Really cheap build

[Nineshadow]

So a friend of mine asked to see what kind of build I could get for a cousin of his for the lowest price possible. He only plays minecraft , cs go and dota 2. I'm looking at something in the ~300 EUR budget.

[Freddie98]

Would lets say a integrated GPU be ok for him?

[Nineshadow]

Just now, Freddie98 said:

Would lets say a integrated GPU be ok for him?

Don't know, that's what I'm wondering.

I thought about just getting an APU, but I don't really know how they perform these days.

[Kadleli]

I would go for something like a gt 740 and a relativley good processor.

[swordsman247]

9 minutes ago, Nineshadow said:

So a friend of mine asked to see what kind of build I could get for a cousin of his for the lowest price possible. He only plays minecraft , cs go and dota 2. I'm looking at something in the ~300 EUR budget.

How do you feel about used parts? If you have a market where you're at that's the best way to go for super budget builds.

[GeorgeKellow]

13 minutes ago, Kadleli said:

I would go for something like a gt 740 and a relativley good processor.

740 is pointless, spend the extra on a 750ti or a used card 

[Freddie98]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD A10-7860k 3.6GHz Quad-Core Processor  (€109.07 @ Mindfactory) 
Motherboard: ASRock FM2A68M-DG3+ Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard  (€46.29 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  (€40.70 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (€53.95 @ Mindfactory) 
Case: Cooler Master N200 MicroATX Mid Tower Case  (€48.90 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
Power Supply: Corsair Builder 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (€45.94 @ Mindfactory) 
Total: €344.85
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-08-30 16:49 CEST+0200

[Freddie98]

For the budget, just gone with a iGPU, they will run the low-end games like cs:go on low/mid settings

[Quaker]

I'd go for the above except you could possibly save a bit by getting something like a CX450M rather than the 500watt builder series.

[swordsman247]

3 minutes ago, Freddie98 said:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD A10-7860k 3.6GHz Quad-Core Processor  (€109.07 @ Mindfactory) 
Motherboard: ASRock FM2A68M-DG3+ Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard  (€46.29 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  (€40.70 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (€53.95 @ Mindfactory) 
Case: Cooler Master N200 MicroATX Mid Tower Case  (€48.90 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
Power Supply: Corsair Builder 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (€45.94 @ Mindfactory) 
Total: €344.85
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-08-30 16:49 CEST+0200

So yeah basically this^ but go for faster ram 1866 or 2133 it will help the apu a bit.

[Nineshadow]

Just now, swordsman247 said:

So yeah basically this^ but go for faster ram 1866 or 2133 it will help the apu a bit.

Does latency matter for APUs? I know frequency does.

[Freddie98]

Just now, Nineshadow said:

Does latency matter for APUs? I know frequency does.

Theoretically yes, but it shouldn't affect it as much compared to a Discreet GPU, And at this level of gaming, CAS is probably going to be barely noticed 

[swordsman247]

4 minutes ago, Nineshadow said:

Does latency matter for APUs? I know frequency does.

Not too much the speed will outway the latency increase considerably. Something like this set up will perform somewhat faster.  http://de.pcpartpicker.com/list/n3RMbj

[Energycore]

26 minutes ago, Nineshadow said:

So a friend of mine asked to see what kind of build I could get for a cousin of his for the lowest price possible. He only plays minecraft , cs go and dota 2. I'm looking at something in the ~300 EUR budget.

For your price, your best bet might be

 

> Get a refurbished Core i3 + 8GB RAM prebuilt

> Buy GPU for it

 

Here's an all-new list if you wanna build.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD A10-7860k 3.6GHz Quad-Core Processor  (€109.49 @ Mindfactory)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-F2A68HM-HD2 Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard  (€54.28 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Memory: *Corsair Vengeance Pro 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-2400 Memory  (€43.93 @ Mindfactory)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 320GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (€23.00 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Case: Thermaltake Versa H25 ATX Mid Tower Case  (€40.85 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Power Supply: Corsair Builder 430W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (€43.76 @ Mindfactory)
Total: €315.31
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-08-30 17:01 CEST+0200

[Energycore]

6 minutes ago, Nineshadow said:

Does latency matter for APUs? I know frequency does.

It shouldn't matter. GDDR5 trades off latency for bandwidth.

[Kadleli]

32 minutes ago, GeorgeKellow said:

740 is pointless, spend the extra on a 750ti or a used card 

with 300$? nah, i mean he only plays csgo, dota and minecraft, which are cpu heavy games.I know linus ranted about these cards, but i think they will be appropirate in this case.