if it did require a few bumps along the way.

GDP vs TDP: What's the Difference?

As one viewer asked me, what is GDP? Well, according to economists, GDP (Gross Domestic Product) measures the total value of all goods and services produced within a country's borders over a specific period of time - usually a year. It's a way to measure a country's economic output and growth.

On the other hand, TDP (Thermal Design Power) refers to the maximum rate at which an electronic component or system is expected to dissipate heat. It's an important consideration for anyone looking to build a powerful gaming PC, as it can help prevent overheating and damage to your hardware.

While GDP may be of interest to economists and policymakers, TDP is more relevant to those in the field of computer hardware. For gamers like myself, it's not about how much money we spend on our computers - it's about how fast they can run our games smoothly!

So, while GDP is an important metric for countries looking to track their economic performance, TDP is a crucial consideration for anyone building or upgrading their gaming PC.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthis here on the table is a pc that has been completely pulled apart and we're going to clean  it up very soon where in the pc ultra clean series we turn trash into treasure however  this one here is a very unique story in that the person who traded in they did not want this thing  at all they said it's giving out no signal it's junk to me can i just have a pc that works and  they message me on an office pc that i had up for sale and typically my office pcs they have an i3  they'll have no graphics card eight gigabytes of ram ssd basically they're just there for browsing  the web and doing things like excel and so when i saw that the motherboard inside this build was an  x79 that is the motherboard was pretty much worth more than the whole office pc i decided to take  the gamble now also included in this build is 32 gigabytes of ddr3 memory a gtx 560 which to me is  probably the worst part of the build the two hard drives an ssd a 120 mil liquid cooler from corsair  and this blue martian themed thermaltake case now all this stuff is very dirty but the person said  strictly that this pc did not work so what i'm going to do is before i spend all this time  cleaning it up i'm actually going to see which part is faulty so we don't have to clean that up  like we did in a previous episode where i actually came into an x79 motherboard but i  ended up spending all this time cleaning it where in the end it unfortunately didn't end up working  however that aside let's find out what the problem is and take you guys through a journey from start  to finish on what something is and what it can be let's get it on right off the sponsors button  hey bro are you tired of seeing this annoying activate windows message then if so today's  video sponsor scd keys has you covered for as little as fourteen dollars using the coupon code  bftyc you can get activated today works for windows 11 pro too, links in description belowso we now just spent a heap of time with his x79 board and you can see the one in  the previous episode right here i don't know what it is with these rampage boards but  they don't they're just not working in 2021. there must be something with this particular model of  motherboard that just gives out after a certain time frame and the difference here was that this  one wouldn't give out a signal and i tried a few different things i tried g skill memory it did get  past the initial boot code that it was giving out previously and then after that i tried to  bias flashback it to refresh the bios and that did not work either so what we're going to do now is  we're actually going to try the bios out of this board right here the older one and then put it in  here and just see if that works if not we'll then try and just give it an ultrasonic clean anyhowwell at least the gtx 560 worksby casting shadowslet's godon't lead themnoit's on yoursso we've now cleaned this thing down thoroughly the data vac that's given it a great bj  and it's just it's still not working the thing is just it's i don't know i mean before it went into  the ultrasonic cleaner it just came out the same state as it before it went in and this is pretty  much the exact same issue that happened with the uh previous rampage board that we had in the other  episode so i don't know what it is but like these boards are meant to these boards are meant to be  just ironclad they're meant to be rock-solid they should not fail at all but what we've got here is  i have this is a second rampage board that's just really finicky there's something faulty on them  that prevents them from booting and functioning probably and i've tried different ram i've tried  different ram slots even tried a different bios tried different cpus tried flashback you go  through the list i have tried it with this thing it just does not want to work and so it's a little  bit disappointing it's a little bit disheartening because this is the main part of like when i saw  this come in as a trade i was like yeah the x 79 rampage board is the selling point that's the one  part that i really wanted to work just like the last build that came in and sure enough i kind  of got hosed on that first trade-in this trade-in i mean at least we've got a decent power supply  we've got you know a corsair water cooler 32 gig of ram uh i mean i was going to say gtx 560 but  i mean it still works out okay but it's just that main part that would make it a winning deal  it just it's not a winner and so that's that's the most frustrating thing this is just this is what  it's like if you're dealing with used parts and you're hustling you're going to come in to these  bad streaks of luck and i'm glad you guys get to see it on the channel like i always just show the  the wins and the losses but this is a big loss and you know i what i want to do to this thing  right now i'm very frustrated so i'm going to just have a sleep it's pretty late anyway i'm  just going to go to bed i'm gonna wake up with a calm head and then just get back into it because  we have to use a different motherboard and a cpu but we'll keep it really budget because  that's the whole point of this series is i want to keep doing things honest budgitoumand the roller coaster ride of this pc is finally complete and i've been testing it out in cs go  but there's some pretty bad news as you guys saw with that motherboard i kind of had to calm down  because two rampage x79 boards in a row it's not just the fact that i was unlucky and that  both these boards didn't work it's the fact that they're some of the best x79 boards that you can  get and the fact that two of them in a row i just could not get them working no matter what i did  it's kind of it's it's like it just sucks when you're into pc building especially used stuff  you are going to come into just pcs that no matter what you do they don't work however  one thing i did learn out of this whole process was the fact that coupling a gtx 560 with an x79  motherboard should have been at least it was a little bit suspect before i took the trade-in  but i should have definitely checked over the trade-in and looked out for a signal at least  before it came in because what i think happened with this pc right here was they were using it  because they had a pretty decent power supply they had 32 gigabytes of ram i7 water cooler and they  probably had a graphics card say maybe a gtx 1070 or 1080 ti and when the computer stopped working  they probably uh took the graphics card out put something really low end in like a 560  and then just said all right let's get what we can for it because we don't know what's wrong but  there is some good news that's going to come out of this and that is i've got a 32 gigabytes of ram  i've also got a one terabyte hard drive 250 gigabyte ssd a 900 watt power supply and we got  a corsair 120 mil water cooler and you're probably like well brian you did have to put in components  in place of that and that's exactly what we did with this pc however i wanted to build around this  gpu which is the gtx 560 since graphics cards you cannot let them go to waste at this point in time  and so having something like this the gtx 560 i decided to use an i3 550 eight gigabytes of ram  and office motherboards just a hp first generation motherboard and we've got a 500 watt thermaltake  power supply and we then swap the 250 gigabyte ssd for a 120 gigabyte ssd and also put in a 250  gigabyte hard drive just to balance out the whole system and then we kept all the other components  for a later build where we can put in a higher end gpu and match everything so overall all those  parts we put in ended up costing me 50 but if we couple this with a monitor keyboard and mouse we  can then have an entry-level gaming pc that as you witness here plays cs go with smooth frame  rates we're getting around average 80 fps and the one percent lows are pretty decent and then if we  want to move over to dota 2 league of legends and also valerant i found in the past when it  plays csgo with smooth fps it should play these other three titles absolutely fine as well so  i was pretty impressed with the balance of the i3 550 and the gtx 560. for instance in cs go  we've got it pretty much running at 100 on the cpu and then 100 on the gpu and the temperatures are  really good too and i've just decided to record this while it's playing a game and the noise  is just really quiet this pc surprisingly is doing a very good job remaining quiet the temperatures  are still good and i'm happy in the end that we've got something that i've still managed to salvage  even though that motherboard was the most important piece of the bill when i saw it  i thought i was in for a treat however you guys know if you've been into building used pcs even  building new pcs you can come into situations that you can't do anything that's just a faulty  part you just cannot do anything to bring it back and that's what we've had here again however with  pcs it just gets to that stage where you just come into a lull of fails and uh can be frustrating but  you just calm down get through it and there'll be another day where you will get a big victory  and as you guys know if you've been watching for a while you'll know that i'll come into some massive  wins from time to time and it's always just like it's just the jet coaster of pc building you know  i got that 1070 ti for 200 aussie dollars and then we come into this and the x 79 board doesn't work  and you have your ups and downs and just know if you do like a trade-in where the person does say  something's wrong with the build then do be prepared to deal with some problems i just  had a feeling that maybe the rampage board was the part that would have worked but of course i knew  there was a possibility that that board couldn't work too since no signals no signal anyhow guys  hope you enjoyed today's video if you did be sure to hit that like button also let us know in the  comments section below what do you think about our little budget build setup that we ended up coming  out here with today love reading your thoughts and opinions as always just like this question of  the day here which comes from uh bukalex1 and they asked what's gdp tdp i'm bad at economics sad face  i got kicked for being inactive but gdp means gross domestic product and it's basically the  sum it's a dollar value of all the products and services that are changed in dollar values in one  year so it's usually measured on an annual basis for that particular country and so in the us i  believe it's around 20 trillion dollars of gross domestic product per year however tdp is thermal  design power and that has nothing to do with economics so hopefully that answers that question  if you guys have stayed this far and you're enjoying that tech yes content be sure to hit that  like button ring that bell and i'll catch you in another tech video very soon peace out for now byeyou\n"