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Lookig to build computer for the girlfriend

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vincedea

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Hello fellows,

I have finally convinced her that it is time to upgrade her computer and now I need some help on what type of hardware I should get her.

The things we will reuse will be: harddrive, case, and maybe PSU ( its some OCZ one), and the monitor (24 in)

so the computer will be used for web surfing, casual gaming, photoshop, office, and listening to music.

I would like to get this build done from now to black friday. If i find any good deals on certain hardware I will buy.

So thank you for the help guys. if you need more information lease let me know and i will answers those for you.
 
What sort of games does she play? How often does she buy new ones?

Ignoring gaming for a moment, I probably would go with a Pentium G620, H61/H67 board, 4-8GB RAM depending on your budget, onboard graphics and Win7-64.
 
mikeymikec said:
What sort of games does she play? How often does she buy new ones?

Ignoring gaming for a moment, I probably would go with a Pentium G620, H61/H67 board, 4-8GB RAM depending on your budget, onboard graphics and Win7-64.
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She usually plays tf2 with me. when it comes to gaming with her its usually a coop type of game where we could play with each other. most of the games we usually play together are usually the none GPU heavy type games. although she doesn't play a lot of games that are gpu heavy i would like to get a gp that could play future games that come out.

i would like to keep the budget below 1k but ideally would like to keep it around 600 or so.
 
Blain said:
:colbert: Buy her a shiny new Dell and be done with it.
At the end of the day, she'll appreciate it more than any home brewed box you could build her.
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😵 Is the person wanting to build the machine not very good at PC building, or do women generally 'have a thing' for Dell boxes, in your experience?

I once would have trusted Dell to build decent-quality computers that last, but that time passed quite a few years ago.

@ vincedea

I don't know that game very well, so I'll wait for someone else to advise.
 
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mikeymikec said:
😵 Is the person wanting to build the machine not very good at PC building, or do women generally 'have a thing' for Dell boxes, in your experience?
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The effort and time he puts into picking and assembling all the components won't result in greater appreciation vs simply buying an off the self Dell (Lenovo, HP, etc).
She just wants a PC that works, he's "into" PC's, so he'd care far more about the machine than she would.
Another issue is that the machine won't be used for anything extreme, so standard desktop PC's can get the job done.

:\ ...imho of course.
 
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