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[sbstndalton]

Hello, I'm currently kind of broke, with some 400 dollars to spend. I need to get my mom a PC, because she is going back to university. What should I buy to get some good performance?

[Dedayog]

1 minute ago, sbstndalton said:

Hello, I'm currently kind of broke, with some 400 dollars to spend. I need to get my mom a PC, because she is going back to university. What should I buy to get some good performance?

What is your mom going to do with said PC?  Web browse, email, amazon shopping, netflix?  Basic stuff?

 

Does she need keyboard, mouse, speakers, monitor?

 

[sbstndalton]

9 minutes ago, Dedayog said:

What is your mom going to do with said PC?  Web browse, email, amazon shopping, netflix?  Basic stuff?

 

Does she need keyboard, mouse, speakers, monitor?

 

Well, she is going to be rendering some heavy medical apps, she has to do some adobe things , and a very cpu intensive virtual medical lab thing. She will be browsing the internet, using multiple tabs at once. She will also be doing virtual meetings.

[Avocheeseado]

6 minutes ago, sbstndalton said:

Well, she is going to be rendering some heavy medical apps, she has to do some adobe things , and a very cpu intensive virtual medical lab thing. She will be browsing the internet, using multiple tabs at once. She will also be doing virtual meetings.

400 dollars is not enough for CPU intensive stuff. In the US, prices are ridiculously inflated! A ryzen 5 3600 will set you back $210 whereas in the UK, more like £165

 

[sbstndalton]

1 minute ago, Avocheeseado said:

400 dollars is not enough for CPU intensive stuff. 

 

Well I'm not look for some bleeding edge kind of stuff. Maybe some 25-30 fps on the heavy stuff. Right now my mom has a 2008 Lenovo IdeaPad n585. It definitely needs to be replaced. She can't do anything on it. I don't care if it is a laptop or an older PC, but it just needs to run better than that. It takes over an hour to boot up. and opening chrome is a nightmare. 

[Avocheeseado]

Ok, something like this would be best. When is she going back to university? Because the new AMD APUs should be aviliable to buy in the next couple of months.

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 5 3400G 3.7 GHz Quad-Core Processor	$144.99 @ Newegg
Motherboard	ASRock B450M Pro4-F Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard	$71.00 @ Amazon
Memory	Team T-FORCE VULCAN Z 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory	$50.99 @ Newegg
Storage	Silicon Power A60 512 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive	$54.99 @ Amazon
Case	Deepcool MATREXX 30 MicroATX Mini Tower Case	$34.99 @ Amazon
Power Supply	EVGA BR 500 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply	$49.99 @ Walmart
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	$406.95
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-09-11 11:51 EDT-0400

 

[sbstndalton]

1 minute ago, Avocheeseado said:

Ok, something like this would be best. When is she going back to university? Because the new AMD APUs should be aviliable to buy in the next couple of months.

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 5 3400G 3.7 GHz Quad-Core Processor	$144.99 @ Newegg
Motherboard	ASRock B450M Pro4-F Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard	$71.00 @ Amazon
Memory	Team T-FORCE VULCAN Z 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory	$50.99 @ Newegg
Storage	Silicon Power A60 512 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive	$54.99 @ Amazon
Case	Deepcool MATREXX 30 MicroATX Mini Tower Case	$34.99 @ Amazon
Power Supply	EVGA BR 500 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply	$49.99 @ Walmart
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	$406.95
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-09-11 11:51 EDT-0400

 

Yeah I heard about that. She's going back in November. 

[Herman Mcpootis]

if you're fine with used:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-Precision-T3600-XEON-E5-1603-0-2-80GHz-32GB-RAM-NO-HDD-OS/174403518362?hash=item289b427f9a%3Ag%3A750AAOSwC29fP842&LH_BIN=1 $198

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-Xeon-E5-2680-2-70GHz-SR0KH-Eight-Core-Processor/164219909222?hash=item263c44f466%3Ag%3AwzkAAOSw46te~lRZ&LH_BIN=1 $40

https://www.ebay.com/itm/MSI-GTX-1060-3GB-3G-Dual-Fan-Graphics-Card-VR-READY-2-3-Day-Shipping/113779912077?hash=item1a7dcfad8d%3Ag%3ADTYAAOSwbuddAIqh&LH_BIN=1 $120

https://www.newegg.com/mushkin-enhanced-raw-series-480gb/p/N82E16820226904?Item=N82E16820226904&nm_mc=AFC-RAN-COM&cm_mmc=AFC-RAN-COM&utm_medium=affiliates&utm_source=afc-PCPartPicker&AFFID=2558510&AFFNAME=PCPartPicker&ACRID=1&ASID=https%3a%2f%2fpcpartpicker.com%2fproduct%2fYrrYcf%2fmushkin-enhanced-raw-480-gb-25-solid-state-drive-mknssdrw480gb&ranMID=44583&ranEAID=2558510&ranSiteID=8BacdVP0GFs-7cnf9aI7.BNsPXNbDWLaZw $44

you may need to check with the seller if the PC has the pci-e cable included in the PSU.

[sbstndalton]

2 minutes ago, Herman Mcpootis said:

if you're fine with used:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-Precision-T3600-XEON-E5-1603-0-2-80GHz-32GB-RAM-NO-HDD-OS/174403518362?hash=item289b427f9a%3Ag%3A750AAOSwC29fP842&LH_BIN=1 $198

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-Xeon-E5-2680-2-70GHz-SR0KH-Eight-Core-Processor/164219909222?hash=item263c44f466%3Ag%3AwzkAAOSw46te~lRZ&LH_BIN=1 $40

https://www.ebay.com/itm/MSI-GTX-1060-3GB-3G-Dual-Fan-Graphics-Card-VR-READY-2-3-Day-Shipping/113779912077?hash=item1a7dcfad8d%3Ag%3ADTYAAOSwbuddAIqh&LH_BIN=1 $120

https://www.newegg.com/mushkin-enhanced-raw-series-480gb/p/N82E16820226904?Item=N82E16820226904&nm_mc=AFC-RAN-COM&cm_mmc=AFC-RAN-COM&utm_medium=affiliates&utm_source=afc-PCPartPicker&AFFID=2558510&AFFNAME=PCPartPicker&ACRID=1&ASID=https%3a%2f%2fpcpartpicker.com%2fproduct%2fYrrYcf%2fmushkin-enhanced-raw-480-gb-25-solid-state-drive-mknssdrw480gb&ranMID=44583&ranEAID=2558510&ranSiteID=8BacdVP0GFs-7cnf9aI7.BNsPXNbDWLaZw $44

Thanks, Any help is appreciated.