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My father in law's motherboard (Biostar A785G3 - 785g AM3 Motherboard) died yesterday. The USB ports are not working including the headers, and the onboard GPU is going crazy. (AMD HD 4250)
The Rest of the PC is as follows (with notes on what will be replaced)
- AMD X2 250 3.0 GHz (Replacing)
- 2 x 1GB DDR2 (Replacing)
- 80GB IDE Hard Drive (Replacing)
- DVD Burner IDE (Reusing - will get a cheap IDE to SATA adaptor)
- Antec Budget Mid Tower - (Re-using)
- Seasonic 350w PSU 80+ Bronze (Re-using, less than 2 yrs old)
- Windows 8 Retail (Re-using)
- 20" 1680x1050 Monitor + 50" 1366x768 Plasma TV (Keeping both)
- 2.1 Speakers, KB/Mouse (Keeping)
Use Case: This computer is used primarily for Web Browsing, Email, Netflix HD, HD Playback and Facebook Games (Farmville 2, Candy Crush, etc). That's it.
The Motherboard must support Dual Video Outputs - as uses 2 monitors.
I assume most modern motherboards will do this since the Old school HD 4250 could do this.
PLAN - BUDGET GIVEN TO ME IS $200.00 Canadian Max - Not a lot to work with.
TO BUY:
1) I was able to buy a 7 month old WD Black 1TB SATA Hard Drive today for $60.00. His hard drive was always full and I thought this was a good deal to get locally.
I also have 2 x 1GB DDR3 1333 Memory he can have. I know 2GB is minimum, but he actually found 2GB to be sufficient with Windows 8 before since nothing real demanding was being done here. We can look at more ram possibly down the road. Win 8 runs surprisingly quite well with only 2GB of ram
***EDIT*** - I was able to find 2 x 2 GB DDR3 1333 Ram from somebody locally for $10, picking up tomorrow, will just buy this for him myself.
2) That leaves me approx $140.00 to get a Motherboard and CPU. Here are the 2 best deals I've been able to find so far
Option One: AMD A4-5300 CPU and MSI FM2-A75MA-E35 A75 FM2 Mothboard for $109.99 as a Combo Deal + Tax and $10 shipping
or
Option Two: Intel Ivy Bridge Celeron G1620 and Gigabyte H61M-DS2H Motherboard for $99.99 + Tax and $10 Shipping
or
Option Three: Keep the X2 250, get a Gigabyte 78LMT-USB3 for $59.99, and a Cheap Video card like a 7750.
NEED TO ORDER TONIGHT SO HAVE THE PARTS BEFORE THE WEEKEND.
Questions:
1) For the use case, what is the better option? The Intel CPU is stronger than the AMD Option, but the AMD GPU is stronger than the Intel Option. What CPU would be best for Facebook Games?
2) The AMD Motherboard has more options, like USB 3 and SATA 3. To be honest, I doubt either of these would ever be used.
3) Both of these motherboards have HDMI and VGA out, which is what we need. Can they both support 2 monitors output at once?
I am leaning towards option 3
I have no experience with modern Intel Graphics.
Thoughts?
The Rest of the PC is as follows (with notes on what will be replaced)
- AMD X2 250 3.0 GHz (Replacing)
- 2 x 1GB DDR2 (Replacing)
- 80GB IDE Hard Drive (Replacing)
- DVD Burner IDE (Reusing - will get a cheap IDE to SATA adaptor)
- Antec Budget Mid Tower - (Re-using)
- Seasonic 350w PSU 80+ Bronze (Re-using, less than 2 yrs old)
- Windows 8 Retail (Re-using)
- 20" 1680x1050 Monitor + 50" 1366x768 Plasma TV (Keeping both)
- 2.1 Speakers, KB/Mouse (Keeping)
Use Case: This computer is used primarily for Web Browsing, Email, Netflix HD, HD Playback and Facebook Games (Farmville 2, Candy Crush, etc). That's it.
The Motherboard must support Dual Video Outputs - as uses 2 monitors.
I assume most modern motherboards will do this since the Old school HD 4250 could do this.
PLAN - BUDGET GIVEN TO ME IS $200.00 Canadian Max - Not a lot to work with.
TO BUY:
1) I was able to buy a 7 month old WD Black 1TB SATA Hard Drive today for $60.00. His hard drive was always full and I thought this was a good deal to get locally.
I also have 2 x 1GB DDR3 1333 Memory he can have. I know 2GB is minimum, but he actually found 2GB to be sufficient with Windows 8 before since nothing real demanding was being done here. We can look at more ram possibly down the road. Win 8 runs surprisingly quite well with only 2GB of ram
***EDIT*** - I was able to find 2 x 2 GB DDR3 1333 Ram from somebody locally for $10, picking up tomorrow, will just buy this for him myself.
2) That leaves me approx $140.00 to get a Motherboard and CPU. Here are the 2 best deals I've been able to find so far
Option One: AMD A4-5300 CPU and MSI FM2-A75MA-E35 A75 FM2 Mothboard for $109.99 as a Combo Deal + Tax and $10 shipping
or
Option Two: Intel Ivy Bridge Celeron G1620 and Gigabyte H61M-DS2H Motherboard for $99.99 + Tax and $10 Shipping
or
Option Three: Keep the X2 250, get a Gigabyte 78LMT-USB3 for $59.99, and a Cheap Video card like a 7750.
NEED TO ORDER TONIGHT SO HAVE THE PARTS BEFORE THE WEEKEND.
Questions:
1) For the use case, what is the better option? The Intel CPU is stronger than the AMD Option, but the AMD GPU is stronger than the Intel Option. What CPU would be best for Facebook Games?
2) The AMD Motherboard has more options, like USB 3 and SATA 3. To be honest, I doubt either of these would ever be used.
3) Both of these motherboards have HDMI and VGA out, which is what we need. Can they both support 2 monitors output at once?
I am leaning towards option 3
I have no experience with modern Intel Graphics.
Thoughts?
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