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syahn9988

syahn9988

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It will be used for my dads office based work
Want a new CPU, motherboard and SSD, possibly graphics card.

He has this really old graphics card that is doing okay for now but suggestions might be helpful.
He wants a dual monitor set up; he tends to have lots of documents and literature search programs
open at the same time. One of his monitors has a resolution of 2,048×1,536.

All I care about is performance and price.
Don't care about brands nor how old the line of product is.
 
Could go even lower than that with a Pentium G620 for £45. I've got one in my media\light gaming rig in the lounge and it copes fine. None of the uses you describe are CPU intensive.
 
As above^

YOUR BASKET
1 x ASRock FM2A55M-DGS AMD A55 Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £44.99
1 x AMD A4-5300 3.40GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Dual Core Processor (AD5300OKHJBOX) £35.99
1 x MSI HD 6450 1024MB GDDR3 Low Profile PCI-Express Graphics Card £29.99
2 x Corsair Value 2GB (1x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Low-Voltage Single Channel Module (VS2GB1333D3) £11.99 (£23.98)
Total : £145.44 (includes shipping : £8.75).



GPU Added to guarantee Multi Monitor, as searching revealed no proof with onboard.
 
OliverDavis said:
As above^

YOUR BASKET
1 x ASRock FM2A55M-DGS AMD A55 Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £44.99
1 x AMD A4-5300 3.40GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Dual Core Processor (AD5300OKHJBOX) £35.99
1 x MSI HD 6450 1024MB GDDR3 Low Profile PCI-Express Graphics Card £29.99
2 x Corsair Value 2GB (1x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Low-Voltage Single Channel Module (VS2GB1333D3) £11.99 (£23.98)
Total : £145.44 (includes shipping : £8.75).



GPU Added to guarantee Multi Monitor, as searching revealed no proof with onboard.
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If your having to add a GPU for dual montiro support i would go for the Pentium build (if he can't afford the i3)..

The only advantage the A4 has over the pentium is on-board Graphics, as it would be used, due to the GPU, might aswell get the more powerful pentium.
 
Doomedspeed said:
If your having to add a GPU for dual montiro support i would go for the Pentium build (if he can't afford the i3)..

The only advantage the A4 has over the pentium is on-board Graphics, as it would be used, due to the GPU, might aswell get the more powerful pentium.
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+1 I think the Intel route would be the best suited here myself as well.
 
 
Wow this is all great stuff, it really is DIRT cheap - thanks a lot guys.

I agree the intel pentium route is probably going to give better performance
if there is going to be a dedicated graphics card.
But I am tempted by the absolute CHEAPNESS of Oliverdavis AMD set up!

May just go for the APU and see how it copes with dual monitors;
graphics card can be purchased later if need.
 
syahn9988 said:
Wow this is all great stuff, it really is DIRT cheap - thanks a lot guys.

I agree the intel pentium route is probably going to give better performance
if there is going to be a dedicated graphics card.
But I am tempted by the absolute CHEAPNESS of Oliverdavis AMD set up!

May just go for the APU and see how it copes with dual monitors;
graphics card can be purchased later if need.
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The GPU I picked will run dual graphics, meaning its like crossfire, but through the motherboard. Run monitor off of onboard graphics and update CCC, then enable dual graphics!
 
This would be a much better call for performance and possibly graphics without dual graphics, but cannot guarantee multiple monitor support. You could add a cheap £10 GPU from fleebay.

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD A10-5800K Black Edition 3.80GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Quad Core Processor (AD580KWOHJBOX) £89.99
1 x ASRock FM2A55M-DGS AMD A55 Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £44.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED34096M1600HC11DC) £23.99
Total : £169.76 (includes shipping : £9.00).

 
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