helping a friend build a computer

Instinct5

Instinct5

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Hey, My friend asked me to help him build a computer but im not the best at it so im going to cheat and ask you guys to give me some pointers and help me pick parts. He wants to make it a gaming/media computer he likes movies but he also wants to play up to date games. He wants to stay intel (i dont blame him). So if anyone can maybe help me get started that would be great. I'll have a rig put together by tonight and you can pick it apart all you want.
 
P35 gigabyte

8800GTS G92

core 2 duo 3.0ghz/E8400

antec 900

zalman 9700 with artic silver 5 thermal compound

samsung 19in. not sure which one to get

4GB DDR2 800 G.Skill memory

20x lite on with lightscribe

500W PSU maybe 600W. you decide which one

500GB hard drive
 
^^ nice ^^

Dunno about the samsung screen, it might be better than other brands but just buy a cheap one. Once you adapt to a screen you're completely unaware of any quality deficiancy.

I'd recommend he checks prebuilt computers first, might pay marginally more, but I've had so many problems that are completely unfathomable and seemingly unsolvable. A year on and I still couldn't get my brothers computer to work properly; it would be stunning for hours, then lock up for 5 minutes for no reason, then be fine, then a bit slower, then programs would become corrupted etc... Reinstalled windows numerous times, all the drivers were spot on, go figure.

Take the risk if you want, but when you've been trusted with $1200 of someones hard earned cash it feels really really awful when you can't get it working properly
 
where are u getting this from i tried that and it was like 1300 just to much. newegg wont work because it doesnt ship to canada.
 
Puntercam building your own pc is cheaper for better hardware and software and if you do everything right you should have absolutely no problems at all.

If a friend asked me to spend 1200$ on his pc id build one right away and not buy prebuilt. Ever.
 
 
Looks nice, good choice on the case and psu.

A little bit complicated and annoying to install that psu in the Antec though but it can be made ok.
 
this is my second time building one and this felt right so i appreciate the comments. Will thta motherboard support that CPU though?
 
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