My mum runs a dog walking business and she uses a lot of databases and occasionally photoshop, until recently her PC was fine but now she has too many programs running and it's becoming increasing slower.
Yes taipan, this [B]is not for me[/B].
More or less the budget is £300-£400, it needs to run Excel at speed as well as having a low boot time so I fell a SSD would be good, it will never be used for "extreme" photoshopping and therefor a onboard GPU would be fine. I know that getting a BitFenix prodigy is only a dream for me but this time I might build one :D
The Prodigy is a nice case, and I am sure my mum would like it to look decent. If there is space in that budget please try to add silent fans and bits like that, noise is a problem for her (Unlike me, I sleep through my PC fans let alone work with them!)
If possible a screen with that would be nice, but unless there is space for a screen there are no accessories needed. I was thinking of a AMD/i3 CPU with and onboard HD2000-5000 on a Mini ATX mono with a SSD and Sata? This will never be upgraded, well maybe the RAM and [B]possible[/B] a GPU at some point but never to a gaming extent, and the chance of getting a GPU is very very low.
Thanks in advance, I think it's obvious that this build is not for me but if anyone feels like accusing me of "wasting your time" I am attempting to save my mum money and time!
~Joe
You should rather mention light photoshopping than excel work.
You don't wanna know how old Excel is... It has barely changed.
Mini-ITX doesn't cheapen builds, it increases the price hugely. Just so you know.
A Intel i3 CPU would do more than fine for your mum, but how much applications does she have running? I would get at least more than 4 GB, these days it's getting tight.
You could go for the i3-3225 as it has the HD4000, thus giving you a little bit more graphical grunt.
Also the Haswell reveal is supposed to be on the 5th, so it really is getting to the point where it might be worth waiting.
Ok, the main thing is light photoshopping then :P
Anyway mini-itx from what I have seen can be cheaper. An i3 will do the job but I am not sure what MoBo it should be :S I will have to build this myself so my mum won't have too much to do.
Anyone got any good ideas for the MoBo, I was going to go for a 2tb HD and a 32/64GB SSD got boot, is crucial a good place to get them??
Excel? Why not Access? Make a bunch of forms and done.
I'm gonna be honest but, it kinda seems like an overkill build for just using some Microsoft Office. :v:
Sorry about the confusion, this is for anything databases in MF office as well as photoshop. This is meant to be fast and willing to stretch to different requirements.
I am just working on a PC part picker link, apparently it's down so I will try later.
NZXT Source 210 case
Intel Core i3-3225 processor
MSI B75A-G43 motherboard
Western Digital Blue 500GB hard drive
Corsair CX430 PSU
whatever optical drive
whatever corsair, kingston, g.skill etc. RAM
that's under budget methinks, but I live in the US so I may have screwed up
[QUOTE=ducsuus;40463382]Ok, the main thing is light photoshopping then :P
Anyway mini-itx from what I have seen can be cheaper. An i3 will do the job but I am not sure what MoBo it should be :S I will have to build this myself so my mum won't have too much to do.
Anyone got any good ideas for the MoBo, I was going to go for a 2tb HD and a 32/64GB SSD got boot, is crucial a good place to get them??[/QUOTE]
Well you told your mother doesn't like noise? Mini-ITX motherboards oftenly have crosstalk (interference with the audio controller and other componentry, causes nasty background noises on headphones / speakers).
You better get a Micro-ATX motherboard from a reliable brand. But you better avoid ASUS, I heard from so many people on Facepunch that they aren't very good.
[QUOTE=Merijnwitje;40476184]Well you told your mother doesn't like noise? Mini-ITX motherboards oftenly have crosstalk (interference with the audio controller and other componentry, causes nasty background noises on headphones / speakers).
You better get a Micro-ATX motherboard from a reliable brand. But you better avoid ASUS, I heard from so many people on Facepunch that they aren't very good.[/QUOTE]
Asus are perfectly fine, not sure where you heard that.
I'd go for a 3225 i3
Asus p8b75-m motherboard
Corsair force series 60gb SSD
Corsair CX-430 PSU
Corsair XMS3 4GB
Would be a perfectly solid and reliable build, a generic optical drive will work fine, you may not even need one, bitfenix merc alpha would be a good choice of case, cheap, and fairly simple looking.
Quickly priced up the build, should be around the £350 mark
[QUOTE=Uzbekistan;40476622]Asus are perfectly fine, not sure where you heard that.
I'd go for a 3225 i3
Asus p8b75-m motherboard
Corsair force series 60gb SSD
Corsair CX-430 PSU
Corsair XMS3 4GB
Would be a perfectly solid and reliable build, a generic optical drive will work fine, you may not even need one, bitfenix merc alpha would be a good choice of case, cheap, and fairly simple looking.
Quickly priced up the build, should be around the £350 mark[/QUOTE]
I can first hand say that ASUS isn't good. Their product are of not so interesting quality, it comes with alot of bloatware and overall not a very good solution.
This is from several motherboards over several years.
[QUOTE=Killervalon;40477349]I can first hand say that ASUS isn't good. Their product are of not so interesting quality, it comes with alot of bloatware and overall not a very good solution.
This is from several motherboards over several years.[/QUOTE]
I work for a system builder that exclusively uses ASUS boards, and whilst they are, with a couple of exceptions, fairly basic, they're reasonably priced and they're built well.
Guess it's just bad ones sold to DK? :v: (Unless you're talking about those expensiv rampage mbs)
[QUOTE=Killervalon;40477349]I can first hand say that ASUS isn't good. Their product are of not so interesting quality, it comes with alot of bloatware and overall not a very good solution.
This is from several motherboards over several years.[/QUOTE]
That was true in the early 2000's. Nowadays it's a great brand.
Asus is great. I bought a few motherboards, gpus, and monitors from them.
[QUOTE=Uzbekistan;40476622]Asus are perfectly fine, not sure where you heard that.
I'd go for a 3225 i3
Asus p8b75-m motherboard
Corsair force series 60gb SSD
Corsair CX-430 PSU
Corsair XMS3 4GB
Would be a perfectly solid and reliable build, a generic optical drive will work fine, you may not even need one, bitfenix merc alpha would be a good choice of case, cheap, and fairly simple looking.
Quickly priced up the build, should be around the £350 mark[/QUOTE]
Killervalon surely has a great disgust in them, so I share the little handy information that I hear.
Overall I do own a ASUS Radeon 6670, it's rendering my quotes right now so it should do fine,
but I have no experience with their motherboards. I used to pull my hair out on a Packard Bell desktop which had all bunch of failures.
[QUOTE=Uzbekistan;40480223]I work for a system builder that exclusively uses ASUS boards, and whilst they are, with a couple of exceptions, fairly basic, they're reasonably priced and they're built well.[/QUOTE]
I've worked with them for 15 years. They were junk back then and they're still junk now.
[QUOTE=Drumdevil;40490353]That was true in the early 2000's. Nowadays it's a great brand.[/QUOTE]
Nope, they still suck.
I'd go with Gigabyte or MSI. They're cheaper and guaranteed not to be shit. Foxconn also works in a pinch too.
[QUOTE=Naaz;40471703]NZXT Source 210 case
Intel Core i3-3225 processor
MSI B75A-G43 motherboard
Western Digital Blue 500GB hard drive
Corsair CX430 PSU
whatever optical drive
whatever corsair, kingston, g.skill etc. RAM
that's under budget methinks, but I live in the US so I may have screwed up[/QUOTE]
Except, why a WD Blue? They say WD Blacks are better in reliability and build quality.
[QUOTE=Merijnwitje;40512082]Except, why a WD Blue? They say WD Blacks are better in reliability and build quality.[/QUOTE]
and faster (as far as I know)
I dunno, I copy pasted a good amount of those parts from my own build, which uses a WD blue because I am poor.
was proof ever had?
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