[Jim]

Seeing as I have zero spare time and zero money, I thought it might be about time to upgrade PC.
Anyone built one recently and any knowledge on intel CPU's and chipsets.
Plan is low budget, quite and small (maybe looking at uATX boards) but still with enough speed to not be annoying for everyday computing (no gaming).
Initial findings are something like a i3 2120 CPU and a H77 chipset board with 8gig DDR3 1600 memory and a nice SATA3 SSD.
Thoughts?

[tomtom]

Been looking at this too.. Not sure what to get but Scan and Insight seem to have some good bundles,..

[Jim]

get all my stuff from aria, prices normally are pretty good

[slackline]

Always worth a quick shop around.

I rarely look at Dabs, but lo and behold they had a 'Used' Asus Zenbook UX21E available which saved me £250 (one third) of the retail price. Kerching! 

[Jim]

I normally do, sometimes it quite nice to go to a shop and buy something there and then rather than wait next day for it in the post

[slackline]

I like shops too, I just figured with this statement....

Seeing as I have zero spare time and zero money, I thought it might be about time to upgrade PC.

...you'd be looking to stretch that zero money as far as it can go, saving on petrol and time whilst you get stuff done in your zero spare time waiting for the components to be delivered.

Silly me!   

[Obi-Wan is lost...]

get all my stuff from aria, prices normally are pretty good

Their 'bundles' are pretty good to...
http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Monitors+%26+TVs/24+inch+Monitors/

[Jim]

anyone with any knowledge of the new intel CPU's and chipsets?

[tomtom]

anyone with any knowledge of the new intel CPU's and chipsets?

Nope. passmark.com normally have sensible benchmarks...

[slackline]

i5 is flying through compiling packages from source on the afforementioned laptop I've just got.