Hi all,
Looking to put together a computer for a family member during the Easter period and wanted some advice on getting the best parts for a budget of $500. Desktop will mostly be used for web browsing, Office 2013 and very rarely, minor touch up of photos (Photoshop).
Parts required are as follows:
Thanks in advance for the advice!
Cheers,
Joel
It's no better than using integrated graphics.
It uses GDDR3, when higher end GPU's nowadays use higher bandwidth GDDR5. Just seeing that spec in a GPU immediately tells you that it is pretty much 'bottom-of-the-barrel' in terms of performance.
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/2578/geforce-gt-705-oem.ht…
makes you wonder why they put it in the system, intel integrated should outperform that thing.
Because the Nvidia graphics is a selling point — you can slap a "powered by NVIDIA" logo on it and it will sell for more than a PC without it
Regular people just know that dedicated graphics is always better than integrated. Or they just look at the spec requirements of their Sims 3 retail box and think, oh Nvidia graphics, fits the bill, I'll just buy a desktop with Nvidia GPU in it.
I would go for this one
PCByte is in NSW, OP is in Victoria, it's probably not the best place to buy it from them because return shipping will be ridiculously expensive.
Try contacting MSY, UMART or PCCG all of which is closer and has good prices.
Don't forget to factor in cost of Windows license, which custom prebuilts often leave out.
Yeah, I know, it was just quicker that way than itemising everything :P
I wonder what the graphics card is like