my brother told me he wants to learn about computers and stuff, so i'll probably give him one of my old machines. just a build made up out of random crap i have laying around.
specs will be something like this:
Xeon X5650 (not sure, maybe an L5630 or E5620...)
18GB DDR3
GTX 1050 or RX 460
a few 120GB ssd's in raid 0...
something like that. it should be a good platform for him to learn about computers.