Can anyone compete with this build for cheaper?

JayHopkins

JayHopkins

JayHopkins

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I'm looking for a cheap office machine, £500 including monitor and keyboard and mouse.

I can't post a link but the machine I'd like the spec to be the same as would be a HP Pavilion 500-242ea with monitor...
 
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something along these lines. same price better spec
SSD for OS
Better processor
more ram

YOUR BASKET
1 x "OcUK Core A55" AMD A55 (Socket FM2) Micro ATX Barebones PC £109.99
- 1 x Standard Build Systems - Dispatched within 7 working days £0.00
- 1 x AMD A8-6600K 3.90GHz (Socket FM2) APU Richland Quad Core Processor (AD660KWOHLBOX) £71.99
- 1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3K2/8GX) £67.99
1 x Asus VS228DE 22" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £79.99
1 x CM Storm Sniper Elite Gamer Peripheral Bundle £64.99
1 x Crucial M500 120GB SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive - (CT120M500SSD1) £54.98
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £42.98
Total : £513.92 (includes shipping : £17.50).




and your "support" if something goes wrong is 2nd 2 none compared with "high street named stores"
 
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i assume office pc = no gaming?
also how much storage do you actually need, you could get away with 1 larger ssd drive for increased snappiness rather than getting a bog standard hard drive
 
my 2p:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i3-4130 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £85.99
1 x AOC E2250SWDAK 21.5" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £85.99
1 x Intel 335 Series 20nm 240GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive - Retail (SSDSC2CT240A4K5) £79.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00614) £74.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan GOLD 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLYD38G1600HC9DC01) £61.99
1 x MSI H81M-E33 Intel H81 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £34.99
1 x SuperFlower Amazon 300W "80 Plus Bronze" Power Supply £29.99
1 x Zalman T2 Plus Mini-Tower USB 3.0 - Black £19.99
1 x Pioneer 24x Internal DVR-221LBK DVD Rewriter - OEM £13.49
1 x Gigabyte KM6150 Keyboard and Mouse Set £9.95
Total : £511.46 (includes shipping : £11.75).




i3 build with a 256gb ssd
slightly overbudget with shipping, but you get a free game with the psu! (lol) that you can sell to bring it back down to budget i guess =x

edit: depending on what kind of office work you do, you could get away with a pentium instead of an i3 too, shaving more £££ off the price
 
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oh lol

this will be more than fine then:

YOUR BASKET
1 x AOC E2250SWDAK 21.5" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £85.99
1 x Intel 335 Series 20nm 240GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive - Retail (SSDSC2CT240A4K5) £79.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00614) £74.99
1 x MSI H81M-E33 Intel H81 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £34.99
1 x Intel Celeron G1820 2.7GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £29.99
1 x SuperFlower Amazon 300W "80 Plus Bronze" Power Supply £29.99
1 x Zalman T2 Plus Mini-Tower USB 3.0 - Black £19.99
2 x TeamGroup Elite 2GB (1x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Single Channel Module (TED32GM1333C901) £15.59 (£31.18)
1 x Pioneer 24x Internal DVR-221LBK DVD Rewriter - OEM £13.49
1 x Gigabyte KM6150 Keyboard and Mouse Set £9.95
Total : £424.64 (includes shipping : £11.75).



amd quad core:
YOUR BASKET
1 x AOC E2250SWDAK 21.5" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £85.99
1 x Intel 335 Series 20nm 240GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive - Retail (SSDSC2CT240A4K5) £79.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00614) £74.99
1 x AMD Athlon 5150 1.60GHz Quad Core Processor - Retail (Socket AM1) £35.99
1 x SuperFlower Amazon 300W "80 Plus Bronze" Power Supply £29.99
1 x Gigabyte GA-AM1M-S2H AMD AM1 (Socket FS1b) DDR3 Mirco ATX Motherboard £23.99
1 x Zalman T2 Plus Mini-Tower USB 3.0 - Black £19.99
2 x TeamGroup Elite 2GB (1x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Single Channel Module (TED32GM1333C901) £15.59 (£31.18)
1 x Pioneer 24x Internal DVR-221LBK DVD Rewriter - OEM £13.49
1 x Gigabyte KM6150 Keyboard and Mouse Set £9.95
Total : £419.64 (includes shipping : £11.75).

 
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Good builds from Tamzzy, but if you do a lot of heavy Excel work I'd definitely recommend going to 4GB on the RAM.
 
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