Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Building* A Console Gaming Setup for $1500 using only Best Buy!”.
Today, I’m gon na challenge myself and see if I can put together a nice console gaming setup using only bestbuy.com they’ve, given me a budget of 1500 to work with, so I have to be very careful on how I spend it. Let’S begin so since Best Buy is sponsoring today’s video. I want to go over some really cool Tech deals that are currently running on their website before we start shopping for our new setup, starting with the Corsair ironcloud RGB. This is a very nice wireless gaming mouse and it’s currently 20 off bringing the price down to sixty dollars. If you look at the spice up your setup with some RGB, the Govi dream view is currently discounted by 25 bucks. This is basically an RGB strip that captures every color from your monitor and sends it to the LED strip. It’S supposed to add a level of immersion, while you’re gaming or watching content, pretty cool.
If you’re interested in picking up a surface laptop 4 there’s a pretty decent deal, that’s going on right now with a ryzen 5 and 8 gigs of RAM, it’s 150 bucks off bringing the total down to 750. The HP two in one 14 inch touchscreen Chromebook, is much cheaper coming in at three hundred dollars. It’S got an Intel, Celeron chip with four gigs of RAM, and it can be folded into a tablet. It’S a great choice for school work and basic tasks. The Sennheiser HD 450, the BTS, don’t have a crazy discount by any means, but there’s still a discount on a pair of nice noise canceling wireless headphones. If you’re looking to build a new setup or upgrade your current one.
Flash Furniture actually has a pretty good deal on their 47 inch office desk. It actually looks very similar to the one I recently used in a setup video. However, this one has a much sturdier build.
It’S currently 66 off. You can find all these items and more from Best Buy linked down below now on to the setup build okay, so we got to get the console out of the way, since this is a console gaming setup. Normally I’m a huge Sony boy at heart, but I want to show Microsoft, some love, so let’s go with the Xbox series X this time around. Just please don’t tell me it’s out of stock. Oh yes, thank you.
Thank you. We’Re also able to grab it at MSRP. Let’S go well, there goes 500 of our budget already, so we do have a thousand dollars left to spend on the rest of the setup. Let’S look for a nice desk, oh dear Rosie’s, on sale.
I I can’t pass this up. This is such an awesome desk um, it’s 45 inches and wide and 30 inches deep. So I feel like it’s big enough to fit a lot of gear and it comes with a full-size mouse pad on the table top, which is nice because it protects the desk from getting damaged and also provides a nice surface for the mouse to glide on. And it’s also a nice cushion if you want to do stuff on it.
If you know what I mean next, we got to look for a solid monitor. I do want at least a 27 inch monitor and it has to be 120 hertz so that we can take advantage of the Xbox’s refresh rate. How much do we have left? Actually 770 dollars? Okay, I definitely don’t want to spend more than 300 on the monitor. So, let’s do 300 Max! Oh, the gigabyte.
G27 is discounted by 20 and it’s a nice monitor too 27 inch, 165 Hertz refresh rate one millisecond response time. It’S a VA panel, which I’m not too crazy about. But you know in this price point: we’re not going to be getting OLED or a good quality IPS. So I’m okay with this, it is curved which is awesome, because when I’m watching The Hub, I want to feel as immersed into the content as possible.
Sadly, it’s not 4K, though I know Xbox supports 4K, but we just don’t have the budget to get a 4K High refresh rate monitor. We had to pick one. We can’t have both here and I much rather have a higher refresh rate monitor than a higher resolution. Monitor when it comes to gaming, because it does affect how I play the game, especially FPS games, okay, we have 541 dollars left to spend.
Let’S look for some headphones if you’re gaming on your speakers you’re either a serial killer or you live in your mom’s basement. I think a hundred dollars is a good budget for headphones right. Oh no, wait! Actually we need a headset with a mic um. Okay, let’s see what we got here.
Oh easy, hyperx Cloud 2 Pros say no more. It’S even on sale for 30 off. You got ta be kidding me. It’S only on sale for the red version.
Do we care about the color scheme? I mean that’s 30 dollars, if I’m being honest screw it, you know what let’s do a black and red setup. This headset purchase has determined our color scheme for the entire setup. Sometimes you got to do what you got to do to save money. You know what can we go back and change the color of the desk? Real quick? Oh yes, the blocking red one is the same price. This is this is working out guys. This is working out. Okay, I don’t really want to grab a keyboard and mouse because it’s a console setup, but I feel like I should, because there are some apps and games on the Xbox series X that do support keyboard and mouse. But I don’t want to spend more than 50 on the keyboard. Let’S see what we got here, oh with thirty dollars for a full size keyboard, oh ew, it’s membrane and it’s Razer. Here we go rocket pyro, it’s a full-size mechanical keyboard. It’S got a numpad, a wrist rest and a volume knob up top for media all for 50 bucks, and it’s currently 30 off too. Your boys are saving spree.
How much money have we saved so far? 230 dollars, not bad? Okay, now for the mouse uh? Let’S just put fifty dollars and see what our options are, the pulse. Buyer haste is actually a really nice Mouse. I’Ll. Come back to that.
If I can’t find anything better, you can’t go wrong with the g502 hero as well, but the blue accents kind of killer for me, especially since we’re going with the black and red setup over 100 reviews, four and a half stars and it’s 14 off. You know what, let’s do it all right? Where are we at now? 11 26. We have 374 left in our budget and we have saved 244 so far, so we’re not doing too bad uh. We basically have all the essentials right now for a fully functioning console gaming setup um, I feel like I can use the rest of the budget to spice up the setup with some LEDs or some rgbs or something, let’s see what uh. Let’S see what Gobi has to offer does Best Buy, have any Gobi products. Actually, oh, they should.
I literally talked about one in the uh, the sponsored segment. Oh beautiful. Okay, let’s do two of the neon ropes. Maybe some hexagon panels, seven panels for 130 dollars. That’S a scam, that’s an absolute scam, but you know what we’re gon na have to do it because RGB is light and besides we can use the extra FPS.
Let’S make it really cool design with the Govi ropes and the hexagon panels. I want something symmetrical. Maybe a pattern that kind of complements the hexagon panels, but I’m going to leave that to my um, my 3D designer okay, we have 164 dollars to spend. We have the Xbox on the right side, but the left is looking a bit empty uh. So, let’s put something there: oh you know what we don’t um.
We don’t have a headphone anger. Where are we gon na put the hyperx Cloud headset? So let’s get a um. Let’S get a headset stand. Actually, okay, I’m not spending eighty dollars for a hanger just because it has RGB. Corsair has lost their damn mind. Let’S put fifty dollars Max for the budget. Okay, this one isn’t as terrible, but I mean 35 for a piece of aluminum just to hold. My headset is pretty tough to swallow, even for my wife, but whatever, let’s do it. Oh, oh, does Best Buy, have pencil doors, let’s check it out. What is this blasphemy Best Buy? You guys have lost some respect points, I’m sorry, okay.
I have 129 left to spend and honestly I don’t even know what to buy at this point, I feel like we have everything we have all the gear we have RGB. You have a desk monitor. Oh, you know what let’s get some cable management stuff, a few raceways Bellco scraps and a power strip to plug everything in. Oh, we don’t have a chair.
I keep forgetting the chair. We only have 70 left for the chair, so we don’t have that many options. Unfortunately, okay, this one looks comfy 68 dollars and it’s 50 off, but I don’t want the white one, let’s see if they have a a black one. Okay, so you’re gon na charge me more because it’s black, I’m not going with a white chair.
I’M not! I don’t care if I have to sit on the goddamn bucket. It’S gon na throw off the color scheme. Okay, okay, this one isn’t terrible 63 dollars for a decent. Looking chair with back support, I mean it’s not going to prevent spinal stenosis by any means, but that’s all you can ask for in this price bracket.
Unfortunately, it’s also got four to four and a half Stars. So that’s good enough for me. Okay, final, total, 1490 and 86 cents.
We made it ten dollars under our budget and we saved 284 dollars in the process. You guys I’m pretty happy about that, and the setup itself doesn’t look too bad. I think it looks nice considering we only stuck to gear from Best Buy but yeah.
What do you guys actually think about the setup we put together using only Best Buy? Do you want me to go to Best, Buy and get the stuff and actually build it and test it out? If so, let me know by tossing a like if this video gets 20 000 likes, I will drive over to Best. Buy get every single item build. It make a video and I’ll give it away to one lucky subscriber.
I think that’s fair I’ll, also drop a link to everything I use in the setup down below a huge shout out to Danny for the awesome 3D designs. If you guys are new here, consider subscribing for more awesome setup content coming your way and I’ll see you guys very soon in the next one foreign .