New budget PC for mum.

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Hey, just hoping you guys could help me out on buying a budget PC for my mum, cheap and cheerfull been the theme :)

Its just for internet browsing, streaming movies/music to their apple TV and a little word processing. A Cheap little SSD would be good though cause sometimes she only uses it for a few mins so instant boots and shutdowns will be handy.

I've been telling her to get a laptop for about 10 years but she's not interested, so another desktop PC it is.

Im reusing he OCZ 600w PSU, Samsung monitor, mouse, and recently bought her loads of case fans as her old pc was over heating.

So a list of things she needs:

Case
CPU
Memory
Mobo
SSD
Keyboard
CD/DVD drive

Cheers in advance guys.
 
oh sry didnt even think of that, cheap as we can really, i wouldnt mind spending a few hundred, budget aint really strict.
 
Since you're willing to go to a few hundred, this is a little higher spec than necessary for the basic things you've listed, but it'll never struggle with any of that, and it'll look nice.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TD120BW) £83.99
1 x Lian Li PC-A04B Aluminium Midi-Tower Case - Black £82.99
1 x AMD A8-5600K Black Edition 3.60GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Quad Core Processor **FREE SIMCITY PC GAME** (AD560KWOHJBOX) £71.99
1 x Gigabyte F2A75M-HD2 AMD A75 Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £57.98
1 x Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £35.99
1 x OcUK 20x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
1 x Logitech K120 Keyboard (920-002524) £9.98
Total : £371.92 (includes shipping : £10.00).



Selling Sim City would give you about £15 back. You could also get a 60GB SSD drive if she doesn't store any large files.
 
 
cheers guys, i like the look of 320 more than 370 :D , i normally see people using high mhz mem in AMD CPUs is that not needed, or is it just for overclocking purposes?
 
Well, the A8 is a quad core and the A6 dual core, so it'd give much better performance overall. Both would be fine for browsing and stuff, but since you get Sim City with the better one, sold it'd bring the cost down quite close to the other. Both of them could be overclocked.

With an APU you should get higher MHz RAM if you want better gaming graphics performance. For anything else, it's not very important.

I stuck in a fairly high end case (£83) which you could change to bring the cost down quite a lot.
 
yeah i wouldnt spend that on a case, ill just browse through and find any cheap old case, with the mobo been micro atx i guess i dont have to worry bout size.

I figured it would be a amd setup ide end up getting, but i nothing about them, so i wouldnt know which ones are suitable.

Cheers for advice, i better go check ive got some money in the account now :)
 
 
ooh nice, 255 even better, her old PC was a 3ghz Intel Duo with 4 gig ram, is that one gonna be a bit faster?
 
The Celeron is adequate for basic stuff. The AMD options are more powerful. It mostly depends if you want a budget or ultra-budget system.
 
The most demanding thing she will do is playing videos on itunes. As long as it start up and shuts down fast, which the SSD i guess will take care of, and she can play card games shell be happy. Maybe i should stick with the AMD so i can play a bit of WoW on it when im house sitting for um :)
 
If there's any chance you'll want to play any games on it, definitely an AMD APU. It's leagues ahead for games (the Celeron isn't really an option at all there without a discrete graphics card).
 
Ive got a couple of 8800 ultras sitting around in a cupboard theyre good enough for light gaming i guess. But prolly a big waste of electricity.
 
Yup. The APUs are designed for light gaming and general desktop use, so it sounds like a good match.

If you can be bothered with selling Sim City (assuming you don't want it) I'd get the quad core, it's a lot of extra power for not much.
 
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