Challenge for a friend

[bejamartins]

 A close friend of mine wants to buy a new PC. He has a budget of €1000 - €1500. He wanted to invest in a laptop, although he mostly only uses his current laptop at home.

 

He hasn't discovered the joys of PC building yet and it breaks my heart, so we made an agreement. If I present a build cool enough that he can't refuse over a laptop, he'll rather invest in a desktop and I help him build it.

 

My idea however is the following: plan a build that go a high as €1200-€1300 tops and with the rest find a (Windows) laptop decent enough for basic tasks he might need on a go, even if it is something like an HP Stream.

Anyway, what he'll use it (the desktop) for:

- gaming, although he doesn't want to admit (he plays a lot in his free time, and why would he want a €1500 PC for facebook and light backend coding?)

- media player;
- possibly work sometimes (although he has a company PC for it);

 

Requirements;

- Has to be compact enough to put either behind, or next to a TV in a small table (so micro ATX, mini ITX);

- The budget doesn't include a monitor, but peripherals. Since he'll use it as a media PC and will paly using an XBox controller (that he already has), I was thinking reccomending a Logitech k400 Plus;

- It should be planned for a 4K 60Hz image output;

- Storage: I was thinking a combo of a base SSD for OS + stuff that mostly benefits with it + a bigger HDD;

- For the laptop: no smaller screen than 14''.

 

Can you guys help me plan this build? Thanks in advance.

 

[Herman Mcpootis]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor  (€215.55 @ Mindfactory) 
Motherboard: Asus - PRIME B350M-A Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  (€78.99 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2800 Memory  (€120.98 @ Mindfactory) 
Storage: Samsung - 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (€94.87 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
Storage: Seagate - BarraCuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (€49.19 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
Video Card: Zotac - GeForce GTX 1080 8GB Mini Video Card  (€505.18 @ Mindfactory) 
Case: Thermaltake - Versa H15 MicroATX Mid Tower Case  (€45.89 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
Power Supply: SeaSonic - ECO 430W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (€47.35 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
Keyboard: Ducky - Shine 4 Wired Gaming Keyboard  (€43.26 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
Mouse: Corsair - M65 PRO RGB FPS Wired Optical Mouse  (€56.93 @ Mindfactory) 
Total: €1258.19
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-05-27 03:55 CEST+0200

[Damascus]

Hmm, this is my first thought

CPU - R5 1600

Any decent B350 mobo

Gtx 1080

Inwin 301

Rgb fans

Decent psu

 

This'll push 4k no problem, punch it into local pcpp and you are good to go

[brob]

There are not decent mini-ITX Ryzen motherboards at the moment. Here is an Intel build that is a bit over your budget goal. That could be remedied by replacing the all ssd storage with a more conventional ssd/hdd combination.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Core i7-7700 3.6GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£257.94 @ Aria PC) 
Motherboard: MSI - B250I GAMING PRO AC Mini ITX LGA1151 Motherboard  (£96.96 @ Novatech) 
Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  (£102.60 @ Aria PC) 
Storage: Crucial - MX300 1.1TB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£256.82 @ Ebuyer) 
Video Card: EVGA - GeForce GTX 1080 8GB Superclocked Gaming ACX 3.0 Video Card  (£485.47 @ Scan.co.uk) 
Case: Silverstone - RVZ01B Mini ITX Desktop Case  (£90.72 @ CCL Computers) 
Power Supply: Silverstone - Strider Gold 450W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular SFX Power Supply  (£79.47 @ Scan.co.uk) 
Other: Logitech K400 Plus Wireless Touch Keyboard for Windows, Android and Chrome - QWERTY, UK Layout, Black  (£24.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Total: £1394.97
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-05-27 04:14 BST+0100