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    With a budget that low, you are best off buying a referb computer, building one is actually more expensive these days. The advantage is, for users like myself, that you know exactly what is in the box, and are free to change or upgrade without having to deal with proprietary hardware/drivers.
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    Quote Originally Posted by cevulirn View Post
    With a budget that low, you are best off buying a referb computer, building one is actually more expensive these days. The advantage is, for users like myself, that you know exactly what is in the box, and are free to change or upgrade without having to deal with proprietary hardware/drivers.
    Hey B!! How ya been doing? Yeah the more I look around the more I am tending to lean towards the boards
    advice. She doesn't want 10 but hell I can just pop out whatever HDD is in there and replace it
    with the one hat we have already put together for her.

    It IS good to hear from ya.
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    Quote Originally Posted by l921428x View Post
    Yeah since I have the can, mATX , I will build to that spec. Looking around at egg and tiger I think I can build her
    one of my own for the budget given and for me it would be special. She did ask me for this and I said ok. I can
    do this.
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    Well just jump in anytime, I know these old birds are tired of me.
    While no one ever listens to me,
    I am constantly being told to be quiet.

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    be the heat..

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    Quote Originally Posted by NAPOTS View Post
    ive built probably 15-20 for myself and other people over the years. Anymore unless there was something very specific I wanted I think I would just buy one
    I agree, unless you are building a high end PC there are pretty decent prebuilt HP's, Dells, Pavilions or whatever that you can throw a good video car in and will work fine for most use. Just make sure the video card will fit and there is a appropriate slot for it.

    If her old PC is much slower than the ones you can buy it sounds like it would work fine for her.

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    Cypher, I just want you to know I still haven't forgiven you for betraying Morpheus and Neo.
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    Quote Originally Posted by O.S.O.K. View Post
    Cypher, I just want you to know I still haven't forgiven you for betraying Morpheus and Neo.
    The steak is just so damn good.

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    I do video work for a living and I know you need at least an i7 CPU with lots of RAM and a nice video card.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypher View Post
    The steak is just so damn good.
    Neo's going to find you and make you pay! lol
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