Building a budget PC for someones birthday...

[Reds Duty]

Hello

 

I am new into PC building, and I want to build a budget pc for someones birthday,

the PC will mainly be used for everyday tasks and modest pc gaming.

(How stupid it may sound, I don't believe in "Gaming" peripherals, I just seek good products, and tweek them if nescecary)

(http://de.pcpartpicker.com/user/Reds_Duty/saved/Zp8CmG)

I saw a video of linustechtips that the Zalman R1 is a very good pc case.

But I couldn't find it in the part lists, and so, i'm not sure if my parts will fit in this case...

Now, I know it will be a liitle on the big side for this micro atx board, but I have a lot of place, and think it looks really good for the price....

 

I know this is an awesome community and I hope that someone here can help me out.

If it would be impossible to do this, you can always give me an alternative case.

(Unless I have made a HUGE mistake, I will probably not change my parts list <except from my case>)

 

Thanks a lot for helping!

Reds Duty

[MLG Doge]

Ditch the SSD and get an I3 + H81/B85 MoBo The point of Budget systems is to be able to upgrade later on!

[david cassar]

 

Hello

 

I am new into PC building, and I want to build a budget pc for someones birthday,

the PC will mainly be used for everyday tasks and modest pc gaming.

(How stupid it may sound, I don't believe in "Gaming" peripherals, I just seek good products, and tweek them if nescecary)

(http://de.pcpartpicker.com/user/Reds_Duty/saved/Zp8CmG)

I saw a video of linustechtips that the Zalman R1 is a very good pc case.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFHhudWafUU

But I couldn't find it in the part lists, and so, i'm not sure if my parts will fit in this case...

Now, I know it will be a liitle on the big side for this micro atx board, but I have a lot of place, and think it looks really good for the price....

 

I know this is an awesome community and I hope that someone here can help me out.

If it would be impossible to do this, you can always give me an alternative case.

(Unless I have made a HUGE mistake, I will probably not change my parts list <except from my case>)

 

Thanks a lot for helping!

Reds Duty

 

I would get a cheaper keyboard and with the money saved I would upgrade other parts. Also although an ssd is amazing on a budget I would also ditch that and just get an hdd

[thekwel]

My build if i had to buy one with upgradability on cpu and ram

http://de.pcpartpicker.com/p/QnMmvK

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Pentium G3258 3.2GHz Dual-Core Processor  (€67.90 @ Caseking)
Motherboard: ASRock H81M-DGS Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (€47.99 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  (€64.23 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Storage: Crucial MX100 128GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (€71.90 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Storage: Hitachi Travelstar 1TB 2.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (€66.90 @ Caseking)
Video Card: Zotac GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB Video Card  (€146.10 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Case: Cooler Master K280 ATX Mid Tower Case  (€16.90 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Power Supply: Corsair CX 500W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  (€63.90 @ Caseking)
Total: €545.82
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-03-28 12:25 CET+0100

[MLG Doge]

Ditch the SSD and get an I3 + H81/B85 MoBo The point of Budget systems is to be able to upgrade later on!

Get a cheaper case and also cheaper K/B use the money saved on a better GPU aswell as this ^^

[david cassar]

Here get this :
And with the money left get yourself a good keyboard and mouse.
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: Intel Core i3-4130 3.4GHz Dual-Core Processor  (€118.89 @ Amazon Deutschland) 

Motherboard: MSI H81M-P33 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (€48.97 @ Amazon Deutschland) 

Memory: Corsair XMS3 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1333 Memory  (€60.98 @ Amazon Deutschland) 

Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (€56.45 @ Amazon Deutschland) 

Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 270X 2GB Dual-X Video Card  (€170.00 @ Amazon Deutschland) 

Case: Cooler Master N200 MicroATX Mid Tower Case  (€38.73 @ Amazon Deutschland) 

Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply  (€53.66 @ Amazon Deutschland) 

Total: €547.68

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-03-28 12:22 CET+0100

[Reds Duty]

Thanks for the quick help!

I would like to stick with my ssd, because the startup times and loading times are just that much better,

I am willing to change motherboard and video card,but I would stick with AMD to be able to overclock this cheap quad-core cpu.

The person I am giving it to doesn't know so much of computers, so he won't immediately upgrade parts.

And I probably am going to be keeping this case (because I like it).

I just found a good keyboard here at home, so I will give him that...

 

I will overlook everything again and I'll let you know my progress...

Thanks again for your quick support!

[mikat]

Get a cheaper case and also cheaper K/B use the money saved on a better GPU aswell as this ^^

cheaper case are you mad? it costs 39 euros

for my first build i used the corsair 230T windowed orange, set me back 72 euros, but looks great!

[NumLock21]

Can save by getting a SSHD or better off just grab a HDD. Upgrade to a SSD later on when he complains that his computer is slow. Adding a SSD to a build for a person who has never experience the difference between a HDD and SSD is a total waste, as no matter much you tell them a SSD boots up really fast, they'll never understand what you're talking about.

[da_shack]

http://de.pcpartpicker.com/p/84ffjX

Just what id do

[stconquest]

Your RAM and PSU are not available on the German Amazon.  Even if you overclock that 860K the i3 will still beat it.

 

 

Just another better option:

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-4160 3.6GHz Dual-Core Processor  (€119.49 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Motherboard: MSI H97 PC MATE ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (€83.89 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Memory: Patriot Signature Line 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1333 Memory  (€46.76 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Storage: Sandisk X110 128GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (€66.99 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (€56.79 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Video Card: XFX Radeon R7 260X 2GB Core Edition Video Card  (€130.34 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Case: Thermaltake Versa H21 ATX Mid Tower Case  (€35.29 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Power Supply: LEPA MaxBron 450W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  (€51.89 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Mouse: Cooler Master CM Storm Xornet Wired Optical Mouse  (€23.89 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Total: €615.33
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-03-31 22:01 CEST+0200