Need opinion for Budget Build for my parents.

[KH_PL]

Budget (including currency): 3000-4500 PLN (without monitor or peripherals)

Country: Europe, Poland

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Home office. Main goal is to run smoothly and for long time.

Other details

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 3 3100 3.6 GHz Quad-Core Processor	£94.99 @ Amazon UK
Motherboard	Gigabyte B550M DS3H Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard	£92.99 @ Amazon UK
Memory	Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-2400 CL16 Memory	£63.36 @ CCL Computers
Storage	Samsung 860 Evo 250 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive	£46.76 @ CCL Computers
Video Card	Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4 GB Video Card	£126.97 @ CCL Computers
Case	Cooler Master MasterBox E500L ATX Mid Tower Case	£39.97 @ Amazon UK
Power Supply	SeaSonic FOCUS Plus Gold 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply	£88.99 @ Amazon UK
Optical Drive	Asus BW-16D1HT Blu-Ray/DVD/CD Writer	£79.99 @ AWD-IT
Operating System	Microsoft Windows 10 Pro OEM 64-bit	£167.24 @ Newegg UK
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	£801.26
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-08-24 06:10 BST+0100

My parents use old hp laptop that struggles with running windows 10 and more than 1 tab in chrome. I convinced them to switch to normal PC. Main goal is to speed up windows start up time and over all speed of computer. Other goal is to make build that would serve for long time. It will be mostly used for home and office work.

 

Any thoughts?

[Herman Mcpootis]

unless you plan on getting everything on UK sites, use polish sites instead. Anything from the UK will be irrelevant to you.

[Aimi]

Drop the 1050 TI and get a good Ryzen APU instead. B550 board also doesn't seem necessary.

[Jurrunio]

3200g or 2200g will do for CPU and GPU combined, which also means saving on the motherboard for a cheap B450 one. They dont really need the extra CPU or GPU power. Instead, spend the money saved to a larger capacity SSD.

[KH_PL]

Everyone thanks for such quick responce and your suggestions. I know that PCPP has Poland mode and it does not work.

This build will probably be useed for next 10-15 years. Last time I had iGPU was about 10 years ago and it was not so good. I read somewhere that they are now better, but I guess it did not occur to me that it is an option. As for case I just picked one that has space for DVD/CD/BLURAY. If you know any that is better at keeping dust away I would swap it. It will be me who cleans it when I visit maybe every 1-2 years.

 

Later on I will look at what is available and make another list.

Once again thank you guys.

[PeterX7]

1 hour ago, lexusgamer05 said:

Looking at your build, it seems a bit unnecessary as a home office PC

 

I tried to use the Poland mode on PCPP, but for some reason, nothing has a price, so I decided to use the Germany mode, I hope this is OK

 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 3 3200G 3.6 GHz Quad-Core Processor  (€99.90 @ Alternate)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-A320M-S2H Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  (€51.49 @ Mindfactory)
Memory: Crucial Ballistix 8 GB (2 x 4 GB) DDR4-2400 CL16 Memory  (€36.90 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Storage: Kingston A400 240 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (€35.28 @ Alternate)
Case: Cooler Master MasterBox E500L ATX Mid Tower Case  (€39.99 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Power Supply: SeaSonic S12III 500 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (€50.24 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Total: €313.80
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-08-24 07:33 CEST+0200

 

I went for the 3200G, because that's all you need really, the iGPU is excellent too. I would have gone for the 3000G, but I'm not sure how long that will last exactly.

A320 board, it's a home office PC, you don't really need a B series board for this chip, and you probably won't be overclocking

8GB of ram is fine for office tasks

The same case you chose, because that's your choice

 

Also, get a cheap Windows key online, don't pay full price for it, it's such a rip off.

Drop the A400 as a boot drive since it doesnt have dram which is important for reliabilty and longetivity. get stg better, like the 860 evo, wd blue 3d, mx500

[Lord Vile]

5 hours ago, lexusgamer05 said:

Looking at your build, it seems a bit unnecessary as a home office PC

 

I tried to use the Poland mode on PCPP, but for some reason, nothing has a price, so I decided to use the Germany mode, I hope this is OK

 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 3 3200G 3.6 GHz Quad-Core Processor  (€99.90 @ Alternate)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-A320M-S2H Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  (€51.49 @ Mindfactory)
Memory: Crucial Ballistix 8 GB (2 x 4 GB) DDR4-2400 CL16 Memory  (€36.90 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Storage: Kingston A400 240 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (€35.28 @ Alternate)
Case: Cooler Master MasterBox E500L ATX Mid Tower Case  (€39.99 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Power Supply: SeaSonic S12III 500 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (€50.24 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Total: €313.80
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-08-24 07:33 CEST+0200

 

I went for the 3200G, because that's all you need really, the iGPU is excellent too. I would have gone for the 3000G, but I'm not sure how long that will last exactly.

A320 board, it's a home office PC, you don't really need a B series board for this chip, and you probably won't be overclocking

8GB of ram is fine for office tasks

The same case you chose, because that's your choice

 

Also, get a cheap Windows key online, don't pay full price for it, it's such a rip off.

Could probably drop down to an Athlon tbh like a 3000g

[Lord Vile]

3 hours ago, lexusgamer05 said:

I considered that but OP wants it to last 10-15 years and I wasn't exactly sure if a dual core could hold up for that long

It's only for home and office work, unless they're doing 100 page spreadsheets it'll be fine. Just throw an SSD in to make it snappy and 16GB of RAM 

[Lord Vile]

7 hours ago, lexusgamer05 said:

I suppose so, but if we look at 10-15 year old computers, they're usually single or dual core, the dual core ones are still doing alright today, but the single core ones aren't exactly doing so well now. So, my reasoning was that in 10-15 years, quad cores will be like what dual cores are nowadays, and dual cores will be like single cores now

Would have thought it was more 32 to 64 bit. Don't think it'll get too much for 4 threads though.