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Hi everyone,

I was wondering if I could have some help with designing a build for a PC. I am planning to build it over the summer. More info below. P.s., sorry if the formatting is ugly - I'm on my phone

Budget + Location: UK. Cheap as possible. £150 - £200?

Aim: I currently own a good PC, and don't need to upgrade it, however I would like to have the experience of building a PC for my own. Originally I was just going to make a cheap as possible working PC, but now I've decided that I will make a general use one. It will be put in my kitchen and uses by my family for general things such as browsing the internet and storing photos.

Peripherals: 1 monitor needed, with KB and mouse.

Other info: Preferably mini ITX form factor as I don't need it to be big, and it is going in the kitchen so I don't want it to take up lots of space. Also, it will be used to store photos and stuff, so a larger HDD would be useful - perhaps 500gig to 1tb?

Thanks for reading and thanks in advance for the help.

-Daanish

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Probably won't really be worth it. If you want the experience, just take apart and re-assemble your current PC :P

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How about a Raspberry Pi? It's cheap, small and up to the most basic of the tasks

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This if you want Intel http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/zdWpnQ(Will be allot faster and more responsive)

If you want AMD http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/C9LZdC

 

Add in WiFi card if you need one.

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lol

 

 
CPU: AMD 5350 2.05Ghz Quad-Core Processor  (£35.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Motherboard: MSI AM1I Mini ITX AM1 Motherboard  (£23.31 @ Amazon UK) 
Memory: Crucial 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  (£22.03 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: A-Data Premier Pro SP600 64GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£33.00 @ CCL Computers) 
Monitor: BenQ GL2023A 60Hz 19.5" Monitor  (£63.27 @ Amazon UK) 
Keyboard: Gigabyte KM7580 Wireless Slim Keyboard w/Optical Mouse  (£14.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Total: £261.90
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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Those aren't static links :P

Whoops lol

 

They said 150 to 200 punds not 500 m8

Those aren't static links, that's your most recent build m8...

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You could get a compute stick thing

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I would buy a NUC

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If you'd just like the experience, I'd just fully disassemble and clean your PC and replace the thermal compound on the CPU.

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You could get a compute stick thing

For the price range of a compute stick you can get one of these which has better specs and at least some form of future upgradability PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 
CPU: AMD 5350 2.05Ghz Quad-Core Processor  ($45.95 @ SuperBiiz) 
Motherboard: MSI AM1I Mini ITX AM1 Motherboard  ($31.98 @ Newegg) 
Memory: Crucial 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($25.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Patriot Blaze 60GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($39.98 @ Newegg) 
Case: Apex DM-318 HTPC Case w/275W Power Supply  ($38.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Total: $182.89
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-05-17 14:20 EDT-0400
 

 

I would buy a NUC

NUC isn't worth the money, all it has going for it is the form factor really

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Well i guess you could get a q6600 and like a vga monitor with a r9 250x

 

 

 

 

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Whoops lol

 

Those aren't static links, that's your most recent build m8...

ohh whoops

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For the price range of a compute stick you can get one of these which has better specs and at least some form of future upgradability

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: AMD 5350 2.05Ghz Quad-Core Processor  ($45.95 @ SuperBiiz) 

Motherboard: MSI AM1I Mini ITX AM1 Motherboard  ($31.98 @ Newegg) 

Memory: Crucial 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($25.99 @ Newegg) 

Storage: Patriot Blaze 60GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($39.98 @ Newegg) 

Case: Apex DM-318 HTPC Case w/275W Power Supply  ($38.99 @ SuperBiiz) 

Total: $182.89

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-05-17 14:20 EDT-0400

 

 

NUC isn't worth the money, all it has going for it is the form factor really

Computer stick off brands are 99

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On mobile its hard to reply

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If you'd just like the experience, I'd just fully disassemble and clean your PC and replace the thermal compound on the CPU.

 

Probably won't really be worth it. If you want the experience, just take apart and re-assemble your current PC :P

 

Reassembling an Alienware? I don't think that would be a good idea!

 

How about a Raspberry Pi? It's cheap, small and up to the most basic of the tasks

Perhaps, but I really did want to build it, rather than code. 

 

This if you want Intel http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/zdWpnQ(Will be allot faster and more responsive)

If you want AMD http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/C9LZdC

 

Add in WiFi card if you need one.

Thanks, will look into these

 

 

lol

 

 
CPU: AMD 5350 2.05Ghz Quad-Core Processor  (£35.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Motherboard: MSI AM1I Mini ITX AM1 Motherboard  (£23.31 @ Amazon UK) 
Memory: Crucial 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  (£22.03 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: A-Data Premier Pro SP600 64GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£33.00 @ CCL Computers) 
Monitor: BenQ GL2023A 60Hz 19.5" Monitor  (£63.27 @ Amazon UK) 
Keyboard: Gigabyte KM7580 Wireless Slim Keyboard w/Optical Mouse  (£14.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Total: £261.90
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-05-17 19:16 BST+0100

 

 Same as above :)

 

Look at the classified ads you can get some good stuff for cheap.

Is you're talking about parts, I  agree. If you are talking about PC's, then I wanted to build it myself.

 

 

 

For the price range of a compute stick you can get one of these which has better specs and at least some form of future upgradability PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 
CPU: AMD 5350 2.05Ghz Quad-Core Processor  ($45.95 @ SuperBiiz) 
Motherboard: MSI AM1I Mini ITX AM1 Motherboard  ($31.98 @ Newegg) 
Memory: Crucial 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($25.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Patriot Blaze 60GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($39.98 @ Newegg) 
Case: Apex DM-318 HTPC Case w/275W Power Supply  ($38.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Total: $182.89
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-05-17 14:20 EDT-0400
 

 

NUC isn't worth the money, all it has going for it is the form factor really

 

That's USD, not GBP but I will look into it too. Thanks

 

http://www.ebuyer.com/658955-lenovo-thinkcentre-e50-00-twr-desktop-90bx001huk

 

Or something similar, at that kind of budget I wouldn't bother attempting to build yourself unless looking at used parts, a prebuilt will normally win for the low budgets since they can buy in bulk. 

I really did want to build it for the experience. I didn't really need an extra PC, but it would be nice to have one

 

Well i guess you could get a q6600 and like a vga monitor with a r9 250x

Do I really need r9 250x?

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How about a Raspberry Pi? It's cheap, small and up to the most basic of the tasks

 

Awesome idea. If you don't need Windows, except you will DIE without Photoshop and you will get sick if you use GIMP the Raspberry Pi can replace a full office PC. For real! As an OS you should use Raspbian (Windows 10 IoT is not a full version of Windows). You can install all the software you need (including a modern webbrowser) through the package manager. And it is 30 Pounds.

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