Small form factor office PC

[Guest]

Hey everyone,

 

So I'm looking to build a small form factor office computer but I have almost no idea where to begin. I've built computers before; however they have all been gaming machines.

It doesn't need to be anything special just decently small and fast enough to run Windows 7 (x64) well and use things such as Microsoft office e.t.c.

 

I want to spend between £200 - £300, that's $285 - $425 (USD) and I need suggestions / ideas.

 

Thanks in advance.

[Moonzy]

intel NUC? its easy to build, unscrew 4 screws, add ram and hdd, screw it back and done

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Moonzy said:

intel NUC? its easy to build, unscrew 4 screws, add ram and hdd, screw it back and done

Good idea but to  be perfectly honest I wanted to do something a little more exciting; that is if an office pc can be exciting.

[Djole123]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD Athlon X2 340 3.2GHz Dual-Core Processor  (£22.01 @ Ebuyer) 
Motherboard: ASRock FM2A68M-DG3+ Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard  (£36.48 @ Ebuyer) 
Memory: Crucial 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  (£23.99 @ Ebuyer) 
Storage: Hitachi Travelstar 5K1000 1TB 2.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£39.76 @ Amazon UK) 
Video Card: PowerColor Radeon HD 5570 1GB Video Card  (£25.00 @ Amazon UK) 
Case: Zalman ZM-T4 MicroATX Mini Tower Case  (£25.50 @ Amazon UK) 
Power Supply: XFX TS 430W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (£31.96 @ More Computers) 
Total: £204.70
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-04-15 18:57 BST+0100

[oskarha]

Get something like a dell optiplex.

They are cheap, fast and reliable (my local libary uses optiplexes that are 10+ years old).

Gets the job done, and the sff models are tiny.

You could also buy one that is a few years old really cheap, and upgrade it with an ssd.

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, Djole123 said:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD Athlon X2 340 3.2GHz Dual-Core Processor  (£22.01 @ Ebuyer) 
Motherboard: ASRock FM2A68M-DG3+ Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard  (£36.48 @ Ebuyer) 
Memory: Crucial 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  (£23.99 @ Ebuyer) 
Storage: Hitachi Travelstar 5K1000 1TB 2.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£39.76 @ Amazon UK) 
Video Card: PowerColor Radeon HD 5570 1GB Video Card  (£25.00 @ Amazon UK) 
Case: Zalman ZM-T4 MicroATX Mini Tower Case  (£25.50 @ Amazon UK) 
Power Supply: XFX TS 430W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (£31.96 @ More Computers) 
Total: £204.70
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-04-15 18:57 BST+0100

Wow quick response thanks.

[Moonzy]

3 minutes ago, Sponion said:

Good idea but to  be perfectly honest I wanted to do something a little more exciting; that is if an office pc can be exciting.

`-` pretty much a decent computer (except the case and psu. But to stay in the budget, a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do)

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PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/sHGKFT
Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/sHGKFT/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i3-6100 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor  (£98.99 @ Ebuyer) 
Motherboard: MSI H110M Pro-VD Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (£46.49 @ Ebuyer) 
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  (£33.05 @ Ebuyer) 
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£68.99 @ Ebuyer) 
Case: Rosewill R363-M-BK MicroATX Mid Tower Case w/400W Power Supply  (£54.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Total: £302.51
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-04-15 18:58 BST+0100

i would go for this instead for office pc, maybe you can drop the ram to 1x4gb

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PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/gzPj8d
Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/gzPj8d/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i3-6100 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor  (£98.99 @ Ebuyer) 
Motherboard: MSI H110M Pro-VD Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (£46.49 @ Ebuyer) 
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  (£33.05 @ Ebuyer) 
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£68.99 @ Ebuyer) 
Case: Fractal Design Core 1000 USB 3.0 MicroATX Mid Tower Case  (£36.99 @ Ebuyer) 
Power Supply: SeaSonic ECO 430W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (£37.44 @ Amazon UK) 
Total: £321.95
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-04-15 19:00 BST+0100

 

[Guest]

Enlighten me on this,

 

Does an office computer a a GPU at all?

[m_tieu]

1 minute ago, Sponion said:

Enlighten me on this,

 

Does an office computer a a GPU at all?

No. Integrated graphics will be enough

[oskarha]

Just now, Sponion said:

Enlighten me on this,

 

Does an office computer a a GPU at all?

If the igpu is good is suficcient supports enough monitors, no.

[m_tieu]

If you wanted a mini itx system, this might do the trick, you could add a GPU later if you also wanted to game on it at work.

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/9XRQjX
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/9XRQjX/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Pentium G3258 3.2GHz Dual-Core Processor  ($65.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Motherboard: ASRock H97M-ITX/AC Mini ITX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($93.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory  ($59.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Storage: Crucial BX200 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($59.99 @ Amazon) 
Case: Fractal Design Node 202 HTPC Case w/450W Power Supply  ($129.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Total: $409.95
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-04-15 14:04 EDT-0400

[Djole123]

1 minute ago, Sponion said:

Enlighten me on this,

 

Does an office computer a a GPU at all?

In case of my build, it needs a dedicated GPU because the Athlon doesn't have one.

 

In case of @Moonzy's build, it doesn't need a GPU because the Core i3 has an integrated GPU.

[Moonzy]

4 minutes ago, Sponion said:

Enlighten me on this,

 

Does an office computer a a GPU at all?

all computers need a GPU

its just that come CPU have onboard GPU built in, so you dont need a dedicated gpu

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, m_tieu said:

If you wanted a mini itx system, this might do the trick, you could add a GPU later if you also wanted to game on it at work.

 

  Reveal hidden contents

 

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/9XRQjX
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/9XRQjX/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Pentium G3258 3.2GHz Dual-Core Processor  ($65.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Motherboard: ASRock H97M-ITX/AC Mini ITX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($93.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory  ($59.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Storage: Crucial BX200 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($59.99 @ Amazon) 
Case: Fractal Design Node 202 HTPC Case w/450W Power Supply  ($129.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Total: $409.95
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-04-15 14:04 EDT-0400

 

 

I won't be gaming on it, I have a gaming rig already this is for my mom

[Guest]

Thanks for all the replies.

 

Going on a tangent here; how hard is making a wall mounted mini atx (or alike) computer?

 

Feel free to tell me that's a dumb idea.

[Moonzy]

Just now, Sponion said:

Feel free to tell me that's a dumb idea.

Just now, Sponion said:

that's a dumb idea.

 

there, you answered yourself `-`

there are dust concerns, and you need a place to hang it, its not so portable, takes a lot of time to build etc etc

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Moonzy said:

 

there, you answered yourself `-`

there are dust concerns, and you need a place to hang it, its not so portable, takes a lot of time to build etc etc

Haha very well, just wanted something slightly more exotic.

Oh well.

[Moonzy]

1 minute ago, Sponion said:

Haha very well, just wanted something slightly more exotic.

Oh well.

you wont wanna show off $400 hardware on the wall, you really wont `-`

[Guest]

11 minutes ago, m_tieu said:

If you wanted a mini itx system, this might do the trick, you could add a GPU later if you also wanted to game on it at work.

 

  Reveal hidden contents

 

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/9XRQjX
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/9XRQjX/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Pentium G3258 3.2GHz Dual-Core Processor  ($65.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Motherboard: ASRock H97M-ITX/AC Mini ITX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($93.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory  ($59.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Storage: Crucial BX200 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($59.99 @ Amazon) 
Case: Fractal Design Node 202 HTPC Case w/450W Power Supply  ($129.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Total: $409.95
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-04-15 14:04 EDT-0400

 

 

This seems like a good build, thanks.

[m_tieu]

1 minute ago, Sponion said:

This seems like a good build, thanks.

I can't recall if they blocked g3258 overclocking on the h97 platform, if they didn't you could have a bit of fun with that.

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, m_tieu said:

I can't recall if they blocked g3258 overclocking on the h97 platform, if they didn't you could have a bit of fun with that.

I'll do a bit of research and check.

[m_tieu]

1 minute ago, Sponion said:

I'll do a bit of research and check.

I decided to go with that specific board because it has wifi, which may or may not be handy for you. 

[Guest]

5 minutes ago, m_tieu said:

I decided to go with that specific board because it has wifi, which may or may not be handy for you. 

It'll probably be wired but it's always useful