After 6 years of running a single core AMD Athlon on a 939 socket motherboard with 2GB´s of DDR-400 RAM, my parents want to buy a new system and they asked me to choose some new parts (MB, CPU, RAM, HDD and DVD-burner). Over the years some parts have been replaced of which most recently was the PSU which is now a Nexus Value 430 and the HDD, a Samsung Spinpoint F3 HD103SJI. I plan to take these along for the next build. No new peripherals are necessary.
The usage of the pc will be the following: browsing, etc(50%)/downloading(25%)/HTPC(20%)/video editing machine(5%). I put HTPC usage in there as they plan on buying a new TV to finaly replace the CRT-tv from 1903. By that time as well a blu-ray drive and additional soundcard will be added so that is not necessary now.
Below are the parts I choose so far but I want to get a second opinion, therefore I made this topic.
The budget is between 250-300 euros/dollars with which I picked the following:
- Asrock A75M for 54,95 euros
- AMD A8-3850 for 93,45 euros
- Kingston ValueRAM KVR1333D3N9HK2/8G 8GB for 37,95 euros
- Hitachi HDS721010DLE630 1TB SATA-600 for 84,95 euros
- Asus DRW-24B5ST DVD-burner for 15,45 euros
- (Nexus Value 430 - from previous system)
- (Samsung Spinpoint F3 HD103SJI - from previous sytem)
- (Case - from previous system)
Total cost would be 286,75 euros without shipping.
Would this be fine or should I change some parts here and there?
Thank you for your time!
- on a side note, I kind of wonder why the hardware section of the forum is closed even with the reason given? So I don´t know where this topic should actually go, therefore, I just posted it here.