New £400 Budget Build - Advice Needed

[Stark_Source]

A friend wants advice on her daughter's build.

 

Budget: £450

Location: UK

Purpose: Minecraft, Minecraft Server, School Work (MS Office).

Monitor: One

Other Needs: Needs to be Wifi capable.

 

Price needs to also include monitor.

 

My friend would like to have the PC built in-house. What companies would you recommend to build and deliver this custom PC?

 

PS: price needs to also include windows OS

[Osmium]

Can't you build it for him?

(ill put together a partpicker list)

[totally not keh-jeff]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

 

CPU:  AMD Athlon II X4 750K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£56.10 @ Scan.co.uk) 

Motherboard:  Asus A55BM-E Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard  (£39.76 @ Ebuyer) 

Memory:  Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  (£57.47 @ Amazon UK) 

Storage:  Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£42.43 @ CCL Computers) 

Video Card:  XFX Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition 1GB Video Card  (£83.94 @ Aria PC) 

Case:  Fractal Design Core 1000 USB 3.0 MicroATX Mid Tower Case  (£34.98 @ Novatech) 

Power Supply:  Corsair CX 430W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£36.79 @ Amazon UK) 

Monitor:  Dell P2214H 60Hz 21.5" Monitor  (£73.00 @ Amazon UK) 

Total: £424.47

(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)

(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-02-05 12:22 GMT+0000)

 

Whoops, forgot the WiFi part. Add ~£10 

[Stark_Source]

Can't you build it for him?

(ill put together a partpicker list)

 

Yep, I was thinking of doing that. But, I haven't even put my own one together yet (will do so this weekend), and I wouldn't like to mess up someone else's rig/money. Also, she perhaps would like the added security of it being professionally built. It might be that I build it, but for now, having some options on where she could get it built professionally would be helpful too.

Thanks for the help Osmium!

 

[Osmium]

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/2NEMs

 

Mine is an APU build. Right now it will do all your friend's daughter needs and if she want's to get into gaming she can pop a GPU in there and she is off to the races. (cost of OS included)

 

I am not sure about the options about custom builders since they usually have their own part sets to choose from when buying so you can't give them a part list and have them build it. I think it would be more cost efficient to DIY but I understand the pressure of not wanting to break something that someone else paid a lot of money for.

[Stark_Source]

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/2NEMs

 

Mine is an APU build. Right now it will do all your friend's daughter needs and if she want's to get into gaming she can pop a GPU in there and she is off to the races. (cost of OS included)

 

I am not sure about the options about custom builders since they usually have their own part sets to choose from when buying so you can't give them a part list and have them build it. I think it would be more cost efficient to DIY but I understand the pressure of not wanting to break something that someone else paid a lot of money for.

 

Thanks, mate! Yeah, I wasn't clear on the specific companies that do that kind of thing in UK. Maybe someone else can help with that?

[WoodenMarker]

How's this look? http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/2PKZ6