| JEMC said: HoloDust, I have to say that the 500 € PC challenge has been a pain in the ass... and a fail on my part. I had to cut so many corners that it's not even funny. Look and cry
Yes, I had to go with a barebones chassis and couldn't include an aftermarket heatsink... although the Pentium G isn't specially power hunfry so it won't be a problem (and I'm sure the fan of the PSU will be more noisy). |
Pretty nice, you actually manged to stay very close to 500€. I had to go slightly over budget since I couldn't find a decent case.
Speaking of case, as it stands there, your's gonna be problematic, as there isn't any casefan installed as far as I can see. That's gonna build up a lot of heat inside the case, and with it, very loud CPU and PSU fans (trust me, I speak from bad experience). With one or 2 additional casefans (6-15€) you could solve that problem
Here's my 500€ build:
| 500€ PC | ||
| Component | Model | Alternate.de |
| MOTHERBOARD | ASRock FM2A68M-DG3+ | 51,90 |
| CPU | AMD Athlon X4 860K | 78,90 |
| GPU | Palit GeForce 750Ti OC StormX | 124,90 |
| RAM | Crucial DIMM 8GB DDR3-1600 BLS2CP4G3D1609DS1S00 Ballistix Sport | 39,99 |
| HDD/SSD | Western Digital WD Blue WD10EZEX | 49,99 |
| CASE | Sharkoon Ma-I1000 | 27,99 |
| PSU | Xilence Performance C 400W | 26,99 |
| OPTICAL DRIVE | LG GH24NSD1 | 14,99 |
| KEYBOARD | MS-TECH LT-119 | 10,49 |
| MOUSE | ||
| OS | Windows 10 Home | 109,90 |
| OTHER | ||
| TOTAL (€) : | 536,04 € | |
| Optional : | ||
| CONTROLLER | Microsoft Xbox 360 Controller for Windows | 29;90 |
| CARDREADER | LogiLink Cardreader 54-in-1 | 7,99 |
30€ more expensive, but comes with 2 casefans (1x140mm, 1x120mm) and 2 frontal USB3.0 connectors. Curiously, Win 10 is 3€ cheaper in english than in german despite being on the german site.
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