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Better choice for budget PC?

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ChesterC

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I'm building 5 or 6 computers for a family member who is starting a business. They will undergo the typical office load I suppose, with a little bit of Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop along with anti-virus and whatever garbage his employees choose to leave running at all times. At his request they should also have the ability to have "many internets open at once" Sadly though, as well all know, he who dies with the most internets still dies.

Anyway, I'm going with a cheapo socket A mainboard like this one- http://www.directron.com/m7viz.html

So my question is, going with that mobo and 512mb of PC 2700 is it worth 9 extra dollars for a Sempron 2200 over a Duron 1.8ghz ? Will the Sempron even outperform it?

Also will this fan cool either one of those processors adequately if no overclocking is involved? http://www.directron.com/cp56j31c99.html

And finally do you think the 300 watt power supply that comes with this case will be sufficient? http://www.directron.com/6k28.html They won't have too much in them, utilizing onboard video in sound - Besides that just a hard drive and CDRW/DVD combo along with an 802.11 g wireless card.

Haven't built a system in a while, so I've some things I want to get straight.
 
hmm, i don't have much experience with either processor, but i believe the sempron runs much cooler than the duron.
also the sempron has 4x the cache, which would help out quite a bit in a multitasking environment.

and why bother getting the fan if you can just buy a retail package tthat comes with the amd retail fan. that one you linked to should work just fine though

and i dunno about that psu.. i guess if you're not putting anything high powered in there, it'll be fine. i'd buy one system and test the hell out of it to make sure the psu works though
 
Don't pinch pennies - you're working for a business. The extra $10 a better part costs isn't really a big deal for them.

Realize that, building 8 machines at the same time, something will eventually die. Buy better stuff from companies with good warranties (...that actually support them). Go retail over OEM on the CPUs (which also gets rid of your need to pick an HSF) to get a 3yr instead of a 90 day warranty.

Of course, if the office actually needs 8 machines, if you build 8 and one goes down, they're stuck with 7. No matter how good the RMA goes, you're still looking at a minimum of 1.5-2wk to get it replaced. I strongly suggest buying a spare for anything that's not easily/cheaply available locally.
 
ChesterC said:
At his request they should also have the ability to have "many internets open at once"
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Yes, order spare parts. What can go wrong, will go wrong.
 
I agree 1 or 2 weeks of down time could be worth a lot more to the buisness then say $10 per computer.
 
Its a diffrent way of thinking involved here.

A good waranty will save U a LOT of future problems as will a local supplier. U'll have to run back and forwards into that place anyway suporting these machines. Buy things U know will hold together and that is well supported from manufactorer as well. (drivers and so on).

Its better to spend the additional 50USD / box in advance and have less hours spent in support.
 
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