The Ultimate Budget Build ITX or mATX PC case

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https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16811147295?Item=N82E16811147295 Currently $27.99 at Newegg

Many people are working and schooling from home during the pandemic. Money may be tight for your family right now. If you are attempting a small budget (low budget) build this is the best you can do when trying to save money on the case. A mATX or smaller board is required. You will certainly find the lowest prices on the mATX boards of all the various form factors. The new cases you can get for $24.99 are a major drop off in quality. Here, the extra 3 dollars spent pays off great dividends. Give one of these a try for your next budget build.

FBM-X2 Micro ATX Mini Tower​

No money wasted on tempered glass, RGB lighting or even RGB fans that sometimes cost as much as 30 dollars each. You can easily cool your build with fans and an AIO liquid cooler is not needed even though you could install a small 240mm one in this case. I would stay with air cooling.

 

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Here's what you can buy right now on a $370 Ryzen 5 build budget. (before rebate) A very capable machine. Of course, if you can budget in a larger SSD boot drive go with one of the Samsung 860 EVOs that are on sale this week. A complete new Ryzen 5 build for $355 AR is amazing. Some Intel Core i9s alone cost more than this total build ! You can easily add a dedicated AMD graphics card if you already have one. Since the AMD APU is not supported in macOS yet, buy an AMD GPU to use with macOS for the best GPU performance. RX 570s are still the best in price/performance of all the compatible AMD GPUs. The deal on this RX 5500 XT is also very good during this sale for BF week.

https://www.newegg.com/asrock-radeon-rx-5500-xt-rx5500xt-pgd-8go/p/N82E16814930027?Item=N82E16814930027