Thoughts on a cpu

[bedazzled]

A mate who's a never used a PC before would like me to build him one so that he can start learning about them, basically as a hobby but also maybe usefull to know a little about using one for work. It will only be used for internet, e-mail and probably leaning the basics of MS word ect (think the ECDL course) and maybe a few basic type games.

I've a spare socket 1155 P67 mobo I can use but am wondering about the cpu, I am considering one of these three. The gpu would be a 512 Meg 9800GTX+ I've got lying around

Pentium G620 2.6 Ghz Sandybridge £47.99
Pentium G850 2.90 Ghz Sandybridge £67.99
I3 2100 3.10 Ghz Sandybridge £94.99

Any thoughts one which would be the best cpu to get.

 

[bedazzled]

This is what I'm looking at, I have a spare 64 Gig intel ssd I could donate along with a 500Gig drive plus the other required parts. I'm thinking that the i3 would be better for playing DVD's and some games.

Intel Core i3-2120 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £83.29
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050) £66.65
Kingston HyperX Blu 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1333C9D3B1K2/4G) £16.66
OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.99
Fractal Design 92mm Silent Cooling Fan £7.49
OcUK Value 2.0 2 W RMS USB powered Speaker Set £6.66
Sub Total : £195.74
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Total: £234.89

 

[bedazzled]

+1 to this, a processor regardless of how fast is always, always going to be made or broken by the speed of the memory sub-system, be that RAM, cache or hard disk, the data always has to come from somewhere so there is always a delay between asking for it, and getting it.

Never thought of it that way, the G620 and an ssd it is then