Building A Wellfare Computer

[tylercone]

I'm new to the world of building PCs. I want to build a Wellfare PC for $450. It that possible? Also can you help me with the build?

 

[sammy sung]

What's this tower going to be used for overall? Is the $450 need to include operating system, or any peripherals?

 

[Saberus]

What will this PC be doing?

 

[tylercone]

What's this tower going to be used for overall? Is the $450 need to include operating system, or any peripherals?

I want build a gaming PC but I already have a good mouse and keyboard

 

[tylercone]

What will this PC be doing?

It's for gaming

 

[sammy sung]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Pentium G3258 3.2GHz Dual-Core Processor ($62.10 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: ASRock H81 Pro BTC ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($53.10 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: A-Data XPG V1.0 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($48.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($44.10 @ SuperBiiz)
Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon R7 250X 2GB Video Card ($84.60 @ SuperBiiz)
Case: Deepcool TESSERACT BF ATX Mid Tower Case ($25.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Antec 450W ATX Power Supply ($29.70 @ SuperBiiz)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer ($12.99 @ Newegg)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 (OEM) (64-bit) ($87.88 @ NCIX US)
Total: $449.45
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-05-21 20:22 EDT-0400

 

[tylercone]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Pentium G3258 3.2GHz Dual-Core Processor ($62.10 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: ASRock H81 Pro BTC ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($53.10 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: A-Data XPG V1.0 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($48.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($44.10 @ SuperBiiz)
Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon R7 250X 2GB Video Card ($84.60 @ SuperBiiz)
Case: Deepcool TESSERACT BF ATX Mid Tower Case ($25.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Antec 450W ATX Power Supply ($29.70 @ SuperBiiz)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer ($12.99 @ Newegg)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 (OEM) (64-bit) ($87.88 @ NCIX US)
Total: $449.45
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-05-21 20:22 EDT-0400

Thank you so much. So I can build this then upgrade it later right? What would you suggest to upgrade in the future

 

[Archgaull]

Use windows 10 as OS.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-4160 3.6GHz Dual-Core Processor ($109.98 @ NCIX US)
Motherboard: MSI H81M-P33 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($43.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Ares Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($49.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($49.99 @ Best Buy)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB Video Card ($134.99 @ Amazon)
Case: NZXT Source 210 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case ($34.99 @ Micro Center)
Power Supply: EVGA 430W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply ($32.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $456.91
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-05-21 20:27 EDT-0400

 

[sammy sung]

As far as upgrades can go, you could add another stick of the same memory to total 16GB. And you could swap out the gpu for something beefier assuming the power supply could handle that and any additional overclocks done on the card as well as the processor. Otherwise the power supply would probably have to be switched.

If you can gather the budget now, I'd go with a z97 motherboard as it'd give you more upgrade options down the line between haswell and broadwell