I know the title is kind of a misnomer. However, my father-in-law is looking for something that he'll be able to upgrade two years down the line. He doesn't plan on doing much gaming, although he may be using it for HD, hence why I chose a HD2400XT graphics card.
He also stated that he wants a dual core processor, so I went for the Pentium E2160. I went for a P35 mobo as at least he can upgrade to a Penryn quad core a couple of years down the line. He does a lot of photography so he wanted a 500GB hard drive too!
Here's what I came up with:
Are there any glaring errors there, or can you guys think of something better for the cost? Or if I can bring the cost down even further, for similar spec, that would be even better! Any help would be gladly appreciated!CPU: Intel Pentium Dual-Core E2160 [£55.80]
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-P35-S3L [£59.91]
RAM: Corsair (2x1GB) DDR2 675MHz/PC2-5400 XMS Memory Non-ECC Unbuffered CL4(4-4-4-12) [£54.99]
Graphics card: 256MB Sapphire HD2400XT PCI-E (x16) [£44.29]
Case: Antec NSK6500 [£58.75]
HDD: 500GB WD5000AAKS [£66.96]
OS: Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 32Bit [£68.73]
Optical Drive: LG GSAH62N [£19.14]
Media Card Reader: Enlight 26 in 1 Internal 3.5" Card Reader [£8.98]
TOTAL: £437.55
[PS: I'm only looking for case only, he already has monitor, keyboard, mouse etc.]