Good office pc's

[Lawliet93]

Well, we mostly use a program based on what i think is called microsoft business dynamic nav(its like a windows 97 looking program lol). Other than that, we use office programs and internet browsing. As i said earlier, the new pc i just bought slows down by just trying to open two windows at once, which imo is pretty unacceptable for a new computer. They didnt specify any specs for the hdd other than size so i will just build the pcs from now on. 

 

So...try tu buy one AM1 based system with a quad-core amd Athlon CPU, 8GB of RAM and SSD storage. Then try your programs on it, if it´s working according to your needs, buy several of them, if not... go the i3 way.

 

Try to get the amd athlon 5350

[NumLock21]

There are several types of Pentiums. Not sure which Pentium you got, but if it's the Atom based, then yeah it will be slow. Regular desktop Pentiums are fast. AMD socket AM1 is for extremely light use, basically just word processing. Between the AMD socket AM1 and a Intel Core i3,

AMD 5350

Single thread: 808

Multithread: 2590

 

Core i3 6100

Single thread: 2089

Multithread: 5523

 

Pentium J2900 (Atom based)

Single thread: 599

Multithread: 2052

 

Pentium G4400 (desktop based)

Single thread: 1876

Multithread: 3803

[Will Ozellman]

There are several types of Pentiums. Not sure which Pentium you got, but if it's the Atom based, then yeah it will be slow. Regular desktop Pentiums are fast. AMD socket AM1 is for extremely light use, basically just word processing. Between the AMD socket AM1 and a Intel Core i3,

AMD 5350

Single thread: 808

Multithread: 2590

 

Core i3 6100

Single thread: 2089

Multithread: 5523

 

Pentium J2900 (Atom based)

Single thread: 599

Multithread: 2052

 

Pentium G4400 (desktop based)

Single thread: 1876

Multithread: 3803

Just looked it up. It is a Pentium G3260 

 

Looks like its the hdd that is the real performance thief.

[Caine]

i3 4170

[NumLock21]

Just looked it up. It is a Pentium G3260 

 

Looks like its the hdd that is the real performance thief.

Pentium G3260

Single thread: 1812

Multithread: 3267

 

Get a Core i3 with a SSHD.

[Will Ozellman]

Those are sluggish as hell, and OP is trying to ignore that.  What they are describing is more A8-A10 based or at least i3.  Again, "Office PC"  doesn't mean mommy's FB machine.

Hehe yeah. While we don't do very demanding tasks, people get really frustrated when things move slowly because everyone has alot of responsibility at work and needs to do their stuff quickly. Also, people where i live are very old school and most doesn't want to deal with computers in general. i3 definitely seems like the way to go. For those suggesting sshd's, we really don't need alot of storage at most computers so it will be better to simply go with an ssd right? 120 GB is plenty.

[NumLock21]

Hehe yeah. While we don't do very demanding tasks, people get really frustrated when things move slowly because everyone has alot of responsibility at work and needs to do their stuff quickly. Also, people where i live are very old school and most doesn't want to deal with computers in general. i3 definitely seems like the way to go. For those suggesting sshd's, we really don't need alot of storage at most computers so it will be better to simply go with an ssd right? 120 GB is plenty.

SSHD does give you more space. Smallest sshd I see was 500GB. Don't need that much space then yeah a 120GB ssd should be enough. Note that windows eats up 30GB, Recycle Bin and system restore reserves some for themselves. And Pagefile needs some too, just incase if you run out of physical ram.  With that said, I would get a 240GB and cheapest I see is this

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820211984&ignorebbr=1

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iBhf8rpobo

[Xenift]

Get a i3 with a sshd

Office PCs with a SSHD is just a disaster waiting to happen.

[Xenift]

Also as for an i3, the internet speed you would have probably would not do it justice.

Pentiums are here for a reason, ECC ram support can also help you maintain a stable workflow among your employees by reducing crashes and random freezes.

[NumLock21]

Office PCs with a SSHD is just a disaster waiting to happen.

Why is a SSHD a disaster waiting to happen for a office PC? Users don't have to deal with shuffling around files between a SSD and HDD. And it's a single drive, where the ssd part is for caching only, so the drive does it by itself. Besides OP already said he'll go with a SSD. 

As for Pentium's OP already bought a new pc with a Pentium, but it still lags, so the next one up is a Core i3. Not all office pc must have ECC support. It's a simple office build, not some mission critical build for NASA.

[radnaxela]

You may want want to get less demanding cpu's like the value processors on Intel website in their prossecor category, and just use the built in gpu's from a motherboard and you need no more 4g ddr2 ram for office pc's, an i5 is overkill for a pc for office use.

http://www.intel.ph/content/www/ph/en/processors/pentium/pentium-processor.html

(Under desktop product specification)