Computer for non gaming daughter

[jules1967]

Good morning. Can anyone please help me as Im not sure what Im looking for exactly.My daughter has just started high school and as I have an Apple Mac I have promised her a windows 10 computer for her homework, be able to run office applications watching videos on you tube and playing very basic games on line using flash.
As an 11 year old aesthetics are so important to her so she wants something like this case

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/ocuk...c-intel-core-i5-9400f-fs-1d7-og.html#comments preferably in blue!!

She will be using a tv screen as a monitor so hdmi port is essential.
Apart from that I have absolutely no idea what to look for .Can you please help me?
Thank you so much in advance

 

[Quartz]

I have promised her a windows 10 computer for her homework,

Get her a NUC. No, it won't have RGB but it will be small and cute.

 

[bimbleuk]

I have a NUC but it's a pity OCUK don't stock the Asrock mini-PCs as you tend to get a bit more fore the money. I had a Zbox then a Nano. Beebox seems to be the replacement. Spray one Blue!

 

[StarShock]

If you shop around you can find the asrock deskmini a300 for around the £150 mark, then just add your own 2200g ssd and 8gb ram and you have a pretty solid tiny pc ~£300

 

[jules1967]

Thank you all for your replies...so very helpful. Im a bit of a technophobe and have a lot of restrictions using my hands due to arthritis so looking for a computer where I don't need to add components to get it working...Thank you
P.S for my daughters needs should I be looking for i3/i5/i7 or similar?

Thank you so much

 

[StarShock]

You can probably do just fine with a little quad core so on Intel side that would be a 8th gen or newer i3 (i5 if 7th gen or older) though for me I'd be looking at one of the little AMD ryzen APUs (2200g or 3200g) they are just about on par with the intel quad cores but have much better graphics chips
Edit - the amds also tend to be slightly cheaper

 

[Kurgen]

Is anything like this any good. Can get ocuk to build then buy cheap windows from bay

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My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Kolink Inspire Series K5 RGB Midi Tower Case - Black Window= £34.99
• 1 x Gigabyte B450 AORUS ELITE (Socket AM4) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £89.99
• 1 x AMD Ryzen 3 3200G Quad Core 4.0GHz (Socket AM4) APU with RX Vega 8 Graphics - Retail= £88.99
• 1 x Team Group Vulcan T-Force 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C16 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey (TLGD48G3000= £44.99
• 2 x be quiet! System Power 9 400W 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply= £44.99
• 2 x WD Green 3D NAND 240GB 2.5" SATA 6Gbps Solid State Drive (WDS240G2G0A)= £31.99

Total: £425.22 (includes shipping: £12.30)​

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[Noughtboy]

Is anything like this any good. Can get ocuk to build then buy cheap windows from bay

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My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Kolink Inspire Series K5 RGB Midi Tower Case - Black Window= £34.99
• 1 x Gigabyte B450 AORUS ELITE (Socket AM4) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £89.99
• 1 x AMD Ryzen 3 3200G Quad Core 4.0GHz (Socket AM4) APU with RX Vega 8 Graphics - Retail= £88.99
• 1 x Team Group Vulcan T-Force 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C16 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey (TLGD48G3000= £44.99
• 2 x be quiet! System Power 9 400W 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply= £44.99
• 2 x WD Green 3D NAND 240GB 2.5" SATA 6Gbps Solid State Drive (WDS240G2G0A)= £31.99

Total: £425.22 (includes shipping: £12.30)
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You have 2 x PSU and 2x SSD so subtract about £77 from that total or approximately £350

 

[Kurgen]

yeah sorry did it on the train, hard work on phone

 

[Grafter67]

Get her a laptop/notebook. Don't faff about with parts given your circumstances.