Pc for office

[thebiz87]

Hello my dad is in need of a new pc for his shop. He just uses it for estimates ,buying parts and printing.
Could you guys help me build something for him also something for backing up every so often.
Thanks.

 

[RememberThe5th]

Whole PC with windows and PC case?

 

[Lutfij]

Best use this thread as a template and stylize your thread the same.

 

[grimfox]

I suggest you look at newegg or similar for a refurbished office machine. You can find something among those PCs that will be affordable and adequate to the task. There are literally thousands of options. Some are older but some are quite new. Many offices lease their PCs for just a couple years before upgrading to more current models. Many of those have brand new hard drives as the original owner frequently removes them to prevent data theft.

 

[thebiz87]

I'll look into those he only needs tower and components. Was thinking I could just build one for cheap.

 

[failboat]

8100 is a solid entry level cpu, 2x4G ram, SSD. $450-500 with Windows.

 

[grimfox]

I know this forum is all about building. But sometimes it's better to get a prebuilt. For this use case I think a prebuilt is just fine.

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA7RB6X73298&ignorebbr=1

Here is a PC I found on newegg in about 2 min. For $250 you get a capable machine with a two year warranty from square trade. If you spend a little more time you can probably find something better.

 

[thebiz87]

Thanks for all the replies. Thinking the refurbished ones look like a decent deal. Dont need anything special just reliable.

 

[punkncat]

Yeah, get a nice Dell or HP (etc.) business class refurb with ~5th gen i5. In that case I wouldn't do more than 8gb of RAM, but would budget in an extra HDD so you can backup to it for redundancy.

 

[thebiz87]

What about something like this
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIAA658A21558

 

[RememberThe5th]

Pretty much anything with good CPU will work out, keeping one HDD for backups.