Is It Advisable To Build A Home PC For ~$300? What Budget Is Optimal?

dragonborn123 · Nov 30, 2013

Looking to upgrade the family PC after about 5 years, and was wondering what kind of budget is necessary for a passable build. This rig would be a very boring, general build, used for a little bit of everything but nothing extremely taxing (no gaming, video editing, etc).

I intend to ask for a build in the future, but first I thought I'd get some feedback on what I could expect to get for ~$300 or if I should up my budget. Thoughts?

Welshstig · Nov 30, 2013

Yes you can build one for that price, I'll be back with the part's I advise you to use.

zink1701 · Nov 30, 2013

For a non gaming machine then for a $300 budget you will get a decent setup (is the graphics card where the real money goes). Focus mainly on CPU power and system RAM. Any quad core CPU/APU and 4GB of ram with a low end GPU if no integrated graphics. That will get you a fast general purpose machine

Welshstig · Nov 30, 2013

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/2bSzO

I just made this, it has a quad core apu so you don't need a gpu, a 600w psu so you can add another gpu to CF, it has 4gb ram and a few other quality parts.

You can even do some gaming on this machine which great.

dragonborn123 · Nov 30, 2013

Welshstig :

Thanks a lot, I'll review this more closely tomorrow, but from a glance it looks like a solid build.

For anyone else, I've started a request build thread here: http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1906369/home-build-300.html

flossbandit · Nov 30, 2013

Welshstig :

impressed. i really didn't think it could be beat the stuff in stores that low.

600W is totally unnecessary though. something closer to 300 would do it since he said "no gaming, video editing"

also an operating system would be needed.

there's always that second option too:

http://

you could use the HDMI with the lid closed and a second keyobard... or just carry it around.

i know the processor isn't quite as good but come on... screen + wifi + OS + a little more RAM

there are plenty of those deals out there right now.

and it's a G2 socket so it could always be upgraded to most other intel processors that require the same voltage. i did it to mine in '11. i really haven't heard of them soldering any of them in in a long time.

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