Buying a PC - need help please.

[evosquest]

I am considering buying a New PC.
My problem is I know very little about CPU, SSD, RAM or any other type of PC jargon.

My choices are -

£359
Processor AMD Athlon™ II X4 processor 635
- 2.9 GHz
- 2GHz HT
- 2MB L2 Cache
Operating System Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium 64-bit
RAM -3 GB
-DDR3
Graphics card NVIDIA® GeForce® 6150 SE
- up to 1407 MB total available graphics memory


£399
Processor Intel® Core™ i5-650 Processor
- 3.20 GHz
- 2.5 GT/s DMI
- 4M Intel® Smart Cache
Operating System Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium 64-bit
RAM - 3GB installed DDR3 RAM
- supports 8GB maximum DDR3 RAM
Graphics card ATI® Radeon™ HD5450 graphics
- 512MB dedicated memory

Which is the best in price vs processing?

EDIT - May be in wrong place so move to where relevant please

 

[mnewsham]

General hardware is more specific but i would go with choice number 2

 

[Maximilian]

Number 2 is better.

 

[Arkadrel]

GPU vs GPU:
Nvidia Geforce 6150SE was old and slow back in 2007 (dx9 card).
ATI Radeon HD5450 is a faster card (dx11 card)
(you will want this (dx11) to enhance your webbrowseing with windows7 and the new IE)



http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/144?vs=122
i5-650 vs athlon II x4

The i5-650 is a tiny bit faster, but it ll probably overclock much better... which will make that differnce bigger.


the 399£ PC (i5-650 + radeon 5450) is better than the 359£.



I think you should build your own PC, its really not that hard, and the UK probably has some place where you can price check, find the cheapest parts from stores and order the parts online.

its worth the little effort to put it together yourself, and its fun.
If you know any geeky friends that have build their own pcs, or family ect, just ask them for help.

You usually get more value that way.

 

[RavenSEAL]

#2

 

[Maximilian]

the UK probably has some place where you can price check, find the cheapest parts from stores and order the parts online.

Ya, check out dabs.com, ebuyer.com and overclockers.co.uk OP. Also wherever you buy anything online, check to see if it is listed on http://www.quidco.com/ so you can get cashback.

 

[Marty502]

The #2 is definitely better, more than what the tiny price difference might suggest.
Go with it.

 

[jiffylube1024]

#2 - that GeForce chip is rubbish, and if it's built onto the chipset it means that it's an Nvidia motherboard as well - not as reliable as AMD boards in my experience, as Nvidia boards are primarily lower end boards these days. They used to be great in the Nforce 2/4 days .

 

[evosquest]

Thanks to everyone for the speedy replies.
I will look into the PC building at a later time when I have more knowledge of how to do it
I will go for #2 for the time being.

 

[Anneka]

to make it short i would chose no 2. not very big difference but something is there