This gaming PC was built to a budget for a young viewer. We all know how the price of GPUs has gone stupidly expensive over the last year so can we build a PC that can still run recent games at playable frame rates without busting the bank? This PC was put together using a mixture of new parts, and some of the best used/refurbished parts we have repaired on the channel over the last couple of months.

Here is the spec of the PC:

Gigabyte Motherboard (repaired)
i5-4690 3.5GHz (3.9GHz turbo mode) quad core CPU (used)
Cooler Master Evo CPU Cooler (used)
16Gb 1600MHz DDR3 RAM (used)
480Gb Kingston SSD (new)
2TB Seagate HDD (new)
DVD Rewriter (used)

USB Card reader (used)

Mars Gaming ATX Tower (used)
500W ATX PSU (used)

Radeon R9-290X 4Gb GPU with upgraded heatsink/cooling (repaired)
Red LED cooling fans (home made)
27" LG 1080p Gaming Monitor 1mS with Freesync (new)
Pro-MK3 Gaming Keyboard Mouse & Mat (new)

This build is for Aaron, if you like the build then maybe you would like to congratulate him on his first ever gaming PC!And maybe you would like to subscribe to my channel if you haven't already clicked the button :-)

I work in collaboration with:
The Electronics Channel (with Carlos and Detlef)
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Gran Canaria Uncovered
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Det Builds Stuff - https://www.youtube.com/@detbuildsstuff8128 (Detlef)
Retro Upgrade - https://www.youtube.com/@RetroUpgrade (Carlos)

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Richard