**Building a Budget Gaming PC**

When buying used components, it's essential to purchase motherboard standoffs, SATA cables, and IDE if you're using very old hardware as well as some screws because not all parts come with these like you'd get with new stuff. A case fan would also be a good idea here.

Our case came with a decent 450 W power supply and a DVD drive as well. Although these are considered obsolete, they can be a lifesaver for those with slow internet like I do, saving a ton of download time by having them on disk. Total spend so far was £8 or $10. We went for a 1156 socket motherboard bundle that features 8 GB of DDR3 RAM as well as an i7 860 quadcore CPU clocked at 2.8 GHz, which cost us £60 or about $126 if we wanted to buy these separately.

Pricing for 1156 boards has been on the rise recently, so it's good we bought them when we did. We've spent £18 or $136 all in now, and all we need is a graphics card and hard drive before we can put everything together. Another £10 or $12 got us a reconditioned 500 GB hard drive. As for the graphics card, we decided to go for an NVIDIA GTX 750 Ti because since its release, prices of these have plummeted.

The GTX 750 Ti is low power and works on any PSU as long as it's above 300 W. It requires no power connector, making it a good choice. Let's put this thing together first of all; remember to put the back plate in, which will be a pain if you forget and have already installed everything else.

We'll get the hard drive in next, simply slotting it in and screwing it down. Then we'll get the motherboard bundle in, making sure we've got some standoffs like I said for our motherboard to sit on to avoid it touching the case. Now, you may not need standoffs if you have raised areas built into the case like we do, but always take time to check how things are set out.

Simply sitting the board on the standoffs or the raised areas and screwing the board in is a good time to install the case fan. With everything in but the GPU, let's attach all the cables to where they need to be. These cables correspond to a certain group of pins on the motherboard, each case, and motherboard being different, so if you look up your motherboard model online followed by "front panel layout," you'll likely find which pins do what and where each cable needs to go.

It's then just a matter of lining everything up and plugging them in. This section controls our power button, reset button, etc., as well as the USB and audio connectors too. Match them up to the corresponding group of pins and then that's the fiddly stuff out of the way. Next, attach a SATA cable to both the hard drive and the DVD drive or IDE cable if you went with older tech and connect the other ends to the motherboard.

Take your PSU power connectors and connect those up too as well as the SATA power connectors should be connected as well. Now, let's get our GPU in this takes up two slots so remove two little gate things at the back of your case to accommodate slotting your card into the PCIe socket and screwing it down at the back if it's a more powerful GPU you may also need a power connector.

But since we don't have one, there we have it. £168 or $211 later, and we've got ourselves a budget gaming system. The operating system will add more to that of course; we opted for Windows 10 in this case. Let's test this thing out with a few games and see how it performs.

We tested the build at 1080p with our sub-£200 build, and I think it did quite nicely. Now I know guys, we do use the GTX Ti a lot; we've used it in the past quite a few times but especially now with the release of the 10 series cards, prices of these have just been going down and down recently and to be honest, I think they're even better value for money than they've always been anyway. That's it really; there's nothing else left to say.

Thank you all so much for watching this video guys. I hope you've enjoyed it. I hope it helps you out if you're planning on building a budget PC similar to this one. If you need any help or advice regarding a PC build, leave a comment down below. Like the video if you enjoyed it; dislike it if you didn't enjoy it. Subscribe to the channel if you haven't done so already and as always, I will see you all in the next one.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello everyone and welcome to another video now today we're going to be building a budget gaming PC now this build is unconventional in the fact that a lot of components were bundled a lot of PC builds here on YouTube will be put together individually but to be honest in my experience the best deals can be found as combos also when buying used be sure to purchase motherboard standoffs SATA cables or IDE if you're using very old Hardware as well as some SC because not all parts come with these like you'd get with the new stuff a case fan would also be a good idea here we have our case which not only came with a decent enough 450 W power supply but it also included a DVD drive as well even if you consider these obsolete if you have slow internet like I do then these can be a lifesaver as downloading games will take time and having them on disk will save a ton of that download time total spend so far £8 or $10 we went for a 1156 socket motherboard bundle that features 8 GB of DDR3 RAM as well as an i7 860 quadcore CPU clocked at 2.8 GHz this cost us £00 which is about $126 if we wanted to buy these separately then it would have cost more as 1156 bards seem to be on the rise price-wise so far we've spent £18 or $136 all we need now is a graphics card and hard drive before we can put all this together another £10 or $12 and we had bought ourselves a reconditioned 500 GB hard drive as for the graphics card we decided to go for a GTX 750 Ti because since the release of the 1050 prices of these even used have been plummeting we found ours at £50 or about $63 I decided to go with this as it's low power and works on any PSU as long as it's above 300 WS it would probably work on a weaker one too as it requires no power connector so let's put this thing together first of all remember to put the back plate in this will be a pain if you forget and have already installed everything else with that in let's get the hard drive in simply slot it in and screw it down let's get the motherboard bundle in next make sure you've got some standoffs like I said for your motherboard to sit on to avoid it touching the case now you may not need standoffs if you have raised areas built into the case like we've got here but always take time to check how things are set out Simply sit the board on the standoffs or the raised areas and screw the board in it's also a good time to install the case fan so with everything in but the GPU let's attach all the cables to where they need to be now these cables correspond to a certain group of pins on the motherboard each case and motherboard is different but if you look up your motherboard model online followed by the words front panel layout then you'll likely find which pins do what and where each cable needs to go it's then just a matter of lining everything up and plugging them in this section controls our on button reset button Etc and also the USB and audio connectors too match them up to the corresponding group of pins and then that's the fiddly stuff out of the way next attach a SATA cable to both the hard drive and the DVD drive or IDE cable if you went with older Tech and connect the other ends to the motherboard take your PSU power connectors and connect those up too also the SATA power connectors should be connected as well so now let's get our GPU in this takes up two slots so remove two little gate things at the back of your case to accommodate slot your card into the pcie socket and screw it down at the back if it's a more powerful GPU you may also need a power connector but as you know in this case we don't so there we have it 168 or $211 later and we've got ourselves a budget gaming system the operating system will add more to that of course we have opted for Windows 10 in this case let's test this thing out with a few games and see how it performs come everything there at 1080p with our sub20 or roughly $200 build to be honest I think it did quite nicely now I know guys we do use the 750 Ti a lot we've used it in the past quite a few times but especially now with the release of the 10 series cards the prices of these have just been going down and down recently and to be honest I think they're even better value for money than they've always been anyway so that's it really there's nothing else left to say thank you all so much for watching this video guys I hope you've enjoyed it I hope it helps you out if you're planning on building a budget PC similar to this one if you need any help or advice regarding a PC build leave a comment down below like the video If you enjoyed it dislike it if you didn't enjoy it so much subscribe to the channel if you haven't done so already and as always I will see you all in the next onehello everyone and welcome to another video now today we're going to be building a budget gaming PC now this build is unconventional in the fact that a lot of components were bundled a lot of PC builds here on YouTube will be put together individually but to be honest in my experience the best deals can be found as combos also when buying used be sure to purchase motherboard standoffs SATA cables or IDE if you're using very old Hardware as well as some SC because not all parts come with these like you'd get with the new stuff a case fan would also be a good idea here we have our case which not only came with a decent enough 450 W power supply but it also included a DVD drive as well even if you consider these obsolete if you have slow internet like I do then these can be a lifesaver as downloading games will take time and having them on disk will save a ton of that download time total spend so far £8 or $10 we went for a 1156 socket motherboard bundle that features 8 GB of DDR3 RAM as well as an i7 860 quadcore CPU clocked at 2.8 GHz this cost us £00 which is about $126 if we wanted to buy these separately then it would have cost more as 1156 bards seem to be on the rise price-wise so far we've spent £18 or $136 all we need now is a graphics card and hard drive before we can put all this together another £10 or $12 and we had bought ourselves a reconditioned 500 GB hard drive as for the graphics card we decided to go for a GTX 750 Ti because since the release of the 1050 prices of these even used have been plummeting we found ours at £50 or about $63 I decided to go with this as it's low power and works on any PSU as long as it's above 300 WS it would probably work on a weaker one too as it requires no power connector so let's put this thing together first of all remember to put the back plate in this will be a pain if you forget and have already installed everything else with that in let's get the hard drive in simply slot it in and screw it down let's get the motherboard bundle in next make sure you've got some standoffs like I said for your motherboard to sit on to avoid it touching the case now you may not need standoffs if you have raised areas built into the case like we've got here but always take time to check how things are set out Simply sit the board on the standoffs or the raised areas and screw the board in it's also a good time to install the case fan so with everything in but the GPU let's attach all the cables to where they need to be now these cables correspond to a certain group of pins on the motherboard each case and motherboard is different but if you look up your motherboard model online followed by the words front panel layout then you'll likely find which pins do what and where each cable needs to go it's then just a matter of lining everything up and plugging them in this section controls our on button reset button Etc and also the USB and audio connectors too match them up to the corresponding group of pins and then that's the fiddly stuff out of the way next attach a SATA cable to both the hard drive and the DVD drive or IDE cable if you went with older Tech and connect the other ends to the motherboard take your PSU power connectors and connect those up too also the SATA power connectors should be connected as well so now let's get our GPU in this takes up two slots so remove two little gate things at the back of your case to accommodate slot your card into the pcie socket and screw it down at the back if it's a more powerful GPU you may also need a power connector but as you know in this case we don't so there we have it 168 or $211 later and we've got ourselves a budget gaming system the operating system will add more to that of course we have opted for Windows 10 in this case let's test this thing out with a few games and see how it performs come everything there at 1080p with our sub20 or roughly $200 build to be honest I think it did quite nicely now I know guys we do use the 750 Ti a lot we've used it in the past quite a few times but especially now with the release of the 10 series cards the prices of these have just been going down and down recently and to be honest I think they're even better value for money than they've always been anyway so that's it really there's nothing else left to say thank you all so much for watching this video guys I hope you've enjoyed it I hope it helps you out if you're planning on building a budget PC similar to this one if you need any help or advice regarding a PC build leave a comment down below like the video If you enjoyed it dislike it if you didn't enjoy it so much subscribe to the channel if you haven't done so already and as always I will see you all in the next one\n"