Author Topic: Good pc for 400$?  (Read 1174 times)

I couldn't find the pc megathread sorry:
Option 1
Processor/CPU: AMD A4 5300 3.40GHz stock clock
Motherboard: ASRock FM2A75 Pro4
Graphics Card/GPU: AMD R7 260x
Hard Drive: 1tb Western Digital 7200RPM
Ram: 8GB of 1600MGz
Optical Drive: LG drive
A good flowing water cooler for the CPU
Power Supply: Corsair 430watt

Some guy is selling this one prebuilt. Good for 400$?


or some oter guy offered this one for 375$:
Option 2
AMD FX 8320E BULLDOZER EIGHT CORE 4.0GHZ TURBO (3.2GHZ STANDARD ) WITH 16MB TOTAL CACHE
• GIGABYTE AM3+ MOTHERBOARD
• 4GB DDR3 HIGH PERFORMANCE MEMORY ** UPGRADE TO 8GB DDR3 FREE IF YOU LIKE US ON FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/nugencomputers **
• ATI HD3000 GRAPHICS WITH HD READY AND TOTAL 2GB MEMORY WITH 512MB DEDICATED
(Upgrade to 1GB GDDR5 video card to play all the latest games on HIGH to Ultra settings for only $100 More)
• 500GB SATA HARD DRIVE 72000RPM
( For 1TB Hard Drive add $25, For additional storage space add $150 for extra 5TB Hard Drive )
• GAMING CASE WITH 250MM BLUE LED FAN ON SIDE PANEL TO MAXIMIZE COOLING
• 24X DVD BURNER DRIVE
• FAST ETHERNET PORTS (Upgrade to Wifi for only $25 more)
• 500WATTS POWER SUPPLY
• OS: Windows 8.1 64bit ( Windows 7 is available upon request )
« Last Edit: January 04, 2016, 07:14:08 PM by Kevso »

It seems pretty good, but you might want to get a better processor if you can.    :cookie:

go with intel

amd integrated series is especially stuff if you're going to get a dedicated card anyway, so just go with a pentium or i3

better processor pls, if you can afford i7 you are golden

if not an i7 aim for something like a amd a10

better processor pls, if you can afford i7 you are golden

if not an i7 aim for something like a amd a10
if he wants an i7 then that's literally half his budget gone

These come built like this. I really don't have any other options, especially for my budget. I'm really only gonna play games like tf2, Blockland, minecraft, gmod, l4d2, cs:go, terraria. Mostly on low to medium settings.

So its just which is better, option 1 or 2?
« Last Edit: January 04, 2016, 07:14:58 PM by Kevso »

These come built like this. I really don't have any other options, especially for my budget. I'm really only gonna play games like tf2, Blockland, minecraft, gmod, l4d2, cs:go, terraria. Mostly on medium settings.
if he wants an i7 then that's literally half his budget gone

yeah forgot how expensive they are, a10 is an option depending on what his budget is

you don't need a very good pc for that, just look at maybe cs:go's required specs and base what you buy around that
« Last Edit: January 04, 2016, 07:14:43 PM by GoldenLego »

If they're the only options you have, the second one is better if you can get the free memory upgrade, even though the graphics card is crap. The first one would've been a better option if it wasn't for the stuffty processor.
Are you sure you can't build anything better yourself, though? I whipped up a quck build for $350, add to that a Windows 7 license (that can be upgraded to Windows 10 for free should you so wish) for $56 on Amazon and you're set. My build is somewhere in between the two you posted; only a sligthly worse GPU than the one in the first build, but a MUCH better processor.

add to that a Windows 7 license (that can be upgraded to Windows 10 for free should you so wish) for $56 on Amazon

Don't even bother with that. Get a Win 10 license for $35 off Reddit.


Option 3
Save more money so you dont have to replace everything in your computer next year.

Option 3
Save more money so you dont have to replace everything in your computer next year.

i got a intel I7 core, W7 HPE pavillion elite in 2010. it was less than $400. y