Cheap computer

[joey117]

A customer as come to me and ask me to but a cheap computer together of him for , word, web , school work thing like that. In his words cheap as possible and as small as possible + i have a m-itx case . What would you put in it ?

 

[dalewakelin]

Not an SR2 anyway, what is the budget because as cheap as possible can range from £100 - £500.

 

[Feronix]

m-ITX motherboards are generally a fair bit more expensive than mATX though, so you might be better off going with that. Especially when you get an APU, which would be convenient. If he just wants the cheapest of the cheapest I guess I'd go:

- Generic mATX case
- Pentium G3220
- MSI H81M-E33
- Corsair VS 350
- Caviar Blue 1TB for lots of storage OR 60/120GB SSD if he wants to use external storage /cloud services.
- 4GB generic 1333MHz+ RAM

For an APU build pretty much the same but swap out the CPU and motherboard according to the budget. Be sure to get some quicker RAM too, preferably 1866+