A simple, cozy $400 gaming PC 💚 (new!)

what's up guys my name is Ozzy and I show you guys how to save money when building computers so if you want to build a gaming computer for around 400 then you're in luck this video is for you but this time we're working with Micro Center to make it happen so that means that we could potentially save 50 or so dollars just by going in store and buying with them you guys know me I'm cheap there's a way to save money I'm gonna do it so without any further ado to Micro Center we go Micro Center is one of my all-time favorite stores for a number of reasons a they're one of the few computer hardware stores out there including Makerspace products like Raspberry Pi's B their store associates are super cool so thanks Josh for taking me around and see their in-store deals are absolutely insane here are a few of them new customers can receive a free 256 gig SSD and no purchases necessary that already saves you like 20 to 30 bucks right now they're running a ryzen 5 plus Wi-Fi motherboard combo for only a hundred and twenty five dollars if you want similar performance it will cost you at least 35 dollars more somewhere else during March Micro Center is hosting monitor Madness a very fitting Name by the way with lots of monitor deals like this curved 1440p HP monitor for only 200 bucks plus some monitors are as low as 80 brand new and finally if you submit your PC Bill to their build showcase program you get a 25 in-store coupon and verification no purchases necessary saves you even more money so lots of stuff is happening at Micro Center and thankfully they're adding three stores by 2025 to share the love with everyone else needless to say I was a very happy boy after my trip to Micro Center without any further Ado let's see what 400 can get you and in classic ozox fashion let's build it calmly so first up we have the ryzen 5 3600 and this is still such a solid entry-level CPU and one of the main reasons why I bought it besides it being a really good competitor in this price range is because of the motherboard so Micro Center is doing a deal where you can get this CPU and this motherboard for only 125 dollars total and the next cheapest option with around this performance is going to be about 160. so you actually save a lot of money you don't risk losing any kind of Major Performance Plus you have an awesome upgrade path to a 16 core CPU in the future or the iconic ryzen 7 5800x 3D now as for memory I just got a decent looking kit of 16 gigs of ddr4 memory it has a frequency of 3200 megahertz and a cast latency of 16. and essentially that falls under the category of good enough 41 dollars well looks pretty good and it's compatible can't really ask for much more for 45 dollars I picked up a one terabyte m.2 nvme SSD now m.2 is a smaller form factor which is really nice so that means you don't have any wires or cables it goes straight into your motherboard so try to pick that up if you can now there is a 500 gig model that's about 30 and if you are a new customer at Micro Center then you can get a free SATA SSD which will save you money and give you storage everything will be powered by this power spec 650 watt power supply that I picked up for 65 it does what I needed to do provides amp of power and really any decent 450 watt power supply or higher will work fine for this computer now there is a 500 watt power spec model for fifty dollars that will work just as well as this one and it saves you a noticeable amount of cash so consider that as well and now for my favorite part of the build and one of the main reasons why I actually built this 400 computer it's the video cards new cards under 150 that are actually decent or hard to come by right now and these will be your fastest options so we have the RX 580 2048 8 gig and then the RX 5500 XT 8 gig these will run you 100 to 140 dollars depending on the exact model and the RX 580 is about 15 slower than the 5500 XT but it can be overclocked which I'll show you how to do and it will make up for that difference these also come with warranty and you're buying them off Amazon so that gives you a little bit of peace of mind and lastly all of this is going to fit inside our case the thermaltake Versa h18 it comes with a tempered glass it has good airflow and it's affordable only being fifty dollars I actually used it in my previous calming PC build and there's a reason why I'm using it again it's just the best option in this price category now you can save five dollars by getting the H17 but you lose a ton of features and I think the five dollars is just worth it okay so here I'm going to lift up this lever and I'm going to grab the CPU by its sides so I don't touch the delicate pins underneath I'm gonna line up ryzen so the Y the bottom of the Y should be facing this way we want ryzen to be in the same orientation as socket aim for foreign [Music] should just fall right into place so this is the CPU Cooler I'm going to have the AMD logo facing this way so we're not blocking any of the memory slots on the motherboard first we need to unscrew the current heatsink back plate mechanism now we're going to plug in the CPU fan should say CPU fan on it but that's where I put it in okay next we're going to install our ramp so here we're going to unclip the second and the fourth gram slots and there's a notch right here that will line up with the notch in your memory you push on both ends and then it should just click it's actually really really satisfying and now if you have an m.2 SSD like we do that'll be the last thing we install on the motherboard look how cute it is it's so small so this is the m.2 slot it's going to stick in like that into here and then we're going to screw it down on this end this was on the motherboard right on the m.2 screw hole so just unscrew it and then screw on top of the SSD and if you want your build to look really cohesive you can actually buy an m.2 heatsink with the color of your choice and it'll match the style of your build but for now we're just going to keep it like this awesome so the motherboard is basically done now we can go get our case and start installing everything so first thing I always recommend doing is putting in the motherboard i o plate because you will forget because you have to take the entire motherboard out to put it back in and the motherboard is going to go in oops like this this is how it's going to sit in the case okay so now that we've done that let's install our tar Supply and then prep the case so all the necessary screws you need will come with the case itself so you don't have to worry about that so these cables are necessary for you to use the front panel on your case so all the USB ports up here and then any kind of headphone jack ports microphone ports these plug into your motherboard and once they're plugged in all of those will activate what I want to do first is actually put the motherboard in without installing it and screwing it in and then kind of see where all the ports are and once I see where the motherboard ports are I will route these cables accordingly so this fits right here so here we have USB 3 front panel is all here and then we have audio right here so looks like we want them to come out from the bottom holes so audio will come out from the bottom left hole the left my left one facing and then everything else will come out of this bottom right hole sweet and then now I have a case fan right here okay so case fan right here I don't see another one so looks like the case fan is going to go right here so we're good we don't really have to route that one so now we have the power supply we're going to install it at the bottom here so you want the power supply fan facing downward so you can pull air from the bottom all right power supply is installed now we can start routing cables move these out of the way some motherboard fits in here approximately so we have our CPU power up here on the top left so we're gonna plug it in here router cable through that hole we have our motherboard power right here so we're going to route a cable through that hole then we'll eventually have our video card cable so we can either route it through this hole right here or to Route it through the bottom whichever one we prefer and then that's basically it those are all the cables we have to Route we don't have to Route any storage cables because we already have our m.2 SSD installed so let's route those cables install our motherboard and then power it on the CPU cable out in it top left this is our LED power so we can actually plug this in it's one of these connectors here and then everything else we can just tie back together and then store in our power supply basement because we just don't need it okay so now that the case is prepped and ready to go we can actually install our motherboard so let's do that we're going to line up the motherboard holes with these standoffs it's like a standoff is right here it's just it came out of the case and these have the standoffs that we need pre-installed so now we're going to screen the motherboard using the motherboard screws you can check the case manual to see which is which thankfully this actually has some helpful labels on the plastic bags themselves okay so now we have the video card and right here we have the video card page I like to call it and this is what holds the video card in place well it helps hold it in place so we're going to unscrew this on the end and then we're going to take our video card of choice either the RX 580 5500 XT pretty much any modern video cardboard will work here and then we're going to line up the pcie slot with the pcie slot down here on the motherboard we're going to see which one of these i o slots we actually have to remove so four on the end right here and I need to remove the second and the third one from the top cool so now we plugged it in let's screw it into place let's see will this reach I hope it reaches so the pcie cable we're going to plug into a video card just like that so we're all plugged in so before we actually finish up tie up all the cables make it look all pretty and dandy and all that kind of stuff let's plug it in and see if it actually turns on because that would be very important plug you in good job it's working the LED on the front is a it's on too looks pretty good so after you know that everything's working don't forget about the final finishing touch which is the Wi-Fi antenna you need these otherwise Wi-Fi will work [Music] yeah there you go Let's uh let's go see what it can play [Music] gaming on the machine was great and even better after overclocking the video card and I'll have a ride up on my website on exactly how to do that specifically the RX 580 at 1080p you'll easily average over 120 FPS in Esports like Smite and Rainbow Six Siege and that will definitely translate to older games like CS go and newer games like Valerian the PC also plays newer titles if you have the right expectations cyberpunk new world and even Hogwarts Legacy were very playable and enjoyable you can even crank down the settings a little bit and squeeze out even more frames for a smoother experience without sacrificing visuals all too much overall this is a solid computer you don't have much to worry about when it comes to gaming I'm really satisfied with this computer it performs well it has a solid upgrade path it looks good I mean it's not like you're sacrificing Aesthetics here for Value really and then it's really affordable especially if you use the Micro Center deals available now there are some downsides one we are using older Parts like the RX 580 and we are on a dead platform technically so there won't be as long of support is as if we were using newer parts or a modern currently supported platform and the last one really comes down to value for a hundred bucks more you can still build that 500 PC from November and it still works phenomenally the parts are in stock around the price that I listed them for and it's going to give you noticeably better performance than this one so if you can save up I recommend doing that but if you can't this is still a solid option and you can always upgrade as always thank you guys again for watching if you liked it leave a like if you loved it share subscribe thank you again to Microcenter for making this happen without them it wouldn't be possible so definitely check them out if you can and look out for any expansion details because they might be coming to your city within the next few years all right I'll see you guys in the next video peace

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Length: 15min 48sec (948 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 26 2023