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Howdy,

Family friends PC has died and is looking for replacement. He was looking on eBay at them and there was one with the following spec for £260:

Case : Vantage Blue Midi Tower Case + 4 x 120mm Fans
Power Supply : 500 Watt With Power Cable Supplied
Motherboard : Gigabyte F2A55M-HD2
CPU : AMD FM2 A8 6600K APU Quad Core CPU 3.9Ghz (turbo 4.2Ghz) Black
Hard Drive : 1TB Sata 6Gb/s Hard Drive
Memory : 8GB DDR3 1600mhz Memory
Graphics Card : ATI 8570D
Optical Drive : 24 Speed Dual Layer DVD Writer
Warranty : 12 Months Return To Base (Parts & Labour)
Connections : 4 x USB 2.0 Rear / 2 x USB 2.0 Front/Side / LAN / Sound / HDMI / VGA / DVI

To try and keep him away from eBay I managed to spec a very similar machine for about the same price but it's hard!

He is happy to keep his current mATX case and 500GB HDD so I've manged to get this so far:

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For mainly browsing/office/downloading and very light gaming would the above be OK? I haven't ever had to deal with the these APU's so not sure how they perform for everyday use and gaming but from what I've heard they are better over at this price than an Intel setup

He's also asked if I can get the price down anymore but short of going to the Dual Core APU for a saving of £25~ I can't find a way, I'm already loathed to put the PSU in when an EVGA 500W is only £20 more... Any ideas?

Doug
 
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As you've mentioned its well worth spending more on a better PSU, i wouldn't put one of those in my rig.

This would be a place to start.

YOUR BASKET
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 £41.99
1 x AMD A6-5400K Black Edition 3.60GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Dual Core Processor (AD540KOKHJBOX) £39.95
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 350W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £37.99
1 x LiteOn IHAS124-14 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £11.99
Total : £197.51 (includes shipping : £8.00).



I think the CPU you picked is massively overspecced for general use and light gaming (assuming you mean low level games, such as indie/ FIFA/ browser games).

8GB of RAM isn't a must but the 2400mhz speed will boost the CPU's GPU performance and the extra 4GB will just boost the system that little bit more.

The PSU is such a quality unit and MORE than enough power wise.
 
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So after pushing him a little further I have ended up with the following:

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I'm thinking I'm going to hit buy on the above in the morning but want to check that it all seems ok?

Got him to go with a better brand PSU + 8gb of faster RAM.

I've stuck with the 6600k as I'm not sure what he's going to want to play but it could be more than just browser based games and if so he might as well have as much grunt as I can get him for the time being, or is there really not that much difference between the two? I am so uneducated in the APU world.

Considering he's coming from a P4 with a ATI x300 in I think this should be a big improvement tho!

Doug

P.S. how do you do the the basket with links and pics? I always have to snip the basket and use imgshack...
 
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Many thanks to all in regards to this! This is the final order:

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD A8-6600K 3.90GHz (Socket FM2) APU Richland Quad Core Processor (AD660KWOHLBOX) £71.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan RED 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17100C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLD38G2133HC11ADC01) £53.99
1 x Gigabyte F2A88XM-HD3 AMD A88X (Socket FM2+) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £49.99
1 x EVGA 430W 80 Plus Power Supply (100-W1-0430-KR) £29.99
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £10.99
Total : £216.95 (includes shipping : ).





(gives me chance to test the basket add-in as well ;))

Been reading up on the state of APU's and see that at 1080p Kaveri is the way to go for a low cost / low spec build these days, gone are the days of Intel GMA!
 
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