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candre23:
Here's what I just bought for a bartop build:



That price includes tax and shipping. 

It will absolutely smoke the E1 HP you linked in the OP.  The E1 series of chips is AMD's equivilent to Intel's atom - it's a super-low-power chip meant for netbooks and tablets.  Why they're even bothering to sell that in a desktop case is beyond me.

Even a low-end ivy bridge processor like the one I got should handle pretty much anything you throw at it.  For newer games you'd definitely want a better video card to go with it, but that shouldn't cost more than an extra $100 for something like a 7750.  Anything more than that would be mostly wasted on emulation.
wesbrown18:

--- Quote from: candre23 on April 30, 2013, 09:10:08 pm ---Here's what I just bought for a bartop build:

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That price includes tax and shipping. 

It will absolutely smoke the E1 HP you linked in the OP.  The E1 series of chips is AMD's equivilent to Intel's atom - it's a super-low-power chip meant for netbooks and tablets.  Why they're even bothering to sell that in a desktop case is beyond me.

Even a low-end ivy bridge processor like the one I got should handle pretty much anything you throw at it.  For newer games you'd definitely want a better video card to go with it, but that shouldn't cost more than an extra $100 for something like a 7750.  Anything more than that would be mostly wasted on emulation.

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At this point, I do need to note that the AMD A6 5400K is about 20% faster, and has a much more capable GPU -- you wouldn't need to throw an additional GPU if you wanted to run 3D games -- it has a Radeon 7540D on-chip!  For the same price, essentially.

This is why it perplexes me that people pooh-pooh AMD so much.  It's a much better proposition at the low-mid end than Intel.
SithMaster:
I'm pretty sure newegg has a current offer for 8gb of ram free with select motherboard purchases.  Couple that with a sixty dollar processor, fifty dollar hard drive, twenty dollar after rebate psu, and use a dvd drive from another pc to install windows and you are golden.  If you have a junk pc case you can cut out the motherboard tray with the expansion card slots for support when mounting to the cabinet.  If you don't plan on going with the more modern games you could probably find a used pc on craigslist that could handle everything just fine and just need a fresh install of windows.
BillinIndiana:

--- Quote from: yotsuya on April 30, 2013, 05:08:50 pm --- Unless, of course, you go the Frankenpanel route, which is your call.

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What is that?
yotsuya:
This.
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