LeeRichLuck
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Hi all and thanks for the viewing.
I have recently built 2 pc's of my own, one for my office and the other as a media center in the lounge.
A friend now wants me to build him and his mate 2 identical tower units for general usage. They are both willing to spend £500 ish.
They will be using the PC's for the same reasons, being....
1. Play films via HDMI and blu-ray playback
2. Net browsing
3. Possible gaming ? (not essential)
4. Photo editing
5 General letter writing and music playing etc.
I have built my pc's with your help in the past and i call on you to guide me with a few ideas as to what i could use in these 2 new towers.
So far i have looked at,
Intel i3 540 or 550 at £80 - £93
Gigabyte MB GA P55 USB3 ATX £82
Gigabyte GT 220 DDR3 graphics £51
I can source the parts from either eBuyer or Amazon as i have accounts there so i need some help with a few other things like.
1. Ram (4gig or 6gig dependent on budget)
2. PSU
I will be putting a samsung Blu-ray in as well as a samsung 1TB HDD and using possibly an Antec 300 case along with Windows 7 64bit
So any ideas or revisions on the above will be most welcome, as i am new to PC builds myself i rely on seasoned peeps like yourselves to steer me in a better direction where needed lol.
Thanks for any advice/info offered, i will update and share my progress here for others to use too.
Regards for now,
Lee
I have recently built 2 pc's of my own, one for my office and the other as a media center in the lounge.
A friend now wants me to build him and his mate 2 identical tower units for general usage. They are both willing to spend £500 ish.
They will be using the PC's for the same reasons, being....
1. Play films via HDMI and blu-ray playback
2. Net browsing
3. Possible gaming ? (not essential)
4. Photo editing
5 General letter writing and music playing etc.
I have built my pc's with your help in the past and i call on you to guide me with a few ideas as to what i could use in these 2 new towers.
So far i have looked at,
Intel i3 540 or 550 at £80 - £93
Gigabyte MB GA P55 USB3 ATX £82
Gigabyte GT 220 DDR3 graphics £51
I can source the parts from either eBuyer or Amazon as i have accounts there so i need some help with a few other things like.
1. Ram (4gig or 6gig dependent on budget)
2. PSU
I will be putting a samsung Blu-ray in as well as a samsung 1TB HDD and using possibly an Antec 300 case along with Windows 7 64bit
So any ideas or revisions on the above will be most welcome, as i am new to PC builds myself i rely on seasoned peeps like yourselves to steer me in a better direction where needed lol.
Thanks for any advice/info offered, i will update and share my progress here for others to use too.
Regards for now,
Lee