For me its these tiny CRT TVs i use as secondary monitors.

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  1. I will literally buy one of those little CRTs from you. It’s my dream to play cyberpunk on a tiny crt screen

  2. EducationalCamel1043

    case. just has to hold and house the parts and have good airflow. $40

  3. Fideriks1

    The case, a cheap Deepcool PC case,it holds my parts and has decent enough airflow, all I can ask for honestly, if I ever do upgrade my case it be for aesthetics

  4. the monitors, especially the side ones, and the GPU

  5. PinkamenaVTR2

    My monitor (if excluding keyboard and mouse), my setup is a GPD Win Max (2020) + Razer Core X with a 2060 SC, works pretty well for me

  6. Shellsallaround

    The zip ties I used, <.03 each (USD)

  7. Corevegaa

    I have one hdd that I’ve found in a old case of mine with 2 tb that’s over 10 years old but only has like 6k hours usage and works pretty fine as data grave and even some older last gen games load up decently fast.

  8. Keyboard & cpu cooler
    I don’t really have an expensive setup though, I5 8600K +1080ti
    Keyboard: generic keyboard from Thrust I have been using for 5+ years, probably 20 bucks
    Cpu cooler: cheap cooler master aircooler, also 20 bucks. Has always kept my 8600K below 70 degrees so just kept it lol

  9. CptJamesBeard

    keyboard. steel series.
    mechanical keyboards are overrated.

  10. My motherboard, it’s a prebuilt, wasn’t confident enough to build it myself, found out it also doesn’t support memory speeds above 3200MHz, instantly fails to post beyond safe mode. Definitely cheap.

  11. MordorsElite

    If we are talking cheap in terms of dollar amount, it’d be the extra power strip on my table for temporarily plugging in stuff like my phone charger or laptop.

    If we are talking relative to what price category of other components I bought into, I guess its my deskpad. Paid 20€ for a 120x40cm desk pad. It’s probably not very high quality, it certainly doesn’t feel amazing out of the box, but until it gets messed up in some way, I’m not willing to buy another.

  12. NoNeighborhood3765

    Cheapest part for is is probably the screws.

  13. mrbubblesnatcher

    $10 magnetic dust filter for Lian li 216. Pos should of came with.

  14. pc_banana

    My $20 Razer Deathadder Essential that I use with a $1000 PC, $100 kb, and $250 monitor

  15. me-machines

    My CPU cooler. The Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 is a fantastic cooler for under $40…it almost feels wrong how good at is at that price point, but it keeps my 5800X3D happy.

  16. The keyboard & mouse, I took some $15 that seemed ok and called it a day, both gave issues a year after and I’ve just dealt with them

  17. Noobeaterz

    I have 8 harddrives but only six sata ports, so I use a cheap sata card for four added ports. It cost me $9 on ebay.

  18. My second monitor. It’s a 10yo 22″ 1080p TN garbage. It was cheap new

  19. Assortedark74

    Either my used no name ssd (120gb) or the cheap fans I got on Amazon for ~25-30$ (was a 4pack and I got 2)

  20. coffeefuelledtechie

    Mouse. £15 from Lidl. Not wonderful but does the job absolutely fine.

  21. The cheapest thing in my rig is the first gen SSD I keep moving between rigs because it has shows and movies “I will totally get around to watching” spoiler alert; I won’t.

  22. Mysterious-Chart2059

    I have an old 13 inch crt TV as a monitor

  23. henlohowdy

    I feel like my setup is pretty balanced tbh, no cheap stuff just aging slightly but still pretty damn high end. Cheapest part would be my monitor which is still a very decent ViewSonic 1440×2560 144hz IPS panel. Until oled becomes cheaper and in 27-32in I’m holding out.

  24. milkafiu

    My second monitor which I bought for 6$. My build cost around 600$ which is way more than I wanted to pay for that.

  25. mlnm_falcon

    For any single piece of any of my setup, it’s the drives that I got from some dumpster diving finds.

    For anything at all that I paid for, either some of the cables, my wireless charger phone stand

    For major components of my setup, the Bose desktop sound system I bought used for $50 that had several owners before me, but works well and sounds great.

  26. NoodleyP

    My PSU. There was a good deal on temu. I got mine for $10. It’s apparently a 2 in 1 PSU/Space heater as well.

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