This is a highly effective budget build believe it or not. $179 completed w/ great value.
I thought that title would grab your attention! Yea its not some sort of UFO extream sapphire!! It is most definitely NOT bad cranked up and..well.. never approved on userbenchmark lol
..but its a daily driver I built out of love for the channel and wanted to try to make the most inexpensive and decent machines I can build with little to no over head. I have a great personal RIG that is ever evolving 12tb storage coming soon : SEE BELOW. This is for the person who just wants to game. Maybe not as much dough to spend so to speak!
MoBo: MSI h61m-p31/w8
O/c capable refurb 1155 $30
CPU: I5 2400 3.1ghz o/c 3.5 ghz because of the value even though I realize a 2500 would have made a big diffrence for a small price $22
Heatsink: Cooler Master i50 standered for that HUGE o/c LOL $12
GPU: Sapphire Radeon HD 6970 2GB GDDR5 PCI-E 2.0 x 16 Video Card o/c with afterburner max core and memory $30 note: someone actually sawed off the shield thus the bread ties for dramatic effect screwed in snug. Its solid I swear! It actually performed in the top 95th on UB for its class.
RAM: 2 ×4gb ripjaws X 1600 MHz more than the max 1333 but oh well $20
SSD: kingston 120gb 300v BOOT $15
HDD: 750gb barracuda STORAGE $FREE pulled from duo case
Case: Dell Studio Case from a Duo $FREE
Including Sata cables 2× optical drives only 1 was installed because I mean who uses optical drives.. The second bay was perfect for my rats nest wire managements.
this is where it got hairy I had it all planned super cheap it benchmarks an impressive 11k in Skydiver and 4k in FireStrike not bad for the gpu's age. However the powersupply I believe if a gpu has a certain plug you need to use it so I had to fork up for the 14 pin
powersupply: kentek 1050w because of the 8 pin + 6 pin PCIe that the sapphire calls for $50 "and obviously Im going to upgrade it later so better investment for me personally."
total build=$179
Enjoy! It IS super responsive! It runs most games in med to high even epic on occasion. For a reference it auto loaded High presets in fortnite. GTA V, WarHAMMER, overgrowth, apex, SoT ... every steam game I ran looked great and very playable light cpu load 3%-5% sits around 40ish c° on regular maxes at around 65 c° with a gaming load. Maybe 30%-50% Im not mad! It was fun. Thinking about a gpu and cpu upgrade tell me what ya think?
My Main Rig
I have a great PC STATUS overall UserB 90th percentile.
The main RIG SPECS:
Maximus hero VI mobo
i5 4670k over clocked to 4.2 ghz I have 6 corsair fans
hyper 612 v.2 cooler master heatsink
1660 XC GPU Nuclear Sub on UB.
16 gb Trident X
corsair air 540 cube case 1000w MOD psu
Kingston 120gb 400uv
Firecuda SSHD 1tb
BLUE HDD 1tb
this was just for fun THANKS! Forreal linus TT really inspired this build for me.
Everyone should be able to afford to game.
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