Spec Me £400 PC Please

hakank68 · 10 Oct 2015 at 02:15

Hi, my friend wants to build a pc for his uni work including Photoshop, Auto-Cad and plenty of Football Manager, he has a budget around £400 max and he wants something relatively small to fit on his desk, he doesn't need any peripherals or a monitor. Can anyone spec something that will be fast enough to multitask and run the programs above. He also wants an ssd.

Thanks in advance

BinnsY · 10 Oct 2015 at 10:57

Slightly overbudget but your getting the very latest CPU / board combo. The IRIS onboard graphics will be a nice help if this does get pushed harder as there isn't really any justification for a full graphics card.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-6400 2.70GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail £150.95
1 x Gigabyte GA-Z170N-WIFI Intel Z170 (Socket 1151) DDR4 Mini ITX Motherboard £109.99
1 x Crucial BX100 250GB SSD SATA 6Gbps 7mm Solid State Drive (CT250BX100SSD1) £68.99
1 x Kingston Fury Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-21300C15 2666MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (HX426C15FBK2/8) £44.99
1 x BitFenix Colossus M Mini ITX - Black £34.99
1 x be quiet! System Power 7 350W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £25.99
Total : £450.00 (includes shipping : £11.75 Ex.VAT).

Alternatively if the budget really must be stuck to this would do the job.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4590 3.30GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £161.99
1 x Crucial BX100 250GB SSD SATA 6Gbps 7mm Solid State Drive (CT250BX100SSD1) £68.99
1 x Asus H81I-Plus Intel H81 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Mini ITX Motherboard £58.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan GOLD 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLYED38G1600HC9DC01) £35.99
1 x BitFenix Colossus M Mini ITX - Black £34.99
1 x be quiet! System Power 7 350W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £25.99
Total : £400.44 (includes shipping : £11.25 Ex.VAT).

SamyBoy13 · 10 Oct 2015 at 11:06

I would pay extra £50 and get skylake as it has way better igpu on cpu so better fps in games. Here it's nice comparison http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1260?vs=1543
Look at Integrated Graphics test in games, quiet big difference.

Danny75 · 10 Oct 2015 at 15:21

I don't think the Skylakes have Iris graphics. Looks like the description on the OcUK website is (partly) wrong.

Processor Graphics ‡ Intel® HD Graphics 530

http://ark.intel.com/products/88185/Intel-Core-i5-6400-Processor-6M-Cache-up-to-3_30-GHz

megatron · 10 Oct 2015 at 15:30

You can get Kingston Hyper X Fury @ 1600-1866Mhz for ~ £30 for 8Gb. Also look out for a deal on SSD, they often come up.

BinnsY · 10 Oct 2015 at 15:48

Danny75 said:
I don't think the Skylakes have Iris graphics. Looks like the description on the OcUK website is (partly) wrong.

Aren't all of the new generation ones badged as Iris now?

Either way, it's still an improvement over the onboard on haswell

Danny75 · 10 Oct 2015 at 16:23

BinnsY said:
Aren't all of the new generation ones badged as Iris now?

Either way, it's still an improvement over the onboard on haswell

Yeah. My bad. Didn't realize HD 530 fell under "Iris" till now. It's the Iris Pro that never got placed on the Skylakes, which I mixed up.