- Feb 2, 2016
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Alright, so almost exactly a year ago, I posted to this site asking for opinions on a PC build for around $500. A number of reasons then led to me allocating my PC funds to more important things, and now here I am nearly a year later, with my same old junky PC. I wish to take a second look and reconsider the original build now, however, considering there's probably been new parts released that are better than what I was going to use a year ago.
Another reason is because of how much the original parts have risen in price. Seriously, the memory I was going to go with was $30 or so then, now its $68! That's ridiculous to me, and the whole build is considerably more expensive than $500 at this point because of stuff like that, especially considering a Windows 10 key that I'll of course need to buy as well.
Basically, all I want out of this PC is for it not to be slow trash, and to very easily be able to play 1080/Source quality videos/streams. I don't play games too much anymore these days, and they tend to be older ones if I do, so I definitely don't need anything high-end there, but I'd definitely prefer not to go below the power of the original GPU I was going with.
Here's the original build I was going to go with after some help in my old post:
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
CPU: Intel Core i3-6100 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor ($108.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B150M-DS3H Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($70.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory ($64.99 @ Jet)
Storage: Sandisk SSD PLUS 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($81.88 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($47.88 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 950 2GB Superclocked Video Card
Case: Zalman Z1 ATX Mid Tower Case ($38.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($36.89 @ OutletPC)
Total: $450.61
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-04-12 12:59 EDT-0400
Note that for whatever reason, the GPU's price in this list is now completely removed, so you have to add on another $145 or so, bumping me up to $595, and again, that's without including a $119 Windows 10 key. I'd really prefer to get this build back down a little below the $500 range. When this list was originally posted, everything came out to about $488, and that was great. But now it's just too expensive for my preferred budget as you can see. So basically, I would like some help on what to tweak and modify to get the price down, or hell, even if I should just wait for perhaps the prices on some of these to drop, because I don't have a ton of experience and am unsure of what to do at this point. But I definitely do not want to skimp on the quality of parts, just to pay less.
Here's my original post from May 2016 if anyone wants to see it for whatever reason: http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3068007/opinions-500-ish.html?58edcbcaded29=reload&58edce1bae9d9=reload&58edce2630f03=reload. You can see I was originally going to go with madmatt30's suggestion.
Another reason is because of how much the original parts have risen in price. Seriously, the memory I was going to go with was $30 or so then, now its $68! That's ridiculous to me, and the whole build is considerably more expensive than $500 at this point because of stuff like that, especially considering a Windows 10 key that I'll of course need to buy as well.
Basically, all I want out of this PC is for it not to be slow trash, and to very easily be able to play 1080/Source quality videos/streams. I don't play games too much anymore these days, and they tend to be older ones if I do, so I definitely don't need anything high-end there, but I'd definitely prefer not to go below the power of the original GPU I was going with.
Here's the original build I was going to go with after some help in my old post:
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
CPU: Intel Core i3-6100 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor ($108.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B150M-DS3H Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($70.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory ($64.99 @ Jet)
Storage: Sandisk SSD PLUS 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($81.88 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($47.88 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 950 2GB Superclocked Video Card
Case: Zalman Z1 ATX Mid Tower Case ($38.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($36.89 @ OutletPC)
Total: $450.61
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-04-12 12:59 EDT-0400
Note that for whatever reason, the GPU's price in this list is now completely removed, so you have to add on another $145 or so, bumping me up to $595, and again, that's without including a $119 Windows 10 key. I'd really prefer to get this build back down a little below the $500 range. When this list was originally posted, everything came out to about $488, and that was great. But now it's just too expensive for my preferred budget as you can see. So basically, I would like some help on what to tweak and modify to get the price down, or hell, even if I should just wait for perhaps the prices on some of these to drop, because I don't have a ton of experience and am unsure of what to do at this point. But I definitely do not want to skimp on the quality of parts, just to pay less.
Here's my original post from May 2016 if anyone wants to see it for whatever reason: http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3068007/opinions-500-ish.html?58edcbcaded29=reload&58edce1bae9d9=reload&58edce2630f03=reload. You can see I was originally going to go with madmatt30's suggestion.
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