The best gaming PC Build under $350 in 2020

Nowadays its pretty hard to build a decent budget computer from online market like Amazon and others. The prices have risen up too much and if you don't want to buy used products from Ebay or Aliexpress, then this is for you.

Here's the best PC build that you can do under $350 that you can build yourself now with parts included.

See it is not going to be a Ultra 4K gaming and editing PC, it is a budget med-end PC that can play most of the games at 1080p medium settings smoothly and do your editing and productivity work. I will give you a link to you so that you can buy the parts easily.

1. Processor

Here the CPU that we are going to use would be Athlon 3000G from AMD. It is a dual core APU that comes with integrated Radeon Vega 3 graphics. The CPU is based on the ZEN microarchitecture and processed on 14nm Lithography process. The APU can be easily overclocked to 3.9GHz with the Vega 3 graphics to 1650MHz.

It has a TDP of 35W and L3 cache of 4MB. It can be paired with any AM4 socket motherboard (except the 500 series chipset and above). It can support upto 32GB 2667 MHz RAM.

Processor	Athlon 3000G
Cores/Threads	2/4
Microarchitecture	ZEN
Lithography	14nm process
Base Clock	3.5 GHz
Boost Clock	Upto 3.9 GHz
TDP	35W
L3 cache	4MB
Socket	AM4
PCIe version	PCIe 3.0
Max memory frequency	2667 MHz
Integrated graphics	Radeon Vega 3
Graphics frequency	Upto 1650 MHz
Graphical cores	3
Current price	$49

The CPU is really good as most of the better CPUs are unavailable currently. The 2 cores are just okay to handle normal games and some AAA titles and as we are going to pair it with a discrete GPU then just disable the Vega 3 graphics. Yes, you can do some light video editing, streaming, etc. 

It currently costs $49.

Athlon 3000G upto 3.9 GHz, dual core 

2. Motherboard

As we are going to use a ZEN APU the we have to use a AM4 socket motherboard and as for our budget we are going with the Gigabyte GA-A320M-S2H which is a very basic AM4 socket motherboard. Nothing special, this motherboard supports all Ryzen CPUs and 7th gen A series CPUs.

It supports dual channel 3200 MHz 32GB memory, PCIe Gen3 x4 M.2 with PCIe NVMe & SATA mode support. Its dimensions are 2.76 x 0.79 x 0.2 inches, its a Micro ATX motherboard.

It just does the work and costs for $55

GIGABYTE GA-A320M-S2H (AMD Ryzen AM4 / MicroATX / 2xDDR4/ HDMI/ Realtek ALC887/ 3xPCIe/ USB3.1 Gen 1/ LAN/ Motherboard)

3. Graphics card

As it is a gaming PC there is going to be a Graphics card there and i have chose a Radeon RX 560 4GB. It is a good budget GPU for low budget gamers and it performs similar to the Geforce GTX 1050 Ti. It has 3,000 million transistors and features 1024 shading units, 64 texture mapping units, and 16 ROPs.

It has 4GB memory and a GDDR5 Memory type with a 128-bit memory interface. The GPU has a Base clock of 1175 MHz which can be boosted upto 1275 MHz. 

Graphics card	Radeon RX 560
Base Clock	1175 MHz
Boost Clock	1275 MHz
Compute units	16
ROPs	16
Stream Processors	1024
Texture units	64
Transistors	3.3 B
Memory speed	7 GB/s
Max memory	4GB
Memory Type	GDDR5
Memory Interface	128-bit
Display Port	1.4 HDR
HDMI	Upto 4K60Hz
VGA	NO
Dual Link DVI	NO
Current Price	$125

Display outputs include 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort. It is connected to rest of the system with a PCIe 3.0x8 interface. It requires a 75W power.

It costs $125.

Radeon RX 560 4GB GDDR5

4. Memory

As its a gaming but we on a budget so we are going to use a stick of 2666 MHz DDR4 RAM. Yes, using a single low frequency RAM stick with a Ryzen build is a taboo but we are on a budget and 2x4 sticks of RAM costs almost double of it. Yes you can buy another stick later on.

The RAM costs $23 only.

Crucial Basics 8GB DDR4 1.2v 2666Mhz CL19 UDIMM RAM Memory Module for Desktop

5. Power Supply Unit

For PSU we have chosen a 400W PSU from EVA which good. It has a 8pin power connector to power of GPU.

It costs $37.

400W PSU form EVGA

6. Storage

For storage we will buy a 500GB HDD, you can buy a SDD as they are faster but i am going with a HDD as a 240GB SSD costs $45 which is more than a 500GB HDD. Still you can buy a 240GB SSD if you want to.

The HDD costs $35

The link to the HDD

7. Cabinet

Finally we are going to buy a cabinet for our pc components. For the cabinet we are going to buy a $35 DEEPCOOL MATREXX 30,Mini-Tower,M-ATX/Mini-ITX in which we will fit everything. Everything will easily fit in it and the ventilation is also okay.

The link to cabinet

Those were all the parts of our pc build, this pc is made for gaming and some other normal purposes. You can play at 60FPS on 1080p medium settings in most of the games, you can definitely play at 100+ FPS on ultra 1080p settings in games like CS GO, Valorant, etc and to play on Ultra settings you might have to lower the resolution to 720p.

This pc is not made for heavy video editing and streaming but it can handle the tasks if paired with another 8GB Memory stick. You can also do some streaming and other stuff then.

This whole pc build costed around $360.