Cheap home office build vs buying a prefab mostly care about electric cost

[tome275]

Cheap home office build vs buying a prefab mostly care about electric cost?

 

No gaming or anything like that

Since people ask budget wise under 1k 

[emosun]

well seeing as you have zero requirements for the hardware other than low power usage 

buy a cheapo chromebook. something in the 3-400$ range should be maybe all of 60 watts and browse the internet the same as any cellphone.

you aren;t going to be building a pc from scratch that cheaper and lower wattage than an entry level chromebook.

[KidKid]

18 minutes ago, tome275 said:

Cheap home office build vs buying a prefab mostly care about electric cost?

 

No gaming or anything like that

Since people ask budget wise under 1k 

Do you need a desktop of a laptop?

[DJ_Jay125]

6 hours ago, tome275 said:

Cheap home office build vs buying a prefab mostly care about electric cost?

 

No gaming or anything like that

Since people ask budget wise under 1k 

a little minisform nugget will be more space and electric efficient without having the negatives of a chromebook

 

[tome275]

Desktop needed 

[brob]

Power differential will be negligible between prefab and diy given described usage. If usage is that critical spend some time tuning available BIOS and o/s settings.