Small pc to the office

[jaffveyda]

Hi

Can someone please help me spec up a cheap ~ £500 computer for office work, excel, outlook, and viewing pdf,dxf drawings, opening structural drawings in Autocad.
I was thinking using Kaby lake G4560 cpu, would that be any good. I looked at the already built systems but they are lacking either memory of hdd volume (i.e 4Gb of ram or 500hdd).

Much appreciated.

 

[mickyflinn]

Will this be a self build ?

 

[jaffveyda]

Will this be a self build ?

Yes, to get the most performance for the buck

 

[mickyflinn]

Heres a starting point, maybe add an ssd or whatever you think you may need.


My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Intel Pentium G4560 3.50GHz (Kaby Lake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £64.99
• 1 x Gigabyte GA-B250M-DS3H Intel B250 (Socket 1151) DDR4 Micro ATX Motherboard= £69.95
• 1 x Team Group Vulcan T-Force 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C14 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey (TLGD48G2400= £59.99
• 1 x XFX XT Series 400W 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply= £34.99
• 1 x Seagate BarraCuda 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM (ST1000DM010)= £45.95
• 1 x Bitfenix Nova Midi Tower Case - Black= £26.99
• 1 x LG 24x DVDRW SATA Rewriter - OEM (GH24NSD0)= £13.99

Total: £329.15
(includes shipping: £12.30)



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[jaffveyda]

Would i need the graphic card, or the intel build in would be sufficient?
I never used their chip for graphic purposes.

 

[chippy08]

No graphics card needed

 

[jaffveyda]

Cheers
Can i use Windows 8 Professional with it? Or does it need to be 10?

 

[ExoMale]

a lot of office base computers either use dual cores of old or i3 with certain higher tier ones running i7s, so the 4c8t(like i7s) 1400 will breeze through it all and depending on level of autocad(some more demanding than others) then it will certainly do, 8gb ram should be plenty also, not many office type computers have ssds or anything of a large storage size(all the ones ive used dont think they ever went near 500gb), so the 240gb should be enough and still being quick. the case is an ideal solution and will be able to fit a 1tb 3.5 drive if need be, wont need more than 300w either.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 Quad Core 1400 3.40GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £158.99
• 1 x Asus Prime A320M-K AMD A320 (Socket AM4) DDR4 Micro ATX Motherboard= £60.95
• 1 x Kingston Savage Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C15 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit (HX430C15SB2K2/8)= £74.99
• 1 x WD Green 240GB 2.5" SATA 6Gbps Solid State Drive (WDS240G1G0A)= £74.99
• 1 x Aerocool CS101 Micro ATX Case - Black= £26.99
• 1 x Silverstone Strider SST-ST30SF SFX Series - 300 Watt '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply= £45.95

Total: £455.16
(includes shipping: £12.30)



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it might have more performance than you need, but if you wanting to spend £400-500 then this will breeze through any office work for a few years.

 

[d_brennen]

^^ No GPU?

 

[ExoMale]

^^ No GPU?

mine? actually i just looked, i didnt realise the ryzen tech didnt have integrated, i thought they might have been like the older types that do.


here you go then, ive seen office computers with worse graphic card solutions.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 Quad Core 1400 3.40GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £158.99
• 1 x Asus Prime A320M-K AMD A320 (Socket AM4) DDR4 Micro ATX Motherboard= £60.95
• 1 x Kingston Savage Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C15 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit (HX430C15SB2K2/8)= £74.99
• 1 x WD Green 240GB 2.5" SATA 6Gbps Solid State Drive (WDS240G1G0A)= £74.99
• 1 x Aerocool CS101 Micro ATX Case - Black= £26.99
• 1 x Silverstone Strider SST-ST30SF SFX Series - 300 Watt '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply= £45.95
• 1 x Palit GeForce GT 610 Low Profile 1024MB GDDR3 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £23.99

Total: £479.15
(includes shipping: £12.30)



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