HD 6970 Build? Budget Gaming Builds

[Yewrface]

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.

 

[BetterThanLife]

Nice setup, a 6970 is not my personal choice but i admire the build inside of a DELL case though.

The case you have moved to is far more suitable however, cool.

 

 

[Yewrface]

I agree with the GPU but for the price I could NOT pass it up for LOLs someone actually sawed off the metal shield for some reason!! Thus its hanging by bread ties and screwed in tight and snug its solid LOL THANK YOU!