Super budget gaming build

[FearfulSPARTAN]

Hello everyone, my sister is building a pc mainly for league of legends and school stuff, she may play some games like skyrim or some older games from last gen but that would be it for now. She only has a 300 dollar budget though, maybe 320. Ive done my own research had have some options in mind but wanted to see what you guys may suggest before I start purchasing parts for her. Oh and we have everything from keyboard to monitor and a windows key, just need to build the tower.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Have you looked at the secondary/used market?

 

[Ken g6]

I took my budget build and made one for a lower budget. 🙂

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Pentium G3258 3.2GHz Dual-Core Processor ($64.98 @ NCIX US)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B85M-DS3H Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($41.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: *Corsair 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($25.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: *Western Digital Caviar Blue 320GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($27.00 @ Amazon)
Video Card: *Sapphire Radeon R7 260X 2GB Video Card ($98.98 @ Newegg)
Case: *Thermaltake VL80001W2Z ATX Mid Tower Case ($22.99 @ Micro Center)
Power Supply: *Corsair CSM 450W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($26.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $308.91
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-06-01 21:11 EDT-0400

Notes:
- That Pentium [thread=2389948]should be overclockable[/thread] on that board. If overclocking won't happen, substitute a G3450 for a similar price.
- There's ~$75 of mail-in rebates here. I suggest not getting the GPU until they come back. By that point there might be a better GPU for that price anyway.

 

[FearfulSPARTAN]

Interesting, didnt think it would be possible to fit a graphics card in that kind of budget, at least one around a 100$ anyway. Was originally considering an apu build but this looks really good for the price, thanks for the build.

 

[mfenn]

I took my budget build and made one for a lower budget. 🙂

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Pentium G3258 3.2GHz Dual-Core Processor ($64.98 @ NCIX US)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B85M-DS3H Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($41.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: *Corsair 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($25.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: *Western Digital Caviar Blue 320GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($27.00 @ Amazon)
Video Card: *Sapphire Radeon R7 260X 2GB Video Card ($98.98 @ Newegg)
Case: *Thermaltake VL80001W2Z ATX Mid Tower Case ($22.99 @ Micro Center)
Power Supply: *Corsair CSM 450W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($26.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $308.91
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-06-01 21:11 EDT-0400

Notes:
- That Pentium [thread=2389948]should be overclockable[/thread] on that board. If overclocking won't happen, substitute a G3450 for a similar price.
- There's ~$75 of mail-in rebates here. I suggest not getting the GPU until they come back. By that point there might be a better GPU for that price anyway.

:thumbsup: Excellent value!

 

[daveybrat]

I took my budget build and made one for a lower budget. 🙂

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Pentium G3258 3.2GHz Dual-Core Processor ($64.98 @ NCIX US)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B85M-DS3H Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($41.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: *Corsair 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($25.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: *Western Digital Caviar Blue 320GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($27.00 @ Amazon)
Video Card: *Sapphire Radeon R7 260X 2GB Video Card ($98.98 @ Newegg)
Case: *Thermaltake VL80001W2Z ATX Mid Tower Case ($22.99 @ Micro Center)
Power Supply: *Corsair CSM 450W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($26.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $308.91
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-06-01 21:11 EDT-0400

Notes:
- That Pentium [thread=2389948]should be overclockable[/thread] on that board. If overclocking won't happen, substitute a G3450 for a similar price.
- There's ~$75 of mail-in rebates here. I suggest not getting the GPU until they come back. By that point there might be a better GPU for that price anyway.

I concur, that's a hell of a value for that price with a discrete GPU! 🙂