I've built a PC in the past, but that was an i7 build with quite a high budget, and I didn't have to think that carefully about how my choices would affect the total price. Now I need to build a PC for a friend who needs it to record CCTV with a PCI card, and I'm really not sure where to start.
They need a case, a PSU, a motherboard, a processor with heatsink, a DVD drive, memory and a hard drive, and have a budget of around £200, which could possibly stretch to £250. Ideally, they want it to be as low priced as possible whilst still having a decent enough graphics chipset and processor to handle 7 streams of video, encoding the recording them.
Looking through various forums, I've found that I'll probably have to go with an AMD build, as it's significantly cheaper than Intel. Other than that, I have no idea which CPU/motherboard combo would offer the best value, whether I should go for DDR2 or DDR3 etc.
I was hoping that the veteran PC builders on here may have some idea about where to start.
Thanks very much in advance,
unnddd
They need a case, a PSU, a motherboard, a processor with heatsink, a DVD drive, memory and a hard drive, and have a budget of around £200, which could possibly stretch to £250. Ideally, they want it to be as low priced as possible whilst still having a decent enough graphics chipset and processor to handle 7 streams of video, encoding the recording them.
Looking through various forums, I've found that I'll probably have to go with an AMD build, as it's significantly cheaper than Intel. Other than that, I have no idea which CPU/motherboard combo would offer the best value, whether I should go for DDR2 or DDR3 etc.
I was hoping that the veteran PC builders on here may have some idea about where to start.
Thanks very much in advance,
unnddd