Low budget, can this be improved?

mushtafa · 5 Sep 2013 at 20:18

Evening gents, time has come to upgrade the PCs in the office at work. Won't be used for anything special.
Can this be bettered for the money? Or is this too good for basic office work? I originally priced up an i3 build, but was about £50 dearer.
I haven't used the cheapest PSU, or mobo etc, I'm hoping for reliability and quietness.

Feel free to spec something different for me, only need what's listed above.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TD120BW) £79.99
1 x AMD A6-6400K 3.90GHz (Socket FM2) APU Richland Dual Core Processor (AD640KOKHLBOX) £59.99
1 x Gigabyte F2A75M-HD2 AMD A75 Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £57.98
1 x Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (BLS2CP4G3D1609DS1S00CEU) £55.99
1 x OCZ CoreXtreme 500w '80 Plus' Power Supply £31.99
1 x Xigmatek Helios XTK231 Mini Tower Case - Black £25.99
1 x Arctic Cooling Alpine 64 GT CPU-Cooler - 80mm £10.98
2 x Arctic F12 Pro TC Case Fan - 120mm £4.99 (£9.98)
1 x Akasa Aluminium 12cm Fan Filter - GRM120-AL01-BK £2.99
Total : £348.49 (includes shipping : £10.50).

teppic · 5 Sep 2013 at 20:26

The A8-5600K is a better value processor at only £12 extra. If you're not going to be gaming at all, the RAM is fine, otherwise I'd get some 2133MHz RAM.

You can get slightly better PSUs - anything over 300W is fine for the system.

You won't need any extra cooling for the case. The CPU doesn't give off a huge amount of heat, and there's nothing else to cool. I'd go for a better and quieter CPU cooler (e.g. Coolermaster Hyper 212) and drop the case fans.

mushtafa · 5 Sep 2013 at 20:33

The only cheaper power supplies I can see are the Swift ones. I've never heard of them. Are they any good?

I only added the two extra fans to the build because I always run one intake and one exhaust. The one supplied with the case was going to be removed. (Guessing it wouldn't be very quiet?)

teppic · 5 Sep 2013 at 23:12

Ah, I thought there would be some cheaper ones. In that case, it is ok.

The case fans are up to you. You won't have any issues at all with overheating, however.

P4Clock · 5 Sep 2013 at 23:32

that looks ok. for a normal day/office use pc, the i3 would run better but AMD are stable in the office

mushtafa · 6 Sep 2013 at 19:13

Went for two of these in the end, had to add a DVD-RW, realised our ones were IDE

Thanks for help

YOUR BASKET
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TD120BW) £79.99
1 x AMD A8-5600K Black Edition 3.60GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Quad Core Processor (AD560KWOHJBOX) £71.99
1 x Gigabyte F2A75M-HD2 AMD A75 Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £57.98
1 x Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (BLS2CP4G3D1609DS1S00CEU) £49.99
1 x Aerocool Qs-200 Lite Midi Tower Case - Black £34.99
1 x OCZ CoreXtreme 500w '80 Plus' Power Supply £31.99
1 x Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo CPU Cooler £26.99
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
Total : £383.52 (includes shipping : £10.50).