Hi all,
Looking for some opinions on a system I'm looking to create for a friend. He's looking for a general day to day computer for use by his family. No major gaming (maybe very light for his kids; think free flash games, chrome web store games, maybe some free windows 8 app store games, etc)
Most usage therefore will just be web, email, very basic photo manipulation, microsoft office, maybe serving some light content to his xbox, etc.
Given this usage, the following may seem like overkill, but I also want him to have something that will be reasonably snappy now, use decent brand components and last reasonably well without needing an major upgrades.
Any opinions or thoughts? The following comes to under $800 shipped from alphacity. I've suggested the option for a laptop instead, but he is not a big fan of laptops.
The one component I'm not too sure of is the case. anybody had any experience with the cheap Aywun chasis?
Kingston HyperX Blu DDR3 PC12800/1600MHz CL9 XMP 2x4GB (DDR3 memory stick)
ASRock B75 Pro3-M (Motherboard)
Corsair VS450 450W (Power supply unit)
Microsoft Windows 8 Eng (64-bit OEM) (Operating system)
Aywun A1-922 (Black) (Chassis)
Seagate Barracuda ST500DM002 16MB 500GB (3.5 inch S-ATA hard disk drive)
Kingston SSDNow V300 SV300S37A 60GB (Solid State Drive (SSD))
Samsung SH-224BB (Optical drive)
Intel Core i3 3225 3.3Ghz Socket 1155 Box (CPU)