Super budget build

[Gaming-for-life]

I was wondering if you guys could suggest some parts for a friend of my mine who is on a strict budget. who his budget is like 400-480 CAD$  with OS and optical drives and stuff. The use of this computer applies to using photoshop, playing, games, rendering etc. He was going to get a laptop for 350$ with i3 4030 with intel hd 4400 graphics 8 GB ram and 500GB space, But I told him that it was a bad idea and he can't do sh** on that. so yeah help is appreciated

[Colt_0pz]

linus has a budget pc build guide but i dont know if the pentium can handle the load of photoshop. pretty difficult budget but not impossible

[dizmo]

Where do you live?

[Colt_0pz]

Where do you live?

he says canadian dollars so obviously canada. sry that im not him.

[Aniallation]

linus has a budget pc build guide but i dont know if the pentium can handle the load of photoshop. pretty difficult budget but not impossible

For Photoshop and rendering you'll want an 860K over a Pentium, or an i3

[Colt_0pz]

For Photoshop and rendering you'll want an 860K over a Pentium, or an i3

that's why i said i dont have any idea but in a budget build, generally u wanna go for amd.

[Aniallation]

that's why i said i dont have any idea but in a budget build, generally u wanna go for amd.

Only when it comes to the Pentium vs 860K is AMD better for pretty much every use. Once you step up to the i3 price class, Intel pulls ahead for gaming while AMD's FX-6300 does better for editing/rendering.

[Gaming-for-life]

Where do you live?

Canada

[Gaming-for-life]

Only when it comes to the Pentium vs 860K is AMD better for pretty much every use. Once you step up to the i3 price class, Intel pulls ahead for gaming while AMD's FX-6300 does better for editing/rendering.

 

that's why i said i dont have any idea but in a budget build, generally u wanna go for amd.

 

Where do you live?

What about GPU ? and a cheap motherboard with wifi what would you recommend? or should he get the wifi discrete?

[Aniallation]

What about GPU ? and a cheap motherboard what would you recommend

Honestly for $480 including OS you're not going to get much. OS alone is already $110.

[Popadookie]

I was wondering if you guys could suggest some parts for a friend of my mine who is on a strict budget. who his budget is like 400-480 CAD$  with OS and optical drives and stuff. The use of this computer applies to using photoshop, playing, games, rendering etc. He was going to get a laptop for 350$ with i3 4030 with intel hd 4400 graphics 8 GB ram and 500GB space, But I told him that it was a bad idea and he can't do sh** on that. so yeah help is appreciated

http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/Kg98kL

[Gaming-for-life]

http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/Kg98kL

 

Honestly for $480 including OS you're not going to get much. OS alone is already $110.

cool thanks, but would a GTX 750ti or r9 270 do the job cuz 260x is only like 10 bucks short

[Popadookie]

Either find an old windows product key or just use linux

[dizmo]

Canada

Yeah I got that but where in Canada.

 

What about GPU ? and a cheap motherboard with wifi what would you recommend? or should he get the wifi discrete?

It'll have to be dedicated.

For the GPU, grab a used 270x.

[Unknown_Gamer380]

Yeah I got that but where in Canada.

 

It'll have to be dedicated.

For the GPU, grab a used 270x.

Alberta

[Popadookie]

cool thanks, but would a GTX 750ti or r9 270 do the job cuz 260x is only like 10 bucks short

Depends how flexible he is with money 260x and 750ti are pretty much equivalent performance and a 270 is another $35 

[dizmo]

Honestly with a budget that small you shouldn't be looking at building a new system, you should be looking on Craigslist and Kijiji.

[Colt_0pz]

Honestly for $480 including OS you're not going to get much. OS alone is already $110.

not really. for me it was only 25 dollars when i bought just the key and downloaded the installer online. goto /r/microsoftsoftwareswap. should shave off lots of money. EDIT: this was in US dollars which is cheaper than Canadian dollars

[Colt_0pz]

Honestly with a budget that small you shouldn't be looking at building a new system, you should be looking on Craigslist and Kijiji.

yea good point. luke made a video of new and used parts. but be careful for scammers and DOA parts.

[dizmo]

yea good point. luke made a video of new and used parts. but be careful for scammers and DOA parts.

You can get whole decent systems for much less than that.

There's a Haswell i3 system with a 180gb SSD, 2 500gb HDD's in RAID, Z87 motherboard, 8gb of RAM and a nice Lian Li case here for $350.

Drop another $75 on a 270x and boom. System.

[a_block_of_wood]

not really. for me it was only 25 dollars when i bought just the key and downloaded the installer online. goto /r/microsoftsoftwareswap. should shave off lots of money. EDIT: this was in US dollars which is cheaper than Canadian dollars

 

Sounds like MSDN subscription licenses if I'm not mistaken. Basically a malware-free version of a pirated OS. Those are single-user license for developers to test out the system they are working on. If you read through the agreement, you can't even play games, or check email on it, unless it's related to testing.

 

Strictly speaking it's illegal to use OEM license Windows for your own self-build pc as well