Gaming PC for 300€, is that possible? Classifieds PC assembled! Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:53 Problem price range 01:42 Selection of components 03:10 Assembly 04:01 Power supply fail 04:43 Cabling 05:24 Motherboard fail 06:01 some love for the GPU 06:30 Performance tests 07:09 Price and savings opportunities 07:35 biggest problem 08:22 End My setup: Asus TUF Gaming B650 Plus WIFI AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D Nvidia Geforce 4070 TI Super Corsair Vengeance 32gb RAM RGB Lexar NM790 4TB NVMe SSD BeQuit Pure Power 12M 850 Sharkoon Rebel C70G RGB Thermalright FWPRO 360 #gamingpc #hardware #budgetpc I built a gaming PC myself for the first time in 2024 and I'm getting more and more used to it. I have now even managed to tidy up the mess of cables inside and bought a new water cooler with a display because of the look, which was a bit of a problem at first. You can see that in the video above. And a video about the new water cooler with a display is coming soon, I'm just gathering impressions and experiences with it. What I can definitely say, though, is that I've developed a taste for PC hardware and I enjoy tinkering around with the PC. Even my children had fun and were much more interested than I would have expected. And since not everyone has €2000 to spare for a PC, I asked myself what was possible in the lower price ranges. As luck would have it, my nephew was looking for a cheap gaming computer and I thought we'd take a look at it. We're looking at a price range of €200-300, and in my opinion this price range is really difficult for two reasons. The first reason is the graphics card prices. I'll come to the second reason at the end of the video, so let's stick with the graphics cards for now. I paid around €850 for my 4070 TI Super, which is incredibly expensive and in this case around three times our budget. That alone shows how difficult it is to get something reasonable in this price range. And a look at the classified ads shows that the used prices for graphics cards are sometimes absolutely insane. They ask for exorbitant prices for graphics cards that are so outdated that it is questionable whether current games will even run on them. And the risk of getting a defective graphics card is also very high. Unfortunately, you only notice a lot of things afterwards. Actually, that applies to PC hardware in classified ads in general. I have the feeling that people don't want to part with their components or have somehow lost touch with reality. Anyway, let's get to the components that I have chosen. I have to say that I didn't buy all of the parts from classified ads. For some parts, such as the SSD, it's worth simply not looking in classified ads because of the low price. For the motherboard, I chose a Gigabyte GA-AB350M-D3H because I thought I got it cheap for €40 from a commercial dealer on eBay with a guarantee. But for that price, you can also get a B450 motherboard from classified ads, although the decision to buy from a commercial dealer with a guarantee turned out to be a good decision in retrospect, more on that in a moment. For the processor, I chose a Ryzen 5 2600. It only has 6 cores, but in my opinion it is still very powerful in the price range we are in and this processor is practically a bargain. I paid €30 for it, but if you are careful, you can probably get it for €20. DDR4 RAM is also a thing, I bought 4x8GB RAM sticks for around €40 from classified ads, but as a rule, RAM from classified ads is not recommended. They are usually just as expensive as new or sometimes even more expensive. At Amazon you can usually get 16GB RAM for just €30. For the SSD I chose a 256GB m2 SSD from Western Digital and for the graphics card I chose an RX590, which I got for €60 after a long search. For the power supply I got a 650 watt power supply from Amazon, which was also a failure....