Is this a good PC for this price ?

myself321

Hi there
Looking at this
https://www.palicomp.co.uk/intel-mercury-cof9#
Is it good value for £600 
Many thanks for your time 

Neil_Jones

Depends what you want it for.

For gaming, no, as its onboard graphics.  Also power supply looks cheap and nasty.

myself321

Mainly waiting for it, for browsing the web , sending emails, office 365, watching YT, a bit of light photo editing, won't be used for gaming tho, is this a better machine for the money?   https://wired2fire.co.uk/product/ultima-ws/?fbclid=IwAR1n-5F8DwBSrCM1yntOq0Vv6gg57s6QUQ4LihHOG6oF-YFsfr3xm7TtR88#configuration
many thanks 

forgotmyname

Yeah the PSU appears to cost very little.  +£34 for a Corsair VS450 which is only £40 delivered the same day on Amazon.
In a good area for same day stuff here.

If your not into high end use why get an overclocked CPU? Just a waste of electric and a load of extra heat to dissipate.

Cheaper non K CPU or even a 65watt Ryzen CPU.  3Ghz 65watts or 5Ghz150watts your browser will not open any faster.
Editing photo's may see a difference of a couple of seconds. Very little though.


Lots of different opinions but to me the spec does not add up.  Parts do not compliment each other.  Why OC the
CPU for basic on board video?

Neil_Jones

The Wired2Fire may have a separate graphics card but it's a GT710.  Those were brand new and budget in 2016, its probably safe to say the onboard graphics is better than that.

The Kolink power supply is probably slightly better than the clearly cheap & cheerful one from the original post but personally I wouldn't go there, especially if it is only 400w.

bob_a_builder

No need to spend that much - go for one of the many refurbished Dell Optiplex 7010 unit available on Ebay -  more than adequate for the OP's usage and often recommended on here
Nice small form factor, near silent - whats not to like  - have an i3 one myself, 

Not recommending this seller - just using it as an example of choice and pricing
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Dell-Optiplex-7010-SFF-i7-i5-i3-USFF-MT-SSD-HDD-Desktop-PC-Business-Computer/183633842242

Frozen_up_north

OP, you do seem to pick some obscure suppliers... there are some good deals from eBuyer, including HP and Dell refurbished PCs. eBuyer supply the public sector as well as business customers.

Avoid hard disk drives, they are very slow compared to SSD and avoid Pentium/Celeron processors (or AMD equivalent).

https://www.ebuyer.com/

Another large supplier is Scan:
https://www.scan.co.uk/