EBAY BLITZ S1 -E1 - $300 Gaming PC Challenge

**The Build: A Ultra Budget PC with eBay Components**

We decided to build an ultra budget PC using components purchased from eBay, and our first real case is a pick up local deal for a Micro ATX tower. The price of this system is around $2677, but the seller has offered free shipping, which brings the cost down significantly. We'll be using a 500GB SSD that we had previously agreed on as part of the build.

**Graphics Card Selection**

We're looking to purchase a graphics card for our build, and there are several options available on eBay. The first option is an RX 580, but it's not going to fit in our case. We'll need to look for a different model. Our next best option is the Sapphire Nitro X 480, which is currently priced at $89 with free shipping. This is the cheapest we can get, and it should provide good performance.

**CPU Selection**

With our graphics card chosen, we're now looking to select a CPU for our build. We have a budget of around $200, and we want to make sure that we're getting a processor that will provide good performance. Our first option is an AMD Ryzen 5 3600, but it's priced at $199, which is close to our budget. However, we also see that the Ryzen 3 3100 is available for $52, which is significantly cheaper. We'll need to decide whether or not this processor is sufficient for our needs.

**Motherboard Selection**

With our CPU chosen, we're now looking to select a motherboard that will support it. Our first option is an ASRock B450M Steel Legend Micro ATX motherboard, which is priced at $20 with free shipping. This is the cheapest option available, and it should provide good performance for our build.

**RAM Selection**

We have a budget of around $50 left for RAM, and we're looking to purchase 16GB of DDR3 RAM. Our first option is Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 1600MHz C10 RAM, which is priced at $42.

**Final Total**

With all our components chosen, we can now calculate the final total cost of our build. We have a CPU that costs $52, a motherboard that costs $20, and RAM that costs $42. This brings the total cost to $114. The graphics card will be the Sapphire Nitro X 480, which is priced at $89. The case is free with shipping.

**Conclusion**

We've successfully built an ultra budget PC using components purchased from eBay. We've taken advantage of some great deals on components such as the motherboard and RAM, and we're confident that our build will provide good performance for its price. We'll be posting more about this build in future videos, including benchmarks and comparisons to other builds.

**Ebay Deal Hunting**

We used eBay to find our components, and we were able to take advantage of some great deals on the following items:

* Micro ATX Tower Case: $2677 with free shipping

* Sapphire Nitro X 480 Graphics Card: $89 with free shipping

* ASRock B450M Steel Legend Micro ATX Motherboard: $20 with free shipping

* Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 1600MHz C10 RAM: $42

* Ryzen 5 3600 CPU: $199

* Ryzen 3 3100 CPU: $52

We were able to find these deals by using the eBay Deal Hunter feature, which allows us to search for items based on price and availability. We also used other tools such as eBay's " completed listings" feature to see what similar items have sold for in the past.

**Delivery Estimates**

Our components should arrive within a week or so of purchasing them. We'll be posting more about our build process in future videos, including delivery estimates and any issues we may encounter along the way.

**Aziz and Greg's Channels**

We'd like to thank Aziz and Greg for their great deal hunting skills, which helped us find some amazing deals on components for our build. Be sure to check out their channels for more great content on eBay deal hunting and PC building.

**Final Thoughts**

We're excited to have finally built an ultra budget PC using components purchased from eBay. We'll be posting more about this build in future videos, including benchmarks and comparisons to other builds. Thanks for watching!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey what's up everyone Dani here myself and two other p.c contact creators that I'm sure you all know Greg from science studio and Ozzie from our stocks hardware are gonna be competing against one another in a build competition where the entire build must use parts bought from eBay and we've named it eBay bricks and believe it or not it actually took us a quite a bit of time to come up with that name it was pretty hilarious because we didn't want to use words like wars or battles those words kind of feel like they've been overdone for a genre like this for like pc building competitions so we kept brainstorming and we went through a lot of synonyms and to source calm and eventually came up with eBay blitz but you should see some of the other options that came up beforehand as a group we developed a pretty extensive list of rules which we will be going over here in a second and if you've already seen this set of rules because the other two channels will be uploading similar videos I then feel free to skip ahead to this time stamp that I'm showing right here and you can get a little bit of glimpse of my deal hunting for this challenge yeah buzzing that here are the rules in three two one all right so the gang's all here and we're just gonna read off the rules one at a time and if needed vaguely justify why we included said rule so that you guys know but you know what our rationale is behind the parks choice so Ozzy I guess can go and start if you'd like so the first rule that we have is the budget so we're only spending 300 bucks on this computer and it's for two main reasons one it doesn't break the bank and it's attainable for most of our viewers and two it's challenging enough to make us actually work for the deals that will fight the second rule is that we must only use eBay for the component purchases this was kind of an arbitrary rule because technically we couldn't use like Amazon and Newegg and things like that but just because we wanted to keep it all consistent we chose to only use eBay because that does bring some challenges as you'll see in our individual videos later next rule of shipping must be included in the total budget we decided to include shipping and not taxes or see you later because shipping is one of those costs that a lot of people don't tend to take into account in a budget but it's definitely a real expense so the fourth rule is that you cannot use any local pickup so everything must be packaged and mailed physically to you and now the next rule of grain kind may seem earlier was that we did not include taxes though even though we gave include shipping and the reason for this is because some people don't have to pay taxes and some people have different tax rates so to make it fair we just assume that no one had to pay taxes but you take into account that if you do have to pay for it consider that in your total budget the next rule is when we kind of came up with actually as we were kind of hunting for parts SATA cables and thermal paste so after that we decided that we won't use coupon codes the next rule is that we were not gonna allow pre-built PCs so for example no pre-built like HP's or nail off duplexes the next rule ties into that as well so all products purchased must be added to the final budget so if an optic Plex cost a hundred bucks but you rip out a $20 power supply you paid a hundred bucks so it's coming out of the old rule and similarly like if you buy a prebuilt just going off that example you can't sell the parts in the pre-built or any of the components that you buy and then use the money that you gained from that that transaction and add that to your budget for storage we decided that the drive must be standardized and we would deduct the same amount from everybody we couldn't think of anything else to add in that respect like if you you know if you want to buy a CPU cooler pack it into your budget if you want to buy anything else another important rule is we are not allowing mail-in rebates which I absolutely love because I hate mail rebates most of the time they don't work at least in my personal experience the prices for components that come down on arrival can be immediately reimbursed next rule is the most important rule any RGB adds a million points to the final score we're not including the windows 10 cost and that's because you could run the entire system with the watermark without paying a dime you will get roasted for it that's true you will get called out B for pick every time something else had we discussed while we were shopping was what the line of a prebuilt is out of the seven components that make up a standard game computer four of them you have to manually install yourself so you can't buy a combo deal with five of the seven components already pre-installed and then you add say just a graphics card that doesn't count the final rule is that the peripheral prices will not be including the final budget and that's just because we're talking how much to build costs you can spend however much you want and peripherals after the fact but the $300 is just solely for the build monitor keyboard mouse not glued so we are weighing this purely on performance so acoustics and thermals are not going to be evaluated directly now of course if your graphics card or your CP is running hot that's going to directly affect performance but we're not going to actually test and record the temperature or the sound that's coming out of the case and then we're also not going to measure or kind of give weighting to aesthetics at all so it's kind of up to our own discretion it's just way too subjective and way too many variables to kind of consider to give a proper scoring to and then the testing suite just to briefly run through that we have three different software suites we're gonna use Cinebench r15 which was that because depending on how old our hardware is it might not be great with our 20 a superposition which is just like a full-fledged GPU benchmark and then 3dmark firestrike which kind of is a mixture of both although it will probably favor the graphics card a bit more and then the scoring is all weighted based on the best performer in each category so the highest cinnamon score will receive like a weight of one and then the lower scores will be a percentage of that highest score and we have an example of it here it's kind of vague we just wanted to kind of simulate what would happen if supposedly three of us got these scores here and then these scores and these scores average them all up and then add them together and it'll give you the winner all three of these suites are weighted the same so you know your Cinebench score counts just as much as your superpositions score and the same goes for 3d mark firestrike you want to make sure that it was a level playing field in that respect those are those are the rules and again these are subject to change in the future I think we've already done most of our parts hunting apart from the way we benchmark I think we're okay with the way that they are laid out here now it's up to all of us to hmm see rest of the system let us know who you think is gonna win I want to see what people think yeah yeah this is gonna be on our individual channels let us know in our individual comments and then we'll probably help around to each other's videos and check that out yeah alright so those were the rules and now let's check out a little bit of the deer hunting process that I went through to put together my build and I'm not gonna give you the final list of parts I use just yet because that'll be unveiled next week when all three of us simultaneously released videos to showcase our end products and how they performed so definitely be on the lookout for that and be sure to subscribe to the other three channels which I'm pretty sure you already are sister but bigger than me but yeah other than that let's check out my deal hunting the first thing I'm gonna actually look for is the power supply because I think that's gonna be one of the harder things to find especially the used market I'm also going to only do buy it now because we have a certain amount of time we got yeah all these parts by you can usually get parts for a little bit cheaper if you do bidding but the thing about bidding is you don't know what the end prices if other people are also very adamant about winning that item you can easily waste your time if people start beating that price up really high and if you've been watching it for like four days you could be passing on other items so I usually go with buy now because of the time that we have I'm gonna see might need something between five hundred seven ninety nine server power supplies those are not gonna be half double but they're really cheap they're only fifteen dollars I got look at the different connectors on here yeah a lot of these aren't gonna have the PCI connectors so $24 for probably 50 watt oh that looks pretty rough cowork $25 free shipping from California six on your why I don't know if I would trust this infamous Tom's Hardware infamous Poe work huh doing that Johnny guru tore apart and blew up okay very poor powers away okay so yeah I'm probably gonna just stick with the standard in this 300 dollar price range I know I'm going to be able to at least go got rx 570 or 470 so I think we're gonna want at least 500 watts it doesn't look like we're gonna be able to really get that 520 bronze $30.00 okay I'm not gonna pick these up yet I'm kind of just getting an idea of how much things cost so for the power supply we will put in 30 bucks oops nothing I'm good 30 so now we can go for a computer case and I'm basically gonna sort by lowest price again I hate that their filters reset every time eBay why do you do this okay the first real case we see ultra is pick up local so the probably on charge for shipping we'll skip that free South Korea okay it's gonna take way too long to get to me the first one is this rows will duel fans micro-atx tower this thing is pretty ugly micro ATX this looks like it's ten years old but for 2677 and it's free shipping so assuming 2677 already at over 50 bucks now this is the SSD that we all agreed on that we're gonna use so i'm winning at $29.99 listen your graphics cards now just because that's not gonna really require much compatibility now that we kind of have a power supply chosen I'm feeling an Rx 580 it's how much we can get these for replacement fans ah man I saw that 4777 and I got happy really quickly but then now I'm sad because that's 4777 for fans that's more than half the price because we should be able to find this from China but this would have been 86 dollars or less cuz the best offer it's from China I'm not gonna get in time so we got a sapphire nitro our X 480 ooh free shipping 89 so 90 bucks is the cheapest we can get there but that was the sandwich the 570s are $65 or die pay another 1t5 price to performance I think the 570 because it's about 3/4 of the price of this a little bit lessons recorded as a price I've put 65 in for the GPU I might be able to get a better CPU but where to these tests are gonna be pretty reliant on the graphics card so I don't want to weigh too heavily to the CPU I think spending about a third of the budget on the graphics card is reasonable I'm going to look at GTX the only thing I could really get I think we were supposed to 1060 the 1070 is gonna be way too expensive missing fan for 170 years waiting works it's more than half the budget not have enough money for anything else we got these fake cards from Singapore for $70 free local pickup for 110 so you have 10 60 s not worth it so cheapest one is that nitro so we'll put 90 bucks in for the graphics card and we're at a hundred seventy-five so we have 125 lat I don't know if that leaves enough for a rising processor be 350 bazooka yeah so cheapest is like 65 bucks and we're already over budget and I'm pretty sure there's not gonna be any p450s that cheap either so yeah $60 we can't we can't do an for the 1151 motherboard let's say I wanted to be skylight just so it's a little bit newer Oh $20 seriously $20 here all right what kind of processor I can get let's see how much I 5 600 or $90 okay we're not doing that that's the rest of the budget oh well I three just to see you know I wouldn't get this yeah it costs as much as a rise in three twelve hundred so at that point I would get the rising all right we're on goal with school so it's $56 see if I want with Sandy Bridge I would go with an OEM motherboard so 1155 I'll get the cheapest one yeah so these off-the-books 990 would work and that would be $18.00 or I can offering it a little bit lower so we're 2050 dollars and this looks pretty good right now I have 50 bucks left and I think ddr3 RAM is pretty cheap I think we can get 16 gigs eight gigs two modules is there a way to sort by no okay 6040 two bucks right here yeah so 16 for $42 I think exact make 291 another option I could go with would be V on and I got $21 oh but then I would need like a x58 motherboard the processors are dirt cheap the motherboard is not gonna be dirt cheap so 50 52 mm so 52 so I could do that and then we saw the ECC Ram was really cheap Oh what delivery estimate I forgot I haven't been looking at every estimates okay so I'm gonna actually start buying these parts if you don't see what I end up building to compete against the other guys definitely come back and it should be an under a week from now for when we release our final builds and benchmarking results so definitely be sure to check that out and also check out Aziz and Greg's channels for their deal hunting as well I'll have that in the description and all that good stuff but yeah thanks for watching and I will see you guys in new next video bye youhey what's up everyone Dani here myself and two other p.c contact creators that I'm sure you all know Greg from science studio and Ozzie from our stocks hardware are gonna be competing against one another in a build competition where the entire build must use parts bought from eBay and we've named it eBay bricks and believe it or not it actually took us a quite a bit of time to come up with that name it was pretty hilarious because we didn't want to use words like wars or battles those words kind of feel like they've been overdone for a genre like this for like pc building competitions so we kept brainstorming and we went through a lot of synonyms and to source calm and eventually came up with eBay blitz but you should see some of the other options that came up beforehand as a group we developed a pretty extensive list of rules which we will be going over here in a second and if you've already seen this set of rules because the other two channels will be uploading similar videos I then feel free to skip ahead to this time stamp that I'm showing right here and you can get a little bit of glimpse of my deal hunting for this challenge yeah buzzing that here are the rules in three two one all right so the gang's all here and we're just gonna read off the rules one at a time and if needed vaguely justify why we included said rule so that you guys know but you know what our rationale is behind the parks choice so Ozzy I guess can go and start if you'd like so the first rule that we have is the budget so we're only spending 300 bucks on this computer and it's for two main reasons one it doesn't break the bank and it's attainable for most of our viewers and two it's challenging enough to make us actually work for the deals that will fight the second rule is that we must only use eBay for the component purchases this was kind of an arbitrary rule because technically we couldn't use like Amazon and Newegg and things like that but just because we wanted to keep it all consistent we chose to only use eBay because that does bring some challenges as you'll see in our individual videos later next rule of shipping must be included in the total budget we decided to include shipping and not taxes or see you later because shipping is one of those costs that a lot of people don't tend to take into account in a budget but it's definitely a real expense so the fourth rule is that you cannot use any local pickup so everything must be packaged and mailed physically to you and now the next rule of grain kind may seem earlier was that we did not include taxes though even though we gave include shipping and the reason for this is because some people don't have to pay taxes and some people have different tax rates so to make it fair we just assume that no one had to pay taxes but you take into account that if you do have to pay for it consider that in your total budget the next rule is when we kind of came up with actually as we were kind of hunting for parts SATA cables and thermal paste so after that we decided that we won't use coupon codes the next rule is that we were not gonna allow pre-built PCs so for example no pre-built like HP's or nail off duplexes the next rule ties into that as well so all products purchased must be added to the final budget so if an optic Plex cost a hundred bucks but you rip out a $20 power supply you paid a hundred bucks so it's coming out of the old rule and similarly like if you buy a prebuilt just going off that example you can't sell the parts in the pre-built or any of the components that you buy and then use the money that you gained from that that transaction and add that to your budget for storage we decided that the drive must be standardized and we would deduct the same amount from everybody we couldn't think of anything else to add in that respect like if you you know if you want to buy a CPU cooler pack it into your budget if you want to buy anything else another important rule is we are not allowing mail-in rebates which I absolutely love because I hate mail rebates most of the time they don't work at least in my personal experience the prices for components that come down on arrival can be immediately reimbursed next rule is the most important rule any RGB adds a million points to the final score we're not including the windows 10 cost and that's because you could run the entire system with the watermark without paying a dime you will get roasted for it that's true you will get called out B for pick every time something else had we discussed while we were shopping was what the line of a prebuilt is out of the seven components that make up a standard game computer four of them you have to manually install yourself so you can't buy a combo deal with five of the seven components already pre-installed and then you add say just a graphics card that doesn't count the final rule is that the peripheral prices will not be including the final budget and that's just because we're talking how much to build costs you can spend however much you want and peripherals after the fact but the $300 is just solely for the build monitor keyboard mouse not glued so we are weighing this purely on performance so acoustics and thermals are not going to be evaluated directly now of course if your graphics card or your CP is running hot that's going to directly affect performance but we're not going to actually test and record the temperature or the sound that's coming out of the case and then we're also not going to measure or kind of give weighting to aesthetics at all so it's kind of up to our own discretion it's just way too subjective and way too many variables to kind of consider to give a proper scoring to and then the testing suite just to briefly run through that we have three different software suites we're gonna use Cinebench r15 which was that because depending on how old our hardware is it might not be great with our 20 a superposition which is just like a full-fledged GPU benchmark and then 3dmark firestrike which kind of is a mixture of both although it will probably favor the graphics card a bit more and then the scoring is all weighted based on the best performer in each category so the highest cinnamon score will receive like a weight of one and then the lower scores will be a percentage of that highest score and we have an example of it here it's kind of vague we just wanted to kind of simulate what would happen if supposedly three of us got these scores here and then these scores and these scores average them all up and then add them together and it'll give you the winner all three of these suites are weighted the same so you know your Cinebench score counts just as much as your superpositions score and the same goes for 3d mark firestrike you want to make sure that it was a level playing field in that respect those are those are the rules and again these are subject to change in the future I think we've already done most of our parts hunting apart from the way we benchmark I think we're okay with the way that they are laid out here now it's up to all of us to hmm see rest of the system let us know who you think is gonna win I want to see what people think yeah yeah this is gonna be on our individual channels let us know in our individual comments and then we'll probably help around to each other's videos and check that out yeah alright so those were the rules and now let's check out a little bit of the deer hunting process that I went through to put together my build and I'm not gonna give you the final list of parts I use just yet because that'll be unveiled next week when all three of us simultaneously released videos to showcase our end products and how they performed so definitely be on the lookout for that and be sure to subscribe to the other three channels which I'm pretty sure you already are sister but bigger than me but yeah other than that let's check out my deal hunting the first thing I'm gonna actually look for is the power supply because I think that's gonna be one of the harder things to find especially the used market I'm also going to only do buy it now because we have a certain amount of time we got yeah all these parts by you can usually get parts for a little bit cheaper if you do bidding but the thing about bidding is you don't know what the end prices if other people are also very adamant about winning that item you can easily waste your time if people start beating that price up really high and if you've been watching it for like four days you could be passing on other items so I usually go with buy now because of the time that we have I'm gonna see might need something between five hundred seven ninety nine server power supplies those are not gonna be half double but they're really cheap they're only fifteen dollars I got look at the different connectors on here yeah a lot of these aren't gonna have the PCI connectors so $24 for probably 50 watt oh that looks pretty rough cowork $25 free shipping from California six on your why I don't know if I would trust this infamous Tom's Hardware infamous Poe work huh doing that Johnny guru tore apart and blew up okay very poor powers away okay so yeah I'm probably gonna just stick with the standard in this 300 dollar price range I know I'm going to be able to at least go got rx 570 or 470 so I think we're gonna want at least 500 watts it doesn't look like we're gonna be able to really get that 520 bronze $30.00 okay I'm not gonna pick these up yet I'm kind of just getting an idea of how much things cost so for the power supply we will put in 30 bucks oops nothing I'm good 30 so now we can go for a computer case and I'm basically gonna sort by lowest price again I hate that their filters reset every time eBay why do you do this okay the first real case we see ultra is pick up local so the probably on charge for shipping we'll skip that free South Korea okay it's gonna take way too long to get to me the first one is this rows will duel fans micro-atx tower this thing is pretty ugly micro ATX this looks like it's ten years old but for 2677 and it's free shipping so assuming 2677 already at over 50 bucks now this is the SSD that we all agreed on that we're gonna use so i'm winning at $29.99 listen your graphics cards now just because that's not gonna really require much compatibility now that we kind of have a power supply chosen I'm feeling an Rx 580 it's how much we can get these for replacement fans ah man I saw that 4777 and I got happy really quickly but then now I'm sad because that's 4777 for fans that's more than half the price because we should be able to find this from China but this would have been 86 dollars or less cuz the best offer it's from China I'm not gonna get in time so we got a sapphire nitro our X 480 ooh free shipping 89 so 90 bucks is the cheapest we can get there but that was the sandwich the 570s are $65 or die pay another 1t5 price to performance I think the 570 because it's about 3/4 of the price of this a little bit lessons recorded as a price I've put 65 in for the GPU I might be able to get a better CPU but where to these tests are gonna be pretty reliant on the graphics card so I don't want to weigh too heavily to the CPU I think spending about a third of the budget on the graphics card is reasonable I'm going to look at GTX the only thing I could really get I think we were supposed to 1060 the 1070 is gonna be way too expensive missing fan for 170 years waiting works it's more than half the budget not have enough money for anything else we got these fake cards from Singapore for $70 free local pickup for 110 so you have 10 60 s not worth it so cheapest one is that nitro so we'll put 90 bucks in for the graphics card and we're at a hundred seventy-five so we have 125 lat I don't know if that leaves enough for a rising processor be 350 bazooka yeah so cheapest is like 65 bucks and we're already over budget and I'm pretty sure there's not gonna be any p450s that cheap either so yeah $60 we can't we can't do an for the 1151 motherboard let's say I wanted to be skylight just so it's a little bit newer Oh $20 seriously $20 here all right what kind of processor I can get let's see how much I 5 600 or $90 okay we're not doing that that's the rest of the budget oh well I three just to see you know I wouldn't get this yeah it costs as much as a rise in three twelve hundred so at that point I would get the rising all right we're on goal with school so it's $56 see if I want with Sandy Bridge I would go with an OEM motherboard so 1155 I'll get the cheapest one yeah so these off-the-books 990 would work and that would be $18.00 or I can offering it a little bit lower so we're 2050 dollars and this looks pretty good right now I have 50 bucks left and I think ddr3 RAM is pretty cheap I think we can get 16 gigs eight gigs two modules is there a way to sort by no okay 6040 two bucks right here yeah so 16 for $42 I think exact make 291 another option I could go with would be V on and I got $21 oh but then I would need like a x58 motherboard the processors are dirt cheap the motherboard is not gonna be dirt cheap so 50 52 mm so 52 so I could do that and then we saw the ECC Ram was really cheap Oh what delivery estimate I forgot I haven't been looking at every estimates okay so I'm gonna actually start buying these parts if you don't see what I end up building to compete against the other guys definitely come back and it should be an under a week from now for when we release our final builds and benchmarking results so definitely be sure to check that out and also check out Aziz and Greg's channels for their deal hunting as well I'll have that in the description and all that good stuff but yeah thanks for watching and I will see you guys in new next video bye you\n"