Need some help and tips with my computerbuild

[noobwannabot]

Hello guys, nice to meet you!

I need some help with building my parents Computer. But first of all: English is not my native language, sorry for torturing you with my very own and very wrong english. Second: my currency is €, all prices i found i will list in euros.

Currently my parents have a Dell Optiplex Computer, Pentium D running at 3Ghz, 4gb of ram and a nvidia 9600GT. Their Computer is getting very slow at the moment, so they decided to buy a new one. They use the computer for browsing the web, answering mails, creating word and excel files and arranging their fotos. I wanted to use some parts of the old Computer, but unfortunatly Dell used BTX form factor, so I cant use the PSU or the case. Im planning to still use the 9600GT, the HDD and the DVD-burner tho.

I now have trouble to find out if they should go with a Skylake CPU + DDR4 Memory in terms of future proof or with a Pentium G3250. I dont know if its a waste of money to upgrade to the current gen.

Now to the builds: low budget first

• Intel Pentium G3250: 65,89€
• ASRock H81M-DGS: 47,89
• Crucial Ballistix 8GB: 40,98€
• SanDisk SSD 240GB: 69,00€
• BeQuiet! BN142 400w: 46,93€
• NOX Kore Midi-Tower: 76,43€

=300,19€

 

"future proof" build

• i5 6400: 195,94€
• ASUS 90MB0P30-M0EAY0 (motherboard): 67,99€
• HyperX Fury 8GB: 48,89€
• SanDisk SSD 240GB: 69,00€
• BeQuiet! BN142 400w: 46,93€
• NOX Kore Midi-Tower: 76,43€

=458,25

 

My parents do not want to spend over 400€, less is better. But if you guys now convince me, that the i5 6400 system is definitly a better investment we would go with it.

What do we expect the system to do? Run smoothly at least the next 5 years, start within a small amount of time and be able to run simple games such as DOTA and CS:GO.

 

Thank you a lot, 

noobwannabot

[SirWendall]

1 minute ago, noobwannabot said:

Hello guys, nice to meet you!

I need some help with building my parents Computer. But first of all: English is not my native language, sorry for torturing you with my very own and very wrong english. Second: my currency is €, all prices i found i will list in euros.

Currently my parents have a Dell Optiplex Computer, Pentium D running at 3Ghz, 4gb of ram and a nvidia 9600GT. Their Computer is getting very slow at the moment, so they decided to buy a new one. They use the computer for browsing the web, answering mails, creating word and excel files and arranging theire fotos. I wanted to use some parts of the old Computer, but unfortunatly Dell used BTX form factor, so I cant use the PSU or the case. Im planning to still use the 9600GT, the HDD and the DVD-burner tho.

I now have trouble to find out if they should go with a Skylake CPU + DDR4 Memory in terms of future proof or with a Pentium G3250. I dont know if its a waste of money to upgrade to the current gen.

Now to the builds: low budget first

• Intel Pentium G3250: 65,89€
• ASRock H81M-DGS: 47,89
• Crucial Ballistix 8GB: 40,98€
• SanDisk SSD 240GB: 69,00€
• BeQuiet! BN142 400w: 46,93€
• NOX Kore Midi-Tower: 76,43€

=300,19€

 

"future proof" build

• i5 6400: 195,94€
• ASUS 90MB0P30-M0EAY0 (motherboard): 67,99€
• HyperX Fury 8GB: 48,89€
• SanDisk SSD 240GB: 69,00€
• BeQuiet! BN142 400w: 46,93€
• NOX Kore Midi-Tower: 76,43€

=458,25

 

My parents do not want to spend over 400€, less is better. But if you guys now convince me, that the i5 6400 system is definitly a better investment we would go with it.

What do we expect the system to do? Run smoothly at least the next 5 years, start within a small amount of time and be able to run simple games such as DOTA and CS:GO.

 

Thank you a lot, 

noobwannabot

If you're not going to play to many games I'd go with the Pentium! I did that somewhat build recently for less than $500 and its kick ass!

[Emeryy]

i don't see why buying a prebuilt dell would be much of a problem if not gaming. you can get a basic pc, with plenty of storage and a quad core pentium for under 300