Config for a always on PC

pegasus

pegasus

Journeyman
Cilus said:
pegasus, your suggestion is very good if power saving is the only concern. But now a days when most of the applications are multithreaded, even the web applications, flash applications, a dual core is much more advisable. I think X3 is not required but X2 is a must have thing.

Reason is if you wanna do anything else apart from surfing, say using Word 2007, HD movie watching, running flash applications, a dual corre processor will add significant performance boost. Even web browsers like IE 8 and Firefox 3.6 are multi-Core aware.

So OP may drop the idea for Athlon II X3, but a Athlon II X2 is I think should be minimum requirement.
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bornik said:
@pegasus your configaration is also good but if I have choice I would go for a Dual Core processor rather than sempron and when I am spending around 20k behind it. But saving electricity is also concern for all of. thanks for your suggestion.
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Yes- i too agree X2 is a good choice- X3 honestly is overkill for such a rig though i believe 'overkill' is non-existent if enough finances are existent. :p
I felt OP wanted to do more of downloading and some casual web browsing- more like a secondary download+browsing rig.
Sempron 140 is pretty good for the price i feel.
bornik will have to make a few adjustments to fit in that X2.
I have tried to included LCD (20" for better experience) and good UPS in the budget though i am not sure if he wants those and within 20K too.
I have not suggested any cheapo cabbinet and CM Elite 310 for this rig as i felt a 24x7 rig should have some decent ventilation (120MM fan at rear for exhaust and front intake fan for cooling HDD/s)

p.s. do the present batches of Sempron 140 unlock?
 
OP
B

bornik

Right off the assembly line
I just read about Plug Computers like GuruPlug or PogoPlug.
Does anyone in this forum have used these products.
Any review will be helpful for me. :)
 
Jaskanwar Singh

Jaskanwar Singh

Aspiring Novelist
I will suggest i3 540 as its power consumption is lower than any athlon.

Intel Core i3 540 @ 5.1k
Gigabyte GA-H55M-S2 @ 3.6k
G.skill 2GB DDR3 1333MHz @ 2.3k
WD 1TB Green @ 3k
Corsair CX400W @ 2.7k
CM Elite 430 @ 2.6k
CM 120mm Fan @ 0.5k

Total - 19.8k

also get a better ventilated cabby (with fan) and extra fan for better airflow to keep the system cool.
 
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ramzsys

Broken In
Get an Sempron or a mobile processor or the Intel Atom. A board with inbuilt GPU. Single RAM. 5400 rpm HDD(are there any?)

For all day running and net oriented desktop, there is nothing other than the ATOM.
 
lastdefenda

lastdefenda

Broken In
Jokes apart look at the crosair cpu liquid cooling. Its fille with liquid don't have do it separately . Go for amd coz atoms are rebranded cpu .
 
papul1993

papul1993

not a newbie.....
I dont think the RAM needs to be 2GB. 1 GB is more than enough for downloading stuff and web browsing. But get more than 1TB of hard drive space coz its a download rig.
 
ssb1551

ssb1551

Technomancer
^^:+1: on d storage point.For a d/l rig storage capacity takes d priority.I bot a new 1TB HDD a month after takin d net connection.
 
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