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andythelandy

andythelandy

andythelandy

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Its been a few years since I've done a build or paid any attention to what's what but my girlfriends asked me to redo her PC as its old and slow the budget is £500 Max.

What's needed for this is:

24" monitor
Motherboard CPU and ram
Ssd no need for more than a 128gb

Everything else we already have, she wants to use it for watching HD stuff but I think most inbuilt graphics are capable of this now? So no graphics card is needed she does use Photoshop so a decent amount of ram but other than that its just used for music browsing and watching video so I assume Amd is the correct route? What's the best I can do?

Thanks in advance
 
 
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Not for her use. She might notice the i5 is slightly quicker in Photoshop, but unless she's using advanced filters or processing large files it won't matter significantly enough.

For the £80/15% saving between the rigs above (Note that they include different shipping rates due to the member posting), plus twice as much RAM for that money...I'd take the AMD.

You could also knock £10 off that or add £10 to the Intel rig depending on whether she wants the thin bezel version - it's prettier and looks more expensive. Similarly swapping the 16GB memory out would get you another £30 off the AMD rig - giving you the AMD rig for £400. Adding both to the Intel rig would make it £550... or you can hit any price point in between by mixing and matching
 
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This is what I thought, yeh the 16gb of ram isn't really nessacary 8gb would be fine, also realised now they I need to budget in a power supply aswell, one other thing could anyone tell me how these new AMD cpu's work, the one specced has inbuilt graphics in the actual cpu this is new to me, the motherboard also has inbuilt graphics so what happens here?
 
The graphics are built into the processor, not the motherboard. You can add an extra discreet GPU (a 6670) and run in crossfire between the card and the onboard graphics should you need an extra graphical boost.[/QUOTE]

Ahh right that makes more sense, one last question i've got is the dvd drive and one hardrive are ide, i've noticed no motherboards come with ide anymore but it seems a waste to buy another dvd drive and to not use the fairly large hdd i've looked at converters but they all seem to be to make an old motherboard work with sata rather than the other way around:confused:
 
I afraid I don't know. I have never had to use those adapters, but I think there are some that work both ways.

Putting 'sata to ide adapter' into Google should bring up a few hits.
 
Fire_fly said:
I afraid I don't know. I have never had to use those adapters, but I think there are some that work both ways.

Putting 'sata to ide adapter' into Google should bring up a few hits.
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You are correct sir, they are indeed reversible. A decent one will cost about a tenner.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Samsung S24B150BL 23.6" Widescreen LED Monitor - Glossy Black £129.95
1 x Plextor M5S 128GB Solid State Drive - (PX-128M5S) £74.99
1 x Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17000C11 2133MHz Dual CHannel Kit (PV38G213C1K) £65.99
1 x Gigabyte F2A85XM-D3H AMD A85X Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 micro ATX Motherboard £61.99
1 x AMD A6-5400K Black Edition 3.60GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Dual Core Processor (AD540KOKHJBOX) £47.99
1 x XFX Pro 450W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £39.95
1 x Alpenföhn Civetta CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1150 / 1155 / 1156 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £12.98
Total : £446.44 (includes shipping : £10.50).

 
Thanks for the spec, think i'd rather try and get a quad might aswell if its in budget, i'm a little confused over these two processors though, the AMD APU A6 6400k 4.1GHz Socket FM2 1MB Cache Retail Boxed Processor
AMD APU A6 6400k 4.1GHz and the AMD A8 5600K Black Edition 3.6GHz Socket FM2 4MB L2 Cache Retail Boxed Processor
AMD A8 5600K Black Edition 3.6GHz Socket FM2 4MB L2 Cache Retail Boxed, the A8 appears to be a lower clock but being an A8 i thought it would be quicker than the much cheaper A6?
 
andythelandy said:
Thanks for the spec, think i'd rather try and get a quad might aswell if its in budget, i'm a little confused over these two processors though, the AMD APU A6 6400k 4.1GHz Socket FM2 1MB Cache Retail Boxed Processor
AMD APU A6 6400k 4.1GHz and the AMD A8 5600K Black Edition 3.6GHz Socket FM2 4MB L2 Cache Retail Boxed Processor
AMD A8 5600K Black Edition 3.6GHz Socket FM2 4MB L2 Cache Retail Boxed, the A8 appears to be a lower clock but being an A8 i thought it would be quicker than the much cheaper A6?
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Two entirely different chips. The A8 5600K is Trinity and the A6 6400k is the newer FM2 Richland.
 
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