building general home pc, is this ok?

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Tommykay

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Hi everyone, i'm new here and i've been doing lots of research before deciding on parts but i've came up with this. I don't really want to game on it, it is just mainly for browsing,video, microsoft office etc.

If you have any suggestions, feel free to say :)

AMD A10-5800K 3.8GHz Quad-Core Processor
MSI A88XM-E35 Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard
G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory
Samsung 840 Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Disk
Fractal Design Arc Mini MicroATX Mini Tower Case
Antec EarthWatts Green 380W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply
Pioneer BDC-207DBK Blu-Ray Reader, DVD/CD Writer
Microsoft Windows 8.1 - OEM (64-bit)

total price is £500.
 
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St0rm_KILL3r

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The only thing you lack here is a gpu, which I guess you won't be needing if you don't game. But also a low-med profile gpu will be always better than onboard graphics. It will not slow down your pc, rather it will speed it up and will give you sharper images while watching movies and videos.
Rest all is fine I guess. That's build should be enough for general home pc.
 
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Tom Tancredi

Tom Tancredi

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Actually what will hold you back is the 'APU'. The A10 is a combined CPU and GPU, called a APU, it is meant ONLY for low end use (like grandma checking her email) not for gaming. It doesn't even rate for any current games because it performs too poorly. That said the GPU portion is a Integrated Graphics, which notoriously are installed to just 'display' without 'buying a gaming card' for general use (again grandma checking her email) NOT game play, it wo't even perform low-med but will refuse to play at all or only single FPS numbers play.

You can NOT get a new PC for gaming for $500US or under, especially if you don't own Windows already. You need to increase to minimum 650 more likely 750 for LOW TO MED graphics level play. The typical scenario I tell people is, go to Walmart, get the $349 i5 Desktop (Comes with 8GB DDR3 RAM, Windows, DVD, 500+GB Drive), swap the PSU out (all gaming cards need much better power) for a 600W around $99, then spend the rest ($149-$499) on a GPU is the only cheapest solution that will allow High Graphics in BF4 at 1920x1080 display and get around 50FPS.
 
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