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Dj_Jestar

Dj_Jestar

Dj_Jestar

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Hi all,

My mum is after a new PC for her work (accountant) and has a budget of £300-ish (and I don't mind covering the rest)

I've come up with this and just want to get a second opinion that it's not wasted money, and of course confirmation that I haven't got incompatible bits. Much obliged :)

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £363.60
(includes shipping: £11.70)
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The Memory will be ok, looking the support list for this motherboard it shows 1.65v memory being used.
 
 
chippy08 said:
Just out of interest is there really going to be much difference between DDR3 and DDR4 ?
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Not really going to notice it in the real world currently imho just doing day to day stuff, however in the future you may as the technology improves and the speeds get even faster and the memory controllers on the CPU's are improved.
 
Ethermaster said:
Not really going to notice it in the real world currently imho just doing day to day stuff, however in the future you may as the technology improves and the speeds get even faster and the memory controllers on the CPU's are improved.
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Thanks was thinking of building a new htpc with the above Asus board and my kingston ddr3 2400mhz memory that i got very cheap but i keep wondering if the i3 6100 is worth the extra £50 just for the hyper threading over the G3258.
 
Well the G3258 will not fit in the Asus H110M-Plus D3 Intel H110 as its socket LGA 1151 and the G3258 will only fit in the LGA 1150 socket so Z97, H91 etc motherboard so it will not work. for most users that are only doing a bit of web browsing and emails then an Pentium will do the job.
 
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Ethermaster said:
Well the G3258 will not fit in the Asus H110M-Plus D3 Intel H110 as its socket LGA 1151) as the G3258 will only fit in the LGA 1150 socket so Z97, H91 etc motherboard so it will not work. for most users that are only doing a bit of web browsing and emails then an Pentium will do the job.
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Yer its OK i know the g3258 wont fit the socket my main concern was is it worth the extra £50 for hyper threading.
When i check youtube reviews there always of people gaming on there G3258 and not using it for every day tasks like browsing extracting files you know every day tasks so its hard to gauge which would be the best for me for what i want.
I suppose the easy way is to buy both and give my son the one i don't want to use as he like to game and i know lots of people use the g3258 for gaming.
 
The G3258 is a great chip that is unlocked meaning that it can be overclocked, this made it very popular with gamers and overclockers alike. if you are gaming then I would get the Core i5 if basing the system on Skylake as or look at AMD personally as on the Skylake platform you can overclock the non K series CPU's as well and the AMD is cheap. Remember that some games will not actually start unless you doing some regedit's (normally these are the AAA titles on any processor that has less than 4 physical cores).

Hope that helps :)
 
Ethermaster said:
The G3258 is a great chip that is unlocked meaning that it can be overclocked, this made it very popular with gamers and overclockers alike. if you are gaming then I would get the Core i5 if basing the system on Skylake as or look at AMD personally as on the Skylake platform you can overclock the non K series CPU's as well and the AMD is cheap. Remember that some games will not actually start unless you doing some regedit's (normally these are the AAA titles on any processor that has less than 4 physical cores).

Hope that helps :)
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Was thinking mostly emulators for my son he does play lego pc games with his Am1 system and some of the older games. Hes only 8 so we dont allow him to play the violent games only games for his age. As for me i am no games player i just beed it to do what i need.
 
I bought my mum an msi cubi instead of a desktop, a little disposable but near silent computing without the space wasting desktop. You could always consider something like this instead?
 
stewski said:
I bought my mum an msi cubi instead of a desktop, a little disposable but near silent computing without the space wasting desktop. You could always consider something like this instead?
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Good idea however once you factor in the cost of the RAM lets say for an 8Gb SO-DIMM, that will set you back about £35-£40 then the price of the SSD as £100 altogether would you trust anyone personally unless theey are the pope with the P :)
 
Ethermaster said:
Good idea however once you factor in the cost of the RAM lets say for an 8Gb SO-DIMM, that will set you back about £35-£40 then the price of the SSD as £100 altogether would you trust anyone personally unless theey are the pope with the P :)
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I wouldn't trust the pope.

Not sure what you are getting at, if you mean it's not the cheap option? I'd agree.

Note the cubi can take an msata and/or 2.5 sata SSD/HDD.
 
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that exactly the point its not actually that cheap once you factor in the rest of the hardware, for a duel core Celeron to come near the price of a cheap tower with a damn slight more pure processing power to boot and it's not up-gradable I think I would personally pass even for my mother whom see all tech as evil.
 
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