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Williamdry12

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Hi,

I'm looking to build a new pc for my Nan, at the moment she has a very old hp desktop which can't even run outlook emails very well.

The budget is around $720. She mainly wants it for surfing the Web, emails, youtube, but most importantly she has A LOT of pictures on a portable HDD and likes to make home movies/slideshows with them. At the moment it took me over 12 hours to burn a 36 minute photo slideshow with music. So doing this task as fast as possible would be the main priority for this PC.

I am happy with building myself as done many before, I have only built gaming rigs however and know nothing about what will make this video encoding task faster.

She will only be needing the tower itself, but will need a new copy of windows 7 preferably (or I'm on tech support teaching her windows 10 for the next 6 months) .

Any help would be awesome on this, I'm doing this as a surprise for her birthday so I would like to get it right.

Cheers guys
 
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Bearmann
8 GB may not be enough RAM. The SSD and PSU are both mediocre. When you say old cards, do you mean RAM. The new RAM must be exactly the same as the old if you want the best chance of it working together. In addition, that mother board won't fit in that case. It you needed it priced in pounds, you should have said so from the very beginning.

Restricted to Amazon UK, this is about the best that I can do:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-6300 3.8GHz Dual-Core Processor (£119.00 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H110M-S2HP Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£60.70 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: G.Skill NT Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory...
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smorizio

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PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/9vnWYJ
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/9vnWYJ/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Pentium G4400 3.3GHz Dual-Core Processor ($58.99 @ SuperBiiz)
CPU Cooler: CRYORIG H7 49.0 CFM CPU Cooler
Motherboard: Asus H110M-C/CSM Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($57.99 @ B&H)
Memory: Team Elite Plus 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory ($48.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($85.79 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($65.09 @ Amazon)
Case: Corsair Carbide Series 88R MicroATX Mid Tower Case ($39.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: XFX XT 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($46.98 @ Newegg)
Optical Drive: Asus DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS DVD/CD Writer ($18.89 @ OutletPC)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM (64-bit) ($83.89 @ OutletPC)
Total: $506.60
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-05-21 03:47 EDT-0400
 
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smorizio

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used a g4400 as entry level cpu. you can go up to the i3 that 108.00 or see if micro center has it cheaper. the ssd is for boot speed and os speed. with a ssd most newer pc with windows 10 take about 10 sec to boot. with the free classic shell program you can make windows 10 look and act like window 7. windows 7 has gone end of life and with the newer mb chipset windows 7 does not support them and you have to do a custom driver install or make a new windows 7 iso image with updated drivers. left room if she need a gpu. wait for the newer 1060/1050 that are dropping this fall. use the onboard gpu for now.
 
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This should be perfect. The M.2 combined with the high clocked i3 should give you blazing speeds. The Silverstone fan is for the bottom front intake, the Kingwin for the left side intake, the Cooler master 140mm for the top outtake.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-6320 3.9GHz Dual-Core Processor ($148.88 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: ASRock H170M Pro4 Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($91.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Aegis 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory ($28.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung 950 PRO 256GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive ($178.81 @ Newegg)
Storage: Seagate Pipeline HD 2TB 3.5" 5900RPM Internal Hard Drive ($54.90 @ Amazon)
Case: Cooler Master N200 MicroATX Mid Tower Case ($44.99 @ Mac Mall)
Power Supply: EVGA 600B 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($49.99 @ Amazon)
Optical Drive: Asus DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS DVD/CD Writer ($18.89 @ OutletPC)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM (64-bit) ($84.99 @ NCIX US)
Case Fan: Silverstone FN121-P 58.5 CFM 120mm Fan ($6.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Case Fan: Kingwin CF-012LB 40.0 CFM 120mm Fan ($3.98 @ OutletPC)
Case Fan: Cooler Master R4-S4S-10AK-GP 60.9 CFM 140mm Fan ($6.89 @ OutletPC)
Total: $720.28
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-05-21 03:58 EDT-0400
 
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For video encoding it would be the CPU. We could go with an i5 for this build but the boot drive and motherboard would get a downgrade. It's very unlikely a dedicated video card would help at all. It's much better that the CPU does all the encoding tasks. You also might consider upgrading the portable HDD if it's an old one, to a faster one that runs off of USB 3.0 (instead of the internal Seagate Pipeline 2TB HDD)

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor ($215.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: ASRock B150M-HDV Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($67.88 @ OutletPC)
Memory: G.Skill Aegis 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory ($28.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung 850 Pro Series 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($124.00 @ Amazon)
Storage: Seagate Pipeline HD 2TB 3.5" 5900RPM Internal Hard Drive ($54.90 @ Amazon)
Case: Cooler Master N200 MicroATX Mid Tower Case ($44.99 @ Mac Mall)
Power Supply: EVGA 600B 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($49.99 @ Amazon)
Optical Drive: Asus DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS DVD/CD Writer ($18.89 @ OutletPC)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM (64-bit) ($84.99 @ NCIX US)
Case Fan: Silverstone FN121-P 58.5 CFM 120mm Fan ($6.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Case Fan: Kingwin CF-012LB 40.0 CFM 120mm Fan ($3.98 @ OutletPC)
Case Fan: Cooler Master R4-S4S-10AK-GP 60.9 CFM 140mm Fan ($6.89 @ OutletPC)
Total: $708.48
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-05-21 12:56 EDT-0400
 
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Bearmann

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Sep 14, 2015
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Here's a plan for Nan :)


PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($194.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H170-D3HP ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($87.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($49.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($47.49 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 960 2GB SuperSC ACX 2.0+ Video Card ($139.99 @ Frys)
Case: Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case ($49.99 @ Micro Center)
Power Supply: EVGA 750W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($48.99 @ NCIX US)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer ($16.89 @ OutletPC)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM (64-bit) ($83.89 @ OutletPC)
Total: $720.20
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-05-21 16:21 EDT-0400

The most important things for video are the CPU and having adequate RAM. I set her up with a i5 CPU with 4 relatively fast cores. Although 8 GB of RAM may be enough for her, having too little RAM is the worst mistake that you can make, so I've erred on the side of perhaps having too much. The G. Skill Ripjaws V is specially formulated for Skylake. In Premier Pro a separate graphics card does help with video processing, so I am assuming some benefit even though I don't know what program she uses. The ACX 2+ is quiet with fans that don't turn on until about 60C. Storage speed makes minimal difference in video processing, so I set her up with a 7200 RPM conventional drive. It would be nice to have a SSD to improve boot up times, but that can always be added later and won't make any significant difference in processing. I chose a nice motherboard with upgraded sound for her videos, USB 3.1, M.2, and a x4 PCIe slot for future upgrades. The power supply is a quality unit. The case comes with two fans. Because of the cool running components in the build, she won't need any additional ones.

http://www.frys.com/ads/page37#AdNavi

The discount on the video card is today only.

https://www.pugetsystems.com/recommended/Recommended-Systems-for-Adobe-Premiere-Pro-143/Hardware-Recommendations (click on the Hardware Recommendations tab at the top)



 
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Bearmann

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8 GB may not be enough RAM. The SSD and PSU are both mediocre. When you say old cards, do you mean RAM. The new RAM must be exactly the same as the old if you want the best chance of it working together. In addition, that mother board won't fit in that case. It you needed it priced in pounds, you should have said so from the very beginning.

Restricted to Amazon UK, this is about the best that I can do:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-6300 3.8GHz Dual-Core Processor (£119.00 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H110M-S2HP Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£60.70 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: G.Skill NT Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory (£46.85 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£39.98 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: Asus Radeon R9 380 2GB Video Card (£146.85 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Fractal Design Core 1300 MicroATX Mini Tower Case (£36.95 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: Corsair CSM 450W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (£41.52 @ Amazon UK)
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHAS124-04 DVD/CD Writer (£12.37 @ Amazon UK)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 OEM (64-bit) (£55.00 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £559.22
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-05-22 17:56 BST+0100
 
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