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[Buizel10]

Hello, Im building a build.

$500 max, if I can get a lot more performance with $550 then $550

CANADIAN RUPEE

 

Sites:

 

ebay.ca  

(eBay Canada)

ca.pcpartpicker.com 

(Canadian pcpartpicker)

http://wiki.freegeekvancouver.org/article/Thrift_Store_Price_List

(Freegeek Vancouver Price list)

 

 

I was thinking this:

 

Some sort of old OEM workstation with X5450

GTX 670

MIN 8GB RAM

Win 7 or 8 from Kinguin

Freegeek 24" monitor 1080P ($75)

 

 

USES:

YouTube Channel (Minecraft, not very performance-heavy games)

Triple A titles at low settings or medium settings

 

 

 

NOTE:

For a friend

Also there are some good deals on freegeek like monitors and things like that

[Streetguru]

6 minutes ago, Buizel10 said:

Hello, Im building a build.

860K + 360 should be alright as far as new stuff goes, used parts that I can say probably aren't/won't broken/break are going to be the case and the RAM, probably, but if you can get like an older i5 or something from freegeek do that over an 860K potentially

 

If you want to save money on windows you're better off just getting it for "free" rather than buying a grey market key that may have been purchased illegal and that may be revoked at any time.

 

was the monitor part of the $500? Because if so that's bringing you down to APU levels.

PCPartPicker part list: http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/JsPsyc
Price breakdown by merchant: http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/JsPsyc/by_merchant/

CPU: AMD Athlon X4 860K 3.7GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($99.98 @ NCIX)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-F2A88XM-D3H Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard  ($88.99 @ NCIX)
Memory: Kingston 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1333 Memory  ($46.00 @ Vuugo)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($68.25 @ Vuugo)
Video Card: XFX Radeon R7 360 2GB Core Edition Video Card  ($146.88 @ shopRBC)
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply  ($55.25 @ Vuugo)
Total: $505.35
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-02-25 21:31 EST-0500

[Buizel10]

Just now, Streetguru said:

860K + 360 should be alright as far as new stuff goes, used parts that I can say probably aren't/won't broken/break are going to be the case and the RAM, probably, but if you can get like an older i5 or something from freegeek do that over an 860K potentially

 

If you want to save money on windows you're better off just getting it for "free" rather than buying a grey market key that may have been purchased illegal and that may be revoked at any time.

 

was the monitor part of the $500? Because if so that's bringing you down to APU levels.

PCPartPicker part list: http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/JsPsyc
Price breakdown by merchant: http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/JsPsyc/by_merchant/

CPU: AMD Athlon X4 860K 3.7GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($99.98 @ NCIX)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-F2A88XM-D3H Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard  ($88.99 @ NCIX)
Memory: Kingston 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1333 Memory  ($46.00 @ Vuugo)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($68.25 @ Vuugo)
Video Card: XFX Radeon R7 360 2GB Core Edition Video Card  ($146.88 @ shopRBC)
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply  ($55.25 @ Vuugo)
Total: $505.35
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-02-25 21:31 EST-0500

You do realise Im OK with used, right?

 

Also a monitor here is $75 at freegeek

 

Please check all the sources I can buy from

[Streetguru]

9 minutes ago, Buizel10 said:

You do realise Im OK with used, right?

if it's going to be the only PC he has for a while, new stuff comes with nice warranties and all that

 

aside from that, don't really want to spend time on all of that, but nvidia is seemingly actively hampering performance of older generation cards, as seen with The Witcher 3, and Fallout 4, so I'd probably go for a 7xxx series card from AMD, 7750 or higher would be decent

 

but I guess you'd want to go for this

Intel or AMD Quad Core w/ 200GB+ HDD, 8GB RAM+ - $150 - $180

 

Whatever is LGA 775 or AM3/+ or newer would be decent, I wouldn't get really old stuff it's going to be a lot slower and be missing more modern instructions, though AMD's current stuff still lacks in those places sometimes

 

1155 socket if you can get it would be decent with at least an i3 there

 

 

and seriously though, buy at least a new power supply over a used one.

[Buizel10]

3 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

if it's going to be the only PC he has for a while, new stuff comes with nice warranties and all that

 

aside from that, don't really want to spend time on all of that, but nvidia is seemingly actively hampering performance of older generation cards, as seen with The Witcher 3, and Fallout 4, so I'd probably go for a 7xxx series card from AMD, 7750 or higher would be decent

 

but I guess you'd want to go for this

Intel or AMD Quad Core w/ 200GB+ HDD, 8GB RAM+ - $150 - $180

 

Whatever is LGA 775 or AM3/+ or newer would be decent, I wouldn't get really old stuff it's going to be a lot slower and be missing more modern instructions, though AMD's current stuff still lacks in those places sometimes

 

1155 socket if you can get it would be decent with at least an i3 there

 

 

and seriously though, buy at least a new power supply over a used one.

I always buy my PSUs new.

UNLESS ITS AN OLD IBM DELTA

 

Seriously, they are cheap and reliable

I have one in another build

[Buizel10]

36 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

if it's going to be the only PC he has for a while, new stuff comes with nice warranties and all that

 

aside from that, don't really want to spend time on all of that, but nvidia is seemingly actively hampering performance of older generation cards, as seen with The Witcher 3, and Fallout 4, so I'd probably go for a 7xxx series card from AMD, 7750 or higher would be decent

 

but I guess you'd want to go for this

Intel or AMD Quad Core w/ 200GB+ HDD, 8GB RAM+ - $150 - $180

 

Whatever is LGA 775 or AM3/+ or newer would be decent, I wouldn't get really old stuff it's going to be a lot slower and be missing more modern instructions, though AMD's current stuff still lacks in those places sometimes

 

1155 socket if you can get it would be decent with at least an i3 there

 

 

and seriously though, buy at least a new power supply over a used one.

All he does is record, game, watch youtube and skype for half the day

[Streetguru]

Just now, Buizel10 said:

All he does is record, game, watch youtube and skype for half the day

Is that record game play?

[Buizel10]

1 minute ago, Streetguru said:

Is that record game play?

yep we do lets play together but we dont plan on going beyond LoL and Minecraft

[Streetguru]

53 minutes ago, Buizel10 said:

yep we do lets play together but we dont plan on going beyond LoL and Minecraft

Well if you can nab a pheonom X6/6300, or i5 2500 for the budget you'd be able to do that pretty well

here would be the new price for an 8320e anyways, costs nearly as much as an i3, and while actually the new i3 would be faster in CPU heavy games, the 8 cores are going to be better for the recording/rendering

 

PCPartPicker part list: http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/VCrWqs
Price breakdown by merchant: http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/VCrWqs/by_merchant/

CPU: AMD FX-8320E 3.2GHz 8-Core Processor  ($169.98 @ DirectCanada)
Motherboard: ASRock 970M PRO3 Micro ATX AM3+/AM3 Motherboard  ($94.22 @ DirectCanada)
Memory: Kingston 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1333 Memory  ($46.00 @ Vuugo)
Total: $310.20
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-02-25 23:17 EST-0500