Cheap Build for Parents

DazWass · 23 Nov 2013 at 15:32

Thinking of getting my parents a really cheap build to replace a old laptop,

Currently have a case, Dvd RW Drive, Operating system, monitor

Budget £200 £300,

only going to be used for facebook, facebook games fly or die, etc nothing heavy

Thanks

snips86x · 23 Nov 2013 at 15:46

Any good?

YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire PURE Platinum A85XT AMD A85X Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £68.99
1 x Seasonic S12II 430W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £49.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/4GX) £39.95
1 x AMD A4-4000 3.00GHz (Socket FM2) APU Richland Dual Core Processor (AD4000OKHLBOX) £31.99
1 x OcUK USB Keyboard - Black £4.99
1 x OcUK USB Optical Mouse - Black £4.99
Total : £210.50 (includes shipping : £8.00).

bennydragonboy · 23 Nov 2013 at 17:11

I recommended a similar spec earlier for an office computer build, same APU, should be okay in this instance too.

Danny75 · 24 Nov 2013 at 00:26

Do you need a hard drive too?

Akagi · 24 Nov 2013 at 00:47

I'd honestly just buy used. You can get a far better system for far less that way.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Celeron G550 2.60GHz Socket LGA 1155 Processor - Retail £41.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST500DM002) HDD £38.99
1 x Cooler Master Elite 344 Micro ATX Case - Black/Purple £32.99
1 x Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Dual Channel Kit (TW3X4G1333C9A) £32.99
1 x OCZ CoreXtreme 500w '80 Plus' Power Supply £29.99
1 x **B Grade** Foxconn H67M Intel H67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £20
Total : £206.54 (includes shipping : £8.00).

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i3-2120 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £89.99
1 x Patriot Intel Extreme Masters 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (PVI38G160C9K) £53.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST500DM002) HDD £38.99
1 x Cooler Master Elite 344 Micro ATX Case - Black/Purple £32.99
1 x OCZ CoreXtreme 500w '80 Plus' Power Supply £29.99
1 x **B Grade** Foxconn H67M Intel H67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £20
Total : £275.54 (includes shipping : £8.00).

YOUR BASKET
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01) £53.99
1 x AMD A6-5400K Black Edition 3.60GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Dual Core Processor (AD540KOKHJBOX) £47.99
1 x ASRock FM2A75M-DGS AMD A75 Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £45.95
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST500DM002) HDD £38.99
1 x Cooler Master Elite 344 Micro ATX Case - Black/Purple £32.99
1 x OCZ CoreXtreme 500w '80 Plus' Power Supply £29.99
Total : £259.49 (includes shipping : £8.00).

*edit* just noticed you said you have a case. That's my bad.

Danny75 · 24 Nov 2013 at 09:45

It sounds like your parents could get by with a £200 build, but here's another Intel build that goes up to the £300 max you mentioned, just for kicks:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i3-4330 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £109.99
1 x Asus H81M-PLUS Intel H81 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £46.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £45.95
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 430W V2 '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020046-UK) £39.95
1 x Patriot Viper 3 "Venom Red" 4GB DDR3 PC3-14900C9 1866MHz Single Module (P34G189UR) £34.99
1 x Gigabyte KM6150 Keyboard and Mouse Set £9.98
Total : £297.46 (includes shipping : £8.00).

Mobo has several display options: VGA, DVI and HDMI.

The i3-4330 has the same integrated HD4600 graphics as the i7-4770K.

Doomedspeed · 24 Nov 2013 at 11:38

Why not this:

YOUR BASKET
1 x "Nano 200i NUC" Intel NUC 847DYE Celeron DDR3 Micro PC £150
1 x Standard Build Systems - Approximately 5-7 working days £0
1 x 24 MONTH WARRANTY - COLLECT & RETURN £0.01
1 x No Operating System £0
1 x Patriot 4GB (1x4GB) PC3-12800C11 1600MHz 1.35v DDR3 SODIMM (PSD34G1600L81S) £29.99
1 x Adata XPG SX300 64GB mSATA Solid State Hard Drive - OEM (ASX300S3-064GM-C) £59.99
1 x OcUK Combo Card BT+WLAN 802.11bgn £9.95
1 x No Security Software £0
Total : £265.54 (includes shipping : £13.00).

Lemonade1947 · 24 Nov 2013 at 18:03

I'm no expert, but i agree with Doomedspeed's recommendation of the nuc. If, like most parents, they will only be using it for browsing the net, light word processing and storing family photos it would be perfect AND take up no space.

Doomedspeed · 24 Nov 2013 at 18:18

Forgot to mention you may/will need an external HDD or NAS system with the NUC as it only has SSD storage. It can be configured to have a bigger SSD for £30 more (128GB SSD) if that helps.

Lemonade1947 · 24 Nov 2013 at 18:44

acme15 said:
I'd honestly just buy used. You can get a far better system for far less that way.

[snip]

yeah. My dad bought a pc that someone assembled from ex-office parts from a popular internet bidding site. £60 and it does everything he wants it too.

Akagi · 24 Nov 2013 at 19:47

Lemonade1947 said:
yeah. My dad bought a pc that someone assembled from ex-office parts from a popular internet bidding site. £60 and it does everything he wants it too.

PC's/PC parts on said site are usually well overpriced as well, so you could probably do even better on here. I just pieced together a PC with a 2500K and a GTX570 Superclocked for £330 (including OS licence)

Lemonade1947 · 24 Nov 2013 at 20:22

acme15 said:
PC's/PC parts on said site are usually well overpriced as well, so you could probably do even better on here. I just pieced together a PC with a 2500K and a GTX570 Superclocked for £330 (including OS licence)

I wish I'd made 1000 posts

Akagi · 24 Nov 2013 at 20:34

Lemonade1947 said:
I wish I'd made 1000 posts

You'll get there. The MM is great.

To be fair I did carefully choose a selection of mostly under-priced used parts and a couple of B-Grade parts and do more than my fair share of haggling!