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Advice on building a system
Not sure if this belongs here, or in Chillout.
I am looking into building a system form my sisters husband. I gave her an estimated price of $450 to $500. He is going to be using it on their new 32" LCD TV as the monitor. This is mainly going to be a web surf/flash gaming, and not a lot of 3D gaming. She wants it to be a nice little computer, and not a big-ish tower type, so I figure a Micro-ATX should be just right.
Newegg.com - BIOSTAR TH55B HD LGA 1156 Intel H55 HDMI Micro ATX Intel
Newegg.com - Intel Core i3-530 Clarkdale 2.93GHz 4MB L3 Cache LGA 1156
Newegg.com - A-DATA 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666)
Newegg.com - XFX HD-567X-YNFC Radeon HD 5670 (Redwood) 512MB
Newegg.com - Antec BP550 Plus 550W Continuous Power ATX12V V2.2
Newegg.com - SAMSUNG HD502HJ 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s
Newegg.com - HEC 6T Series 6T10BB Black 0.7mm SECC Steel MicroATX
Newegg.com - ASUS Black 2MB Cache SATA 24X DVD Burner
It's a bit over the budget, but overall what do you think? I know Core i3's are not considered 'Gamer' CPUs, but like I said this will be mainly a web/flash system, and some 3D gaming.