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July 5, 2014 3:10:09 PM

My friend needs to build a PC for his little brother (I think he's 9 or 10) to run Minecraft and just general browsing for Youtube and things like that. We've both been searching for decent but cheap parts but as we're both fairly inexperienced builders (we've only done one build each before) we were unsure how to do this very well. If anyone could recommend ANY parts or even a full build, that would be a great help.
Please try your best to keep everything below or at the £200 budget, and also note that he already has a 250GB Hard drive, so storage isn't necessary.

Thanks,
Pombear

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July 5, 2014 3:45:52 PM

This would be my choice. Also used an FM2+ board and solid power supply so it will work later on with newer APUs or a dedicated GPU if they decided to.
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/8wqLwP
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July 5, 2014 3:52:12 PM

Hi

For about £230 you can get a new PC based on i3, 4GB DDR-3 ram, 500GB hard drive AND Windows 8.1 pre installed. Only optical drive not included. (also no keyboard mouse or LCD screen)
Look for Zoostorm PC's at ebuyer.com and esleware (probably UK only)

Unless you go for a obsolete specification, refurbished or second hand PC it is difficult to beat that price

You can get a kit of parts from Maplin Electronics and other UK companies
(motherboard, ram & cpu) AMD kits are cheaper than Intel
but you still need a Case/PSU, DVD drive, hard drive and Windows of some sort


I was looking at repairing a 4 year old socket 775 PC for a colleague which needed a new PSU, motherboard and upgrading Windows XP to 7 which was going to cost about £150 but he decided to scrap it and buy a new one and put his old DVD drive & hard drive in the new case.

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Mike Barnes
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July 5, 2014 4:05:59 PM

bccorrupt said:
This would be my choice. Also used an FM2+ board and solid power supply so it will work later on with newer APUs or a dedicated GPU if they decided to.
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/8wqLwP


Thanks, I'll show this to him but I think he wants Windows included, which is a problem because that's most of the budget gone. I'll definitely recommend this build with Linux though.

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July 5, 2014 4:08:41 PM

mbarnes86 said:
Hi

For about £230 you can get a new PC based on i3, 4GB DDR-3 ram, 500GB hard drive AND Windows 8.1 pre installed. Only optical drive not included. (also no keyboard mouse or LCD screen)
Look for Zoostorm PC's at ebuyer.com and esleware (probably UK only)

Unless you go for a obsolete specification, refurbished or second hand PC it is difficult to beat that price

You can get a kit of parts from Maplin Electronics and other UK companies
(motherboard, ram & cpu) AMD kits are cheaper than Intel
but you still need a Case/PSU, DVD drive, hard drive and Windows of some sort


I was looking at repairing a 4 year old socket 775 PC for a colleague which needed a new PSU, motherboard and upgrading Windows XP to 7 which was going to cost about £150 but he decided to scrap it and buy a new one and put his old DVD drive & hard drive in the new case.

regards
Mike Barnes


I checked them out, I like what they have on offer but I think he wants to build it himself :p  I'll show him their products though because he might change his mind.

Regards,

Pombear
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July 6, 2014 2:44:37 AM

Building from scratch on a £200 budget is just too tight when you want Windows included. I agree with the idea of getting a cheap Zoostorm PC from eBuyer like this one http://www.ebuyer.com/643320-zoostorm-desktop-pc-7260-8... and then upgrading the PSU, adding a graphics card like an R7 250X or R7 265 and even an i5 in later stages as and when you can afford.

If you're certain you want to build from scratch then these are the cheapest I can come up with...

Stronger built-in graphics, fewer processor upgrade options (stuck with APU's); £258, http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/user/plywrlw/saved/BfPgXL

Weaker graphics, stronger future processor options (i3, i5 etc.), slightly cheaper now; £221, http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/user/plywrlw/saved/Z4drxr

I've chosen a single stick of 4Gb with the idea that it will be easier for you to buy another identical stick in the future for 8Gb. If you don't think you're going to go for 8Gb in the future then buy 2x 2Gb for dual channel. You'll definitely want to add a GPU to the second build as soon as you can afford.

Good luck with whatever you choose.
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