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Originally Posted by StevenAbootman
My dad is looking to purchase a new desktop computer and I found this on BestBuy:
http://www.bestbuy.ca/en-ca/product/...8bb46279a8en02
What do you guys think? I don't think I could come close to building something like this at that price point.
I would like to add a SSD to it. |
Keep in mind while a 6700(non-K) is a good chip worth ~$410, and the 370 is a $200 video card, literally everything else is bottom barrel parts, including but not limited to awful RAM, PSU, HDD, Motherboard and case.
So for 1k, you get $600 in good parts and $400 in crap. Definitely cheaper than a self build, but unless he's doing audio editing, video editing, or the like an i7 is overkill (even a locked chip), and if he's not gaming, the onboard video on an Intel chip is usually more than sufficient for any user, especially since the z170 chipsets handle VGA, DVI, HDMI, and Displayport outputs on board.
Assuming he's not a graphics designer and doesn't play anything beyond Facebook games, you could build something with overall better parts (though without hyper-threading) for hundreds less.