My friends mom sold his pc

[Coopernicus01]

Budget (including currency): 100-150 usd

Country: USA

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: light gaming

Other details: My friend's mom waited until he moved in with his dad to sell his pc (she kept the money) . enthusiast level pc (9900k, 1070, etc). I wont get too far into the details but I am hoping to build him something to make up for the BS his mom pulled with his pc. I am trying to build something reasonably usable and cheap. I am thinking 6th or 7th gen intel if I get a good deal. possibly a xeon. LInks would be extremely helpful! I am not in a hurry as I never told him I am doing this.

 

[kelvinhall05]

You are absolutely not getting 6th or 7th gen for $150, especially in this market.

 

 

Your best bet is an old Sandy Bridge Optiplex (or X58 setup of some sort, if you're lucky) with a cheap GPU (RX 470/480/570/580) and some other small bits like an SSD and maybe RAM upgrade.

[Euchre]

Build aside, I hope his dad goes after mom for what is just being a thief. That behavior sounds suspect.

 

As for the build, $100-150 isn't really enough to build anything.

[8tg]

Optiplex 790 + a used GT 1030

 

[Coopernicus01]

2 minutes ago, Euchre said:

Build aside, I hope his dad goes after mom for what is just being a thief. That behavior sounds suspect.

 

As for the build, $100-150 isn't really enough to build anything.

I am planning on possibly making a gofundme, if everyone else is as pissed as I am about it that budget could go up.

[jaslion]

Just now, Coopernicus01 said:

I am planning on possibly making a gofundme, if everyone else is as pissed as I am about it that budget could go up.

It sucks but like not gofundme worthy

[Coopernicus01]

9 minutes ago, 8tg said:

Optiplex 790 + a used GT 1030

 

I actually happen to have a leftover i7 for that socket so I might go that route

[Aereldor]

24 minutes ago, Coopernicus01 said:

I actually happen to have a leftover i7 for that socket so I might go that route

You might be able to save some money getting a really crappy LGA1155 optiplex then (like, pentium or celeron, and replacing the CPU), and have more of your budget left over for something like a GTX 1050? Or maybe those interesting mining GTX 1060s Linus reviewed. They sell on Aliexpress and have no video output, but you can configure the video to render on the dGPU and output through the iGPU in windows 10. 

[Coopernicus01]

1 minute ago, Aereldor said:

You might be able to save some money getting a really crappy LGA1155 optiplex, then, and have more of your budget left over for something like a GTX 1050? Or maybe those interesting mining GTX 1060s Linus reviewed. They sell on Aliexpress and have no video output, but you can configure the video to render on the dGPU and output through the iGPU in windows 10. 

I just checked and it is for a 1156 socket

[Herman Mcpootis]

1 hour ago, Coopernicus01 said:

I just checked and it is for a 1156 socket

you can find an old workstation with that socket off ebay, then get an old GPU with whatever's left.