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Morning guys trying to shave off about £50 on this build just dont know where i can. any help would be hugely appreciated cheers
Its got an alright built in graphics card on the mobo so no worries there. its for my father in law who only really downloads movies and burns them but wants something new and fast with windows 7. Let me know if there is any other changes which you guys think! Cheers for all the feedback so far!! Love the OC forums
Will he be overclocking? If not then I think the phenom is probably not necessary. I would save the money and go for a quad or even triple core athlon. You can spend the money you save on a high performance hard drive (caviar black or similar). He will see more of an effect from that when browsing etc than from a quad cpu.
Read the reviews which shows that the extra cache in the Phenoms makes a difference in format conversion/transcoding.