Building a Value Gaming Rig at Home - $800 Budget

Happy Friday afternoon, I'll come with you from my house because I've been stuck here for the last wow, it's been over a week, the last time wasn't this Wednesday, but last Wednesday was the first day I woke up with a little tickling. in the back of my throat and since then my symptoms have gotten a little worse and then a little better and then a little worse and today I feel a little better but basically if you sign up for 24 hours symptom free or 72 hours symptom free no I'm there so I haven't been able to go back to work so it's okay because you know what no one is supposed to be at work so why don't we all stay

home

and build a computer right hey , and this transmission will come to you through private Internet access.

I think for a second I forgot to check who my sponsor is for the stream before I started. It is a classic. The technical advice moves right there. I'm leaving the broadcast unlisted, I certainly hope I haven't, but that would be exactly the kind of thing I would do. Yeah, I think I forgot to change it to public on YouTube because it hides that button if you don't have it complete. screen yes, there you go, well, okay, I haven't done anything yet and the good news is that when I opened it I could see the description of the YouTube video, which actually confirmed that our sponsor for today's video.

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I have my little remote ad in my pocket here, yeah check this out using my old ifixit Kit, this has served me very very well, so for the CPU we chose a ryzen 5 3600 x, this is meant to be something like, Let's see, the autofocus on that thing, oh, well, I have my webcam here for my secondary. camera, so it's intended to be like a

value

gaming

machine, the target price was eight hundred dollars and it was actually Jake who put together the list of components for us today, some of them are ones that you guys will be quite familiar with.

Like the 3600x, this device really is a spectacular

value

and you probably won't be as familiar with some of them. Check this out, so for our SSD we chose the ex-920 m.2 SSD from Yes, my friends, the one. and apparently only hewlett packard hp has been getting into the value SSD game so we'll go with one of these, apparently they have pretty decent performance it's just pcie gen 3 so we're not going to take full advantage of the gen capabilities 4 of our processor, but as we showed in a recent video, there really isn't much point in gen 4 from a performance standpoint if all you do is play games, so there you have it, we have a 512 gig SSD which is little. big enough that you won't waste your entire 800

budget

on your storage, but big enough that you can load like three full copies of maternal do on your system before you run out of space.

I swear hard drives are going to be making a comeback next in people's

gaming

machines because games are getting as big as what's the new cod like 130 gigs or something stupid like that so what are you going to do? What you end up doing is you're going to take an SSD like this and you're going to split maybe like I don't know 250 gigs for your main programs and your operating system, then you're going to split another 250 gigs and use them with something like primo cash for a long time . Drive that way, whatever games you're playing most often can be cached on the SSD, but you'll actually have enough storage for a decent game library.

Ok for our motherboard we have gone with the azroc b450 pro 4 just a good solid value board asrock has really gone all in on amd and that is a bet that seems to be paying off very well for them for our power supply , we have gone for the classic, okay, so this is the gd series from evga, gd is forever, not great. but hey, you know it's not going to explode, it's actually going to deliver the power that has an efficiency of 80 plus Gold. You don't know, there's no modular interface or anything fancy like that, but it's nice, you know, for RAM we're going with some G-skill jaws. wait, oh, we didn't take the AMD specific ones, okay, these are pretty good specs, so these are ddr4 3200 and there you have cl 16.

So that's the sweet spot in terms of price and performance for a 3rd generation AMD Ryzen system. Right there, something to keep in mind guys, it's man, the terminology is going to get really confusing in the next moment because Ryzen 3rd gen on desktop is zen 2 okay and then Ryzen 4th gen on mobile is zen 2, which means ryzen 4th gen on desktop. it's probably going to be the next zen 3 and the numbers are just they're all over the place so first gen ryzen was zen good job and second gen ryzen was zen plus okay nice try and now basically everything it's gone to Shit so for the Ryzen gen 3 desktop this is a good price for the performance uh place to be and for the graphics we've gone for the rtx 2060 I think this is the ko don't quote me about it.

I have to send a message to Jake. I don't see anything on the box anywhere that says this, oh yeah, there's the giant Ko, right there, silly. I was looking at the product number. I was also looking at the uh, yeah, the part number, but no, there was no indication, just this ko here, so this is the ko that is actually based on the same physical gpu as the 2070, if I remember correctly, What that means is that even though the clock speeds and functional units are a little different from a normal 2060, it will perform very similarly in games, but actually a little better in professional applications that can make use of its extra oomph, oh yeah, case we went. with the deepcool metrex 55v3 so without further ado, why don't we get started?

We're going to build a computer, ladies and gentlemen, okay guys, I'm

building

a computer. facial hair I'm going to have to get rid of it, that's how it will have to be, it's becoming a distraction to the class, okay, I'm trying to make a video here and literally 90 of the comments are about the beard. So the story behind the beard is that I was stuck at

home

for a couple of days and realized that while I at least bothered to get dressed in the morning, I didn't really find the time to spend the entire morning. routine I always brush my teeth I can't stand bad breath and bad breath is a personal trigger of mine like there's just no excuse for it it's not that much work to have breath that doesn't stink um but I hadn't bothered to shave for a couple of days and I thought, oh, you know, that would be a little memetastic, why don't I shave all the time I'm alone? isolation and then I regretted it, I only intended to be isolated for a couple of days because I was going to go back to work after being symptom free for 24 hours and I had planned to be symptom free for 24 hours basically Immediately well, it didn't work that way and I ended up really sick, so now I just have a beard.

Okay, so let's move on and this board is obviously not brand new because it normally wouldn't ship with the backplate removed, but yeah, we probably used it for a previous project or something. A lot of people ask Hey guys, do you know what you do with all those computers you build? It's as if we have the technology to dismantle them. a computer and reuse it for a different project so we know what hardware can still be used for other projects and that's exactly what we do. When we're done

building

a computer, we take it apart and reuse it most of the time um, I mean, every once in a while a machine gets left together, like Jake managed to convince me to leave his copper and copper machine together because of he needed a new workstation to work on anyway, so we made a deal where he had to swap out the cpu and take out one of the graphics cards or something, but yeah, he's still using it, but for the most part, yeah , we just take them, take them apart and then throw them on the shelf and then when we need to do like, you know, an 800 build tutorial on a stream or something, then we use it for that, so I'm going to go ahead and make that this board returns to its default state where we have problems. when we forget to separate them completely, like when we accidentally leave m2 on the motherboards, excuse me, m.2 is on the motherboards, which has been a real problem for us lately, okay, so let's do the CPU first with the ryzen 5 3600 x.

This thing is a big boost, sorry, I was reading the boost clocks on the box to double check what they were. This thing is a beast as a six core processor for this price would have been unthinkable, you know, even four. Four, five years ago when six core processors and actually many more cores were available, they were just really expensive and it's really made that triangle super small these days, so there's my little golden triangle. I'm going to line it up with the little one. triangle on the motherboard here, so the way to tell which direction it goes is, uh, if you're holding the board in a sensible orientation, like you expect, why doesn't it go in?

Get in there, come on, okay, it's better if you're holding the board in a sensible orientation, like with the io facing down, the text will be the right way, you know you would think of things like that, you know, what we need to do is just achieve that the text is correct. up when the user is installing it with the motherboard placed up, there you go and there's an idea for you free of charge, all I want is like 20 bucks okay just send me a check for 20 you can use my idea, your text will be right side up when people install it, it will be very easy to instruct people to orient their CPU correctly from now on, before the CPU socket could face any direction on the motherboard and something like that might not be like that.

It's practical, but nowadays the guidance for exclusion zones and all that dictates that people position the plug the same way. Now, I suppose someone could, in theory, design a board where it was oriented differently and that would break the entire system. but that wouldn't be my problem, okay let's go ahead and install our memory. Oh wow, look at that. Jake even pre-opened the tabs for me. He did not do it. It was probably Matthias or Tyler, who dismantled the previous system we had. We had Ivan, our resident or former resident, Slavin, for our cameo in a video a moment ago, every time I install RAM I think about him, what is it?

Roses are red, violets are blue, something, memory slots four and two, uh, the general rule, um, and the way I find it easiest to remember, other than just thinking about it, is that you want to have as much space as possible for your heatsink, most systems only have half of their memory slots occupied, so generally speaking, you will find the main slots furthest from the CPU, giving you more room to breathe. Next, we have our m.2. I'm very curious about what exactly inspired HP to enter. DIY parts market because the funny thing is that companies like Dell, HP or Acer design their own versions of all kinds of things, from motherboards to SSDs and power supplies, and do real engineering for them, even if they are not, You know? let's say alienware is fine, even if alienware, made by dell, is not a power supply manufacturer and you build it yourself, you know, fsp or c sonic or whatever the case may be, they are still most of the time part of the detection of that.

Unity will do some real engineering work on it, so it's always been baffling to me that there's less crossover, because you see the guys who build custom parts getting into the system building game, I mean look at nzxt with their construction, so you can now order a system from NZXT. Wow, anyway, I'm sorry, we're going down here, but I was always a little confused that they didn't go the other way, I mean, or a little confused like they didn't want to. any of those things, so I thought you know well, maybe they just assume it's not good enough to compete in the custom space, but yeah, they actually seem to have a pretty good reputation, so they're pretty standard, um , it seems so, four and flash. chips in it, it has a dram cache back there, it actually looks like it has two dram cache chips.

I'm going to remove this tag so we can take a look here. Oh,I can do it. Apparently there are 2,400 guarding there and I don't have a counter for seaplanes. Okay, I promised you guys I was going to show you Janky's setup before I logged out, so I'll do that now. This is crazy. I'm just going to plug the webcam back in and hope it works right away let's see what the odds are I'm going uh 70 hey okay wait maybe it's just a matter of going in and turning it off and then turning it on come on , dear. ha yeah we have to wait okay okay okay okay I'll show you the setup now this is redonkadonk so holding the webcam was this C stand I'm going to try to make this as stable like me.

I can here, so this C-bracket that holds the webcam well, which was connected to the front ports of my VR gaming setup, on the other front port is the 4k camera link that you'll see in my upgrade video from the streaming settings, so I stole it from my computer upstairs and then plugged it in. I have an hdmi to dvi adapter and then a dvi to hdmi cable that goes to my canon c200 camera so this is the only good piece of equipment in this whole setup, not really. The wireless lab is also a good piece of equipment, so it's a lecture, Sonic, whatever, super, super nice, wireless lab, okay, the cameras on a tripod are connected to this power squid that connects to that cable extension cable and then it also connects to this extension cable that powers the computer when I was gaming.

I replaced the webcam, the webcam slot there with this capture card that was hanging in the air here because it was as close or as far away as I could reach. Since I only have this super short HDMI cable to go to the back of the computer, the lighting is handled by one of these, what's it called quasar science, something like that, but this is a pretty nice light and then i have a 300d mark ii aperture over there and then there's another quasar behind the couch that gives it that blue glow so yeah oh yeah right the most disgusting part is my coffee table sitting on paint cans and some spare two-by-two pieces of wood from some ikea furniture, so that's it, yeah, this is the view from the camera angle, pretty terrible, I love it, okay, oh right, and then the change of scenes is handled by my airmouse, uh, keyboard, mouse, bluetooth, so I just have a hotkey here, thanks for tuning in guys. and we'll see you okay, not moving the camera down wasn't really an option because if I'm sitting there, it's hard to build a computer, I guess I could have sat down, but it's too low, it's too low, okay, thank you.

To tune in guys, uh, good broadcast, good broadcast, fun broadcast, see you in an hour on the wine show, I guess.