Cheap build needed

[fluxdeity]

Looking to build a system that only needs to run the OS and fortnite at least around 80-100fps.

 

Don't mind going used, just looking to do it on the tightest budget possible.

 

My city is to the left  if anyone wants to look at used instead of new.

 

I have a friend who has an fx 8350, hd 7950, 16gb ddr3, and 990fxa-ud3. He want $240 for everything including a monitor and case. I would need a storage drive and PSU. Is that a good deal?

 

Thanks to anyone for taking time to help me out

[Firewrath9]

yeah, for 240$

Buy a corsair CX650, and a Inland professional 500GB SSD for 50$

[SpookyCitrus]

21 minutes ago, Firewrath9 said:

yeah, for 240$

Buy a corsair CX650, and a Inland professional 500GB SSD for 50$

Yeah pretty much exactly what I was going to say, if OP has a little extra cash they might be able to pick up an rx 570 or rx 580 in the local classifieds for pretty cheap as well. I used the FX-8350 with an RX 480 8GB for years and it was really decent for 1080p gaming.

[Slayer3032]

$240 ain't bad at all with a monitor, ect. Here's a power supply and a SSD.

https://www.newegg.com/corsair-cx-series-cx550-550w/p/N82E16817139202

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07G3KRZBX/

 

For larger games and storage, I'd just go on ebay and find something cheap and sata. Referb/used drives are like $1/100gb, sometimes at a local computer recycler you can scoop some good 500gb/1tb drives for like $5. I found one that was literally brand new with like 50 hours on it. Just make sure to check the SMART data with CrystalDiskInfo and make sure everything looks ok, if it has like 30k+ hours and thousands of power cycles it might die at some point but if it's any less than that you'll probably be fine.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-055FX5-Seagate-Constellation-ES-3-ST2000NM0033-2TB-3-5-SATA-Hard-Drive/323794929896

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Hitachi-HUA722020ALA330-0F10312-2TB-7200RPM-SATA-3-0Gb-s-3-5-Hard-Drive/143192804138

[Firewrath9]

3 minutes ago, Slayer3032 said:

For larger games and storage, I'd just go on ebay and find something cheap and sata. Referb/used drives are like $1/100gb, sometimes at a local computer recycler you can scoop some good 500gb/1tb drives for like $5. I found one that was literally brand new with like 50 hours on it. Just make sure to check the SMART data with CrystalDiskInfo and make sure everything looks ok, if it has like 30k+ hours and thousands of power cycles it might die at some point but if it's any less than that you'll probably be fine.

 https://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-055FX5-Seagate-Constellation-ES-3-ST2000NM0033-2TB-3-5-SATA-Hard-Drive/323794929896

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Hitachi-HUA722020ALA330-0F10312-2TB-7200RPM-SATA-3-0Gb-s-3-5-Hard-Drive/143192804138

Enjoy your 50mb/s dead piece of rust

[Slayer3032]

15 minutes ago, Firewrath9 said:

Enjoy your 50mb/s dead piece of rust

I have an old Dell RE 500GB drive in my NAS. It happily saturates my gigabit network at like 115MB/s, the same speed all my nice drives do. No idea what it will actually do since I didn't bother benchmarking it as it's cloned with that new 2016 Toshiba I got. Worst I can say about it is that it's incredibly noisy when it spins up or down and has 30k hours on it.

 

If you were literally picking through the garbage looking for dying laptop drives, maybe. Any 2010+ 7200rpm drive is going to do acceptably for storage since all hard drives suck.

 

But here sure, go spend 3x as much for peace of mind to store dumb large games like GTA V, ARK, ect.

https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-BarraCuda-Internal-Drive-3-5-Inch/dp/B07H2RR55Q/

[Firewrath9]

2 hours ago, Slayer3032 said:

I have an old Dell RE 500GB drive in my NAS. It happily saturates my gigabit network at like 115MB/s, the same speed all my nice drives do. No idea what it will actually do since I didn't bother benchmarking it as it's cloned with that new 2016 Toshiba I got. Worst I can say about it is that it's incredibly noisy when it spins up or down and has 30k hours on it.

 

If you were literally picking through the garbage looking for dying laptop drives, maybe. Any 2010+ 7200rpm drive is going to do acceptably for storage since all hard drives suck.

 

But here sure, go spend 3x as much for peace of mind to store dumb large games like GTA V, ARK, ect.

https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-BarraCuda-Internal-Drive-3-5-Inch/dp/B07H2RR55Q/

I have a 2013 WD black 1TB, its Random reads are worse than my flash drive (Some samsung one), its seq speeds are worse than my laptop sized drives (2.5”), and slower than my 5400rpm drives too

[trevb0t]

Here's something like the build you described:

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD - FX-8350 4 GHz 8-Core Processor	$240.00
Motherboard	Gigabyte - GA-990FXA-UD3 ATX AM3+ Motherboard	$0.00
Memory	G.Skill - Ripjaws X Series 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR3-1333 Memory	$0.00
Storage	Crucial - BX500 240 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive	$28.95 @ Amazon
Video Card	XFX - Radeon HD 7970 3 GB Video Card	$0.00
Case	DIYPC - DIY-BG01 ATX Mid Tower Case	$0.00
Power Supply	Corsair - CX (2017) 550 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply	$42.98 @ Newegg
Monitor	Sceptre - E225W-1920 22.0" 1920x1080 60 Hz Monitor	$0.00
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total (before mail-in rebates)	$326.93
	Mail-in rebates	-$15.00
	Total	$311.93
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-05-30 21:31 EDT-0400

For the use case, this would technically work, though the longevity is questionable at best. The HD 7970 is a decent older card, though. PCPartpicker did advise you'd need more than 450W for the 7970 and FX CPU, so it's tough to go cheaper than that on a PSU.

For newer/more powerful gear with future upgradeability, you could do something like this:

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD - Ryzen 3 1200 3.1 GHz Quad-Core Processor	$64.89 @ OutletPC
Motherboard	ASRock - B450M Pro4-F Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard	$68.99 @ SuperBiiz
Memory	Team - Vulcan 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory	$66.99 @ Newegg
Storage	Crucial - BX500 240 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive	$28.95 @ Amazon
Video Card	PowerColor - Radeon RX 570 4 GB Video Card	$87.00
Case	Rosewill - RANGER-M MicroATX Mini Tower Case	$19.99 @ Amazon
Power Supply	Corsair - CX (2017) 450 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply	$32.98 @ Newegg
Monitor	Sceptre - E225W-1920 22.0" 1920x1080 60 Hz Monitor	$15.00
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total (before mail-in rebates)	$394.79
	Mail-in rebates	-$10.00
	Total	$384.79
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-05-30 22:17 EDT-0400

In this build you'd grab a used monitor on a cheap local sale. Check model numbers to be sure it's 1080p, and ensure they work before buying. (I found listings as cheap as $5 linked here via facebook marketplace.) People are always trying to clear out monitors.

GPU pricing is based on this ebay sale as well. For only a bit more cash, this is a more solid PC.

 

Using FB Marketplace I did also find this listing:

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/900445306967274/ Which is a Cyberpower PC with keyboard/mouse/monitor/speakers for $330, but doesn't list what the PC is actually running spec-wise. This could potentially beat out the FX build as well, depending.

[hello_there_123]

@trevb0t just to say this. The bx500 is a DRAMless drive which is not good especially as a primary os boot drive, which will reduce lifetime and potentially be slower. Much rather get the X3 from tcsunbow, at 240gb. It has dram with the good controller SM2258. 

[trevb0t]

1 minute ago, hello_there_123 said:

@trevb0t just to say this. The bx500 is a DRAMless drive which is not good especially as a primary os boot drive, which will reduce lifetime and potentially be slower. Much rather get the X3 from tcsunbow, at 240gb. It has dram with the good controller SM2258. 

Fair enough. I've got a handful of lower end SSDs throughout my house, and thus far the difference is unnoticeable between them.