Buying a used PC

[joshc8889]

Ok, so, I am in the market for a gaming desktop. I only have a budget of about 550$. After doing a bit of research, I found a guy selling a 2 year old modified desktop on Kijiji.ca (I'll share a screenshot of the description) for 515$. 

 

The PC he is selling features the following;

- AMD FX4350

- Zalman CPU cooler (fan)

- ASUS Strix R9 380 4GB

- 550 watts coolermaster PSU 80+ bronze

- 1TB Toshiba HDD

- 8GB of DDR3 RAM

- Mini ATX MSI MS-7641 version 4.0 

 

All of this is packed into an MSI commander case.

 

He also sent me an image from the inside.

 

I know that the HDD could fail so I might just run a WD black in raid 1.

 

Is this a good buy? Is there something that I should worry about? Should I insist on running Novabench before buying? 

 

I look forward to your suggestions, thanks in advance.

 

EDIT; I'll be playing CS:GO, Battlefield 1 (If I can) and FSX.

[Energycore]

Nevermind this is CAD

 

I think you'd be better off trying to buy that R9 380 for $150 CAD, and getting the rest of the system new.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-6100 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor  ($149.50 @ shopRBC)
Motherboard: MSI H110M Pro-VD Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($69.99 @ Newegg Canada)
Memory: *G.Skill NT Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($41.99 @ Newegg Canada)
Storage: *Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($59.94 @ Vuugo)
Case: *Thermaltake Versa H25 ATX Mid Tower Case  ($44.99 @ Newegg Canada)
Power Supply: *Corsair CXM 450W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($38.98 @ NCIX)
Total: $405.39
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-09-07 23:02 EDT-0400

[Guest]

GPU is not a bad one. I don't think BF1 can be run but maybe on low 

 

Here is a benchmark of a r9 380. Your CPU is worse but should be somewhat playable with reduced settings

 

Why not build one?

You can find cheap components on ebay and kijiji

 

[Slottr]

For 500$ Canadian you could probably get something better if you built it yourself. You even said yourself that you would throw in a black drive, which is already another 70$+ investment.

 

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Energycore said:

That computer isn't worth $550 new, you can do way better than it all-new for $550

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-6100 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor  ($110.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: *Gigabyte GA-B150M-DS3H Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($63.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: *G.Skill NT Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  ($34.98 @ Newegg)
Storage: *Hitachi 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($39.75 @ Amazon)
Video Card: PowerColor Radeon RX 470 4GB Red Dragon Video Card  ($194.98 @ Newegg)
Case: *Thermaltake Versa H25 ATX Mid Tower Case  ($37.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Power Supply: *Corsair CXM 450W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($44.99 @ NCIX US)
Total: $527.66
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-09-07 22:58 EDT-0400

 

I would pay $350 for that one on kijiji, at the highest.

But yours above is w/o tax and shipping. PCpartpicker don't include that. 550$ without have to pay anything else looks fine

[Energycore]

Just now, dexxterlab97 said:

But yours above is w/o tax and shipping. PCpartpicker don't include that. 550$ without have to pay anything else looks fine

Also realized this was CAD, edited post

[Ryoku]

29 minutes ago, joshc8889 said:

Ok, so, I am in the market for a gaming desktop. I only have a budget of about 550$. After doing a bit of research, I found a guy selling a 2 year old modified desktop on Kijiji.ca (I'll share a screenshot of the description) for 515$. 

 

The PC he is selling features the following;

- AMD FX4350

- Zalman CPU cooler (fan)

- ASUS Strix R9 380 4GB

- 550 watts coolermaster PSU 80+ bronze

- 1TB Toshiba HDD

- 8GB of DDR3 RAM

- Mini ATX MSI MS-7641 version 4.0 

 

All of this is packed into an MSI commander case.

 

He also sent me an image from the inside.

 

I know that the HDD could fail so I might just run a WD black in raid 1.

 

Is this a good buy? Is there something that I should worry about? Should I insist on running Novabench before buying? 

 

I look forward to your suggestions, thanks in advance.

 

EDIT; I'll be playing CS:GO, Battlefield 1 (If I can) and FSX.

 

I wouldn't buy this, especially for that price. Like others have posted you could build better yourself you could even look for some components used that way you can pick the good stuff instead of getting a crap pc with a  couple good parts in it.

[joshc8889]

I'd really like to thank Energycore. Thank you so much. This seems like something that I could do! I'll look into it and try to buy the GPU alone. 

[joshc8889]

34 minutes ago, Energycore said:

Nevermind this is CAD

 

I think you'd be better off trying to buy that R9 380 for $150 CAD, and getting the rest of the system new.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-6100 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor  ($149.50 @ shopRBC)
Motherboard: MSI H110M Pro-VD Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($69.99 @ Newegg Canada)
Memory: *G.Skill NT Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($41.99 @ Newegg Canada)
Storage: *Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($59.94 @ Vuugo)
Case: *Thermaltake Versa H25 ATX Mid Tower Case  ($44.99 @ Newegg Canada)
Power Supply: *Corsair CXM 450W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($38.98 @ NCIX)
Total: $405.39
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-09-07 23:02 EDT-0400

I'd really like to thank Energycore. Thank you so much. This seems like something that I could do! I'll look into it and try to buy the GPU alone.