AMD Desktop or Intel Laptop

[Mr Robot]

So i have the option of either building a pc for around £450 with an fx 6300 16gb ram rx 460 and a hybrid drive or get a custom laptop from pc specialist for around £750 but with an i7 6300hq 16gb ram 1tb hdd 128gb m.2 ssd with a gtx 940m (gpu doesn't matter) but i'm stuck choosing which one i should get. I'll be doing programming and both will be runing Linux

 

thanks in advance

[TheRandomness]

A £450 Intel system is easy. 

[Mr Robot]

i need a quad core cpu

[jnkokseby]

But why not build a desktop for around 750£ if you can buy a laptop for 750£?

[79wjd]

17 minutes ago, Mr Robot said:

i need a quad core cpu

It's an i5-6300HQ, there is no i7-6300HQ. 

 

And if you need portability, get a laptop. If you don't get a desktop. 

[JoeCoke]

This doesn't really make sense.. Why would you have only 450 for a desktop but 750 for a laptop?

 

My opinion, stay far away from under 1000$ laptops. I've had nothing but bad experiences.

[Electronics Wizardy]

10 minutes ago, djdwosk97 said:

-6300HQ is a hyperthreaded dual core

No its not.

 

Its a quad core with out hyperthreading

[Mr Robot]

because a laptop is everything whereas a desktop you would have to spend more than £750

[Mr Robot]

and i meant i7 6700hq

[Clanscorpia]

3 minutes ago, Mr Robot said:

because a laptop is everything whereas a desktop you would have to spend more than £750

PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/ZGDrr7
Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/ZGDrr7/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£181.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H110M-H Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (£48.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Memory: Corsair ValueSelect 16GB (1 x 16GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  (£59.99 @ Novatech) 
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£43.91 @ CCL Computers) 
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon RX 470 4GB Video Card  (£169.99 @ Scan.co.uk) 
Case: Thermaltake Versa H22 ATX Mid Tower Case  (£25.11 @ CCL Computers) 
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (£49.99 @ Novatech) 
Monitor: Asus VE247H 23.6" Monitor  (£103.38 @ More Computers) 
Keyboard: Redragon S101 Wired Gaming Keyboard w/Optical Mouse  (£29.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Speakers: Logitech Z130 5W 2ch Speakers  (£24.98 @ Kustom PCs) 
Total: £738.32
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-08-23 15:55 BST+0100

[SLAYR]

21 minutes ago, Mr Robot said:

So i have the option of either building a pc for around £450 with an fx 6300 16gb ram rx 460 and a hybrid drive or get a custom laptop from pc specialist for around £750 but with an i7 6300hq 16gb ram 1tb hdd 128gb m.2 ssd with a gtx 940m (gpu doesn't matter) but i'm stuck choosing which one i should get. I'll be doing programming and both will be runing Linux

 

thanks in advance

 

19 minutes ago, Mr Robot said:

i need a quad core cpu

Programming doesn't require a quad core, takes as much power as basic word editing.

 

The two systems you have picked is pretty unreasonable as the intel one is better for everything besides graphics.

 

£300 is more then enough for a 1080p monitor and peripherials. £100 should do.

[Clanscorpia]

1 minute ago, SLAYR said:

 

Programming doesn't require a quad core, takes as much power as basic word editing.

Depending on the programming he could need it for rendering. Like game development using 3D engines

[Misanthrope]

Choices should be the other way around: Cheaper laptops without integrated graphics are better with an A10 mostly (except for 6200 based intel laptops but those are still not as common) while desktops are unrivaled by AMD as of the writing of this.

[Clanscorpia]

Just now, Misanthrope said:

 

He could just go with my build

[Sir Asvald]

30 minutes ago, Mr Robot said:

So i have the option of either building a pc for around £450 with an fx 6300 16gb ram rx 460 and a hybrid drive or get a custom laptop from pc specialist for around £750 but with an i7 6300hq 16gb ram 1tb hdd 128gb m.2 ssd with a gtx 940m (gpu doesn't matter) but i'm stuck choosing which one i should get. I'll be doing programming and both will be runing Linux

 

thanks in advance

Watch this:

 

 

[Misanthrope]

Just now, Clanscorpia said:

He could just go with my build

Not a fan of the case but sure everything else looks solid.

[Clanscorpia]

Just now, Misanthrope said:

Not a fan of the case but sure everything else looks solid.

Its cheap, and has good reviews. He was going for a really crap build. Ill see if I can fit in something better

[Clanscorpia]

PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/s8wMvV
Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/s8wMvV/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£181.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H110M-H Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (£48.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Memory: Corsair ValueSelect 16GB (1 x 16GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  (£59.99 @ Novatech) 
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£43.91 @ CCL Computers) 
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon RX 470 4GB Video Card  (£169.99 @ Scan.co.uk) 
Case: Thermaltake Core V21 MicroATX Mini Tower Case  (£47.30 @ Amazon UK) 
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (£49.99 @ Novatech) 
Monitor: Hannspree HE225DPB 21.5" Monitor  (£72.83 @ More Computers) 
Keyboard: Redragon S101 Wired Gaming Keyboard w/Optical Mouse  (£29.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Speakers: Logitech Z130 5W 2ch Speakers  (£24.98 @ Kustom PCs) 
Total: £729.96
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-08-23 16:03 BST+0100

[Misanthrope]

1 minute ago, Clanscorpia said:

Its cheap, and has good reviews. He was going for a really crap build. Ill see if I can fit in something better

Oh I know why you pick it. I just personally feel that cases are important and as someone who's made the mistake of cheaping out on cases twice I always try to fit at least something nice and low cost like an NZXT S340 or a Phanteks Entho Pro M

[manikyath]

2 minutes ago, Misanthrope said:

Not a fan of the case but sure everything else looks solid.

If you *need* to cut corners, thermal'fake' is cheap chinese knockoff cases, but they still have most of the features a similar high quality case would have (with less finesse tho)

[Clanscorpia]

1 minute ago, manikyath said:

If you *need* to cut corners, thermal'fake' is cheap chinese knockoff cases, but they still have most of the features a similar high quality case would have (with less finesse tho)

I fit in a Core V1 which Tallon said is a good case

[Misanthrope]

Just now, manikyath said:

If you *need* to cut corners, thermal'fake' is cheap chinese knockoff cases, but they still have most of the features a similar high quality case would have (with less finesse tho)

If you need to cut corners I'd go with something that's very reliable even when second hand like a CPU ironically enough which tend to be fine even second hand, specially for non-overclockable lower TDP chips.

 

But this is as I said, personal preference not my recommendation though.

[manikyath]

3 minutes ago, Misanthrope said:

If you need to cut corners I'd go with something that's very reliable even when second hand like a CPU ironically enough which tend to be fine even second hand, specially for non-overclockable lower TDP chips.

 

But this is as I said, personal preference not my recommendation though.

Well, the only thing "reliable" about a case is that it doesnt fall apart.

 

If anything i'd suggest a better power supply, i'm not a fan of the evga B series, but honestly it's good enough.

[Clanscorpia]

2 minutes ago, manikyath said:

Well, the only thing "reliable" about a case is that it doesnt fall apart.

 

If anything i'd suggest a better power supply, i'm not a fan of the evga B series, but honestly it's good enough.

For a 470 and 6500 it'll be fine