Spec Check office PC

IceUK

IceUK

IceUK

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Hi all, if you could just cast your eyes over this spec and keep me a bit of feed back i would appreciate it, a little question the CPU and Mobo are ok?

regards john

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD Kaveri 7700K 10 Compute Core APU w/ Radeon R7 Graphics (4 CPU + 6 GPU Compute Cores) - Retail £109.99
1 x AOC E2470SWDA 23.6" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £104.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02733) £84.95
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE120BW) £62.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan RED 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLRED38G2400HC11CDC01) £49.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 350W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £41.99
1 x Gigabyte F2A88XM-DS2 AMD A88X (Socket FM2+) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £40.99
2 x Seagate Barracuda 500GB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST500DM002) HDD £34.99 (£69.98)
1 x Aerocool Qs-102 Micro-ATX Case - Red £22.99
Total : £588.86 (includes shipping : ).

 
I'd avoid the 840 EVOs. Not all are affected by the slowdown issue but a LOT are. And the "restoration" fix turned out to only be temporary, and as of now there is no new fix.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18615995

Long thread but if you read the first few pages and the last few pages you'll see the issue hasn't gone away.

Retailers ought to consider stopping selling them now and returning all remaining stock to Samsung, as I'm betting they will see a lot of returns from customers shortly. Think OcUK should take the lead* to be honest as Samsung are dithering and people are still buying these drives with known slowdown issues for which there is no guaranteed fix.

* In discontinuing their sale, not in refunding/replacing (that should be Samsung's problem).
 
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Thx for your input, i listed two hard drives so i can keep files backup and have you got any other suggestions regarding solid state drives. Same price range

Thx john
 
 
I think the 7700K is OTT for this if it is just office stuff, a 6600K will save a lot of money.
 
Modified original spec, This should be final spec but if anyone has a better suggestion please say, can't belive i can get all that for £500 incl monitor, we have win7 and office so no need, it will be nice to have win7 and office on ssd and everything else on hard drive

many thx john

YOUR BASKET
1 x AOC E2470SWDA 23.6" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £104.99
1 x AMD Kaveri 7850K 12 Compute Core APU w/ Radeon R7 Graphics (4 CPU + 8 GPU Compute Cores) - Retail **PROMO** £99.95
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan GOLD 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLYED316G1600HC9DC01) £89.99
1 x Crucial MX100 128GB SATA 2.5” 7mm SSD + 9.5mm Adapter (CT128MX100SSD1) £52.98
1 x Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £42.95
1 x Silverstone Strider SST-ST30SF SFX Series - 300 Watt Power Supply £41.99
1 x Gigabyte F2A88XM-DS2 AMD A88X (Socket FM2+) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £40.99
1 x Aerocool Qs-102 Micro-ATX Case - Red £22.99
1 x LG 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM GH24NSC0.AUAA10B £13.99
Total : £510.82 (includes shipping : ).

 
Thx for input,, i thought a office pc would be nice with a load of ram, as m sure there will be several programs open at same time, i know the cu is probably a bit ott but for that price you cant afford to let it go, plus we do edit some videos for our website now and then so it will be good to have a bit of grunt. i have changed ssd to your suggestion, i want windows and office on ssd, everything else on the other hard drive,

i hope its a good build, certainly far better than what a local company

suggested, a Dell optiplex 3020
specification is

ntel® Core™ i5-4590 Processor (Quad Core, 3.30GHz Turbo, 6MB, w/ HD Graphics 4600)
Windows 7 Professional (64Bit Windows 8.1 License, Media) English
4GB1 DDR3 SDRAM at 1600MHz
500GB 3.5inch Serial ATA (7.200 Rpm) Hard Drive
Intel Integrated Graphics, Dell OptiPlex

£486

pile of dung if you ask me, the spec from OC is far better,
 
IceUK said:
pile of dung if you ask me, the spec from OC is far better,
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Better at light gaming, but probably worse at most other tasks where the Intel i5 is substantially faster.

If I were you I'd first describe the programs the machine will be running. If it's a bit of word processing and emails then you could go cheaper (e.g. AMD Kabini or Intel Pentium). If there'll be video encoding then it's complicated but probably the Intel i5 comes out top. In both cases it's unlikely you need more than 8 GB memory.
 
It needs to run office, have fast boot times and switching between programs, must be small size form factor, occasional video editing, just enough to cut a few videos and add some text to them nothing to much, must run access/database queries quickly, multiple programs at once, budget is about £500, incl monitor 24" need everything apart from mouse, keyboard and software.

thx john
 
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