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Can You Build a PC Under $500?

Spoiler alert, you can!

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Ryan Kennedy
Aug 30, 2021
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500 is a rather tight budget. You should look into your local second hand market if you want to make anything decent with that budget. I honestly think that buying a per-owned and per-assembled PC is better nowadays, because of preposterous GPU prices. For second hand PC I would recommend these items from Amazon.

Ryzen 3 1200/2200 - $80–100

A320 boards - …

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