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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:
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
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:
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