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I am looking at building a pc soon, and I am on a budget. All I want to spend is $500. I figured I would be getting an apu system, but today I was bored and was browsing craigslist and found this beauty: http://lincoln.craigslist.org/sys/3868450219.html I know the gpu isn't the greatest, but I can upgrade it later on and I can't beat this. What are your guy's thoughts?
 
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First thing that jumps out at me is that the seller is basing the performance of this system on the Windows Experience Index. This tells me (a) the seller has no idea what s/he is doing or (b) the seller is trying to pawn off a faulty system on someone who is just as lacking in knowledge as s/he appears to be.

Next, the seller claims the system has been overclocked. Based on the above, if the seller lacks the knowledge to properly benchmark the system, would you trust the seller to properly overclock the system? If the seller is trying to pawn the system off on someone lacking knowledge of WEI benchmark, would you trust that person at all?

Additionally, the seller cannot even get the specs of his/her system correct. A simple check of...
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Used, never a good idea, and its just very lopsided.

I would not get it, that PSU is junk and likely to fail from the overclock on it too. You do not know if he has damaged anything with that OC and you do not know what mobo he has. You would be better of looking around more on craiglist.
 
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First thing that jumps out at me is that the seller is basing the performance of this system on the Windows Experience Index. This tells me (a) the seller has no idea what s/he is doing or (b) the seller is trying to pawn off a faulty system on someone who is just as lacking in knowledge as s/he appears to be.

Next, the seller claims the system has been overclocked. Based on the above, if the seller lacks the knowledge to properly benchmark the system, would you trust the seller to properly overclock the system? If the seller is trying to pawn the system off on someone lacking knowledge of WEI benchmark, would you trust that person at all?

Additionally, the seller cannot even get the specs of his/her system correct. A simple check of the motherboard specifications clearly state the system has NO PCI-E 3.0 slots and only six USB 3.0 slots (4 ext/2 int). Not what I'd call, "Tons".

Finally, as Novuake states, it's a no name power supply. I wouldn't trust even a non-overclocked system with that power supply.

No, I wouldn't touch that system with a 10' HDMI cable.

-Wolf sends
 
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Ok, sounds good. I guess I'm back to my apu build. :/
 
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As Wolfshadw said the PCI-E 3.0 caught my eye right away as that board has zero PCI-E 3.0 slots. I know that there was a board launching for AMD that does support PCI-E 3.0 but that is not it. Second most people trying to sell there rig would clean the cables up some but he did not seem to do that even. Reading the description it became obvious he really does not know anything at all about the hardware in his own rig I would pass it up and move on.
 
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Can anyone recommend a build then? I could maybe go to $600, but not much more than that. I need an os, preferably windows 8, but then I would need a nvidia card, as my game has driver issues between uefi mobo's and windows 8. Also, kind of a preference, but I would like a mini-itx build, preferably in the vivid green prodigy. Any ideas? I can re use a hdd from my old computer to help keep costs down. Also I will need a decent cpu and at least 8 gb of ram, as I plan to do some video editing.
 
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$600 isn't a lot, especially when you need to include an OS, but here's a build to look at:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Pentium G630 2.7GHz Dual-Core Processor ($59.99 @ NCIX US)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H61N-USB3 Mini ITX LGA1155 Motherboard ($67.98 @ Outlet PC)
Memory: Corsair 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3-1333 Memory ($34.98 @ NCIX US)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($62.99 @ NCIX US)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 650 Ti 1GB Video Card ($104.99 @ Newegg)
Case: BitFenix Prodigy (Red) Mini ITX Tower Case ($79.99 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: Corsair Builder 500W 80 PLUS Certified ATX12V Power Supply ($29.99 @ Newegg)
Optical Drive: LG GH24NS95 DVD/CD Writer ($15.98 @ Outlet PC)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8 (OEM) (64-bit) ($89.73 @ Outlet PC)
Total: $591.62
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-07-14 11:55 EDT-0400)

-Wolf sends

Edit: I know you said Green BitFenix, but it wasn't listed on PCPartPicker. I selected the red just as a place holder.
 
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I've bought a couple from Craigslist. Then again, it was only $50. And it's still running 2 years later, serving duty as the border protection Linux firewall appliance. I had no expectation of anything else.
$500? No way.
 
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The green would be $99.99, so that would add $20 to it. I have an external usb dvd drive, so I wouldn't need one in the build, and like I said I could use the hard drive out of my old computer for a few months until I get a 1tb drive or an external usb 3.0 drive. With that money I might be able to step up to a 650ti boost or maybe a 660, but I am worried that the 660 might get bottlenecked by the cpu. Will I have any problems? Also, I plan to upgrade to an unlocked intel processor and board as time goes on, to prevent my system getting behind technological wise.
 
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Any funds you can save from using currently owned components should probably go towards your CPU. Here's a revised build. I would note this build does not account for the case's shipping cost:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i3-2120 3.3GHz Dual-Core Processor ($111.98 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H61N-USB3 Mini ITX LGA1155 Motherboard ($67.98 @ Outlet PC)
Memory: Corsair 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3-1333 Memory ($34.98 @ NCIX US)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 650 Ti 1GB Video Card ($104.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Corsair Builder 500W 80 PLUS Certified ATX12V Power Supply ($29.99 @ Newegg)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8 (OEM) (64-bit) ($89.73 @ Outlet PC)
Other: BitFenix Prodigy (Green) Mini ITX Tower Case ($99.99)
Total: $584.64
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-07-14 16:06 EDT-0400)

-Wolf sends
 
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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i3-3210 3.2GHz Dual-Core Processor ($109.10 @ TigerDirect)
Motherboard: ASRock B75M-ITX Mini ITX LGA1155 Motherboard ($89.98 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: Corsair XMS 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($49.99 @ Newegg)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost 1GB Video Card ($149.99 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: Corsair CX 500W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V Power Supply ($49.99 @ Microcenter)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8 (OEM) (64-bit) ($89.73 @ Outlet PC)
Other: Bitfenix Prodigy Vivid Green ($99.99)
Total: $638.77
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-07-14 23:39 EDT-0400) Here, this is a bit more expensive, but I feel that it would be worth it. Also, I went with the 1 stick instead of 2 for the RAM because it would be cheaper to go from 8gb to 16gb with only 2 RAM slots.
 
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