Help with buying new build

Gr3yH4m3

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My budget is £140-£200. I'd like as much RAM as I can for my money but without compromising any other parts too much. I've never had a PC with more than 2GB, so 4GB minimum. 8GB or more would be ideal.

Here, you can find a Reddit post I made about it. Sadly, they weren't nearly as helpful as I know you guys will be. There's a link to my original build idea in that post, so make sure you check it out.

I already have an R7 250 and some storage that I'm happy with. The build I've made is built around the GPU. Any build that I do get also has to be built around the same card. Please don't go to all the trouble of helping me out but forgetting to use components that will work with my card.

You can leave cases out for now. I'll buy a case from somewhere else later or maybe use the one I've already got if it fits.

Many thanks,
Alex.
 
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It's actually British Pounds, and I'm aware that it's a painfully small budget, but I can't save any more. I need a PC ASAP and I'm 16. Until I get a job (not any time soon) it will be ages before I have a substantial amount.
 
On that type of budget, you're looking at a shady build, with old tech. Definitely nothing new, No DDR4. I'd mostly recommend shopping on Ebay or local places like 'Letgo' or 'CraigsList' I am no advocate for CraigsList. Be careful.


Plus you said you want "as much RAM" as you can get. I'm not sure what your goal is with this build, but most PC's pretty much bottleneck at 16gigs of ram. Any more than that and you might as well use it for a ram disk.
Are you looking for a gaming machine a rendering pc or a server?

You could probably scrape together a NAS with that money.

Regards,
Harrison
 


Look for a used business class tower with a 300 watt PSU, that will run your card and should be in the budget. Something with a 2nd or 3rd gen Core i5 should be in your price range.

Otherwise new just for a CPU and motherboard you will use up your full budget, never mind the rest of the parts. You have a video card, so you have a system already? Would help if you list your current computer specs, all of them, case model/brand, PSU model brand, CPU, motherboard. You already said you have 2 GB of RAM or less so that is a given.


 
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