AMD or Intel for budget build?

liamcrane

liamcrane

liamcrane

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Evening all,

Looking to build a budget £300 machine for just general web browsing and office work nothing to fancy. Being an AMD man myself i have not got much of an insight to what intel have to offer so i was looking for some advice on the best way to go about this build.

Hope you can help

many thanks
 
do you need a keyboard, mouse, monitor, operating system?

just the base unit?

Your basketProduct Name Qty Price Line Total
Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £76.36
(£64.99) £76.36
(£64.99)
AMD Athlon II X2 Dual Core 250 3.00GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £51.69
(£43.99) £51.69
(£43.99)
Asus M4A78LT-M 760G (Socket AM3) DDR3 Motherboard £48.99
(£41.69) £48.99
(£41.69)
Antec 300 Three Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - Black £43.98
(£37.43) £43.98
(£37.43)
Samsung SpinPoint F3 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD502HJ) £32.99
(£28.08) £32.99
(£28.08)
Corsair CX 400W ATX Power Supply (CMPSU-400CXUK) £32.99
(£28.08) £32.99
(£28.08)
Samsung SH-S223C/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99
(£11.91) £13.99
(£11.91)
Sub Total : £256.17
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £11.75
VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £46.89
Total : £314.81

cheap and cheerful, onboard graphics will be ok.
 
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+1 for tri core, at just tenner more you can't go wrong with it.

And if you ever decide that you want more power in the future you can just pop a full phenom II quad or x6 in there !
 
PhoenixUK said:
+1 for tri core, at just tenner more you can't go wrong with it.

And if you ever decide that you want more power in the future you can just pop a full phenom II quad or x6 in there !
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Or if you are lucky enough you've got a Quard core with a core locked off usually because its broken/unstable but AMD retailed it as a Tri Core. If you unlock the 4th core and its stable Boom Quad core for the price of a Tri core ;)
 
I never used to like Tri cores, but at £60 thats a great deal for one compared to a Quad.

Is the Athlon much slower than the Phenom though?
 
for general web browsing and office, then take a look for some 2gig ram kits to save money. Some budget crucial stuff (i forget the name...) should be £35-40. Id stick with dual core unless theres going to be more demanding things involved.

If you really want to cut back on the £££ then you could go for a smaller hard drive, but 500GB seems to be the sweetspot at the moment for £/Gb
 
Thanks for the help guys, a tri core does look good for the price indeed, luckly i dont need a monitor, keyboard and mouse as i already have one, i also have a spare 320gb sata II HD which will do the trick for whats its going to be used for. I do need to get a copy of windows cant believe how much its gone up tho! i paid £70 for home premium when it 1st came out.

Do you think home premium would be the way to go?
 
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