Basic budget PC for a friend

[new numa hey]

Title pretty much says it all.

Hes not going to be gaming and needs a basic setup. I wanted to throw in an SSD purely for load up times. Is the CPU overkill?

I'm looking at this, https://www.overclockers.co.uk/prim...ore-i3-i5-skylake-fs-126-og.html#t=d3e0h1i0j5

Don't know if the site has anything cheaper. I would build it but I don't have the time anymore.

 

[Danny75]

Double post, sorry. Please delete.

 

[Danny75]

Don't know if the site has anything cheaper.

Not much cheaper with those main parts. It would also depend on the build quote for something like this:


My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Fractal Design Core 1000 & XFX 430W 80+ Bronze PSU Bundle= £50.99
• 1 x Microsoft Windows 10 64-Bit DVD - OEM (MS-KW9-00139)= £79.99
• 1 x Kingston 120GB SSDNow UV400 Drive SATA 6Gb/s 2.5" (7mm height) Solid State Hard Drive - (SUV400S37/1= £41.99
• 1 x Seagate 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM (ST1000DM003)= £42.95
• 1 x Team Group Elite 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C16 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (TPKD48GM2400HC16DC0= £29.99
• 1 x Asus H110M-K Intel H110 (Socket 1151) DDR4 Micro ATX Motherboard= £47.99
• 1 x Intel Core i3-6100 3.70GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £109.99
• 1 x TP-Link 300Mbps Wireless N PCI Express Adapter (TL-WN881ND)= £14.99

Total: £430.58
(includes shipping: £11.70)
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For a basic jobby like that, quote might be £40 or above or below that. You'd have to ask (Customer Services forum). You could save around £20-30 perhaps, but miss out on that Prodigy case that's nicer looking (although the BitFenix Phenom looks even nicer and classier in my opinion).


My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Primo SPi "Study and Play" Home/Casual Gaming PC - Intel Core i3/i5 Skylake = £489.89
  • Case Colour:BitFenix Prodigy Mini-ITX Cube Case - Aqua Blue
  • CPU:Intel Core i3-6100 3.70GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail
  • Graphics:Unwanted
  • Memory Capacity:Team Group Elite 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C16 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (TPKD48GM2400HC16DC0
  • DVD Drive:Unwanted
  • WIFI:TP-Link 300Mbps Wireless N PCI Express Adapter (TL-WN881ND)
  • Windows Version:Microsoft Windows 10 64-Bit DVD - OEM (MS-KW9-00139)
  • Security Software:Unwanted
  • Main Hard Drive:Kingston 120GB SSDNow UV400 Drive SATA 6Gb/s 2.5" (7mm height) Solid State Hard Drive - (SUV400S37/1
  • Backup/Storage Drive:Seagate 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM (ST1000DM003)

Total: £503.99
(includes shipping: £14.10)
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If the tasks are going to be very basic (emails, browsing, bit of Word etc) then an AM1 setup would be considerably cheaper:


My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Fractal Design Core 1000 & XFX 430W 80+ Bronze PSU Bundle= £50.99
• 1 x Microsoft Windows 10 64-Bit DVD - OEM (MS-KW9-00139)= £79.99
• 1 x Kingston 120GB SSDNow UV400 Drive SATA 6Gb/s 2.5" (7mm height) Solid State Hard Drive - (SUV400S37/1= £41.99
• 1 x Seagate 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM (ST1000DM003)= £42.95
• 1 x TP-Link 300Mbps Wireless N PCI Express Adapter (TL-WN881ND)= £14.99
• 1 x Asus AM1M-A AMD AM1 (Socket FS1b) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard= £27.95
• 1 x AMD Athlon 5350 2.05GHz Quad Core Processor - Retail (Socket AM1)= £38.50
• 1 x Kingston HyperX Fury Blue 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C10 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (HX316C10FK2/8)= £29.99

Total: £339.05
(includes shipping: £11.70)
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Or swap the Skylake i3 in the Intel setup for a Skylake Pentium.

 

[new numa hey]

Yeah so the prebuild would be better (since I'm lazy). Thanks.

 

[ExoMale]

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Intel NUC NUC5i3RYK Core i3-5010U "Rock Canyon" Broadwell Barebones Micro PC= £249.95

Total: £264.05
(includes shipping: £14.10)
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Or the one that takes a 2.5 drive when in stock, job done.