He has a really old obsolete thing that he is finally getting rid of and he wants a good machine without spending too much.
I've told him that he is going to want to buy online and look for good sales, but he doesn't know what he needs and I'm not exactly sure what would be good in terms of current products myself. Since he is trying to avoid paying too much for stuff I imagine he will want most of the stuff he orders to be discounted in some way.
As I see it the shopping list consists of:
1) Finding a good tower
2) Finding a good (but probably not top of the line) graphics card to put in said tower.
3) Finding a good monitor to connect to said tower
I don't know enough about tower specs to know exactly what needs to be prioritized. afaik the motherboard is the most important thing when you're getting a tower that is already put together. You can always add more RAM (bought on sale of course =P) after the fact.
But basically I know more than him just not enough to make a well informed buying decision.
Any ideas?
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