Alright people. Friend of mine has asked me to massacre his ancient DELL and put him together a frankenstein system on a horribly tight budget, cough £150 cough, cough.
I know I should probably put some of it towards a PSU but at this sort of price range I think for now he'll have to make do with the incumbant dell one unitl he can scratch some more pennies together. Obviously he's got case, optical drive and a hard drive already so the main bits I'm going to focus on for now are the CPU/Mobo/Ram
I'm going to whack in 4GB if this stuff Crucial 1333mhz DDR3, cos its cheap £36 for 4GB!
That only leaves me with about £120 to play with for MOBO/RAM but I know there are aplethora of decent budget options out there, from Phenom X2s to the new Athlons to i3 etc. and I'm really not sure which way to go so am open to any and all suggestions...
Main use for the PC is producing music using Reason and obviously browsing word processing etc.
Any thoughts? Cheers in advance