Computer for light gaming and school work?

[XTankSlayerX]

1. Budget & Location

600 Canadian Rupees, Located in BC

 

2. Aim

Some accounting work and some light gaming... With some chances of that turning into heavy gaming

 

3. Monitors

Won't need any

4. Peripherals

Nah

 

I think that should be it right? 

 

I'd prefer Intel/Nvidia hardware as that's what I've been using personally, at this price point perhaps it's not the best idea though...

 

[Castdeath97]

That's what I could come up with, if 30 dollars off budget is too much for you drop to a R9 270/R7 370.

 

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-6100 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor  ($154.98 @ DirectCanada) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H110M-A Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($74.00 @ Vuugo) 
Memory: A-Data XPG Z1 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2800 Memory  ($44.88 @ Canada Computers) 
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($63.98 @ DirectCanada) 
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 950 2GB OC Edition Video Card  ($198.59 @ DirectCanada) 
Case: Thermaltake Versa H21 ATX Mid Tower Case  ($43.42 @ Amazon Canada) 
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($56.99 @ DirectCanada) 
Total: $636.84
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-04-05 02:44 EDT-0400

 

[Streetguru]

37 minutes ago, XTankSlayerX said:

 

i3 + 250 is about the best you're going to be able to get without seriously cutting into the budget in some places, which isn't going to be worth it for the long run, the PSU here is already rather sub par, but it seems to be the best bet for canada given what I saw on the part picker, it's not going to be stressed very hard anyways.

 

there's also not much reason to buy most mid range nvidia cards since maxwell seems to lack proper DX12 support

 

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

CPU: Intel Core i3-6100 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor  ($154.98 @ DirectCanada)
Motherboard: MSI B150M Pro-VD Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($88.35 @ Amazon Canada)
Memory: Crucial 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($40.50 @ Vuugo)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($64.99 @ Canada Computers)
Video Card: MSI Radeon R7 250 2GB Video Card  ($119.04 @ shopRBC)
Case: Deepcool TESSERACT BF ATX Mid Tower Case  ($44.99 @ Amazon Canada)
Power Supply: SeaSonic 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($69.88 @ Canada Computers)
Total: $582.73
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-04-05 02:38 EDT-0400

[Castdeath97]

8 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

i3 + 250 is about the best you're going to be able to get without seriously cutting into the budget in some places, which isn't going to be worth it for the long run, the PSU here is already rather sub par, but it seems to be the best bet for canada given what I saw on the part picker, it's not going to be stressed very hard anyways.

 

there's also not much reason to buy most mid range nvidia cards since maxwell seems to lack proper DX12 support

 

PCPartPicker part list: http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/D9fhsY
Price breakdown by merchant: http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/D9fhsY/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i3-6100 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor  ($154.98 @ DirectCanada)
Motherboard: MSI B150M Pro-VD Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($88.35 @ Amazon Canada)
Memory: Crucial 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($40.50 @ Vuugo)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($64.99 @ Canada Computers)
Video Card: MSI Radeon R7 250 2GB Video Card  ($119.04 @ shopRBC)
Case: Deepcool TESSERACT BF ATX Mid Tower Case  ($44.99 @ Amazon Canada)
Power Supply: EVGA 600B 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($69.99 @ NCIX)
Total: $582.84
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-04-05 02:17 EDT-0400

400W XFX XT comes from seasonic and is a bit cheaper, lacks in the wattage, but you won't be needing it in this price point anyway. 

 

Edit: You can even try the Antec earthwatts green 350W, even less wattage but still enough for low end GPUs, but this leaves little to upgrade (unless the efficiency claims of the next gen GPUs are true) 

[Streetguru]

2 minutes ago, Castdeath97 said:

400W XFX XT comes from seasonic and is a bit cheaper, lacks in the wattage, but you won't be needing it in this price point anyway.

Most of the XFX stuff comes from seasonic, but the XT line is sub par overall

http://www.jonnyguru.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12983

 

 

[Castdeath97]

1 minute ago, Streetguru said:

Most of the XFX stuff comes from seasonic, but the XT line is sub par overall

http://www.jonnyguru.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12983

 

 

Seems better than the 600B though doesn't it.

[Streetguru]

8 minutes ago, Castdeath97 said:

Seems better than the 600B though doesn't it.

probably not with the 2 year warranty

 

the 500B wasn't the worst thing everhttp://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?name=NDReviews&op=Story6&reid=351


Wait it might be worse than I thought, might be that the review samples were of higher quality than the ones people were buying
 

pcpartpicker.com/forums/topic/146247-evga-600b-review-weird-review-sample-discussion-at-jonnyguru-forums

http://www.jonnyguru.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13173

 

[Castdeath97]

3 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

probably not with the 2 year warranty

 

the 500B wasn't the worst thing ever

http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?name=NDReviews&op=Story6&reid=351

Maybe the earthwatts green 350W, seems enough for a 950/R7 250.

[Streetguru]

5 minutes ago, Castdeath97 said:

Maybe the earthwatts green 350W, seems enough for a 950/R7 250.

There, 600W from seasonic at 70 bucks

 

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

CPU: Intel Core i3-6100 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor  ($154.98 @ DirectCanada)
Motherboard: MSI B150M Pro-VD Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($88.35 @ Amazon Canada)
Memory: Crucial 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($40.50 @ Vuugo)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($64.99 @ Canada Computers)
Video Card: MSI Radeon R7 250 2GB Video Card  ($119.04 @ shopRBC)
Case: Deepcool TESSERACT BF ATX Mid Tower Case  ($44.99 @ Amazon Canada)
Power Supply: SeaSonic 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($69.88 @ Canada Computers)
Total: $582.73
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-04-05 02:38 EDT-0400

[Castdeath97]

5 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

There, 600W from seasonic at 70 bucks

 

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

CPU: Intel Core i3-6100 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor  ($154.98 @ DirectCanada)
Motherboard: MSI B150M Pro-VD Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($88.35 @ Amazon Canada)
Memory: Crucial 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($40.50 @ Vuugo)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($64.99 @ Canada Computers)
Video Card: MSI Radeon R7 250 2GB Video Card  ($119.04 @ shopRBC)
Case: Deepcool TESSERACT BF ATX Mid Tower Case  ($44.99 @ Amazon Canada)
Power Supply: SeaSonic 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($69.88 @ Canada Computers)
Total: $582.73
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-04-05 02:38 EDT-0400

You can fit a 750Ti without getting much out of budget as well.

[Streetguru]

5 minutes ago, Castdeath97 said:

You can fit a 750Ti without getting much out of budget as well.

Would probably be better off with a 360 for proper DX12 support

 

really he'd best off probably waiting for AM4 to drop, which should be soon, and just run with a DDR4 APU which should be about as capable as the entry level cards for gaming. 600 CAD is a pretty low budget
 

[Castdeath97]

18 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

Would probably be better off with a 360 for proper DX12 support

 

really he'd best off probably waiting for AM4 to drop, which should be soon, and just run with a DDR4 APU which should be about as capable as the entry level cards for gaming. 600 CAD is a pretty low budget
 

Yeah AMD would push intel to finally release something unlockable under 200 dollars that is not a dual core, or maybe even release it themselves.