is £200 possible

[HPTL7]

Hello
My friend has a max budget of £200. He only needs it for work and videos. Nothing intensive.
The parts he needs
case
mobo
cpu
ram
ssd
psu

Would it be possible within 200. He does not mind second hand/b grade.
He does not have anything to carry over.

Thanks.

 

[Bug One]

I'd suggest looking at ex corporate desktops. Might have to factor in a SSD in addition, but should be do-able in budget.

 

[demonix]

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x AMD A6-7400k Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket FM2+) w/ Radeon R5 Graphics Dual Core Processor (AD740KYB= £52.99
• 1 x **B Grade** Gigabyte GA-F2A68HM-HD2 AMD A68 Chipset (Socket FM2+) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard= £30.00
• 1 x Kingston HyperX Fury White 4GB (1x4GB) DDR3 PC3-14900C10 1866MHz Single Channel Module (HX318C10FW/4= £29.99
• 1 x **B Grade** Cougar Spike Micro-ATX Gaming Case - Black= £15.95
• 1 x **B Grade** Super Flower Golden Green HX 350W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black= £34.99
• 1 x Kingston 120GB SSDNow V300 Drive SATA 6Gb/s 3 2.5" (7mm height) Solid State Hard Drive - (SV300S37A/= £55.99

Total: £231.61
(includes shipping: £11.70)



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That's about as low as I could get including B grade components, but you might be able to do better with a refurbished system and swap out the included hard drive for an SSD or get a cheap barebones mini PC which you have to add RAM and an SSD to.

 

[Glanza]

For that budget I'd look at getting a recon PC from asset management companies etc. Be able to get a good workstation for that price.

 

[ShivP]

With used parts I think this would be possible
Some i5 2500(k) 8GB RAM and motherboard setups are going for cheap on the members market as they become older, however they are still very valid and good CPUs

If you look around on used sites such as the MM if you have access you should be able to pick up a used mobo/CPU/RAM, SSD and possibly PSU if you are happy to do so
Cases there are not huge savings to be had getting used so getting a reasonably cheap £30 case would suffice

 

[HPTL7]

my friend has managed to get a cheap motherboard and ssd for £80

Is this okay for the rest?

Is this okay for the rest?
Would it be better to just get one of those zoomstorms for the same price?
Thanks

 

[demonix]

It depends on if the motherboard your friend has sourced actually supports socket FM2+ processors, but even then you can still save a bit more by going for a socket FM2 processor like the A4-4020 (socket FM2+ motherboards will still support socket FM2 processors, but not the other way around) and since your friend has already paid for the other components it wouldn't be of much use buying a whole other computer like the bottom of the barrel zoostorm delta system.

 

[HPTL7]

Should I buy this amd build or go for the Intel build in this thread :
https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/spec-help-200-im-out-of-the-loop.18650421/
I want to order today before 4pm
Thanks

 

[varkanoid]

I dont think you can get those parts new now they are 2yrs old ? Replace the CPU and motherboard for the socket 1151 equivalents and get DDR4 RAM instead.
Just read the first post again and your friend will struggle with 4gb of RAM if doing video work. Need at least 8gb preferably 16gb. I think you are going to struggle for £200 new. Look 2nd hand.

 

[HPTL7]

No video work. Video as in movies and YouTube

 

[deano-5]

What motherboard is it?