Hello Tech-Forums,
I have decided to build a nice and affordable computer for my father's birthday coming up in a couple weeks with the knowledge I have gained here, assuming I sell him on custom built vs dell (he is concerned about a lack of tech support). He currently uses a 10+ year old dell desktop for personal home use, which consists of excel spreadsheets, movie trailers, web browsing, e-mail. The only thing he appears to be concerned about is getting an SSD and he mentioned a sound card, but he uses relatively cheap wireless usb headphones for as long as I can remember; therefore I question the purpose of the sound card.
Anyway, this is the makeshift build I put together. He hardly uses any storage so I think the 128 gb ssd with his current hdd should be good.
Edit: for whatever reason cannot get the wishlist to work
COOLER MASTER Black Steel body / Plastic + Mesh bezel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
ASUS 24X DVD Burner
ASUS F2A55-M LK PLUS FM2 AMD A55 (Hudson D2) Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
COOLER MASTER eXtreme Power RS600-PCARE3-US 600W ATX12V V2.3 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready Power Supply
G.SKILL Sniper Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin [URL="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113281"]DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866 (PC3 14900) Desktop Memory
AMD A8-5600K Trinity 3.6GHz (3.9GHz Turbo) Socket FM2 100W Quad-Core Desktop APU (CPU + GPU) with DirectX 11 Graphic AMD Radeon HD 7560D[/URL]
OCZ Vector Series VTR1-25SAT3-128G 2.5" 128GB SATA III MLC
I have decided to build a nice and affordable computer for my father's birthday coming up in a couple weeks with the knowledge I have gained here, assuming I sell him on custom built vs dell (he is concerned about a lack of tech support). He currently uses a 10+ year old dell desktop for personal home use, which consists of excel spreadsheets, movie trailers, web browsing, e-mail. The only thing he appears to be concerned about is getting an SSD and he mentioned a sound card, but he uses relatively cheap wireless usb headphones for as long as I can remember; therefore I question the purpose of the sound card.
Anyway, this is the makeshift build I put together. He hardly uses any storage so I think the 128 gb ssd with his current hdd should be good.
Edit: for whatever reason cannot get the wishlist to work
COOLER MASTER Black Steel body / Plastic + Mesh bezel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
ASUS 24X DVD Burner
ASUS F2A55-M LK PLUS FM2 AMD A55 (Hudson D2) Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
COOLER MASTER eXtreme Power RS600-PCARE3-US 600W ATX12V V2.3 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready Power Supply
G.SKILL Sniper Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin [URL="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113281"]DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866 (PC3 14900) Desktop Memory
AMD A8-5600K Trinity 3.6GHz (3.9GHz Turbo) Socket FM2 100W Quad-Core Desktop APU (CPU + GPU) with DirectX 11 Graphic AMD Radeon HD 7560D[/URL]
OCZ Vector Series VTR1-25SAT3-128G 2.5" 128GB SATA III MLC
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