Need help with a budget pc

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Budget (including currency): £500

Country: England

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Just casual school work.

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): 

I already have the peripherals nothing else though.

I just have no idea what to buy.

[SignatureSigner]

if you just need to do school work I would recommend a cromebook. 

other than that 5500u ryzen laptops seem to be a good deal at the moment. 

[NomBread]

PCPartPicker Part List: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/QJc8rD

CPU: AMD Athlon 200GE 3.2 GHz Dual-Core Processor  (£88.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Motherboard: MSI A320M-A PRO Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  (£30.98 @ Amazon UK) 
Memory: Crucial 4 GB (1 x 4 GB) DDR4-2666 CL19 Memory  (£14.97 @ Amazon UK) 
Memory: Crucial 4 GB (1 x 4 GB) DDR4-2666 CL19 Memory  (£14.97 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Samsung 870 Evo 500 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£59.58 @ Amazon UK) 
Video Card: Asus GeForce GT 1030 2 GB Phoenix Fan OC Video Card  (£106.80 @ Amazon UK) 
Case: Zalman S2 ATX Mid Tower Case  (£58.69 @ Amazon UK) 
Power Supply: Aerocool Integrator 500 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (£29.49 @ Amazon UK) 
Case Fan: Cooler Master SickleFlow 62 CFM 120 mm Fan  (£9.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Total: £414.46
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2022-04-26 16:59 BST+0100

 

Well below the price you are asking and it is probably good for school work and some light gaming. If you find that shipping costs to much you can always edit the list to your liking to add prime shipping.

[Lord Bloobus]

I bought my little brother a barebones dell laptop and doubled the RAM for about $28. He uses it for exactly what you say you need one for. You'll have money leftover as well.

https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/inspiron-15-3000-laptop/spd/inspiron-15-3511-laptop/nn3511ezwhh

https://www.crucial.com/memory/ddr4/ct8g4sfra266/ct20569734

[Queen Chrysalis]

8 hours ago, NomBread said:

PCPartPicker Part List: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/QJc8rD

CPU: AMD Athlon 200GE 3.2 GHz Dual-Core Processor  (£88.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Motherboard: MSI A320M-A PRO Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  (£30.98 @ Amazon UK) 
Memory: Crucial 4 GB (1 x 4 GB) DDR4-2666 CL19 Memory  (£14.97 @ Amazon UK) 
Memory: Crucial 4 GB (1 x 4 GB) DDR4-2666 CL19 Memory  (£14.97 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Samsung 870 Evo 500 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£59.58 @ Amazon UK) 
Video Card: Asus GeForce GT 1030 2 GB Phoenix Fan OC Video Card  (£106.80 @ Amazon UK) 
Case: Zalman S2 ATX Mid Tower Case  (£58.69 @ Amazon UK) 
Power Supply: Aerocool Integrator 500 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (£29.49 @ Amazon UK) 
Case Fan: Cooler Master SickleFlow 62 CFM 120 mm Fan  (£9.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Total: £414.46
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2022-04-26 16:59 BST+0100

 

Well below the price you are asking and it is probably good for school work and some light gaming. If you find that shipping costs to much you can always edit the list to your liking to add prime shipping.

I would never recommend buying new parts for this use case.  Huge waste of money.  Also, an athlon and a gt 1030, like really?  What is a ryzen APU?

4 hours ago, Lord Bloobus said:

I bought my little brother a barebones dell laptop and doubled the RAM for about $28. He uses it for exactly what you say you need one for. You'll have money leftover as well.

https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/inspiron-15-3000-laptop/spd/inspiron-15-3511-laptop/nn3511ezwhh

https://www.crucial.com/memory/ddr4/ct8g4sfra266/ct20569734

This would be my first rec, but if you want a desktop just cruise facebook marketplace for literally anything core-i (not core2) and you can probably get something that'll work for less than $50, and but a 120gb SSD for like $18 to pair with the HDD that's in it so windows runs faster.  Windows 11 will work on anything core i that has 8GB of RAM if you use the rufus installation media maker with the TPM Check skip and just update after that.

[Somerandomtechyboi]

If its just schoolwork either a cheap used 2nd - 4th gen desktop, or 3rd - 6th gen laptop (prefer laptop due to portability), thatll be less than 200£

[GeorgeMKane]

Recommend 11th gen intel, with 16GB of RAM and 500GB of M.2 NVME SSD storage. Extra case fan is for the front of the case (mount as intake).

 

I went with the 650W 80+ Bronze psu so you can add a budget gpu and more storage later with no problems. It's also a pretty decent price.

 

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/LkVjZw

CPU: Intel Core i5-11400 2.6 GHz 6-Core Processor  (£159.99 @ Technextday) 
CPU Cooler: Vetroo V5 52 CFM CPU Cooler  (£31.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Motherboard: MSI B560M PRO-VDH WIFI Micro ATX LGA1200 Motherboard  (£82.90 @ Alza) 
Memory: Crucial Ballistix 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory  (£57.62 @ CCL Computers) 
Storage: Western Digital Blue SN570 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  (£43.19 @ Amazon UK) 
Case: Antec Dark Phantom DP301M MicroATX Mid Tower Case  (£40.40 @ Amazon UK) 
Power Supply: EVGA BQ 650 W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply  (£54.98 @ Scan.co.uk) 
Case Fan: Noctua P12 redux-1700 PWM 70.75 CFM 120 mm Fan  (£12.99 @ Amazon UK) 
£484.06