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Helping a friend out he blew 3 grand on a imac 5 years ago and I've been telling him it was such a waist for a long time.
His wife has finally agreed to let him get another and I've have talked him into letting me help build a pc with him.
I have no problem putting stuff together but I'm not really sure what to recommend. His budget is around one thousand.
Thanks for any help guys.
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Case- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811139008 $89 after $10 MIR
Optical drive http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827135204 $17.99
PSU http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151119 $79.99
Mobo http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130687 $139. Promo comes with a free 8gb stick of RAM. So I added another identical stick
RAM http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148661 $64.99 ( with the Mobo promo your getting 16gb for this price.
CPU http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116504 $209 with the promo code
OS http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832116986 $99. this is Win 7, which I personally prefer, get 8 if you desire.
CPU Cooler http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835103065 $19.99 after $10 MIR
SSD http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147192 $139
GPU http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202025 $195 after MIR
Taxes and shipping will depend on where you live. I am in TN so i get jabbed with huge taxes on Newegg purchases. For me it would be around $1200 after shipping and taxes ( $100 in taxes alone ) . If you have no taxes then this should run around $1100. But you are also getting $35 in MIR, 4 free games and a free stick of DDR3 1600 ( crucial Ballistix ).
There is no HDD storage drive. I personally would rather get a good SSD and make due with a smaller capacity for a few months until i found a steal on a storage drive to add later. But thats personal preference. I spent a small amount of time doing this, you may can take a look, make changes, ect since its your money going out the door. I would actually suggest spending some time price shopping. I can suggest parts all I want, in the end its not my money so I am not as motivated to save it.
This will build you or your friend a nice Intel I5 system thats close to the budget. If you give a specific budget that has to be adhered to then adjustments and builds can be made around that.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.1303961
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.1224797.20-220-570
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130688
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820171740
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827106289
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151119
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116504
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835103065
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202025
Total: $999.88, including shipping and before $25 in rebates. Is that close enough to $1000 for you?
Do note that the CPU has a promo code for $10 off that I assumed in the price. If you prefer Windows 7 rather than 8, you can get it in a combo deal with the memory, too.
If you want a comparison of the two builds, I picked a much cheaper but still good enough case. jdnewell did pick a better case.
The optical drives are equivalent, but mine is cheaper.
jdnewell picked a slightly better motherboard and 16 GB of system memory. I saved a lot of money by going with 8 GB of memory, and picked a very similar motherboard. MSI's -G45 tells you that it's slightly higher end than the -G43 that I picked. I only see two differences between the motherboards: his offers a PCI Express 2.0 x16 slot (x16 physical, x4 electrical) while mine offers a second PCI slot; you wouldn't likely use either. Also, his offers an optical and S/PDIF on the rear panel, while mine offers two extra rear USB ports instead; I'd actually prefer the latter.
jdnewell picked a faster but much more expensive SSD of the same capacity as mine. I'm of the view that the speed difference won't matter in the real world, as a SanDisk Ultra Plus is a perfectly good SSD, even if it is a budget model.
He picked Windows 7 while I picked Windows 8; they're the same price and pretty similar, so you can get whatever you want.
I included a hard drive and jdnewell didn't. Depending on how much storage space your friend needs, another option is to skip the hard drive and get a larger (~240 GB) SSD instead, like this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820171741
We picked the same CPU cooler, power supply, video card, and processor.