- Oct 22, 2012
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I am proposing a build for a friend, to get him into pc gaming and show him it is not that expensive. (shh) I have built my own PC before, but I am too lazy right now to find a build and also I sort of need it quick to convince him. I am not exactly sure how to get that form that other people seem to have about what is required and what isn't in this build, so if someone knows how and could mention how to achieve that, it would be appreciated, but I will just copy and paste for now. I have noticed in other builds people aren't putting hard drives and he needs a hard drive, a regular HDD will do fine no SSD needed.
Approximate Purchase Date: Doesn't really matter too much for this build but I will just say before the next two months are done, unless something amazingly better is coming out in two months but I think that has sort of already happened.
Budget Range: $650 (Friend specifically said under 650 USD, but I mean I would throw in some of my own money ($50ish) to get him into PC gaming but whatever works)
System Usage from Most to Least Important: Gaming really is the most important, I don't think he will video edit or do 3d modeling and the other typical activities (movies, surfing web etc) don't require that good of a computer just good internet.
Are you buying a monitor: No
Parts to Upgrade: N/A
Do you need to buy OS: Yes Windows 7 it will be, so just factor that in (the reason I am not just subtracting it from the total amount is because sometimes there are bundles of the OS and mobos or CPUs)
Preferred Website(s) for Parts: newegg.com, amazon.com(w/prime), tigerdirect, I don't really mind too much, but he might get uneasy buying some expensive part from a sketchy place
Location: West Coast United States
Parts Preferences: I generally like Intel CPUs better than AMD and I generally like Nvidia better than AMD, but I have noticed that AMD GPUs are a little cheaper for just as good benchmarks or better and a lot of the games he would play are optimized for AMD GPUs, so AMD GPU is fine with me. I showed him the benchmarks for a 7950 on some games and he was impressed so something like that would be good.
Overclocking: Maybe but I would say probably not, cuz he is a little new to hardcore computing and if he would want to do that, he could buy a better cooler down the road
SLI or Crossfire: Probably not, the simpler the better is all I am gonna say
Thanks any help is appreciated, hopefully I can convert another to the master race.
Edit: Just some stupid grammar, told ya I was lazy
Approximate Purchase Date: Doesn't really matter too much for this build but I will just say before the next two months are done, unless something amazingly better is coming out in two months but I think that has sort of already happened.
Budget Range: $650 (Friend specifically said under 650 USD, but I mean I would throw in some of my own money ($50ish) to get him into PC gaming but whatever works)
System Usage from Most to Least Important: Gaming really is the most important, I don't think he will video edit or do 3d modeling and the other typical activities (movies, surfing web etc) don't require that good of a computer just good internet.
Are you buying a monitor: No
Parts to Upgrade: N/A
Do you need to buy OS: Yes Windows 7 it will be, so just factor that in (the reason I am not just subtracting it from the total amount is because sometimes there are bundles of the OS and mobos or CPUs)
Preferred Website(s) for Parts: newegg.com, amazon.com(w/prime), tigerdirect, I don't really mind too much, but he might get uneasy buying some expensive part from a sketchy place
Location: West Coast United States
Parts Preferences: I generally like Intel CPUs better than AMD and I generally like Nvidia better than AMD, but I have noticed that AMD GPUs are a little cheaper for just as good benchmarks or better and a lot of the games he would play are optimized for AMD GPUs, so AMD GPU is fine with me. I showed him the benchmarks for a 7950 on some games and he was impressed so something like that would be good.
Overclocking: Maybe but I would say probably not, cuz he is a little new to hardcore computing and if he would want to do that, he could buy a better cooler down the road
SLI or Crossfire: Probably not, the simpler the better is all I am gonna say
Thanks any help is appreciated, hopefully I can convert another to the master race.
Edit: Just some stupid grammar, told ya I was lazy
And yes, it is much better 
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