Building a system for the old man...

[honosuseri]

Bloody Nora just noticed Office is £90+...he's gonna need a copy of that :/

Check out openoffice.org

 

[Dan J]

Check out openoffice.org

Good thinking batman

 

[Fire_fly]

Looks good.

A bit overpowered for what you need but that not really too bad of a thing.

I would change the SSD to either one of the Intel ones in mine or Idleman's build though as they are supposedly more reliable than the corsair ones.

 

[Fire_fly]

Check out openoffice.org

and something like Thunderbird for his emails.

 

[honosuseri]

Good thinking batman

I'm not just a pretty face lol

As we are just spitballing ideas, how about this?

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte Z77N-WIFI Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Mini ITX Motherboard £98.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050) £83.99
1 x Crucial RealSSD M4 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CT128M4SSD2) £79.99
1 x BitFenix Prodigy 'Yin' Mini-ITX Cube Case - White/Black £64.99
1 x Intel Pentium G840 2.80GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £55.99
1 x Corsair Enthusiast Series TX550M High Performance 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply (CP-9020001-UK) £54.98
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £25.99
1 x LG GH24NS90 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.59
Total : £479.52 (includes shipping : FREE).



Obviously you could trim a few quid off and I'm using the free P&P but it's a great base to build from. Could easily drop in a 2nd hand i5K much later if his computer use gets more serious and overclock it. Mobo includes wifi too which is nice

 

[Fire_fly]

As we are just spitballing ideas, how about this?

Here is my 2p then...

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-3450 3.10GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £143.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050) £83.99
1 x ASRock B75M Intel B75 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £52.99
1 x Intel 330 Series 60GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive - Retail £50.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST500DM002) £43.99
1 x XFX Pro 450W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £41.99
1 x Arctic Silentium T11 Midi Tower Case - Black £26.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £25.99
1 x Samsung SH-S222BB/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99
Total : £499.01 (includes shipping : £11.75).



OTT but quad core!!!!

 

[Dan J]

You guys are awesome lol...

The old fella actually gave me a budget of £600 but I think that really would be overkill for checking his e-mail

 

[Fire_fly]

£600 to play with, even better get a Z77 Motherboard, 3570K and a decent cooler and overclock the nutts off it.

 

[Dan J]

£600 to play with, even better get a Z77 Motherboard, 3570K and a decent cooler and overclock the nutts off it.

I think mentioning the word 'overclock' to pops would produce a very confused look on his face!

 

[honosuseri]

I think mentioning the word 'overclock' to pops would produce a very confused look on his face!

I find using Cars as an analogy can help a lot.

If you think of 1Ghz as 1 litre and CPU cores as cyclinders. RAM is the fuel, how much there is and how fast it's pumped into the engine etc etc

Overclocking would be seen as tuning. The K edition CPUs are NOT limited so you can get more power from them. There will be a point where more cooling would be wise.

Have a chat and see what he thinks. Maybe he would like a build to go under the TV a HTPC. You could install XBMC and stream videos all from the comfort of his sofa Maybe he'd like his DVD collection ripped to it for easy playback and the DVDs can go in the loft to clear space

 

[Wolfie1990]

look at the OCUK pre built systems they do some nice one

 

[Dan J]

His current system:

AMD Athlon 64x 2 dual core processor 5000+

2GB RAM

Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 3 (build 2600)

ASUSTeK Computer INC. M2A-VM HDMI 1.XX

250GB HDD

ATI Radeon X1200 Series [Display adapter]

 

[Idleman]

This should be more than enough for surfing, email and video play back.

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD A8-5600K Black Edition 3.60GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Quad Core Processor (AD560KWOHJBOX) £76.79
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050) £69.98
1 x Gigabyte F2A75M-D3H AMD A75 Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £65.99
1 x Intel 330 Series 60GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive - Retail £53.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST500DM002) £39.98
1 x GeIL EVO Leggera 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17000C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (GEL38GB2133C11DC) £35.99
1 x OCZ CoreXtreme 500w '80 Plus' Power Supply £27.98
1 x Zalman T1 Mini Tower Case - Black ** OcUK Exclusive ** £24.98
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99
Total : £422.28 (includes shipping : £10.50).

 

[Ethermaster]

YOUR BASKET
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050) £69.98
1 x OCZ Vertex 2E 120GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (OCZSSD2-2VTXE120G) £52.99
1 x Gigabyte H61MA-D2V Intel H61 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £39.98
1 x Intel Celeron G530 2.40GHz Socket LGA 1155 Processor - Retail £29.99
1 x OCZ CoreXtreme 500w '80 Plus' Power Supply £27.98
1 x Zalman T1 Mini Tower Case - Black ** OcUK Exclusive ** £24.98
1 x GeIL Black Dragon 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (GD38GB1600C11DC) £23.99
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99
Total : £296.50 (includes shipping : £10.50).



The cheapest basic PC I could spec could just swap the SSD out for an HDD if so required.