Sub £500 build including OS, monitor & keyboard/mouse

jamieslucky7

jamieslucky7

jamieslucky7

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Hello. My laptop is on its last legs and I'm planning on building a PC. It'll be used only for browsing, watching videos, potentially pogramming. Integrated graphics will be fine, and I'd like an SSD (120GB).

I have a windows 7 licence that came with my ACER laptop but I don't know if that's transferable?

A 22" should be enough (I'm planning on wall mounting the monitor).

Basic keyboard and mouse should be fine.

Thanks in advance.

I'm happy with a pretty built or self built PC.
 
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YOUR BASKET
1 x AOC E2460SH 24" Widescreen 1ms Gaming LED Monitor - Black £113.99
1 x AMD Kaveri 7700K 10 Compute Core APU w/ Radeon R7 Graphics (4 CPU + 6 GPU Compute Cores) - Retail £99.95
1 x Crucial BX100 250GB SSD SATA 6Gbps 7mm Solid State Drive (CT250BX100SSD1) £72.98
1 x Kingston HyperX Savage Red 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (HX324C11SRK2/8) £46.99
1 x Gigabyte F2A88XM-DS2 AMD A88X (Socket FM2+) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £40.99
1 x CM Storm Devastator Gaming Bundle - USB Keyboard & Mouse £34.99
1 x Xigmatek Maverick 500W '80 Plus Bronze' Semi Modular Power Supply £34.99
1 x Zalman Z1 Midi-Tower USB 3.0 - Black £24.95
Total : £491.26 (includes shipping : £17.85).




Could even play some games on this.

Im not sure about your Win7 license, if its oem its usually tied to the board it was installed on, but im 99% sure people have got around this and activated it by phoning Microsoft.
 
stulid said:
YOUR BASKET
1 x AOC E2460SH 24" Widescreen 1ms Gaming LED Monitor - Black £113.99
1 x AMD Kaveri 7700K 10 Compute Core APU w/ Radeon R7 Graphics (4 CPU + 6 GPU Compute Cores) - Retail £99.95
1 x Crucial BX100 250GB SSD SATA 6Gbps 7mm Solid State Drive (CT250BX100SSD1) £72.98
1 x Kingston HyperX Savage Red 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (HX324C11SRK2/8) £46.99
1 x Gigabyte F2A88XM-DS2 AMD A88X (Socket FM2+) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £40.99
1 x CM Storm Devastator Gaming Bundle - USB Keyboard & Mouse £34.99
1 x Xigmatek Maverick 500W '80 Plus Bronze' Semi Modular Power Supply £34.99
1 x Zalman Z1 Midi-Tower USB 3.0 - Black £24.95
Total : £491.26 (includes shipping : £17.85).




Could even play some games on this.

Im not sure about your Win7 license, if its oem its usually tied to the board it was installed on, but im 99% sure people have got around this and activated it by phoning Microsoft.
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Could something similar be possible for £400? I'm not sure I'd ever use it for gaming.
 
 
If you are not gaming then no, maybe spending the £100 on an intel setup (H81 and i3/pentium) will gain a slightly more upgradable platform (drop an I7 or i5 in later).

YOUR BASKET
1 x AOC E2460SH 24" Widescreen 1ms Gaming LED Monitor - Black £113.99
1 x Crucial BX100 250GB SSD SATA 6Gbps 7mm Solid State Drive (CT250BX100SSD1) £72.98
1 x Gigabyte Z97P-D3 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £63.95
1 x Intel Pentium K Anniversary G3258 Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £59.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Savage Red 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (HX324C11SRK2/8) £46.99
1 x Xigmatek Maverick 500W '80 Plus Bronze' Semi Modular Power Supply £34.99
1 x CM Storm Devastator Gaming Bundle - USB Keyboard & Mouse £34.99
1 x Zalman Z1 Midi-Tower USB 3.0 - Black £24.95
Total : £474.25 (includes shipping : £17.85).

 
If I can't switch my windows licence perhaps I'll just install Ubuntu to save some cash. I'd like to get the cheapest system possible for my requirements which includes an SSD and CPU that'll perform well for 5~ years
 
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