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Roeg1

Roeg1

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Budget of £600 PC will be used for general use. No gaming. Already have monitor etc.

This is what I have come up with so far.
System must be stable its for a family member who lives far away. Ill be building it then he will take it home. So I guess Overclocking and Kseries chips are a no go.

Not sure if there be a better chip or motherboard,ram combo.

Only other thing system must be quite and fit in his desk cupboard dimensions being (w 230mm x d 475mm x h 545mm ) best case I can come up with to fit those dimensions is teh corsair...
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Can anyone do better??? Anything I've overlooked???
 
siumatfung said:
sorry just saw the no gaming but a low end gpu with hdmi output would be good

and i think 600 is probably too much to spend on such a basic pc possibly 400 be a lot better :-)
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My uncle wants something that will last. So I've gone for a good quad core. I'm not sure where to save cash. I recommended a good case and PSU and said that would cost around £120-£150.

One thing I have noticed the ram is 4 gig need an 8 gig kit any recommendations ?
 
RJC said:
Some minor changes, board is M-ATX sp with fit the case, dropped the CPU to a i3.
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Will a dual core do the job then mate. I went with a quad as I expect it to last him a lot longer?

I'm not quite sure how well the mid-low range core performs. Im used to building gaming rigs. :P But a 4770k and a z87 board is a bit overkill imo...

Can anyone tell me how well the onboard GPU works ? I was going to grab a cheap dedicated card. But not sure if one will really be needed. Solitare is about the only game I can see him ever playing. I guess the new IGPU's are fine for 1080p play back.
 
Build 3 taking advice from everyone. I've had a quick read and its seems the 4130 performs within a + and - a couple of % in most cases.

Reaming questions, The board will that fit the case fine ? Or will I have to go with a micro ATX board ?

The ram anything better for around that money ? Same as the board anything better out there for the money? Only gone with Gigabyte as my last few boards have been by them and cant fault them so far. Not used one of there UEFI bios layouts yet they any good ?

Ooooo and importantly will the ram sit ok under that CPU Heatsink ? Had to remove heat-shields from mine. which is np but I'd love to see my uncles face when I'm warming his ram modules up on the radiator then removing them with pliers :D

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Reason for aftermarket cooler is less noise and main thing easier to fit. I hate the stock mounting pins. broke one many moons ago on a socket 775 retail fan :P
 
Ok guys this is my final Pick just need a board now and from your guys advice Ive narrtowed it down to

ASUS H81m-PLUS http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-582-AS

OR THE Gigabyte H87M-HD3 Intel H87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-442-GI

Will I see any befits from the h87 board over h81 features ??? Not sure if its worth the extra bit of money ??? Or is the H81 asus board going to do everything I need.



FINAL BUILD WITHOUT BOARD(Sorry to be a pain but going to order once Ive sorted mobo.)
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@ Everyone thank you very much for the help anotehr OCUK expert helped me on the board question I have placed the order couple of minutes ago.
Really are grateful for all the help. Will make my life a lot easier when my uncle comes round to build. I would still of loved to see his face when the Dremel and angle grinder came out to make that ATX board fit the m-atx case :D

@disi Ill move his Documents folder to the 1tb drive with a symlink like I do on my work computer. I'm running my OS C: from a 30gig SSD with mechanical drives for everything else. Learnt a few tricks with windows 7. Main issue I find is the hidden appdata folder and the refusal for some programs to store its data else where.

The 120gig drive should cover that issue? more than enough for windows around 20 gig up to date. 8 gig page file 40 gig for the rubbish programs love to store on the C: Leave him around 40gig for his main programs. Should be more than enough ? By time he fills that, SSDs will be even cheaper. he can pick another up.

I'll show him how to install crappy programs to the 1tb drive. Not that I can see him installing many. But just encase.
 
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