So your looking to build a low end computer. Something under 150 €/$/£ Well then here’s what I recommend.
- CPU: I7 2600/3770 or Xeon 1230- V1/2
These CPUs make for an exceptional performer. While power consumption is much to be desired. They tend to be quite powerful and found quite cheap.i think these are still decent budget offerings
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MB
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The mucai h61 is a pretty decent MB. Extremely cheap can be picked up for as little as £13 on alliexpress I can speak from experience having used my h61 for 7 months now
- Intels own brand of MB can tend to be quite cheap and can be picked for as little as £15. Do research into the model of intel MB you’ll be getting as these tend to be quite finicky from what I hear.
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GPUS
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I personally recommend the gtx 700 series 760s in particular can be picked up for as little as £18 and they’re decent performers
- If you’ve got a bit more to spend. I advice you go for the AMD Rx 480/570 or perhaps do what I did and save. I managed to get a gtx 980ti for a whopping £20.
- PSUS
- You should never cheap out on your PSU. Get a cheap name brand if possible. I recommend checking for old stock. And display items it’s how I landed a Corsair CX550.for a whopping £27.58.
I don’t know what the CPU mentioned costs, but it looks like about 100£ listed for the rest of the parts. You can get a prebuilt Ryzen 7 5800H with 16GB RAM and a 500GB NVMe drive, incl. monitor cables and power brick, off Amazon NIB for something like $280. It’s just fine for games. Unless you’re throwing a high end GPU in there specifically for gaming, the DIY option doesn’t seem to make a lot of sense to me these days. And if you’re not gaming? The Ryzen 5 model is $230.
I’m with you; building yourself is something that - these days - you do if you’re trying to do one of two things: get started learning to put together computers; or going for some specialized (and probably high-end) rig. Trying to cobble things together out of spare parts bought online doesn’t seem to have much of a value proposition.
It really depends on where you look.And how patient you are. You can find some amazing deals and there certainly is alot of value proposition. And in some cases it might work out better to purchase an old prebuilt. Generally I recommend if your purchasing ram or a blue-ray drives to check out CEX.