**Building a Budget PC: A Comprehensive Guide**

Welcome to this tutorial on building a budget PC! In this video, we'll be taking you through the process of assembling a computer that's perfect for everyday use, gaming, and more.

**The Hardware**

First up, let's take a look at the hardware we'll be using. For our build, we're going with a brand new 28 nm process from Intel, which means it's not only fast but also runs really quietly and doesn't suck up a ton of power for $120 after mail and rebate.

**Memory**

For memory, we're using 4 GB of PNY optimal RAM. Now, 4 GB might not be a lot, but it's more than enough to handle pretty much any game that you throw at it. Plus, since it's clocked at 1333 MHz, which is pretty much as fast as this motherboard can handle, it means it's going to be a really good fit for our build.

**Hard Drive**

For a hard drive, we're using a 500 GB Western Digital Caviar blue drive. Now, while I'm a big fan of SSDs for this build, our normal hard drive makes a lot more sense with 500 GB of capacity to work with – that's going to be plenty of room for all your Steam games, pictures, media, photos, and all that kind of stuff.

**Power Supply**

For power supply, we're using a 500 W Cooler Master extreme power plus. This has 500 Ws of capacity, which is more than enough for our build and even has some overhead where if you ever want to add additional hard drives, more fans, LEDs, or all that kind of stuff – it can handle it no problem.

**Case**

For a case, we're using the Antech 300. This has been my favorite budget case for quite a while now. It's a full-size case, which means there's plenty of room for a full-size motherboard, full-size graphics card, lots of hard drives – all that kind of stuff will fit in the case no problem.

**Additional Components**

We're also adding a Sony DVD burner to this build. Now, you might be thinking, "What about Blu-ray?" Well, if you wanted to ditch it or go with a Blu-ray drive instead, that's perfectly fine. But for now, we'll stick with a DVD drive as it makes installing Windows and various other programs easier.

**Windows 7 Home Premium**

Lastly, you may want to consider picking up a copy of Windows 7 Home Premium. I'm not doing this with this build, but rather using Windows 8 instead. However, if you don't want to deal with a beta or anything like that, then getting Windows 7 might be the way to go – it'll be an additional $100.

**The Damage**

So, what's the damage? As of recording this video, this entire build will cost you $499.34. I told you it was going to be a budget PC!

**The Giveaway**

And don't forget about the giveaway! I'll have this computer up for grabs in just a couple of weeks from now.

That's it for today's tutorial on building a budget PC!

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey guys this is Austin and today I'm here with a gaming PC Bild for $500 so there are a lot of different kind of price points that you can build a gaming PC app so the higher end I've done a $3,000 build before which is just ridiculous it's overkill for most people but if you want to game on a ton of monitors it's a great way to go likewise if you want something a little bit more normal you can go with a $1,000 build which will pretty much max out any kind of game you throw at it however if you don't have $1,000 to spend the $500 build that I'm about to show you is actually an excellent choice to kick our build off we're going to be using an inel core I3 2120 CPU now a lot of people give the core I3 a bad WP however actually it is a really great CPU if you're on a budget and you want to build a really nice gaming computer this features dual cores clocked at 3.3 GHz and it also comes with hyperthreading which allows Windows to see it as a quad core CPU while sure some games can't actually fully take advantage of a quad core CPU however you'd be surprised how many will do just fine on the Dual Core core I3 for $122 this is an excellent start for our build moving on we're going to be using the gigabyte 861 DS2 motherb board now while this motherboard is very cheap that does not mean that it's lacking performance you're still going to be able to get all you can out of both your graphics card and your CPU and that's really the most important thing in a budget build like this you'll find four SATA ports which can be used for hard drives DVD drives and anything else you want to plug in and also since it's a gigabyte board it comes with dual bios now bios is what runs the entire motherboard so if this goes you're pretty much your entire motherboard is ruined and believe me I've actually killed a computer by flashing a bad bios to it before so having a backup bios that if anything goes wrong the mother board will automatically revert to it is a great feature you are missing a few bells and whistles including USB 3 as well as sata 3 however for $50 this will absolutely get the job done for a graphics card we're going to be using a Sapphire Radeon hd7770 now that this has come down in price it's absolutely excellent card for a budget build now that use it fast quiet and cool but also is not going to break the bank this card comes with 1 GB of gddr5 memory and since it's the gz Edition that means that the core clock is over 1 GHz now while this is not going to go blow away your GTX 680 it definitely means that it will deliver some really Stellar performance as one of the latest AMD cards built on their new 28 nm process this means that not only will it be fast but it also is going to run really quietly and it's not going to suck up a ton of power for $120 after mail and rebate the performance of this card should be perfect for our build for memory we're going to be using 4 GB of PNY optimal Ram now 4 GB while it's not a ton it's going to be more than enough to handle pretty much any game that you throw at it on top of that since it's clocked at 1333 MHz which is pretty much as fast as this motherboard can handle that means it's going to be a really good fit for our build best of all it's only going to run us $25 for the Dual Channel kit for a hard drive we're going to be using a 500 GB Western Digital Caviar blue drive now while I'm a big fan of ssds for this build our normal hard drive makes a lot more sense with 500 GB of capacity to work with that's going to be plenty of room for all your Steam games pictures media photos all that kind of stuff will fit on the drive no problem and since it is a 7200 RPM drive that means it's going to be pretty Snappy again not quite as fast as an SSD but you have more like 500 GB to work with as opposed to 60 for $70 another great addition to our build for power supply we're going to be using a 500 W Cooler Master extreme power plus with 500 WS of capacity this is going to be more than enough for our build and on top of that there's plenty of overhead where if you ever want to add additional hard drives more fans LEDs all that kind of stuff it can handle it no problem for $40 this will work great in our build for a case we're going to be using the antech 300 now this has been my favorite budget case for quite a while now for starters it's a full-size case which means that there's plenty of room for a fullsize motherboard fulls siiz graphics carge lots of hard drives all that kind of stuff will fit in the case no problem but on top of that it has very good air flow and while none of our parts are particularly extreme so nothing's going to be just pouring tons and tons of heat out compared to anything else the antech 300 can absolutely handle everything we've got to throw at it and more for only $55 a great way to go the last partner build is a Sony DVD burner now this part is optional if you wanted to you could ditch it or you can instead go with a Blu-ray Drive I generally do recommend to grab a DVD drive at least though as they're pretty cheap and it makes installing Windows and various other program easier and of course it's nice to sometimes watch a DVD or you know use a CD if you ever heard one of those before of course like I said though you can skip this but otherwise it will cost you about $18 lastly you may want to consider picking up a copy of Windows 7 Home Premium now I'm not going to be doing this with this build is instead I'm going to be doing a copy of Windows 8 however that can come in handy if you don't want to deal with a beta or anything like that if you do want to go with Windows 7 it will be an additional $100 but again you can't go ahead and just use Windows 8 and buy that once it does come out so what's the damage as of recording this video this entire bill will cost you $499 34 see I told you it was a $500 build anyway definitely do keep in mind that prices are constantly fluctuating usually going down so I have links to everything in the description of this video anyway guys if you want to see the full tutorial on how to put this computer together I will have an annotation right here on top of that I'll also be giving this computer away so actually will be a couple of weeks from now but as soon as the video is live The annotation will be right beside me here anyway guys if you enjoyed this video definitely be sure to leave it a thumbs up and if you're interested in more videos like this including the giveaway be sure to subscribehey guys this is Austin and today I'm here with a gaming PC Bild for $500 so there are a lot of different kind of price points that you can build a gaming PC app so the higher end I've done a $3,000 build before which is just ridiculous it's overkill for most people but if you want to game on a ton of monitors it's a great way to go likewise if you want something a little bit more normal you can go with a $1,000 build which will pretty much max out any kind of game you throw at it however if you don't have $1,000 to spend the $500 build that I'm about to show you is actually an excellent choice to kick our build off we're going to be using an inel core I3 2120 CPU now a lot of people give the core I3 a bad WP however actually it is a really great CPU if you're on a budget and you want to build a really nice gaming computer this features dual cores clocked at 3.3 GHz and it also comes with hyperthreading which allows Windows to see it as a quad core CPU while sure some games can't actually fully take advantage of a quad core CPU however you'd be surprised how many will do just fine on the Dual Core core I3 for $122 this is an excellent start for our build moving on we're going to be using the gigabyte 861 DS2 motherb board now while this motherboard is very cheap that does not mean that it's lacking performance you're still going to be able to get all you can out of both your graphics card and your CPU and that's really the most important thing in a budget build like this you'll find four SATA ports which can be used for hard drives DVD drives and anything else you want to plug in and also since it's a gigabyte board it comes with dual bios now bios is what runs the entire motherboard so if this goes you're pretty much your entire motherboard is ruined and believe me I've actually killed a computer by flashing a bad bios to it before so having a backup bios that if anything goes wrong the mother board will automatically revert to it is a great feature you are missing a few bells and whistles including USB 3 as well as sata 3 however for $50 this will absolutely get the job done for a graphics card we're going to be using a Sapphire Radeon hd7770 now that this has come down in price it's absolutely excellent card for a budget build now that use it fast quiet and cool but also is not going to break the bank this card comes with 1 GB of gddr5 memory and since it's the gz Edition that means that the core clock is over 1 GHz now while this is not going to go blow away your GTX 680 it definitely means that it will deliver some really Stellar performance as one of the latest AMD cards built on their new 28 nm process this means that not only will it be fast but it also is going to run really quietly and it's not going to suck up a ton of power for $120 after mail and rebate the performance of this card should be perfect for our build for memory we're going to be using 4 GB of PNY optimal Ram now 4 GB while it's not a ton it's going to be more than enough to handle pretty much any game that you throw at it on top of that since it's clocked at 1333 MHz which is pretty much as fast as this motherboard can handle that means it's going to be a really good fit for our build best of all it's only going to run us $25 for the Dual Channel kit for a hard drive we're going to be using a 500 GB Western Digital Caviar blue drive now while I'm a big fan of ssds for this build our normal hard drive makes a lot more sense with 500 GB of capacity to work with that's going to be plenty of room for all your Steam games pictures media photos all that kind of stuff will fit on the drive no problem and since it is a 7200 RPM drive that means it's going to be pretty Snappy again not quite as fast as an SSD but you have more like 500 GB to work with as opposed to 60 for $70 another great addition to our build for power supply we're going to be using a 500 W Cooler Master extreme power plus with 500 WS of capacity this is going to be more than enough for our build and on top of that there's plenty of overhead where if you ever want to add additional hard drives more fans LEDs all that kind of stuff it can handle it no problem for $40 this will work great in our build for a case we're going to be using the antech 300 now this has been my favorite budget case for quite a while now for starters it's a full-size case which means that there's plenty of room for a fullsize motherboard fulls siiz graphics carge lots of hard drives all that kind of stuff will fit in the case no problem but on top of that it has very good air flow and while none of our parts are particularly extreme so nothing's going to be just pouring tons and tons of heat out compared to anything else the antech 300 can absolutely handle everything we've got to throw at it and more for only $55 a great way to go the last partner build is a Sony DVD burner now this part is optional if you wanted to you could ditch it or you can instead go with a Blu-ray Drive I generally do recommend to grab a DVD drive at least though as they're pretty cheap and it makes installing Windows and various other program easier and of course it's nice to sometimes watch a DVD or you know use a CD if you ever heard one of those before of course like I said though you can skip this but otherwise it will cost you about $18 lastly you may want to consider picking up a copy of Windows 7 Home Premium now I'm not going to be doing this with this build is instead I'm going to be doing a copy of Windows 8 however that can come in handy if you don't want to deal with a beta or anything like that if you do want to go with Windows 7 it will be an additional $100 but again you can't go ahead and just use Windows 8 and buy that once it does come out so what's the damage as of recording this video this entire bill will cost you $499 34 see I told you it was a $500 build anyway definitely do keep in mind that prices are constantly fluctuating usually going down so I have links to everything in the description of this video anyway guys if you want to see the full tutorial on how to put this computer together I will have an annotation right here on top of that I'll also be giving this computer away so actually will be a couple of weeks from now but as soon as the video is live The annotation will be right beside me here anyway guys if you enjoyed this video definitely be sure to leave it a thumbs up and if you're interested in more videos like this including the giveaway be sure to subscribe