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Build for websurfing/office

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Jerry 03

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1. Websurfing, Office applications, listening to music, watching movies

2. $300 Budget

3. Buying in US of A

4. Buying from Newegg and/or Amazon

5. Prefer Intel but can work with AMD

6. Already have Keyboard, Mouse, Monitor, Case and PSU. Just need CPU, Mobo, RAM and HDD

7. No OC

8. 1440x900

9. March 2013

So like i said my $300 budget is to buy the CPU, Mobo, RAM and HDD. HDD doesnt need to be too large cause most of my movies/music is on a NAS.
 
Do you have a rough idea of how much storage you need on the HDD? If it's a small enough amount you might be able to squeeze an SSD in there.
 
I'd go to newegg or ncix & get their cheapest bundled deal (usually includes RAM, cpu & mobo). Cheapest one will suffice as ure not doing anything demanding at all with it. RAM is super cheap, u can find 4GB for $18, & that would be plenty for what ure doing.

For hdd, go with western digital blacks, they are the most reliable & best performing mechanical drives. With $300 u wouldn't have enough for an ssd, so skip that. something like this for 169.99 (sale ends March 6th) and then add $18 Ram which leaves u roughly $100 to get a decent 1TB HDD (or even smaller & cheaper if you want, but i find the 1tb mark to be the best value for money). 🙂

http://www.ncix.com/products/?sku=78393&vpn=i3 3220&P8B75-M LE&manufacture=Bundle Deals&promoid=1324

personaly i'd go for a quad core minimum if u can find one in your budget, but for your needs dual core is enough.
 
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Well, here's some food for thought.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Celeron G1610 2.6GHz Dual-Core Processor ($42.38 @ Microcenter)
Motherboard: ASRock B75M-DGS Micro ATX LGA1155 Motherboard ($57.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: Mushkin Essentials 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3-1333 Memory ($25.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($59.99 @ Compuvest)
Storage: Sandisk Ultra Plus 128GB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($89.99 @ Newegg)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224BB DVD/CD Writer ($15.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $292.32
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-03-01 01:14 EST-0500)

You could buy an external CD burner or one of those SATA to USB adapters instead of the optical drive.
 
Torn Mind said:
The PSU could have been be manufactured by Enhance or CWT, depending on the series.
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Neither of those are Seasonic, and they don't insist on quality standards when manufacturing PSUs. They will put whatever crap in if their customer (XCLIO) wants it.
 
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