400-700€ Dad's multimedia build

[FrenchChef]

Hello LTT forum! 

 

Here I am starting a new project: A multimedia windows 10 pc for my dad. I will go in more details but feel free to ask for more info if needed. 

 

Budget: 400 to 600 euros

Location: France

Aim: Multimedia windows 10 pc, not too loud preferably, capable of running Skyrim enhanced edition in good quality. See this computer as the one sitting in a bedroom desk which could be hooked up to a tv in front of the bed. To be used as a workstation for basic programs, few games and mostly internet and movies from the desk or bed. I don't have a preference for intel or ryzen. I have a slight preference for Nvidia. I know how to build computers but I don't feel easy giving a watercooled computer to my dad, given my budget (birthday gift) I am pretty sure I couldn't afford or need a good watercooled system anyway.

 

I think an i5 core woumd be enough for his uses? With 8 or 16 gig ram? (he browse a lot of internet tabs at the same time and never close them). After, I have no clues. 

 

Peripherals: the price of the build doesnt include the screen, 2 small speakers, 2 bigger speakers for the tv screen, steam controller, keyboard and mouse. 

 

RGB : Sorry, no Rgb

 

Here is the start of my project, it's not complete or professional. That's why I come here for help from you guys, to have fresh ideas and good results. I would need the rig to be complete for beginning of August. 

 

Thank you very much for the help. Tell me if I can provide more infos. 

[Guest]

Let me know if there's anything missing (like the availability of products and/or wrong price). If everything is the same then this should do fine for him.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Pentium G4560 3.5GHz Dual-Core Processor  (€66.35 @ Amazon France) 
Motherboard: MSI - B250M PRO-VD Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (€68.99 @ Amazon France) 
Memory: Corsair - 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  (€63.99 @ Amazon France) 
Storage: ADATA - Ultimate SU800 128GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (€63.50 @ Amazon France) 
Storage: Seagate - BarraCuda 1TB 2.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive  (€47.70 @ Amazon France) 
Video Card: EVGA - GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB ACX 2.0 Video Card  (€149.90 @ Amazon France) 
Case: Zalman - ZM-T3 MicroATX Mini Tower Case  (€24.99 @ Amazon France) 
Power Supply: SeaSonic - ECO 430W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (€57.00 @ Amazon France) 
Operating System: Microsoft - Windows 10 Pro Full 32/64-bit  (€54.90 @ Amazon France) 
Total: €597.32
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-07-02 12:45 CEST+0200

[Herman Mcpootis]

this should be good enough.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Pentium G4560 3.5GHz Dual-Core Processor  (€66.35 @ Amazon France) 
Motherboard: MSI - B250M PRO-VD Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (€68.99 @ Amazon France) 
Memory: Crucial - Ballistix Sport LT 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  (€64.99 @ Amazon France) 
Storage: Transcend - 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (€85.41 @ Amazon France) 
Video Card: Sapphire - Radeon RX 560 2GB PULSE Video Card  (€111.45 @ Amazon France) you can change this to a 1050ti if you want.
Case: Corsair - Carbide Series 88R MicroATX Mid Tower Case  (€47.90 @ Amazon France) 
Power Supply: SeaSonic - 360W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply  (€57.66 @ Amazon France) 
Total: €502.75
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-07-02 12:46 CEST+0200

[FrenchChef]

Are you sure a pentium is enough for running Skyrim Enhanced Edition smoothly? Not in 4k of course. 

[Guest]

On 7/2/2017 at 5:52 PM, FrenchChef said:

Are you sure a pentium is enough for running Skyrim Enhanced Edition smoothly? Not in 4k of course. 

Yes.

[FrenchChef]

On 02/07/2017 at 0:46 PM, deXxterlab97 said:

Let me know if there's anything missing (like the availability of products and/or wrong price). If everything is the same then this should do fine for him.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Pentium G4560 3.5GHz Dual-Core Processor  (€66.35 @ Amazon France) 
Motherboard: MSI - B250M PRO-VD Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (€68.99 @ Amazon France) 
Memory: Corsair - 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  (€63.99 @ Amazon France) 
Storage: ADATA - Ultimate SU800 128GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (€63.50 @ Amazon France) 
Storage: Seagate - BarraCuda 1TB 2.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive  (€47.70 @ Amazon France) 
Video Card: EVGA - GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB ACX 2.0 Video Card  (€149.90 @ Amazon France) 
Case: Zalman - ZM-T3 MicroATX Mini Tower Case  (€24.99 @ Amazon France) 
Power Supply: SeaSonic - ECO 430W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (€57.00 @ Amazon France) 
Operating System: Microsoft - Windows 10 Pro Full 32/64-bit  (€54.90 @ Amazon France) 
Total: €597.32
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-07-02 12:45 CEST+0200

After looking into it, the pentium  seems good enough indeeed , especially if pairing with a 1050, 1060 or even 970. I would have never guessed since I only look into i3, i5 and i7! 
For the price / performance ratio, it's really a bliss. 
I think my dad would really be happy to get this rig. I will spend 20 more euros for a DVD reader to be all set. Should I get an extra fan for the case?

[Guest]

Just now, FrenchChef said:

After looking into it, the pentium  seems good enough indeeed , especially if pairing with a 1050, 1060 or even 970. I would have never guessed since I only look into i3, i5 and i7! 
For the price / performance ratio, it's really a bliss. 
I think my dad would really be happy to get this rig. I will spend 20 more euros for a DVD reader to be all set. Should I get an extra fan for the case?

Case comes with fans, it's enough

[FrenchChef]

Just now, deXxterlab97 said:

Case comes with fans, it's enough

I will look into it all and probably start getting the parts by the end of the week

[FrenchChef]

On 02/07/2017 at 0:46 PM, deXxterlab97 said:

Let me know if there's anything missing (like the availability of products and/or wrong price). If everything is the same then this should do fine for him.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Pentium G4560 3.5GHz Dual-Core Processor  (€66.35 @ Amazon France) 
Motherboard: MSI - B250M PRO-VD Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (€68.99 @ Amazon France) 
Memory: Corsair - 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  (€63.99 @ Amazon France) 
Storage: ADATA - Ultimate SU800 128GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (€63.50 @ Amazon France) 
Storage: Seagate - BarraCuda 1TB 2.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive  (€47.70 @ Amazon France) 
Video Card: EVGA - GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB ACX 2.0 Video Card  (€149.90 @ Amazon France) 
Case: Zalman - ZM-T3 MicroATX Mini Tower Case  (€24.99 @ Amazon France) 
Power Supply: SeaSonic - ECO 430W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (€57.00 @ Amazon France) 
Operating System: Microsoft - Windows 10 Pro Full 32/64-bit  (€54.90 @ Amazon France) 
Total: €597.32
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-07-02 12:45 CEST+0200

 

Okay, here is what I found:

CPU: Intel Pentium G4560
Motherboard: Asrock H110M-DVS/R2.0
Memory: 8 Go ram DDR4
Storage: 1 To HDD
Storage: 120 SSD
Video Card: EVGA Nvidia GTX 1050 Ti (04G-P4-6253-KR)
Case: Zalman T5 (1 fan)
Power Supply: 350W 80+
Operating System: Windows 10 Home 64 bit
Total: 924,79

 

The price is higher because there is also a screen, mouse and keyboard included. Thinking about it, it doesn't seem to be worth it to pay for this system (pre assembled except for the graphic card). I will stick with your first draft

[Guest]

1 hour ago, FrenchChef said:

Okay, here is what I found:

CPU: Intel Pentium G4560
Motherboard: Asrock H110M-DVS/R2.0
Memory: 8 Go ram DDR4
Storage: 1 To HDD
Storage: 120 SSD
Video Card: EVGA Nvidia GTX 1050 Ti (04G-P4-6253-KR)
Case: Zalman T5 (1 fan)
Power Supply: 350W 80+
Operating System: Windows 10 Home 64 bit
Total: 924,79

 

The price is higher because there is also a screen, mouse and keyboard included. Thinking about it, it doesn't seem to be worth it to pay for this system (pre assembled except for the graphic card). I will stick with your first draft

seems ok, which psu is it?

[FrenchChef]

1 hour ago, deXxterlab97 said:

seems ok, which psu is it?

It didn't say. When I contacted them, they said I should change of PSU. They redirected me towards another model: https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B06X9YSW76/?th=1 but without screen or keyboard, therefore, too expensive.

I can't wait to start building I will wait for prime day to start buying the parts.

[FrenchChef]

2 hours ago, deXxterlab97 said:

seems ok, which psu is it?

How about changing the graphic card for this: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Windforce OC Edition 4G. It's a dual fan GPU, but it's the same. So it would be quieter when it's not under load.

[Guest]

3 hours ago, FrenchChef said:

How about changing the graphic card for this: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Windforce OC Edition 4G. It's a dual fan GPU, but it's the same. So it would be quieter when it's not under load.

yes you can do that

3 hours ago, FrenchChef said:

It didn't say. When I contacted them, they said I should change of PSU. They redirected me towards another model: https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B06X9YSW76/?th=1 but without screen or keyboard, therefore, too expensive.

I can't wait to start building I will wait for prime day to start buying the parts.

wait you don't build your own but getting a pre built?

[FrenchChef]

1 minute ago, deXxterlab97 said:

wait you don't build your own but getting a pre built?

1

Sorry if you misunderstood me (I am french afterall). I was comparing the price with a pre-built and indeed, it's way too expensive to buy a pre-built.
So I will indeed build my own following your advice, replacing the graphic card and adding a dvd reader (that's as simple as this, and I have to thank you for your advice which is great!).

I am gonna keep you up to date with my build :)

[Guest]

Just now, FrenchChef said:

Sorry if you misunderstood me (I am french afterall). I was comparing the price with a pre-built and indeed, it's way too expensive to buy a pre-built.
So I will indeed build my own following your advice, replacing the graphic card and adding a dvd reader (that's as simple as this, and I have to thank you for your advice which is great!).

I am gonna keep you up to date with my build

Ah ok. Yeah the Gigabyte 1050 Ti would be nice. 

The Zalman T3 has a single bay for a DVD drive as well.

 

If you like you can make a new topic at https://linustechtips.com/main/forum/3-build-logs/ 

and show case your build. Many people out there would love it