Build advice

[Venom1991]

I'm trying to put together a cheap-ish, but good performance build for my brother. (Non-gamer). How does this look to you guys? Will it all work together, and I think it does have onboard graphics and sound card right?

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Raijintek Agos Midi Tower - Black= £39.95
• 1 x Super Flower Golden Green HX 450W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black= £44.99
• 1 x AMD Athlon X4 860K Black Edition 3.70GHz (Socket FM2+) Kaveri Quad Core Processor (AD860KXBJABOX)= £59.99
• 1 x Gigabyte GA-F2A68HM-HD2 AMD A68 Chipset (Socket FM2+) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard= £39.95
• 1 x Corsair Vengeance Low Profile 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CML8GX3M2A1600C= £39.95
• 1 x Samsung 120GB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-75E120B/EU= £55.99
• 1 x Samsung SH-224GB/BEBE 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM M disc compatible= £12.95
• 1 x AOC E2270SWHN 21.5" 1920x1080 TN Widescreen LED Monitor - Black= £79.99

Total: £386.06
(includes shipping: £12.30)
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I was considering, as an alternative, this pre-fab configuration (no monitor):

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/prim...and-small-office-pc-fs-377-ok.html#t=a2b1c3f5

I'm also not sure if I need an OS, so that could bump up the price.

Any advice appreciated

 

[Phil87]

I was going to recommend another site that sells Windows 10 keys very cheap (under £20) but I don't know if that's against the forum rules. If someone could let me know if that's ok to post, I'll edit this.

Also is it worth spending a little more for an i3, might make the general performance a bit quicker.

 

[El_Watcher]

I was going to recommend another site that sells Windows 10 keys very cheap (under £20) but I don't know if that's against the forum rules. If someone could let me know if that's ok to post, I'll edit this.

Firstly, you can't link to products on sites that OcUK sell.
Secondly, these sites that sell keys cheap, are possibly not licence legal, so shouldn't be posted anyway.

 

[RJC]

I was going to recommend another site that sells Windows 10 keys very cheap (under £20) but I don't know if that's against the forum rules. If someone could let me know if that's ok to post, I'll edit this.

Also is it worth spending a little more for an i3, might make the general performance a bit quicker.

This :

Firstly, you can't link to products on sites that OcUK sell.
Secondly, these sites that sell keys cheap, are possibly not licence legal, so shouldn't be posted anyway.

 

[Phil87]

It's a good thing I didn't post a link to that site then, didn't want to be banned

In that case I'll offer some more relevant advice. That SSD doesn't look like a good deal to me considering there are 240GB drives which are cheaper. That is unless the Samsung drive is somehow a lot faster and he won't need more than 100GB of storage.