300$ i5 3rd gen PC

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So my friend had been wanting a gaming PC for a while to do light gaming on like Minecraft and maybe low settings on some bigger games maybe at.

I found a pc at Goodwill for 300$ obviously used... They have an entire department with alot of PC's and surprisingly alot of people that know what they are talking about when it comes to PC's and that have gone to college for a job at Goodwill lmao...

The PC's are on and ready to test with games on them too.

Specs of the 300$ pc I found:
CPU: i5 3330s
Gpu: crappy Radeon I plan to replace with a gt 630 2gb
HDD: standard HDD I think like 500gb-1tb hard drive.
Motherboard: unknown
PSU: crappy, plan to replace it with a less crappy one I used to use to power a fx 4130 and gt 630 build I used to have.
Case: idk its a gaming case that glows red that looks pretty cool
Monitor: 1440x900.

I also might replace the old stock fan with a spare i7 4790k stock cooler that is un used and thermal paste that came with my cryorig h7 cooler.



 
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What OS does it come with? If you do buy it good luck with it because you don't really know the history of the computer or why the previous owner got rid of it. I'd check for dust build up and bug infestations in the case as well. I have seen computers at Goodwill that were horrible before, but that was in the past.

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I don't think that's a very good deal. You can build a new PC with better specs for less than $300 and re-use your GT 630. The i3-6100 will tie or outperform the i5-3330s in most cases, having faster single-threaded performance.

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare.php?cmp%5B%5D=1794&cmp%5B%5D=2617

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-6100 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor ($110.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H110M-A Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($53.88 @ OutletPC)
Memory: G.Skill NT Series 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($32.98 @ Newegg)
Storage: Seagate Pipeline HD 500GB 3.5" 5900RPM Internal Hard Drive ($35.95 @ Newegg)
Case: DIYPC MA08-BK MicroATX Mini Tower Case ($30.98 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: EVGA 400W ATX Power Supply ($27.89 @ OutletPC)
Total: $292.67
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-08-28 18:32 EDT-0400
 

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What OS does it come with? If you do buy it good luck with it because you don't really know the history of the computer or why the previous owner got rid of it. I'd check for dust build up and bug infestations in the case as well. I have seen computers at Goodwill that were horrible before, but that was in the past.
 
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windows 7

and okay i will check