Office Front Desk Computer Build

[AirPhresh]

Budget (including currency): up to $500 US (not including monitor(s))

Country: USA

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Office, Email, Client Management Software (lightweight), browser. Fairly lightweight work, lots of switching around and opening and closing lots of tabs. No gaming so integrated GPU should be alright. 

Other details: I am looking to build a new front desk computer that will be used to check in clients, pull up their records, and when times are slower, the staff person will be scanning in documents that will be stored on the fileserver. 

Currently looking at this for a build but wanted to run this by the forum for input. Am I getting the most out of the budget with this build? Thank you for any advice you may have.

1. Processor: Intel Core i5-12400 (~$125)

2. Motherboard: ASRock B660M Pro RS (~$95)

3. Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200MHz (~$42)

4. Storage: Kingston NV2 500GB NVMe SSD (~$38)

5. Power Supply: Thermaltake Smart 500W 80+ White (~$40)

6. Case: Cooler Master MasterBox Q300L (~$40)

7. OS: Windows 11 Home (already have license, no additional cost)

Total: ~$380

 

[Why_Me]

That works although I would check the reviews on that power supply just to make sure it's ok and I would up the RAM to 2x16GB DDR4-3200. Silicone and Teamgroup usually have decent RAM for cheap.

[podkall]

This is a good plan, let me see what AMD works through.

 

Few pointers, RAM brand doesn't matter, speed matters more, and that it's in a 2x8 kit.

 

SSD could be bit different, there's a really decent model for similar price.

 

Case could be literally any box with a fan that can hold the parts and nice airflow, the Cooler Master is good choice though.

 

And the PSU is good enough for iGPU build, with quite a decent amount of headroom, but not totally terrible.

 

 

Also, the MB for Intel could be bit cheaper, not sure how much more exactly and which model, maybe a cheaper B660 chipset one? Though it's just 10$ and I don't know if VRM without heatsink this weak could handle sustained multitasking or not, perhaps but not sure.

 

 

Here's an AMD build:

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600G 3.9 GHz 6-Core Processor  ($138.99 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: Gigabyte A520M DS3H V2 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($75.81 @ Amazon)
Memory: *Silicon Power GAMING 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory  ($28.97 @ Amazon)
Storage: TEAMGROUP MP44L 500 GB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  ($36.99 @ Amazon)
Case: Cooler Master MasterBox Q300L MicroATX Mini Tower Case  ($39.99 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: Thermaltake Smart 500 W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply  ($39.06 @ Amazon)
Total: $359.81
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2024-09-13 20:00 EDT-0400

[podkall]

1 minute ago, podkall said:

Few pointers, RAM brand doesn't matter, speed matters more, and that it's in a 2x8 kit.

 

SSD could be bit different, there's a really decent model for similar price.

swap the RAM and SSD on your build, might get you close/below the AMD build with that adjustment

[AirPhresh]

Sweet, thank you so much for the help. I have the parts ordered and will report back once it's built to let you know how it runs. Thanks again!

[podkall]

37 minutes ago, AirPhresh said:

Sweet, thank you so much for the help. I have the parts ordered and will report back once it's built to let you know how it runs. Thanks again!

make sure to quote while reporting back so we get notified