The Cheapest Gaming Build Possible ! £230

[PaulDoyle333]

I wanted to build the lowest powered machine i could. This little htpc is on 24/7 and uses less power than a lightbulb .

 

The Beastly Specs : haha

 

Gigabyte AM1M-S2H Motherboard

Athlon 5350 Quadcore APU (25watts) 2.05 ghz

4GB 1600Mhz DDR3

500GB WD Blue HDD

Nvdia GT 730 1GB GDDR5 

Aerocool QS 101 Slim Case with 400watt PSU supplied

 

The GT730 never came with a low profile bracket so i mangled the bracket with a grips and squished her in there . 

The  cooler for the CPU is so small not much bigger than a poker chip .The little Athlon chip does not get hot at all so no need for anything bigger i suppose 

 

 

For £230' cheaper than most phones you would be surprised what this little fella can do .It plays a lot of games better than a Xbox One .

What a complete fail that console is !!! 

 

Anyway here is some pictures and screenshots . Tried recording game play but my frame-rate it games drops by half when recording and the little GT730 doesn't support shadowplay 

 

[OfficialJsP]

love the look of that case

[das affe]

very nice build mate but why did you use an apu? 

[OfficialJsP]

very nice build mate but why did you use an apu? 

 

did you read the tile  :lol: "The Cheapest Gaming Build Possible ! £230"

[helping]

d'aww look at its widdle fans and heatsinks

[Ruostunut kokis]

TBH second-hand components could've gotten a bit more powerful rig, although with an increased power consumption...

 

And before anyone is saying anything about GT 730 geing utter shite: it's about as powerful as a GTX 550 Ti. Still runs games without problems, sure, lower settings, but you can run every game, no problem.

[PaulDoyle333]

. This was just for fun ,sits in the sitting room for the kids. I wanted really low heat and really low power .This little fella works perfect .Steam in home streaming works great on it too streamed from main rig 3570k &gtx 670 .

[Rheinwasser]

you should have gotten an ssd.

[PaulDoyle333]

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Rheinwasser  No need its just a cheap media PC.Windows 8.1 boots in like 10 seconds .

[hoaxy32]

. This was just for fun ,sits in the sitting room for the kids. I wanted really low heat and really low power .This little fella works perfect .Steam in home streaming works great on it too streamed from main rig 3570k &gtx 670 .

 

I love these types of builds, such a wicked little beast PC. Weldone sir on mixing it up

[das affe]

did you read the tile  :lol: "The Cheapest Gaming Build Possible ! £230"

but with a dedicated gpu (gt 720) he could have gotten a cpu without integrated graphics or am i mistaken? or is the apu cheaper?

[PaulDoyle333]

but with a dedicated gpu (gt 720) he could have gotten a cpu without integrated graphics or am i mistaken? or is the apu cheaper?

Yes i could of used a cpu but the motherboards for AM1 platform are dirt cheap , £18 for motherboard .I could of got a pentium but cheapest board i could find was about £30-£35 . This was the cheapest option available and uses the least amount of power .Gives me 4 little cores at 25watts. I just disable the build in graphics .

[PaulDoyle333]

Heads up for anyone with AMD hardware ,there is a piece of software called AMD Quickstream that installed with catalyst control center .It was coded by the DEVIL himself ,it cripples your internet i was only getting 10% of my actual internet speed ,i thought it was LAN port ,Tried wireless card and same speed .After some googling found out it was AMD QuickStream software that was gimping the connection .I have no clue what the software even does it just installed with catalyst .After i uninstalled it i get full internet speed .WHO KNEW!!! 

 

Stupid software AMD sort it out . Just a heads up AMD QuickStream is EVIL