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Hi, I just joined the forum.
I was recently given a new Rosewill case and a 500W Rosewill PS. I also have a couple of spare hard drives. My daily driver is a fairly decent desktop so I'm not trying to build anything to replace it. So, I thought that since I already have the case, PS, and HD, why not build a ultra cheap desktop to make use of them either as a backup or for another member of the family I'm looking at these 3 items; what do you think ? 1) $40 cpu - AMD A6-9500 Dual-Core 3.5 GHz Socket AM4 65W AD9500AGABBOX Desktop Processor Radeon R5 (also comes with heat sink/fan) (I also considered the quad-core A8-9600 for $20 more, but the A6-9500 actually has a higher passmark single thread rating of 1782 vs the A8-9600 of 1573, plus being $20 cheaper) 2) $62 motherboard - ASUS Prime A320M-K AMD Ryzen AM4 DDR4 HDMI VGA M.2 Micro-ATX A320 3) $34 memory - G.SKILL Value 8GB (2 x 4GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 2400 (PC4 19200) Intel X299 / Z270 / Z170 / X99 Platform Desktop Memory Model F4-2400C17D-8GNT Comes to a total of $136 Am I overlooking something ? Is that Asus motherboard a good inexpensive choice for the A6-9500 ? Does this sound like a reasonable build for a cheap backup desktop, seeing that I already have case, PS, HD ? Thanks for your comments. Edit: Forgot to mention, I also already have monitor, keyboard, mouse. Also, does anyone know if the motherboard is compatible with Ubuntu Linux ? |
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Ok, one more time around the barn; tell me what you think of these selections
(especially compatibility wise) for a basic desktop. CPU - AMD RYZEN 3 2200G ($80) MB - ASRock B450M PRO4 ($75) Ram - Team T-Force Vulcan 8GB (2 x 4GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3200 (PC4 25600) ($42) Total - $197 (Sincere thanks for all the feed back; it's been a learning process for me) |
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Requesting a list of parts If you don't answer these questions, we will post them or refer you back to this post. What is your budget and currency? What will you use the PC for? Do you need a monitor? If not, what monitor(s) will you be using? Do you need a keyboard, mouse, or other peripherals? Do you need an operating system? Will you overclock? Anything else we should know? Frankly what you're asking isn't worth much of anyone's time, let alone the person who'd be using it. Making something like a NAS should be done right, not cheap. Making a spare that's a complete clunker is just not wise. Going to salvage parts, sure has it's vantages in price, but you're missing out on new tech, warranties, possibility for failures being significantly higher, etc. Here's the better question... Why exactly are you in need of this backup desktop? What exactly do you do, why do you feel this is an option and what are you looking to even do with this? Cheapos I don't know enough about linux to be able to tell you that hardware should have a problem running on it, as far as I know such a thing doesn't happen with Linux it simply runs like anything Windows would have, just more tedious. |
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