New PC within Rs.20000/-

[rohitshakti2]

Hi

IMy friend is looking forward to buy a new PC by replacing his old P-IV. He wants the following:

17" LCD
500 GB HDD
2GB Ram
Either Intel or AMD
Good MOBO with graphic card

We will overclock this PC a little it on air.

Regards
Rohit

 

[DarkAngel]

Components Description Price (INR)
Processor AMD Athlon II X2 240(2.9Ghz, 2 cores, 2MB Cache) 2900
Motherboard Biostar A780L3/Gigabyte 74GMT-S2 2700
RAM 2GB 1333MHz Corsair Value DDRIII RAM 2300
HDD 500 GB Seagate 7200.12 1900
GPU On Board Raedon HD3000 -
Monitor Dell E1910IN 5850
Cabinet Zebronics Bijili w/o SMPS 1000
PSU/SMPS FSP SAGAII 400w 1900
Key Board Logitech SET - Optical Blk Mouse+ MMKB 650
Mouse NA -
ODD L.G. GH22NS50 OEM SATA DVD-Writer 950
Speakers Logitech R20 850
Total 21000

If its a full PC then go for the above config. If its just the components that u mentioned then be clear on what all stuff he already has and needs etc... Thats why following the format will make things much clearer.

http://www.techenclave.com/pc-buying-advice/template-what-should-i-buy-use-143714.html

 

[dasgupta_arup]

sorry for hijacking the thread......
@darkangel, a friend of mine has similar budget
the above rig looks nice
he will be doing some medium size database work (oracle i think)
do you think the cpu-ram combo would be enough?

 

[DarkAngel]

sorry for hijacking the thread......

@darkangel, a friend of mine has similar budget

the above rig looks nice

he will be doing some medium size database work (oracle i think)

do you think the cpu-ram combo would be enough?

Not much of an idea abt the intended usage. Better put up a separate thread with this usage. Others members with similar usage would help u out.

 

[rohitshakti2]

Can anybody tell me how much speed difference will the above processor have when compared with Intel G5200?

 

[rohitshakti2]

I am still waiting.....

 

[siril_k]

Intel E5200 has 2.5Ghz compared to AThlon which has 2.9ghz much better for price to performance, AMD always beats Intel at low budget range

 

[PoBoy]

DA surely meant X2 245.
e5200 is not available anymore afaik, e5400 is approx 3000/-, but there is no budget intel mobo/chipset equi to 740G.
If you feel lucky, get a Sempron 140, most unlock to a dual - and the DA config will come to approx 20K.

If you believe benchmarks, Intel Pentium E5300 - 2.60GHz - 2MB L2 is as good as AMD Athlon II X2 255 - 3.1GHz - 2MB L2

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/121?vs=98

 

[arupdawarrior]

darkangel already posted

 

[rohitshakti2]

If you believe benchmarks, Intel Pentium E5300 - 2.60GHz - 2MB L2 is as good as AMD Athlon II X2 255 - 3.1GHz - 2MB L2

Bench - CPU - AnandTech :: Your Source for Hardware Analysis and News

So which one would be better for me?

 

[PoBoy]

Only you can decide that. See the benchmarks, Intel does better on some, AMD on others.

All things being equal, I would choose AMD because the 740G chipset is better. DA could give a better answer.

 

[DarkAngel]

Bench - CPU - AnandTech :: Your Source for Hardware Analysis and News

Get the AthlonII X3 435~ 3.5k/ AthlonII X3 440 ~ 3.8k

These absolutely smokes the E5xxx series in the benchies and it even unlocks to a quad core. The Giga mobo that i suggested has ACC and should be able to unlock the dormant core(If its not defective)

 

[joel.monty]

I would not go for the 775 its an very old socket ,get the am3,ne one x3 or x2,