Best office tower spec?

[Dyson]

Hi all, looking to buy my wife a new tower and wanted a little advice as I’m a bit out of touch nowadays.

What should I be looking for, spec wise, for a fast, snappy computer for use in Word, and other office based use. Has a need for lots of tabs open on Chrome, so I’m guessing a nice bit of ram is required. An AMD setup, for the built in graphics?


Budget is up to £500 for the tower, no screen is needed.

 

[PiKe]

I3, 8gb ram plus an SSD, job done.

 

[andy_mk3]

A Ryzen 3 2200G based system would be my choice. It's a pretty decent quad core CPU, has decent enough onboard graphics. Pair it with 8GB RAM and an SSD it'll fly along.

 

[Randomface74]

Roughly this:
https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/posts/32405260/

 

[theforce]

Can't go wrong with either an i3 or a 2200G in this case. As the others have said, 8GB of RAM and an SSD.

 

[4K8KW10]

Hi all, looking to buy my wife a new tower and wanted a little advice as I’m a bit out of touch nowadays.

What should I be looking for, spec wise, for a fast, snappy computer for use in Word, and other office based use. Has a need for lots of tabs open on Chrome, so I’m guessing a nice bit of ram is required. An AMD setup, for the built in graphics?


Budget is up to £500 for the tower, no screen is needed.

Hi,

Job done:

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Asrock B450 Pro4 (Socket AM4) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £79.99
• 1 x Gigabyte 128GB M.2 PCIe x2 NVMe SSD/Solid State Drive= £32.99
• 1 x Bitfenix Shadow Midi Tower Gaming Case - Black Window= £32.99
• 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 2400G VEGA Graphics AM4 CPU w/ Wraith Stealth Cooler= £139.99
• 1 x be quiet! System Power 9 500W 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply= £54.95
• 1 x Team Group Vulcan T-Force 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black/Grey (TLGD4= £64.99
• 1 x **B Grade** Seagate BarraCuda 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM (ST1000DM010)= £29.99

Total: £448.49 (includes shipping: £12.60)​

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[Dyson]

Excellent, thanks for the advice all, thank you.

 

[ExoMale]

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Intel Celeron G4920 3.20GHz (Coffee Lake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £59.99
• 1 x Asrock H310M-HDV Intel H310 (Socket 1151) DDR4 Micro-ATX Motherboard= £51.95
• 1 x Kingston Fury Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C15 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (HX424C15FBK2/8)= £65.99
• 1 x TeamGroup 480GB L5 Lite SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 3D NAND Solid State Drive= £59.99
• 1 x Aerocool CS101 Micro ATX Case - Black= £28.99
• 1 x be quiet! SFX Power 2 300W '80 Plus Bronze' SFX Power Supply= £56.99

Total: £335.60 (includes shipping: £11.70)​

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[maklabouhlel]

Intel NUC 8th generation would be perfect.