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- May 4, 2011
I have a family member who is in need of a serious upgrade.
Her budget: $400
Now all she has that works from her old pc is a monitor, Hard Drive, And DVD burner, All of which are IDE, and analog(blue connector).
I put a rough build together that replaced the HDD and DVD drive with sata based tech, and was $385.
I have her using AMD Fusion tech, to save on video card costs until she has more money.
New ASUS burner
New Case($30) Let me know if this case is bad, and I'll find another, have $40 for headroom with current setup.
WD Caviar Blue 500gb
Cheapest Fusion mobo I could find(She doesn't overclock.)
Corsair CX500 PSU
DDR3 1333 Corsair XMS3
Cheapest AMD Fusion CPU I could find.
Is this okay? I never used AMD as a company for my parts, but I know they are good. Question is, will it play most games on at least medium without trouble? Not really sure what kind of gaming she likes to play, but I want it t run smoothly.
Her WEI score is 3.0 on her current pc, thats her gaming graphics, 4.3 for cpu(which I just reformatted for her.)
Thanks for any insight
Her budget: $400
Now all she has that works from her old pc is a monitor, Hard Drive, And DVD burner, All of which are IDE, and analog(blue connector).
I put a rough build together that replaced the HDD and DVD drive with sata based tech, and was $385.
I have her using AMD Fusion tech, to save on video card costs until she has more money.
New ASUS burner
New Case($30) Let me know if this case is bad, and I'll find another, have $40 for headroom with current setup.
WD Caviar Blue 500gb
Cheapest Fusion mobo I could find(She doesn't overclock.)
Corsair CX500 PSU
DDR3 1333 Corsair XMS3
Cheapest AMD Fusion CPU I could find.
Is this okay? I never used AMD as a company for my parts, but I know they are good. Question is, will it play most games on at least medium without trouble? Not really sure what kind of gaming she likes to play, but I want it t run smoothly.
Her WEI score is 3.0 on her current pc, thats her gaming graphics, 4.3 for cpu(which I just reformatted for her.)
Thanks for any insight