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GraemeUK

GraemeUK

GraemeUK

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Hey guys,

Just looking for some advice please as theres not much on offer prebuilt on the ocuk website for office PC's.

I'm looking to either buy or build 3x PC's (dont need monitors or keyboard/mouse) for running Sage 50 server and just general office work email, office etc. Don't need a dedicated graphics card.

Would like something quite powerful CPU wise so they will last a while/futureproof.

Any help or advice would be much appreciated.
 
Swapping to the 13500 is something I'd strongly recommend, since it has a better IGP and 4 more E-Cores. The 14th gen non-K CPUs are due soon too.

My basket at OcUK:

Total: £624.84 (includes delivery: £7.99)​

If you want to use the whole budget (would be silly overkill for 99% of office PCs, but anyhow):

My basket at OcUK:

Total: £1,005.85 (includes delivery: £11.98)​

Warning: board may require a bios flash for 14th gen compatibility.

Cooler: this.
 
Intel Core i5-13400 (Raptor Lake) Socket LGA1700 Processor - Retail
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£230 (incl. VAT)
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Gigabyte B760M DS3H DDR4 (LGA 1700) DDR4 Micro-ATX Motherboard
MB-5C0-GI
£115 (incl. VAT)
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Kolink KLM-003 Micro-ATX Case - Black
CA-054-KK
£28 (incl. VAT)
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Phanteks AMP 650W 80 Plus Gold Modular Power Supply
CA-09Q-PT
£90 (incl. VAT)
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Intel Core i7-14700K (Raptor Lake-S) Socket LGA1700 Processor - Retail
PRO-INT-00800
£420 (incl. VAT)
£300 (incl. VAT)
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MSI B760 Gaming Plus WIFI (LGA 1700) DDR5 ATX Motherboard
MB-37M-MS
£145 (incl. VAT)
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Kingston FURY Beast 32GB (2x16GB) DDR5 PC5-44800C40 5600MHz Dual Channel Kit
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£120 (incl. VAT)
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Imo better buying a refurbed server with a couple of SSDs as the DB host. The better resellers offer decent warranties too then a couple of micro factor Dell/hp/Lenovo pcs running something like i5 12500T/8gb ram/256 GB SSD.
 
brendy said:
Imo better buying a refurbed server with a couple of SSDs as the DB host. The better resellers offer decent warranties too then a couple of micro factor Dell/hp/Lenovo pcs running something like i5 12500T/8gb ram/256 GB SSD.
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Thank you Brendy. Only problem with that is I'd be out of my depth setting that up.
 
GraemeUK said:
Thank you Brendy. Only problem with that is I'd be out of my depth setting that up.
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Understood, we use Sage across a few different small sites in the group (our larger co's use Sage 200 and SAP), even in our smallest satellite site we use a small server for redundancy, file/print services and the fact that the server OS is much more client orientated where windows 10/11 isnt as well suited, ie it looks after itself first before using resources for external machine requests.
Setting up server isnt much harder than windows 10 etc these days, quite plug and play and you can add abilities as you get comfortable with it. If you ever decide to go down that path, somewere like techbuyer who Id use for both refurb and new HP kit.
 
Thank you very much for the info Brendy, I really do appreciate it. I will do some research into getting a refurb server first and then decide. Thank you
 
@GraemeUK I think @brendy is onto something. A small server and three thin clients running Citrix or whatever the current equivalent it. There are also businesses that run the server for you and you just use your thin clients to connect to them and they handle all things to do with the server and offer support. More expensive in the long haul but there is competition. Depending on the cost of one verses the other bearing in mind you will have to upgrade PC's, support users etc just do a brief cost/benefit analysis
 
One business I worked for priced up thin clients Vs cheap pc. The cheap pc were actually cheaper. There are a number of web based offerings of accounting software such as Xero might be worth a look.

Isn't sage 50 out of support?
 
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