Speccing an affordable non-graming rig

Sirrah · 15 Nov 2015 at 17:09

Hi guys,

I am looking to put together a circa £600 rig for a parent - they are tech savvy but using a terrible old laptop.

Here is what I initially came up with:

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x Intel Core i5-6500 3.20GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £169.99
1 x Asus Z170-P Intel Z170 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £89.99
1 x Kingston Fury Black 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-21300C15 2666MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (HX426C15FBK2/16= £89.99
1 x Phanteks Enthoo Evolv ATX Mid Tower Case - Black= £124.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 500W V2 '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020047-UK)= £48.95
1 x Samsung 250GB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-75E250B/EU)= £65.99

Total: £604.60
(includes shipping: £14.70)

I really like to buy good quality stuff and cut out what is unecessary to bring down cost. You can see I left out a dGPU because it would probably go unused and could be added later at any time.

My main questions are - from this basket what do you think is underkill/overkill and have I missed anything important? It has been a while since putting together a pc.

Something else cross my mind - is it me or does the Phanteks case not actually have an optical drive bay? I fear my parent may still occasionally rip a CD or something.

Cheers.
Sirrah

RJC · 15 Nov 2015 at 17:20

What do they use on there system?

stulid · 15 Nov 2015 at 17:20

Buy a CPU+Board bundle = https://www.overclockers.co.uk/giga...-6600k-bundle-20-pounds-saving-bu-021-gi.html

There are also many other better quality PSUs on the market.

Case is a touch expensive, nice but expensive and yes no ODD bay.

Also dont forget you need to add a cooler with the Skylake "K" CPUs.

FixupSellon · 15 Nov 2015 at 17:57

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x Kingston HyperX Fury Blue 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Dual Channel Kit (HX313C9FK2/8)= £35.99
1 x Silverstone Milo ML05B HTPC Case - Black= £33.95
1 x be quiet! SFX Power 2 300W '80 Plus Bronze' SFX Power Supply= £43.99
1 x MSI A88XI AC V2 AMD A88X (Socket FM2+) DDR3 Mini ITX Motherboard= £69.95
1 x AMD Kaveri A10-7870K 12 Compute Core APU w/ Radeon R7 Graphics (4 CPU + 8 GPU Compute Cores) - Reta= £109.99
1 x Samsung 250GB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-75E250B/EU)= £65.99
1 x Samsung Spinpoint M9T 2TB, SATA 6Gb/s (ST2000LM003/ST2000LM006)= £77.99
1 x LG GS40N Slot-Load DVD+/-RW Rewriter Dual Layer Optical Drive Slim SATA= £25.99

Total: £474.94
(includes shipping: £11.10)