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Tiny low-budget pc

GatioH
By GatioH
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I need a small home PC for my mom so she can work from home after her 2007 PC finally died..

Because of her desk situation, the pc needs to sit on top of her desk (within 14"x14"x14x" max), it needs to be quiet, have AC wireless, and must incorporate an ssd (not too many files are gonna be saved long term)

nothing she's doing is intensive, it's all just ebay sales, website-roaming, and email checking.

 

I whipped this up but I wanna hear what you guys would do.. get a barebones? different pc build? let me know!

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/kMWyNN

 

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That looks like a solid build to me. Though I'd get a Corsair CX (2017), CXM, or Seasonic M12II (fully modular, handy for such a small case), as I don't know much about the B3 lineup from EVGA. 

Gaming PC NAS Laptop Workstation

CPU: i5 12600KF 6P+4E Ryzen 7 3700X M4 SoC 4P+6E Xeon X5690 6c12t

Cooler: Noctua NH-D15S Wraith Stealth w/NF-A9 Passive Apple CPU Cooler

Motherboard: ASRock Z690 ITX/ax ASUS Pro B550M-C/CSM Apple J713AP Mac-F221BEC8 (Mac Pro 5,1)

RAM: 2x16GB 3600Mhz DDR4 2x16GB 2400MHz DDR4 24GB Micron LPDDR5 4x8GB 1333MHz ECC DDR3

GPU: Sapphire Pulse Radeon 9060 XT 16GB Radeon WX2100 M4 SoC 10C Radeon RX 5700

Storage: 1TB MP34 + 2TB P41 500GB SSD + 2x4TB IronWolf Pro in ZFS Mirror Apple AP0512Z 1TB Crucial MX500

ODD: LG WH14NS40 None LG GP65NB60 USB DVD Writer Don't know

PSU: EVGA 850W GM Silverstone SST-TX300 53.8Wh LiPo Battery Delta DPS-980BB

Case: Silverstone Sugo 14 Dell Inspiron 530S Mac16,12 chassis (13" MBA) 2009-2012 Mac Pro "Cheese Grater"

OS: Gentoo Linux TrueNAS Scale macOS 26 Tahoe Fedora Linux

 

Display: LG 27UK650-W (4K 60Hz IPS panel)

Mouse: EVGA X17

Keyboard: Corsair K55 RGB

 

Mobile/Work Devices: 14" M5P MacBook Pro (work) - iPhone 17 Pro - Apple Watch S11

 

Other Misc Devices: iPod Video (Gen 5.5E, iFlash Solo w/128GB SD Card, Rockbox), Nintendo Switch

 

Vehicles: 2002 Ford F150, 2003 Harley-Davidson Sportster 1200, 2022 Kawasaki KLR650, 1994 DR350SE

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7 minutes ago, LeinadTM said:

Drop the Noctua cooler, use the Intel stock one. She won't be overclocking, an aftermarket cooler is overkill. Also, a modular PSU would be better for airflow, but again, shouldn't be much of an issue. Aside from that, good build.

I would stick with the stock cooler but my brother also has a g4560 and it SCREAMS just while watching Netflix... and I don’t wanna talk about Gaming 

 

also that PSU is modular..

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3 minutes ago, GatioH said:

I would stick with the stock cooler but my brother also has a g4560 and it SCREAMS just while watching Netflix... and I don’t wanna talk about Gaming 

 

also that PSU is modular..

Ah, ok, fair. Did you change the PSU? I swear I saw a non-modular 400W there before, maybe I'm just tired. Either way, that eVGA 450W is good.

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12 hours ago, LeinadTM said:

Ah, ok, fair. Did you change the PSU? I swear I saw a non-modular 400W there before, maybe I'm just tired. Either way, that eVGA 450W is good.

Nah, ever since I saw the announcement from EVGA I knew I was gonna buy that PSU :D

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