$200 office PC build.. NEED HELP!!!!

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vaipalande

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I want to build a PC for office work mainly internet browsing and some word and excel. My budget is $200 because I want to build 10 of these. So I have to keep the budget low. I looked at some parts on pcpartpicker.

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/jGh7dC
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/jGh7dC/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Celeron G1620 2.7GHz Dual-Core Processor ($36.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: ASRock B75M-DGS R2.0 Micro ATX LGA1155 Motherboard ($51.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: Corsair XMS3 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1333 Memory ($24.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 250GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($39.24 @ Amazon)
Case: DIYPC M88-BK MicroATX Mini Tower Case ($24.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: EVGA 400W ATX Power Supply ($14.99 @ NCIX US)
Total: $193.19
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-01-14 05:34 EST-0500

Please tell me what you think about these parts and also suggest if u have better options for this build. Thanks in advance.
 
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herrwizo
For this budget, you almost got the most of it. It is still possible to get slightly better, though. This build includes the latest Socket1150 based mobo and Pentium instead of Celeron.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Pentium G3220 3.0GHz Dual-Core Processor ($53.98 @ NCIX US)
Motherboard: MSI H81M-P33 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($44.89 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: Corsair XMS3 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1333 Memory ($24.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 250GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($39.24 @ Amazon)
Case: DIYPC M88-BK MicroATX Mini Tower Case ($24.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: EVGA 400W ATX Power...
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For this budget, you almost got the most of it. It is still possible to get slightly better, though. This build includes the latest Socket1150 based mobo and Pentium instead of Celeron.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Pentium G3220 3.0GHz Dual-Core Processor ($53.98 @ NCIX US)
Motherboard: MSI H81M-P33 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($44.89 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: Corsair XMS3 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1333 Memory ($24.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 250GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($39.24 @ Amazon)
Case: DIYPC M88-BK MicroATX Mini Tower Case ($24.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: EVGA 400W ATX Power Supply ($14.99 @ NCIX US)
Total: $203.08
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-01-14 06:00 EST-0500
 
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Just a quick thought. You can get decent spec refurbished office class PCs for under $200 from most online electronics retailers. I have purchased many in the past for work, and they are usually rebuilt with a lot of new components and just old cases etc. that come with a 1 year warranty.

I only know of UK based companies, but look into it in your area. You might be surprised.

 
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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Pentium G3420 3.2GHz Dual-Core Processor ($64.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: MSI H81M-P33 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($44.89 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($37.26 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 250GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($31.00 @ Amazon)
Case: Rosewill FBM-01 MicroATX Mini Tower Case ($26.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: EVGA 430W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply ($19.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $225.12
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-01-14 06:20 EST-0500
 
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vaipalande

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Can u show me one of such systems? Just an example?
 
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microsdream.co.ukThis is a UK based company that I have purchased many from previously, all been great systems for the cost.

A quick look on Google, I found this US based one: electrocomputerwarehouse.com
 
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if your near a local micro center they have a 99.00 combo deal on g3258 and msi z97 mb.
on your build if your not going to upgrade the cpu at all you can use the older chipsets. if your thinking of sometime swpping out the g cpu for an i3 or i5. look at the h97 mb. with a bios uopdate they let you drop in the newer brodwell.
the only other spot i say add more money to the build is use one 8g ram stick. with an intel mb with an ipgpu and windows 32 bit. your not going to be able to use the whole 4g of ram. with windows 32 and 4g of ram windows will see 3.2g of useable ram. then if your using the ipgpu you can lose from 64k-1024k of system ram depending on size of video ram. you set the ipgpu to use. then your os is going to load itself into some of the system ram. with 8g your office workers can do more muilt tasking. one thing to help you is buy a disk clone software and or use microsoft free tools to make a custom disk image for your pcs. (install all of your aps and drivers onto a new iso image then back it up to a bootable usb stick or too.). if one of the drives dies and is replaced it wont take a few hours to reload the os..drivers..updates and apss needed for that pc. also look into a network stoage unit and or cloud backups. hardware will fail it a given that it can happen at some point or there a fire or flood. having your data backup up off sight can save yourself a headake if there a large fire and you have to move till the building is rebuilt.
 
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