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Question

need professional help to build my new PC?

Feb 9, 2014 5:22PM PST

Hi,

I need professional help to build my new PC with no limitations in specifications , i just need compatibility & durability to be put into consideration & here are my uses for the desktop PC :

1 - All day high speed internet browsing.

2 - All day high speed internet download & upload.

3 - Listening to music (i need a very decent sound blaster)

4 - connecting the PC to my Plasma TV through HDMI cable to watch full HD movies (need the best graphics card to process full HD movies & 4k)

5 - Microsoft office & the likes.

***please note that i want both the graphics & the sound blaster to be built in for ease of use & avoiding any incompatibility issues.

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Re: new PC
Feb 9, 2014 5:30PM PST

- For fast internet you need a fast connection with your ISP mostly. Any modern motherboard is not supposed to be a limitation.
- The audio capabilities built into the motherboards are standard. If (listening to them) you feel it's not good enough, you need a separate audio card, but you can always add it later.
- HDMI = 2k, so HDMI is not 4k. 4k is only build into some TV's, not yet into PC's. So that requirement seems unrelialistic.
- MS Office is a separate buy for software, not relevant for choosing hardware.

So it seems a rather cheap motherboard suffices for your needs.

Kees

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Any CPU near 3 Ghz if single core
Feb 10, 2014 3:37AM PST

or over 2 Ghz if dual core. No sense spending more than you need.

Here's an example of me using an AMD Sempron 145 with 4GB of 800 Mhz RAM (DDR3) on FIOS broadband running a 720p HD stream.

http://glenburniemd.net/Linux/MintLinux14_RecordMyDesktop.mp4

I have another I hope to put up soon showing me running two simultaneous 720p streams while also recording, all on the same computer, and all without problems. It also includes running one single stream of 1080p which just about maxes out the single core AMD 145 processor and onboard video chip.