Could I have done better?

[Duff-Man]

So we recently quoted a friend a new Pc, it will be used purely for office, email, internet, photoshop.

This is what I came up with:

Case: R274.00
Gigabyte X8 ATX Chassis (requested by my friend)

PSU: R269.00
Thermaltake LitePower, 450w, ATX 12V V2.3, active PFC, dual +12v

Motherboard: R670.00
MSI Intel PH61A-P35B3 H61 Chipset

CPU: R608.00
Intel G630 Pentium - 2.70GHz

Ram: R155.00x2=R310.00
Corsair DESKTOP MEMORY 2GB DDR3 1333 Memory Latency 5 5 5 18

SSD: R713.00
OCZ 60GB Agility 3 Series SATA III 2.5" SSD

HDD: R718.00
Western Digital CAVIAR Blue 32 500GB, 7200 RPM, 32 MB Cache

DVD-ROM: R150.00
LG 24X DVD RW Super-Multi DVD Drive


Subtotal: R3,712.00
Shipping Options (Door to Door 1-4 Working Days - Durban/Amanzimtoti/Ballito Area): R45.00
Total: R3,757.00

Could I have done any better? ...or worse?

I personally, would've gone for an AMD Trinity APU build (when the desktop processors are released), for around R150 more a Kingston HyperX 8GB Kit - @R453, dropped the SSD (as this is a build with a tight budget), put in a 1TB HDD and upgraded the PSU to a Corsair VS 450.

However one's personal preferences influence a build in a number of ways (e.g. Intel rather AMD, SSD rather than more HDD space, etc.) so in your friend's case you could've done a lot worse.

[droid]

What you think about this for R1140?

seagate momentus XT ST95005620AS Hybrid SSD - with built-in 32mb cache + 4Gb SLC SSD , 500gb

The caching will speed up things up a bit.
Saving of about R300 that can help towards an i3 CPU?

Building an FM1 based system i would go for this board. About R680 i think.
http://www.msi.com/product/mb/A75MA-P35.html

[cerebus]

Wait why would you go FM1 for a Photoshop build? Those CPU's are pretty weak.

[Ho3n3r]

The system has 4GB of ram going at 1333MHz and the Pentium G640 is better than the Core 2 Duo range of Cpu's. Windows 7 will not struggle at all on this system, I have built weaker systems that handle Windows 7 fine. The point of this thread was to see if I could of gotten a better deal and better components for the price that was paid. It had already been pointed out that I could of gotten a better system.

Why would you say that?

EDIT: Never mind, saw now that it's a new range on the LGA1155 specification, didn't even know the Celeron CPU's were still made. My bad.