650$ pc offer from my friend, is it worth it?

[Tirage]

I got an offer from my friend's uncle he's a tech guy should i say....
he offers a AMD Ryzen 5 2600 6-Core 12-Thread 3.4-3.9 ghz 16mb , MSI B350M PRO VD Plus mATX, GALAX GTX 1050 ti 4GB OC 128Bit, 8GB Kingston HyperX / Crucial Ballistix 2400mhz DDR4, Tecware Nexus Tempered Glass Black/White Accent, 1TB hdd (he doesn't give me a specific brand), 500 watts psu? yeah i guess. Is it a good deal or not?

[Ogami]

Its okish. CPU is fairly new and will last you quiet some time.
The 1050Ti is ok for midrange gaming but should be swapped for something more beefy down the road if you want to keep playing new games at decent settings.
Maybe a 2060 when they release in a few months.

Price seems still a bit high for a 2nd hand system. Also no SDD.
At 500 i would say get it. 650... eh...

[Tirage]

Originally posted by Ogami:

Its okish. CPU is fairly new and will last you quiet some time.
The 1050Ti is ok for midrange gaming but should be swapped for something more beefy down the road if you want to keep playing new games at decent settings.
Maybe a 2060 when they release in a few months.

Price seems still a bit high for a 2nd hand system. Also no SDD.
At 500 i would say get it. 650... eh...

i was surpirsed that it's not second hand.
I didn't asked why his uncle wants to sell his pc for me for like 650$.
I guess he got some really bad grades.

It would be fine to have no ssd i don't mind it

[Ogami]

Originally posted by Tirage:

It would be fine to have no ssd i don't mind it

Well in the end its only your decision. The CPU fine, the GPU is a lower midrange one, The RAM is ok but 3000 mhz would be better since Ryzen CPU profit from highly clocked RAM.

Its an all around "decent" system and if you think the price is ok for that, then go for it.
Its about the same price such a system would cost prebuild on most pc shop sites.
I would try to haggle down at least a bit to maybe 600 or so.

Dos it include a version of Windows ?

[Tirage]

Originally posted by Ogami:

Originally posted by Tirage:

It would be fine to have no ssd i don't mind it

Well in the end its only your decision. The CPU fine, the GPU is a lower midrange one, The RAM is ok but 3000 mhz would be better since Ryzen CPU profit from highly clocked RAM.

Its an all around "decent" system and if you think the price is ok for that, then go for it.
Its about the same price such a system would cost prebuild on most pc shop sites.

Dos it include a version of Windows ?

yeah, it got windows 7. That's all I know he just sent me a pic of the monitor

[Bad 💀 Motha]

It's a new-gen PC, put Win10 64bit on it.

[Ogami]

Well then its up to you. Its neither a rip off nor a super great deal.
It costs about what such a system would cost.

[Sapph]

Looks an ok deal all around.

The parts as new would be:

Ryzen 5 2600: 170$
B350M-VD: 70$
1050Ti: 170$
8Gb DDR4: 80$
1Tb hdd: 40$
cases similar to the Nexus: 40-50$

Those are roughly 570-580$.


Now that isn't yet including the price of psu, it could be something bad or it could be something decent. But definitely not a good one.

A good power supply would cost 60 to 70$. A decent one would be 50 to 60$. And a bad ones are under 50$.

[Tirage]

Originally posted by Sapph:

Looks good deal all around.

The parts as new would be:

Ryzen 5 2600: 170$
B350M-VD: 70$
1050Ti: 170$
8Gb DDR4: 80$
1Tb hdd: 40$
cases similar to the Nexus: 40-50$

Those are roughly 570-580$.


Now that isn't yet including the price of psu, it could be something bad or it could be something decent. But definitely not a good one.

The cpu costs like 40 bucks more than your price here, it's kinda pricy in our country including gpu and the motherboard.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

And left out the price of the PSU, roughly $30 - 60; and tempered glass cases are no where near that cheap.

So yea, nothing wrong with it being around $650

But wipe the Drive and install Windows 10 64bit; download it from Microsoft's Win10 website and use your own USB Flash Drive with that.

Windows 7 has no business being on AMD Ryzen system.

[Sapph]

Originally posted by Bad_Motha:

And left out the price of the PSU, roughly $30 - 60
So yea, nothing wrong with it being around $650
But wipe the Drive and install Windows 10 64bit; download it from Microsoft's Win10 website and use your own USB Flash Drive with that.

Windows 7 has no business being on AMD Ryzen system.

I did edit in stuff about the PSU. You can get a psu for 30-40$, but it will be horrible and not something that should be used.
For 40 to 50$ you can get a decent temporary psu.
For 50 - 60$ you can get a good psu.
For 60 - 70$ you get a great psu.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Originally posted by Sapph:

Originally posted by Bad_Motha:

And left out the price of the PSU, roughly $30 - 60
So yea, nothing wrong with it being around $650
But wipe the Drive and install Windows 10 64bit; download it from Microsoft's Win10 website and use your own USB Flash Drive with that.

Windows 7 has no business being on AMD Ryzen system.

I did edit in stuff about the PSU. You can get a psu for 30-40$, but it will be horrible and not something that should be used.
For 40 to 50$ you can get a decent temporary psu.
For 50 - 60$ you can get a good psu.
For 60 - 70$ you get a great psu.

Not everyone lives in USA. In many countries these kinds of specs are like $800-1200

[Tirage]

Originally posted by Bad_Motha:

Originally posted by Sapph:

I did edit in stuff about the PSU. You can get a psu for 30-40$, but it will be horrible and not something that should be used.
For 40 to 50$ you can get a decent temporary psu.
For 50 - 60$ you can get a good psu.
For 60 - 70$ you get a great psu.

Not everyone lives in USA. In many countries these kinds of specs are like $800-1200

agree

[Sapph]

Originally posted by Bad_Motha:

Not everyone lives in USA. In many countries these kinds of specs are like $800-1200

I know, but there isn't much variation in the psu prices.
In a lot of Europe, for example. 59,99$ Psu often is 59,99€.

And in Australia and Canada, the prices for them aren't all that much different either.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Well in many countries, AMD Ryzen costs more than the Intel equivalent.
And again, no tempered glass Cases are that cheap. That alone usually means the Case is going to be around $70-100 minimum for the most part. What I don't get is why only 8GB RAM, why only 2400Mhz RAM, and why Windows 7 OS...

[Sapph]

Originally posted by Bad_Motha:

Well in many countries, AMD Ryzen costs more than the Intel equivalent.
And again, no tempered glass Cases are that cheap. That alone usually means the Case is going to be around $70-100 minimum for the most part. What I don't get is why only 8GB RAM, why only 2400Mhz RAM, and why Windows 7 OS...

Cougar MX300/MX330, Deepcool Dukase V2 and Aerocool Cylon would like to have a word with you.
All of them have psu shroud + tempered glass panel and cost about 50$.

Sure, they are otherwise not so high quality but they are still tempered glass with a psu shroud and a layout like in Define C/Meshify C/other higher grade popular cases.