I've been carrying a Lenovo IdeaPad Y460p laptop for past couple of years. I do not usually prefer laptops over desktops especially for home use, but I guess I got too lazy.
2 years later, I wanted somewhat better system, and I was looking at all-in-one's... but due to the low budget, I decided to re-use the power supply, case, hard drive, and other misc (generally cheaper parts).
After spending a couple days in searching for all the parts I need, below is new system that will let me through 2013 (and hopefully longer)
- MSI FM2-A85X AMD ATX Motherboard
- AMD A10-5800K Trinity 3.8 GHz (4.2 GHz Turbo) Socket FM2 100W Quad-Core APU with Radeon HD 7660D
- CORSAIR Vengeance Performance 32GB (4 x 8GB) 240 Pin DDR3 1866 (well, it's 1600 stock and had to be OC'd to 1866..... what a pain)
- ASUS PCE-N15 Wireless Adapter
After assembling, I made a few modifications to my current system configured with
- CPU core clock OCd to 4.5 GHz
- GPU core clock OCd to 844 MHz
- RAM clock OCd to 1866 (933 MHz for GPU memory)
- 2GB RAM allocated for the graphics (30GB available for the system)
which brings me enough power to do my everyday computing.
A few points:
- I should have bought only 8GB or 16GB RAM
- I should've tried to get a decent dedicated graphics card
- Maybe CPU could be better off than APUs... especially if I went with 65W cores...
- I should've had more budget in mind, and got myself an SSD drive...
Oh well, let's see what this year brigs me to! (and of course what hardward companies come up with!)
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