After just building my first PC, my Mum has enlisted my new found skills (Read: the ability to ask questions on this forum 
) to build her a new computer to replace her old prebuilt Dell.
Her uses:
Picasa
Web browsing
Music
XBMC playing HD MKV's.
Budget: £250 - 300
In other threads people have mentioned the use of APU's? This is totally new to me. Are they capable of running XBMC at 1080p? I was thinking of using an HD4000 chip like an i3/i5.
I can salvage stuff like disc drives from the computer. She already has all peripherals.
I'm not fussed whether it's mATX or ITX. The smaller the better I guess, but obviously I'm on a fairly tight budget.
Cheers in advance.
Tom
One other thing - just to let you know the HD4000 is definitely enough to run HD MKV's as I used on board GPU (3570k) before I bought a dedicated card. It worked fine.
Edited by Bomster - 8/14/12 at 2:12pm
) to build her a new computer to replace her old prebuilt Dell.Her uses:
Picasa
Web browsing
Music
XBMC playing HD MKV's.
Budget: £250 - 300
In other threads people have mentioned the use of APU's? This is totally new to me. Are they capable of running XBMC at 1080p? I was thinking of using an HD4000 chip like an i3/i5.
I can salvage stuff like disc drives from the computer. She already has all peripherals.
I'm not fussed whether it's mATX or ITX. The smaller the better I guess, but obviously I'm on a fairly tight budget.
Cheers in advance.
Tom
One other thing - just to let you know the HD4000 is definitely enough to run HD MKV's as I used on board GPU (3570k) before I bought a dedicated card. It worked fine.
Edited by Bomster - 8/14/12 at 2:12pm
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