Xbox One X PC Build: Can you do it for $500?

[ironmanDX]

Hiku said:

Vasto said:

Part	Name	Price
CPU	AMD FX-8300 (3.3GHz, 8-core)	$90
Motherboard	ASRock 970 Pro3 R2.0 ATX AM3+[3][4]	$45
RAM	Patriot Signature 8GB DDR3/1600 (1x8GB)	$47
Graphics card	Gigabyte Radeon RX 580 8GB Gaming 8G[5]	$266
Storage	Western Digital 1TB Caviar Blue 3.5” 7200RPM HDD	$50
Optical Drive	LG UH12NS40 Blu-Ray drive	$43
PSU	Thermaltake SMART 550W 80+ Bronze[6]	$35
Case	Thermaltake Versa H21 ATX Mid Tower	$34
OS	Windows 10 OEM license	$32
Shipping	Motherboard ($1), Graphics Card ($9)	$10
Total:	$652

You probably don't need an optical drive, since pretty much every modern game is available digitally on PC. So that's -$43.

And if you already have a PC, you probably already have storage, a case, and an OS you can use on your new one. That's an additional -$50, -$34, -$32.

$652 - $159 = $493.

So if you already own any kind of PC, you can turn it into a monster for $493.

People aren't reading it properly. This isn't a direct match. It's just a 4k pc as cheap as possible. There's no cooling system and only 8gb of gddr4. Hell, the motherboard is as cheap as they come. It doesn't even support wifi... In 2017. They've essentially cheated on this comparison and still come up short.