£350 build for the kids.

[w1lliam]

Hi guys,

A family member wants a PC for their kids to do their homework and stuff on. Criteria should be that it should last for a number of years. All through high school.

Now they have a couple of laptops but again, they're about 4 years old, and don't really cut it with how heavy windows is nowadays.

Second hand is also an option if it gets them something better.

Thanks.

 

[orbitalwalsh]

Dell optiplex i7 3***

£300 odd refurb , comes with windows 10 normally

 

[NovaKill4]

What about putting SSD's in the laptops? This would give them a huge speed boost for loading windows and applications.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x TeamGroup 240GB L5 Lite SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 3D NAND Solid State Drive= £38.99

Total: £43.65 (includes shipping: £4.66)​

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[w1lliam]

Dell optiplex i7 3***

£300 odd refurb , comes with windows 10 normally

Quite old but it looks like they'll do the job. Will talk it over and see if he is alright with it.

Thanks!

What about putting SSD's in the laptops? This would give them a huge speed boost for loading windows and applications.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x TeamGroup 240GB L5 Lite SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 3D NAND Solid State Drive= £38.99

Total: £43.65 (includes shipping: £4.66)
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That's something I've already mentioned to him and he is now looking at doing asap, and i'd also told him to connect them up to a monitor for more real estate when they need to.

The CPU in them are not good to say the least.

 

[NovaKill4]

What CPU's are they? if they are that bad and they want to go with something new then maybe something like this?

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x AMD Ryzen 3 2200G VEGA Graphics AM4 CPU w/ Wraith Stealth Cooler= £89.99
• 1 x Gigabyte B450M-DS3H AMD B450 (Socket AM4) DDR4 Micro-ATX Motherboard= £69.95
• 1 x Team Group Vulcan T-Force 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C14 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey (TLGD48G2400= £56.99
• 1 x TeamGroup 240GB L5 Lite SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 3D NAND Solid State Drive= £38.99
• 1 x be quiet! Pure Power 10 400W 80 Plus Silver Power Supply= £55.99
• 1 x Bitfenix Nova Midi Tower Case - Black= £26.99

Total: £351.20 (includes shipping: £12.30)​

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This would be quick enough for doing MS Office tasks and browsing the web, would be ample for kids to do homework and such on.

They could even upgrade it in the future, put a new CPU into it and a graphics card if they wanted to play some games.

 

[Lokken86]

What CPU's are they? if they are that bad and they want to go with something new then maybe something like this?

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x AMD Ryzen 3 2200G VEGA Graphics AM4 CPU w/ Wraith Stealth Cooler= £89.99
• 1 x Gigabyte B450M-DS3H AMD B450 (Socket AM4) DDR4 Micro-ATX Motherboard= £69.95
• 1 x Team Group Vulcan T-Force 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C14 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey (TLGD48G2400= £56.99
• 1 x TeamGroup 240GB L5 Lite SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 3D NAND Solid State Drive= £38.99
• 1 x be quiet! Pure Power 10 400W 80 Plus Silver Power Supply= £55.99
• 1 x Bitfenix Nova Midi Tower Case - Black= £26.99

Total: £351.20 (includes shipping: £12.30)
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This would be quick enough for doing MS Office tasks and browsing the web, would be ample for kids to do homework and such on.

They could even upgrade it in the future, put a new CPU into it and a graphics card if they wanted to play some games.

This will cruise through everything in windows even some games as it is with the vega 8 igpu. Good value for money.

 

[ExoMale]

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Intel Pentium G4600 3.60GHz (Kaby Lake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £68.99
• 1 x Asus H110M-K Intel H110 (Socket 1151) DDR4 Micro ATX Motherboard= £47.99
• 1 x Kingston Fury White 8GB (1x8GB) DDR4 PC4-17000C14 2133MHz Single Channel Module (HX421C14FW2/8)= £79.99
• 1 x be quiet! Pure Power 10 300W 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply= £46.99
• 1 x Seagate 1TB FireCuda 3.5" 7200RPM 64MB Cache SSHD Internal Hard Drive (ST1000DX002)= £62.99
• 1 x Zalman T1 Plus Mini-Tower USB 3.0 - Black= £25.99

Total: £344.04 (includes shipping: £11.10)​

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