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He wants a new PC for web browsing pretty much.

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CPU: Intel Core i3-4130 3.4GHz Dual-Core Processor (£77.99 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: MSI H81M-P33 V2 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£36.46 @ Aria PC)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£62.09 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Crucial M500 240GB 2.5" Solid State Disk (£84.98 @ Aria PC)
Case: Cooler Master Elite 431 Plus (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case (£46.00 @ Ebuyer)
Power Supply: XFX ProSeries 450W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£34.14 @ Scan.co.uk)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer (£11.72 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £353.38
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-04-09 14:06 BST+0100)

Is this a good build? Anything I should add? He doesn't want to pay more than £400

 
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i suggest getting mini ITX small case :)
saving spaces and cost similar
the ram i listed is cheap, it will be clocked down to 1600

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CPU: Intel Core i3-4130 3.4GHz Dual-Core Processor (£77.99 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: Asus H81I-PLUS Mini ITX LGA1150 Motherboard (£46.99 @ Novatech)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-2133 Memory (£55.36 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Crucial M500 240GB 2.5" Solid State Disk (£84.98 @ Aria PC)
Case: Cooler Master Elite 130 Mini ITX Tower Case (£35.98 @ CCL Computers)
Power Supply: XFX ProSeries 450W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£34.14 @ Scan.co.uk)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer (£11.72 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £347.16
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-04-09 14:10 BST+0100)

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If browsing is all he does, I'd suggest going for AMD. You can have a quad core cheaper than an i3, which is better if he's planning on having multiple open tabs.
Also, the power supply is overkill, a 300-350W should be more than enough and 240 GBs SSD for just browsing is too expensive. A 120 would be more than enough. I've got a 60 GB one and it's still only 70% full (I'm a gamer, and all the gaming additions go on it (.Net frameworks, steam, etc, etc, etc)) The cash he'd save on those components could go into a much larger secondary HDD if he wants storage space.
 
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Mini ITX builds have really bad cable management D: Anyway he said he likes the case I selected :) But thanks for the suggestion!


@tinyvoices - I know even 200W would cut it lol :D but in the UK the VP-350 is a£5 more than the XFX and the XFX is very high quality because its a S12II and has chemi-con caps :D. Anything below £30 power supplies is CiT and no-name units and I don't want to touch those! DDD: Also if XFX did have a 350W unit or something for cheaper then yes I would grab it but it's already the base model :D

@swegname - I will look into it further :)
 
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I would definitely get an i3 over an APU for an office style computer. The i3 is MUCH stronger on a per core basis. Having a quad core doesn't really mean anything for browsing or having multiple tabs open. That is more of a RAM deal than a CPU issue. 4gb RAM is plenty for this application.

That XFX is a re-labeled Seasonic and is a VERY good unit. DIdn't know it was the best for the money in the UK.
 
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Thanks for this :D That was I was trying to say, i'm not a noob, I know whats in PSU's and how many watts I need :D


 
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Nah, when I open a whole lot of tabs, it often taps even into my logical cores (HT)
 
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An i3 with it's HT is WAY more powerful than an APU in an office setting.

Also, of course it does. That is how it works. ANY program that can utilize HT will use all your cores/threads the same. So it makes perfect sense that it would use your threads. That does not mean it is taxing the CPU any more than normal.
 
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No, but in most multithreaded programs, i3 lose vs AMD quads. HT could never "boost" a dual-core to a quad's performance level. Besides, you don't need a lot of per-core power when browsing. When I had an Ivy pentium (I have a Sandy i7 now), it didn't make a whole lot of difference when I disabled two i7 cores + HT (I didn't touch the frequency). But when I underclocked the i7 to the Pentium's frequency and reactivated the cores + HT, I could see a huge improvement. Needless to say, the i7 cache didn't help a lot either.
 
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You can call me biased but I like Intel :)
 
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