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$400 Budget Gaming PC

Humberto L Rodriguez
Apr 3, 2018
3 min read

You want a good PC and don’t want to spend your life savings which Is understandable but recently it’s been very hard to get the best bang for your buck because of cryptocurrency mining which skyrocketed prices of graphics cards the main component to a gaming PC. but don’t worry that’s why we’re here to find ways around that and to give you the best gaming PC you could possibly get for what you’re spending so with that in mind let’s get into the build

CPU

Like I mentioned before the prices graphics cards have skyrocketed but thankfully there’s a solution to that AMD is aiming to help people who have a budget an all-in-one solution with a fresh wave of what the company use to call Accelerated Processing Units. Although it's shying away from using the term APU, the new Raven Ridge chips combine host processing, graphics, memory control, and fixed-function accelerators. now I know you’re wondering what is this magical CPU well it’s the Ryzen 5 2200G it comes with four SMT-enabled Zen cores and 11 Radeon Vega Compute Units that deliver up to 1.76 TFLOPS if you want a great review on this processor check out this article from techrader they have a great review on this CPU .

Motherboard

The motherboard we chose for this build is the MSI Gaming AMD Ryzen B350 TOMAHAWK Which is a very popular motherboard for AMD RYZEN Series Processors and 7th Gen A-series/Athlon processors for Socket AM4 and for good reason it’s a ATX motherboard costing only $84.99 right now which is awesome. It’s a really good motherboard for beginners having a super simple bios where you can over clock super easily and you even have easy mode. If you want to read more about this motherboard here’s a link to anandtech.com which has a great review on this motherboard.

RAM

For ram we went with the Ballistix Sport LT 8GB Kit (4GBx2) DDR4 running at 2400 MT/s we chose this ram because it compatible with the CPU and motherboard for this build. there isn’t really much to choose from especially in a budget build like this and In the future you can easily grab another pair and have 16Gb of Ram if you want to upgrade in the future.

Hard Drive

For the hard drive we went with the WD Blue 1TB using a 6 Gb/s sATA running at 7200 RPM with 64MB Cache Which is one of the best bang for your buck hard drives only costing $44.99

Power supply

For the power supply we went with the Thermaltake Smart 500W 80+ Delivering 500W Continuous output @ +40℃. Compliance with Intel ATX 12V 2.31 & EPS 12V 2.92 standards, which we have been featuring in our builds a lot because it’s such a good bang for your buck only costing $35.77 for 500W but there’s a downside which it isn’t modular, so you’ll have to do a little more cable managing.