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Ryzen 3 and dedicated gpu or intel solution?

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

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.

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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.

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Asus p8z77-v lk - 480GB Samsung 870 EVO w/ W10 LTSC - 2x1TB HDD storage - 240GB SATA SSD w/ W7 - EVGA 650w 80+G G2

3x 1080p 60hz Viewsonic LCDs, 1 glorious Dell CRT running at anywhere from 60hz to 120hz

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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

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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

i7 2600k @ 5GHz 1.49v - EVGA GTX 1070 ACX 3.0 - 16GB DDR3 2000MHz Corsair Vengence

Asus p8z77-v lk - 480GB Samsung 870 EVO w/ W10 LTSC - 2x1TB HDD storage - 240GB SATA SSD w/ W7 - EVGA 650w 80+G G2

3x 1080p 60hz Viewsonic LCDs, 1 glorious Dell CRT running at anywhere from 60hz to 120hz

Model M w/ Soarer's adapter - Logitch g502 - Audio-Techinca M20X - Cambridge SoundWorks speakers w/ woofer

 

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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

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