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Specifically, one of their Entra Home series: http://www.ncix.com/article/Entra-PC-Home-Series-rev2.htm My mother asked me to buy her a PC and I'd like to buy her something with decent quality parts but without going through the hassle of doing research and choosing everything. The web...

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Sure, I just want her to have the best PC her budget can get her, and I don't mind a little extra work. Need? No. But everyone likes nicer graphics. That depends when Civ VI comes out (or similar game), I guess. Low noise.

So you're saying it's not possible to build a better system than a Dell prebuilt for the same money?

The most recent and demanding game she plays is Civilization 5. The rest are games from the 1990's and early 2000's. I've read a lot of prebuilt system reviews and I haven't been able to find a really positive one for this budget. It seems they all have glaring flaws, like a tendency to...

Hello! 1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc No photoshop, just web browsing (with many, many tabs opened simultaneously), a little gaming but no recent games that require a beastly GPU. 2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included? $700...

If I did go for the IvyBridge bundle http://www.ncix.ca/products/?sku=72062 should I change anything else in the build? Different RAM, for example?

Well, I haven't ordered yet so I can still make a change. I'll wait for tiraides' counter-argument! Hmm, I have too much stuff on my desk already. :)

After 10 minutes of intense meditation, I've concluded that You Only Live Once, so I'll go with the 770 (Gigabyte since it's a tiny bit faster). Also I'll switch the Bitfenix case for a Fractal Define R4 ATX, since I've read the Bitfenix is a bit flimsy. I'll see if I can save a few...

Thank you so much for the excellent advice! I'll order exactly the parts you've listed, except maybe for the video card : Due to some bad experiences I've promised myself I'd never buy an AMD card again. The GTX 770 is about 130$ more than the 760, which makes me exceed my budget by exactly...

All right, thanks. Well, it's just 30 more dollars so if you think it's worth it I'll go for it, but... do I really need 750W? I figured it'd be a way to save money without losing much performance, but looking at those prices I guess I was wrong. Thanks! I want to be able to play any...

Gaming. About 1500 CAD with tax and shipping. I mean, if I can spend less that's great, but if I can get something that will make a huge difference for not much more money than that, I'll probably do it. Canada. Everything listed in the OP: MB, CPU, GPU, RAM, SSD, HDD, DVDRW, power...

Hello! I don't build new PCs very often so I'm asking for help from the experts here to make sure this build is a good one and I'm not making any mistakes. This PC will be used mostly for gaming; the idea is to buy good parts but nothing really top of the line so it's not too expensive. I'll...

Well, I've tried playing WoW with a 120hz monitor (instead of a HDTV), and my eyes still get a bit tired after half an hour and extremely tired after two hours. Still no problem with other 3D games, including ones with quite a bit of text, like RPGs. I'm not sure what else to try. Are there some...

That's an interesting hypothesis, limitedaccess. What would the solution be if you're right? Going back to a CRT monitor? My TV has a pretty high response time for a LCD.