Build for home office

[The1nonly1]

Hi all,

I'm looking for a PC for my girlfriend to use. It doesn't have to be anything fancy or high end as it will only be used for browsing, youtube and word processing.

I don't need a monitor, OS or keyboard and mouse. Budget is £300.

Also I would like it to be easily upgraded if I wanted to play games on it or image editing but I do have a gaming laptop for this so wont be needed straight away.

 

[stulid]

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Fractal Design Core 1000 Case & Super Flower 450W FX 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply Bundle= £48.95
• 1 x Gigabyte H110M-S2H Intel H110 (Socket 1151) DDR4 Micro ATX Motherboard= £46.99
• 1 x Team Group Elite 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C16 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (TPKD416GM2400HC16D= £44.99
• 1 x Kingston 240GB SSDNow UV400 Drive SATA 6Gb/s 2.5" (7mm height) Solid State Hard Drive - (SUV400S37/2= £47.99
• 1 x Seagate 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM (ST1000DM003)= £37.99
• 1 x Intel Core i3-6100 3.70GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £99.95

Total: £338.56
(includes shipping: £11.70)
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16GB RAM now as the board only has 2dimm slots.

You maybe able to ditch the HDD and just use the SSD and buy an i5 instead of the i3.

The case is cheap but the PSU is good and you can add a gfx card easily.

Its £326.86 with free delivery which you get.

 

[The1nonly1]

Looks perfect, thanks. I get better than free delivery, I can pick it up same day

 

[stulid]

The case also has no fans fitted.

You wont need any until you do fit a gfx card.

The PSU sits at the top of the case and you will have its fan pointing down so there will be that exhausting any heat.

At the front of the case is room behind the front fascia to fit a 120mm fan but due to the placing of the system fan header on the motherboard you will also likely want a 3pin or 4pin PWM fan cable extension.

 

[ExoMale]

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 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)= £35.99
• 1 x Team Group Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TPKD38G1600HC11DC01)= £25.99
• 1 x be quiet! SFX Power 2 400W '80 Plus Bronze' SFX Power Supply= £53.99
• 1 x Aerocool CS101 Micro ATX Case - Black= £22.99
• 1 x Kingston 480GB SSDNow UV400 Drive SATA 6Gb/s 2.5" (7mm height) Solid State Hard Drive - (SUV400S37/4= £89.99
• 1 x Pioneer 24x Internal DVD/CD Burner with LabelFlash (DVR-221LBK)= £14.99

Total: £283.59
(includes shipping: £11.70)
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surely something like that should do for whats required?

 

[The1nonly1]

It looks good but I'd prefer Intel over AMD, no other reason that I prefer them.

 

[The1nonly1]

I could probably up my budget to £350 to get a better CPU and case. Also a SSD won't be needed for now. If I did in the future, I could add one in.

 

[stulid]

Grab an i5 6400/6500.

As for case, it's effectively almost a free case with the PSU.

 

[The1nonly1]

Grab an i5 6400/6500.

As for case, it's effectively almost a free case with the PSU.

True. I'll get the i5 instead then. Rather upgrade cheaper parts than expensive ones like a CPU if I need to,

Thanks.

 

[subbytna]

I'd rather ditch the hdd and get the SSD instead.