My friend wants a desktop for his small youtube channel and minecraft... We had to modify my first build for him because his max is $430 (I know it isn't the greatest desktop)
Hi body, see your friend look for a low price gaming computer and that is pretty hard for that budget. But yea i build one to him... This build is Total: $440.35 http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1Nbz8
this should play bf3 on Low-Medium.
And Minecraft playable hope i help ..