$500 Old Person PC

[UCLACO2015]

My mom and dad are looking to get a new computer and I convinced them to let me build one for them, there only requirements are it needs to be fast, good looking, and " notone of those big, light show, cyborg looking computers that most people who build their own computer have. " And to basically have what a normal $500 computer at walmart would have ( monitor, keyboard, mouse, etc)

They mostly only use their computer for internet browsing, word processing, and netflix.

Here it what I came up with.

Excuse my laziness, I really didn't feel like typing the name of each product lol.


Windows 7 64 bit, $100

Case/PSU, $50 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811147099

Hard Drive, $50 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152244

Motherboard, $65 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813186211

CPU, $49 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116409

DVD Drive, $16 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827136247

RAM, $25 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148150

Total = $355.00


Accessories ( if that is the correct word)

Monitor, $90 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824236204

Keyboard + Mouse, $200 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824236204

Mouse Pad, $7 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16826997035

Speakers, $26 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16836121019

Total = $143


OVERALL TOTAL = $498

 

[azathoth]

If you're getting a Mini-ITX board, might as well get a mini-ITX case.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811108196&name=Computer-Cases

Aswell as this, you may wish to consider a single SSD if you can find a 80-120GB one on sale rather than a HDD. It's $30-40 more and will certainly add to the responsiveness.

 

[swifty_morgan]

you said netflix.......... over the web or delivered media ?...... delivered I'd look for a blu-ray player that can handle the new 128. just something to think about. otherwise nothing.

 

[tiny voices]

I would go with this instead: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/l2ZJ

Much better computer and a much better monitor (1080p) all in budget. All it needs is speakers.

 

[brandon402]

For a budget build like this I would consider an AMD processor instead of Intel. You will give up some processing power but gain some graphics power. AMD has better onboard graphics in their chips. And for just word processing and internet browsing, they don't "need" an intel chip, but AMD might be better for netflix and multimedia.

 

[manofchalk]

^ Most AMD chips dont even have integrated graphics. You are referring to the APU line. Be a bit clearer when you make these statement.
Wouldn't want someone to buy a shiny new FX-4100 and wonder why they cant get any display from it.

Keyboard/mouse link comes up with the monitor.

Agree with the SSD suggestion. If they arent likely to need a lot of storage, that would be a good option.
Could go SSD+HDD system, but I suspect teaching them how to file manage stuff and all that will be a hard battle. Could just put Windows and important programs on a partition and shrink it down so they cant put anything else in there I guess.

Other than that, pretty good.

 

[bgrt]

I would also suggest an AMD APU for sub-500 builds as well. Newegg will be having a shell shocker deal on an MSI mATX FM1 mobo + AMD A4-3300 2.5GHz APU for $80 starting 1pm PST today (10/22). http://www.newegg.com/Special/ShellShocker.aspx and go to the combo deal.