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[vK 3 1 RON]

 

Okay, I've made a few posts in the past but never really got any answers to them So here I am again, I've thrown this together for my friend - I'd like to request for you guys to take a look and see if it's okay. He won't be gaming that heavily on it, I went with an APU because he's pretty tight financially right now so I'm doing the best I can. He wants to use Blender and maybe some photoshop work - he'll be using it for uni work, he's going to take a course in game design. Basically, my thought-process was to create something that could do that okay, not great right now and leave room for upgrades in the future. All while remaining as low as I could. I'm going to sort the windows OS out myself so that doesn't need to be included in price, and I think he's going to find his own headphone/set anyway so that's not included.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD - Ryzen 3 2200G 3.5 GHz Quad-Core Processor	£89.00 @ Box Limited
Motherboard	ASRock - B450 Pro4 ATX AM4 Motherboard	£81.33 @ CCL Computers
Memory	Team - Vulcan 8 GB (2 x 4 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory	£56.29 @ CCL Computers
Storage	Kingston - A400 240 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive	£31.98 @ Aria PC
Storage	Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive	£34.99 @ Amazon UK
Case	Phanteks - Eclipse P300 Tempered Glass (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case	£50.98 @ Laptops Direct
Power Supply	Corsair - CXM (2015) 450 W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply	£42.64 @ Amazon UK
Wireless Network Adapter	TP-Link - TL-WN881ND PCI-Express x1 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi Adapter	£11.99 @ Amazon UK
Monitor	LG - 22MP58VQ-P 21.5" 1920x1080 60 Hz Monitor	£91.31 @ Amazon UK
Keyboard	Cooler Master - Lite L Wired Gaming Keyboard w/Optical Mouse	£58.91 @ Amazon UK
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	£549.42
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-12-29 03:01 GMT+0000

that's what I've got so far. It's £550 so I was debating to drop the case or SSD out. But I want to keep the SSD in for him, so that leaves the case to be changed? He's not the kind of person to really care about looking inside so I could switch it out for a cheaper option that doesn't include a windowed side-panel. Note: It's all British £ (pound) so I'd appreciate it a lot if you could switch pcpartpicker to uk mode if you edit it

 

Yes, I did try the Gaming Devastator bundle seeing how popular that is but it's gone out of stock right now and I don't know when it'll be back

 

Thanks a bunch! 

vK

 

 

[Fasauceome]

I feel like the 2400g would be nice over the 2200g, on account of the code work.

[vK 3 1 RON]

5 minutes ago, fasauceome said:

I feel like the 2400g would be nice over the 2200g, on account of the code work.

Yeah I wanted to get that, but the 2400g pushes the price to like £600 plus shipping and any tax and (a lil bit for windows 10 ) plus headset/phones and you've got a lot more. He's just started part-time work and so he's only got like £200 right now, maybe a bit more now that's it is after christmas. He's knows nothing about computers to make it even better so me giving him both options of a 2400g and 2200g will most likely make his brain melt  

[Fasauceome]

2 minutes ago, vK 3 1 RON said:

Yeah I wanted to get that, but the 2400g pushes the price to like £600 plus shipping and any tax and (a lil bit for windows 10 ) plus headset/phones and you've got a lot more. He's just started part-time work and so he's only got like £200 right now, maybe a bit more now that's it is after christmas. He's knows nothing about computers to make it even better so me giving him both options of a 2400g and 2200g will most likely make his brain melt  

Don't forget, new Ryzen around the corner. Better stuff will come out, current stuff will be cheaper

[vK 3 1 RON]

Just now, fasauceome said:

Don't forget, new Ryzen around the corner. Better stuff will come out, current stuff will be cheaper

I haven't been keeping up to date, what time do they usually release stuff? It's during like March / April right?

[Fasauceome]

1 minute ago, vK 3 1 RON said:

I haven't been keeping up to date, what time do they usually release stuff? It's during like March / April right?

It'll be announced January, they'll likely say when they're available for retail (very soon after)

[vK 3 1 RON]

7 minutes ago, fasauceome said:

It'll be announced January, they'll likely say when they're available for retail (very soon after)

Ah cool, I'll wait around for that to pass by then and see what goes on with the prices Thanks

[Ralphred]

5 minutes ago, vK 3 1 RON said:

Ah cool, I'll wait around for that to pass by then and see what goes on with the prices

You need to be careful, something is always around the corner, and something else will always be cheaper because of it.

 

Apart from that, go for a better wifi card, TP-link is fine, but the cost of ones from better manufacturers if pretty similar in the scope of things, the problem being that when it fails (and as TP link it will) you will become tech support. Also, despite the minor performance loss, if you can put in a single 8gig stick of ram, it gives a nice lower cost future upgrade path just by adding a 2nd similar stick.

 

All that said, I build professionally, and you have done a very good job of value for cost here, your friend should be happy, and you should be proud of being a good friend.