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[Jdog1218]

Hello All,

I have never posted in the forum and I have been given the task to get a PC part list together without peripherals for a PC that will be doing audio editing and photoshop editing workstation. The hardest thing I have ever done though was making the pc for under 200$.

I was thinking a Pre-built old system for 80$ or a system with onboard graphics that has an i-3.

I have been searching for something on the lines of this for about 2 weeks and found nothing with the compromise of performance.

I have convinced him because he is trying to do photoshop on an Acer laptop and have all his audio editing on it as well, which is a horrendous Idea.

I have been watching Linus for a very long time and cannot find an answer. Ohh Please Help me on this adventure.

Let me also say that this is located in California, also he is up for the Idea of Used parts.

Thanks.

Jdog

[Damascus]

Get an x5650 (6 cores 12 threads) for $30 on amazon or ebay and get an x58 mother board for 60 - 100.  Throw it in a free junker case or screw it into a peice of mdf board.

 

Get 8gb or more of ddr3 for $30 and spend the rest on the best power supply the budget allows (or a gpu if you got a psu for free somehow)

[Shiv78]

4 minutes ago, Damascus said:

Get an x5650 (6 cores 12 threads) for $30 on amazon or ebay and get an x58 mother board for 60 - 100.  Throw it in a free junker case or screw it into a peice of mdf board.

 

Get 8gb or more of ddr3 for $30 and spend the rest on the best power supply the budget allows (or a gpu if you got a psu for free somehow)

this is actually great advice!

 

new at this budget for those tasks would be pretty stupid so you're right to go used OP.

 

lol i did this just for fun to see what you could get without a case

PCPartPicker part list: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/JcDjVY
Price breakdown by merchant: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/JcDjVY/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel - Pentium G4560 3.5GHz Dual-Core Processor  ($78.77 @ OutletPC) 
Motherboard: *Gigabyte - GA-H110M-A Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($44.99 @ Newegg) 
Memory: *Team - Elite Plus 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($32.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: *Western Digital - Caviar Blue 250GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($16.99 @ Amazon) 
Power Supply: Corsair - CXM 450W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($34.99 @ Newegg) 
Total: $208.73
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-07-20 19:56 EDT-0400f

[Jdog1218]

Do u think it is possible to get a 1tb hdd and a 120gb ssd, while still under this budget?

[Jdog1218]

10 minutes ago, Damascus said:

Get an x5650 (6 cores 12 threads) for $30 on amazon or ebay and get an x58 mother board for 60 - 100.  Throw it in a free junker case or screw it into a peice of mdf board.

 

Get 8gb or more of ddr3 for $30 and spend the rest on the best power supply the budget allows (or a gpu if you got a psu for free somehow)

Using a Xeon Processor won't have issues? I thought Xeon using non-server components will screw up things on the software side of the computer.

[TSL]

5 minutes ago, Jdog1218 said:

Using a Xeon Processor won't have issues? I thought Xeon using non-server components will screw up things on the software side of the computer.

They will be fine

[TSL]

6 minutes ago, Jdog1218 said:

Do u think it is possible to get a 1tb hdd and a 120gb ssd, while still under this budget?

You can get the Hard Drive, it will have to be second hand, the SSD might be a stretch and buying second hand drives (especially ssd's) can be touch and go

[Shiv78]

8 minutes ago, Jdog1218 said:

Do u think it is possible to get a 1tb hdd and a 120gb ssd, while still under this budget?

no, that will be like $100 by itself

[TSL]

18 minutes ago, Damascus said:

Get an x5650 (6 cores 12 threads) for $30 on amazon or ebay and get an x58 mother board for 60 - 100.  Throw it in a free junker case or screw it into a peice of mdf board.

 

Get 8gb or more of ddr3 for $30 and spend the rest on the best power supply the budget allows (or a gpu if you got a psu for free somehow)

I do not recommend this platform as you can get X58 mobos cheap (<100) they are not reliable or good quality so you will be looking at 100$+ for the mobo - I recommend looking at other xeon chips on something like the H55 chipset where you can get good mobos for 50-60$

[GDRRiley]

look around for local e-reclying places you may be able to find a place that will sell to you a sand or ivy bridge i5/i7 for 60-80 or if you get luck maybe an old x58 workstation that you could pop a 6 core into. then get gpu, ether a used and a new psu or a new one that doesn't need extra power (some workstations will have good enough PSUs that have PCIe power)

[Evolution.]

13 minutes ago, TSL said:

I do not recommend this platform as you can get X58 mobos cheap (<100) they are not reliable or good quality so you will be looking at 100$+ for the mobo - I recommend looking at other xeon chips on something like the H55 chipset where you can get good mobos for 50-60$

I have no idea where you're finding them that cheap because im interested 

[Jdog1218]

1 minute ago, VenomZ_ said:

I have no idea where you're finding them that cheap because im interested 

The Power of Ebay my friend. Those parts are not consumer parts, they are commercial parts that have been marked down in price because of the new stuff that is being upgraded across the world.

[TSL]

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/tXxg7h

heres a quick list of some things that would work. use the rest of you budget for storage, and choose a case, i just threw the cheapest one into the list.

[Evolution.]

37 minutes ago, Jdog1218 said:

The Power of Ebay my friend. Those parts are not consumer parts, they are commercial parts that have been marked down in price because of the new stuff that is being upgraded across the world.

You think I havent looked there lol? everything is over $100

[Jdog1218]

3 minutes ago, VenomZ_ said:

You think I havent looked there lol? everything is over $100

I don't know what you talking about, I found a used CPU for 25$ and a mobo for 50$