A PC for my Dad

Benny144

Benny144

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I'm now on my second PC build for myself and both times I've gotten the components delivered to my parents house. My Dad always expresses how he wishes he had a newer, faster PC. He has some old hand me downs with an Intel D processor and a Geforce 310.
I'd like to spend a bit of money and upgrade his system.
Why don't I give him my old system you ask? Because I've already sold it to fund my new one

So I'd like to get a CPU, mobo and RAM upgrade for him. I considered a GPU too, but as he doesn't game, mainly uses various office/workstation programs/ video editing I don't know if it's necessary? What do you guys think?

I'd like to spend around the £250 mark but the GPU pushes it much higher. I did hope to build him a PC from scratch including case, but I decided just being ATX components to fit in his current case is a better use of the budget.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £384.49
(includes shipping: £10.50)



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My alternative, seems like a better home work station build. And I can give him an entire PC, just need to fit his peripherals (he has DVD drive, HDD, SSD etc.)

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £251.01
(includes shipping: £11.10)



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Nice, however that psu isn't a well known brand and sold cheap for a reason, there's better quality and top brands for 300-400w for similar price range and also as far as I know the first range of ryzen required a dedicated graphics card so I doubt that new bottom range 1200 be any different.

You could buy a 2nd hand gt 210 or the better 610-630 or a Radeon 240 that will be capable for what is required as no gaming involved.
 
I imagine he has a dell or most likely an HP desktop with that Pentium D in, might need to check the age as some as only support the old ide and some support sata if you going swap the hard drive round.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £250.61
(includes shipping: £11.70)



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This would be an improvement over the old system for sure and skylake onboard graphics are pretty good, but as I said you can pick up used cards for cheap if required.
 
I think you're right, it's a mish mash Dell system.
Thank you for the Intel build! I think I can see saving money on the power supply and RAM, maybe even enough to affoard a 1050 or something.
 
Have you thought about picking up something like an Ivy Bridge Dell Optiplex, (the 390 is a good choice), which can generally be had for well under £100 with an I3, 4gb ddr3, 500gb hdd, case, psu (no power connectors usually). Then you could add some more ram, an ssd or even a 1050, as long as it doesn't require a power connector.
 
thedandyp said:
Have you thought about picking up something like an Ivy Bridge Dell Optiplex, (the 390 is a good choice), which can generally be had for well under £100 with an I3, 4gb ddr3, 500gb hdd, case, psu (no power connectors usually). Then you could add some more ram, an ssd or even a 1050, as long as it doesn't require a power connector.
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I haven't...
Are these PC still available new?
I just figured I could build something out of components for cheaper.
I have little to no experience working in this price range
 
They aren't new I'm afraid, most would be ex business stock, available from ebay/ gumtree. There are loads for just under £100, and most include windows 7 licenses with them, which you can use to upgrade to windows 10. The only dodgy part of it would be the power supply, but as long as you stuck to a non power connector 1050, you'd be fine. Failing that, just get the full size case variant (you can clearly see the difference from pictures), and swap out the power supply.
 
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