Please help spec me a home pc

[jamdale]

Hi all, im buildingmy dad a pc for home based working. I build and pick my own parts for my gaming pc but not too sure about parts for a daily work pc. Im asking because if it was upto me id completely overkill it. The budget is £4-500. Case wise im going to try as small as possible tofit on his desk.
Yer so really and truly I need it to be a good pc with pleanty of ram. He isnt going to be doing any pic or vid editing, he is a journalist but uses many programmes at once. Also would prefer intel.
For a good home pc I have no idea where to start so hopefully someone can give me some ideas. Cheers all.

 

[labcoattech]

Does it need to include a monitor, keyboard, mouse, OS?

 

[jamdale]

sorry mate didnt log back in yesterday. Not the kb&m or monitor but it would need an os, so the budget would be £500 but £400 on parts.

 

[jbh110tdi]

any preference on OS?

 

[joeyjojo]

Skylake i3
H110 mobo
8 GB RAM
120 GB SSD
350 W Gold PSU
Case of your choice

Will be tight for £400, but just about doable.

 

[joeyjojo]

Another idea would be an Intel NUC. I used one for a few months and it felt no different to a regular PC. OCUK don't have much stock, but this kind of thing:

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Intel NUC NUC5i3MYHE Core i3-5010U "Maple Canyon" Broadwell Barebones Micro PC= £244.99

Total: £259.09
(includes shipping: £14.10)
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Conventional PC, just add your own choice of case:

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Super Flower Golden Green HX 350W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black= £45.95
• 1 x Intel Core i3-6100 3.70GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £99.95
• 1 x Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-14900C10 1866MHz Dual Channel Kit (HX318C10FBK2/8)= £29.99
• 1 x Kingston 120GB SSDNow V300 Drive SATA 6Gb/s 3 2.5" (7mm height) Solid State Hard Drive - (SV300S37A/= £32.99
• 1 x Asus B150M-A D3 Intel B150 (Socket 1151) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard= £61.99

Total: £281.97
(includes shipping: £11.10)
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[Gze]

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Intel Core i5-6400 2.70GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £155.99
• 1 x Asus H110I Plus D3 Intel H110 (Socket 1151) DDR3 ITX Motherboard= £59.99
• 1 x Panram Ninja-V 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C15 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (PUD42400C154G2NJK)= £23.99
• 1 x Silverstone SST-ML07B Milo Mini ITX Case - Black= £51.95
• 1 x Silverstone Strider SST-ST30SF SFX Series - 300 Watt '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply= £41.99
• 1 x Microsoft Windows 10 64-Bit DVD - OEM (MS-KW9-00139)= £79.99
• 1 x Crucial BX200 240GB SSD SATA 6Gbps Solid State Drive (CT240BX200SSD1)= £55.99

Total: £481.59
(includes shipping: £11.70)
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[jamdale]

Thanks so much guys some awsome ideas for me to think about cheers for the help!

 

[jamdale]

any preference on OS?

Windows 10 as thats what he uses now.

 

[jbh110tdi]

Windows 10 as thats what he uses now.

that's not so bad. took me years to get my dad away from xp and on to 7.

I dont think hell go to 10 anytime soon.

Im back with windows 7 the now did have 10 on my last build but went back to 7 when I built this one. will take the free upgrade before it runs out but at the moment im sticking to what im used to.