So I'm helping someone build a new home office PC to replace a really old XP Pentium 4 based system. These are the parts I've chosen currently:
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks
CPU: Intel Core i3-4130 3.4GHz Dual-Core Processor (£77.99 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: MSI H81M-P33 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£31.85 @ Aria PC)
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£27.59 @ Aria PC)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£33.59 @ Aria PC)
Case: Zalman Z5 ATX Mid Tower Case (£31.04 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: Corsair CX 430W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (£36.04 @ Amazon UK)
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHAS124-04 DVD/CD Writer (£11.69 @ CCL Computers)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) (£49.00 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £298.79
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
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He will be mainly using HLS Pro label printing software on it as well as some image manipulation and web browsing. I'm just wondering whether this would be a decent enough setup to last about 5-10 years, bearing in mind the budget is around £350 maximum. Thanks in advance and I look forward to your responses.
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks
CPU: Intel Core i3-4130 3.4GHz Dual-Core Processor (£77.99 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: MSI H81M-P33 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£31.85 @ Aria PC)
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£27.59 @ Aria PC)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£33.59 @ Aria PC)
Case: Zalman Z5 ATX Mid Tower Case (£31.04 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: Corsair CX 430W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (£36.04 @ Amazon UK)
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHAS124-04 DVD/CD Writer (£11.69 @ CCL Computers)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) (£49.00 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £298.79
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-04-15 12:05 BST+0100)
He will be mainly using HLS Pro label printing software on it as well as some image manipulation and web browsing. I'm just wondering whether this would be a decent enough setup to last about 5-10 years, bearing in mind the budget is around £350 maximum. Thanks in advance and I look forward to your responses.