Spec me an office pc

[Devrij]

This is for a friend at work, and I'm trying to come up with something I can build her. That would beat a rubbish laptop. I as thinking an mitx build with an i3, ssd and 1tb HDD, maybe 8gb ram and WiFi card. No gpu needed as no gaming.

Doable under 500 quid? Not sure if she needs Windows

 

[cutchy2k]

Hmm, maybe check out these: https://www.overclockers.co.uk/inte...nes-micro-pc-2.5-drive-support-fs-020-in.html

needs cpu + ram + ssd

but you got case, mobo, psu and wifi built in there
i mean its sort of basically like a laptop spec tho haha

i use one at work and its pretty decent.

Also super small

 

[Devrij]

That is very small. Is there any performance benefit to going with a separate mobo besides expansion?

 

[Danny75]

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Raijintek Metis - Red Mini ITX Case= £37.99
• 1 x Seasonic S12II 350W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply= £32.99
• 1 x Asus H110I Plus D3 Intel H110 (Socket 1151) DDR3 ITX Motherboard= £59.99
• 1 x Intel Core i3-6100 3.70GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £99.95
• 1 x Corsair Vengeance Low Profile 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CML4GX3M2A1600C= £25.99
• 1 x Crucial BX200 240GB SSD SATA 6Gbps Solid State Drive (CT240BX200SSD1)= £55.99
• 1 x Toshiba P300 1TB 7200RPM 64MB Cache High Performance Hard Drive (HDWD110UZSVA)= £37.99
• 1 x Microsoft Windows 10 32/64-Bit - USB Pen Drive - Retail (KW9-00017)= £89.99
• 1 x Asus PCE-N15 300Mbps 802.11B/G/N Wireless PCI-E Network Adapter= £18.95

Total: £471.53
(includes shipping: £11.70)
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Case is available in other colours.

5-year warranty on PSU.

OcUK don't stock any budget Skylake mini-ITX boards for DDR4 RAM. Not sure if there are any in existence. So it's for DDR3 and Asus advises using below 1.5v for the memory. Went for that Corsair kit as it states it can be run at 1.45v. Probably most can be run at that voltage but at least the official specs give the buyer something to fall back on in case of instability.

To avoid the above, you could go with this instead:


My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Raijintek Metis - Red Mini ITX Case= £37.99
• 1 x Seasonic S12II 350W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply= £32.99
• 1 x Intel Core i3-6100 3.70GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £99.95
• 1 x Crucial BX200 240GB SSD SATA 6Gbps Solid State Drive (CT240BX200SSD1)= £55.99
• 1 x Toshiba P300 1TB 7200RPM 64MB Cache High Performance Hard Drive (HDWD110UZSVA)= £37.99
• 1 x Microsoft Windows 10 32/64-Bit - USB Pen Drive - Retail (KW9-00017)= £89.99
• 1 x Gigabyte GA-Z170N-WIFI Intel Z170 (Socket 1151) DDR4 Mini ITX Motherboard= £109.99
• 1 x Kingston Fury Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-21300C15 2666MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (HX426C15FBK2/8)= £32.99

Total: £509.58
(includes shipping: £11.70)
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[Devrij]

Not fussed about ddr4 as she won't notice any ram bandwidth changes, although the extra 4gb of RAM would make it worthwhile. That's exactly the sort of build I was looking for, thanks very much!

 

[Danny75]

That's exactly the sort of build I was looking for, thanks very much!

Very welcome.