Building a computer for someone else? I NEED ADVICE!

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kataztrah

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I have little to no experience. Ive only build one rig. But it looks GREAT for a first job. My parents are ITs who can assist me when I need it.

I just built my rig and I love it and I want to build more to get more experience.

Would it be a good idea to build someone elses?

They want a gaming computer that they can also edit videos on.

I was thinking about building them a rig like mines.

Specs:

Consair Graphite 760t Case
Storage: 3tb (forgot the brand)
Asus Maximus VII Hero Motherboard
Intel Core i5-4690 3.5ghz Processor
Gigabyte Geforce GTX 970
Crucial Ballistix Sport 16GB
EVGA supernova NEX750B 750w Power Supply
Windows 7 Home Preium

Edit: this guy knows absolutely nothing about computers.
 
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MrZa5e
Building other peoples gaming rigs is a great way to gain experience, the items you listed look really good, you also might want to consider getting a SSD to put windows on and other programs, also you might want to consider getting windows 8 instead of win 7 because in a couple months microsoft will release windows 10 which is free for windows 8 users first before windows 7
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Building other peoples gaming rigs is a great way to gain experience, the items you listed look really good, you also might want to consider getting a SSD to put windows on and other programs, also you might want to consider getting windows 8 instead of win 7 because in a couple months microsoft will release windows 10 which is free for windows 8 users first before windows 7
 
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If they are going to be editing videos, you may want to consider an i7 Processor rather than an i5... as they don't use Hyperthreading. When encoding videos and multitasking, the Hyperthreading helps. Of course this is depending on their budget, but that looks decent.
 
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i'd be tempted to consider a workstation-class board, a Xeon E3-124_, and some ECC ram. prices might not be that much different compared to your selected items above, and can probably get better performance than i7. only downside is no overclocking as far as i know.
 
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If he changes the CPU he should use the i5 4460 since the 4690 he listed is locked anyway, but I wouldn't advise anyone to go with the FX 8320 unless they specifically want to have an AMD build.
 
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Since his friend needs him to build a pc for him, and since the poster of the question has "little to no experience" building pcs, I doubt there will be any overclocking happening.

Save your friend some money....he only needs 8GB of memory, his build will be fine with a 600W power supply, you can go a little cheaper on the motherboard since you are not overclocking (get an h97 type). You might want to get an i7, but that depends on the level of video editing your friend will be doing. Is your friend doing professional caliber editing with 1080p video or higher resolution? Does your friend use alot of special effects? Or is your friend just doing gameplay videos for youtube?
 
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kataztrah

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Gaming videos for youtube, and off his (cheaper) camcorder. That's all he told me. He knows nothing about computer parts.
 
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