My wife's been bugging me for a desktop for awhile now, so I'm looking to put her together one from some old parts along with a new MB/CPU. I have the case, cooler, PSU, maybe a GPU (HD5770), SSD, and a 4GB stick of DDR3-1600.
Her usage basically consists of running quickbooks and messing around on Facebook, and I don't foresee that changing any time soon. It'll probably get upgraded to Win10.
I'll be ordering in Canada, so the prices are Canadian.
My general options as I see it are
G3258 (@ 4.X GHz) + H81 + 4GB (total 8GB) = $171 all in, plus $5MIR
i3-4170 + H81 + 4GB (total 8GB) = $234 all in, plus $5MIR
i5-4460 + H81 + 4GB (total 8GB) = $325 all in, plus $5MIR
i5-6500 + Z170 + 8GB DDR4 = $440 all in, plus $40 MIR
A8-7650k + A68H MB + 4GB (total 8GB) = $217 all in, plus $15 MIR
Today given it's just being used for office and internet usage, the $60+ price increase of the hyperthreaded 3.7GHz i3 doesn't seem worth the extra cost vs an overclocked G3258.
Moving to a true quad-core seems even more questionable, although the AMD chip overclocked would be a reasonable compromise despite it's lower single threaded performance. The much better iGPU is a plus as well.
Looking forward a few years though, does anyone envision that having those extra couple threads on a lower clocked i3 will be worthwhile for such a low demand application? My gut it telling me to just grab the G3258 and toss it in there.
Her usage basically consists of running quickbooks and messing around on Facebook, and I don't foresee that changing any time soon. It'll probably get upgraded to Win10.
I'll be ordering in Canada, so the prices are Canadian.
My general options as I see it are
G3258 (@ 4.X GHz) + H81 + 4GB (total 8GB) = $171 all in, plus $5MIR
i3-4170 + H81 + 4GB (total 8GB) = $234 all in, plus $5MIR
i5-4460 + H81 + 4GB (total 8GB) = $325 all in, plus $5MIR
i5-6500 + Z170 + 8GB DDR4 = $440 all in, plus $40 MIR
A8-7650k + A68H MB + 4GB (total 8GB) = $217 all in, plus $15 MIR
Today given it's just being used for office and internet usage, the $60+ price increase of the hyperthreaded 3.7GHz i3 doesn't seem worth the extra cost vs an overclocked G3258.
Moving to a true quad-core seems even more questionable, although the AMD chip overclocked would be a reasonable compromise despite it's lower single threaded performance. The much better iGPU is a plus as well.
Looking forward a few years though, does anyone envision that having those extra couple threads on a lower clocked i3 will be worthwhile for such a low demand application? My gut it telling me to just grab the G3258 and toss it in there.
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