$69 Gaming PC

we've seen all the comments linus please focus on budget parts for a change something we can afford we've heard your cries in fact here at linus media group we take your concerns very seriously so here it is my friends the build on the tightest budget yet bask now in the glory of the 69 gaming pc [Music] the be quiet purebase 600 features a versatile design noise insulation and optimization for different liquid-cooled radiator configurations learn more at the link below okay so i guess before moving forward we should give credit or rather absolve ourselves of credit for this build where credit is due a little while ago while perusing the pc master a subreddit we stumbled across a thread where a user wanted to build a gaming pc for under a hundred dollars and anonymous really came through for him or her specking out probably one of the most astonishing pcs we've ever seen for a mere 69 us dollars disclaimer if you actually need to build a gaming pc for under 100 it is possible get an old dell optiplex or something and throw a used video card in it i can guarantee that'll be a better experience than what we're about to make but come on maybe that's been done a thousand times on youtube already and we were far more interested in finding out just what kind of gaming experience could be had for exactly 69 so then the backbone of any pc is the power supply which is why we recommend the incredible diablotech da series 250 watt to always be in close proximity to one of these ram we've got covered by this one gig stick of kingston ddr2 running at a rapid 667 million hertz this will occupy all of the one memory slots in our via vb7001 which by the way is still more memory slots than a razer blade 2017. now for our motherboard we did end up with a slightly different one than the original post but it has the same basic features and most importantly processor the via c7 is the heart of our build a small low power single core cpu from 2007 running at a whopping 1.5 gigahertz with via unichrome onboard graphics with support for the latest directx api if by latest you mean dx8 even at the time this was far from a powerful solution and 10 years later it hasn't exactly aged like fine wines so uh let's get this party started shall we we started with plan a building up the machine in the only case we could afford so the cardboard box that the motherboard shipped in and installing our operating system on the only boot drive we could afford a usb boot drive but we were quickly foiled by trash windows xp booting support so we moved on to plan b puppy linux only one small problem with that we couldn't even get the machine to post with the single-sided stick of memory that we got for the build so fortunately this dank af ocz gold xtc memory that we had lying around to the rescue but then more problems steam wouldn't run due to minimum requirements issues on linux so we caved grabbed a hard drive and a cd drive off the shelf and began to install windows only to have disaster strike all of this excitement was actually too much for the uh venerable c7 on our original board and during the windows xp install the poor thing died never to post again so a month later we have our second board from china that quite frankly looks a fair bit rougher and the fact that it came without a cmos battery didn't lend much credence to the tested working claims but who knows maybe we'll get lucky today this time we aren't taking any chances with the windows install so we completely broke the price limit and connected the whole thing to an ssd in order to speed up the process where did you find ps2 keyboard and mines plug this in flip the switch you want to do the honors yeah there we go all right it's alive [Music] there it is we've got the post screen let's keep this right here between us that way it's uh equidistant either of us can grab it easily oh that beautiful windows xp boot screen okay wow what the hell is this are you really young enough that you don't even know how to change the position to at least i mean if you're gonna make it scary you gotta make it full scary what game first should we start with the synthetic benchmark no that's probably good for last because it might break it cool rainbow six maybe rainbow six oh wow i went to just start typing rainbow six i forgot how the old start menu worked now my friends this isn't rainbow six vegas or rainbow six some other suffix this is rainbow six oh gee wow look at that cut scene it's beautiful wow those graphics wow that fan manages to be pretty loud yeah i think the bearings are bad on this one because it didn't sound like that on the other one that's actually running not bad i mean all things considered look at those animations it's beautiful the whole rainbow six concept just didn't make a ton of sense to me like the idea of relying on ai which is inherently garbage to complete the mission rather than being a super soldier does it just crash oh you just suck okay this game's no fun tony hawk's pro skater 4 no no that one doesn't open okay tony hawk's pro skater 2 works all right do you remember game demos we're running demos it'd be so good for our job too because like then we wouldn't have to buy games to benchmark them oh wow this is actually running okay this is legit running pretty smoothly i mean that doesn't help me much i even got like some blood effects when i fell down there he's a really good skater if he can take these directions we're playing uh tony hawk's pro skater too yes that was my childhood okay how do you play this game i think i did it on console okay okay okay whoa he did a 360 no comply oh oh [Applause] you lost all the points okay so v does something how do i get up speed it keeps beeping whenever you press a key yeah if i press two minutes do a thing and jump out of it oh yeah oh no oh yeah i landed it taryn was good at a video game what the hell just happened okay what's next you installed tf2 on this yeah i could have told you that wasn't going to happen well it has a directx 8 mode though so i was hopeful ah well let's find out if quake 3 arena will run all right oh okay now this okay what res do you think we can run at 800 by 600 should we go for it might as well push to the like max at first well i mean okay here we go yeah no i'm not gonna go i'm not gonna go any further than that okay here we go here we go hey that's running not bad oh damn it what go away go away no i haven't even managed to kill him once yet oh i'm almost dead damn it if i had any shame whatsoever this would be really humiliating okay let's fire up 3dmark 2001 se benchmark yep all right [Music] game one car chase low detail okay 14 13 fps okay so quantitatively this is not the best experience you can have with a gaming pc not even under a hundred dollars but was it a blast finding a three-year-old reddit post that someone obviously created kind of tongue-in-cheek to make fun of someone for not having a big enough budget and recreate it and bring it to life yeah for sure but like it's so bad that it's almost good again everything that doesn't run on it just crashes immediately yeah everything that does run on it is fun to do so there you have it 69 gaming pc right there boom you saw it here first and last skillshare is an online learning community for creators with more than 15 000 classes available in design business tech and more anyone can take a class try a project or even teach a class themselves premium membership begins at around 10 bucks a month and gives you unlimited access to learning and you can learn from anywhere download the mobile app on android or ios and just tap into classes even when you're offline and they've got all kinds of great stuff even stuff that can help you professionally like video editing with adobe premiere the first 200 viewers to click the link in the video description will actually get in addition to that low monthly rate a two month free trial so go try it out right now so thanks for 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Channel: Linus Tech Tips

Views: 7,944,315

Keywords: gaming, budget, cheap, sixty nine dollars, reddit, PC building, 69

Id: HDDLTwS4zgs

Length: 11min 49sec (709 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 05 2017