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cdeery1

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Ok so after getting specs for £350, would it be a waste of time with a budget of £250 - £300, something with good GFX card 4gb of ram at least. I may never use the thing for gaming but would be nice to have the option to be able to with a good GFX card
 
the little bit extra might make it a lot better, take a little bit away sometimes makes it worse but not always.

bigger budget then intel i5, smaller then AMD, for most if won't make much difference, as long as you don't scimp too much on a vga card
 
YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD A8-5500 3.20GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Quad Core Processor (AD5500OKHJBOX) £77.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST500DM002) £44.99
1 x ASRock FM2A55M-DGS AMD A55 Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £41.99
1 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17000C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (TXD38G2133HC11DC01) £39.95
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 430W V2 '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020046-UK) £36.98
1 x Zalman T1 Mini Tower Case - Black £17.99
1 x Samsung SH-224BB/BEBE 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £17.99
Total : £290.47 (includes shipping : £10.50).



On board Graphics will be more than enough..

If you want something cheaper replace the A8-5500 with:

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD A6-5400K Black Edition 3.60GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Dual Core Processor (AD540KOKHJBOX) £49.99
Total : £53.90 (includes shipping : £3.26).

 
I can go to around £350, i got spec'd an AMD build yesterday with integrated GFX like above but im not overly sure if i want that, id prefer seperate, also something that can plug straight into my tv hdmi. Thanks
 
 
The AMD trinity build I spec'd you was perfect for your needs. As I said a better GPU can be added much much later when needed.

If you switch to intel and use the H61 mobos you lose the sataIII support, the A85 mobo I used for trinity had HDMI output for connecting to the TV and did have sataIII and allowed overclocking.

The 7770 is really poor value. For £150 the 7850 has twice the performance and comes with games which helps justify the extra £50ish.
 
take honosuseri advice as he knows his stuff, i can give different spec's, but tbh they won't be as good, might just be a bit cheaper, but won't be better or faster, and sometime not even cheaper :)

as maths was never my strongest point, but i do try
so +1 for above and go with trinity
 
Well I think the offers have changed so a respec is needed. Doomedspeed used the A55 mobo for trinity which doesn't have a HDMI output, so the A75 or A85 is needed in this instance.

If the OP can finalise a budget we can do a spec as the offers won't change for a week now. He has my spec to compare against though
 
honosuseri said:
Well I think the offers have changed so a respec is needed. Doomedspeed used the A55 mobo for trinity which doesn't have a HDMI output, so the A75 or A85 is needed in this instance.

If the OP can finalise a budget we can do a spec as the offers won't change for a week now. He has my spec to compare against though
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Youre right..

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD A8-5500 3.20GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Quad Core Processor (AD5500OKHJBOX) £77.99
1 x ASRock FM2A75 Pro4-M AMD A75 Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £59.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 500w Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020059-UK) £49.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST500DM002) £44.99
1 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17000C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (TXD38G2133HC11DC01) £39.95
1 x Samsung SH-224BB/BEBE 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £17.99
1 x Zalman T1 Mini Tower Case - Black £17.99
Total : £320.88 (includes shipping : £10.00).



Motherboard with HDMI output.

Power supply upgraded for potential GPU
 
i took the advice and got a Trinity chip for a m8 and it arrived to day, just updating windows 7 64bit now, got it pre built as there was no margin for me to day it as tight budget and pc was on offer here

a nippy little pc for the budget which can take a good video card if needed later, windows score is good as well, better than i thought it would be for the price.

dual / quad you cant go wrong for the price WEI scored 6.6 with memory being 7.1
 
Doomedspeed said:
Youre right..

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD A8-5500 3.20GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Quad Core Processor (AD5500OKHJBOX) £77.99
1 x ASRock FM2A75 Pro4-M AMD A75 Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £59.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 500w Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020059-UK) £49.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST500DM002) £44.99
1 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17000C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (TXD38G2133HC11DC01) £39.95
1 x Samsung SH-224BB/BEBE 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £17.99
1 x Zalman T1 Mini Tower Case - Black £17.99
Total : £320.88 (includes shipping : £10.00).



Motherboard with HDMI output.

Power supply upgraded for potential GPU
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I really would want the "K" APU as it's clocked faster and is multiplier unlocked for overclocking, it's not much more to be fair....couple of quid at most ;)

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD A10-5800K Black Edition 3.80GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Quad Core Processor (AD580KWOHJBOX) £95.99
1 x Gigabyte F2A85X-D3H AMD A85X Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £64.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) £59.99
1 x XFX Pro 450W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £43.99
1 x Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-15000C9 1866MHz Dual Channel Kit (PV38G186C9K) £41.99
1 x NZXT Source 210 Elite Midi Tower Case - Black £39.98
1 x Samsung SH-224BB/BEBE 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £17.99
Total : £379.02 (includes shipping : £11.75).



Offers don't help him that much this week. He could drop to the A8K and save £15 but it's IGP isn't as good as the A10K. There aren't many good value HDDs in stock either which doesn't help
 
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