£500 home office system

[Greg0986]

Hey all,

I have been tasked by my dad to come up with a complete system for the home office. The only software that will be used will be Office and web browsing. Budget is £500 and it needs to include everything, monitor, keyboard, mouse, operating system(Win 7 Home Premium will be fine) etc.

I have been looking around but not sure what components to get, I am think AMD APU? I would prefer an integrated GPU to save money, 22 inch monitor would be good, 8GB RAM because it is pretty cheap at the moment.

Cheers!

 

[Doomedspeed]

A tad over but 256GB SSD

YOUR BASKET
1 x Iiyama ProLite E2278HD 22" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £99.95
1 x Crucial V4 256GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive £94.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050) £83.99
1 x AMD A4-5300 3.40GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Dual Core Processor (AD5300OKHJBOX) £39.95
1 x MSI A55M-E33 AMD A55 Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £38.99
1 x Patriot Intel Extreme Masters 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17000C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (PVI38G213C1K) £35.99
1 x OCZ CoreXtreme 500w '80 Plus' Power Supply £32.99
1 x Xigmatek Asgard II Midi Tower Case - Black/Silver £26.99
1 x Gigabyte KM7580 Wireless 2.4GHz Keyboard & Mouse Set £19.99
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £17.99
Total : £491.81 (includes shipping : FREE).



EDIT: forgot you get FREE SHIPPING, in budget.. YAY!

 

[Greg0986]

That is fantastic. Just what he wanted! Cheers

 

[Doomedspeed]

No worries, Just send your Thanks in the form of 'Folding Money' to.............

 

[maklabouhlel]

Why sata 2 ssd?
Why not get Windows 8?

 

[tamzzy]

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel 330 Series 180GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive - Retail £118.99
1 x Iiyama ProLite E2278HD 22" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £99.95
1 x Microsoft Windows 8 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00403) £79.99
1 x ASRock FM2A75M-DGS AMD A75 Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £52.99
1 x AMD A6-5400K Black Edition 3.60GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Dual Core Processor (AD540KOKHJBOX) £49.99
1 x Patriot Intel Extreme Masters 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17000C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (PVI38G213C1K) £35.99
1 x OcUK Imp MicroATX Tower Case (500w PSU) £29.99
1 x Logitech MK120 Desktop Set (920-002552) £15.98
1 x Samsung SH-224BB/BEBE 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.99
Total : £498.86 (includes shipping : FREE).



ocable processor, sata 6gbps intel ssd

 

[stulid]

^
I certainly would not recommend using a cheap PSU such as the one included with that case.


YOUR BASKET
1 x Iiyama ProLite E2278HD 22" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £99.95
1 x Microsoft Windows 8 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00403) £79.99
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TD120BW) £77.99
1 x Gigabyte F2A75M-D3H AMD A75 Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £69.98
1 x AMD A6-5400K Black Edition 3.60GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Dual Core Processor (AD540KOKHJBOX) £49.99
1 x Patriot Intel Extreme Masters 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17000C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (PVI38G213C1K) £35.99
1 x OCZ CoreXtreme 500w '80 Plus' Power Supply £32.99
1 x Logitech MK120 Desktop Set (920-002552) £15.98
1 x Zalman T1 Mini Tower Case - Black £15.98
1 x Samsung SH-224BB/BEBE 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.99
Total : £507.34 (includes shipping : £11.25).




• Gigabyte board has a better warranty than Asrock and a UK based RMA center.
• The Samsung SSD is seriously fast and on offer today


The OP gets free delivery so its under £500

 

[tamzzy]

neither would i. but for a 150w power draw system, it should be ok, no?

 

[Doomedspeed]

Why sata 2 ssd?
Why not get Windows 8?

The board i picked had no SATAIII ports, and that SSD is great value for the capacity.

 

[Bacon?]

I'd rather have a 256 as storage drive than a 128 as a typical SSD when the difference in actual world speeds (not benchmarking) isnt very different.