Cheap build for home pc

Everything is great, for the power supply as I would suggest getting a 500W psu site you can crossfire the igpu with discrete one this will help a lot in gaming and increase performance. Dual graphics is the same as crossfire just different names. And yes everything's is compatible.

You'll be able to do all of those things with pretty much any build you can make today, the question really is, how well do you want to be able to do them? How easily? How quickly?

It can be incredibly frustrating waiting for a video conversion task, and some might argue that playing games on their minimum settings really detracts from the whole experience. My best recommendation given your circumstance is to buy the minimum you can currently afford, whilst allowing yourself a decent upgrade path in the future. This will minimise your financial outlay now, and mean you can continue to improve your experience later.

Broadly, the components you choose to buy will be down to preference. There are those who regard going the AMD route as limiting your future potential for maximum processing power, but on the other hand AMD processor solutions are significantly cheaper and offer a great way to get your foot in the door, so-to-speak. So that might answer your first question; it depends on how you feel about your own build. There is certainly nothing wrong with what you are proposing, but there are obviously more powerful components you could choose to improve your experience.

2. More memory is always better. 1GB of ram isn't enough these days, and most 64bit OSes will struggle with just 4GB in total if you are multitasking (or doing demanding tasks like video encoding). Again this is all about your experience and how much money you have. You could feasibly buy 1x4GB now and another later on, but I'd recommend at least 2 modules to begin with.

3. This is an easy one. Given that you are likely to change components in the future, and you may not be set on what you will include now, you can use this: http:// to precisely calculate the required wattage of your PSU. It even includes the ability to factor in age and wear on the capacitors (older PSUs draw more wattage to power the same components)

4. People have done this, but given you are using a much, much slower graphics unit on the APU than the graphics card, the benefits may be marginal. People tend to have mixed success so I would consider this a hobby-project for after the build is finished. If you don't notice much of a difference, you can always crossfire with an additional board.

Hope this helps

Yes it should do!

Its the fact that you've already purchased the processor that makes suggesting cost-effective alternatives difficult, for example if you were to go the core i3 route, you could easily forego the graphics card altogether for now whilst you establish a system, whilst choosing a really decent motherboard capable of handling everything you were to look to in the future.

Also, at this point I should bang the standard drum of getting an SSD. Now that we are into the 3rd and 4th generation of controller chips, the TRIM command is prevalent and people know how to install operating systems onto SSDs effectively (if you don't, there are guides to help) they can tremendously boost system performance in ways that a lot of people don't expect. All people experience is a "speed" of "how fast" a computer does something, but that is a compound process of multiple disparate influences, including processor speed, processor-memory bandwidth, memory latency, cache sizes, cache levels, speeds of data access and retrieval etc. But because each of these are inter-dependent when it comes to the user experience, an SSD can get those important I/O rates up and massively improve the weakest link in the chain.

If you hadn't bothered with the AMD route, I would've gone:

phase 1: core i3, really good mobo, 1 stick of 4gb

phase 2: extra stick of 4gb

phase 3: really, blazingly fast graphics card (even if bottlenecking)

phase 4: really amazing cpu