new home PC

Dave0w

Dave0w

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It's time for a new home PC as i found the woman on facebook on my gaming rag :eek:...


my question is what are the FM2's like, it figure to me that you can get a quad core with not too bad on-board GFX for less that an i3, and all the i3 as is VERY bad intell GFX.

the system will play 0 games ever. it may play the odd move. it will play lots of face book and ebay. i know they dont need good GFX so the intel will work fine but FM2 as to be more future proof having the stronger GFX from the get go. and CPU load will never be a problem with ever, i could get away with a single core p4 on processing power needed lol
 
I've made the assumption you want cheapish/fast and fairly future proof:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE120BW) £86.99
1 x AMD A8-5600K Black Edition 3.60GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Quad Core Processor **FREE SIMCITY PC GAME** (AD560KWOHJBOX) £71.99
1 x Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (PV38G160C9K) £53.99
1 x ASRock FM2A75M-DGS AMD A75 Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £52.99
1 x Imp MicroATX Tower Case (500w PSU) £31.99
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £15.95
Total : £313.90 (includes shipping : FREE).



Assume 120GB is enough for those needs, but if it's not could change to or add a HDD.
 
 
My lounge / media PC has a Celeron G530, more than fast enough, I'm even using the onboard GPU.

For web browsing, facebook etc. any of the above AMD chips would be fine.

My main builds,

Use at least a 120GB SSD and forget the Spinning disk unless you need lots of storage. It will make the system feel a lot quicker, probably more so than a CPU upgrade. Modern browsers cache a lot to the HDD.

Make sure you use a modern OS, XP and Vista now crawl along due the endless layers of patching. The Celeron flies with windows 8 but felt out of it's depth with XP and Vista.

Best of all, start up and shut down take just a few seconds with win 8.

Finally it all runs on a power brick which takes 40W from the wall socket at maximum load so if you're sure you won't want to start upgrading with a discreet GPU you could get mini ITX system and case with 120W PSU so it's a small discrete box.

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decto said:
My lounge / media PC has a Celeron G530, more than fast enough, I'm even using the onboard GPU.

For web browsing, facebook etc. any of the above AMD chips would be fine.

My main builds,

Use at least a 120GB SSD and forget the Spinning disk unless you need lots of storage. It will make the system feel a lot quicker, probably more so than a CPU upgrade. Modern browsers cache a lot to the HDD.

Make sure you use a modern OS, XP and Vista now crawl along due the endless layers of patching. The Celeron flies with windows 8 but felt out of it's depth with XP and Vista.

Best of all, start up and shut down take just a few seconds with win 8.

Finally it all runs on a power brick which takes 40W from the wall socket at maximum load so if you're sure you won't want to start upgrading with a discreet GPU you could get mini ITX system and case with 120W PSU so it's a small discrete box.

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windows 8 is a big no for me, its full of back doors that have been exposed by the german government IT department. there is even thoughts that the NSA is in cahoots with microsoft as the back doors are just to easy to fine there no way microsoft didn't put then in. and any one wath an hole in the ass can look around your PC.
 
I have a dominator case, PSU and some 1600 mhz ram.
its just CPU, MoBo and ssd/hdd.

defo thing al go with AMD tho, you cant beat them on low end
 
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