Help With Cheap Build

[AirSocial]

Hi, My moms birthday is in June and I would like to build her a PC and use it for kinda a family PC. Budget is $250 and under. I would like it to have a CD drive but its not needed. Micro ATX. No Athlons since they melt. And It would not need a dedicated GPU. I would also like atleast 8GB of ram. Thanks!

[Princess Luna]

1 minute ago, AirSocial said:

in June

Then ask here in a couple of months, you know how tech goes, new stuff and new deals every month.

[AirSocial]

Just now, Princess Cadence said:

Then ask here in a couple of months, you know how tech goes, new stuff and new deals every month.

Thing is I have to buy now since I have the money. Wont have the money again to spare on something until after June.

[Princess Luna]

Just now, AirSocial said:

Thing is I have to buy now since I have the money. Wont have the money again to spare on something until after June.

I think you shouldn't buy any thing at all then because 250$ for an entire computer is an absurdly low budget, only way here is going full used parts, considering old Dell/HP and such prebuilds from eBay and finding something this is rather harder to go through than go on pcpp set up the best bang for money using brand new stuff.

[Big Baller]

12 minutes ago, AirSocial said:

Hi, My moms birthday is in June and I would like to build her a PC and use it for kinda a family PC. Budget is $250 and under. I would like it to have a CD drive but its not needed. Micro ATX. No Athlons since they melt. And It would not need a dedicated GPU. I would also like atleast 8GB of ram. Thanks!

Athlon chips don't melt. As long as you keep the temps reasonable, chips don't melt.

 

[PCPartPicker part list](https://pcpartpicker.com/list/v3cnq4) 

CPU [AMD - Athlon 200GE 3.2 GHz Dual-Core Processor] $50.79 @ OutletPC 
Motherboard [ASRock - B450M-HDV Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard]  $63.98 @ Newegg 
Memory [GeIL - EVO SPEAR 8 GB (2 x 4 GB) DDR4-2400 Memory] $50.98 @ Newegg 
Storage [Western Digital - AV-GP 500 GB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive] $19.99 @ Amazon 

Case [Rosewill - SCM-01 MicroATX Mini Tower Case] $22.99 @ Amazon 
Power Supply [EVGA - 400 W ATX Power Supply] $24.99 @ Monoprice 
Optical Drive [Lite-On - iHAS124-14 DVD/CD Writer] $13.99 @ SuperBiiz 
Total | $247.71
 

 

Non-Athlon Procesor ( Worse ) 

 

 

PCPartPicker part list: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/KZLmjy

CPU: Intel - Pentium G4400 3.3 GHz Dual-Core Processor  ($49.99 @ Newegg Business) 
Motherboard: ASRock - B150M-HDS Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($51.49 @ SuperBiiz) 
Memory: GeIL - EVO SPEAR 8 GB (2 x 4 GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  ($50.98 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Seagate - Barracuda ES 750 GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($24.49 @ Amazon) 
Case: DIYPC - P48-W ATX Mid Tower Case  ($33.96 @ Newegg) 
Power Supply: EVGA - 400 W ATX Power Supply  ($24.99 @ Monoprice) 
Optical Drive: Lite-On - iHAS124-14 DVD/CD Writer  ($13.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Total: $249.89

 

[bANONYMOUS]

I would personally go with an old Dell workstation like a T3500 or T5500, the HP ones like the Z400 or Z600 use propriety power supplies and adding to them requires modifying an ATX PSU and internal soldering or many janky adapters, you can find decent older i5\i7 Dell T3500/T5500 for around $100-150 and then spend the rest of the budget on a GTX 750 TI, will play most games on medium settings or even some of the latest ones on low if you bump the resolution down to 768p or even 720p. The Dell T3500/T5500 also come with an 80+ silver PSU so you get a lot more efficiency put of them compared to budget builds you can do yourself.

 

hope that helps