Please Help Building A PC For The Wife

[zazally123]

Hello everyone. My wife is in need of a computer to make music. She doesn't need a graphics card and I am not sure what to get. Is onboard graphics on most recent motherboards enough for video streaming and using stuff like fruity loops? She lives on soundcloud cause she has a community of friends there and after moving countries to be with me she had to leave her computer back at home. She will just be browsing and will not be playing games whatsoever. She is a very good singer and she just wants to be able to plug her studio mic in and record music so she may need a soundcard? I am not sure where to start but I was looking to pay no more than 500 dollars just for the box. I already have a spare monitor, keyboard and mouse.

So parts she will need are ram, CPU, motherboard (one with good soundcard and with onboard graphics) a 1tb hard drive, power supply and case? She wont need a dvd drive and the monitor will be plugged in via DVI into the motherboard. She will not be playing ANY games and if she does play games they will probably just be browser games or Facebook games.

Thank you everyone for reading and I really look forward to your replies. I prefer intel CPU over AMD also if that helps.

Take care!

 

[zazally123]

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[BadActor]

The integrated graphics of the i3 are pretty decent. The motherboard uses the ALC1150 audio codec and has a built in rear audio amplifier and USB DAC-UP ports.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-6100 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor ($110.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H170-GAMING 3 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($99.99 @ Amazon)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory ($58.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($47.49 @ OutletPC)
Case: Corsair SPEC-01 RED ATX Mid Tower Case ($39.99 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: Antec 450W ATX Power Supply ($33.69 @ Directron)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 OEM 64-bit ($89.99 @ NCIX US)
Total: $481.13
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-07-10 07:32 EDT-0400

 

[zazally123]

Thank you BadActor. I will look at what you posted and will take it into consideration since I am very lost on what to do. Seriously, thank you so much for your time! Will definitely get this.