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I just thought that I would throw this out there.
What would your ideal builds be, for an office PC, and/or a Facebook-type box?
I know I like to build overclocked budget rigs, but those might not be appropriate for office work (Never overclock a work PC!), and overkill for a Facebook-type box.
I'm currently running on a G4400 Pentium Skylake dual-core 3.3Ghz CPU, as I post this, using the iGPU, and it's quite snappy, with a decent SSD and Windows 10 1607 64-bit.
I heard someone else comment that a G3900 Celeron makes a "legendary" "office box".
I'm very pleased, overall, with Skylake, even the lower-end CPUs. Very nice, decent iGPU, great IPC, reasonable prices. The only thing that I wish is that the clocks for the Celeron might have been higher (although I know why they are that low, they are 100Mhz faster than the Haswell Celeron CPUs), and/or adding a TurboBoost clock to the dual-cores.
I would round that out with a decent but cheap H110 board. (I have an Asus H110M-A/M.2 board on order, along with an Intel 600p M.2 NVMe SSD to try out.)
8GB of RAM, and an SSD to round things out. Maybe 16GB RAM if actually necessary for an office box (really big spreadsheets, etc.).
Edit: I think that budget rig builders have never quite had it better.
What would your ideal builds be, for an office PC, and/or a Facebook-type box?
I know I like to build overclocked budget rigs, but those might not be appropriate for office work (Never overclock a work PC!), and overkill for a Facebook-type box.
I'm currently running on a G4400 Pentium Skylake dual-core 3.3Ghz CPU, as I post this, using the iGPU, and it's quite snappy, with a decent SSD and Windows 10 1607 64-bit.
I heard someone else comment that a G3900 Celeron makes a "legendary" "office box".
I'm very pleased, overall, with Skylake, even the lower-end CPUs. Very nice, decent iGPU, great IPC, reasonable prices. The only thing that I wish is that the clocks for the Celeron might have been higher (although I know why they are that low, they are 100Mhz faster than the Haswell Celeron CPUs), and/or adding a TurboBoost clock to the dual-cores.
I would round that out with a decent but cheap H110 board. (I have an Asus H110M-A/M.2 board on order, along with an Intel 600p M.2 NVMe SSD to try out.)
8GB of RAM, and an SSD to round things out. Maybe 16GB RAM if actually necessary for an office box (really big spreadsheets, etc.).
Edit: I think that budget rig builders have never quite had it better.
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