Ever relied on your old machine and boom ; it breaks, and you really need something to do your work on? Good news for you, a basic home/office/home office desktop could be built for under 300, easily.
For the operating system, you need a USB flash drive (4 GB should do) to install a Linux Mint distro. I personally recommend Linux Mint 17.3 Xfce-64 Bit personally, for this.
This PC has no extra CPU cooler. Use the stock one from the AMD FX's box. A new one shouldn't cost any more than $25, if you wish for a better one.
Now ; this PC is very bare bones. It does not have windows, or a discrete graphics card. So if you, say, were using this for home use and needed to use MS Office, or wanted to play some games, you may need to spend more to upgrade. Not a problem, I got you here :
What if you need less? I could make it fit under a 200 dollar budget...
Or 275 With windows 8.1
Are you using this system for now, but making your first desktop setup and planning on expanding later? It would be pricey, so a laptop could be friendlier for a lower budget...
This system runs you for the same price as a decent laptop, but some laptops can go lower. However, this guy could actually run some beyond-basic games well enough, to my knowledge.
Another demonstration of the amazing possibilities that building a computer brings. You could dump twice the price on a simple office desktop (sure it will be relevant for longer) or build one with a little pep for a low price!
Some of the lower priced computers I mention do use slightly older parts. AMD FX CPU's are fairly good, despite them being a few years old and soon to be replaced with AM4 series processors. AMD A6 seems like a pretty good one, given the price. Not as good as a 4350 but way cheaper.
Every part but the motherboard, cpu, and RAM (depending) could be reused if you decided to make it beefier later down the road.
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