Hello!
Last year I (finally) built myself my first PC. At first my parents and my sister were very skeptical about me building my own PC but since my machine still works perfectly (well, it’s still a computer), my sister has asked me to build her one too.
My sister is not a gamer and she uses her computer to watch movies (1080p), for web browsing and working in MS Office. She might also play an occasional “facebookâ€-game and maybe one or two oldschool games (like Age of empires II).
I have decided that she doesn’t need a dedicated GPU so good integrated graphics are important.
The goal with the build is to make it a cheap and cheerful machine that’s decently fast and clean looking
This is the specs so far:
Display: 22-24†1080p
Case: Fractal design Define Mini
PSU: Corsair CX 430W 80+ Bronze
CPU: i3-3225 or A10-5800k or …?
MB: mATX ???
RAM: Corsair Vengeance Dual C DDR3 8GB Kit, 1866MHz
Cooling: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO
Boot drive: 120Gb SSD Samsung 840
Storage: 1000Gb 7200rpm Seagate/WD/…
Now my questions are:
Which CPU should I get? i3 or A10 or something else? According to the internet the A10 has the best graphics but the i3 is the best processor.
Which motherboard should I get? I have no idea. Suggestions? I’m not going to overclock.
I’m getting 1866MHz memory because I read somewhere that when you run integrated graphics fast RAM makes a big difference. Is it worth the cost?
The Define Mini seems to be out of stock (in Sweden at least), is there any other clean looking mATX cases?
Best regards,
fredök