eBay Experience?

I built my current PC (Ryzen 3700X, MSI B450-A Pro Max, Kingston 500GB M.2, 16GB Klevv Bolt DDR4) for around £300 - CPU and motherboard cost me around £200 (refurbished) and the RAM and M.2 (new) were £50 each - sadly it's hard to find those kind of prices now.
 
Crizzy said:
I've been approached by a family member asking for advice on what can be had for a £300 budget that will play most modern games.
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Is it possible to ask them for a list of 'modern games' that they are interested in, and see if an integrated GPU will tide them over until it starts raining cheap 2nd hand graphics cards.

I'd advise Intel 8th/9th/10th gen in terms of bang-for-buck. Or waiting for AMD's new APUs to be released and see if you can pick up an older one on the cheap.

I would be cautious of an eBay PSU or Motherboard, and be more inclined towards the OCUK Members Marketplace in general. I'd advise against 2nd hand RAM in general as (in my experience) it goes wrong more often than any other component, and lifetime warranty is a lot simpler if you're the original buyer; that and my impression is that the discount from new on 2nd hand hardware has generally been falling in recent years - especially for RAM (and, more recently, graphics cards).

OCUK Clearance can be very good value - especially with free forum member delivery and them accepting offers on clearance lines from time to time.

But yeah - dedicated GPU right now is pretty much a no-go.

Good luck!
 
Facebook marketplace might be a reasonable place to look. Probably have a 2-4gb GPU in and an old quad core but it can be done. Theres a guy who flips PCs near me who does a good job and has a good reputation, see if you have someone similar nearby
 
From a personal experience I would give ebay a wide birth I once sold an expensive watch to someone on there. Buyer later claimed watch to be faulty, after me giving him advice and trying to get to the bottom of the problem I accepted a return and the guy then sends me an empty box back:mad: ebay got involved and decided to side with the buyer, I was fobbed off and lied to on the phone by them and they refused to budge until I found the address of their Uk headquarters and issued them a small claims and I won by default as they did't even respond back.
 
Well I took a punt on a PC from a local seller with excellent feedback on eBay.

Managed to bag an i5, GTX 1050ti, 8GB ram, 1TB hhd for £300, no other bidders. Should do the trick.
 
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