My father-in-law needs a value machine for coding - around £400

naknakkus · 24 Jun 2010 at 13:07

No monitor, no peripherals. He wants a reasonably quick machine with the following:

1tb of storage.
A motherboard with integrated graphics that can output to a 1080p display.
Provision for using two IDE drives - I'm guessing most motherboards still have one connection?

I was thinking a machine with one of the newest AMD boards and a dual/triple core processor might do the trick for him?

Oh, and it'll be running Win7. He's already bought that, though.

Thanks for any ideas.

naknakkus · 25 Jun 2010 at 14:28

Thanks for the spec. I'll see what he thinks.

naknakkus · 28 Jun 2010 at 10:21

What motherboard would you recommend for a machine like that?

naknakkus · 6 Jul 2010 at 14:31

I sent him a spec that looks similar to the one kalvindeane suggested, but he hasn't got back to me yet. Thanks for all the ideas. He's going to have to build it himself, so compatibility of components out of the box is essential as he hasn't built anything in years. He knows his way about a machine though, so as long as nothing needs to be tweaked in BIOS to work properly (ie: memory) he should be fine.