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    Budget Build £170

    Budget of £170
    Things I have: OS, HDD
    Use: Browsing the web, maybe some light gaming
    I have come up with this:

    or a AMD a6 3500 build?
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    Re: Budget Build £170

    Both the AMD A4 and A6 have much better IGPs than any Intel CPU under £100.

    This review has some figures for the IGPs:

    http://www.f-paper.com/?i988201_9

    The HD3000 IGP in the £100+ Core i3 2105 is slower than the HD6410D IGP in the A4-3400 which is under £50. The A6-3500 IGP is significantly quicker than both. I have a Core i3 2100 which has the same HD2000 IGP as the G530 but with higher Turbo Boost. Its OK but I would get an A4 or A6 personally if you are doing any gaming. The G530 would be a better choice if you added a discrete graphics card though.

    For web browsing any recent dual core CPU above 2GHZ will be fine.
    Last edited by CAT-THE-FIFTH; 17-03-2012 at 03:03 AM.

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    Re: Budget Build £170

    Great stuff, this celeron is a very snappy cpu.I would however go for Asus board rather than this Gigabyte, I liked their s775 mobos but the s1155 are often not that great.
    I played AOE III with reasonable amount of details at 1680x1050 on it, hopefully you are not thinking about playing new shooters @ FHD

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