Optimizing a $50 PC Until Every Game is Playable
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- Building budget gaming PCs is nothing new, but making a $50 PC play every game from 2012-2024 is one of the hardest PC gaming challenges I've ever done. Today, I’m pushing a $50 computer to its absolute limits, optimizing it until even the most demanding games are playable, and I got this potato PC from 2012 to run the newest games of 2024.
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GPU: XFX Speedster SWFT319 AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7600X
RAM: Silicon Power 32GB 6000MHZ CL30 DDR5
Motherboard: Gigabyte B650 Eagle AX
SSD 1: TEAMGROUP MP33 2TB Gen 3
SSD 2: Western Digital PC SN810 1TB Gen 4
Edited by me & @LuhJackyy
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Keep up the good work man love the vids
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@@misterslime351 no the free trial doesnt ask for ur card u prolly picked to subscribe to one of the plans
Lec ur the best btw congrats on 50k
i cant wait until the "graphics race" is over and the next best thing is just optimizing their games to the absolute max
The gaming industry doesn't realize how good optimization is important.
Good optimization makes games accessible to more customers.
Good optimization extends the usable life of hardware, saving the environment from e-waste.
Good optimization allows for newer, smaller devices to also get better performance and battery life (Steam Deck anyone?).
@@rockyneely749 yeah, a lot of games do the basic stuffs only, you can optimise meshes, the game will look the same but have way less polygones and shit to be calculated by ur pc, skyrim modders know this a lot they optimise the entire game meshes, there is a lot of others optimisations possibles for games creators too
AI bros won't let it happen. Nvidia stock must go up
never gonna happen 😭
@@hrtzz_undrskor well, there's eventually gonna be a time where games literally just couldn't look better, like identical to irl, so it will EVENTUALLY happen, just not for a long long time.
at this point buy food with $50
Get some snacks instead of a 50$ PC, tastes better and runs better
@@7take93 youre Not gonna be running after 50$ worth of Snacks
@@einfachsinnlos lollll
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@@einfachsinnlos he won't, but the snacks will...
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Am I only one using i3 7th gen CPU, 4gb Ram and Intel hd 600 GPU LAPTOP? Full potato PC but I respect it because my mother sold her golden neckless for buying this ❤
she got scammed lmfao
@@drownhood Nope buddy, actually the neckless only worth that much which could buy only this laptop 😔
@@siddhubhai2508 oh sorry
@@siddhubhai2508 Skibidi toilet
I'm using a laptop with an Intel 6600U and 4gb of ram
Far Cry 3’s “worse than malaria” difficulty is actually referring to Far Cry 2 in which the player had malaria and would have malaria attacks without medicine.
I died so many times from my malaria on FC2
I've been doing computer optimization for half my life, and after trying to bring the most bottom of the barrel laptops to desktops back to life, most of the time the main fix is a decent gpu even if you have a super old intel cpu, although I did get games like fortnite, stalcraft, minecraft, roblox, and league to work with a i7-810 paired with a gt 520 and managed 40-60~
this is great content to see, pushing limits of old tech :)
best advice for people that want to go budget, just buy a optiplex 7050 for $160 off ebay and a 1080ti for $180 and you'll be able to run most games, and if you're truly down bad, just get a gtx 750 with a i7-870
Yes i agree ! This cpu is much faster than i expected and i might give it a better gpu to work with 😂
@@lecctron have you also tried using a custom OS on this pc like revios, ggos, or atlas os? if not I still have a copy of ggos in a Google drive I can give you, imo I believe it's truly the most barebones version of windows 10 I've used
@@Fynancial That what i'm saying.
@@Fynancialit can boost ur fps by so much
@@lecctron I reckon a 3060 or a 4060 Ti would work that would be cool to see new GPU vs old CPU and see how that runs :)
I spent £600 on my PC. It has 64gb RAM DDR4, Ryzen 7 5700X 8-Core, Radeon RX 6700XT 12GB VRAM and 3TB SSD. I bought it from a woman whose husband cheated so she was divorcing and had no idea what it was actually worth. I had informed her but she was still happy to sell it for £600 just to "Be rid of him". Lovely woman.
@@xirion3567 how tf do you pack something better, it’s like getting a 99 rated fifa card from a pack that gives 97 max
@FireFoxDestroyer I don't play Fifa but I'm guessing that's good?
@@xirion3567 yea basically
@@xirion3567 jesus. Her huisband still searching for it i bet hahah
@Moreno6000 Probably but she said she got it in the divorce papers so idk. Mine now though mwahaha 😂
2:09 bro got the 50 dollars back
@@De1zx0 this ad just took care of the pc, upgrades and a taco probably
This was my life for a while
Man oh man the jump from an i5-5350u and intel hd graphics 6000 on a macbook with a 900p screen to an i9-13900k and an RX7900XTX on a 4k screen is not even a day and night, its a whole freaking galaxy change man.
@@DragonBane299 that aint a jump, thats a one giant leap for mankind typa thing
Now... This is what ive been waiting for. Thank you Lecctron!
its so funny how relatable it is to have your dad fill your drives with thousands of pictures
1:00 :Amazon has $50 dollar PCs"
casually pulls up an atx case
😂
bro knew very well he couldunt run 2016 doom on that potato 😭🙏
Sure boi? I tested a way worse than a Nvidia GT 710 and it runs on some pretty unexpected framerates (with stuttering when recording but smoothly without recording but not 60 fps)
How tho bro?😮@@whiteblack2008
no thermal paste change or dusting dawg you were killing that pc
My dad has functional old lenovo office PCs lying around doing nothing, and my little brother's gaming is limited to Switch and a family Macbook. Gonna use this video as a guide to get him something for minecraft, roblox fortnite etc.
_"Every game playable..."_
**STALKER 2 enters the chat.**
@@B-26354 anything that has UE5 in it is bound to be a 100+gb mess
Common brazilian gamer: finally, a worth opponent
common future everygamer bc everyone poor
common brazillian gamer: ps3 graphics are fire bro, its like real life
@@bootleg-haru I literally said this the first time i played gta4 in my uncle's PS3
12:26 best cope ive ever heard lmfao
i thought my pc wasn’t bad until you started listing off the same specs as mine 😭
You brought back to me soo much trauma with that Doki Doki Literature club OST..
Impressed shadow of the tomb rider
even ran at all, well done sor!
It would be great to have a sequel video about what games you could play with that setup, showcasing old classics, hidden gems that some have missed and recent indie titles.
There's a low spec niche to fill in YT!
By the way, put the actual specs of that PC in the description!
I'm planning on doing exactly that on my channel eventually... and I'll probably take it to the extreme. I do have a Intel Atom N450 netbook that can game, and I don't mean just "Minesweeper" but some tactical shooters/milsims, flight simulators, racing games, etc.
i had an old 2012 office pc before which lets say i optimised it as much as i possibly could (i3 3220, intel hd 2500 specs 💀) i did get used to playing at like 30-40 fps so when i got a new pc it was huge getting 60+ fps
My upgrade was from this to the xbox one s. 60fps was heaven 😂
When i bought my first GPU it was such a wild upgrade i simply could not understand it, literally exploded my head how much better Wreckfest ran with the RX580, too bad i had bought it from a crackhead for 30 bucks and it was unstable as fuk, i still loved it but it decided to crash SPECIFICALLY at the worst time possible every time in CS. Eventually got a cheap (but more reasonably priced) RTX 2080 last year.
cursor multiplying simulator killed me xD hahahah nice one bro
Nah because I fr got that one friend. He easily runs 120+ on max graphics while I can’t even run 60 on low which is why I’m on console until I get a new pc. But then 2 days ago he said “You should get siege or warzone on pc”. Knowing I wouldn’t play either and my pc would just blow up I declined. Sad thing is it’s always the most detailed games he wants to play knowing all I’ll see is 13 frames per second. Now ima watch this video and hop on my pc tomorrow to see if this works
Good luck for a new pc my brother we know the pain
Nah that friend is not really a friend if he tries to flex his specs all the time like that.
@@LEC3RD He didn't do pretty much anything in this video
hearing an adult say 2015 was a huge part of my childhood hit me like a truck xD
It still hits me wheb people say that for 2013
amazon has 50 dollar pc's? that just looked like a case
@@adasdasdasdasdasful it even said on the spec list that it was nothing more than a shell basically
W editing its insane man
on my experience, the less you have the happier you get in gaming. I used to play on my office laptop, and now that i have the PC that i wanted, I'm left just browsing the web and not playing the games that i bought on steam.
Not in mine. I used to have an xbox, played Star Wars Battlefront 2 all the time, and loved the game. Now it broke, and i have to play on an old laptop. It barely runs, as in its slow motion, and all the games i play arent even really rhe type i want to play. I cant even run fortnite, cs2 just barely runs
To avoid gamer burnout you need to be open to experiencing all types of games. Or maybe just give it a little push and try to hit the play button, maybe what you're doing is simply procastinating.
@@namieblinker5922 I don't got time, plain and simple. Built a PC, immediately switched to full time on my job and now I work 55 hours, have other obligations just about every evening, and have about fifteen minutes once a weekend to play if I want. So I might finish GoW eventually. Maybe.
bro said gt 710 worst gpu but me literally having a r5 m420 😭😭
Loved this project! I did something similar, saving an old office PC and concerting it into a little beast with a 3770S and a 1030! Nice vid!
YO Lecc, I laugh every vid lmao 🤣🤣 Keep feeding content bro !!!
CONGRATS ON 50K
My bois is edging my brain with that background music... I love it
sell the expensive gpu you found in your basement
This makes me feel alot more content with my rtx 4080 build xD I genuinely was considering upgrading to the 4090.. really for no reason at all. I have chosen to stick with my 4080 lol
0:33 what is the photo with the thing on the seat 💀
@@CURlOSlTlES brooo you really saw it🤏😂
I THOUGHT I WAS TWEAKING LOLLL
Me watching so chill in my Victus Rtx 3050. 😌
5:40 integrated graphics are good i will finally respect my laptop
editing on this is so captivating, well done
11:56 ddlc music brings back memories 😭 (good and bad ones)
What a trip DDLC was.
love ddlc
This turned out as sick as i thought it would be
Stuck with a potato pc? Pfffffff I’m still stuck on console.
@@RavioliBurrito It’s still good
PS4 is 6x the price of the pc correction 7x it is not 300$ the msrp is 350$
@@Sceuxm ps4 is 200 dollars what
@@Dtese Same shit.
@@Sceuxm ps4s are like 150 bucks here, ps5s are unfortunately more expensive than in the us
bro the nettspend background 💀💀 fire
Ooooh looks fun to play like that
Here are some upgrades you could make to this PC which would improve it
1. Adding a 1 or 2 terabyte hard drive as secondary storage would be beneficial as it could store more things on it and the SSD could be used for the OS.
2. The CPU i would upgrade to is the Intel core i7 3770K which is the best cpu for this PC
3. I would replace the GT710 with a GTX 1650 or an RX 580 which are great for budget builds
4. I would upgrade the ram to be atleast 16gb
My pc was over 1,300 I built it over 3 years and just completed it
Solid content and editing 🤘
FINALLY U POSTED SMTH LIKE THIS!! i needed this lol
I have 4GHz 4 core cpu and 16GB DDR3 ram and a 6GB vram 1060 running games at max graphics 1080p 60fps. i have spent so long optimising my pc... so i completely understand what this guy has been through.
Lol your gpu is carrying your whole setup
I got PC with: ´pentium gold 4560, 8gb ddr4 ram (later i got second 8gb ddr4 stick for free), ga-h110m-s2l, 450W psu , dvd-rw, 240gb ssd( replaced with 256gb ssd + 500gb hdd), and gt610´ FOR FREE (monitor, keyboard mouse and cables includet)
Genuinely curious how you got those things for free
@CM_684 from my school
@@simi_mini2020 what does that mean?
@@CM_684 they were "upgrading" to newer (and worse) computers
Bro just called me broke in 9999 languages
Im pretty happy with my 900 dollar prebuilt. Runs all the new games great. Great video
At 900 it should, my PC costs about 700 bucks with discount parts and a used GPU running esentially anything in 1080P zero issues
Bro wasn't lying in that community post
1:26 everyone be roasting this guy
You def don’t got TikTok or your a little kid
deservedly
how tf am i struggling to run Minecraft on a 5k 2017 dell laptop and this guy is able to run these games from a shitbox in 2012 bruh
0:33 gaming setup in afghanistan💀💀💀
Interesting, man. Thanks!
Bro I was about to click on the video at 0:22
😂
Hahahaha same
I was still gaming on an rx 580 and amd fx in 2021 because i live in a poor family and had a lot of fun playing games on low settings and i still have nostalgia for it. Just before it i only had a gt 730 and 6gb of ram and a windows 10 home os
i wanted to skip the ad but still didnt so that you get paid for being the goat
Bruh this is so close to my pc. i5 4570 CPU, 12gb ram, GT 730 graphics card 😭😭
2:50 this is really really misleading. it's not that easy. yes it can help by reducing the hops you make to the server but in general this wont help at all.
I used it and my ping went from 22 to around 3
the art of the budget pc was lost long ago, when developers lock in cpu limits on their games, intentionally forcing the market to upgrade.
Bro everybody keeps testing these games but the real test is only Roblox
Roblox is ass
@@GoDlike_fps same guy playing blood strike and clash of clans i think
@@MidMonkeyz yep
Goated for adding stray
9:00 what the skibidi was peak voice acting
Thank you for making this kind of content for us it's realy intertaining and i know you worked hard to do this don't give you're doing great.
SIGMA SIGMA PLAY BLOOD HUNT GUYS ITS THE BEST BATTLE ROYAL GAME OUT
he got a whole video about it working.....
are u slow..
@@sebastianrosario8062 he made a vid of it not working
pretty sure it was gearup booster he was taking about
@@onlyno0m oh shit you might be right I’m going to Chang my comment
I whooped on Warzone 1 running a i5-2500k and a R9-390x 8gb.
Now on a Ryzen 9 5950x and a 3080 LHR 12gb, I don't necessarily miss my potato but for the time being it worked just fine
2 views in 1 min bro fell off
@@Kxndd It's at 41k views now
Lame
Now, more than ever before, there's an incredibly wide range of performance that's viable for modern use-cases. Many people don't even wanna play new AAA games. In that case, you can do just fine with something that'd be mid-range in 2013. Me, I've got an i5-4690K, 24 gigs of DDR3, and a GTX 1080. I've underclocked the GPU because I never use it to its full potential anyway, even with my 4K main monitor.
Gtx 1080 did not come out in 2013..... and at the time, a 1080 also would have been considering high end, not mid range. 1080 was released 2016
@XuroX. I didn't say it did. My PC is better than the mid-range 2013 PC I mentioned.
Like if you think he is so underrated
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I've just built a brand new PC for 1700Euros and i enjoy watching this video 😂😋
5:22 for context on why they mention malaria in the difficulty description, the previous game in the series gave you malaria right at the beginning and you would have to manage it via medication throughout the whole game
I thought he was going to upgrade the pc everytime a game didn't reach the wanted fps. I want my 14 minutes back
Your videos are getting better and better every time
I remember saying "2016 will be the end all be all of old gpus"
Haha
I LOVE YOU LECC❤❤❤❤❤❤
nettspend wallpaper goes so crazy
As a gt710 user , I see this as an absolute win
lecctron speaking facts lets enyoy it
Another day, another Lecctron banger 🔥🔥🔥
Lecc is the UA-camr I never knew existed but needed
This video has aged me, I remember when the gt710 first came out it was a great budget esports card at the time
I thought this was a tutorial on burglary. Still, this video is a pleasant surprise.
The way I didn’t know “rise of the tomb raider was a game”
4:20 Halo 4 is not an argument for 2012 being a good year for gaming lmao
Beautiful video, you are not just entertaining and reassuring, you are saving arms, legs, and livers 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
A few years ago this was so common lmao, I remember an xbox homie finally got a laptop or maybe it was a desktop like this, that could run gmod, I think it wasn't until he got one of those external graphics cards he managed gta 5
Strategically changed cyberpunk 2077 (a demanding game) to fall guys (i can run that game on my dam 45 dollar hp laptop from 11 years ago)
Cant hate bro for having the psp, man that was my favourite handheld i would do anything to have one in my hands again 😭🙏
this is literally a tutorial for people with a low budget! its great
you dont need a more expensive computer, the one you have is completely fine
Bro gets more FPS with a potato PC from 2012 than I do today 💀
"cheeseballcheese" 💀
0:24 the guy on the video built that pc so he can get 20 seconds faster on blender💀
the KSI thing made me subscribe right away🤣🤣
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