Budget machine (no gaming)

dt97583 · 11 Apr 2017 at 13:45

Hello,

You recently helped me spec a budget machine for a friend (who's now bought it and he's very happy

) and it turns out his parents want the same, minus the GPU.

Original thread

What do people think to the following? I've picked a less beefier PSU to the original spec.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x Gigabyte GA-B250M-DS3H Intel B250 (Socket 1151) DDR4 Micro ATX Motherboard= £69.95
1 x Super Flower Golden Green HX 350W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black= £39.95
1 x Kolink KLM-001 Micro-ATX Case - Black= £22.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 10 32/64-Bit - USB Pen Drive - Retail (KW9-00017)= £89.95
1 x Intel Pentium G4560 3.50GHz (Kaby Lake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £64.99
1 x Team Group Vulcan T-Force 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C14 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey (TLGD48G2400= £64.99
1 x Intel 600P 128GB M.2-2280 PCI-e 3.0 x 4 NVMe 3D NAND Solid State Drive= £59.99
1 x Asus PCE-N10 Network Adapter 150Mbps - PCI Express= £9.95
1 x LG 24x DVDRW SATA Rewriter - OEM (GH24NSD0)= £13.99

Total: £449.05
(includes shipping: £12.30)

For the sake of £4.96 I picked the gold rated:

Super Flower Golden Green HX 350W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black

over the:

XFX XT Series 400W 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply

Other options for SSD, worse / better / same?

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x Intel 600P 128GB M.2-2280 PCI-e 3.0 x 4 NVMe 3D NAND Solid State Drive (SSDPEKKW128G7X1)= £59.99
1 x Samsung PM961 Polaris 128GB M.2-2280 PCI-e 3.0 x 4 NVMe Solid State Drive= £59.99

Total: £128.68
(includes shipping: £8.70)

Or is it worth hanging on for budget RYZEN CPUs?

Habakkuk · 11 Apr 2017 at 17:08

hang on for budget chips, the next month or so should make older ones cheaper.

dt97583 · 11 Apr 2017 at 20:29

Do people think the G4560 is overkill for general browsing, office doc type work? Can't really see how you'd make the build cheaper other than swapping the mobo/CPU. In my opinion an SSD is pretty much required for a responsive experience nowadays, maybe cut the RAM down to 4GB but doesn't seem worth it. PSU seems the most acceptable cheapest one. Case is dirt cheap.

What are the other options you might suggest for the mobo/CPU?

Cheers

dt97583 · 12 Apr 2017 at 09:26

Anyone else?

cheesyboy · 12 Apr 2017 at 09:40

I'd go cheaper CPU, cheaper Mobo, and bigger SSD.

They simply won't notice any difference with a celeron vs a pentium for general use, but a 128GB SSD doesn't leave much room for filling it with photos or whatever

mattyfez · 12 Apr 2017 at 09:49

There's this https://www.overclockers.co.uk/b-gr...cket-1151-ddr4-atx-motherboard-bg-90n-as.html

Not sure if it would need a bios update for that chip..

ExoMale · 12 Apr 2017 at 13:08

the G series are just pentiums, they certainly better than celerons as they have always been, mean a celeron of recent probably be good enough for browsing, but better off with atleast a pentium as the rule of thumb unless its really budget. so any G series will do, maybe hd4400 as the minimum for graphics though as they be more than enough.

APU will be better graphically gaming or not, but you would need atleast an A8 model.

dt97583 · 12 Apr 2017 at 14:04

Cheers ExoMale, pretty much what I thought

edscdk · 12 Apr 2017 at 14:10

davidmt83 said:
Do people think the G4560 is overkill for general browsing, office doc type work?
Cheers

If it was a £120 CPU V a £60 CPU I might not have the same opinion but £64 v £35?

All the ads and extra content on web sites uses a lot of CPU power... I notice my i7 6700 CPU boosting to 4.5 occasionally while booting and browsing.. and everying just starts to require so much CPU power keep the £64 CPU!

cheesyboy · 12 Apr 2017 at 14:12

I run an athlon x2 270 on my home PC - I know what a low-end CPU can cope with.

There's really no problem at all for any web browsing or MS Office work.