Ryzen 3 and dedicated gpu or intel solution?

[Evil Ninja]

Hello. 

 

I wanted to part out a system for my grand parents who complain their old computer is slow. it runs a Pentium 3 and Windows XP. I was wondering what the best way to go about building this budget non-gaming oriented system. should I go i3 with integrated GPU or Ryzen 3 with a cheap dedicated GPU? or something else entirely?

 

Thanks in advance.

[Terryv]

Pentium (new pentium) + iGPU from said pentium with an SSD will make it look like the fastest thing in the world from their perspective.

[Technomancer__]

ryzen with integrated gpus are coming soon (ryzen a searies cpus)

but if you cant wait get a r3 system and get the cheapest used or new gpu you can find online

[iamdarkyoshi]

I3 or pentium, and GET AN SSD. Ryzen is too overkill lol

[JoeCoke]

Anything. Hell, A Core 2 Duo machine with integrated graphics would probably blow them away. I recently scored a complete q6600 dell for 8$. Just see what you can find! If you must build with new parts or can't find anything, get a pentium.

[aisle9]

Without knowing what your grandparents' use case is, this is about all they'd need for a basic home workstation for surfing the web, emailing their grandkids and watching cat videos. If the budget allows, you could swap out the HDD for an SSD. Maybe more RAM. Unless your grandparents are hardcore gamers, this will probably have them set for 5-6 years to come.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Pentium G4400 3.3GHz Dual-Core Processor  ($52.39 @ OutletPC) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte - GA-H110M-M.2 Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($46.99 @ Amazon) 
Memory: Corsair - 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($36.99 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($46.88 @ OutletPC) 
Case: DIYPC - MA01-G MicroATX Mini Tower Case  ($21.98 @ Newegg) 
Power Supply: Corsair - CX (2017) 450W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($23.98 @ Newegg) 
Optical Drive: Lite-On - iHAS124-14 DVD/CD Writer  ($15.89 @ OutletPC) 
Operating System: Microsoft - Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit  ($30.00) 
Total: $275.10
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-08-06 20:59 EDT-0400

[Evil Ninja]

Thank you everyone, I think my brain goes too high end for my own good. Pentium with SSD sounds like a really good solution.

[JoeCoke]

5 minutes ago, aisle9 said:

Without knowing what your grandparents' use case is, this is about all they'd need for a basic home workstation for surfing the web, emailing their grandkids and watching cat videos. If the budget allows, you could swap out the HDD for an SSD. Maybe more RAM. Unless your grandparents are hardcore gamers, this will probably have them set for 5-6 years to come.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Pentium G4400 3.3GHz Dual-Core Processor  ($52.39 @ OutletPC) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte - GA-H110M-M.2 Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($46.99 @ Amazon) 
Memory: Corsair - 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($36.99 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($46.88 @ OutletPC) 
Case: DIYPC - MA01-G MicroATX Mini Tower Case  ($21.98 @ Newegg) 
Power Supply: Corsair - CX (2017) 450W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($23.98 @ Newegg) 
Optical Drive: Lite-On - iHAS124-14 DVD/CD Writer  ($15.89 @ OutletPC) 
Operating System: Microsoft - Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit  ($30.00) 
Total: $275.10
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-08-06 20:59 EDT-0400

This is a solid parts list, I second this.

 

 

not that my opinion means much

[Evil Ninja]

2 minutes ago, 2Buck said:

This is a solid parts list, I second this.

 

 

not that my opinion means much

That looks pretty good. Thanks guys. you rock.

[Evil Ninja]

I'd probably use a 240GB SSD though.

[iamdarkyoshi]

1 hour ago, Evil Ninja said:

I'd probably use a 240GB SSD though.

Remember, the SSD doesn't need to be massively fast. I've got an extremely old 80GB SATA II SSD that paired with a core2duo and windows 7, it still boots fast enough to skip the second half of the boot logo animation

[Sanctorum]

https://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboBundleDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.3514476

 

That would be more than adequate.

[Evil Ninja]

I built a rig for my grandmother with a 275GB SSD, pentium g4400 and 4GB ddr4. I'm pretty happy with the turnout and figured you guys deverve to know.

Thanks again.