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Can someone point me to an online retailer (Wootware, Evetech) where I can get a good PC deal with the most bang for my buck. I want to spend 8 - 10k on a PC for the family. No monitor, keyboard and mouse required. Just the box (and insides). I'd prefer SSD and 16GB RAM. Wont be used for gaming. Just internet, homework, printing. Been out of the hardware game for a while so appreciate any advice from those up to speed. Thanks in advance.
 
knoop said:
Can someone point me to an online retailer (Wootware, Evetech) where I can get a good PC deal with the most bang for my buck. I want to spend 8 - 10k on a PC for the family. No monitor, keyboard and mouse required. Just the box (and insides). I'd prefer SSD and 16GB RAM. Wont be used for gaming. Just internet, homework, printing. Been out of the hardware game for a while so appreciate any advice from those up to speed. Thanks in advance.
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I'll put a parts list together for you a bit later.
 
Pitbull said:
No gaming...

You can use top of the range goods as you'll be skimping on the GFX card. Including or excluding software?
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I'm undecided as to go with Ubuntu or cough up money for Windows 10. My gut feeling is the family will be OK with Ubuntu. I got young kids and my wife mainly uses a web browser.
 
knoop said:
I'm undecided as to go with Ubuntu or cough up money for Windows 10. My gut feeling is the family will be OK with Ubuntu. I got young kids and my wife mainly uses a web browser.
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Or a Winloader copy of windows 7 ;)

Cool beans. Ponder is pretty good at this, will see if I can add anything he puts forward. No use putting a couple of different builds. But for that money, you can get a serious midlevel gaming rig :o So you should have a Kick arse normal usage PC tbh.
 
knoop said:
That would be amazing. Thank you so much.
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R1999 - Intel i3-7100 3.9 GHz
R1346 - MSI B250M PRO-VDH Intel LGA1151 B250 Kaby Lake Micro-ATX Desktop Motherboard
R1789 - G.Skill F4-2400C15D-16GVS Ripjaws 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 2400MHz CL15 1.20V Desktop Memory
R1699 - Samsung MZ-75E250BW 850 EVO 250GB SATA6Gb/s 3D V-NAND 2.5" Solid State Drive
R666 - Corsair VS450 VS Series 450W Desktop Power Supply
R856 - Corsair CC-9011075-WW Carbide 100R Mid-Tower ATX Desktop Chassis
R8355 - TOTAL

You don't really need 16GB or RAM, 8GB should be fine and you can always add more later.
You can upgrade the CPU to an i5-7500 for an additional R1450
The SSD is only 250GB, this is not much and you might want to look in to a extra HDD for more storage unless you have one already.
If you want Wootware will assemble the above for you at an additional fee.
Oh and the PSU is a bit of an overkill as well but you don't save much going for a 350W unit.

You did not mention any OS, do you perhaps have a retail version of Win7 or Win 8 available?
 
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R1999 - Intel i3-7100 3.9 GHz
R1346 - MSI B250M PRO-VDH Intel LGA1151 B250 Kaby Lake Micro-ATX Desktop Motherboard
R1789 - G.Skill F4-2400C15D-16GVS Ripjaws 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 2400MHz CL15 1.20V Desktop Memory
R1699 - Samsung MZ-75E250BW 850 EVO 250GB SATA6Gb/s 3D V-NAND 2.5" Solid State Drive
R666 - Corsair VS450 VS Series 450W Desktop Power Supply
R856 - Corsair CC-9011075-WW Carbide 100R Mid-Tower ATX Desktop Chassis
R8355 - TOTAL

You don't really need 16GB or RAM, 8GB should be fine and you can always add more later.
You can upgrade the CPU to an i5-7500 for an additional R1450
The SSD is only 250GB, this is not much and you might want to look in to a extra HDD for more storage unless you have one already.
If you want Wootware will assemble the above for you at an additional fee.
Oh and the PSU is a bit of an overkill as well but you don't save much going for a 350W unit.

You did not mention any OS, do you perhaps have a retail version of Win7 or Win 8 available?
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Only thing I would change is throw in a HDD and a small SSD for the OS only like mine. I have a 128GB SSD and only have the OS on it, rest is all on a normal HDDs
And as Ponder said, no need to 16GB RAM, just get a single 8GB. Or, keep with the 250GB SSD and the saving from the one RAM module buy a 1TB HDD and add that.
 
Pitbull said:
Only thing I would change is throw in a HDD and a small SSD for the OS only like mine. I have a 128GB SSD and only have the OS on it, rest is all on a normal HDDs
And as Ponder said, no need to 16GB RAM, just get a single 8GB. Or, keep with the 250GB SSD and the saving from the one RAM module buy a 1TB HDD and add that.
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Yip the saving on the 8GB RAM would pay for a 1TB HDD.
 
ponder said:
R1999 - Intel i3-7100 3.9 GHz
R1346 - MSI B250M PRO-VDH Intel LGA1151 B250 Kaby Lake Micro-ATX Desktop Motherboard
R1789 - G.Skill F4-2400C15D-16GVS Ripjaws 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 2400MHz CL15 1.20V Desktop Memory
R1699 - Samsung MZ-75E250BW 850 EVO 250GB SATA6Gb/s 3D V-NAND 2.5" Solid State Drive
R666 - Corsair VS450 VS Series 450W Desktop Power Supply
R856 - Corsair CC-9011075-WW Carbide 100R Mid-Tower ATX Desktop Chassis
R8355 - TOTAL

You don't really need 16GB or RAM, 8GB should be fine and you can always add more later.
You can upgrade the CPU to an i5-7500 for an additional R1450
The SSD is only 250GB, this is not much and you might want to look in to a extra HDD for more storage unless you have one already.
If you want Wootware will assemble the above for you at an additional fee.
Oh and the PSU is a bit of an overkill as well but you don't save much going for a 350W unit.

You did not mention any OS, do you perhaps have a retail version of Win7 or Win 8 available?
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If he goes Skylake he can get an i7 6700 for R1000 more which will absolutely destroy that i3 7100.
 
ponder said:
You don't really need 16GB or RAM, 8GB should be fine and you can always add more later.
You can upgrade the CPU to an i5-7500 for an additional R1450
The SSD is only 250GB, this is not much and you might want to look in to a extra HDD for more storage unless you have one already.
If you want Wootware will assemble the above for you at an additional fee.
Oh and the PSU is a bit of an overkill as well but you don't save much going for a 350W unit.

You did not mention any OS, do you perhaps have a retail version of Win7 or Win 8 available?
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Brilliant thank you. I'll make a plan with the OS. If Ubuntu doesn't work out I can probably grab a licence from a MSDN sub.

Pitbull said:
Only thing I would change is throw in a HDD and a small SSD for the OS only like mine. I have a 128GB SSD and only have the OS on it, rest is all on a normal HDDs
And as Ponder said, no need to 16GB RAM, just get a single 8GB. Or, keep with the 250GB SSD and the saving from the one RAM module buy a 1TB HDD and add that.
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Great idea. So I'll order with the SSD and HDD and start with Ubuntu installed on the SSD. Thanks All.
EDIT - although I see Ubuntu may not work so well on kaby lake yet...
 
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knoop said:
Brilliant thank you. I'll make a plan with the OS. If Ubuntu doesn't work out I can probably grab a licence from a MSDN sub.



Great idea. So I'll order with the SSD and HDD and start with Ubuntu installed on the SSD. Thanks All.
EDIT - although I see Ubuntu may not work so well on kaby lake yet...
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If I can interject, take everything Ponder recommended but replace the motherboard, RAM and CPU with this:

Asus H110M-K

Corsair CMSO16GX4M1A2133C15 ValueSelect 16GB

Intel® Core™ i7-6700 Processor
 
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knoop said:
That i7 does look like a good deal. Are mineaway trustworthy? Never heard of them.
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Almost everyone around here has heard of PotterH on the Carbonite Classifieds, that is his site, myself and I can only imagine a lot of other people here bought our CPU's from him.
 
Soul Assassin said:
Almost everyone around here has heard of PotterH on the Carbonite Classifieds, that is his site, myself and I can only imagine a lot of other people here bought our CPU's from him.
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OK. What cooling would I require? I dont see anything listed above. I take it the RAM you recommended is better as it only takes 1 slot?
 
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knoop said:
OK. What cooling would I require? I dont see anything listed above.
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You can buy any cooler on Wootware, even the cheapest CoolerMaster for R146 is better than the stock Intel one.

You can also contact MineAway and ask them if they have a cooler they can bundle with it, they don't have any listed on the site but PotterH has from time to time sold the CPU's with coolers upon request.
 
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