building new pc from olds parts for my grandma

springy1989

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My grandma has asked me to build a computer as her current one is massively ancient she has gave me a budget of £300 luckily this is excluding the monitor and peripherals like mouse keyboard and speakers as she already has them, anyway I have found a lot of old parts lying around my house I'll give you guys a list below so you know what I have to work with.

MB - Asus P5W DH DELUXE

Processor - Intel core 2 duo E6600

RAM - Corsair Dominator DDR2

Power supply - Cooler master 700W semi modular

Sound card - creative X-Fi

Optical drive - DVD RW

Graphics card - EVGA GeForce GTX 280 WARNING even though I have mentioned this graphics card just before I had a new computer this card started displaying horrible artifacts I'm sure it was due to overheating, so I will be looking for a new graphics card in this budget as well.

My grandam mainly surfs the net and watches movies and plays some games but not like cod or anything like that haha so what I need is a CPU cooler preferably air for a socket 775 WARNING it will have to fit with the corsair dominator ram as the fins on these things are like the wall of china, the next thing would be a decent hard drive or maybe a solid state if it would work on that motherboard and obviously in my budget probably wont happen but thought I'd ask anyway, next an ATX case I do like the look of the Corsair Carbide 300R Mid Tower Case what do you guys think? and last a graphics card, preferably PCI-E nvidia and like I said she just watches movies and goes on youtube also plays some games just to give you an idea, Hoped you enjoyed reading my massive block of text if you got this far your advice would be most helpful, thanks guys :D
 
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Underclock the card to see if it solves the issue, if it does find/buy some cheap used bits for next to nothing to complete the system and sling it together.

If not then something like a 460 or a 5850 will cost you 40 quid used, job done :D
 
How about this:

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD Kaveri 7700K 10 Compute Core APU w/ Radeon R7 Graphics (4 CPU + 6 GPU Compute Cores) - Retail £125.99
1 x Kingston 120GB SSDNow V300 Drive SATA 6Gb/s 3 2.5" (7mm height) Solid State Hard Drive - (SV300S37A/120G) £59.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £55.99
1 x Gigabyte F2A88XM-DS2 AMD A88X (Socket FM2+) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £45.95
1 x BitFenix Comrade Midi-Tower - Black £29.99
Total : £331.40 (includes shipping : £11.25).



The new Kaveri AMD processor which has very decent built-in GPU for light gaming, fast RAM to go with the APU, very decent case (we use them for all our office builds) and an SSD which is well worth it and will make it super quick :)
You will need to re-use your PSU and optical drive, plus you didn't mention an OS so I didn't budget that in.

OR

Just to show that you can build a decent general-use PC for £300:

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD A8-5600K Black Edition 3.60GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Quad Core Processor (AD560KWOHJBOX) £69.95
1 x Kingston 120GB SSDNow V300 Drive SATA 6Gb/s 3 2.5" (7mm height) Solid State Hard Drive - (SV300S37A/120G) £59.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £55.99
1 x Gigabyte F2A88XM-DS2 AMD A88X (Socket FM2+) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £45.95
1 x BitFenix Comrade Midi-Tower - Black £29.99
1 x SuperFlower Amazon 300W "80 Plus Bronze" Power Supply £29.99
1 x OcUK 20x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
Total : £322.94 (includes shipping : £11.75).



Graphics performance would be nowhere near as good with this one but will still be very fast for any day-to-day tasks and all components are of course brand new!

EDIT: 8GB is actually overkill for both these builds too, you could save £20 by going for 4GB RAM
 
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WalderX said:
How about this:

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD Kaveri 7700K 10 Compute Core APU w/ Radeon R7 Graphics (4 CPU + 6 GPU Compute Cores) - Retail £125.99
1 x Kingston 120GB SSDNow V300 Drive SATA 6Gb/s 3 2.5" (7mm height) Solid State Hard Drive - (SV300S37A/120G) £59.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £55.99
1 x Gigabyte F2A88XM-DS2 AMD A88X (Socket FM2+) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £45.95
1 x BitFenix Comrade Midi-Tower - Black £29.99
Total : £331.40 (includes shipping : £11.25).



The new Kaveri AMD processor which has very decent built-in GPU for light gaming, fast RAM to go with the APU, very decent case (we use them for all our office builds) and an SSD which is well worth it and will make it super quick :)
You will need to re-use your PSU and optical drive, plus you didn't mention an OS so I didn't budget that in.

OR

Just to show that you can build a decent general-use PC for £300:

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD A8-5600K Black Edition 3.60GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Quad Core Processor (AD560KWOHJBOX) £69.95
1 x Kingston 120GB SSDNow V300 Drive SATA 6Gb/s 3 2.5" (7mm height) Solid State Hard Drive - (SV300S37A/120G) £59.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £55.99
1 x Gigabyte F2A88XM-DS2 AMD A88X (Socket FM2+) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £45.95
1 x BitFenix Comrade Midi-Tower - Black £29.99
1 x SuperFlower Amazon 300W "80 Plus Bronze" Power Supply £29.99
1 x OcUK 20x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
Total : £322.94 (includes shipping : £11.75).



Graphics performance would be nowhere near as good with this one but will still be very fast for any day-to-day tasks and all components are of course brand new!

EDIT: 8GB is actually overkill for both these builds too, you could save £20 by going for 4GB RAM
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Thanks for the help mate, one thing do both AMD processors come with a stock cooler? as I've only used intel before
 
PapaLazaru said:
My advice is just get her to buy one off the shelf. If you build it, it is your problem everytime it goes wrong.
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On the plus side, if it does go wrongs, you will have remote desktop software installed and you'll know exactly what parts are installed etc. :)

springy1989 said:
Thanks for the replies guys, and she plays a game called league of legends
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Epic. :D
 
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