Parents PC build

[Nipplemilk909]

hello, I'm trying to build my parents PC for vary basic use, maybe at the most that it would go through is YouTube viewing, in need of a very basic build. I already took apart their old PC and found some parts I don't know if I should reuse or not. The PC parts are 

CPU: amd athlon 64 x2 

Basic course cooler

Mother board: not sure of the name but its a am 2 socket 

Like 3 gigs of ddr2 memory 

 

Not sure if I should use these parts or just get and system, I would want to get an mini itx, or micro atx system 

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

Id personally get them a low end laptop, and then you can connect it to their current screen and keyboard and mouse.

[rn8686]

Budget and location currency? If they just want to do basic internet browsing, a Intel Compute stick will work. 

[SLAYR]

3gb of ram is definitely not enough, 8gb is almost a minimum now of days.

[GDRRiley]

http://pcpartpicker.com/list/wmHskT that with a ssd

[Space Reptile]

3 minutes ago, SLAYR said:

3gb of ram is definitely not enough, 8gb is almost a minimum now of days.

for basic use ? i bearly crack 8gb w/ chrome @ 20 tabs and a 1080 vid while playing GTA5 

[Space Reptile]

2 minutes ago, GDRRiley said:

http://pcpartpicker.com/list/wmHskT that with a ssd

i approve , but why a 500gig an an ssd? 

[GDRRiley]

Just now, Space Reptile said:

i approve , but why a 500gig an an ssd? 

no replace the sshd with a ssd

[Space Reptile]

Just now, GDRRiley said:

no replace the sshd with a ssd

why not just a standard 160gig sata ?

[GDRRiley]

1 minute ago, Space Reptile said:

why not just a standard 160gig sata ?

I had a sshd in the build. any ssd will work.

[ItsTheDuckAgain]

Does it have to be windows? Will Ubuntu do?

From what you described it sounds like my parents. I hooked them up with a raspberry pi 3 running ubuntu mate,... just saying, that would be a ~80 $ solution (with case and psu and somesuch).

 

If it needs to be windows for the old "my-parents-only-know-windows"-reason go for a compute stick. they start at 120$ and the basic ones should also do.

[Moderateshadow]

32 minutes ago, SLAYR said:

3gb of ram is definitely not enough, 8gb is almost a minimum now of days.

just youtube and chrome id say 4 is okay.

[Nipplemilk909]

9 minutes ago, ItsTheDuckAgain said:

Does it have to be windows? Will Ubuntu do?

From what you described it sounds like my parents. I hooked them up with a raspberry pi 3 running ubuntu mate,... just saying, that would be a ~80 $ solution (with case and psu and somesuch).

 

If it needs to be windows for the old "my-parents-only-know-windows"-reason go for a compute stick. they start at 120$ and the basic ones should also do.

I was thinking of doing this with my raspberry 2 beta, but I wouldnt think it would hold enough power 

[Nipplemilk909]

35 minutes ago, rn8686 said:

Budget and location currency? If they just want to do basic internet browsing, a Intel Compute stick will work. 

Budget would be low, dollar currency 

[Space Reptile]

honestly what you could do is make an SFF box using like an A10 apu 

[Nipplemilk909]

1 minute ago, Space Reptile said:

honestly what you could do is make an SFF box using like an A10 apu 

Sff box ? A10 apu?

[ItsTheDuckAgain]

can't tell

Just now, Nipplemilk909 said:

I was thinking of doing this with my raspberry 2 beta, but I wouldnt think it would hold enough power 

can't tell if the pi2 got enough ompfhhh for that, but I can tell you that the pi 3 got enough to cover my parents need of little office work - looking for new cooking recipies - some sozial media - my dad's strange porn websites that he totally does not visit.

so yeah... thats that. and its 80 bugs....

[Nipplemilk909]

1 minute ago, ItsTheDuckAgain said:

can't tell

can't tell if the pi2 got enough ompfhhh for that, but I can tell you that the pi 3 got enough to cover my parents need of little office work - looking for new cooking recipies - some sozial media - my dad's strange porn websites that he totally does not visit.

so yeah... thats that. and its 80 bugs....

Lmao sounds like my parents 

[Space Reptile]

1 minute ago, Nipplemilk909 said:

Sff box ? A10 apu?

Small form factor (ITX)

 

A10 , or A8 , its a moderately powerful Cpu w/ moderately powerful built in graphics

 

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Accelerated_Processing_Unit

[ItsTheDuckAgain]

1 minute ago, Nipplemilk909 said:

Lmao sounds like my parents 

they are all the same from the parent-clone-factory once they reach 50+ or their sibblings get mature enough. WHICH WILL TOTALY NEVER HAPPEN! especially not when using capitol letters for no reason....

 

but hey seriously - do it, if it doesn't work out for their needs you didn't waste that much money and the pi can still be used as something else. running kodi or somesuch (check out osmc - no linux knowledge required to run that little beauty)

[Nipplemilk909]

On Thursday, September 22, 2016 at 9:57 PM, ItsTheDuckAgain said:

Does it have to be windows? Will Ubuntu do?

From what you described it sounds like my parents. I hooked them up with a raspberry pi 3 running ubuntu mate,... just saying, that would be a ~80 $ solution (with case and psu and somesuch).

 

If it needs to be windows for the old "my-parents-only-know-windows"-reason go for a compute stick. they start at 120$ and the basic ones should also do.

How did you set up there PC ? The raspberry pi 3.. What else did you buy? Or what bundle did you buy ? I think I'm going to set them up with this but I don't think the pi has a power button does it? Or else they would have to always connect the power to turn on 

[Crowes]

On 9/23/2016 at 5:32 AM, Electronics Wizardy said:

Id personally get them a low end laptop, and then you can connect it to their current screen and keyboard and mouse.

I'd say something like the HP Stream. Gonna cost him way more to build one for just general use.

[ItsTheDuckAgain]

8 minutes ago, Nipplemilk909 said:

+snip+

I went with sth. like this along with these. There are more than enough similar Bundles out there. You really can't do anything wrong on that end, it's pretty much all the same.

 

I got this mini-keyboard which works good enough for me and is simple to use. Plug in the USB Dongle and done.

 

Yes the PI doesn't have a powerbutton, you can buy or build one, but I wouldn't recommend it. That thing literally draws no power when in idle. Making a pizza would also use the same power as running the PI till the next world war (give or take a few years)...

 

And since it's beeing used for a HTPC replacement, always on is neat anyway :-)