$600 Budget

DarkBlade2117 · July 14, 2015

My grandma... Yes my grandma wants a home PC. She has a perfectly fine laptop for all her needs and she will just end up not using it after a few months and use it again for a few months and stop again just like her laptop. She insist. I don't know he exact budget but she wanted to get something from bestbuy. I've pretty much convinced my grandpa who's buying it that every prebuilt there are complete rip offs. $800 for an i3, 500gb HDD, some cheap mobo and ram, and some industrial power supply. She may change her budget to like $800 but she doesn't need a TB of storage. Her laptop has 500gbs she has only used about 230gbs of it in the past 4 years. If she says $800 I'll probably just add a GPU for the fun of it. I'll be playing a few games on it but nothing like GTA V ect.. Mostly minecraft to kill time.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4590 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor ($189.99 @ NCIX US)

Motherboard: MSI H97M-E35 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($65.98 @ Newegg)

Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Blue 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory ($44.99 @ Newegg)

Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 500GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($164.00 @ Amazon)

Case: Fractal Design Core 1300 MicroATX Mini Tower Case ($44.99 @ Directron)

Power Supply: SeaSonic 450W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply ($63.98 @ Newegg)

Total: $573.93

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-07-13 22:55 EDT-0400

This PC will probably last her for as long as a virus doesn't eat the thing. Her laptop booted up in 20 minutes. 7 Trojans later now it's about 30 seconds. I'm gonna try and proof all viruses like using Firefox and ad block so she doesn't accidentally click one. She's pretty smart about it though. We don't need a monitor, keyboard, or mouse. I'll give her a Logitech mouse/keyboard wireless combo which works wonders for it being $30. Any parts you'd change?

Btw you can build two different ones if you want. $600 and $800 I don't exactly know. No need for a K processor as I won't be overclocking as its not needed. You can also add a BeQuiet! Pure Rock if you want for it to be a little quieter. I left the $27 headroom for windows on g2a.