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Budget build for da momz
Posted on 7/10/12 at 2:12 am
Posted on 7/10/12 at 2:12 am
What do y'all think? It will be the office machine for her personal business so I spec'd it as a RAM hungry power user's build. I'll be giving her some hand-me-down peripherals (19" LCD, keyboard, optical mouse) because she rocks and after trying to troubleshoot Outlook issues on her current machine, she's a saint for not blowing up her p4 512mb Dell.
One thing I'm on the fence on is the proc as I could up it to the G860, but that would add $40 and I think the G530 will do fine. The mobo is 1155 socket type so up'ing to an i series is optional later.
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One thing I'm on the fence on is the proc as I could up it to the G860, but that would add $40 and I think the G530 will do fine. The mobo is 1155 socket type so up'ing to an i series is optional later.
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This post was edited on 7/10/12 at 2:13 am
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Posted on 7/10/12 at 6:22 am to cachemoney
Don't forget the OS. Mom's love windows 7.
Posted on 7/10/12 at 6:55 am to lsufanintexas
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Don't forget the OS. Mom's love windows 7.
This post was edited on 7/10/12 at 6:56 am
Posted on 7/10/12 at 7:17 am to cachemoney
you need to make sure that burner comes with software, at that price they often don't
Posted on 7/10/12 at 7:37 am to polarbehr
There's plenty of useable free burning software.
About the build itself.. since it's a budget build, you definitely don't need 8 gigs of ram. Overkill for a regular office machine.. half that would be perfect.
Don't get her a Celeron processor.. for the love of god. Use 4 GB ram and use the extra money to get a little better processor. Even a slower processor but of a higher standard than Celeron would be fine. It wouldn't be a bad idea to get her a cheap video card also., like this one. Just would boost overall performance since graphics in general wouldn't burden the CPU and RAM, but the GPU instead.
About the build itself.. since it's a budget build, you definitely don't need 8 gigs of ram. Overkill for a regular office machine.. half that would be perfect.
Don't get her a Celeron processor.. for the love of god. Use 4 GB ram and use the extra money to get a little better processor. Even a slower processor but of a higher standard than Celeron would be fine. It wouldn't be a bad idea to get her a cheap video card also., like this one. Just would boost overall performance since graphics in general wouldn't burden the CPU and RAM, but the GPU instead.
This post was edited on 7/10/12 at 7:38 am
Posted on 7/13/12 at 7:29 pm to Hulkklogan
Thanks for the input y'all
I'm going with 8gb RAM for a few reasons--
1.) Price point
2.) 64bit OS
3.) Future upgrade potential
After looking into the proc more, I'm going with the Intel G860, which is nearly identical to the i3 2100 aside from HT and the integrated graphics version, which is why this build won't need a vid card...the CPU will be fine for a power users video needs.
I'm going with 8gb RAM for a few reasons--
1.) Price point
2.) 64bit OS
3.) Future upgrade potential
After looking into the proc more, I'm going with the Intel G860, which is nearly identical to the i3 2100 aside from HT and the integrated graphics version, which is why this build won't need a vid card...the CPU will be fine for a power users video needs.
Posted on 7/13/12 at 7:30 pm to cachemoney
pics?
Posted on 7/13/12 at 7:34 pm to sbr2
In the nude
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