Give me a good gaming PC build for under 300

[KnightHawk1401]

Can somebody link me to a good gaming PC build for under 300? If they're are any PCs under 300 that are prebuilt, that works too.

[ProjectBox153]

Do you already have any hardware? You won't be getting a good gaming machine for that money with the prices as they are now. 

[KnightHawk1401]

Just now, Jamiec1130 said:

Do you already have any hardware? You won't be getting a good gaming machine for that money with the prices as they are now. 

do you have any idea of when the hardware prices will drop, and no, I have no hardware, I just want to see what I can get for under 300 dollars.

[TheGlenlivet]

4 minutes ago, KnightHawk1401 said:

do you have any idea of when the hardware prices will drop, and no, I have no hardware, I just want to see what I can get for under 300 dollars.

 

$325?

[KnightHawk1401]

2 minutes ago, TheGlenlivet said:

 

$325?

sure

[Daniel644]

you can't get ANYTHING under 300 bucks not even in the prebuilt world, not NEW anyway, lets look at some BARE MINIMUMS a Ryzen 3 2200G is a 100 bucks by itself, then you need a motherboard which on the cheap end is like 60 bucks then a PSU which for a cheap POS one is around 30-40 then you NEED a MINIMUM of a 2x4GB ram kit which is damn near a 100 bucks right now, so your budget is used up and you don't even have a hard drive/ssd or a case, not to mention keyboard, mouse and Monitor.

 

you can barely maybe able a functioning computer with new parts for 300 bucks, but you WON'T be gaming on it because it will be a Celeron with an iGPU.

[TheGlenlivet]

Just now, KnightHawk1401 said:

sure

Other than an xbox, this is probably the most games for the money.  Or a Pentium/1030 combo, but that might be $350 or so.

[TheGlenlivet]

Although at second glance it looks like he is missing peripherals, a monitor and a HDD in that build....

[KnightHawk1401]

1 minute ago, TheGlenlivet said:

Although at second glance it looks like he is missing peripherals, a monitor and a HDD in that build....

I already have all of those

[jeffmeyer5295]

11 minutes ago, KnightHawk1401 said:

I already have all of those

Well we didn't know that, and you were asked earlier and ignored it

 

-Edit-

 

Scratch that, you specifically said earlier you had no hardware, you didn't ignore it. So what do you have?? 

[hconverse02]

11 minutes ago, KnightHawk1401 said:

I already have all of those

So you do have parts?

 

25 minutes ago, Jamiec1130 said:

Do you already have any hardware? You won't be getting a good gaming machine for that money with the prices as they are now. 

 

[InertiaSelling]

@KnightHawk1401 Maybe this?

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 3 2200G 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($99.00 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: ASRock - AB350M Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($59.89 @ OutletPC)
Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2800 Memory  ($92.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Corsair - CX (2017) 450W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($44.89 @ OutletPC)
Case: a plank of wood and a few screws ($0.00)
Storage: some hdd from an old system ($0.00)
Total: $296.77
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-02-20 12:33 EST-0500

 

[Daniel644]

Just now, InertiaSelling said:

@KnightHawk1401 Maybe this?

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 3 2200G 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($99.00 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: ASRock - AB350M Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($59.89 @ OutletPC)
Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2800 Memory  ($92.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Corsair - CX (2017) 450W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($44.89 @ OutletPC)
Case: a plank of wood and a few screws ($0.00)
Storage: some hdd from a laptop ($0.00)
Total: $296.77
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-02-20 12:33 EST-0500

 

and a NEVER activated copy of Windows 10 from the Windows Media Creation Tool. But be prepared to wait days for shit to boot, because HDD's on Windows 10 SUCK for Boot drives, SSD or GO HOME.

[EunSoo]

3 minutes ago, InertiaSelling said:

@KnightHawk1401 Maybe this?

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 3 2200G 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($99.00 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: ASRock - AB350M Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($59.89 @ OutletPC)
Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2800 Memory  ($92.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Corsair - CX (2017) 450W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($44.89 @ OutletPC)
Case: a plank of wood and a few screws ($0.00)
Storage: some hdd from an old system ($0.00)
Total: $296.77
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-02-20 12:33 EST-0500

 

I'd rather see him get a single 8gb stick for more upgradeability.

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/XJYWGX/gskill-aegis-8gb-1-x-8gb-ddr4-3000-memory-f4-3000c16s-8gisb

[NTDaws]

Thats as far as I can get.

PCPartPicker part list: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/gV9xFt
Price breakdown by merchant: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/gV9xFt/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel - Pentium G4500 3.5GHz Dual-Core Processor  ($71.88 @ OutletPC) 
Motherboard: MSI - H110M Gaming Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($45.98 @ Newegg) 
Memory: Crucial - 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  ($44.89 @ OutletPC) 
Storage: Western Digital - Caviar Blue 500GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($30.00 @ Newegg Marketplace) 
Video Card: Gigabyte - GeForce GT 1030 2GB Low Profile Video Card  ($81.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Case: Rosewill - FBM-X1 MicroATX Mini Tower Case  ($21.99 @ Amazon) 
Power Supply: SeaSonic - 520W 80+ Bronze Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($49.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Total: $346.72
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-02-20 12:37 EST-0500

[Daniel644]

1 minute ago, SCGazelle said:

I'd rather see him get a single 8gb stick for more upgradeability.

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/XJYWGX/gskill-aegis-8gb-1-x-8gb-ddr4-3000-memory-f4-3000c16s-8gisb

normally yes, but with the APU's you are better benefited by having 2 sticks instead of one so you have more memory bandwidth (or something like that).

[SupaKomputa]

Ryzen 2200 only consume 100 watt on gaming full load. Doesn't need 500 watt to run it.

That's lower than my lcd tv!

[Daniel644]

Just now, SupaKomputa said:

Ryzen 2200 only consume 100 watt on gaming full load. Doesn't need 500 watt to run it.

it's called room for adding a decent GPU later and you are hard pressed to find a decent quality PSU under a certain wattage anyway.

[SupaKomputa]

There are many SFX psu rated around that wattage.

Since its a apu, why not go mini.

Define decent gpu, at most it'll upgrade to 1050ti at reasonable uninflated price.

And that gpu only rated 65watt.

[EunSoo]

Just now, Daniel644 said:

normally yes, but with the APU's you are better benefited by having 2 sticks instead of one so you have more memory bandwidth (or something like that).

huh, that's new

[AMDPRO]

you can get really cheap mobo at microcenter ($30) with their deals. I would recommend a 2200g.

[Thinkfreely]

4 minutes ago, SCGazelle said:

normally yes, but with the APU's you are better benefited by having 2 sticks instead of one so you have more memory bandwidth (or something like that

Rofl it has to do with the fact the ryzen cores use to sit in pairs separated by a memory cache and Ram speed directly affects these cores communicating with eachother (Infinity fabric). While with Intel they all sit together, so ram doesn't have as much of an impact.

[Daniel644]

1 minute ago, SupaKomputa said:

There are many SFX psu rated around that wattage.

Since its a apu, why not go mini.

Define decent gpu, at most it'll upgrade to 1050ti at reasonable uninflated price.

And that gpu only rated 65watt.

and SFX is gonna cost you MORE money, by decent I mean an 8GB RX580 or a 1070, if you want GOOD gaming thats the range you wanna be in once prices return to normal. and still I rather spend 5-10 bucks more on a 80+ Bronze 450 watt then a unknown brand 300 watt or less that may explode, you don't skimp on your PSU, if it goes it can take out EVERYTHING else in the computer.

 

5 minutes ago, SCGazelle said:

huh, that's new

yes, it's a Ryzen and APU thing Paul even gives an Asterisk in his build video to mention it

 

[SupaKomputa]

@Daniel644 8gb 580? how long should he wait? Mining are not going down any soon. That's the most sought after gpu.

Building a gaming pc is shit right now. And now miners getting 1060 because lacking better gpu.

[Daniel644]

4 minutes ago, SupaKomputa said:

@Daniel644 8gb 580? how long should he wait? Mining are not going down any soon. That's the most sought after gpu.

Building a gaming pc is shit right now. And now miners getting 1060 because lacking better gpu.

but Ryzen APU to 1050ti isn't enough of a bump in performance to justify that cost.