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sharp_stick

(14,400 posts)
7. If you can
Fri Nov 24, 2017, 05:10 PM
Nov 2017

building your own is a great way to save money. I know Newegg has a couple of videos on doing it. All you really need is a case, power supply, motherboard, CPU, RAM, storage. Options would be a graphics card and DVD/CD drive. What you describe doesn't need a really expensive graphics card so the video options available on most of the budget CPU's should work, that will save you a bunch.





It's acutally a lot of fun if you have the time and commitment. Use pcpartpicker.com to build it piece by piece and they'll even make sure it's all compatible. You can even see what other people have built and even copy them. pcpartpicker will line up the cheapest way to order each of the parts.

https://pcpartpicker.com/builds/

If you don't want to do that. What you're describing can be found pretty easily. There are always a lot of unlikes on every computer because people aren't finding exactly what they want at the price they want. I still find Dell provides a pretty good computer even thought they tend to jack the prices quite a bit. If you go to Newegg they will offer fully built computers at any price point and usually their reviewers tend to be a little more knowledgeable about the products.

The link below is to Newegg where I've limited it to computer systems less than $750 with an i5 Intel CPU.

https://tinyurl.com/yb2tvbkv

Good luck.

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