Hi all, I could do with your advice and help!
My missus is hogging my rig, and so I decided that it would be best if I bought her a pooter and moved my rig somewhere else.
He computer use amounts to Microsoft office, web browsing, photo viewing chatting on skype - you get the picture. Nothing heavyweight like gaming or such.
My first thoughts were a micro itx with built in dvi and perhaps a dual core or quad core processor. No gpu as she wouldn't see the benefit, and a single big hdd - I got a WD 500gb green knocking around doing nothing.
I was looking a some real small cases, as all its going to have is an optical drive and the hdd.
My question is, I've played with a netbook on the atom processors and i'm not impressed - so if I went for a C2Q or C2D, how would you cool it in a really small case?
I'm looking to give her my W7 HP licence and install my W7 Pro on my own machine. Alternatively I was half thinking of buying an old copy of xp, but for the proce that OCuk are doing W7HP, it's hardly worth the effort!
So if you guys could help me, knowing the use, and also the sort of smallest size poss, If you could throw together a spec and advice on cooling the bugger i'd really appreciate it, and finally I can mod my own rig in peace instead of her (under) using my processing power to type a letter and checkout her mates of the facebook!
My missus is hogging my rig, and so I decided that it would be best if I bought her a pooter and moved my rig somewhere else.
He computer use amounts to Microsoft office, web browsing, photo viewing chatting on skype - you get the picture. Nothing heavyweight like gaming or such.
My first thoughts were a micro itx with built in dvi and perhaps a dual core or quad core processor. No gpu as she wouldn't see the benefit, and a single big hdd - I got a WD 500gb green knocking around doing nothing.
I was looking a some real small cases, as all its going to have is an optical drive and the hdd.
My question is, I've played with a netbook on the atom processors and i'm not impressed - so if I went for a C2Q or C2D, how would you cool it in a really small case?
I'm looking to give her my W7 HP licence and install my W7 Pro on my own machine. Alternatively I was half thinking of buying an old copy of xp, but for the proce that OCuk are doing W7HP, it's hardly worth the effort!
So if you guys could help me, knowing the use, and also the sort of smallest size poss, If you could throw together a spec and advice on cooling the bugger i'd really appreciate it, and finally I can mod my own rig in peace instead of her (under) using my processing power to type a letter and checkout her mates of the facebook!
