500 dollar or less desktop for watching videos

[Lawful Evil]

My son wants a new desktop computer for his birthday. He is really into watching anime and movies that are in 1080p. He is not much of a gamer. He D/Ls them to watch later. I was thinking something like http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboBundleDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.1629474 or http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboBundleDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.1595935 . The computer will be hooked up to his TV via hdmi. His current laptop (pretty old and crappy) is hooked up to a TV via hdmi gets pixelated, stutters and gets out of sync after a few minutes of playing 1080 videos about half the time, 720 and 480 play just fine. Not sure if it is because some of them might be Hi10p (not really sure what that is, maybe how it is encoded) anyway. Can anyone recommend a better computer for what my son wants to do? Would these be overkill or to weak? We use Linux as a OS also.

 

[andrei65]

Get him the 520$ one , if he's gonna start some light gaming then this will be good for him
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboBundleDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.1595935

 

[Danbuscus25]

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$499

http://www.computerlx.com/config.aspx?t=&product_ID=1822

go to this website, then put in the parts i posted, and it should be $499 including shipping and tax, and this will come with a warranty. however, if you can build your own computer (well, your sons) then i can suggest some better parts.