I had intended on building a cheap but good quality PC for my parents since they break most of the laptops they get. I needed something capable of internet surfing, doing financial work and business work, storing large amounts of photos and videos, and watching movies with. I had a perfect build set-up for them until my brother decided he wanted to use the computer for gaming, along with his PS4, so now I need change direction here. I was hoping someone could modify the build I already had prepared and make that build suitable for the above written needs. Here was my original build:
http://pcpartpicker.com/user/Bantantur/saved/Phjqqs
My parents don't need anything fancy but my brother would like to play games like Bioshock 2, Black Ops 2, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, and other Indie games on high/ultra settings with smooth framerates. I understand that that will drastically increase the price of the PC by adding a GPU, replacing the Pentium CPU with an i3 at least, and a PSU with higher wattage. Here is the modified version of the build I came up with:
http://pcpartpicker.com/user/Bantantur/saved/p249TW
The catch here is that the budget is $600 and that includes the PC, monitor, keyboard, mouse, and speakers. I did find a 21.5-Inch, 1920x1080p, 60 Hz, 5ms response time monitor for $99.99 which is good. I found the perfect keyboard and mouse bundle for $14.99 and some awesome speakers for $9.99. So the the price for all the peripherals will be $124.97 and I have to subtract that money from the $600 budget leaving me with $475.03 to spend on the actual PC. If need be I may be able to throw in some cash for the budget, $50 or so but not much more. Can anyone suggest the perfect build? I could certainly could use the help lol. Thanks for reading and sorry for the long message!
http://pcpartpicker.com/user/Bantantur/saved/Phjqqs
My parents don't need anything fancy but my brother would like to play games like Bioshock 2, Black Ops 2, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, and other Indie games on high/ultra settings with smooth framerates. I understand that that will drastically increase the price of the PC by adding a GPU, replacing the Pentium CPU with an i3 at least, and a PSU with higher wattage. Here is the modified version of the build I came up with:
http://pcpartpicker.com/user/Bantantur/saved/p249TW
The catch here is that the budget is $600 and that includes the PC, monitor, keyboard, mouse, and speakers. I did find a 21.5-Inch, 1920x1080p, 60 Hz, 5ms response time monitor for $99.99 which is good. I found the perfect keyboard and mouse bundle for $14.99 and some awesome speakers for $9.99. So the the price for all the peripherals will be $124.97 and I have to subtract that money from the $600 budget leaving me with $475.03 to spend on the actual PC. If need be I may be able to throw in some cash for the budget, $50 or so but not much more. Can anyone suggest the perfect build? I could certainly could use the help lol. Thanks for reading and sorry for the long message!