imperialus

Yeah, and Johnny Guru gave it a 9/10 and he puts waaay more stress on it than she ever would.

Thanks for the heads up. The last time I bought windows was Win 7 back in probably 2011. That'll save a few bucks, might be able to squeeze a beefier processor into the mix then.

So. My sister in law wants a new computer. Thing is she only has about 600 dollars to spend. That includes windows and a monitor though so realistically I'm looking at about 300-400 dollars. For added fun with the rapid devaluation of the Northern Peso prices for computer hardware have been going up quite a bit recently and makes ordering off of American websites too bloody expensive. I also went with Mem-Ex because it is close to my house and I wouldn't have to get anything shipped. Now, I have an old 2TB hard drive that I could use so that'll save a pretty good chunk of change. I'm looking at an A88XM motherboard. I like Asus, it's what I have in my current computer and I've never had an issue with them. http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX47975 the A6-7400K APU Honestly, this is the bit that I'm most lost on. Is this a decent processor? I usually only use Intel. http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX53097 8 Gigs of Kingston HyperX. It's a ram... Got a single stick so we can throw a second one in at some point if she feels the need. http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX51493 A Corsair CX-430 PSU. Corsair. I like them or EVGA for PSU's. Low wattage, but lets face it with no graphics card and a fairly basic APU/Mobo I doubt I'll be putting much stress on it. Outervision's PSU calculator says I should need about 220 watts so I got a ton of headroom even if at some point I were to throw in a low powered gfx card and crossfire it with the APU. http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX41857 Fractal Design Core 1000 Micro ATX case. I like Fractal. Their build quality and cable management is usually pretty nice (even though micros are a bitch in general) and this seems to have really nice airflow for a budget case too. http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX48658 Total cost, 330 dollars. Add 100 for windows and she'll have about 150 to spend on a monitor. I've got an old 19" that she can use until a nice one goes on sale so the monitor is less pressing. Thoughts? I mean it'll be a pretty basic machine, but for a websurfing, i-geegaw backuping, word processing box it should be just fine. I don't know that much about AMD's products. My last AMD rig was actually the first computer I built myself and it was an AMD K2 500mHrz so things have changed a bit since then.