Comercial rig

[johnbarry]

So I had no look with my new build nacked mobo (on ebay for scrap) in the process of returning bits.

Forget building I am think of a ready made computer.

Any suggestions on a ready made computer (comercial) £400-£500 resembling my new build with M2 SSD 8-16GB ram 3.7 + GHz CPU or faster, for the above price. With Windows 10 and ready for Windows 11.

Cheers
John

[Wheels-Of-Fire]

Nearly as flexible as a self build is configuring your own from one of the specialist suppliers.

Some of my favorites are palicomp, scan and ccl computers.

All those sites let you pick and choose components with a running price total.

[johnbarry]

Thanks wheels I will look into it.

Cheers
John

[Ed P]

Don;t forget the refurbished market. Just like laptops, it can often pay to go second hand. Take a look at companies such as https://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk. but I’m sure Dave may be able to suggest others.

[Dave Rice]

Amazon are a very good source of refurbished machines, search for Amazon Renewed. However you are unlikely to get anything that will be capable of W11.

Another option is to buy a motherboard bundle, CCL do lots of them. That way you get the tricky CPU installation done and you still get to build it yourself.

Option 3 is a mini PC, I’m using lots of them commercially. They are quite hard to get your hands on at the moment, only the extreme ends available – Celerons of i7 / R7.

Option 4 let me assemble what you have and supply a new motherboard, or if you’ve sent it all back I’ll build whatever you want and put Windows and other software on there if you wish. The difference if I do it compared to one of the shops is you’ll be getting exactly what you want and not from a list of parts. I’m not going to charge you for doing it and you’ll get whatever warranty is on the parts rather than a basic year.

[johnbarry]

Thanks for all the suggestions and thanks Dave for the offer to build. I would have took u up, however its all gone back. I did ask for a rma off ccl for the cpu not had a reply. Reading there returns policy it said it has to be unopened/unused. Its not been used but is open and has been in the socket so I dont think they gonna rma.  While doing a search I came across a rig on ebuyer no OS so I had this  https://www.ebuyer.com/1287487-xenta-mt-intel-core-i3-10th-gen-8gb-ram-240gb-ssd-gt-xr-d5304

Cheers
John

[Dave Rice]

I bought an AMD one for a customer a few month ago when CPU were hard to get hold of. Absolutely fine.

[johnbarry]

Great Dave I look forward to it.

Are you any good at straightening CPU socket pins, if so you could have a go at the MSI for me.

Or does any one fancy a go and feels confident.

Bear in mind I think I did a proper job of bending them.

Cheers
John

[johnbarry]

It’ssaid to have this mobo in

https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/H410M-A-PRO.html

This says .2 does that mean I can use the ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro 512GB M.2 Gaming Solid State Drive (SSD)

However it says gaming is that no good for the OS

 

Cheers
John

[Ed P]

Sorry, count me out  as growing cataracts now make that sort of work impossible for me. Reasonable eyesight, steady hand and lots of patience to take things slowly and methodically  are really all that are required.

If you fancy doing it yourself make sure that you get a headband craft/jeweller magnifying loupe first, then study techniques on the many You Tubes covering this art.

[Dave Rice]

John, I have two AMD CPUs here with pins so bent I actually killed one attempting to straighten them. So I’ll decline the chance to screw up another bit of kit with a needle 🙂

Yes the motherboard can use your M2 SSD, I don’t know why they don’t use them, saving a few £ I expect. Your M2 drive is advertised as “gaming” as it’s ideal for that, but it’s nothing special, just very quick.

By all means use it, but to make your life easier unplug the 2.5″ SSD before you install Windows so you know you’re installing to the right one! After Windows is running you can plug it back in and use it as extra storage or put it on E-Bay. IIRC it was a well known make, they don’t sell crap ones anyway.

[johnbarry]

Ed Reasonable eyesight, steady hand and lots of patience that’s why I couldn’t have a go myself.

Now Now Dave I didn’t think you was a defeatest, you have nothing to lose and might end up being proud of yourself.

I keep thinking I might have a go.

Glad the M’2 can live in the next mobo and glad my thought of gaming (only) are incorrect.

Cheers
John

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