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Budget $300 Gaming PC! NH-D14, SSD, Phenom x4, 460

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Description Budget build. This is probably the sweetest price to performance ratio you can get on parts, and you can find a decent 12v@30a+/350w+ PSU for around $19 on sale from time to time, which would drop the price under $300, and then you can find a quality NZXT case on sale around $20 at times ($280). SSDs are plummeting in price too, although you could get a cheap Patriot 64gb for around $30 (better than a $20 160gb hdd on sale), a Hyper 212+, and that'd put your price under $250. Make the 460, a 4850 1gb @$25 and you'd be under $200 with a decent build. Oh, the $31 phenom x4. You might not be able to find one with bent/broken pins for $31 like I did, but Phenom x4's regularly sell for about $60-70 if you know where to look (ie a B97 is a guaranteed c3 deneb, but sells for super cheap because it's oem, ie only difference is locked multi, which you dont want to use when overclocking amd anyways). There's a gamble with some of these parts, obviously (buying a chip with bent pins, ebay), but really, you are just as likely to get ripped off buying new (buying your computer components from sears.com, DOAs) than buying used (where seller doesnt even get money for item until you leave positive feedback). When buying ebay, it's about the seller you buy from, not ebay, ie even newegg and ncix have ebay accounts (just make sure the seller has a good record, check out how they handle the trolls who give negative feedback, if they even have any at all).
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Last updated Jan 27, 2013 at 11:03 pm

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Total cost of this rig: $295 (USD)
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salamachaa 3/22/13 at 12:56pm
Lol at the broken pins. I don't understand the ssd choice in a build like this though. Kind of goes against the budget idea :/
nleksan 5/16/13 at 3:54pm
I love it!

I'm just starting to put together some older-parts based rigs, using 4-8yr old CPU's (P4, P4-EE, Pentium-D, Sempron 3.4k+, A64, A64 X2, A64 FX, and a few C2D/C2Q namely E8600, Q6850, Q9850), some 3-13yr-old GPU's (Creative 3D Blaster TNT2 Ultra, Nvidia RiVA TNT2 Ultra, 3DFX Voodoo 5 5500, NVIDIA GeForce 256, Matrox Millennium G400 MAX and G450, 3DFX Voodoo 2 SLI, GeForce 3 Ti500, GeForce4 MX420/440, GeForce4 4400Ti, GeForce FX 5800 Ultra, 8600GS, 8800GTX Ultra, 9500GS, 9600GT, 9800GTX, ATI Rage Fury MAXX Dual-GPU Card & Rage 128aka Fury Pro, Radeon 7000 PCI, R7200, R9250Pro, 9600SE, 9800XT, X300, X600Pro, X800XT-PE AGP, X1300, X1650Pro, 2900XT, HD3450, HD3850, a few dozen others, and hopefully HD3850/3870 AGP + HD4670/4750 AGP Cards ), about 500 sticks of RAM ranging from SDRAM to PC100 to RAMBUS to DDR1/2/3 and some stuff that's 20 years old that I don't even know what it is. I am on the hunt for motherboards, as I have a Socket 940, 2 Socket 478, a few PIII boards, a 939 board, but really need a better 939, an AM2/AM2+, and a good LGA775!
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