Very low budget

[LxS]

I want to Build a very low budget pc as a secondary pc for my friends (for LAN Partys at my Place).

Linus did a guide a while back with a server mainboard and 2 older Xeon CPUs.

Is it still relevant? Or even reasonable?

Would appreciate some recommendations.

[glitchmaster0001]

no those 771 xeons are pretty much reaching their end of life. I would try to seach up on craiglist for a i7 920 pc since sometimes people let go of those systems for cheap. 

[SquintyG33Rs]

20 minutes ago, LxS said:

I want to Build a very low budget pc as a secondary pc for my friends (for LAN Partys at my Place).

Linus did a guide a while back with a server mainboard and 2 older Xeon CPUs.

Is it still relevant? Or even reasonable?

Would appreciate some recommendations.

depends on the games you want to play. how low is very low? My secondary PC for invited ppl is a Q6600 8GB of RAM with a GTX 650 on a 60$ screen that's just under 1080p and for most things it's perfectly fine.

 

parts costed about 70$ system plus 80$ GPU plus the screen 2 years ago.

[Guest]

What's the budget?

[LxS]

3 minutes ago, LeinadTM said:

What's the budget?

 

4 minutes ago, SquintyG33Rs said:

depends on the games you want to play. how low is very low? My secondary PC for invited ppl is a Q6600 8GB of RAM with a GTX 650 on a 60$ screen that's just under 1080p and for most things it's perfectly fine.

 

parts costed about 70$ system plus 80$ GPU plus the screen 2 years ago.

I could go with 300$ maybe more but i want to keep the price low

[SquintyG33Rs]

Just now, LxS said:

 

I could go with 300$ maybe more but i want to keep the price low

then what's the games? my setup does MMO's "Mobas and competitives" fairly well at good enough looking visuals

[Guest]

This is about as cheap as you can get while still keeping semi-decent performance. If you really want to stay at that ~$300 budget though, you might have to buy used.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Core i5-2400 3.1GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($142.89 @ Amazon) 
Motherboard: MSI - H61M-P20 (G3) Micro ATX LGA1155 Motherboard  ($49.99 @ Amazon) 
Memory: Team - Dark 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($48.98 @ Newegg) 
Storage: SanDisk - SSD PLUS 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($59.99 @ Amazon) 
Video Card: Sapphire - Radeon RX 460 2GB OC Single Fan Video Card  ($93.98 @ Newegg) 
Case: Silverstone - PS08B (Black) MicroATX Mid Tower Case  ($34.90 @ NCIX US) 
Power Supply: Corsair - Builder 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($30.98 @ Newegg) 
Total: $461.71 USD
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-06-29 03:04 EDT-0400

[LxS]

6 minutes ago, SquintyG33Rs said:

then what's the games? my setup does MMO's "Mobas and competitives" fairly well at good enough looking visuals

Pretty much everything, we play a broad variety games, Rocket League should run not that badly on it.

But no AAA titles

[SquintyG33Rs]

2 minutes ago, LxS said:

Pretty much everything, we play a broad variety games, Rocket League should run not that badly on it.

But no AAA titles

well technically you could run some 4 year old AAA stuff at medium on it. with a couple other stuff manually turned down. the problem actually being that newer AAA titles have lower presets that litterally don't improve performance at all.... on any hardware, they just look uglier.

[Herman Mcpootis]

2 hours ago, LxS said:

 

I could go with 300$ maybe more but i want to keep the price low

$300 should be more than enough for a 2nd-gen i5 prebuilt and an RX 560/gtx 1050/ti. I'd start on eBay, find a decently priced prebuilt, make any necessary upgrades and get the best GPU with the money left over.

[LxS]

Thank you guys, I'll look into what you suggested