Recommendation Report

Recomendation Report

To: Scott Borgstrom

From: Alfredo Garibay

Subject: Recommendation regarding your computer

I mentioned to you earlier that part of your recent electronics troubles during gaming stemmed from inadequate hardware. As per your request, I am writing to you with the information you will need to make the choice of purchasing a previously built computer, or buying the parts and building your own. The computer you were considering is the HP Pavilion p6-2330, as such I will be using that as a reference for this report. I have broken down the information down to 3 categories:

1. Purpose

2. Specs

3. Price

Recommendation

I recommend you invest you invest in building your own computer, because doing so will allow more personalization regarding it’s use. Seeing as how you want one for gaming, your focus should be in processing power, and graphics potency, as well as RAM. Additionally repairs can be made easier because you can choose parts with an increased compatibility rate than most manufacturers use. You wanted to remain within a $00 budget, so with that in mind, I’ve adjusted my recommended parts.

Purpose

HP Pavilion

The HP Pavilion is powerful enough to run the most basic of tasks at a decent rate. It also has a decent amount of ram. The graphics card seems to come with an onboard memory of 3 GB which is plenty to run some low intensity games. The actual graphics processor does not seem to be as strong as most newer models however.

Building Your Own

When building your own, you will have to focus on the parts that will give you the level of performance you want. Because of this, you will want to invest the majority of your budget into the graphics card, RAM, and Processor. Unfortunately, there is a wide variety of parts and the hierarchy of prices is typically linked to the capabilities of the part you are buying. So the more the card costs, the better it will be in most cases.

Specs

HP Pavilion

The HP Pavilion comes with an AMD 3.6 GHz Dual core A series processor, 6GB of DDR3 RAM, AMD Radeon 7540D. There are other parts, but for now we’ll focus on what you are most interested in. It includes the parts listed above as well as a mouse and keyboard, a hard drive, motherboard, power supply and a chassis to hold it all in.

Building Your Own

With a budget of $600, you are pretty limited, however a few parts to consider, are an i AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor. A  Galaxy GeForce GTX 650 Ti 1GB Video Card, and 8GB of DDR3 RAM. I recommend these because they are very efficient for gaming, and are fairly cost efficient. These are the parts we have focused on for the majority of this report; however you will still need to buy a chassis, motherboard, power supply,and hard drive.

Prices

HP Pavilion

The HP Pavilion is priced at $480 dollars, however at the moment, they are on sale for $430. I At $430, this is a very adequately priced system. However I feel like it will lack in the area that you want it to excel most in: gaming.

Building Your Own

Since I need the complete list of parts to give a price for building your own computer, I will supply the following build that will help you stay within budget for your computer, while still focusing on the gaming aspect of the system:

AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor $84.99

ASRock 770iCafe ATX AM3 Motherboard $62.55

Corsair 8GB DDR3-1600 Memory $34.99  

Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB for storage $54.99

Galaxy GeForce GTX 650 Ti 1GB Video Card $129.99

Corsair Builder 430W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V Power Supply $24.99

Lite-On iHAS124-04 DVD/CD Writer for a disk drive $15.98

The total of all these parts comes out to be $408. The only part not included is a chassis, however these typically range anywhere from $30 and up, allowing you to easily find one and choose one you will like.With all these parts being available from various sites such as Newegg.com, Amazon.com, Microcenter and Outlet PC.

Conclusion Following the build and specs that I have given you, you can both stay under budget of $600 dollars and have approximately $150 dollars left over to get yourself a new mouse and keyboard as needed. While the upside of the HP Pavilion is that it’s already built for you, all that is really required to piece together your computer is the ability to follow directions and proceed with caution. I believe that building your own computer will pay off greater in this case because it will allow you to get more for your money and be satisfied with the final outcome.