Afternoon, after my earlier post about a dead computer, ive resigned myself to the fact it is well and truely dead, so now mum needs a new one: Budget: As Little as possible, around the £300 mark Main uses of intended build: Checking email and web surfing, oh and playing spider solitare Parts required: CPU, M.Board, RAM, PSU & GPU (or would onboard be ok?). No need for a HDD since that appears ok same with DVD drive and case Previous build information (list details of parts): already got the HDD, DVD, and Case. Monitor resolution: cant remember the exact resolution, but its a 19 inch Storage requirements: None, already got HDD will you be overclocking: no Any motherboard requirements (no. of USB, Xfire/SLI, fan headers): NOPE Have just quickly got these together: PSU: LN38345 CPU: LN36724 M.Board: LN43271 RAM:LN32202 GPU: LN42922 OS: LN29161 That comes to £310 with delivery, but that would be free thanks to bit-tech so bang on £300. hopefully you wounderfull people will come up with something since i dont really know where to start with the budget end, if she wanted an i7 gaming rig then no problem, but with a budget one????
So, for £231, I've just spec'd you this: AMD A4 3300 (Built in HD6410D) Gigabyte GA- A55M 4GB Corsair DDR3 430W PSU, Be Quiet Pure Windows 7 Home Premium That should be just fine. Sam
As suggested by samkiller42, that's really all you need for a basic PC! Also get a nice small case for the budget.
Also the selected GPU is just as fast as Intel integrated solution. Look for something faster than a GT 520, if I am not mistaken.
cheers for the replies, never thought of AMD and to be honest dont know a thing about AMD products, was looking for something in line with the core 2 duo range, which this will replace!
The Llano chips are just as fast as a c2d if not faster and the inbuilt graphics are far superior to any intel intergrated graphics. Remember, just because intel has almost the whole market on enthusiast products, doesn't mean they do for budget ones. I think the build above is a good simple build for basic tasks. The graphics chip is even capable of playing modern games on low to mid settings. IF you need a tiny bit of extra power for some reason, the tri-core is only a few quid more, although you probably won't see much extra performance on day to day tasks.
If you were wanting to stick with Intel, I'd recommend the Pentium G620. Custom PC tend to use that in a lot of their budget builds, and technically it's a Sandy Bridge CPU That would provide enough grunt for standard usage. I'd think you would be fine with integrated graphics as well. Hope this helps!
