I3-14100 budget build for a colleague (£460 including OS)

Thought I’d expand on a THIS THREAD.

I have a retired colleague that was in need of a computer, their 15 year old machine was starting to show problems and while I could have reinstalled Windows, thought it might be better for them to have a machine with TPM. I could have done a Rufus with the TPM requirement disabled, but I’m trying to avoid any issues that might happen later, that I have to attend to free of charge.

Here’s the cost and item list

Picture of the parts

After doing some intensive tests on the iGPU and CPU, I’ve been leaving this running for a few days:

Photo of multiple YouTube stream instances

CPU-Z test results

I bought a Windows 11 Pro key from Vip-scdkeyss for £21, I’ve bought over a dozen keys from them and have had no issues at all.

I paid for the BIOS upgrade just in case, even though it needed an update that was 3 years old, but you never know!

Anyway, hope that’s of interest to someone. :+1:

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