I've already made a thread about this, but I'm revisiting it to try to lower the cost on it some more. I'm building two of these computers for a company and they're going to be run as a checkout and for general web surfing. They also store pictures on the computers and I'd imagine they look at them as well. Other than youtube playing, there won't really be much done with videos, and there won't be anything done with gaming, obviously. Originally, I had 4gb of ddr3 1866 ram in the build, but I'm started thinking it was too much, especially considering that they're only going to be run as a checkout machine. I had 4gb because the AMD processor is an APU so it shares memory with the system, but do you guys think 2gb of 1333 is enough?
Keep in mind what they're going to be used for. Don't go for overkill, here.
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/BQug
This is the memory I'm considering, as it will be a lower price and it should honestly be fine for the system. I just want a second opinion on this.
Well, if they are not going to be doing anything graphically demanding, I see no need to go for higher frequency memory than what you already have. I, myself, would throw 4GB of 1600MHz memory in there, but again, that's just me.
Also, why an optical drive? You can install Windows from a USB Drive, ya know. If you absolutely don't require the optical drive, I would toss that. Would save a few bucks.
There was a tiny typo in the original that I just fixed. The build has 2gb of 1333 and not 1600.
I would go higher with the ram, but the thing is that there literally wont be any gaming done on these, and very little video playback, even. What I'm curious about is if they will run smoothly in normal applications.
And I agree, I hate the CD drive. The reason it's there is for them, not me. I'd be installing windows from an SD card if this were mine, but they have multiple programs that they want to install from CD, so, sadly, it's a must ):
And yea, I'd really reccomend you bump it up to at least 4GB. 1600? I personally would, but it's not required. Basically, since the APU is going to be using anywhere from 256MB and up (assuming it will use 512MB) of the system ram as video memory, that wont leave much left for Windows and it's applications to use.
Hmm, I was going to use windows 7. Now that you mention that, it does seem like it almost makes sense to go with 4gb, though. I'll try 4gb of 1333 and see how that works. I personally don't feel like 1600 is honestly necessary if all they're doing is a checkout program.
A while ago, I was forced to use an old emchines computer before I could afford to build one (this was many MANY years back)
1.8GHz Single core sempron :(
1.5GB DDR 400MHz memory
Onboard SiS graphics
Disregarding the GPU because I got a cheap AGP card for it, the 1.5GB of RAM it had was not nearly enough for my basic tasks (browsing, and talking on the few messengers I was using), as well as music. It was horrible :<
outlet PC doesn't have Free shipping, you can't always blindly follow PC Part picker
the CPU listed is a ivy bridge enhanced version of the G620 that was beating the 5300 in business and productivity scores, also has a lower power consumption, so it should be even better than the G620
I'm aware that they are not GPU intensive. The build you suggested, although nice, won't be saving me any money. And like I said, they are only running a checkout program. Not very intense.
I went with the AMD build because it's cheap but effective. It's too easy for people to go overkill, especially on these simple builds.