£350 for a Base unit. Help

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A mate wants a base unit as his old one has died. He has win 7 retail so no need tfor an OS. His budget is £350. He will be using it mainly for Photoshop / Lightroom.

Can guys suggest a PC base for £350 without the OS?

Maybe a 256GB SSD would be good and 8gb ram? Not sure on anything else

Cheers
 
Idleman said:
Can you be a bit more specific on how his PC died. It may just be one or 2 components, which if so, could be replaced.
Also, can you list the components, so we can see what can be salvaged/reused.
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He wants all new. Nothing worth salvaging as he had an old PSU in it that went bang and took out some other components. Ram and hard drive was low, 2gb and 256gb mech drive.

CPU and motherboard were off of the Ark!!
 
He will need a new case, cheap as possible will do as he is hiding it under the desk.

He needs:

Case, Probably MicroATX, Cheap and black!
CPU
Motherboard
Ram
SSD and 500gb Mech Drive
DVD Writer (Yes, he still uses one!)
Power supply

No dedicated GPU needed as he doesn't game at all. PC will be used for Photoshop and Lightroom and internet.

Cheers
 
Armageus said:
Only 8GB of RAM as budget is tight, but has an SSD/HDD/Optical, MicroATX, reasonable PSU, and an I3 6100 which should be decent enough.



My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £362.54
(includes shipping: £11.70)
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This looks really good, cheers
 
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