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hvacak47

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Hello everyone. Im looking to help pick out parts for a friend. Her son wants to build his own pc for games and internet. Her budget is $700 and we are in the US. Anyone have the time to work this up? I built my own about a year ago with you guys helping and it works great and was way cheaper than a store bought one. The one I built was not for gaming and to be honest I had no idea what I was doing and just followed the advice from here so I cant help her much.

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johnb35

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Do you know what type of games he plays? Need to know that information before we can recommend anything.
 
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hvacak47

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Glad you responded as you helped me a ton last time. He likes to play wow,mindcraft and fallout. He already has a monitor and would like to do graphic desighning.

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johnb35

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Those games don't require much, so I would probably recommend an AMD system as it would be cheaper.

Motherboard - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128519

CPU - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819106009

Ram - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231428

PSU - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139026

Video card - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102969

Case - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119227

HDD - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136769

OS - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832116986

DVD drive - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827135204

$584.91 before shipping costs. But if 700 is definately allowed we can pick better parts.
 
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spirit

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wolfeking said:
I would go for a FX 4300 over a 4170. Even then, grab a 4150 and bump the milti to equal 4.3 instead of buying the same chip factory OCd.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113287
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Yes I was going to recommend the FX-4300 too but Wolfe beat me to it.

Alternatively you could go for an i3 and get a board to match.

i3 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116775
Board http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130645

That is what I would personally go for over the AMD.

Might want to get a 7770 too, if you can't afford it though, the 7750 should be all right http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127687
 
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