This $269 Gaming PC can play any game!

[LMGcommunity]

It’s the age old question: how cheap is a good gaming PC? And are you better off upgrading the $69 dollar PC or starting from the ground up? We cover budget CPU and GPU upgrades (like the 2080 SUPER or 6700 XT), RAM, and storage solutions. The video compares performance, offers tips on finding deals for used components, and discusses the used PC market, emphasizing balancing cost and performance for modern AAA games.

 

 

[danalog]

hearing the 2080 Super called a budget option

[GuiltySpark_]

2 minutes ago, danalog said:

hearing the 2080 Super called a budget option

It was a budget option when new, certainly is today. 

[Nikita_123]

i find the new pc better

 

[Hinjima]

34 minutes ago, GuiltySpark_ said:

It was a budget option when new, certainly is today. 

How was it a budget option when new?  It was the 2nd best RTX 2000 series ( not counting the TITAN RTX )

[KidKid]

31 minutes ago, Hinjima said:

How was it a budget option when new?

I don't know. Even today, as an 8GB card (1080p?) it's still quite decent with Ray Tracing and AI cores.

[jordanbuilds1]

Funny how amd is known as “budget kings” yet most budget builds are featuring intel cpus

[GuiltySpark_]

1 hour ago, Hinjima said:

How was it a budget option when new?  It was the 2nd best RTX 2000 series ( not counting the TITAN RTX )

Budget is just a word, not a number. For me, budget is the lower midrange stuff, 60 series. There was 2070, 2070S, 2080, 2080S, 2080Ti, etc.. 

[Hinjima]

1 minute ago, GuiltySpark_ said:

Budget is just a word, not a number. For me, budget is the lower midrange stuff, 60 series. There was 2070, 2070S, 2080, 2080S, 2080Ti, etc.. 

So a 2080 Super was not a budget card.

[GuiltySpark_]

3 minutes ago, Hinjima said:

So a 2080 Super was not a budget card.

Whoa. Ok thats on me. I totally misread the original comment as 2060. Well, that explains things! 

[jordanbuilds1]

1 minute ago, Hinjima said:

So a 2080 Super was not a budget card.

When the hell did people get the notion that the 2080 super was budget?

[Hinjima]

3 minutes ago, GuiltySpark_ said:

Whoa. Ok thats on me. I totally misread the original comment as 2060. Well, that explains things! 

Thank you!  I thought either you or I was losing our mind for a second haha  

 

[jordanbuilds1]

3 minutes ago, GuiltySpark_ said:

Whoa. Ok thats on me. I totally misread the original comment as 2060. Well, that explains things! 

Happens to me often, trust me your not the only one lol

[GuiltySpark_]

2 minutes ago, jordanbuilds1 said:

When the hell did people get the notion that the 2080 super was budget?

$200-$240 US on Ebay all day in 2025. 

[jordanbuilds1]

5 minutes ago, GuiltySpark_ said:

$200-$240 US on Ebay all day in 2025. 

Well now it is but I ment before, but it seems it was all a misunderstanding.

[darwin006]

At this point can anyone really suggest that a person buy a CPU that doesnt have TPM 2.0 and wont support Windows 11 without acknowledging that you will need to run Linux on that PC.

[atxcyclist]

6 hours ago, jordanbuilds1 said:

Funny how amd is known as “budget kings” yet most budget builds are featuring intel cpus

Tier 1's like Dell and HP wisely kept away from FX and FM2/+ Athlon when they were AMD's current lineup. Until Ryzen, Phenom II was the last great AMD desktop platform and it was replaced by FX in 2011. Any of the worthwhile "budget builds in 202X" systems are all going to be Intel 3rd Gen and newer, which is even newer than FX and considerably better in many ways.

[R3ndevous]

Well if the sole purpose of the PC is to play games, I'd honestly just look at an Xbox Series S. 
Used that console can be found for cheap and even new it's relatively close to the $269 target. 

Of course this idea falls apart if the main idea is to play games through steam and not be subscribed to Gamepass, although I'd argue that given the price of Doom: TDA....it is a good value still . Main shortcoming is also storage on that device and the expensive upgrade path, so you'd need that backup/storage HDD for your library.

Nonetheless, from an experience standpoint, I'd still consider it better than the from scratch $269 build;
 

 

[KidKid]

21 hours ago, LMGcommunity said:

It’s the age old question: how cheap is a good gaming PC? And are you better off upgrading the $69 dollar PC or starting from the ground up? We cover budget CPU and GPU upgrades (like the 2080 SUPER or 6700 XT), RAM, and storage solutions. The video compares performance, offers tips on finding deals for used components, and discusses the used PC market, emphasizing balancing cost and performance for modern AAA games.

 

 

That's incredible!

[danwat1234]

22 hours ago, darwin006 said:

At this point can anyone really suggest that a person buy a CPU that doesnt have TPM 2.0 and wont support Windows 11 without acknowledging that you will need to run Linux on that PC.

Bypassable!

 

8th gen Intel (Cafeinnated Skylake) is still very spunky with day2day computing, and reliable! I have about 260 8th gen Intel Optiplex/Prodesks for BOINC so, statistics;, 1 had a heatsink mounting issue, a few that eventually needed a fan replacement, zero needing repasted. Maybe 3 that had stability issues from the get go, and zero with noticeable degradation despite 24/7 crunching (*i think).

I assume OCCT is superior in finding instability and compute errors than Prime95 Torture Test? OCCT Extreme test vs TT with small FFTs? 

 

Undervolting can increase clocks when TDP constrained, though BIOS version needs to be old enough (early 2019 typically) to not have blocked it