Cheaping out on cooling isnt at all necessary when Thermalright exists with their newish air coolers. Close to the best.

For me the most important part is having a quiet pc. But cases with padding (fractal define) barely helps, so Id skip out on case as well.

PSU you can totally save a lot of money on, I see people spending $200 when $50 is enough

Ah, yes. Case and cooling. Just use your old case. Apart from that, what else? Remember that person is looking to save money. They already either use their old case and the CPU cooler that's in the box for the CPU, or the cheapest on sale. A person asking what to spend less money on wants a priority list that gets them the most for their buck. Next up: The cheapest 80+ Gold power supply you can find. Then RAM, then SSD, then CPU, then GPU, then motherboard. Note, the motherboard is last, because every other component that remains compatible can be upgraded later, but the motherboard affects performance least.

I kept, and still use, my GTX 1080 from when they first came onto the shelves at Fry's Electronics. I have replaced the GPU cooler on it with Morpheus cooler, but that is something you should not cut corners. Invest in a good one and it will last you a long time.

buying new GPUs…theres almost ALWAYS a 1 or 2 generation old card that plays 1440p EASY thats 1/2 the price of a card it matches thats 1 gen newer(2080ti and 3090 for example, 2080ti is so much cheaper)

But nobody wants to remove the old cooler and thermal paste and redo it later. I’d rather cheap out on storage, especially if I have a decent internet connection to redownload games (or a slower archive drive) and then add more later because storage is additive and gets cheaper over time.

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The PSU obviously, and if you don't use a case then you don't need extra cooling.

The stock cooler crashes my pc cause the cpu gets throttled and overheats. I bought a cheap cpu cooler and it fixed it so a cooler is defo worth it

I have never once bought into the RGB crap for my PC case. The parts on the inside matter. Otherwise it is a stupid metal box that sits under my desk out of view.

For the folks thinking about selling old parts. Don't ever expect to get more than 65% of your original price back. For a few reasons.

1. The buyer is buying used to save money, so they are already looking for someone cheaper than you are, possibly even as they talk to you.

2. Some are looking to flip good deals to make more money off whatever you might leave on the table.

3. Sure, it might still work like new, but that warranty covering it if it doesn't anymore one day… it has an expiring date and there is no refreshing it. So you're gonna lose money on that aspect alone, the other 2 aside.

For instance, one of my old builds cost me 1600$. I would be incredibly lucky, to get even 800-1000$ for it now. And that would mostly be because the case it is in, is still worth a lot of money, and is a desirable case to get for HTPC usage. Bascially, it can command a higher price. But the rest of the parts? lol… no.

So, here's my tip.

List the rig for 75% of the original price, accept 65% when they try to haggle. Be happy you got that much.

You can cheap out on motherboards – within reason. But no need to go too flashy on them. Same with ram, you wont notice much difference with lower speeds…

What if my CPU didn't come with a stock cooler, and I changed CPU manufacturer so I can't hobble along with the other guy's stock cooler?

You know what I say to that no case😂

That’s exactly what i did building my first pc however fan was too loud

Also you can get some REALLY good CPU air coolers for very cheap. I.e. Thermalright

As someone who has built in 50 dollar cases and 150 dollar cases, the more expensive was so much easier to build in. Spending the extra 20 to 50 bucks on a case is really just paying for quality of life features.

I mean, will you really hear the fan noise if you're wearing headphones?

This lighting and fish-eye effect killed me… TO DEATH

I would say in most cases, you can also cheap out on the motherboard. Full-sized ATX and mini ITX boards are overpriced compared to micro ATX boards, which will also fit in ATX cases, so unless you specifically want an ITX board for a SFF build, you might as well save money and get a mATX board as long as it has the features you want. Also, there's not usually much of a reason to go with more expensive motherboard chipsets, especially with AMD, because there's only a negligible difference in performance not usually difference that matters that much in features. For example, the only major difference between B650 and X670 motherboards is the absurd number of PCIe lanes supported by X670, but as long as the only PCIe devices you need are a GPU, an SSD, and maybe a few other devices such as WiFi cards and capture cards, B650 has more than enough lanes. On the Intel side, overclocking support is a major consideration and a major reason to go with Z790 over B760 for example, but the only Intel CPUs that can even be overclocked are Intel's unlocked CPUs, which are already overclocked out of the box compared to locked CPUs.

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