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Hey,

 

I am going to be building a pc for my mom, she will be using it for book keeping and just general browsing. What is a good mini itx board and ivy bridge processor. Would need wifi.

 

Thanks!

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Thanks for the quick reply, what is the difference between z77 and h77?

 

im not that knowledgeable with the lower end components and what not.

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Hey,

I am going to be building a pc for my mom, she will be using it for book keeping and just general browsing. What is a good mini itx board and ivy bridge processor. Would need wifi.

Thanks!

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Thanks for the quick reply, what is the difference between z77 and h77?

 

im not that knowledgeable with the lower end components and what not.

 

between the Gigabyte Z77N-WiFi and the H77N-WiFi, the only difference is the overclocking capability together with a 'K'-processor. Otherwise they are identical.

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Thanks for the quick reply, what is the difference between z77 and h77?

 

im not that knowledgeable with the lower end components and what not.

Z77 allows you to overclock and H77 doesn't. I believe they both have the same amount of SATA III ports (2). H77 is usually found in the mATX form factor which limits expansion but your mom won't be gaming and stuff (or will she? :D ) so it won't matter.

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Hey,

 

I am going to be building a pc for my mom, she will be using it for book keeping and just general browsing. What is a good mini itx board and ivy bridge processor. Would need wifi.

 

Thanks!

 

FM2-socketed system could also be advised for your mother's purposes with a quad-core cpu. 

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FM2-socketed system could also be advised for your mother's purposes with a quad-core cpu. 

 

I agree.  Depending on your budget, an APU with an A75 mobo would be a cheaper option and if she's just doing general web browsing and running MS Office programs, you'll probably never notice any performance difference at all.

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Something like this would work: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1sSWg

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