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peter212693

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Hi all,

Im buying a new pc for my uncle for general office use with a bit of sky player type stuff, web browsing etc.

Ive come up with this:

YOUR BASKET
1 x IIyama Prolite E2273HDS 22" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £117.59
1 x Intel Core i3-2100 3.10GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £94.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST500DM002) £57.98
1 x Gigabyte H61MA-D3V Intel H61 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £47.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 430W V2 '80 Plus' Power Supply (CMPSU-430CXUKV2) £34.99
1 x Fractal Design Core 1000 Midi Tower Case - Black £32.99
1 x Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £23.99
1 x Samsung SH-S222BB/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £18.98
Total : £429.50 (includes shipping : FREE).




Budget was £400 but gone a bit over with a nicer monitor :) Windows is not needed as he has a retail Windows 7 to use.
Any changes recommended or is that a good buy for the money?
 
Go for the 2120 instead of the 2100? Edit : The 2120 is certainly better value but I don't know he'd benefit. New spec coming below shortly :)

It's not much extra to stretch to 8GB of RAM from 4GB. Edit : Although I don't know that he'd benefit.

If you can stretch a little further (or cut back) then go for a 60GB SSD - if you have an old hard drive you can add for additional space your PC will end up a great deal faster.
 
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This option is just if you want to keep it as cheap as possible.

The Primo6100a (AMD Llano based) system would probably still be more than enough for him for general office usage, word doc processing, web browsing, etc.

YOUR BASKET
1 x "Primo 6100a AMD Llano A4-3300 2.50GHz DDR3 Dual Core System £222.00
- 1 x No Hard Drive Upgrade £0.00
- 1 x Opt Out of FREE AV Software £0.00
- 1 x Kingston HyperX Blu 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9AD3B1K2/4G) £19.99
- 1 x System 12 Months Standard Warranty £0.00
- 1 x No Graphics Card Upgrade £0.00
- 1 x No Operating System £20.00
1 x Asus VE228H 22" Widescreen LED Multimedia Monitor - Black £113.99
Total : £375.98 (includes shipping : FREE).

 
The Halk said:
Go for the 2120 instead of the 2100? Edit : The 2120 is certainly better value but I don't know he'd benefit. New spec coming below shortly :)

It's not much extra to stretch to 8GB of RAM from 4GB. Edit : Although I don't know that he'd benefit.

If you can stretch a little further (or cut back) then go for a 60GB SSD - if you have an old hard drive you can add for additional space your PC will end up a great deal faster.
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Ive gone for the 2120 over the 2100 but like you say its probably not worth going to the 8GB and the SSD I don't think its worth the extra.
 
YOUR BASKET
1 x Asus VE228H 22" Widescreen LED Multimedia Monitor - Black £113.99
1 x Corsair Force Series 3 60GB SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive (CSSD-F60GB3A-BK) £64.99
1 x Gigabyte H61M-S2PV Intel H61 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £46.99
1 x Intel Pentium G620 2.60GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £46.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 430W V2 '80 Plus' Power Supply (CMPSU-430CXUKV2) £34.99
1 x Fractal Design Core 1000 Midi Tower Case - Black £32.99
1 x Corsair Value 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Low Voltage Dual-Channel Kit £19.90
1 x Samsung SH-S222BB/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £18.98
Total : £379.82 (includes shipping : FREE).



I think that's a much faster system overall for what he'll use it for. SSD compared to mechanical is a massive difference.

Edit : Fixed it for free shipping.
 
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One of the reasons im sticking with the mechanical drive is size. He has just started using iTunes and an Ipod so will fill the 60gb in no time :(
 
It depends on your needs really.

The G620 gets 2486 passmarks and the 2120 gets 4195. By contrast your Q9550 gets 4294, so the 2120 is pretty powerful for the price.

However your uncle is unlikely to be doing something that's CPU intensive, so he's not that likely to benefit from the extra processing power. He will though be booting up and shutting down and running applications and that's where I think the SSD will come in.

The G620 is a dual core 2.6 Ghz part, it's not slow.
 
Hi all,

I went with the G620 and Gigabyte H61MA-D3V. Now I know the chip has graphics onboard but so does the motherboard. I know I can set the level in the BIOS but does this set it on the CPU or can I leave it low from the motherboard and the CPU just works?
 
peter212693 said:
Hi all,

I went with the G620 and Gigabyte H61MA-D3V. Now I know the chip has graphics onboard but so does the motherboard. I know I can set the level in the BIOS but does this set it on the CPU or can I leave it low from the motherboard and the CPU just works?
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Sorry not quite sure what your question is?

Without a GPU installed, the onboard GPU will work by default.

[The motherboard doesn't have GPU onboard, the outputs on the motherboard are from the CPUs graphics.]
 
So why when I set it to 512mb in the motherboard does it use 512mb of my RAM. If is was on the chip surely it wouldn't use the RAM, I may be wrong though.
 
peter212693 said:
So why when I set it to 512mb in the motherboard does it use 512mb of my RAM. If is was on the chip surely it wouldn't use the RAM, I may be wrong though.
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No the onboard GPU can use the system RAM, so that will be it.
How much RAM did you get? It shouldn't be a problem using 512MB, though I doubt it needs that much
 
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