For the third time I've had a random reboot that killed my win XP install on trinity... What is a solid mobo/ram/cpu combo (intel) (asus)? i5? i7? Mid range...
I would go with a quad-core i5 with 8gb+ of ram. All depending on your requirements/usage What's your budget?
Just mostly web browsing. Would not want to spend more then $700. I'll be using win 7 64 for the build. Ishtim, I don't know what is wrong with trinity. I'm pretty sure it's a hardware problem. Ram, mobo...? It's like about every other month the pc will reboot all on it's own when I'm browsing the web. Most of the times it does this the pc restarts ok. (thank God) But sometimes not. After that happens all I can get to is safe mode and system restore will not fix the problem. Also I have had checkdisk want to run on startup a few times over the last year or so. It runs and always works after that.
A random reboot that can actually kill an OS install sounds particularly nasty..... while sourcing for parts for a new PC, I'd also be wary about power issues (either from your mains, or PSU).
If you want a like gaming machine, you can consider AMD. But if it's just mostly web browsing, a small i3 build is excellent.
Yeah, if you are not gaming, just get a cheap Core i3 and 8 GB of RAM. Make sure you get at least an SSD for a boot drive. You won't regret it!
Yup! Like Chai said, cheapest per capacity. But if you enjoy downloading a lot of media, or store a lot of photos, you can get a smaller SSD (at least 120 GB) and tack on a large HDD for media storage, or two HDDs in RAID 1 in case you are storing valuable media like your own photos.
Thinking on, Newegg.com - ASUS Z87-PRO LGA 1150 Intel Z87 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard And, Newegg.com - Intel Core i5-4670K Haswell 3.4GHz LGA 1150 84W Quad-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics BX80646I54670K
Not sure which RAM, but I don't think it matters that much anymore. You may want to consider Z87 Plus if you don't need Wifi. Even Z87-A is good enough for overclocking IMO.
