Budget CPU for basic video editing and gaming

[ZCU]

A friend of mine wants to build a new PC as cheap as possible for some basic video editing and a few games at least at medium settings. I'm more into the high specs gaming PCs so I have no idea what would be cheap and good enough for what he needs. What would you recommend?

[Firewrath9]

ryzen 5 1400 is 130$ rn, or ryzen 5 2600 for 160$.

or even less, 2200G @ 100$/ 200GE @ 60$

budget?

[Cereal5]

You can get a used optiplex for like $250 or less that comes with an i7, mobo, ram, PSU, case, maybe even a HDD.

[xg32]

23 minutes ago, ZCU said:

A friend of mine wants to build a new PC as cheap as possible for some basic video editing and a few games at least at medium settings. I'm more into the high specs gaming PCs so I have no idea what would be cheap and good enough for what he needs. What would you recommend?

full budget route would be 2400g+8gb ram (still get decent ram for ryzen)

 

my personal budget build for 1080p would be r5 2600+16gb ram+rx580

 

freesync if esports titles.

[Vasllo]

As for a new PC, I think either a R3 2200G or R5 2400G would be a great choice. Decent CPUs for rendering and iGPU capable of playing quite a lot, so no need to do discrete GPU.

[i_build_nanosuits]

32 minutes ago, ZCU said:

A friend of mine wants to build a new PC as cheap as possible for some basic video editing and a few games at least at medium settings. I'm more into the high specs gaming PCs so I have no idea what would be cheap and good enough for what he needs. What would you recommend?

Bang for the bucks right now i would look for a AMD Ryzen R5 1600 or 2600 usually they are cheap enough and plenty good.

 

Something like this:

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 2600 3.4GHz 6-Core Processor  ($159.89 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: ASRock - B450 Pro4 ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($87.89 @ OutletPC)
Memory: GeIL - EVO SPEAR 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  ($115.98 @ Newegg)
Total: $363.76
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-10-30 21:39 EDT-0400

 

or this

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor  ($154.99 @ B&H)
Motherboard: ASRock - AB350 Pro4 ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($66.66 @ Newegg)
Memory: GeIL - EVO SPEAR 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  ($115.98 @ Newegg)
Total: $337.63
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-10-30 21:40 EDT-0400

[ZCU]

I'll ask him how much he's willing to spend as I don't remember right now, I'll check the prices of those Ryzens for now and check back here in case there's budget for something better as prices here in Argentina are a bit chaotic. Thanks everyone.

[asand1]

I7 2600 Optiplex 790 mini tower with a $25 tier 2 PSU and gtx 960 would so what your friend needs very nicely for $300.