Spec a sub £500 100% solid state pc

[BigHairyBloke]

no monitor keyboard or mouse needed.

Any suggestions for everything else? Small 128gb ssd acceptable.

Cheers

Steve

 

[tamzzy]

need windows?

 

[Delta3D]

What's it going to be running? Office programs? Games?

 

[BigHairyBloke]

Office progs, Windows 10 not included

 

[BigHairyBloke]

No games, just has to be rock stable.

 

[tamzzy]

if no heavy number crunching involved, then this should be sufficient.
obvs, drop down to a 120gb ssd if a 275gb ssd isnt required for a cheaper build

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x EVGA 450BT 450W 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply= £37.99
• 1 x Intel Pentium Dual Core G4400 3.30GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £49.99
• 1 x Gigabyte GA-B250M-D3H Intel B250 (Socket 1151) DDR4 Micro ATX Motherboard= £74.99
• 1 x Aerocool QS-240 Micro-ATX Case - Black= £29.99
• 1 x Arctic Cooling F12 PWM Fan Rev. 2 - 120mm= £4.99
• 1 x Crucial MX300 275GB SSD SATA 6Gbps 3D Nand 7mm Solid State Drive (CT275MX300SSD1)= £85.99
• 1 x Team Group Vulcan T-Force 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C14 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey (TLGD48G2400= £79.99

Total: £375.03 (includes shipping: £11.10)
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[BigHairyBloke]

No moving parts at all please, 100% solid state no fans at all. But thanks for the info, as long as the mb is fanless, I just need to swap out the ps and the cpu cooler.

Cheers

Steve

 

[southernorth]

No moving parts at all please, 100% solid state no fans at all. But thanks for the info, as long as the mb is fanless, I just need to swap out the ps and the cpu cooler.

Cheers

Steve

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Gigabyte GA-B250M-DS3H Intel B250 (Socket 1151) DDR4 Micro ATX Motherboard= £69.95
• 1 x Prolimatech Megahalems Rev C CPU Cooler= £49.99
• 1 x Seasonic 400w FANLESS '80 Plus Platinum' Modular Power Supply= £114.95
• 1 x Team Group Vulcan T-Force 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C14 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey (TLGD48G2400= £79.99
• 1 x Kolink Satellite Micro-ATX Cube Case - Black= £26.99
• 1 x Intel Pentium G4620 3.70GHz (Kaby Lake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £94.99
• 1 x WD Green 240GB M.2 2280 6Gbps Solid State Drive (WDS240G1G0B)= £74.99

Total: £524.15 (includes shipping: £12.30)


Take the case fan out, use the CPU cooler passively. No moving parts.​

 

[tamzzy]

@southernorth aint gonna work, ryzen has no built-in gpu

 

[tamzzy]

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Gigabyte GA-B250M-D3H Intel B250 (Socket 1151) DDR4 Micro ATX Motherboard= £74.99
• 1 x Crucial MX300 275GB SSD SATA 6Gbps 3D Nand 7mm Solid State Drive (CT275MX300SSD1)= £85.99
• 1 x Team Group Vulcan T-Force 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C14 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey (TLGD48G2400= £79.99
• 1 x Seasonic 400w FANLESS '80 Plus Platinum' Modular Power Supply= £114.95
• 1 x Intel Pentium Dual Core G4400 3.30GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £49.99
• 1 x Aerocool QS-240 Micro-ATX Case - Black= £29.99

Total: £447.60 (includes shipping: £11.70)​

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for the cpu cooler, google nofan icepipe cr-80eh, that should bring you nicely to £500.

 

[ExoMale]

replace stock cpu cooler along with the case fan for the AIO watercooler.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Intel Celeron G3950 3.00GHz (Kaby Lake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £49.99
• 1 x Gigabyte GA-Z270N-WIFI Intel Z270 (Socket 1151) DDR4 Mini ITX Motherboard= £137.99
• 1 x Team Group Vulcan T-Force 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C14 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey (TLGD48G2400= £79.99
• 1 x WD Green 240GB 2.5" SATA 6Gbps Solid State Drive (WDS240G1G0A)= £79.99
• 1 x Seasonic Focus Plus 550W 80 Plus Gold Modular Power Supply= £84.95
• 1 x CoolerMaster Elite 110 Armour Edition Mini-ITX Cube Case - Black= £29.99
• 1 x ID-Cooling FrostFlow 120-R Watercooling Red LED= £39.95

Total: £514.55 (includes shipping: £11.70)
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[southernorth]

@southernorth aint gonna work, ryzen has no built-in gpu

Thanks, the back of my mind was telling me there was something wrong - and there it was.

 

[Danny75]

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Team Group Vulcan T-Force 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C14 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey (TLGD48G2400= £79.99
• 1 x Prolimatech Genesis CPU Cooler= £49.99
• 1 x Samsung 250GB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-75E250B/EU)= £89.99
• 1 x Phanteks Evolv ITX Glass Mini-ITX Case - White= £59.99
• 1 x Intel Celeron G3930 2.90GHz (Kaby Lake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £35.99

Total: £327.05 (includes shipping: £11.10)
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MSI B250i Pro Mini ITX motherboard - £86.25
EVGA 450 B3 power supply with Eco Mode (turns fan off) - £49.99

Total - £463.29

You'd just have to remove the fan from the case and activate Eco Mode on the PSU. Case is on special offer.

 

[BigHairyBloke]

Thanks people. So out of the above, which would be the best performer and most robust?

 

[tamzzy]

best performer

probably southernorth's build as it has the highest clocked processor, but again, unless you're heavy-duty number crunching, they all should perform similarly on day-to-day tasks

most robust

again, about the same,
now i don't know how good southernorth's and danny75's coolers are without the fans though.
might need a quick google to see how they perform for passive cooling, but regardless, pentium and celerons are lower power chips

 

[Quartz]

no monitor keyboard or mouse needed.

Any suggestions for everything else? Small 128gb ssd acceptable.

Take a look at the Intel NUC systems.

 

[Danny75]

now i don't know how good southernorth's and danny75's coolers are without the fans though.
might need a quick google to see how they perform for passive cooling, but regardless, pentium and celerons are lower power chips

Even a Hyper 212 is good without fan for ~60W. Some have even run ~70W chips like that although that gets a bit toasty. The Pentium and Celeron are ~50W. Went for a better cooler (and with more spread like the Genesis) because there'll be no case airflow without case fans.

 

[Quartz]

If you want a good fanless CPU cooler, you want the Nofan CR-95C, which does not need case fans to make it work.

 

[BigHairyBloke]

Yeah that’s a great cooler, but I need to. Are a budget silent pc for me bro so the 80 is probs good enough.

Cheers

Steve

 

[Quartz]

Yeah that’s a great cooler, but I need to. Are a budget silent pc for me bro so the 80 is probs good enough.

I advise against buying the CR-80. It will gradually work its way loose because the different parts are made of different materials and expand differently.