He uses the computer for lots of work related stuff and lots of internet browsing, youtube etc and his children will be using it for a browsing and playing little games... nothing that will require a GPU just browser games.
His current PC has a AMD 1.8GHZ processor and 512MB RAM! and shuts down by itself all the time (Faulty PSU?)
The case looks like it will be fine to re-use and the dvd drive.
He said he wants to spend enough for a PC that will be up to date for a long time.
He's happy paying for the i5 2500 processor etc.
Anyway what i came up with so far is:
I5 2500 processor (Won't be overclocking, knows hardly anything about computers)
Im not sure about motherboard and which chipset to get and what was the difference between a £50 socket 1155 and a £100 one.
The only difference i noticed was only 2 RAM slots and 1 GPU slot on a £50 one which will be fine...
Are there any others?
PSU 450W modular
2*2GB RAM DDR3 - will there be a noticeable difference getting 2*4gb?
1TB HDD
and any cheap gpu purely for playing like 720p youtube videos - any you reccomend?
software
Windows 7 64bit premium
office 2007
His current PC has a AMD 1.8GHZ processor and 512MB RAM! and shuts down by itself all the time (Faulty PSU?)
The case looks like it will be fine to re-use and the dvd drive.
He said he wants to spend enough for a PC that will be up to date for a long time.
He's happy paying for the i5 2500 processor etc.
Anyway what i came up with so far is:
I5 2500 processor (Won't be overclocking, knows hardly anything about computers)
Im not sure about motherboard and which chipset to get and what was the difference between a £50 socket 1155 and a £100 one.
The only difference i noticed was only 2 RAM slots and 1 GPU slot on a £50 one which will be fine...
Are there any others?
PSU 450W modular
2*2GB RAM DDR3 - will there be a noticeable difference getting 2*4gb?
1TB HDD
and any cheap gpu purely for playing like 720p youtube videos - any you reccomend?
software
Windows 7 64bit premium
office 2007