Hope you wouldn't mind giving me some advice. Built computers plenty of times - but not for years so I'm out of date.
Trying to catch up but seem to be chasing my tail a little bit.
Humble apologies in advance for length
Building two new identical computers for parents. Possibly/ probably the last ones they'll buy. They're coming from 2Ghz Core 2 Duos which are creaking a bit (as well as having hard drive errors etc).
Budget - May not be helpful but whatever is needed. Thinking around £800 in my head.
I'm looking for 'bang for buck' (eugh, sorry about the phrase) here but don't mind going slightly over spec on that for the possibility of a bit longevity later. Would really appreciate the view on what you would spend here.
(I'm still running an e8400 and I'll also do another post for upgrading that which may be a bit more fun - but it still does what it needs to for day to day and I think that's because I went just that little bit over the perfect bang for buck at the time)
Use
It's just general work/ office/ account/ web/ email etc but they do actually use them a hell of a lot. Tiny bit of touching up on photos but no gaming, video editing etc at the moment.
CPU/ MB - Tempted to go aircooled 4790 (not going to over clock as stability is key) and Z97 with a slight preference for Asus but would really welcome advice on the MB.
Unless it's ridiculous to spend that and stick with 4771
Whilst I'm not sure the hyper-threading is worth the money at the moment I'm gambling it will be in a few years.
RAM - 8gb still seems to be the sweet spot, rather than 16 (?)
HD - SSD (Evo 256 Gb?). Would love to try out the M.2 PCIe/ SATA express but not sure what's on the market yet?
Will rebuild one of the old machines as a file server.
Case - Mid-tower. Preferably to be stylish and a pleasure to work with but not worried about windows etc and they'll be under desks.
What have I forgotten?
Hugely appreciated- thank you in advance for any suggestions you have. Happy to be told I've got the whole thing wrong.
Trying to catch up but seem to be chasing my tail a little bit.
Humble apologies in advance for length
Building two new identical computers for parents. Possibly/ probably the last ones they'll buy. They're coming from 2Ghz Core 2 Duos which are creaking a bit (as well as having hard drive errors etc).
Budget - May not be helpful but whatever is needed. Thinking around £800 in my head.
I'm looking for 'bang for buck' (eugh, sorry about the phrase) here but don't mind going slightly over spec on that for the possibility of a bit longevity later. Would really appreciate the view on what you would spend here.
(I'm still running an e8400 and I'll also do another post for upgrading that which may be a bit more fun - but it still does what it needs to for day to day and I think that's because I went just that little bit over the perfect bang for buck at the time)
Use
It's just general work/ office/ account/ web/ email etc but they do actually use them a hell of a lot. Tiny bit of touching up on photos but no gaming, video editing etc at the moment.
CPU/ MB - Tempted to go aircooled 4790 (not going to over clock as stability is key) and Z97 with a slight preference for Asus but would really welcome advice on the MB.
Unless it's ridiculous to spend that and stick with 4771
Whilst I'm not sure the hyper-threading is worth the money at the moment I'm gambling it will be in a few years.
RAM - 8gb still seems to be the sweet spot, rather than 16 (?)
HD - SSD (Evo 256 Gb?). Would love to try out the M.2 PCIe/ SATA express but not sure what's on the market yet?
Will rebuild one of the old machines as a file server.
Case - Mid-tower. Preferably to be stylish and a pleasure to work with but not worried about windows etc and they'll be under desks.
- Onboard graphics, No monitors needed but outputs for two DVI-D would be helpful.
- No Mouse/ keyboard
- Will move over old DVD writers.
- PSU as needed with a bit of headroom just in case something later means a separate graphics card
What have I forgotten?
Hugely appreciated- thank you in advance for any suggestions you have. Happy to be told I've got the whole thing wrong.
