First time AMD build for gran

David Koh

David Koh

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Hey all Very quick one.
Building PC for my Gran (kinda sums it up for the spec and what will she use it for)

Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM £79.99
MSI 870A-G54 AMD 870 (Socket AM3) DDR3 Motherboard £63.59
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM £27.98
OCZ Gold 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Low-Voltage Dual Channel Kit £26.39
OCUK EZCool NA-705 Case - Black (500w PSU) £24.98
AMD Sempron 140 2.70GHz (Socket AM3) Processor - Retail £23.99
Samsung SH-S222AB/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black)

Noob qustion but competent builder just want fast reply

Will this work when put together and could i acheive an OC with this?
 
It should all work, but even for a Gran (lol) this is going to be poor. That PSU is not going to be good. For £24.98 with a case, I would not even risk plugging it in.

What is your budget and what will she use it for?

I bet I could shave a few quid off and make it faster.
 
Unlock second core, 3.6ghz OC and it should have been flying no?

@stulid
Awesome thanks for the links

Edit*
Want her to have USB3 and sata 6gbs, but someone show me a usb2 mobo that will hit my OC and Ill be a very happy boy
 
if i've added all that up right, that gives ~£270 not including delivery to spend on the PC (added it up in my head). so the following build should be ~£5 more than what you have specced:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Bundle - Home Premium 64 Bit £68.40
1 x Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (WD5000AAKX) £29.99
1 x Cooler Master Elite 430 Windowed Case - Black (with 500w Elite Power PSU) £64.99
1 x Gigabyte G41MT-S2P Intel G41 (Socket 775) DDR3 Motherboard £36.95
1 x Intel Celeron Dual Core E3400 "LGA775" 2.60GHz (800FSB) - Retail £34.99
1 x Corsair Value 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Low Voltage Dual-Channel Kit £23.98
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.99
Total : £286.88 (includes shipping : £10.50).

not a lot in the way of upgrade paths, but its not as though your gran is suddenly going to be playing call of duty
also no overclocking, but again i doubt your gran would be interested in that.

*edit*
what were you planning on using the USB3 for? you really only need USB3 for external video capture devices (cant think of anything else that would benefit from the higher speed)
 
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Reaper 392 said:
so you are planning on backing up data to an external SSD then?
as far as im aware mechanical hard drives wont saturate the 400MB/s available from USB2, although im happy to be proved wrong here
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USB 2.0 has a theoretical throughput of 480 Megabits per second but in practice the maximum write speed is around half that at 240 Megabits or 30 Megabytes per second.

With USB 3.0 I can back up to a mechanical HDD at at least twice that speed.

Happy to prove you wrong ;)
 
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