Spec request. Budget build.

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Labrynth

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Afternoon all.

My girlfriend's Dad is after a PC for home use, no gaming.
He has seen the Zoostorm desktops advertised elsewhere and I'm wondering if it's possible to build something similar (out of better parts) for similar (ish) money?
It's his birthday in 2 weeks, so I'm not very hopeful I'll get it done. But any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
 
What is the budget? And what are the specs of the PCs he has been looking at (no competitor links, of course)?
 
Intel Core i3-4130 3.4GHz
- 8GB RAM
- 1TB HDD
- DVD Writer
- No Operating System



One of them is that spec which is £270. But I hear the PSU used in these machines are cheap and loud and I'd prefer to build it for him anyways
I would say the budget is about £300?
 
Without SSD:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Pentium G3220 3.0GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £47.99
1 x Gigabyte H81M-D2V Intel H81 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £46.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £43.99
1 x NZXT Source 210 Elite Midi Tower Case - Black £39.95
1 x TeamGroup Elite 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED34GM1600HC11DC01) £32.99
1 x SuperFlower Amazon 300W "80 Plus Bronze" Power Supply £29.99
1 x OcUK 20x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
Total : £272.99 (includes shipping : £11.75).



With a small SSD:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Pentium G3220 3.0GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £47.99
1 x Kingston 60GB SSDNow V300 Drive SATA 6Gb/s 3 2.5" (7mm height) Solid State Hard Drive - (SV300S37A/60G) £47.99
1 x Gigabyte H81M-D2V Intel H81 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £46.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £43.99
1 x NZXT Source 210 Elite Midi Tower Case - Black £39.95
1 x TeamGroup Elite 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED34GM1600HC11DC01) £32.99
1 x SuperFlower Amazon 300W "80 Plus Bronze" Power Supply £29.99
1 x OcUK 20x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
Total : £320.98 (includes shipping : £11.75).





Edit:

Forgot about the ram, change to this:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-052-TG&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1387
 
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Thanks for the replies!
Without meaning to open up a can of worms here - How would the dual core Intel stack up against the quad core AMD chips?
 
As this machine won't be used for gaming, just general browsing, a bit of office stuff etc I'm guessing the cheaper Intel chip would suffice ok?

He may need a wifi card too...
 
Yeah, it should be more than fine. I think most office-type programs (office, internet etc) only use a single or two cores, so you should be okay. Wifi cards I think are about £20, you could get a dongle too if you wanted.
 
CEUOTC said:
Cheeky AMD build:

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD A8-6600K 3.90GHz (Socket FM2) APU Richland Quad Core Processor (AD660KWOHLBOX) £79.99
1 x Seagate SSHD 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DX001) SSHD Hybrid Drive £71.99
1 x MSI A55M-E33 AMD A55 Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £40.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED34GM1600HC11DC01) £32.99
1 x SuperFlower Amazon 300W "80 Plus Bronze" Power Supply £29.99
1 x Xigmatek Asgard Midi Tower Case - Black £28.99
1 x OcUK 20x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
Total : £316.03 (includes shipping : £11.75).

I'm favouring the AMD spec

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I'm favouring the AMD build but with the 5600k.
What do you think?
Will the mother board come with sata cables? (I can't see that it says so or not)
 
 
Something new might be released tomorrow.

It could be good it could be pants, it could be expensive it maybe priced inline with other stuff.
 
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