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You can spend a lot of money and not get a lot in return in PC land due to marketing - honestly the 3100 might be THE best budget gaming CPU
Okay I’ll include links here for the rest of the build is recommended...
If the price is a bit much drop down to the 500GB version
A Hard Drive is your computers “long term” storage. Faster hard drives allow your computer to boot up quicker and load into games faster. Personally I recommend Western Digital (WD) drives over about any other brand- you do not want a drive crashing and loosing all the data/saved games/ pictures/ etc on your computer - for that reason I can’t recommend any other brand as much as WD. Been used their drives for almost a decade in every build for my family and every build I’ve helped friends with with 0 problems (the one time I got a non-WD drive it crashed and I lost everything)
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Or for $10 get the RGB LED version : Fancy RAM
RAM = Random Access Memory - this is your computers “short term” memory. Having more will allow more applications to run at once and have be “snappy” at switching between those applications. You need 16GB these days - I’m running 8GB and trust me it sucks
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Think of the motherboard as the central nervous system of your computer. If your brain wants to wiggle your foot it sends singles down your nerves. If you CPU wants to access RAM it sends singles though the motherboard
Now this is an ATX size, the case you have above is a micro-ATX. Typically I’d recommend going ATX unless you know he’d like it all small (if you’re sure mico ATX is the move mention something in the comments and we’ll get a different motherboard)
I used to say just get a cheap ‘ol board. Now I recommend getting one that has some room to grow. I built my gf a gaming PC with this motherboard and it’s great (most of these parts are from her build actually haha). He’ll be able to upgrade his PC in time with this board
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As the name suggests this thing powers the whole PC. Again I’ve had amazing luck with EVGA - my uncle has worked in a computer repair store for probably 15 years now. He has seen ALOT of computer die b/c the power supply broke something - the power supply brand he’s seen the least of: EVGA. Fully modular is really nice too- means you only connect the wires you need. A little thing that I fell in love with the first time I had it, saves more then you’d think on cable management
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Honestly, in my option, the best budget card on the market right now. Yes you can spend 2x the price and actually get 2x the preference (in an ideal environment) but that also assumes you have $400 to blow on a single part...
If price is getting out of budget I’d strongly recommend keeping this graphics card and making sacrifices with other options on this list
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Extra stuff:
If you need some of these extra’s keep the price in mind. For installing Windows I highly recommend just getting a disk off Amazon and using a usb DVD player - life will be better
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This is an “ideal” build. Idk what your budget is or how much of the extra stuff you need
Drop in the comments if price needs to go down. Plenty of working room left! And we can make it a more budget option that runs wonderful out of the gate bug has room to be upgraded over time!
Hope this helps - cheers
Edit 1: Updated motherboard to be a mico-ATX. Still has an m2 slot for above recommend HD
Comment by DeniseThePiece at 04/12/2020 at 01:02 UTC
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You're amazing. I'll give everything a look and see what we think. I did get the micro case, so I'll be sure to get the right size motherboard. Stand by!
Comment by DeniseThePiece at 04/12/2020 at 01:01 UTC
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You're amazing. I'll give everything a look and see what we think. I did get the micro case, so I'll be sure to get the right size motherboard. Stand by!