YARD - HP Compaq Elite 8300 Desktop SFF i5 3470 3.2GHZ 8GB 500GB Win 7 Pro $99.99 @ Newegg (S&S by CTechCity)

[VirtualLarry]

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Yet another refurb deal. Under $100 (well, maybe not with tax, if your state charges tax like mine), but anyways, roughly $100 for a Ivy Bridge quad-core SFF with 8GB of RAM. I don't recall if these mobos have a spare SATA port and spare SATA power or not. You can always pull the 500GB HDD (worth maybe $5), and drop in a SATA SSD ($20-50), and put on a fresh copy of Win10 using the Win7 key. With the included 8GB of RAM, and an SSD, these would make very fine "Mom PCs" or "Grandma PCs" indeed. Limited expandability for gaming though. Probably have to use a 2/3/4GB GTX 1050 (ti) low-profile card though, which are more than this unit costs.

Also be aware that there is a trending issue, newly-discovered, with the Intel integrated GPUs being exploitable, and the mitigations costing a lot of performance, at least under Linux.

If nothing else, if you need to work around the iGPU security issues, drop in a R3 230 AMD card, or a GT710 NVidia card, low-profile, and be done with it. Those will cost you another $35-50.

 

[SamirD]

These are quite fine and there's a lot of them out there at this price range from different retailers as they come off-lease.