$450 Desktop Challenge

travisdh1

I went a tad over. Would have to choose between the SSD and the add in graphics card.

DustinB3403

Here's my build

bigbear

The Intel NUC with Kaby Lake and an SSD Drive and 8GB of memory would probably be around $400. That is the Core i3 CPU. Not in a place where I could spec it out.

Emad R

@scottalanmiller

FYI AMD Ryzen 3 is just around the corner, so if you can wait and make Mini-ITX out of that that would be cool.

I am not AMD camp guy, but their Ryzen series are good and each core is truly core, unlike previous releases, and i3 will have 4 logical cores, unlike the Intel i3 with 2 logical cores with HT.

Francesco Provino

@scottalanmiller
Why a whitebox? Why don't just take an optiplex, new or used?

Emad R

@francesco-provino said in $450 Desktop Challenge:

optiplex

Dont do it, I think my shoulder impingement is caused due to carrying alot of Optiplex(s) in my old work, my god there were like tank, but build to last I might say.

Grey

https://www.pcper.com/hwlb
The legwork has already been done.

scottalanmiller

@francesco-provino said in $450 Desktop Challenge:

@scottalanmiller
Why a whitebox? Why don't just take an optiplex, new or used?

Just can't get the features at the price point.

Dashrender

@scottalanmiller said in $450 Desktop Challenge:

@francesco-provino said in $450 Desktop Challenge:

@scottalanmiller
Why a whitebox? Why don't just take an optiplex, new or used?

Just can't get the features at the price point.

Can you at all?

PenguinWrangler

I will do a build later tonight once I am off work. I will do a build with an AMD FX-8300 CPU. That is 8 Cores. I love those processors. Cheap and good performance.