APU LAN Party builds? $200 PC's!!

TheHeadShotNinja

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I am building 4 pc's for LAN party stuff. My combine budget for all of them is $900 These PC's will mostly be used mostly for playing older games but some newer ones.
A list to start with would be, SW JK: Jedi Academy, Medal of honor allied assault, C&C games, GRID 1, Company of heroes, Creativerse, Paragon, DOTA 2, LOTRO, SW:battlefront 2(the old one) In short, the most demanding game I would ever want to run on these PC's would be BF3 on LOW, but that is not a must(would be nice though). I am considering using the the A8 7600 platform as it is very affordable, but I am wondering whether it will be powerful enough. Should I go to A10 instead? if so which on? or is there a cheap enough GPU CPU combo I could use?
Thank you in advance
 
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The system below is the closest I could get it. If you have a bunch of spare cd drives, you could pull the A8 or possibly the A10.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - A6-7400K 3.5GHz Dual-Core Processor ($42.00 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: Asus - A68HM-E Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard ($39.89 @ OutletPC)
Memory: Patriot - 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($23.89 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Seagate - Barracuda 500GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($35.49 @ Amazon)
Case: Rosewill - R363-M-BK MicroATX Mid Tower Case w/400W Power Supply ($44.99 @ Amazon)
Optical Drive: Lite-On - iHAS124-14 DVD/CD Writer ($15.89 @...

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Well...something like that from Microcenter is pretty much your best solution.
BestBuy, Newegg, others...all have similar refurbs for around that price.
 

drinkingcola86

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The system below is the closest I could get it. If you have a bunch of spare cd drives, you could pull the A8 or possibly the A10.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - A6-7400K 3.5GHz Dual-Core Processor ($42.00 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: Asus - A68HM-E Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard ($39.89 @ OutletPC)
Memory: Patriot - 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($23.89 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Seagate - Barracuda 500GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($35.49 @ Amazon)
Case: Rosewill - R363-M-BK MicroATX Mid Tower Case w/400W Power Supply ($44.99 @ Amazon)
Optical Drive: Lite-On - iHAS124-14 DVD/CD Writer ($15.89 @ OutletPC)
Total: $202.15
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-06-10 22:14 EDT-0400

Build with the A8

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - A8-7600 3.1GHz Quad-Core Processor ($64.88 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Asus - A68HM-E Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard ($39.89 @ OutletPC)
Memory: Patriot - 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($23.89 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Seagate - Barracuda 500GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($35.49 @ Amazon)
Case: Rosewill - R363-M-BK MicroATX Mid Tower Case w/400W Power Supply ($44.99 @ Amazon)
Total: $209.14
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-06-10 22:16 EDT-0400

If you could squeeze out an extra $20-40 for each, then you could easily get the A10.
 
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