Hey everyone, as the title suggests, I am building a $500-$600 PC. THIS IS NOT A GAMING PC! This is a PC for casual use, and while it may be expensive for a PC that won't be doing anything serious, I think it is quite future-proof. I will also not be overclocking: Here is the link to the parts: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/GUAA
All feedback is appreciated, but no haters please :)
Wait for the "richland" APUs to come out next month.
If your not going to be doing anything intense, whay do you need a new computer?
If it's not doing anything i'd say cut your ram in half and drop the hdd. For something that's doing bugger all you don't need 8 gigs. If you really want 8 gigs plz get one stick. there is not reason not to. If your concerned about dual channel stuff don't be. it's not worth it for a web browser. or drop for one 8 gig stick now and in 2 weeks drop for another. Just please don't use 4 gig sticks it's ridiculus.
If you can get a psu that puts out less but that you still trust i'd say 2-300W that'd be good for efficiency.
Other than that i'd say go for it. looks good
Looks solid. I just built one almost exactly like this, except I used an ASRock FM2A75 Pro4 M and a 5600K instead of the 5500. Just something to note is that the cables are short on the CX430, and to get the SSD powered, I had to use the lowest 5.25" bay for the optical drive, since the other SATA power wouldn't reach from the HDD bay to the SSD bay. Other than that, the Carbide is a great case. If you aren't overclocking, you could get by on stock cooling. I manually set the CPU fan speed in the BIOS to about 2000 - 2600 RPM, which should be doable, especially on a 65w CPU. The one I used, I got the A8-5600K, which is a 100w, and it's doing fine on about 2400rpm.
If you don't already have an OS, I'd highly recommend Linux Mint.
If you are not doing GPU intensive but still want somthing "future proof", you can fit an 8 core into that budget.
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/GTGY
Richland is just a refresh of Trinity. Still using Piledriver. The real next gen of APU is Kaveri, which will utilize Streamroller. That won't be out until much later in the year.
Updated a few things: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/GUAA
Went for 4GB of 2x2 RAM instead. Also dropped to just a 64GB boot drive.
a 2 gig stick of ram ugh. even for a computer that's doing nothing stick to one stick. please