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?
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.
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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