Building Parents a $500 Facebook Machine [build help]

You're not building them a gaming PC. Just go for this:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Type Item Price
CPU AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor $85.50 @ SuperBiiz
Motherboard Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 Micro ATX AM3+ Motherboard $42.20 @ SuperBiiz
Memory Kingston 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory $25.11 @ SuperBiiz
Storage OCZ ARC 100 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive $59.99 @ Amazon
Storage Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive $48.60 @ SuperBiiz
Case Cooler Master N200 MicroATX Mid Tower Case $39.60 @ SuperBiiz
Power Supply Corsair CX 430W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply $26.99 @ Newegg
Operating System Microsoft Windows 8.1 (OEM) (64-bit) $86.98 @ OutletPC
Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
Total (before mail-in rebates) $454.97
Mail-in rebates -$40.00
Total $414.97
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-05-22 08:51 EDT-0400

Keep in mind a few options:

  • Adding another 4 gigabytes of ram. Like honestly, this is a facebook machine, not a gaming PC.
  • Getting rid of all the storage drives that I listed and getting a single larger (256 to 512 gb) ssd.
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