Hi all,
My almost 70 year old father currently has a old Athlon XP 2500, 1GB RAM, Geforce 5200, running (and struggling a bit with!) Win 7 (32 bit for obvious reasons!)
He uses it for email and internet and the odd Word document - its not used for gaming. If it is ever used for gaming, its old stuff like Civ 2 etc, absolutely nothing recent.
They are downsizing their lives pretty much, meaning they want rid of the ATX case that is the Athlon XP. I've been looking into bulding them a ITX system to fulfill their requirements - I was waiting for the AMD fusion E350 for example, but ITX boards using that seem to be few and far between, and those that do exist are £110 min. Price is a big issue.
I've been looking at the Intel D525MW board - using a dual-core atom 525 CPU, which E-buyer has at the moment for about £57. putting the bits together, I could make a ITX system based on this board and 4GB DDR3 (SO-DIMM) for about £150 all in (MoBo, case, RAM, HD, DVD).
I'm struggling to find benchmarks or reviews of this chip and / or this board. How much better (or not!) would it be for simple Internet / email type stuff over the Athlon XP and 1GB RAM?
I know the integrated graphics is about 1.6x the geforce 5200, and both are pretty much SM2, so thats pretty much the same, but as said, this will be used 99.9999% of the time for 2D stuff.
Any links / advice / suggestions appreciated!
Cheers!