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Soooo my friend's birthday is in October. He says he wants to have me build a computer for him. He's saving up cash right now (~$500 is his goal) and I found the parts on newegg. This is designed to be a wolf in sheep's skin kind of build that after $100 and a little of overclocking can become a beast that plays most modern games on high or ultra but currently sits as an e-mail/youtube/facebook rig. 

Here's the specs:
Pentium G3258 20th anniversary edition (unlocked; can be as fast as an i3!)
8GB G.Skill Value Select RAM 

Cheap $30 Gigabyte GZ-PD Case with lots of space but no frills

Gigabyte GA-B85M-D2V LGA 1150 Mobo
Antec Basiq 430w PSU (80plus certified) 
Seagate barracuda 1tb HDD. 

Thoughts? total price on all parts including a 17" dell monitor and a mouse+keyboard was ~$480 US. Even at stock clocks he could be able to play most games on medium or high given he purchases a GPU later on. 

Eric S. Raymond used an E6600 from 2005 until 12/30/14 or open source software creation. Raw data computations in excess of 18GB each. Core 2 Duos still have tons of life left, my friend.

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He really needs a GPU...

i5 4670k @ 4.2GHz (Coolermaster Hyper 212 Evo); ASrock Z87 EXTREME4; 8GB Kingston HyperX Beast DDR3 RAM @ 2133MHz; Asus DirectCU GTX 560; Super Flower Golden King 550 Platinum PSU;1TB Seagate Barracuda;Corsair 200r case. 

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