Greetings!
I need to build a pc and need some advice on the best tech to put in it for my intended use and budget.
My wife uses it a few times a week to work from home. She logs into a virtual desktop at work and needs 2 monitors. The larger has a resolution of 1920x1080. The other is smaller. Everything is done on the work servers so the pc just displays it.
I use it when she isn't to play a few games. The most taxing will be SC2 or Civ 5. Currently i just play World of Warcraft. I'd like to play at the largest resolution possible for WoW, but the other 2 don't matter as much.
As far as multi-tasking i usually stream a radio station while playing and have 3-6 IE windows open, email etc.
I know I want an SSD for the OS (Samsung EVO 128GB) and a drive for the rest. I was looking at the new haswell i3-4130 and a discreet gpu around $80-100, but wondered if a quad core AMD/GPU or APU might work as well for less money.
Because it will run on average 8 hours a day and I live in the southwest, heat and energy is a factor. I'm also one of those boring people that run at stock speeds.
If anyone has a few suggestions what cpu/gpu combo I should build the system around, I would really appreciate the input.
I need to build a pc and need some advice on the best tech to put in it for my intended use and budget.
My wife uses it a few times a week to work from home. She logs into a virtual desktop at work and needs 2 monitors. The larger has a resolution of 1920x1080. The other is smaller. Everything is done on the work servers so the pc just displays it.
I use it when she isn't to play a few games. The most taxing will be SC2 or Civ 5. Currently i just play World of Warcraft. I'd like to play at the largest resolution possible for WoW, but the other 2 don't matter as much.
As far as multi-tasking i usually stream a radio station while playing and have 3-6 IE windows open, email etc.
I know I want an SSD for the OS (Samsung EVO 128GB) and a drive for the rest. I was looking at the new haswell i3-4130 and a discreet gpu around $80-100, but wondered if a quad core AMD/GPU or APU might work as well for less money.
Because it will run on average 8 hours a day and I live in the southwest, heat and energy is a factor. I'm also one of those boring people that run at stock speeds.
If anyone has a few suggestions what cpu/gpu combo I should build the system around, I would really appreciate the input.