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My Brother's New Budget Gaming PC

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Welcome to my build log of my brother's custom PC!

This is my brother's first ever custom PC, built on September 27th.

 

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My case of choice for my brother's new build is the DeepCool Frame, it's a standard £25 case that tries to cut you at every edge, but it's compact, light, spacious, and looked simple to work in, so this is what I chose for him.

 

First is to pop off the side panels to reveal a cluster of cables and a drive cage, which I know I'll never use. The front has a 120mm fan space while the back supports 80mm and 90mm fans. I had neither, so moving on.

 

Case prep was easy enough, taking off the PCI slot covers, side panels, and leaving only what was tied to the case's skeleton.

 

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Next is the motherboard. I chose the ASRock B450-M Pro4, it was a reliable, solid-looking motherboard that was highly recommended, so it's what I went with.

 

The CPU of choice is the AMD Ryzen 3 2200G with its AMD Radeon Vega 8 graphics. It fell right into the budget of £300 nicely.

 

The RAM of choice is the Patriot Viper 4, it's rated for 3000MHz and had nice price-to-performance being £77 at the time of purchase.

 

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As for the cooler, we stuck to our guns with the stock AMD Wraith cooler, it's simple and does the job, so there was no reason to spend extra for an aftermarket one.

 

I let my brother apply the thermal compound as well as installing the cooler itself, I monitored him and the cooler carefully. Spoilter: I failed.

 

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Here's the part where it got slightly hectic.

 

Back when my brother and I were deciding on parts - actually that was 90% me anyway - we didn't have enough budget for a storage device so we assumed we could use the old HDD from his old PC... No, no we couldn't. That HDD was on tight.

 

So I begged my dad to drive me around town and hop to computer stores everywhere searching for some form of storage device. This began at 4PM.

 

I eventually found a 240GB Integral V2 SSD that I bought for £60, and hurried on home.

 

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I landed back home at 6:30PM.

 

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I learnt where the SSD was meant to go, and so I installed it easily, and connected up the required power and SATA cables.

 

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So, with everything in order, I got the build up and running through my monitor, installed Windows 10, and got to the Windows screen.

 

At this point, this is what the build looks like right now. It's a spaghetti mess up front, but that's all I could due to the non-modular PSU that is the be quiet! Pure Power 10.

 

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I opened up Task Manager, expanded the view, and behold, the Ryzen 2200G is on screen and we're set.

 

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I also made sure in the BIOS that everything was working and detected, and yes, it all checks out. I later changed the RAM speed to 3000 from the 2133 as shown.

 

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As it turns out, the 2200G was getting unusually hot, that I rushed back here to confirm that my temperatures were abnormal:

 

Of course, I stopped the system, and my beliefs were true. My brother did in fact not screw the cooler in enough and as a result, the IHS didn't make any contact with the cooler.

I redid the cooler, as per protocol.

 

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The finale is the big boss, the Cinebench test for the temperatures. The temperatures speak for themselves.

 

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Overall, I am happy with how this build turned out. It took us a grand total of five hours not including the quest to find a storage device. My brother will be sure to enjoy this new PC for his gaming sessions, and the total cost of £373.02. :) 

 

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My brother officially now has a GTX 1050 Ti inside his PC! It's a Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB single fan model, bought for £150.

Relatively straight-forward, slotting the GPU into the PCIE slot, an install of drivers, and it was up!

 

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My brother decided to buy a new storage drive since he's already filled up hos 250GB Integral V2 SSD, and so he bought a 240GB Kingston A400 SSD!

 

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He now has a 250GB Integral V2 SSD and a 240GB Kingston A400 SSD inside his system, totalling to 490GB (where 460GB is useable) in his PC.

 

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Wish my brothers were like this. Can your parents adopt me?

I hAve an unfinished pc build. Pls dont bully for not having one yet or i cry.

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Are you sure. All I want is an upgrade from my Garbo. I’ll disown you immediately afterwards!

I hAve an unfinished pc build. Pls dont bully for not having one yet or i cry.

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I wish I had the money to make my siblings computers

 

or siblings who even cared about computers

Specs: CPU: AMD Ryzen R7 3700X @4.4Ghz, GPU: Gigabyte RX 5700 XT, RAM: 32 GB (2x 8GB Trident Z Royal + 2x 8GB TForce Vulkan Z) @3000Mhz, Motherboard: ASRock B550m Steel Legend, Storage: 1x WD Black 1Tb NVMe (boot) + 1x Samsung 860 QVO 1Tb SSD (storage), Case: Thermaltake Core V21, Cooler: Noctua NH-D15

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2 minutes ago, seoz said:

One sibiling is enough of a nuisance! ;) 

Luckily, most siblings tend not to be as much of a power user, which makes providing systems for them a breeze :D

 

I have a B350 Pro4, it's a really solid board.

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1 minute ago, Sayori said:

I wish I had the money to make my siblings computers

My brother paid for his own PC, saved up all his pennies! Only part I paid for was the case, because he didn't have any budget left over, so I had to step in. ;) 

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Mmmmmmm... I do love me some good hardware shots, no matter the price point. Been thinking about making my little bro a rig for Christmas (he's interested in Blender/Maya and Inkscape and such), may piece together a PC from the parts I have, or I could do something like this. 

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Main PC 

CPU: i9 7980XE @4.5GHz/1.22v/-2 AVX offset 

Cooler: EKWB Supremacy Block - custom loop w/360mm +280mm rads 

Motherboard: EVGA X299 Dark 

RAM:4x8GB HyperX Predator DDR4 @3200Mhz CL16 

GPU: Nvidia FE 2060 Super/Corsair HydroX 2070 FE block 

Storage:  1TB MP34 + 1TB 970 Evo + 500GB Atom30 + 250GB 960 Evo 

Optical Drives: LG WH14NS40 

PSU: EVGA 1600W T2 

Case & Fans: Corsair 750D Airflow - 3x Noctua iPPC NF-F12 + 4x Noctua iPPC NF-A14 PWM 

OS: Windows 11

 

Display: LG 27UK650-W (4K 60Hz IPS panel)

Mouse: EVGA X17

Keyboard: Corsair K55 RGB

 

Mobile/Work Devices: 2020 M1 MacBook Air (work computer) - iPhone 13 Pro Max - Apple Watch S3

 

Other Misc Devices: iPod Video (Gen 5.5E, 128GB SD card swap, running Rockbox), Nintendo Switch

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2 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

Luckily, most siblings tend not to be as much of a power user, which makes providing systems for them a breeze :D

Yeah, my brother only ever plays League of Legends and Fortnite, with only web browsing in between, easy comfort for a 400W PSU. :)

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1 minute ago, Zando Bob said:

Mmmmmmm... I do love me some good hardware shots, no matter the price point. Been thinking about making my little bro a rig for Christmas (he's interested in Blender/Maya and Inkscape and such), may piece together a PC from the parts I have, or I could do something like this. 

Give it a shot, I'm sure he'd appreciate it! :) It's a nice sibling activity to do, especially when both of you are into computers.

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1 minute ago, seoz said:

Yeah, my brother only ever plays League of Legends and Fortnite, with only web browsing in between, easy comfort for a 400W PSU. :)

I've been toying with the idea of building a gaming rig for my brother, but planning that is a real challenge due to lack of funds :D

 

He doesn't do much either, but wants to expand his game library and his current laptop isn't good for much.

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4 minutes ago, seoz said:

Give it a shot, I'm sure he'd appreciate it! :) It's a nice sibling activity to do, especially when both of you are into computers.

Yep, indoctrinating my siblings into the PCMR and hopefully Linux once I get more into it is basically my duty as an older brother. B|

Intel HEDT and Server platform enthusiasts: Intel HEDT Xeon/i7 Megathread 

 

Main PC 

CPU: i9 7980XE @4.5GHz/1.22v/-2 AVX offset 

Cooler: EKWB Supremacy Block - custom loop w/360mm +280mm rads 

Motherboard: EVGA X299 Dark 

RAM:4x8GB HyperX Predator DDR4 @3200Mhz CL16 

GPU: Nvidia FE 2060 Super/Corsair HydroX 2070 FE block 

Storage:  1TB MP34 + 1TB 970 Evo + 500GB Atom30 + 250GB 960 Evo 

Optical Drives: LG WH14NS40 

PSU: EVGA 1600W T2 

Case & Fans: Corsair 750D Airflow - 3x Noctua iPPC NF-F12 + 4x Noctua iPPC NF-A14 PWM 

OS: Windows 11

 

Display: LG 27UK650-W (4K 60Hz IPS panel)

Mouse: EVGA X17

Keyboard: Corsair K55 RGB

 

Mobile/Work Devices: 2020 M1 MacBook Air (work computer) - iPhone 13 Pro Max - Apple Watch S3

 

Other Misc Devices: iPod Video (Gen 5.5E, 128GB SD card swap, running Rockbox), Nintendo Switch

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