AM1 questions

[dialgarocksful]

Hi, I'm planning to buy mom an AM1 set this mother's day. Though she doesn't game, can it at least handle 2D games? Here is my projected specs:

 

(Trying to fit on a low budget of $125 limit) (I used "brand new" local pricings for APU, MOBO, and case. Pricings for RAM, PSU, and HDD are "used")

 

APU - Sempron 3850 ($75)

MOBO - Gigabyte GA-AM1M-S2P (Combo with APU)

RAM - Patriot 2GB 1600MHz ($18)
PSU - "Tier 5"s* 300-400W ($10) <--- Just an approximate estimation of a Tier 5/Generic 300-400W 
Case - Generic ($8)

HDD - 160GB any-brand-will-do ($12)

 

Total - $123

 

For peripherals, I'll be giving my currently-using 1024x768 15" LCD monitor, and a $3 keyboard-mouse combo.

 

* See Tom's PSU Tier List for tierings

[i_build_nanosuits]

for this price look for a used system online with 4GB of RAM.

[dialgarocksful]

for this price look for a used system online with 4GB of RAM.

Here in our country with that price budget, I can only buy an old Intel socket with DDR2 RAM and generic PSU + case. Majority doesn't know AM1 yet and we're locked with FM2 APUs and AM3 CPUs for AMD and Pentium G3258, i3, and i5 sets for Intel. 

[i_build_nanosuits]

Here in our country with that price budget, I can only buy an old Intel socket with DDR2 RAM and generic PSU + case. Majority doesn't know AM1 yet and we're locked with FM2 APUs and AM3 CPUs for AMD and Pentium G3258, i3, and i5 sets for Intel.

i would pick a intel 775 with say an old Q6600 with 4GB of DDR2 over the machine you've linked...believe it or not these older performance quad-core from intel are far better than what you've linked.

You could probably find one of those older machines with an old GPU or something...

[dialgarocksful]

i would pick a intel 775 with say an old Q6600 with 4GB of DDR2 over the machine you've linked...believe it or not these older performance quad-core from intel are far better than what you've linked.

You could probably find one of those older machines with an old GPU or something...

could you suggest a graphics card that would fit on a Q6600 set? I found a system for $75 with a GTX460

[i_build_nanosuits]

could you suggest a graphics card that would fit on a Q6600 set? I found a system for $75 with a GTX460

GTX 460 is great GPU for a Q6600...such a combo can still play most 3D games out there...so for your mom this would be plenty.

If you are looking at pure 3d Gaming performance the Q6600 can be overclocked beyond 3ghz (mine was running 3.6ghz..) and it can feed GPU's up to the R9 270 or GTX 660 at 1080p...with such a GPU it then can run any games out there at acceptable level...yes i know..it's that powerful even for an 8 years old CPU...i upgraded from mine in january 2014 at what point i was running a freaking HD7950 GPU on it which is the same as the R9 280 GPU i was gaming at 1080p playing BF4 on high settings and the GPU was only slightly limited by that CPU...but yeah, a good match for 1080p gaming especialy if you're not going to overclock the chip (which run 2.4ghz stock) would be around the R9 270 GPU...or GTX 660.

But you'll see..even the GTX 460 is not that weak of a card and can play many if not most games just fine.

[dialgarocksful]

GTX 460 is great GPU for a Q6600...such a combo can still play most 3D games out there...so for your mom this would be plenty.

If you are looking at pure 3d Gaming performance the Q6600 can be overclocked beyond 3ghz (mine was running 3.6ghz..) and it can feed GPU's up to the R9 270 or GTX 660 at 1080p...with such a GPU it then can run any games out there at acceptable level...yes i know..it's that powerful even for an 8 years old CPU...i upgraded from mine in january 2014 at what point i was running a freaking HD7950 GPU on it which is the same as the R9 280 GPU i was gaming at 1080p playing BF4 on high settings and the GPU was only slightly limited by that CPU...but yeah, a good match for 1080p gaming especialy if you're not going to overclock the chip (which run 2.4ghz stock) would be around the R9 270 GPU...or GTX 660.

But you'll see..even the GTX 460 is not that weak of a card and can play many if not most games just fine.

Hmm.. mom doesn't do 3D works, she mostly does is computations in work particularly using MS Office apps and databases. I found a $70 system combined, though all items are in one store:

 

(Prices are in Philippine Pesos. $1 = ~44):

CPU: Intel E6600 -- 600

Heatsink: Intel copper -- 200

MOBO: ECS P965T-A -- 900

RAM: Samsung DDR2 2x1GB 800MHz -- 700

GPU: nVidia 8300GS -- 400

Case: Rise 831 -- 500

 

 

For PSU, I got a stock generic 700W (which can only output 200+W). I'll give my extra 80GB HDD.

[i_build_nanosuits]

Hmm.. mom doesn't do 3D works, she mostly does is computations in work particularly using MS Office apps and databases. I found a $70 system combined, though all items are in one store:

 

(Prices are in Philippine Pesos. $1 = ~44):

CPU: Intel E6600 -- 600

Heatsink: Intel copper -- 200

MOBO: ECS P965T-A -- 900

RAM: Samsung DDR2 2x1GB 800MHz -- 700

GPU: nVidia 8300GS -- 400

Case: Rise 831 -- 500

 

 

For PSU, I got a stock generic 700W (which can only output 200+W). I'll give my extra 80GB HDD.

you want at least 4GB of RAM in there only for windows to work properly...2GB is not enough for office work and windows.