Introducing my htpc build with all budget parts
And travel gaming PC for when I occasionally travel far 2-3 times/yr
The only things I had to buy were the motherboard and CPU cooler. Everything else was just laying around my shop.
Specs:
i5-9500 pulled out of a dell office PC
16gb ddr4 from who knows where
GTX 1660S from my first prebuilt when I was a teen
Z390M-ITX/ac from EBay
Thermalright AXP90-X36 Black from EBay
Apevia ITX 500W PSU from a failed build a while back
A07 case from the same failed build a while back
1TB sketchy no name SSD that I fixed from my friends mini PC that he thought he needed to buy (yes I did a fresh windows install from usb blah blah)
Overall cost? $150-ish. Obviously not counting the random parts I accumulated over the years. ITX on a “budget”. Who woulda thought.