Nice article. I was thinking watching this someone should pick up the $60 Ryzen 5 3600 off Aliexpress or eBay. Also a great GPU substitute, I've picked up a used 1070 in the past around that price point.

in pc partspicker it says. "Warning: The ASRock B450M-HDV R4.0 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard supports the AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor with BIOS version P2.30. If the motherboard is using an older BIOS version, updating the BIOS will be necessary to support the CPU.A" first build for me so, is updating the bios a pita? Subd, thanks!

@@rustyshackleford5839 It can be, but the motherboard almost definitely has a newer bios so I wouldn't worry about that. Good luck!

Can you make a non online pc build like stuff you will see in stores

While being budget

The 3060 alone is a win!!

thats a really good find you did there, enjoy pc gaming!

that's a jackpot right there

That is a fantastic price for that build, that's damn close to what I have in my own system. Welcome to PC gaming, and best of luck for future upgrades in that case

how tf u manage that!

The cabinet right?

the case sure resembeles an old lenovo think center

I thinkcentre it is too. 😂

Omg that is what that form factor looks like!

I should talk I bought one of the p520 think station

me2. i really appreciate the design of the thinkcentres :p

I'm so glad!

Yes both turned on! Sorry, forgot to mention

With 6gb vram work? Isnt re-Bar for 8+gb?

@@manurz1 nope! VRAM amount is irrelevant for ReBar.

@@OzTalksHW actaully just sold my 3600 ryzn to a homie for $50 :)

​@@xxEmeSiSxxI'll give him $100 for it.

Thanks man!

If you're willing to eat the occasional driver issue, sure, go for it.

@@1slotmech The only way these driver issues get ironed out is through user adoption and reporting, given the card is usable in the vast majority of cases, at the price point it's at the driver issues are negligible any way because you should expect dragons in modern games buying an entry level dGPU to begin with. Honestly, Intel's come a long way and it's nice to see, having a third GPU vendor on the market again might start melting some wax wings with AMD and Nvidia; who've more or less totally abandoned the budget and lower mid-range market segment. I haven't been as excited for a GPU release in years as I am for Intel's Battlemage line after hearing about some of the changes they've made to the architecture.

@@1slotmech Honestly, especially with Intel and even with AMD, everyone screams about driver issues, driver issues, like Nvidia's a perfect solved platform and AMD and Intel are riddled with ineffable crashes... both AMD and Intel have by and large been crash-free, and Nvidia's frankly got its own shares of problems. Intel's launch certainly looked rough, but having experience with two cards at this point, I can say in 2024 things seem very, very good to me.

@@1slotmechbro I’m a proud owner of a 4090 ROG and I recently got a ARC A770 for my son and I’m telling you, I feel like a dumbass paying too fucking much for the NVIDIA card 😂

I told some guys the arc would burn people out of their pride and joy. I knew the Arc would rule,

Yep, I’d also go with a 3600 CPU instead - way faster, PCIe 4.0, same price

@@OzTalksHW good point

For an extra $30 but $30 here $30 there you don't have a $372 PC build anymore.

or a used rx 6600

​​@OzTalksHW for second hand cpu, I'd go with 3300x over the 3600 oddly good for gaming because of the ccd/ccx layout, I'm still using one now with an rtx 3060 and it isn't stumbling. Whereas the other 3xxx processors are all suffering with frame timing issues not fixed entirely by the 5xxx lineup. All the cores sharing L2 cache is just that good.

Lol definitely not a ps5 killer, priced to get u into gaming but looks like shit plus you have to buy other Peripherals, not plug an ply.....

@@kevinkev1530 Yeah youre kinda right , But if I would spend like 500 dollars just for games , I think it'd be better to spend an extra 200 dollars on Peripherals for A LOT MORE! dont ya think?

chocolate rain

smart!!!

I do agree the Xbox series x is a banger of a deal. But that isnt a apples to apples comparison. If you remember in the beginning, this is a all new build. Everything here has a warranty. A used xbox series s does not have that. If he were to get all used components it would perfoem a lot better + be cheaper .

@@brandonsn5393 Even at full price a series S is a better value. The point is still valid regardless.

Yeah the series s is STILL a great purchase.

@@OzTalksHW If Microsoft installed a windows OS on either console it would kill a lot of budget PC builds. (Which is why I’m sure they haven’t done so.) It still blows my mind how much performance we get for $300-$500 consoles.

If you're staying with DDR4 you could add/replace the ram first. Sounds like you got a bad stick. At a budget $200 that makes sense. Windows with 8gb might be cutting it close for some games, but Linux with 8gb might be an option too (if you don't play Fortnite, am on Nobara Linux). Ryzen has more CPUs coming out if that is a system you plan to upgrade later. But the 13100F can also go with a B760M (paid 99 for one) or cheaper board feel that's a bit more terminal, you could upgrade to 14th gen (no point, it's a refresh). I built some cheap 12th gens on sale last year, that is an option too. Bad luck that both your parts went at the same time. I'd make 2 parts list see what you can get for 200, though I like AMD having more upgrade options coming in the pipeline still (even though I went 12th gen Intel). PCPartpicker has some build templates under Entry Level in their Guides, you could use and tweak. You could also check locally/online used deals. Only bonus on 12th gen or higher is the PCIE5, that won't be relevant for a while but the features on the boards were nice, some boards were PCIE4 for cheaper. I think both systems would be good, take a look at the new AM4 chips still being produced. I like that the 5600 is 6 cores though 12th & up are also speedy on Intel side. I like that AMD has the 5700X as an upgrade option, still hovering around 160 USD new.