£650 build please

dunn2010 · 31 Jan 2015 at 16:09

Lo guys,

A friend of mine wants to purchase a new pc,

Max budget £650 could push to £700 if it is necessary or will make a huge difference.

No monitor needed, no OS needed.

The machine is going to be used to install a hypervisor on and run some vm's for labs / training purposes.

For the amount of vm's running we have decided an I5 will be sufficient.

Would like a 60 GB SSD , and then a larger SSD to go with it.

16 GB of memory please, and would like the machine to be with a Micro ATX case. Its going behind his TV so needs it to be a smaller case. He was looking at the bitfenix prodigy cases which would be a nice fit.

thanks in advanced guys

Anth

Ottster · 31 Jan 2015 at 18:51

Here's one option, just add some case fans and an optical drive if you want.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4690 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £173.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan RED 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLRED316G1600HC9DC01) £107.99
1 x Samsung 250GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE250BW) £104.99
1 x Asus H97I-Plus Intel H97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Mini ITX Motherboard £103.99
1 x BitFenix Prodigy Mini-ITX Cube Case - Midnight Black £64.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 430w Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020058-UK) £40.99
1 x Kingston 60GB SSDNow V300 Drive SATA 6Gb/s 3 2.5" (7mm height) Solid State Hard Drive - (SV300S37A/60G) £37.99
Total : £649.03 (includes shipping : £11.75).

DaleTheWhale · 31 Jan 2015 at 19:21

YOUR BASKET
1 x Crucial MX100 512GB SATA 2.5” 7mm SSD + 9.5mm Adapter CT512MX100SSD1) £156.95
1 x Intel Core i5-4440 3.10GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £142.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TPKD316G1600HC11DC01) £99.95
1 x BitFenix Prodigy M MATX Cube Case - Midnight Black £64.99
1 x Gigabyte B85M-DS3H Intel B85 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £53.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 350W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £41.99
Total : £574.96 (includes shipping : £11.75).

Just create a small partition for windows, no point spending so much on a 60GB and separate 250GB.
Motherboard allows another 16GB of RAM.

dunn2010 · 31 Jan 2015 at 21:39

Thanks for the suggestions guys much appreciated