Friend has a HP Pavilion 9351.uk running Windows 7 with a HP W2408H monitor.
He uses it mainly for e-mail, MS office, surfing and also does design work using the full Adobe suite (super accurate colour rendition not an issue so existing TN monitor is fine)
Says graphics card has died, and wants to upgrade his system
He can keep the following:
Monitor, Mouse, keyboard, 2TB HDD
Windows 7 Professional and MS Office 2007
What he wants to buy and assemble:
Case
Power Supply
Motherboard
CPU
Memory
Graphics Card
SSD for Operating System
Wants to keep cost as low as possible, so can sacrifice the SSD if needed - circa £450 without the SSD
Am thinking an i5 with 8GB RAM
Not sure about graphics card
Case - needs to be quiet as system will live in bedroom
Was looking at this list by CAT - prices seem to have gone up since then, especially for the RAM
Also will need to shave off some pounds to fit budget
Any help/advice gratefully received