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i3,i5 or AMD for a decent office pc?

I wouldn't go Llano, there's more beef in the GPU than the CPU, relative to Sandy Bridge, and I don't think office work really sees any benefit from it.

I'd go for the G620 or the i3-2120. They're both tremendous bang for buck. You can select the entire system and leave the CPU for last if you want to hit a particular price point.

You may also want to drop to 4GB of RAM as I don't see 8GB being used - again though it's really a matter of hitting a price point you're happy with, there's not a great deal of difference in price.

Do go for an SSD - when you do it for way less than he thought it'd cost him, and you put an SSD in it, you'll blow him away with how fast it is.
 
I would go for a G530 and an SSD. It will be perfectly fine for office work.

A Core i3 is OTT for such tasks as I use for one running games and processing RAWs from dSLR and films scans. If anything in most cases you are I/O limited anyway.
 
Also I would normally just buy a HP, Fujitsu or Dell or whatever rather than flaff around building it yourself, seeing as its an office PC. £800 is a bit over the top budget wise, should be able to get one for half that. Wouldn't bother with SSD either really.
 
Well guys, he wants me to come up with the best system I can with £650, I told him too much for his needs, but hey.

So Ive spec him a i5 2500k and a 128gb M4 ssd along with 8gb mem, 1tb hdd, 430watt corsair psu, gigabyte micro motherboard and a fractal design arc mini tower case.

Im guessing with the 3000 integrated gpu on the cpu, its a low spec gaming machine not a med gaming machine?
 
Phil2008 said:
Well guys, he wants me to come up with the best system I can with £650, I told him too much for his needs, but hey.

So Ive spec him a i5 2500k and a 128gb M4 ssd along with 8gb mem, 1tb hdd, 430watt corsair psu, gigabyte micro motherboard and a fractal design arc mini tower case.
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I wont really want to build this spec for him as I know He will never use it to its full potential,,, but hey, its his money isnt it, and Ive tried telling him. but na he wants its pimped up:p

Well it should last him for donkeys yrs anyhow. But saying that I guess I dont really use my pc to its full potential, as Im a light gamer and I will never use all 16gb of mem I have.
 
The XFX 450W would be a better long term choice IMHO due to its ball bearing fan and better capacitors.

I would also wait until Ivy Bridge is released. The GPU has DX11,meaning it will support acceleration of more programmes and Quick Sync is also improved.
 
For reference my pc at work is a c2d e7200, runs with 4gb ram, and chomps through most tasks in adobe CS4, audio editing, general office apps and web is fine.

More grunt would really be needed if I did more video editing. Load times aren't the best, but its not like I spend all day opening and shutting programmes.

I think an i3 would be overkill (or depending on your view, future proof)
 
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