The Amazing ALL-EBAY Gaming PC #Helpful Post

whenever we put together a list of

recommended parts for building your own

PC there's one complaint that oh yeah

that you know that was pretty mean but

the random stranger I've never met and

never will has a point

maybe it's just as viable and maybe it's

way cheaper to build a PC on eBay maybe

within the same budget you could build a

much more kick-ass rig than you could by

going through New Ager Amazon maybe none

of this is a maybe because maybe we

already did it and maybe I'm gonna tell

you guys all about it

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so we began our journey with a spec list

for like a decent gaming PC on PC part

picker that ended up at just over $1000

for all new parts at retail prices now

we didn't choose this price point for

any particular reason

other than that it's just kind of what

we ended up with for a good bang for the

buck gaming PC so with any luck eBay is

either going to increase our bang or

decrease the buck now of course

regardless of price the main

disadvantage of ordering off eBay is

that you're going to be stuck getting

all of your parts piecemeal which for us

meant that we actually had to wait about

a month in between ordering all this

stuff

and making this video here for you

people which is going to be an eternity

if you're just looking to fire up some

apex legends with your buddies now to

mitigate that somewhat we did actually

limit ourselves to buy it now items

rather than furiously refreshing auction

pages so you can assume that with some

more patience you could actually do a

little bit better than us but then how

well did we do it's time for a whole

video let's start off with our case then

okay this honestly didn't matter much we

were going for cheap and functional and

it ended up being a rose will Nautilus

that won the day it was packed well

enough and it's arguably a reasonably

attractive case too if you're into the

whole kind of glossy plastic look now

you might be thinking to yourself when

you first open up the case doesn't the

Nautilus come with two fans in the box

and yes it does they just happened to be

loose in the box for us for some reason

actually if we're being honest the

shipping was overall quite horrible for

this thing and worse the Nautilus is

supposed to have a windowed side panel

and as you guys already saw it does it

just was installed on the wrong side so

clearly they were packing it up in a

freaking hurry I mean this is what you

get sometimes when you go with eBay and

the thing is that with cheap cases we

actually found that the pricing for used

ones on eBay wasn't really any better

than just buying an entry-level case at

retail unless of course you count the

extra value high yes not one not two but

three extra SATA cables were included in

the box so then once we get all of our

wires managed and kind of where they're

supposed to be right gonna take that off

that's all it's a window that we can

move on zero gravity that seems to be

what whoever packed this was hoping for

because that's the only way it was gonna

survive next up it next up is our power

supply at 80 plus rating for the power

supply of any modern computers pretty

much non-negotiable and we're gonna want

about 500 watts of continuous power for

our build to live and to give us some

room to expand

now despite its shortcomings like its

lack of modular cabling and if we're

being honest middling overall

performance EVGA is 500 be fit the bill

for us nicely now this one right here is

an open box model so it hasn't been used

very much if at all actually doesn't

have a speck of dust on it so this looks

like a pretty good score for 25 US

dollars now for the platform that's

going to go into our

kind of rats nest over here we wanted

something that was gonna have at least

eight threads with enough per thread

performance that games won't end up

slowed down by our CPU so Rison is kind

of a no-brainer at this price point and

there were some very decent deals to be

had on the gen 1 risin 5 1600 X now we

had considered an engineering sample

core i7 8700 non K but it has a locked

multiplier and no heatsink in the box

if we're gonna have to buy a CPU cooler

anyway we want to be able to overclock

so we ended up by the way with a deep

cool gam Max 400 which cost us about $24

now with just a 6 core CPU and a single

graphics card we don't need the fanciest

motherboard on the block so we went

hunting for a B Series board with a

decent vrm layout for dad overclocking

now virtually all the options available

on eBay with decent pricing were refurbs

which means that they only come with IO

shields if you're lucky

although we did also get a Wi-Fi antenna

so that's nice but thankfully that's

actually not a big deal for us thanks to

our or it bonus SATA cables anyway

the choice really came down to between

two boards from a sues the be 350 plus

and the be 450 plus now the chipset

difference doesn't really matter for us

because we're running first gen Rison

but we decided to spend the extra five

dollars on the newer beef 450 board if

only because it's likely to get firmware

updates for longer next up is RAM now 16

gigs was our target for comfortable

gaming and multitasking including

running the notorious memory hog chrome

web browser but the thing that we kind

of ran into here is that memory

deals on eBay were few and far between

so we ended up going with this like the

definition of bog-standard no-name ddr4

2400 and this stuff is weird like

there's no visible branding even on the

chips themselves where you'd normally

see you know some kind of name you

recognize like Samsung or SK Hynix and

when we fired up these modules to test

them we couldn't even find a vendor ID

string spooky I mean at least it was

cheap this is funny to warranty void if

removed what warranty

from who nobody knows anyways speaking

of cheap our storage options now we

wanted an SSD that was large enough to

handle our operating system and our key

applications so a crucial MX 500 250 gig

fit the bill just nicely not only is it

yes

dirt cheap but it also has a dram cache

which is important for its long-term

performance the one thing it can't do is

handle a big Steam library so we also

grabbed this 2 terabyte Western Digital

7200 rpm Enterprise Drive which was a

steal at $49 so both of these are either

new or open box because buying heavily

used storage is just not the brand of

fun that we're gonna get into today

finally we come to the single most

important piece of any gaming rig our

graphics card so our goal was to pick up

something that's capable of running

1440p at 60fps or 1080p at much higher

frame rates like you know 120 or 144

Hertz and so we quickly narrowed down

our search to either the geforce gtx

980ti or gtx 1070 TI which are

surprisingly quite similarly priced at

around 300 u.s. dollars right now which

is a bit strange when you consider that

the 980ti

is actually closer to a regular 1070

rather than a 10

seventy TI so obviously we ended up then

with the 1070 TI at least though to the

980 TI is credit it's not as bad a value

as some of the older Titans that we were

considering early on so right now this

looks like about the sweet spot in the

used market so I guess a lot of the

folks who bought 1070 T eyes are

upgrading or else we got a mining card

which is possible it's clean but it

looks cleaned as opposed to clean so

after a not insignificant amount of

cable management Thank You Anthony we've

got our buildin all of its secondhand

glory all in we spent about seven

hundred and seventy-six dollars before

shipping which if we were in the

continental US would have been about

fifty bucks which is just about two

hundred and fifty dollars saved versus

our retail build now there are a couple

of small issues like that wireless

antenna I was so pleased about being

included doesn't plug into our

motherboard and that i/o shield that we

were so happy to have is also not

correct for our motherboard but hey

Jamie is gaming so why don't we take it

for a spin

alright oh we need to turn vsync off and

move okay I just need to turn off that

motion blur you motion blur you all

right we resume the game

dang Anthony this is one cheap 130 FPS

at 2560 by 1440 and doom look at that

responsiveness I mean you'd never know

sort of looking at the frame rates for

running at here that this is like a you

know ghetto jank eBay PC I mean it

doesn't make your skills any better but

like not bad at all oops him in the

ankles oh no oh no CPU temps were

sitting nice in there just 40 plus range

although bear in mind of course

Jambi does record CP temperature

slightly differently from Intel when we

do shadow the Tomb Raider something a

little New York thing working exactly as

we'd expect

why don't we crank this puppy to

exclusive full screen turn that vsync

off highest no motion blur so here we're

stuck with the built-in benchmark but

that'll still give us a pretty good idea

of how this guy's gonna run were you

using hot glue for this build Anthony

well someone got hot glue on the table

oh you know what I think that's me not

that so remembering that we were

targeting 1440p 60fps that is looking at

pretty darn nice so yeah we're a little

on the low side but remember we

absolutely cranked this game and this is

one of the top triple-a titles from 2018

so oh good you give me a gun oh that's

so nice nice person and inspect with it

really

that's a button to stare at your weapon

so we're in Apex legends now I'm aware

that the HD textures are not done

downloading but for some reason they've

stopped coming down and I don't really

know what the issue is with that so

we're just gonna go ahead and assume

that it'll be some performance amount

that's a little lower than this the good

news is that's honestly pretty fine

because we're looking at like 70 80 plus

frames per second not bad at all I'm

officially better than half of the

people who joined this match don't have

any bullet guns but gun bullets yeah

he's done oh alright and we're dead so

that was it for my apex legends career

could have gone pro if only I had any

skills and practiced so at the end of

the day some of the items were either

the same price or more expensive on eBay

compared to retail but if you're

strapped for cash and you need a cheap

way to get some gaming grade hardware at

least some of them were a better deal as

long as you don't care too much about

warranties now the risk of getting

something that's just dead on arrival is

not as much as you might think

thanks to eBay's from our experience

anyway excellent buyer protection so

what it really comes down to then is

your willingness to deal with a

premature failure that doesn't come with

any kind of manufacturer warranty

support as for me well as a tinkerer the

way that I've always looked at it is

that if I save nearly the cost of my

single most expensive component on a

build then I can literally afford to

replace any piece of it that fails and

worst case scenario I'll be back where I

started

then if it doesn't fail well then I get

to keep that money in my pocket and

that's a pretty appealing reward for a

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