£400 spec check for friend

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A friend wants me to build him a PC for web browsing, DVD watching etc etc for about £400. He has no interest in gaming whatsoever and needs everything except a monitor.

I dont really know anything about components at this price point so I just went with an AMD APU and picked a motherboard, ram etc more-or-less at random.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00614) £74.99
1 x AMD A8-6600K 3.90GHz (Socket FM2) APU Richland Quad Core Processor (AD660KWOHLBOX) £71.99
1 x Gigabyte F2A88X-D3H AMD A88X (Socket FM2+) DDR3 Motherboard £59.99
1 x Toshiba 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6GB/s 64MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA200) HDD £56.99
1 x Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C8 1333MHz Dual-Channel (CMX4GX3M2A1333C8) £43.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 430w Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020058-UK) £35.99
1 x BitFenix Neos ATX Tower Black/Black £29.99
1 x Pioneer 24x Internal DVR-221LBK DVD Rewriter - OEM £13.49
Total : £400.91 (includes shipping : £11.25).




I see a lot of recommendations for the intel K Anniversary but thought an APU might be best for smooth back back of HD video and such. But as I say, i dont really know whats best value for money so any help would be most appreciated.

Cheers
 
 
RJC said:
Just under as you should get free shipping:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00614) £74.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £54.98
1 x Plextor M5 Pro 128GB Extreme Series Solid State Drive - (PX-128M5P) £49.99
1 x Gigabyte F2A78M-D3H AMD A78 (Socket FM2+) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £46.99
1 x AMD A6-6400K 3.90GHz (Socket FM2) APU Richland Dual Core Processor (AD640KOKHLBOX) £44.99
1 x Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £41.99
1 x SuperFlower Amazon 300W "80 Plus Bronze" Power Supply £29.99
1 x BitFenix Neos ATX Tower Black/Silver £29.99
1 x Asus 24x DVD±RW DRW-24F1ST SATA ReWriter - Black (Retail) £17.99
Total : £412.42 (includes shipping : £17.10).

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Thanks. Is your essentially a scaled down version of mine in order to get an SSD as well?
 
How about an ITX option?

AMD Kabini is more than capable of DVD playback, internet browsing and general computing.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Kingston 240GB SSDNow V300 Drive SATA 6Gb/s 3 2.5" (7mm height) Solid State Hard Drive - (SV300S37A/240G) £79.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00614) £74.99
1 x IN WIN BM639, USB 3.0 Mini-ITX Enclosure, 160 Watt Power Supply - Silver £44.99
1 x AMD Athlon 5350 2.05GHz Quad Core Processor - Retail (Socket AM1) £41.99
1 x Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £41.99
1 x MSI AM1I AMD AM1 (Socket FS1b) Mini ITX Motherboard £24.95
1 x Samsung SN-208DB/BEBE Slimline 8x DVD±RW SATA Drive - OEM £17.99
Total : £336.48 (includes shipping : £8.00).



I actually wouldn't look at the AMD A-series processors for this workload, since the relatively powerful graphics side is completely overkill for the tasks. I'd go Intel if you don't fancy the above Kabini setup. And I'd just get a celeron or cheapest Pentium, rather than the K.
 
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P.S You would need different mob this one only have sata 3GB/s which will limit ssd, not much choice on ocuk for AM3+
 
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