Office build

Peerzy · 7 Dec 2011 at 17:47

Client wants to replace his PC in his office. Will be used for internet, email and Microsoft Office jobs nothing else really.

I've got Win 7 sorted and he's happy to keep his current (VGA) monitor, keyboard, mouse and speakers so I'm after just the base unit.

What can you guys suggest, budget is as small as possible. £200-£300. Case is right under a desk so the most basic cheap one will do, HDD space can be small as he stores very little on the PC. He won't require it run anything intensive BUT he will want it to do the simple stuff (internet, email, Office) very quickly so I was thinking 4GB Ram, onbaord graphics, 160GB~ HDD (maybe a smaller SSD if it wasn't much more).

Cheers

Peerzy · 7 Dec 2011 at 23:58

Bump!

beejjacobs · 8 Dec 2011 at 00:06

YOUR BASKET
1 x Crucial RealSSD M4 64GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CT064M4SSD2) £82.99
1 x Intel Pentium G620 2.60GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £52.99
1 x MSI H61M-E33 Intel H61 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard **B3 REVISION** £46.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 430W V2 '80 Plus' Power Supply (CMPSU-430CXUKV2) £39.98
1 x BitFenix Merc Alpha Gaming Case - Black £32.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/4GX) £19.98
Total : £290.93 (includes shipping : £12.50).

This maybe? Case is probably preference. But this is a nice one

Peerzy · 8 Dec 2011 at 10:30

beejjacobs said:
YOUR BASKET
1 x Crucial RealSSD M4 64GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CT064M4SSD2) £82.99
1 x Intel Pentium G620 2.60GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £52.99
1 x MSI H61M-E33 Intel H61 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard **B3 REVISION** £46.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 430W V2 '80 Plus' Power Supply (CMPSU-430CXUKV2) £39.98
1 x BitFenix Merc Alpha Gaming Case - Black £32.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/4GX) £19.98
Total : £290.93 (includes shipping : £12.50).

This maybe? Case is probably preference. But this is a nice one

Looks good, missing a Dvd rw though and I get free shipping, what is that cpu like?

beejjacobs · 8 Dec 2011 at 12:49

Pretty good for the price:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4524/...-review-pentium-g850-g840-g620-g620t-tested/6

Assuming he won't be doing anything heavily threaded it should be good for everyday.

Well with free shipping, you can get the cheapest SATA DVD RW drive for £17 or so in budget.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CD-099-SA&groupid=701&catid=10&subcat=951

beejjacobs · 8 Dec 2011 at 12:51

If you got a second hand HDD for £40 or less, there's then enough left in the budget (without the SSD) to get and i3:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-367-IN&groupid=701&catid=6&subcat=1671

Which is better of course, but perhaps not necessary? Up to you

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/406?vs=289

Peerzy · 8 Dec 2011 at 13:40

beejjacobs said:
Pretty good for the price:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4524/...-review-pentium-g850-g840-g620-g620t-tested/6

Assuming he won't be doing anything heavily threaded it should be good for everyday.

Well with free shipping, you can get the cheapest SATA DVD RW drive for £17 or so in budget.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CD-099-SA&groupid=701&catid=10&subcat=951

They've gone up! I got a bunch a while back for about £10 each! Cheers will have a look.

beejjacobs said:
If you got a second hand HDD for £40 or less, there's then enough left in the budget (without the SSD) to get and i3:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-367-IN&groupid=701&catid=6&subcat=1671

Which is better of course, but perhaps not necessary? Up to you

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/406?vs=289

I think an SSD would be a better investment for this client than an i3, simply because he will never do anything more than internet/office work but he would want things like boot times, Win7 and opening emails etc to be quick.

beejjacobs · 8 Dec 2011 at 17:19

I'd agree, I'd rather an SSD as it will make more of a difference in everday tasks and the general snappiness of windows

honosuseri · 8 Dec 2011 at 18:02

beejjacobs said:
YOUR BASKET
1 x Crucial RealSSD M4 64GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CT064M4SSD2) £82.99
1 x Intel Pentium G620 2.60GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £52.99
1 x MSI H61M-E33 Intel H61 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard **B3 REVISION** £46.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 430W V2 '80 Plus' Power Supply (CMPSU-430CXUKV2) £39.98
1 x BitFenix Merc Alpha Gaming Case - Black £32.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/4GX) £19.98
Total : £290.93 (includes shipping : £12.50).

This maybe? Case is probably preference. But this is a nice one

Yeah I like that a lot. Seeing as you get free delivery why not go for the G840? The price difference should be about the same as what you would have paid for delivery

iBSOD · 8 Dec 2011 at 18:11

Why not consider Llano?

honosuseri · 8 Dec 2011 at 18:15

iBSOD said:
Why not consider Llano?

I think they make excellent HTPC rigs as the IGP is better. However for an office machine that's not really essential. I would rather be on the 1155 socket and have support for the Pentium G/i3/i5/i7 cpus.

Peerzy · 8 Dec 2011 at 18:29

Ordered the above parts minus the case and RAM. Got a Coolermaster 343 case from OcUK and some Corsair 8GB Ram (£30~) from somewhere else and total came to £299.17.

Recon he'll be happy with that for a sub £300 build.

Wanted a proper sized case and not a mini case or HTPC case purely for reliability, and ease of upgrade in the future.