gaming/editing computer for cheap

[Sean Thunder]

Cheapest gaming/editing computer parts for my new setup im only in middle school pls watch the cost.

 

[Amazingasian]

Just now, Sean Thunder said:

Cheapest gaming/editing computer parts for my new setup im only in middle school pls watch the cost.

 

How cheap? I've seen overprivlidged middle schoolers with dual 2011-3 Xeons and 4 way SLI Titan X's.

[DarkHunter970]

First off, whats your budget?

[Sean Thunder]

around 100 to 150 american

[ReesZRB]

*facedesk... okay okay save a bit more until you have 450-500 "American"

[Sean Thunder]

im starting a youtube channel and all my freinds have these beef computers and i only have a laptop

[DarkHunter970]

That's very limiting and its going to be difficult to build a computer with that much money. I would consider saving up. And if you really want a computer for the least amount, I would consider an APU system.

 

[Sean Thunder]

its about to be my birthday ill probably have 200 too 300 if that helps

[Amazingasian]

Try and borrow their computers maybe???  150 is tight even with used parts.

[vanished]

I agree, you're not going to be able to get anything with 100 to 150 $.  We did a challenge or sorts a little while back and the absolute cheapest computer we could possibly build was around $100, with the worst parts imaginable - not suitable for anything

If you even want to think about getting something in that price range, you'd have to look at buying used.

Out of curiosity, how is your laptop?  I bet it's better than anything you can buy for that much money

[DarkHunter970]

Well to save money, find things to reuse from old computers if you can. That's how my cousin and I built his computer. With $300 I would still try to go for an APU system.

[Sean Thunder]

my laptop is a 8 gb 1 tb intel i3 

[Sean Thunder]

whats apu

[DarkHunter970]

So you don't have any old desktops lying around? From a laptop, the only thing you can really reuse is the HDD, but you need to also have a 2.5in. - 3.5in mount.

[vanished]

2 minutes ago, Sean Thunder said:

my laptop is a 8 gb 1 tb intel i3 

yeah see that's already much better than anything you can get for $150, even used (if you need to buy monitor etc as well)

[Sean Thunder]

no my home computer is worse than my laptop my old laptop is worse but its broke something was wrong with the cpu i think it was fried i can sell the spare parts maybe its 8 gb with everything else but the processer and hard drive

 

[DarkHunter970]

So are you planning on upgrading your Home PC then?

[Sean Thunder]

no its a small hp i wanted to get something bigger. what is the cheapest parts for what i want like how much money

[DarkHunter970]

Okay, Let's assume you can use at least $350 USD cause I have planned a computer for that low before.

[Sean Thunder]

i tried looking on bestbuy is there any other places i can look for parts

[DarkHunter970]

Have you tried using pcpartpicker.com yet?

[Sean Thunder]

no ill try it now

 

[Sean Thunder]

what do you perfer intel or amd

 

[DarkHunter970]

With the assumed $300-400 USD funds, I'm still on boat with AMD APU system. If you don't know what an APU is, its just a CPU with a Built-in GPU that works really well with high speed RAM.

[Sean Thunder]

ok ill try it does amd support windows and stuff