Office PC - to order today

energizer123

energizer123

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Hi,

Need to order today for my business. Looking for two pc's for office work, powerpoint e-mail etc. Needs to be quick.

Key required

Medium size tower
reasonable size SSD
larger HDD
A graphics card so we can connect two HDMI displays

Looking to spend 400-500. Will never be used for anything but office work but want them snappy. I can build and put windows on.

Thanks
 
Is that the budget for one or both?

Why are you wanting to custom build an office PC? There are plenty of off-the-shelf options out there (new and ex-corporate).
 
Each.

Key is we are able to connect two monitors which I assumed needed a discrete graphics card in which would be difficult to put in a Dell. Also want an SSD etc.
 
Most PCs have at least two video outputs even on internal graphics. Unfortunately one of them is often VGA which isn't ideal, but HDMI + DisplayPort is fairly common.

Building your own may well be the best option, you just need to consider why you're going down that route.

As you're buying for a business is that budget including or excluding VAT?
 
I think you'll be looking at nearer to £600 by the time you've factored in the cost of the Windows licence, mouse, keyboard, etc.

Hopefully one of the people on here who seem to enjoy specifying builds can prove me wrong.
 
We've got a mouse and keyboard. Currently using a laptop which is not letting us use duel monitors. And windows will buy separately out of budget. Thinking the below. Any views? 1050 ti will let us do a bit of light gaming if we're bored. Assume it's 1x hdmi and 1 x display port I can get an adapter for the DP to make it HDMI.

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £545.23 (includes shipping: £12.30)​
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That motherboard has two video ports so it's worth checking if they can be used simultaneously. One of them is DVI-D, but that's easily converted to HDMI.

Buying a video card for a business desktop for 'a bit a light gaming' lacks focus.
 
energizer123 said:
We've got a mouse and keyboard. Currently using a laptop which is not letting us use duel monitors. And windows will buy separately out of budget. Thinking the below. Any views? 1050 ti will let us do a bit of light gaming if we're bored. Assume it's 1x hdmi and 1 x display port I can get an adapter for the DP to make it HDMI.
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It sounds like you've got your bases covered for your envisaged usage. Don't think there's anything in there that I'd change. Are the monitors 1080p?
 
Onboard Graphics
  • 1 x DVI-D port, supports a maximum resolution of 1920x1200@60Hz1,2
  • 1 x HDMI™ 1.4 port, supports a maximum resolution of 4096x2160 @30Hz, 2560x1600 @60Hz1,2
  1. Only support when using AMD® Ryzen™ with Radeon™ Vega Graphics/ Athlon™ with Radeon™ Vega Graphics Processors
  2. Maximum shared memory of 2048 MB"
Sounds like it would work. Anyone have a better view?
 
I'd expect it to work.

Possibly a question for OcUK themselves if you want to be sure?

If it doesn't work for some reason you aren't really much worse off as you can still buy the discrete video card you were planning for originally.

It's a shame the DVI-D appears to be single link as that could be limiting in the longer term.
 
I would go intel for an office build, and leave the GPU out to start with you can always add it, do you need 500gb ssd, all my pcs have 128gb for apps never needs even that. get windows key from elsewhere for a fiver.

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £482.19 (includes shipping: £12.30)​
​
 
Kurgen said:
I would go intel for an office build, and leave the GPU out to start with you can always add it, do you need 500gb ssd, all my pcs have 128gb for apps never needs even that. get windows key from elsewhere for a fiver.

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £482.19 (includes shipping: £12.30)
​
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Where can you get Windows for £5? Is it legit?
 
it will work for ever, try looking on some auction and tree sites. they are probably bulk OEM licenses removed from Enterprise Laptops/PCs where they already have a bulk microsoft site silence
 
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