Please help me spec a basic PC for office use

The Scop

The Scop

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Hi everyone,


Firstly wanted to say massive thank you for your help with specing me a fantastic Ryzen gaming pc early last year. I built it and it is still going amazingly strong and well :-).

I now call once again on your advice please. The gym owner of the gym I go to recently got rid of his all in one PC they had as it was outdated and slow. He is looking for a new one and I suggested building one instead. He has a budget of around £500-700 pounds. They only need it for medium intensity web browsing (using their gym portal), playing spotify for the gym's music and maybe they play basic solitaire if they're unoccupied, lol.

They would need a basic mouse, keyboard and a they would need a monitor too 24 inches maximum I would guess as it's going on a desk with overhanging ledge. Hopefully something can be done in this price range. Obviously don't need a fancy dan graphics card or anything like that. 16GB of ram would probably be a good future proof though?


Cheers in advance for you help.


Mark
(The Scop)
 
To be honest, with the use it will get you are better off just buying a box off the shelf.
When buying for the office I work in all I look for is an i3 or i5 around 3Ghz+ with 8GB ram (16 would be overkill for the use it will get) most come with a keyborad and mouse, but check the spec page for that, for around £350-400+vat. Note what video outputs it has and just get a matching monitor to suit for £80-100.
Normally I wipe them to a clean install before installing all the standard stuff we use, but thats just our user preferance :)
 
Most of the OCUK machines are a little higher up the stack at the moment, the closest they have would be something like the below. Note that you're going to have to add your own windows install if you want it this cheap. It's actually not a bad little machine, the 3200G comes with an APU which can even play some mid-range games at about 30-60 FPS. I put in the 16 GB of RAM and an SSD, because frankly you'd be mad not to for £25, on a £387 build.


My basket at Overclockers UK:
  • 1 x OcUK Tech Labs AMD Ryzen Home & Small Office Micro ATX Configurator = £386.94
    • Case:Kolink KLM-003 Micro-ATX Case - Black
    • Memory:Team Group Vulcan Z T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C16 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey
    • Primary Drive:TeamGroup 512GB Vulcan G SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 3D NAND Solid State Drive
    • Secondary Drive:Unwanted
    • Graphics Card (MUST BE SELECTED IF CPU DOES NOT HAVE VEGA GRAPHICS):Unwanted
    • Optical Drive **Please Check Chassis Support**:Unwanted
    • Power Supply:Kolink Core Series 500W 80 Plus Certified Power Supply
    • WIFI:Unwanted
    • Operating System:Unwanted
    • Security Software:Unwanted
    • Build Time:Standard Build Systems - Dispatched in approx 10-15 working days
    • Keyboard & Mouse Set:Unwanted
    • Monitor:Unwanted
    • Processor:AMD Ryzen 3 3200G Quad Core 4.0GHz (Socket AM4) APU with RX Vega 8 Graphics - MPK
    • Motherboard:Gigabyte B450M-DS3H AMD B450 (Socket AM4) DDR4 Micro-ATX Motherboard
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Otherwise going used/renewed isn't a bad idea for a basic bears office machine. Make sure to buy an SSD, grab the product key and reinstall windows if you go far enough down market to not get an SSD.

Old windows machines without SSD's or 8GB+ of RAM really drag their feet.
 
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