Basic Computer for basic needs

[meowhim12]

Budget (including currency): $250 USD

Country: Sri Lanka (US products are fine too as I have a friend there)

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Games: Minecraft, CS:GO, Roblox | Programs: Gimp, Linux | Workloads: Office use, Web Browsing, Light Gaming

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):

Peripherals: I already bought peripherals

Upgrading from: https://www.acer.com/ac/en/LA/content/model/NX.MN7ST.004 with a dead dedicated GPU

Resolution/Refresh Rate: Anything

I want to use as much of the Budget as much as possible

 

[KangUsapEmenq]

In such price, it's nearly impossible for even getting a budget build if you want to get a new item (trust me, I tried) with a decent-enough performance. Best of what you can do is actually get secondhand items, and since the price's really vary in between places, best of what I can do is to suggest what's kind of close to my place's price. And, no. I don't think getting your components from USA with such budget, it would be absolutely ridiculous.

 

I assume you already got peripherals like monitor, mouse, and keyboard. So, here's below of what I could suggest.

 

 

CPU: any CPU that got the minimal of 4 cores, 4 threads, I could say this is mandatory for the sake of CSGO. I strongly go for Intel if you wanna pick items pre-Ryzen, perhaps I could suggest Haswell-era i5-4460 or Xeon E3-1230 v3.

 

Motherboard: depends on the CPU obviously. If you pick is between of the i5-4460 or Xeon E3-1230 v3, get the cheapest H81 motherboard you could find.

 

RAM: 8 GB for the absolute minimum, 16 GB is the optimal one. Just max the whether speed your CPU and motherboard supports.

 

GPU: get secondhand, could spend most of the budget on this as you actually game (I could suggest you a iGPU system but, trust me, you don't really want to because it feels really sucks). Something like R7 2xx series or GTX 950 would do the job fine.

 

PSU: please. Don't get cheap on this one. For real. Even in budget builds, PSU would be the first priority to get the quality ones, no matter how small your budget is. I saw enough amount of cheapo PSU killed my friend's components.

 

For PSU, you could visit the PSU tier list and perhaps take the Tier C MINIMUM, or just ask the forum on PSU thread, perhaps on 500W power as you'd use that GPU anyway. I personally took a bequiet! System Power 9 and it runs fine until now.

 

Case: just get the cheapest you could find, or even reuse your old ones.

 

 

Quick little research and you perhaps could go for this. This is on Indonesian marketplace price so yours may be really vary.

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[Somerandomtechyboi]

8 minutes ago, TukangUsapEmenq said:

Quick little research and you perhaps could go for this. This is on Indonesian marketplace price so yours may be really vary.

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Rx 470 will obliterate that 950 while bing the same price or cheaper

 

Rosewill 750w gold used are 50$

 

There are scrap cases going for 3$

 

4x2 ddr3 not 8x1, also dont bother with those stupid hyperx, prob come with inferior ics when you can buy bare pcb rams for cheaper and find better ics (example my psc x series transcend 1gb sticks, oc 2140mhz 5-10-7-24 1.78v), sort by lowest

 

I use tokopedia to buy my stuff but im pretty sure sri lanka should have access to some eshop apps so you can look at your used market

[KangUsapEmenq]

8 minutes ago, Somerandomtechyboi said:

Rx 470 will obliterate that 950 while bing the same price or cheaper

Oh, yes, forgot about that RX series would be much better. Or could go for RX 550 for the nearly same performance with lower power consumption anyway.

 

10 minutes ago, Somerandomtechyboi said:

Rosewill 750w gold used are 50$

Eh, never heard about that brand but seems a good one. Depends on OP's availability though.

 

 

11 minutes ago, Somerandomtechyboi said:

4x2 ddr3 not 8x1, also dont bother with those stupid hyperx, prob come with inferior ics when you can buy bare pcb rams for cheaper and find better ics (example my psc x series transcend 1gb sticks, oc 2140mhz 5-10-7-24 1.78v), sort by lowest

Agree with you, but it depends on OP if he want so upgrade to 16 GB or not, and to be fair in such use case I don't really see much performance penalty that... Annoys too much, and it runs. (I use 12 GB, so technically single channel afaik)

[Somerandomtechyboi]

3 minutes ago, TukangUsapEmenq said:

Eh, never heard about that brand but seems a good one. Depends on OP's availability though.

Actually very reputable, its their capstone model and i think its tier a or something on the psu tier list, theres also a thermaltake semi modular i forgot what model but maybe gf1 pe at the same price, if im not a cheapskate and go for a powerex 700w (350rb but looks decent looking at the wattage table cause 12v is = to psu rating and single rail which most cheapo 700w psus arent, no 80+ rating tho) then ill prob get either of those

 

6 minutes ago, TukangUsapEmenq said:

(I use 12 GB, so technically single channel afaik)

If its 2 stick then that just means 8gb in dual channel and the extra 4gb in single channel, better than pagefile)

[Penpilot]

here is the best i could do

 

psu- link

cpu- link

mobo- link

storage- link

ram- link

case- link

 

going for an i7 3770 with a cheap mobo and DDR 3 ram will deliver around 75% of the performance and also cut costs by 30%

[meowhim12]

45 minutes ago, TukangUsapEmenq said:

In such price, it's nearly impossible for even getting a budget build if you want to get a new item (trust me, I tried) with a decent-enough performance. Best of what you can do is actually get secondhand items, and since the price's really vary in between places, best of what I can do is to suggest what's kind of close to my place's price. And, no. I don't think getting your components from USA with such budget, it would be absolutely ridiculous.

 

I assume you already got peripherals like monitor, mouse, and keyboard. So, here's below of what I could suggest.

 

 

CPU: any CPU that got the minimal of 4 cores, 4 threads, I could say this is mandatory for the sake of CSGO. I strongly go for Intel if you wanna pick items pre-Ryzen, perhaps I could suggest Haswell-era i5-4460 or Xeon E3-1230 v3.

 

Motherboard: depends on the CPU obviously. If you pick is between of the i5-4460 or Xeon E3-1230 v3, get the cheapest H81 motherboard you could find.

 

RAM: 8 GB for the absolute minimum, 16 GB is the optimal one. Just max the whether speed your CPU and motherboard supports.

 

GPU: get secondhand, could spend most of the budget on this as you actually game (I could suggest you a iGPU system but, trust me, you don't really want to because it feels really sucks). Something like R7 2xx series or GTX 950 would do the job fine.

 

PSU: please. Don't get cheap on this one. For real. Even in budget builds, PSU would be the first priority to get the quality ones, no matter how small your budget is. I saw enough amount of cheapo PSU killed my friend's components.

 

For PSU, you could visit the PSU tier list and perhaps take the Tier C MINIMUM, or just ask the forum on PSU thread, perhaps on 500W power as you'd use that GPU anyway. I personally took a bequiet! System Power 9 and it runs fine until now.

 

Case: just get the cheapest you could find, or even reuse your old ones.

 

 

Quick little research and you perhaps could go for this. This is on Indonesian marketplace price so yours may be really vary.

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Could you suggest a AMD cpu as it is normally cheaper here?

[KangUsapEmenq]

Just now, meowhim12 said:

Could you suggest a AMD cpu as it is normally cheaper here?

Yes, it's cheaper, but there's one reason why Intel won the game for a decade and more before Ryzen. They run hot and, unfortunately, inefficient vs their Intel counterparts.

 

Unfortunately I don't really follow up on AMD products pre-Ryzen (and their confusing names duh), so perhaps others could recommend one.