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Building a budget media/office Rig

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  • 27-04-2008 5:58pm
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    Catsmokinpot
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    My mum wants a new computer, so i want to get a budget rig

    But cant decide between the socket AM2+ and socket 775.

    AMD are certainly cheaper but do they stack up to the lower end intel processors?


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    blackgold>>
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    How much do you want to spend on it? 200 quid or 700?


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    Catsmokinpot
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    blackgold>> wrote:
    How much do you want to spend on it? 200 quid or 700?
    i reckon i could spend about 4 - 500 on the case/mobo/gfx/psu/keyboard/mouse and then about 2 - 300 on a screen


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    MooseJam
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    I´d buy a cheap dell and save the hassle if it´s only for your mum but if you wanna build one I´d buy Intel they are way ahead these days


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    Catsmokinpot
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    MooseJam wrote:
    I´d buy a cheap dell and save the hassle if it´s only for your mum but if you wanna build one I´d buy Intel they are way ahead these days
    I've always had problems with the lower end dells they all seem to have rubbish motherboards.

    Thanks for the advice though, I was leaning towards Intel as well but I've always been a big AMD fan. they used to make great mid range processors I wonder where it all went wrong?


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