Basic PC under 18k

[power_8383]

1. What is the purpose of the computer? What all applications and games are you going to run? (Be exact. Which games? Which applications? Avoid the word 'et cetera.' Vague answers like 'gaming' or 'office work' will not work.)
Ans: DTP Operator, Adobe Pagemaker, Browsing

2. What is your overall budget? If you can extend a bit for a more balanced configuration, then please mention.
Ans: 15-18k

3. Planning to overclock?
Ans: No

4. Which Operating System are you planning to use?
Ans: Windows 7

5. How much hard drive / solid-state drive space is needed?
Ans: 1 TB

6. Do you want to buy a monitor? If yes, please mention the screen size and resolution you prefer. If you already have a monitor and want to reuse it, then do mention the screen size and resolution of the monitor you have.
Ans: I've a 21.5 inch lenovo monitor

7. Which components you DON'T want to buy? i.e. which components you already have and plan on reusing?
Ans: Mouse, Keyboard, SSD, Graphics card

8. When are you planning to buy the system?
Ans: in two weeks

9. Have you ever built a desktop before? Or, will this be done by an assembler?
Ans: assembler

10. Where do you live? Are you buying locally? Are you open to buying stuff from online shops if you don't get locally?
Ans: Pune. Yes, I'm open to buying online.

11. Anything else which you would like to say?
Ans: Thanks in advance guys.

 

[whitestar_999]

Buy Online Intel Pentium Gold G5400 Coffee Lake Dual-Core 3.7 GHz Processor - in India 4350
ASUS PRIME H310M-E - mdcomputers.in 5000
Buy Online G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 8GB (1x8GB) 3200MHz DDR4 Memory F4-3200C16S-8GVKB - in India 3450
Seagate/WD 1tb hdd--3500
Buy Online Cooler Master MWE 450W 80+ WHITE SMPS MPE-4501-ACABW-IN - in India 2500
*www.onlyssd.com/buy/kingston-a400-120gb-ssd/ 2200
any cheap local brand cabinet--700

 

[SaiyanGoku]

AMD option
AMD Athlon 3000G Desktop Processor With Vega Graphics - mdcomputers.in 4.6k

*mdcomputers.in/gigabyte-ga-a320m-s2h-rev-1-x.html

4.3k

 

[whitestar_999]

AMD option
AMD Athlon 3000G Desktop Processor With Vega Graphics - mdcomputers.in 4.6k

*mdcomputers.in/gigabyte-ga-a320m-s2h-rev-1-x.html

4.3k

I also thought about it(to be more specific it was athlon 200GE) but this review clearly shows that 5400G is much better than 200GE for productive tasks(especially the ones mentioned here) & I don't think 3000G is that much faster than 200GE to cover this gap.

*www.tomshardware.com/news/athlon-200ge-vs-pentium-gold-g5400,38260.html