**Building a $370 Gaming PC with M ATX Components**

I'm excited to share with you my latest build, a gaming PC that's been put together with a budget of $370. This project is all about finding the right balance between performance and affordability, while also exploring the possibilities of building a system with M ATX components.

**The Case: Thermaltake Versa H17**

First up, let's take a look at the case. I've opted for the Thermaltake Versa H17, which is an excellent choice for its compact size and versatility. As you can see from the photos, it's a great-looking system that's perfect for those who want to create a smaller gaming setup.

**The Components**

Now let's get into the nitty-gritty of the build process. We've got a few key components that make up this PC:

* **CPU:** AMD Ryzen 3 3200G - This is an excellent CPU that provides plenty of power for gaming and general use.

* **GPU:** NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Super - As you can see from the specs, this GPU has been chosen for its affordability and performance. It's a great choice for those who want to play games at high resolutions without breaking the bank.

* **RAM:** Corsair Vengeance LPX 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 3200MHz - This RAM kit provides plenty of bandwidth and capacity for most modern applications, including gaming.

**The Power Supply: EVGA 450W 80+ Bronze**

Moving on to the power supply, we've got a reliable and efficient unit from EVGA. The 450W 80+ Bronze rating ensures that this PSU can handle even the most demanding systems without breaking a sweat.

**Cable Management**

One of the things I'm really impressed with is how easy it was to manage the cables in this build. The case has plenty of cable routing options, making it simple to keep everything tidy and organized.

**Performance Testing**

Now that we've got our system built, let's see how it performs! I've tested nine games at low-medium settings at 1080p, and the results are impressive. As you can see from the benchmarks, this PC can handle most modern games with ease.

However, as expected, there is a slight bottleneck due to the limited RAM space. The system has to allocate 2GB of RAM to the GPU, leaving only 6GB for the CPU. This results in slightly lower performance in certain applications that rely heavily on RAM bandwidth.

**Upgrade Options**

If you want to build something similar but with better performance, I'd recommend upgrading the RAM to at least 16GB (2x8GB). This will help alleviate any RAM bottlenecks and provide a smoother gaming experience.

**Conclusion**

That's it for this video! Building a PC on a budget of $370 is definitely possible, and with the right components, you can create a system that performs well in most modern games. If you have any questions or would like to see more videos like this one, please let me know in the comments below.

Thanks for watching, and I'll catch you all in the next video!

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enin about mid-december my youtube-channel hit a thousand subscribers and I became monetized now fast forward about six months later and I decided to withdraw my first paycheck from YouTube in order to buy a brand new PC so let's see what kind of PC I bought now before we get into what my actual budget is for this PC let me just set down a couple of ground rules for this build all of the components have to be new so I can't buy second-hand components for cheaper which honestly if you have a small budget I think that's a better idea to go second-hand but I'm not going to do that and the second rule is I have to actually buy all of these components so there's no kind of trickery around here where I already have a bunch of them lying around and just use that instead so that I can try and try and save some of the money for myself I have to actually buy all of the components at the price that I show them in the video and with that out the way let's see what kind of budget I have now to see how much money you've made on YouTube you have to go into your analytics and then click on revenue now because I've never made it with drawl before I have to click on lifetime to see how much I've made now as you can see here there's actually two bits of activity in my revenue generation my youtube channel was actually briefly monetized near the beginning of the existence of the channel but then YouTube changed its its monetization requirements and I actually lost monetization for about a year now as you can see the total is not a huge amount it's three hundred and eighty-one US dollars now because I don't live in the United States this doesn't really help me much so I'm going to convert it into Canadian dollars and it gets to about five hundred and ten Canadian dollars now if you've ever built a PC in Canada you can realize that five hundred and ten Canadian dollars is not a lot to build a PC with but let's see what we can get and here we have all the components for the PC and honestly the pile is not quite as big as I thought it was gonna be and the more eagle-eyed of you probably would have realized there's no graphics card in this pile that's because it's really difficult to get a discrete graphics card in a system that costs not much more than an RT X 2060 and I wanted to keep future upgrade ability in mind so that if you make a bit more money later down the line you can drop in a new graphics card okay let's do a quick breakdown of the components the CPU I chose is an AMD 2400 G which I've used a lot on this channel but it's because it's amazing value for money for a hundred and forty dollars on Amazon now you can get a CPU a GPU and an air cooler I think that's great then V SSD pointer OSIS I think it's pronounced never heard of this company before and I hope it's okay it's 128 gig Drive and I think it's gonna make a big difference for the actual usability of this system then as far as RAM goes that's one of the biggest issues for this CPU and a very budget build is that it has quite high requirements for RAM bandwidth so you need pretty fast memory and the best I could do was ddr4 2666 and it's eight gigs of it which isn't quite enough but that's okay it's a kit by Cape by Patriots it's called the Viper Ram and it's super bling but we'll get into that a bit later and then when it comes to the power supply we have a 450 watt 80 plus bronze unit from EVGA this should be enough for any reasonable graphics card you'd want to drop into this system later down the line so if you want to drop in something like a gtx 1660 TI this should have you covered and then the motherboard is probably one of the more basic motherboards that gigabyte makes it's a B 450 M ds3 and this is actually an M ATX power supply that's one of the things that I'm the most excited about for this build is the form factor because the case is also M ATX and it's a versa h17 Thermaltake case and all of these components I bought for three hundred and seventy US dollars or the equivalent of that after tax and Bing so let's build it and see how it performs but there's actually a law that dictates that every single montage regardless of what it's about has to have bad 80s pop music playing over it so unfortunately I didn't really have a choice but as far as the build process went it actually was a really easy PC to build and by some weird fluke all of it matches really well it actually looks amazing especially considering the budget honestly it wasn't deliberate I just kind of chose the cheapest component in every category and they just happen to work together really well so let's just have a bit of a moment to appreciate how awesome the PC looks and honestly cable management was really easy I'm very impressed with this case I think I'm gonna do a separate review of it and I really like the form factor M ATX is really nice because it just it looks so cute but it's not ITX cute but it's it's though it's still a really great looking system now with the build experience and the looks out of the way let's see how this PC performs let's see how much gaming performance I can get for my YouTube dollars now I tested nine games and all of them at between low and medium settings at 1080p and I was actually quite surprised the PC performs quite well you can tell that there isn't quite enough RAM especially when looking at kind of what the system is doing with MSI Afterburner there really is it sits at the limit all the time and especially in apex legends you could kind of feel it now these are the actual benchmarks and you can play games comfortably with this system and I think that's really impressive for three hundred and seventy dollars considering that all of the components are new one thing that I will say and that you can see in all of these benchmarks is that the 0.1% lows are quite low and I honestly think that's got to do with the limited ram space because the CPU and the GPU actually have to share a ram so two gig is allocated to the GPU and then the rest of the six gig is allocated to the CPU and that just kind of isn't enough for gaming these days so if you can push your budget if you want to build something similar the first upgrade I would recommend is getting another 8 gigs of RAM especially considering the fact that it doesn't have a dedicated GPU and then when it comes to noise the PC is really quiet I mean if you listen to it now and then in regards to the performance of the super cheap SSD it's actually pretty good like it's way better than I thought it was gonna be and it performs better than a lot of kind of these budget SSD options although as far as long-term reliability goes I have no idea I've only been using it for the last two days and with that let me know in the comment section below what you think of this PC and I'd also be really interested to see what a similar respect PC would cost in the country that you live so if you have time to calculate that kind of thing let me know I'd be really interested and I'm sure everybody else would be and with that it brings me to the end of the video thank you very much for watching if you like the video do like and subscribe to the channel for more videos like this one and follow me on Instagram and Twitter and yeah until the next video bye byein about mid-december my youtube-channel hit a thousand subscribers and I became monetized now fast forward about six months later and I decided to withdraw my first paycheck from YouTube in order to buy a brand new PC so let's see what kind of PC I bought now before we get into what my actual budget is for this PC let me just set down a couple of ground rules for this build all of the components have to be new so I can't buy second-hand components for cheaper which honestly if you have a small budget I think that's a better idea to go second-hand but I'm not going to do that and the second rule is I have to actually buy all of these components so there's no kind of trickery around here where I already have a bunch of them lying around and just use that instead so that I can try and try and save some of the money for myself I have to actually buy all of the components at the price that I show them in the video and with that out the way let's see what kind of budget I have now to see how much money you've made on YouTube you have to go into your analytics and then click on revenue now because I've never made it with drawl before I have to click on lifetime to see how much I've made now as you can see here there's actually two bits of activity in my revenue generation my youtube channel was actually briefly monetized near the beginning of the existence of the channel but then YouTube changed its its monetization requirements and I actually lost monetization for about a year now as you can see the total is not a huge amount it's three hundred and eighty-one US dollars now because I don't live in the United States this doesn't really help me much so I'm going to convert it into Canadian dollars and it gets to about five hundred and ten Canadian dollars now if you've ever built a PC in Canada you can realize that five hundred and ten Canadian dollars is not a lot to build a PC with but let's see what we can get and here we have all the components for the PC and honestly the pile is not quite as big as I thought it was gonna be and the more eagle-eyed of you probably would have realized there's no graphics card in this pile that's because it's really difficult to get a discrete graphics card in a system that costs not much more than an RT X 2060 and I wanted to keep future upgrade ability in mind so that if you make a bit more money later down the line you can drop in a new graphics card okay let's do a quick breakdown of the components the CPU I chose is an AMD 2400 G which I've used a lot on this channel but it's because it's amazing value for money for a hundred and forty dollars on Amazon now you can get a CPU a GPU and an air cooler I think that's great then V SSD pointer OSIS I think it's pronounced never heard of this company before and I hope it's okay it's 128 gig Drive and I think it's gonna make a big difference for the actual usability of this system then as far as RAM goes that's one of the biggest issues for this CPU and a very budget build is that it has quite high requirements for RAM bandwidth so you need pretty fast memory and the best I could do was ddr4 2666 and it's eight gigs of it which isn't quite enough but that's okay it's a kit by Cape by Patriots it's called the Viper Ram and it's super bling but we'll get into that a bit later and then when it comes to the power supply we have a 450 watt 80 plus bronze unit from EVGA this should be enough for any reasonable graphics card you'd want to drop into this system later down the line so if you want to drop in something like a gtx 1660 TI this should have you covered and then the motherboard is probably one of the more basic motherboards that gigabyte makes it's a B 450 M ds3 and this is actually an M ATX power supply that's one of the things that I'm the most excited about for this build is the form factor because the case is also M ATX and it's a versa h17 Thermaltake case and all of these components I bought for three hundred and seventy US dollars or the equivalent of that after tax and Bing so let's build it and see how it performs but there's actually a law that dictates that every single montage regardless of what it's about has to have bad 80s pop music playing over it so unfortunately I didn't really have a choice but as far as the build process went it actually was a really easy PC to build and by some weird fluke all of it matches really well it actually looks amazing especially considering the budget honestly it wasn't deliberate I just kind of chose the cheapest component in every category and they just happen to work together really well so let's just have a bit of a moment to appreciate how awesome the PC looks and honestly cable management was really easy I'm very impressed with this case I think I'm gonna do a separate review of it and I really like the form factor M ATX is really nice because it just it looks so cute but it's not ITX cute but it's it's though it's still a really great looking system now with the build experience and the looks out of the way let's see how this PC performs let's see how much gaming performance I can get for my YouTube dollars now I tested nine games and all of them at between low and medium settings at 1080p and I was actually quite surprised the PC performs quite well you can tell that there isn't quite enough RAM especially when looking at kind of what the system is doing with MSI Afterburner there really is it sits at the limit all the time and especially in apex legends you could kind of feel it now these are the actual benchmarks and you can play games comfortably with this system and I think that's really impressive for three hundred and seventy dollars considering that all of the components are new one thing that I will say and that you can see in all of these benchmarks is that the 0.1% lows are quite low and I honestly think that's got to do with the limited ram space because the CPU and the GPU actually have to share a ram so two gig is allocated to the GPU and then the rest of the six gig is allocated to the CPU and that just kind of isn't enough for gaming these days so if you can push your budget if you want to build something similar the first upgrade I would recommend is getting another 8 gigs of RAM especially considering the fact that it doesn't have a dedicated GPU and then when it comes to noise the PC is really quiet I mean if you listen to it now and then in regards to the performance of the super cheap SSD it's actually pretty good like it's way better than I thought it was gonna be and it performs better than a lot of kind of these budget SSD options although as far as long-term reliability goes I have no idea I've only been using it for the last two days and with that let me know in the comment section below what you think of this PC and I'd also be really interested to see what a similar respect PC would cost in the country that you live so if you have time to calculate that kind of thing let me know I'd be really interested and I'm sure everybody else would be and with that it brings me to the end of the video thank you very much for watching if you like the video do like and subscribe to the channel for more videos like this one and follow me on Instagram and Twitter and yeah until the next video bye bye