Office PC Build?

[Deathninja]

The Mrs. is going back to uni for her PhD in September, and wants a PC (talked her out of another laptop as she abuses them something rotten).

Just needs it for Office, email, iTunes, that sort of thing, though maybe Civ4/5 on the gaming side.

The prebuild on OCUK looks fairly decent: link, I might be able to scrounge up a copy of Win 10 though.

I'm no stranger to building these myself, but is this a good enough package to get her going on the cheap? Not sure if it's worth throwing one of the £20-£30 PCI-E GPUs, not sure how good onboard is these days.

Cheers.

 

[Danny75]

Budget?

 

[Deathninja]

£300 with the OS, so £210 realistically, anything we can do to lower that the better.

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I came up with this components list:

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/frac...-xfx-430w-80-bronze-psu-bundle-bu-000-fd.html
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/amd-...et-fm2-apu-quad-core-processor-cp-389-am.html
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/king...dual-channel-kit-hx318c9t3k2-8-my-138-ks.html
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/tosh...rmance-hard-drive-hdwd110uzsva-hd-044-ts.html
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/tosh...rmance-hard-drive-hdwd110uzsva-hd-044-ts.html
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/microsoft-windows-10-64-bit-dvd-oem-ms-kw9-00139-sw-172-ms.html

It comes to around £326 delivered. The PSU is a basic unit based on a Seasonic design(not made by Seasonic interestingly enough!) but should be fine for the parts I suggested.

If you had 100 posts you could get free postage and save around £14.

The A8 7600 IGP when partnered with 1866MHZ to 2400MHZ DDR3 has the performance of a £40 perhaps £50 graphics card and the A8 7600 CPU is also quad core.