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Not gaming, rendering and heavy duty. It's for my grandmother.
The cheaper the better, but I want it to be decent, at lest.

Here are the parts I came up with: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/3gcIT

I also though of getting a an intel, but I think it get's too expensive for too little. No gpu needed, nor OS, or peripherals. I'll get those in any shop around me. Thanks!
 
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Much cheaper, and the single-thread performance of Intel will actually be better general performance:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Pentium G3220 3.0GHz Dual-Core Processor (£39.59 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: MSI H81M-P33 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£32.17 @ Scan.co.uk)
Memory: Kingston Value 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3-1333 Memory (£24.00 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive (£34.99 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Fractal Design Core 1000 MicroATX Mini Tower Case (£28.92 @ Scan.co.uk)
Power Supply: XFX 450W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power...
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Much cheaper, and the single-thread performance of Intel will actually be better general performance:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Pentium G3220 3.0GHz Dual-Core Processor (£39.59 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: MSI H81M-P33 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£32.17 @ Scan.co.uk)
Memory: Kingston Value 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3-1333 Memory (£24.00 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive (£34.99 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Fractal Design Core 1000 MicroATX Mini Tower Case (£28.92 @ Scan.co.uk)
Power Supply: XFX 450W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£20.00 @ Maplin Electronics)
Total: £179.67
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-03-25 16:46 GMT+0000)
 
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something like this would do just fine:
PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/3gdiK
Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/3gdiK/by_merchant/
Benchmarks: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/3gdiK/benchmarks/

CPU: Intel Pentium G2020 2.9GHz Dual-Core Processor (£35.99 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: MSI B75MA-E33 Micro ATX LGA1155 Motherboard (£41.24 @ Ebuyer)
Memory: Corsair XMS3 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£36.87 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Toshiba 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£39.97 @ CCL Computers)
Case: Antec NSK4100 ATX Mid Tower Case (£38.88 @ CCL Computers)
Power Supply: XFX 450W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£20.00 @ Maplin Electronics)
Total: £212.95
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-03-25 16:47 GMT+0000)

i kept the case, as i thought this was your choice
 
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Enderegg

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I think that's the best way to go.. I had the apu because... well... I may want to play a game sometime xD
Thanks for the time
 
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But the apu will perform better. Better graphic performance and two extra cores. Big difference in gaming.

Even so, do you think that the intel one will perform better for more time than the other one? And how about future upgrades for the cpu?
 
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Yeah, the AMD APU will definitely do better in gaming, but if it's majorly for very basic computing, the quieter, cooler, less power-hungry, higher single-thread performing Intel CPU will be superior. The 2 extra cores doesn't really mean much when doing minimally stressful tasks.

The Haswell platform also allows for an upgrade to as high as the i7-4770k, whereas the highest you can go with the APU platform is an A10 APU (not much of an upgrade overall).
 
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Indeed! I though haswell used 1156. Don't know why... Well, thanks lot's :D
 
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