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I have been toying with building a new pc for my Dad for simple web surfing, ( no games, no heavy office apps) or buying a complete desktop off a well know aution site. His current outdated pc is frustraitingly slow and barely manages 1 task at a time. ( I have already upgraded it as far as it will go)
What I do want is something snappy and fast, that is more than capable of multitasking, that ultimately will be ran until it dies, so i still want it to be reasonably snappy in two years time. ( example my current Quad core Q9650 is still going strong since 2009.)
Must be Win7 based.
Preference Intel Chip based
Would like an SSD for O/S
I dont mind onboard grafics, must have both VGA/DVI
8gb, if not (16gb ram for future)
I have:
drives for storage,
optical drives,
case (no psu)
monitor,
keyboard/mouse etc, but no OS
Budget upto £500
Ive had a good read of recent threads, and have a few ideas, but am curious what you would select.
Cheers
What I do want is something snappy and fast, that is more than capable of multitasking, that ultimately will be ran until it dies, so i still want it to be reasonably snappy in two years time. ( example my current Quad core Q9650 is still going strong since 2009.)
Must be Win7 based.
Preference Intel Chip based
Would like an SSD for O/S
I dont mind onboard grafics, must have both VGA/DVI
8gb, if not (16gb ram for future)
I have:
drives for storage,
optical drives,
case (no psu)
monitor,
keyboard/mouse etc, but no OS
Budget upto £500
Ive had a good read of recent threads, and have a few ideas, but am curious what you would select.
Cheers
