Cheapest League of Legends PC?

[Okjoek]

The only game my younger brother plays is league of legends and I'm annoyed that he now uses my PC all the time to play it because it's such a time consuming game that cannot be paused. So I'm wondering how cheap I can possibly go to build a PC capable of running it on max graphics at 60+ FPS.

 

I'm more used to working with AMD hardware, but I wouldl ike to see options from the other teams as well.

 

 

[WereCat]

Get some $100 - $150 used PC from craigslist with any GPU that is at least NVIDIA GT 740 or AMD R7 250 or Radeon HD 5800/6700/6800/7700/7800 series or better.

[ZetZet]

A used rig will be the cheapest option. 

[Okjoek]

4 minutes ago, WereCat said:

Get some $100 - $150 used PC from craigslist with any GPU that is at least NVIDIA GT 740 or AMD R7 250 or better.

Most of the prebuilts in that price range have crappy proprietary PSUs incapable of holding a decent GPU. This includes the one we use in our media center downstairs which was a 130 dollar HP 6005 compaq pro which had an Athlon II B24 CPU

[WereCat]

1 minute ago, Okjoek said:

Most of the prebuilts in that price range have crappy proprietary PSUs incapable of holding a decent GPU. This includes the one we use in our media center downstairs which was a 130 dollar HP 6005 compaq pro which had an Athlon II B24 CPU

Then you can also get some really cheap PC by buing old parts from ebay except you can get new PSU.

 

[ZetZet]

7 minutes ago, Okjoek said:

Most of the prebuilts in that price range have crappy proprietary PSUs incapable of holding a decent GPU. This includes the one we use in our media center downstairs which was a 130 dollar HP 6005 compaq pro which had an Athlon II B24 CPU

300w shitty ass psu will easily be enough for a r7 250 or something. 

[stconquest]

You can try using the iGPU at first, or just grab a $100 GTX 750Ti.

 

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-6100 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor  ($110.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: MSI MSI H110M PRO-D Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($47.99 @ Amazon)
Memory: Kingston ValueRAM 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($14.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Storage: A-Data Premier SP550 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($34.99 @ NCIX US)
Video Card: Zotac GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB Video Card  ($96.88 @ OutletPC)
Case: Xion XON-310_BK MicroATX Mid Tower Case  ($21.98 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Antec Basiq 350W ATX Power Supply  ($26.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $354.81
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-05-29 14:25 EDT-0400

[Loleo]

How much is he/ you/ your parents willing to spend? Are you willing to buy used? If so then it depends on your area.

[Loleo]

Anyways if you want something new and something cheap that can run League here is this: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/GPw8TH

[Okjoek]

7 minutes ago, ZetZet said:

300w shitty ass psu will easily be enough for a r7 250 or something. 

The one in our prebuilt I mentioned had a 240W PSU. Probably the only issue I ever had with the system, but a pretty big roadblock when trying to upgrade. At one point we had a second PSU next to it which I forget how we got that to work with it. I think it involved a piece of wire or paperclip being used to bridge a connection which made it work with a more powerful GPU. How however we have an ATI card in it which had low enough power consumption and still had a HDMI output for our TV.

 

One of my big questions is how many cores does max graphics LoL use? Google gives me a response from 2 yearsago stating 2, but I don't know if that is still up to date info.

[ZetZet]

4 minutes ago, Okjoek said:

The one in our prebuilt I mentioned had a 240W PSU. Probably the only issue I ever had with the system, but a pretty big roadblock when trying to upgrade. At one point we had a second PSU next to it which I forget how we got that to work with it. I think it involved a piece of wire or paperclip being used to bridge a connection which made it work with a more powerful GPU. How however we have an ATI card in it which had low enough power consumption and still had a HDMI output for our TV.

still, used will be the best. just ramp up the budget a little, you won't get anything worthy below 300$ if you buy new.

[stconquest]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD Athlon X4 845 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($57.99 @ NCIX US)
Motherboard: ASRock ASRock FM2A88M PRO3+ Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard  ($52.38 @ Newegg)
Memory: Corsair 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($16.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 250GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($19.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: Zotac GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB Video Card  ($96.88 @ OutletPC)
Case: Xion XON-310_BK MicroATX Mid Tower Case  ($21.98 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: SeaSonic 350W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($35.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $302.20
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-05-29 14:43 EDT-0400