Cheap Home Office Build Under 500$

Toggle sidebar Toggle sidebar
O

oliveoil

Distinguished
Jul 6, 2011
16
0
18,510
Hi everyone! I need your help with this build I want to have at home. It will not be used for gaming, but it will be running all day. Thanks

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD A6-5400K 3.6GHz Dual-Core Processor ($81.98 @ Newegg Canada)
Motherboard: ASRock FM2A75 Pro4-M Micro ATX FM2 Motherboard ($81.27 @ Newegg Canada)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($47.33 @ Newegg Canada)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($61.98 @ Newegg Canada)
Case: NZXT Source 210 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case ($74.98 @ Newegg Canada)
Power Supply: Corsair Builder 430W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V Power Supply ($51.98 @ Newegg Canada)
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHAS124-04 DVD/CD Writer ($26.59 @ Newegg Canada)
Monitor: Asus VS228H-P 21.5" Monitor ($129.99 @ Canada Computers)
Total: $556.10
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-08-17 21:44 EDT-0400)
 
Solution
Seladon-1370374
If you can (and want to) get parts from NCIX, then I would advice you to get this build :

PCPartPicker part list: http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/1tbr3
Price breakdown by merchant: http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/1tbr3/by_merchant/
Benchmarks: http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/1tbr3/benchmarks/

CPU: AMD A6-5400K 3.6GHz Dual-Core Processor ($61.73 @ DirectCanada)
Motherboard: MSI FM2-A55M-E33 Micro ATX FM2 Motherboard ($53.50 @ Vuugo)
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($29.22 @ NCIX)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($59.99 @ NCIX)
Case: Antec Three Hundred Two ATX Mid Tower Case ($39.99 @ Canada Computers)
Power Supply: Corsair Builder 430W 80 PLUS Certified ATX12V Power...
Sort by date Sort by votes
Seladon-1370374

Seladon-1370374

Honorable
Jul 23, 2013
2,213
0
12,960
Do you really need it to all (except the monitor) come from Newegg ? Because you would obviously save a lot of money by buying it all from different places. Or if I can recommend you one single place, that would be better than Newegg, it would be NCIX. They got a price match feature, so you can get the cheapest price all around the Canada and just buy at one single place to save on shipping !
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Seladon-1370374

Seladon-1370374

Honorable
Jul 23, 2013
2,213
0
12,960
If you can (and want to) get parts from NCIX, then I would advice you to get this build :

PCPartPicker part list: http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/1tbr3
Price breakdown by merchant: http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/1tbr3/by_merchant/
Benchmarks: http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/1tbr3/benchmarks/

CPU: AMD A6-5400K 3.6GHz Dual-Core Processor ($61.73 @ DirectCanada)
Motherboard: MSI FM2-A55M-E33 Micro ATX FM2 Motherboard ($53.50 @ Vuugo)
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($29.22 @ NCIX)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($59.99 @ NCIX)
Case: Antec Three Hundred Two ATX Mid Tower Case ($39.99 @ Canada Computers)
Power Supply: Corsair Builder 430W 80 PLUS Certified ATX12V Power Supply ($24.99 @ NCIX)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer ($15.79 @ DirectCanada)
Monitor: Asus VS228H-P 21.5" Monitor ($129.99 @ Canada Computers)
Total: $415.20
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-08-17 22:08 EDT-0400)

Cheaper than the one that you wanted to go with, by quite a lot, and gets a little bit more performances ! Also, I did build a PC a few days ago with that APU and that motherboard, and I managed to overclock it really easily up to 4.2 GHz, without getting too high on temperatures (only 55 degrees when under max load), and it stayed totally stable. Either I was lucky, or it is an awesome APU for overclocking. Either way, I really recommend you to get it.

Also I wasn't using any aftermarket cooler, just the stock one.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Solution
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Latest posts

Moderators online

Share this page

COMPANY
RESOURCES
FOLLOW
Top Bottom