General Purpose PC

[Mastealth]

I'm building a general purpose PC for my family, this system will primarily consist of video streaming, heavy browser use, MS Office use and a few other things, there will not be any gaming at all.

before buying I'd let to get other opinions, please note that this is in Australia where we get horrid hardware pricing compared to the US, my budget is 1000AUD (750 USD) not including shipping.

 

https://au.pcpartpicker.com/list/XpfhwV

 

[BenR31415]

23 minutes ago, Mastealth said:

I'm building a general purpose PC for my family, this system will primarily consist of video streaming, heavy browser use, MS Office use and a few other things, there will not be any gaming at all.

before buying I'd let to get other opinions, please note that this is in Australia where we get horrid hardware pricing compared to the US, my budget is 1000AUD (750 USD) not including shipping.

 

https://au.pcpartpicker.com/list/XpfhwV

 

I would personally drop the NVMe SSD and go for a regular SATA, and upgrade your graphics card to something relatively decent, and I'd probably even suggest going used. I snagged a 280x for $100, and i'm pretty sure there's some deals going for cheaper cards (I think on eBay I saw a 270x going for $60 or so).

Even though you're not gaming on it, a better GPU can help drive better monitors later on if you choose to upgrade, and it can help things like video playback in Youtube.

[DocSwag]

Quite honestly, this is way overkill for what you're doing.

 

All you need is a G4560+maybe 16gb ram if you open a lot of tabs, a 250gb ssd, and you could just use iGPU. I don't even see you needing more than 250gb ssd .

 

Also, NVMe is a waste, and that psu isn't very good.

[fjdhdhcyfhf]

I would tick off some of that stuff.

If you get a Pentium or i3 you wont need a GPU

low capacity SATA SSD. web browsing + windows you dont need much right?

1X 8GB RAM stick is preferable to 2X 4GB. You wont need more than 8GB for now.

I dont know if you need 2 TB HDD, but you can get cheap OEM drives from companies that sell laptops in 500GB and 1TB. They pull them out from customers who purchase upgrades and sell them cheap, just call up and ask.

USB backup drive?

You can find a cheaper case. I dont see anything special about that one.

If you have time to wait, Ryzen APU will be out later in the year.

[Herman Mcpootis]

this should be more than enough tbh.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Pentium G4560 3.5GHz Dual-Core Processor  ($77.00 @ Umart) 
Motherboard: ASRock - H110M-HDS Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($72.00 @ Umart) find out if the bios supports kabylake or just go for a B250 mobo.
Memory: Crucial - 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($75.00 @ Centre Com) 
Storage: SanDisk - Ultra II 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($118.00 @ Shopping Express) 
Storage: Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($63.00 @ Shopping Express) 
Case: Cooler Master - MasterBox Lite 3 (Windowed) MicroATX Mini Tower Case  ($49.00 @ Umart) 
Power Supply: Corsair - CXM 450W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($85.00 @ Shopping Express) 
Total: $539.00
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-06-14 22:15 AEST+1000