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[Ever Ready]

I too used to build pc's but nowadays tend to get off the shelf ones or second hand from ebay,  there is a lot of dross about but I have a few sellers who I have bought from regularly over the years.
I have just bought an HP 6200Pro sff for the princely sum of £70 delivered

Intel i3 @3.1Ghz
2Gb ddr3 ram
Card reader
dvd drive
W7 Pro

It will do me for a while I reckon, no hard drive but I have a Crucial ssd to take advantage of the sata 3 connection.
Could have had an i5 HP8100 similar spec for around £110 but I wanted a small form factor and not to spend too much

[aaronjb]

Slight thread derailment - was that 6200 off eBay?  I'm looking around for something to replace the (physically) large HP ProLiant Microserver I have here, preferably something a little smaller and with quite a bit more grunt to stick ESXi on with a couple of images running..

In an ideal world I'd like something that could take 32Gb of RAM but that seems to increase the price and form factor considerably! The 6200 looks decent and is a hell of a lot cheaper than the little Intel NUC boxes I was looking at (granted its also quite a bit larger, but still smaller than the micro server)

[Ever Ready]

Sure was    

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HP-Compaq-Pro-6200-SFF-Intel-Core-I3-2100-3-1GHZ-2GB-DDR3-PC-Windows-7-FREE-P-P-/271712416429?ssPageName=ADME:B:EOIBSA:GB:3160

Takes 32Gb of ram too

[TheBoy]

Slight thread derailment - was that 6200 off eBay?  I'm looking around for something to replace the (physically) large HP ProLiant Microserver I have here, preferably something a little smaller and with quite a bit more grunt to stick ESXi on with a couple of images running..

In an ideal world I'd like something that could take 32Gb of RAM but that seems to increase the price and form factor considerably! The 6200 looks decent and is a hell of a lot cheaper than the little Intel NUC boxes I was looking at (granted its also quite a bit larger, but still smaller than the micro server)

Most i3 and later can take 32Gb (remember the ram controller is on cpu, so manufacturer restrictions are rare). Xeons need a bit of care, so check Intel ARK before committing.

Unless you only plan on a couple of VMs, you'll soon eat ram with esx. Work out your needs first before committing, and through in plenty of expansion.  Oh, and fast disk subsystems help, and most semi-software raid options on desktop boards will not work in esx.


I deal with esx in a professional capacity, so PM me if required

[Mr Skrunts]

As above really.

Used to build them for friends, family but haven't built one up for a good 10 years so I am out of the loop so to speak.
I have a tower with a decent power supply so now looking at a motherboard (c/w HDMI or DVI so I don't have to fanny about with a separate graphics board).

It will be used for general tossing it off on t'internet, Photoshop type playing with graphics / high res pictures, possibly streaming music across to the Hifi and general pishing about with the od flight sim / mindless violence game. 

Not got stupid amounts of wonga to play with but I will be looking to keep this pc for quite a few years so it needs to be able to be maybe upgraded the od board in the future.

I've got my own copy of Win 7 Ultimate and intend on using this because I already have a nice selection of scanner / laser jet / photo printers which will not run on Win 8

Any advise from those in the know would be appreciated 

Oh and a happy new year to all 

Say what?

I am no expert but suspect the replies will come back that it is cheaper to buy off the shelf. You at least have a guarantee then. Again I suspect that ten years ago it might have been cheaper to build your own.

Sure opti knows all the best sites for that.