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He just bought it. And it has an SSD so read/write is not that of an issue. The model is Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro (59-433543) , it's just so unresponsive sometimes.

It's for my dad, he currently has an ultrabook with a i5 clocked at 1.8ghz & 8gb RAM. He finds it too slow. I don't really know desktops, I thought that looked ok. Would I be able to get a skylake within the same price range?

Hi Personally, I never had a desktop so I don't really know much about it. This will be my first time. The PC will be mostly used for general business things: office, mail, browsing. This is the build I came up with. I can't really go much higher with the price as I was going for was €600 Is it any good? Am I missing anything? Do I need to buy something on top of that in order to put the whole system together (except for Peripherals)? PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: Intel Core i5-4690 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor (€239.89 @ Amazon Deutschland) Motherboard: MSI Z97 PC MATE ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (€91.89 @ Amazon Deutschland) Memory: G.Skill NS Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (€51.95 @ Amazon Deutschland) Storage: Sandisk SSD PLUS 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (€44.00 @ Amazon Deutschland) Storage: Hitachi Deskstar 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (€67.95 @ Amazon Deutschland) Case: Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case (€65.89 @ Amazon Deutschland) Power Supply: be quiet! STRAIGHT POWER 10 400W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply (€74.89 @ Amazon Deutschland) Total: €636.46 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-01-09 22:20 CET+0100 Thanks in advance

Let's say my budget is $1000, that should get me a bit more decent system right? Instead of having to puzzle it together, or would that still be too low?

Hmm, I read up on unraid. In order to have a hybrid VM, processor needs to have VT-d & -x support, which this one does not. Also apparently I need a seperate graphics card for this aswell because unraind can't pass thru integrated graphics

Hello Recently, my dad was required to buy a new laptop since the GPU in his last one died. He bought a lenovo Yoga 2 (ultrabook, i5), and he's not really happy with the power that it delivers. So, he would like a seperate desktop for in his office/home where he can also store the data of his laptop since this only has 1 SSD. He doesn't want to spend a whole lot of money (max $500) but I think a Nas and desktop combination would be ideal so he doesn't lose all the data that is backed up when a drive fails. I have a laptop myself so I don't know much about building my own rig. I came up with this on pcpartpicker: http://de.pcpartpicker.com/p/z6znbv (I live in belgium so that's why it's on DE) - Is this allright if I want to make some sort of setup like in "Use your Gaming PC's Extra Power as a NAS Ultimate Guide"? - Do I need a seperate GPU for this? It's just gonna be used for business in general. (emails, microsoft office,browsing). - What would you recommend between the $500 - $800? Thanks in advance EDIT: I would like to have a similar configuration like the video. A hybrid VM & nas, apparently this CPU doesn't support hyper-threading, so this won't work. And unraid can't pass thru integrated GPU, so I would need that aswell. Is there any solution out there that can do this for a reasonable price? how does this look? I just need a good CPU that supports hyperthreading/virtualization PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: AMD Athlon X4 860K 3.7GHz Quad-Core Processor (€81.48 @ Mindfactory) Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-F2A88XM-D3H Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard (€63.44 @ Mindfactory) Memory: Kingston 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (€79.89 @ Amazon Deutschland) Storage: Sandisk SSD PLUS 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (€44.00 @ Amazon Deutschland) Storage: Hitachi Ultrastar 7K3000 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (€65.00 @ Amazon Deutschland) Storage: Hitachi Ultrastar 7K3000 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (€65.00 @ Amazon Deutschland) Video Card: XFX Radeon HD 5450 1GB Video Card (€31.36 @ Amazon Deutschland) Case: Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case (€65.89 @ Amazon Deutschland) Power Supply: Corsair CX 430W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (€58.43 @ Mindfactory) Other: unRAID Server (€59.00) Total: €613.49 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-01-09 17:07 CET+0100

Linus tech tips had really enlarged my vision on The insides of a computer and other cool tech. Since i was never able to build a custom PC myself(because i move a lot). It is a really great way to learn more. With this info i am happy to start my computer sciences course this year.