Ok so like my topic says I want a little assistance making a new computer. Its for my girlfriend and she doesn't want to spend much so it has to be the cheapest of the cheap! Aside form it being cheap its gotta be able to do things fairly well such as use most of the Adobe software, Illistrator, Photoshop, inDesign, ect.

Should also be able to play League of Legends on the highest setting with no problems along with some other graphic heavy games (Deus EX:HR, Skyrim, L4D1/2) on close to highest settings.

I know this won't be dirt cheap but we are looking to hopefully keep it in the $500 range. I prefer either getting the parts myself at a local store or ordering on Newegg. The site for the other store is Micro Center and you could set the location on the top to NJ - North Jersey/Paterson. For those people who won't click links its www.microcenter.com or just google search it :p

Also before people say i'm lazy I did theory craft a computer build in the actual store and ending us with a price range of around $600. Aside from that i'm really just looking for a second opinion. Thanks in advance :p.

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You may be better off picking one up second hand if you only want to spend $500

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Really? a lot of the refurbs or new games round that price aren't really that great from the parts like the graphics card and processor for the price.

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Well i paid £400 for mine, which i think is around $600.

Bloomfield i7 OCd to 3.6Ghz
Humongous CPU cooler (no idea on brand)
P6T Motherboard
5850 2Gb gfx
6Gb ram
1.5Tb HDD
850W PSU

Runs BF3 on max 1920x1080 no problem.

Just throwing that out there

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That's euro's right? If so i'm pretty sure thats like $500 :p

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£400 = 500 euro = $626

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Lazy-man's option

EDIT: psst You can probably do a lot better than that, since the article is nearly 3 years old but itll bive you a base idea. Or since the economy is screwed, you might not.

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Thats actually a good option. I could just use that as a comparison and just find the "modern day" version at the same price like a $175 graphics card since that is what they got in theirs and just price match the same for all.

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Closed 12 years ago by Xealchim.