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Samueltastic

Samueltastic

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Girlfriends birthday is comming soon and the laptop which I gave her after I built my computer is struggerling really bad with basic tasks.

So i'm building her a cheap computer just for internet/ movies and maybe some very very light gaming.

I have a case/hard drive and a saphire 3450 for her.

This is what I've put together. Any good?



Any things I could change? Needs to be cheap if so.

Cheers.
 
Looks nice to me. I got the same motherboard and CPU to make a computer for my parents. They only use it for general stuff like the internet, uploading photos, that sort of thing. Its surprisingly a good overclocker too. I was considering getting the 250 @ 3GHz but went for the 240 and overclocked it to 3GHz and it works a treat, temps are very low too. I think it would go to around 3.4GHz with an aftermarket cooler.

You won't be disapointed :)
 
I got my 240 to 3.5Ghz on stock cooler stock voltages. :)

Your build is good, but I would drop that mobo and graphics card and get an MSI 785GM-E51 instead as it includes an integrated ATi 4200 GPU which is fine for light gaming and has a better chipset than the Giga board. You can get it for £56 + free shipping if you look in google shopping.
 
the 3450 is a nice little card, i have used it in a couple of builds and it did everything i asked of it so no need for a board with an onboard gpu if you can save a few quid and aren't going to be overclocking.
 
chipps101 said:
the 3450 is a nice little card, i have used it in a couple of builds and it did everything i asked of it so no need for a board with an onboard gpu if you can save a few quid and aren't going to be overclocking.
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Agreed, the 3450 is always going to be better than integregated graphics, even if it is against the latest and greatest 4200. Plus you can overclock it a little to get the most fps you can
 
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