Help with friend's new PC

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Hey there.

My mate has turned to me in my infinite wisdom regarding the new PC that he wants to buy and so now I turn to you guys. :)

He needs it for general things like the net, playing movies and dvds and such and also to run engineering programs like Pro-E and Matlab. No major gaming and not much else.

What would you guys recommend for this?

I was going with one of the cheap AMD cpu's, a gig of RAM, 250GB HDD, and not much else.

He is going to get a 19 or 20" LCD to go with it. Also, he needs a dvd-writer and a wireless network card.

What about graphics? Would 1GB RAM be enough? And what kind of gfx card would be sufficient? he is a student like me so keeping it cheap is always paramount...

Feedback appreciated :)
 
even thought I'm an AMD fanboi, I'd have 2 say go with a Core2 Duo - cheap, silent and fast
 
Cool beans...So how's this?:

CPU

AMD XP3500+ Dual Core. R710

Mobo: this one with onboard gfx R773

Ram : 2GB TeamElite R1699

320GB Seagate HDD - R800
Dvd-writer - R350
network card - R200
Case + PSU- R500

That makes about R4700....which looks good.
 
Oh Beanie boy, it is now...

boramk said:
core 2 duo outperforms amd BIG Time
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Yes, a stock E6600 outperforms a stock 6000+... NOT! :rolleyes:

Go eat a Apple and give all your piles of money, with which you can buy expensive Core 2 Duos and expensive socket 775 good overclocking motherboards, to us... :p
 
Well, with AMD prices the way they are now, I think you would be nuts to consider Intel over them for a slight performance gain.

Also, if you are not going to game much, then i doubt you would really notice much difference between a similar spec AMD and Intel chip.
 
Not even in gaming, there the graphics card would be the most important, and the amount of RAM, then the CPU...

In en- and decoding apps Core 2 Duo will shine.

And IF you have the money for top of the range performance and/or want to overclock the hell out of a processor, get a Core 2 Duo...
 
feo said:
Well Intel price cuts are coming so wait til end of the month and then choose..
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Yeah, good plan.

However, Intel need to look at bringing the price of their boards down as well then. I could not and Intel board with dual core support, DDR800 support AND onboard gfx for less than about R1300, almost double a similar AMD board...
 
super show me where the 6000+ plus can stay with the e6600 plz

where are these benchies :)

amd is behind core 2 its not even funny
 
Yeah, back on topic for a bit...

Should my mate want to game at some stage, what would you gusy recommend?
Waiting for the 8800 prices to drop or spending like R1200 on a 7-series? He is wary of buying 2nd hand, just fyi...
 
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