How good non-gaming PC can you really get with budget <200€?

2009-08-04 11:31:43

#1

GC_PaNzerFIN: Work and study @ Technical Uni; +528|6675|Finland

Well thats a question I am soon able to answer.

Extreme budget <200€ build ! Secod hand is the way to go in build of this budget.

You'd think I settle with some cheap ass Pentium E2xxx or Celeron E1xxx, but no. Much better in fact.

I managed to get these already. (prices include shippings, if that was needed. Ram for example had to be shipped).

E6400 + boxed cooler 60€
Biostar Tforce P965 Deluxe 25€
4x1GB PQI DDR2 800mhz CL5 40€
Antec NEO HE 430W 25€
200GB Seagate SATA HDD 15€
DVD-Drive *free*

= 165€ *CASE AND GFX EXCLUDED ATM* plenty left for the missing parts in non-gaming pc!

https://img229.imageshack.us/img229/9517/281h.jpg

case and gfx yet to be bought. that pci card in the picture is purely for testing purposes, and will be replaced with better in final build.

Monitor and keyboard/mouse is excluded (if these were needed, you could get CRT monitor for free and keyboard/mouse for couple € tbh).

I see how this build could be customised for decent gaming machine by getting 8800gt for 45€ or so. Another upgrade would be F7P cooler + even more OC for the gaming pc.

3930K | H100i | RIVF | 16GB DDR3 | GTX 480 | AX750 | 800D | 512GB SSD | 3TB HDD | Xonar DX | W8

2009-08-05 02:58:03

#2

RDMC: Enemy Wheelbarrow Spotted..!!; +736|6826|Area 51

That is pretty cheap actually! Nicely done But, may I ask why you bought this?

2009-08-05 03:04:59

#3

Cheez: Herman is a warmaphrodite; +1,027|6699|King Of The Islands

Non-gaming PC needs a video card wat.

My state was founded by Batman. Your opinion is invalid.

2009-08-05 04:23:49

#4

Finray: Hup! Dos, Tres, Cuatro; +2,629|6049|Catherine Black

Cheez wrote:
Non-gaming PC needs a video card wat.

Onboard video?

2009-08-05 07:22:15

#5

King_County_Downy: shitfaced; +2,791|6858|Seattle

Does that mobo support RAID? It would scream with RAID 0. Of course you would need 2 identical hard drives... add an extra $20 on there...

Excellent build thread btw.

Sober enough to know what I'm doing, drunk enough to really enjoy doing it

2009-08-05 07:43:38

#6

GC_PaNzerFIN: Work and study @ Technical Uni; +528|6675|Finland

RDMC wrote:
That is pretty cheap actually! Nicely done But, may I ask why you bought this?

It is a replacement desktop for my brother. I think pentium 3 didn't really cut it anymore even for simple things like websurfing + the mobo is dying.

Now seeing this build being almost ready my other brother is tempted to have one of these too (coming from P4 based celeron PC). That might be even a bit too challenging build to get for under 200€, so probably up the budget a bit because he wants micro-atx setup (and oh boy those cases cost a lot!)

Finray wrote:
Cheez wrote:
Non-gaming PC needs a video card wat.
Onboard video?

Sadly the board was origilally designed for higher-end PC and doesn't have integrated graphics. But I have been looking for some x1300 or gf 6200 for PCI-E bus. Cost of those should be around 5-10€ + shipping.

King_County_Downy wrote:
Does that mobo support RAID? It would scream with RAID 0. Of course you would need 2 identical hard drives... add an extra $20 on there...

Excellent build thread btw.

It indeed might support RAID. I'll check that one out, but I am very skeptical of finding identical drive.

Oh and this build will be running Vista x64, thats why 4GB ram. If anyone complains about the hw demands of Vista after this, they better start looking for another hobby...

3930K | H100i | RIVF | 16GB DDR3 | GTX 480 | AX750 | 800D | 512GB SSD | 3TB HDD | Xonar DX | W8

2009-08-13 14:36:28

#7

GC_PaNzerFIN: Work and study @ Technical Uni; +528|6675|Finland

Little update and finished specs:

E6400 + boxed cooler 60€
Biostar Tforce P965 Deluxe 25€
4x1GB PQI DDR2 800mhz CL5 40€
Antec NEO HE 430W 25€
200GB Seagate SATA HDD 15€
DVD-Drive *free*
No brand Case *free*
MSI Geforce 6200TC 9€
8cm case fan 3€

total = 177€ + my bus trips so total about 180€ so it is 20€ profit for me.

3930K | H100i | RIVF | 16GB DDR3 | GTX 480 | AX750 | 800D | 512GB SSD | 3TB HDD | Xonar DX | W8

2009-08-13 14:40:16