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Morning all!
I've been tasked with putting together a PC for my brother as he heads off to university, but apart from my recent home server build I haven't built a general purpose machine since my P4, so I'm a bit out of the loop.
My brother will need the PC for general uni duties like writing up notes and browsing the interwebs, he's doing a physics course with a heavy programming and maths bent so he could use a bit of maths grunt (though I'd imagine any non-budget CPU would be fine). He's also a music nut and so will use some other bits of hardware to record keyboard and guitar music, again so a bit of grunt required for processing. Lastly he is a gamer but not a graphics nut-case, so nothing extreme required. So here's what we'll need:
We've got a screen, keyboard, mouse and speakers. Small form factor would be a bonus.
I've been tasked with putting together a PC for my brother as he heads off to university, but apart from my recent home server build I haven't built a general purpose machine since my P4, so I'm a bit out of the loop.
My brother will need the PC for general uni duties like writing up notes and browsing the interwebs, he's doing a physics course with a heavy programming and maths bent so he could use a bit of maths grunt (though I'd imagine any non-budget CPU would be fine). He's also a music nut and so will use some other bits of hardware to record keyboard and guitar music, again so a bit of grunt required for processing. Lastly he is a gamer but not a graphics nut-case, so nothing extreme required. So here's what we'll need:
- CPU (stock cooler is okay)
- Motherboard
- RAM
- Grahpics card
- HDD
- DVD-RW
- PSU
- Case
- Case cooling
- Windows 7 OS
- Anything else I've forgotten?
We've got a screen, keyboard, mouse and speakers. Small form factor would be a bonus.
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