Hello all,
Was at home with my parents for Christmas, and my god if I couldn't have thrown their PC out the window - drove me nuts. Hardly suprising though, given it is a P4 'emachine', purchased from the purple people of no knowledge quite some years ago.
So, they've agreed I can build them a new system sometime in the next few months. Only needs to be a simple home build.
Budget: I would say 300 to 400 quid, but I could perhaps push them up a little.
Needs:
- Simple machine for word processing, email etc.
- Intel processor.
- New monitor (I figure just a 20" 1600x900 would be fine?)
- Solid state drive.
- Small form factor by preference as can't see why a non-gaming PC really needs a big case these days!
- Keyboard and mouse (nothing fancy needed).
- Possibly a new wireless router - doesn't need to be anything amazing, but their current one is from the dark ages, and I could only connect to it from within about a foot of it. But if this blows their budget, then its not that important.
DON'T need OS, as have Win7 to put on it.
Any input appreciated!
Thanks.
Was at home with my parents for Christmas, and my god if I couldn't have thrown their PC out the window - drove me nuts. Hardly suprising though, given it is a P4 'emachine', purchased from the purple people of no knowledge quite some years ago.
So, they've agreed I can build them a new system sometime in the next few months. Only needs to be a simple home build.
Budget: I would say 300 to 400 quid, but I could perhaps push them up a little.
Needs:
- Simple machine for word processing, email etc.
- Intel processor.
- New monitor (I figure just a 20" 1600x900 would be fine?)
- Solid state drive.
- Small form factor by preference as can't see why a non-gaming PC really needs a big case these days!
- Keyboard and mouse (nothing fancy needed).
- Possibly a new wireless router - doesn't need to be anything amazing, but their current one is from the dark ages, and I could only connect to it from within about a foot of it. But if this blows their budget, then its not that important.
DON'T need OS, as have Win7 to put on it.
Any input appreciated!
Thanks.
