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My wife wants me to build her a PC of her own. Her budget is $500 max but I already have a good dvd drive, windows 7 and some extra fans and fan filters for her, so no need to factor those into this budget. She will use it for web browsing, photoshop work, remoting into her work pc and for games such as The Raven: Legacy of a Master Thief, The Cave, Castle of Illusion, The Swapper and Broken Age. She is used to playing these games on full graphical settings on my pc (see signature for reference). She won't be playing anything like the Crysis or Far Cry series though, so she doesn't need anything that powerful.
I want to build her a microATX system simply for the smaller size. Below is what I have in the build list that can be built for $500. I guess I need to know two things: Is this build good enough for the things she wants to do with it? And is this build the best I can do for the budget she has? Feel free to suggest other components if you think a different one will work better for her.
CPU: i5 4570
CPU cooler: Cooler Master Vortex Plus
Motherboard: ASRock B85M-HDS
Memory: G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) 1600
PSU: SeaSonic M12II 520
SSD: Samsung 840 EVO 120GB
Case: Cooler Master N200
I want to build her a microATX system simply for the smaller size. Below is what I have in the build list that can be built for $500. I guess I need to know two things: Is this build good enough for the things she wants to do with it? And is this build the best I can do for the budget she has? Feel free to suggest other components if you think a different one will work better for her.
CPU: i5 4570
CPU cooler: Cooler Master Vortex Plus
Motherboard: ASRock B85M-HDS
Memory: G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) 1600
PSU: SeaSonic M12II 520
SSD: Samsung 840 EVO 120GB
Case: Cooler Master N200
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