Building a net-office-dual monitor only pc

[solidstategamer]

Looking to build a MS Office, Internet/Email only PC that will be able to use two monitors.

APEX PC-375 Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case ATX12V 300W Power Supply

Foxconn A74ML-K 3.0 AM3 AMD 740G Micro ATX AMD Motherboard

AMD Athlon II X2 240 Regor 2.8GHz Socket AM3 65W Dual-Core Processor ADX240OCK23GQ - OEM

Crucial 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1066 (PC3 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model CT2KIT12864BA1067

Recertified: Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST3500620AS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive

LITE-ON CD/DVD Burner - Bulk Black SATA Model iHAS124-04 - OEM

+ GPU for dual-monitor support

+ your recommendation on operating system between XP and Win7.

 

[cmcghee358]

For the love of God, do not get a Seagate 7200.11 refurbished. They are garbage new, I can only imagine refurbs.

7200.12 is much much better, 7200.11 is known for the awful click of death. I beg of you, please don't get the 7200.11 refurb.

 

[solidstategamer]

Ok I'll go for the samsung spinpoint for a few bucks more. Any idea which GPU I could get that would fit the 300W PSU and allow dual-monitor support?

 

[cmcghee358]

Most actually I'll take a look in a bit

 

[cmcghee358]

I'd get this GPU: http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131180&cm_re=Radeon_4650-_-14-131-180-_-Product

And I'd definately go Win7. But if this is for office use, talk to your IT guy, unless you're him.

 

[solidstategamer]

It's for my father. He has a copy of WinXP but I'd like to eventually give him win7.

Is 2g enough for a system in win7? If yes, will it be slow and choppy?

 

[solidstategamer]

Link isn't working, is it a radeon 4650?

 

[cmcghee358]

Yeah a 4650. It's a 512 MB one. On the cheap

 

[cmcghee358]

If it's just surfing the web 2GB should be ok.

 

[solidstategamer]

You know how some systems operate clunky under XP? My friends laptop is like this, every thing you do is just slow, opening a file, opening a folder, etc - everything is slow as ***. Even opening firefox takes like 15 seconds.

This is what I don't want.

 

[solidstategamer]

Yeah a 4650. It's a 512 MB one. On the cheap

As long as it can connect two monitors I'm sure it's okay. The pc won't be for gaming at all.

 

[cmcghee358]

As long as you're installing the OS, just install the basic stuff. All I install is Firefox, AVF Free, Adobe Reader. MS Office in your case.

Most peoples computers are slow because they click, download and install every single link they see.

 

[solidstategamer]

So basically having 4g or 2g of ram on this type of system won't improve performance?

 

[cmcghee358]

I think there will be an improvement if he opens say Word, Outlook and like 5 web browsers at once.

I personally would go with 4 GB if you can spare it. It would certainly future proof the build a bit more. Also, it's one less resource you can pretty much never worry about.

 

[solidstategamer]

As I thought. Alright thanks for your help.

 

[solidstategamer]

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[Alvin Smith]

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[daship]

Definitely got for 4G and a 64bit OS.