Hello, I am building a CPU for my wife. She is a fairly light user. She tends to surf the internet, listen to music, write in Word, and watch the occasonal Youtube video. I have two options for chips/mobos for her and I'm not sure which is better.
I can either do an AMD A6 3670 2.7 GHz APU
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819106002
With this mobo
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157277
Or an AMD Athlon X4 640 Propus 3.0 GHZ
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103871
with this mobo
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103871
I've never built from scratch with AMD before so I'm not as sure about their specs. From what I'm seeing the APU has a better on board graphics option than the onboard option on the mobo in the second combo but the second combo has a slightly higher clock speed which (in my understanding) should lead to better speed when multi-tasking or running programs.
Any advice for me?
Oh if it matters I'm looking to do 4 GB of RAM, with no SSD, just a 500 GB 7200 RPM regular drive. I also don't plan on overclocking much, if at all, because it's going to be a fairly small build and I don't have much cooling room.
I can either do an AMD A6 3670 2.7 GHz APU
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819106002
With this mobo
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157277
Or an AMD Athlon X4 640 Propus 3.0 GHZ
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103871
with this mobo
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103871
I've never built from scratch with AMD before so I'm not as sure about their specs. From what I'm seeing the APU has a better on board graphics option than the onboard option on the mobo in the second combo but the second combo has a slightly higher clock speed which (in my understanding) should lead to better speed when multi-tasking or running programs.
Any advice for me?
Oh if it matters I'm looking to do 4 GB of RAM, with no SSD, just a 500 GB 7200 RPM regular drive. I also don't plan on overclocking much, if at all, because it's going to be a fairly small build and I don't have much cooling room.