Budget: 800-1000 cad
More specific use (what games, what programs): emulators , old games , some fairly recent games
Planned time until purchase: this week
Do you need an Operating System?: no
Do you have any specific preferred components?: AMD
Do you need a sound or wireless card?: nope
Do you want stock cooling or do you plan on overclocking?: stock
Do you need a monitor? mouse? keyboard?: nope

Forgot to add

he wants a hard drive and a nvidia videocard.

Hes gonna spend $50 more for an nvidia card with minimal performance increase tbh. If he needs more storage, just get a 1tb ssd, too good of performance to pass up imo.

1tb of ssd is about 200-300$

A hard drive is 60$ and has 1tb.

the performances aren't justifiable enough to spend 3/10th of it on a ssd

This post was edited by Maher on Mar 18 2019 11:43am

You can get something from Kingston, Team, ADATA, etc for like $130 CAD.
If he's using it as a secondary drive then it's fine, but I would 100% not use a HDD as your boot or application drive.

This post was edited by zell1luk on Mar 18 2019 12:12pm

im not gonna go into details but, there's a reason he won't be getting an SSD.

he's trying to keep the cost to the basic, to have a decent pc.

loading and booting times aren't worth the extra $$ to save 5-10minutes

Then get the wd blue or Seagate barracuda hdd and enjoy having loading screens and disk noise.

Why are you complaining to me? jesus christ Its my friends build.

I already have my own pc...

maybe try a hybrid ??