Home Office PC - around £500 budget

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Ironic Namesake

Ironic Namesake

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Getting fed up of working from a laptop and decided its time to get a PC for working from home, will be used for mainly office applications etc + downloading a few things here and there.

Looking for multiple monitors , makes working much easier - budget should include those. Out of touch with desktop PCs, not built a new one in years and not up to date at all.

Could also be useful for playback of 720P/1080P files but not really necessary as I have a laptop with HDMI output which takes care of that.

I'm in Malaysia so won't actually be able to order from OcUK unfortunately (shipping cost!) but there's no sales tax/duty here on PC parts so the prices are actually quite similar (less purchasing power probably...)

Thanks in advance
 
£500 including 2 monitors might be a squeeze. I'd say if you wanted two basic 19-20" monitors you'd need to set aside about £200, leaving you with £300 for the core system, which pretty much means you're going for an Athlon II PC. For example:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-265-OK&groupid=43&catid=1078&subcat=
(£330 with Windows 7 Home Premium x64, £250 without)

This is assuming you don't need an MS Office or any other software though!
 
IF you are not doing that much multi-work at the same time why not get one high-res monitor and with windows 7 its easy to have two windows side by side? Otherwise as dragon said you will have a limited budget for your actual PC
 
Ok, I decided to change my budget a little and have come up with the below :

Intel i3 540 - £68
Gigabyte H55M-UD2H - £67.80
Corsair PC1333 DDR3 2GB x 2 - £35.60
WD 1tb 64mb Drive - £34.80
LG 22x SATA DVD-RW - £12.80
WIn 7 Home Premium - £57.80
Xigmatek Asgard Case - £31.80
Coolermaster Silent Pro M 500W - £63.80

Anything I've missed or should be changing? Maybe the PSU is a bit overkill ?

On monitors I can get LG E2250T for around £100 , what's the difference between this and the E2250V?

That would bring it to £572.40 in total - with 2 x 22" screens, or I could go for 2 Viewsonic 19" at just over £60 each, making the total £492.40.

Really prefer to have multiple displays - I find it makes working much more efficient for me!
 
do you intend to overclock the system? If so i would suggest going for the 530, just saves that little more, saying that though I do notice no after market heatsink/fan on your list atm. So adding a hsf would defeat the purpose of saving money... although, you would get that overclock ;)

never been one to follow the LG monitor series closely, however out of the two i would probably go for the former.
 
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