Spec me office PCs

[pepsilol]

Ditching the prebuilt route and doing it myself

Am I missing anything here? it's for Office PCS running Win7332bit Pro. Usual office work alongside some 3rd party software. No hardcore stuff.

 

[Havana_UK]

Personal view is that I would ditch the DVD drive (unless really needed - can always build one machine off an external drive then ghost the rest, or do them all from external drive), and go for 4GB RAM over 2GB. Windows 7 will be painfully slow with only 2GB, and the cost increase is negligible.

I would also look at going the AMD APU route. Should work out lots cheaper.

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD A6-5400K Black Edition 3.60GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Dual Core Processor (AD540KOKHJBOX) £47.99
1 x Asus A55BM-E AMD A55 Chipset (Socket FM2+) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £37.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST500DM002) HDD £35.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED34GM1600HC11DC01) £32.99
1 x OcUK Value Imp MicroATX Tower Case (500w PSU) £31.99
1 x Pioneer 24x Internal DVR-221LBK DVD Rewriter - OEM £14.99
Total : £215.44 (includes shipping : £11.25).

 

[joeyjojo]

That's DDR2 memory, won't work in a DDR3 mobo.

 

[MagicBoy]

Hard Drive?

 

[Havana_UK]

Hard Drive?

I knew that!

(edited)

 

[meandu229]

Hard Drive?

On the bottom of the screen shot it says +£60 for ssd

 

[MagicBoy]

On the bottom of the screen shot it says +£60 for ssd

10 points to you for good eyesight. Would have made more sense to write it in the text, rather then edit the screenshot.

 

[pepsilol]

Ah ignore the DDR2.

Should be 4gb DDR3.

Is it bad I really have an aversion to AMD

 

[Tohrazer]

Ah ignore the DDR2.

Should be 4gb DDR3.

Is it bad I really have an aversion to AMD

yes i have never had an AMD cpu but i recommend them when it's the logical choice, which it often is!

 

[Havana_UK]

Is it bad I really have an aversion to AMD

Depends. What's it based upon?

IMHO, Intel don't compete at all at the low end with AMD's APU offerings.

 

[pepsilol]

Ok AMD is quite reasonable

What do people think of this

AMD FX6300 Black Edition 6 Core (3.5/4.1GHz, 8MB Level 3 Cache, 6MB Level 2 Cache, Socket AM3+, 95W, Retail Boxed)


Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 Motherboard (Socket AM3+, Up to 16GB DDR3, USB 3.0, uATX)


Corsair CMZ4GX3M1A1600C9 4GB 1600MHz CL9 DDR3 Vengeance Memory Module


OCZ OCZ-CXS500W-UK CoreXStream Series 500W Power Supply


Zalman T3 Mini M-ATX/M-ITX Tower Case


Crucial CT120M500SSD1 2.5-inch 120GB M500 SATA 6Gb/s Internal Solid State Drive


Total is £280 all inc

 

[Havana_UK]

Ok AMD is quite reasonable

What do people think of this

AMD FX6300 Black Edition 6 Core (3.5/4.1GHz, 8MB Level 3 Cache, 6MB Level 2 Cache, Socket AM3+, 95W, Retail Boxed)


Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 Motherboard (Socket AM3+, Up to 16GB DDR3, USB 3.0, uATX)


Corsair CMZ4GX3M1A1600C9 4GB 1600MHz CL9 DDR3 Vengeance Memory Module


OCZ OCZ-CXS500W-UK CoreXStream Series 500W Power Supply


Zalman T3 Mini M-ATX/M-ITX Tower Case


Crucial CT120M500SSD1 2.5-inch 120GB M500 SATA 6Gb/s Internal Solid State Drive


Total is £280 all inc

Waste of money, plus you'll need a GPU of some description.

Get the cheapest APU, it's more than capable enough to run Windows + Office.

My proposed build was £180 + the SSD or HDD, whatever you choose, and will use the (very capable) on-chip GPU.

 

[pepsilol]

MSI FM2-A75MA-E35 AMD FM2 Micro ATX Motherboard (Socket FM2)
AMD A8 5600K Black Edition CPU (3.6GHZ, 4MB Cache, 4 Core, HD6570, Socket FM2, 100W, Retail Boxed)
Crucial CT120M500SSD1 2.5-inch 120GB M500 SATA 6Gb/s Internal Solid State Drive
Zalman T3 Mini M-ATX/M-ITX Tower Case
OCZ OCZ-CXS500W-UK CoreXStream Series 500W Power Supply
Corsair CMZ4GX3M1A1600C9 4GB 1600MHz CL9 DDR3 Vengeance Memory Module

Total is £250

This has a better PSU. Don't really trust cheap PSUs.