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by MeinElend
Wed Oct 26, 2011 2:13 am
Forum: Newcomers Briefing Room
Topic: Need build advice
Replies: 10
Views: 5035

Re: Need build advice

Sorry i'm not being overly clear. My partner uses an online forum/games site called gaia. Within this site she likes to use quite alot of tabs. A better description of what happens would be that the system puts a fair load on the cpu, task manager puts the cpu usage at 100% and the system freezes.So...
by MeinElend
Tue Oct 25, 2011 4:39 pm
Forum: Newcomers Briefing Room
Topic: Need build advice
Replies: 10
Views: 5035

Re: Need build advice

What is the performance of the E-350 like compared to an old pentium 4 2.7ghz single core processor? My partner's system that she is using at the moment is very old and we've gotten along fairly well with it since my laptop stopped working. The main issues with the old junk computer is that at any t...
by MeinElend
Mon Oct 24, 2011 11:36 pm
Forum: Newcomers Briefing Room
Topic: Need build advice
Replies: 10
Views: 5035

Re: Need build advice

Basically my main concern is trying to keep the noise level to a minimum as my primary use for it will be as a HTPC with some light gaming thrown in. My budget for this system would be around $500. I have considered using a ASUS E35M1-I DELUXE motherboard in the antec isk 100 case as the E-350 apu s...
by MeinElend
Mon Oct 24, 2011 2:12 am
Forum: Newcomers Briefing Room
Topic: Need build advice
Replies: 10
Views: 5035

Need build advice

Hey everyone, This is my first build ever and I have no understsnding of cooling or power supplies needed. The build I was planning on was an Antec ISK 100 case, ASUS F1A75-I-DELUXE motherboard, either an AMD A4-3400 APU or an AMD A6-3500, 2 4Gb G.Skill Ripjaws-X DDR3-1600 ram. I am not sure of the ...