What spec do I need and how much?

robfosters · 12 Apr 2016 at 20:29

Guys,

My sig rig is being moved to be the PC for my home studio. I need a PC where the old one was to carry on with my matched betting and for general surfing, e-mail, youtube, SD video playback, office apps, that sort of thing. No games, video encoding or demanding software at all.

I'm a bit lacking knowledge in lower spec stuff with celeron, G, i3, integrated graphics and all that. What would I need for the lowest possible price and is it worth looking second hand for this need? It needs to run 2 monitors.

I have a 128GB SSD that I can use as the OS drive, Shouldn't need much more space than that.

Cheers for your help.

stulid · 12 Apr 2016 at 20:46

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x Fractal Design Core 1000 & XFX 430W 80+ Bronze PSU Bundle= £44.99
1 x Gigabyte GA-F2A68HM-HD2 AMD A68 Chipset (Socket FM2+) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard= £39.95
1 x Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-14900C10 1866MHz Dual Channel Kit (HX318C10FBK2/8)= £29.99
1 x AMD A4-6300 3.70GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Dual Core Processor (AD6300OKHLBOX)= £29.99

Total: £156.02
(includes shipping: £11.10)

That should do, the board has DVI/HDMI/Dsub outputs to run some monitors.

robfosters · 12 Apr 2016 at 20:53

Sorry to be a nuisance Stulid, but what is the best Intel based system please?

stulid · 12 Apr 2016 at 20:57

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x Fractal Design Core 1000 & XFX 430W 80+ Bronze PSU Bundle= £44.99
1 x Asus H81M-K Intel H81 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard= £39.95
1 x Intel Core i3-4170 3.70GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail= £95.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-14900C10 1866MHz Dual Channel Kit (HX318C10FBK2/8)= £29.99

Total: £222.02
(includes shipping: £11.10)

That board has DVI+Dsub.

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Skylake isnt much more,

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x Fractal Design Core 1000 & XFX 430W 80+ Bronze PSU Bundle= £44.99
1 x Team Group Elite 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C16 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (TPKD48GM2400HC16DC0= £29.99
1 x Asus H110M-K Intel H110 (Socket 1151) DDR4 Micro ATX Motherboard= £46.99
1 x Intel Core i3-6100 3.70GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £99.95

Total: £233.62
(includes shipping: £11.70)

robfosters · 12 Apr 2016 at 21:04

Cheers mate. Great stuff. When my PC is moved, I'll probably go for the Skylake one. Add my SSD, a couple of cheap but decent 24 inch monitors and an OS. I'll be away. Will probably need an optical drive for the OS though. Thats only another £15 or so though. Actually, it looks like it could as little as £3 second hand!

Snookums · 14 Apr 2016 at 01:39

robfosters said:
Cheers mate. Great stuff. When my PC is moved, I'll probably go for the Skylake one. Add my SSD, a couple of cheap but decent 24 inch monitors and an OS. I'll be away. Will probably need an optical drive for the OS though. Thats only another £15 or so though. Actually, it looks like it could as little as £3 second hand!

Save yourself buying one and the hassle of installing it and just make a USB bootable. Handiest thing I have ever done, used across all my PC's laptops and friends build just for a quick and easy installation. Needing an optical to install windows is a thing of the past.