Situation: My moms pre-built computer is now over 8 years old, used to run Windows Vista, upgraded to Windows 7 a few years ago and takes ~5 minutes to turn and just as long to open a web browser.
Current parts: The power supply, case, DVD drive and all the peripherals are all fine so I was wanting to just to replace the motherboard, CPU, RAM and hard drive. In the current computer there is a 320gb hard drive which is more than enough space for photos as of now, I will pick up a Western Digital 1TB Blue sometime in the future if needed. Also there is a 6000 series AMD graphics card in there (not sure the exact model)
O/S: I have a spare Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit product key which I will use and then upgrade it to Windows 10 Home
Usage: She just uses it for word processing, playing facebook games and storing loads of photos.
Budget: I have a tight budget of ~£150.
Here is the system I came up with:
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
CPU: Intel Pentium G3250 3.2GHz Dual-Core Processor (£41.21 @ Ebuyer)
Motherboard: ASRock H81M-DGS R2.0 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£33.37 @ Scan.co.uk)
Memory: Corsair 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1333 Memory (£37.57 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£38.99 @ Novatech)
Total: £151.14
Current parts: The power supply, case, DVD drive and all the peripherals are all fine so I was wanting to just to replace the motherboard, CPU, RAM and hard drive. In the current computer there is a 320gb hard drive which is more than enough space for photos as of now, I will pick up a Western Digital 1TB Blue sometime in the future if needed. Also there is a 6000 series AMD graphics card in there (not sure the exact model)
O/S: I have a spare Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit product key which I will use and then upgrade it to Windows 10 Home
Usage: She just uses it for word processing, playing facebook games and storing loads of photos.
Budget: I have a tight budget of ~£150.
Here is the system I came up with:
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
CPU: Intel Pentium G3250 3.2GHz Dual-Core Processor (£41.21 @ Ebuyer)
Motherboard: ASRock H81M-DGS R2.0 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£33.37 @ Scan.co.uk)
Memory: Corsair 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1333 Memory (£37.57 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£38.99 @ Novatech)
Total: £151.14
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