Which of the following PCs is a better deal for the money

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Aditya123456

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Hello, i am planning to buy a new PC for as low a price as possible.

I had shortlisted three configurations:
1) CPU: AMD A6 6400K
MB: ASUS A68HM-K - DDR3 FM2
RAM: Kingston Fury Memory -4GB -DDR3 1866 MHz
Total: INR 9639

2) CPU: Intel Pentium G4400
MB: MSI H110M-PRO-VH PLUS
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 4GB DDR4 2400Mhz
Total: INR 12398

3) CPU: Intel core 2 Duo 6750
MB: Zebronics ZEB G31
RAM: Kingston/Hynix 667Mhz DDR2.
Total: INR 3489

Purpose of the PC:
Youtube 1080p, MKV 1080p
Microsoft Office 2013
Windows 7
and also ubuntu 16.04.

Which one of the above do you think is the most value for the money.
 
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The A6 6400K is a single module / dual core Piledriver (2nd gen construction core) CPU. The G4400 is a dual core Skylake CPU, without AVX or hyperhreading. Skylake has a ~80% IPC advanatge over Piledriver (give or take), and Piledriver suffers from a larger module penalty than later designs, making both cores running together only about 1.6x as fast as a single core.
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The last system doesn't have a video card listed, and Core2Duo's didn't have integrated video. The motherboard might have something but I guarantee it's awful, and may have problems even with things like watching videos online.

My opinion: I would not buy a single-module AMD CPU. The A6 6400K will be adequate for web browsing but even there you'll sometimes see some choppiness that won't happen on the Intel system. The Intel CPU's iGPU also has hardware acceleration for more video formats. FM2+ is about to be discontinued, while socket 1151 still has ~2 more years of new CPUs coming out for it.
 
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#2 seems like the best choice, as it is upgradeable in the future, has decent built in graphics for watching videos and just general desktop tasks. The Core2 Duo build is just not even worth it. I recently was using one, and I would not want to subject you to that. The A6 solution has a slight upgrade path, but not much of one, and it has slightly better single core and multi-core. But the performance gap is so small, and the Pentium is still a relevant CPU that you could upgrade in the future to almost any Skylake CPU you wanted. For Shorter-term, on the cheap I would chose #1, but for a longer time period I would chose #2.
 
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The A6 6400K is a single module / dual core Piledriver (2nd gen construction core) CPU. The G4400 is a dual core Skylake CPU, without AVX or hyperhreading. Skylake has a ~80% IPC advanatge over Piledriver (give or take), and Piledriver suffers from a larger module penalty than later designs, making both cores running together only about 1.6x as fast as a single core.
 
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Aditya123456

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So, after due research :) i have decided to go with the intel Pentium G4400 build.
I already have a kingston 120GB SSD and an old EVGA power supply.
Would you suggest any changes in the build.
Also, could you please recommend a good low profile case under INR 3500?
All the ones i find are either too costly or are not available in india?
Thank you all very much!!!
 
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