Help me finish off/improve a build

Jano

Jano

Jano

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Need to put something together for my parents, just a general workhorse build, certainly nothing special, as cheaply but reliably as possible. This is what I have so far -

YOUR BASKET
1 x BitFenix Prodigy M MATX Cube Case - Midnight Black £64.99
1 x AMD Bulldozer FX-4 Quad Core 4130 Black Edition 3.80GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £59.99
1 x Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 AMD 760G (Socket AM3+) DDR3 MicroATX Motherboard £52.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Blu 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1333C9D3B1K2/4G) £37.99
Total : £235.88 (includes shipping : £16.60).

I have a monitor for them with built in speakers, they have a mouse and windows 7 license, and I'll grab a cheapo keyboard for them, as well as a drive of some sort. Hard drives are also all covered. What I am worried about however is a power supply that will make it easy for me to put the lot together and be powerful enough to run the system in the small case, and also any fans/cooling, as I want it to be as quite as possible. Trying to keep the pricing down to under £300 as otherwise they'll go buy a rubbish laptop that'll die in a year or two, which is what I'm trying to avoid.
 
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That board is completely inadequate for these CPU's, unfortunately the 9 series chiposet boards are all ATX.

An APU with a FM2/FM2+ board maybe a better option?
 
Really? I don't know a thing about the new AMD boards/processors to be honest, just wanted something with a built in GPU so it was one less thing to worry about. What about the Piledriver CPU's or are they a no go too?
 
Piledrivers are better than the older Bulldozers, the APU's such as Trinity/Richland use Piledriver as the architecture for their corers, Kaveri which uses FM2+ is out in a week or so and thats on Steamroller.

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD A8-6600K 3.90GHz (Socket FM2) APU Richland Quad Core Processor (AD660KWOHLBOX) £79.99
1 x BitFenix Prodigy M MATX Cube Case - Midnight Black £64.99
1 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV "Frost Edition" 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C10 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit £59.99
1 x Gigabyte F2A88XM-DS2 AMD A88X (Socket FM2+) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £46.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 430w Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020058-UK) £37.99
Total : £303.46 (includes shipping : £11.25).

 
 
Fm2 works for me as I've done a build around this before. After speaking to the old man and being pleasantly surprised, he has also now said he doesn't want to go cheap and get something that isn't going to be reliable for a few years. I have a Sandybridge i5 2500k in my pc that has been great for quite a long time now, is there anything intel based that could be comparable to an Fm2 build? If things haven't changed to much, and my memory is still ok, the issue with using Intel onboard graphics is that they weren't as good. Is that still the case?
 
 
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