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First PC for a friend

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Hey all, 

 

So my I'm going to build a PC for my friend for his first one. 

 

This is what I have https://pcpartpicker.com/list/bGxpnn

I'm giving him a Cooler Master N200 case and a EVGA 950 SC 2GB.

 

Note, that i know that to play battleground and that at decent settings and 60 FPS he needs a better GPU probably, but it's better than nothing.

 

He's gonna use it to play Battlegrounds and a few other game basically. 

 

If anyone has ANY other suggestions for this. Let me know!  

Thanks!

 

 

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I would change PSU and get an SSD, even if it means getting a smaller HDD. Even if it's only 64gb for just Windows, but no smaller

Bow down to me humans.

I can't help if you don't quote me. How am I supposed to know if you need my premium support? Now starting at £399.99 a year.

Also, be a sport and mark the correct answer as the correct answer. It will help pour souls in the future when they are stuck and need guidance.

"If it works, proceed to take it apart and 'make it work better.' Then cry for help when it breaks." - Me, about five minutes ago when my train of thought wandered.

Remember kids, A janky solution is still a solution.

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Good but better PSU you don't want to be that friend that blows up someone's PC

Im mostly on discord now and you can find me on my profile

 

My Build: Xeon 2630L V, RX 560 2gb, 8gb ddr4 1866, EVGA 450BV 

My Laptop #1: i3-5020U, 8gb of DDR3, Intel HD 5500

 

 

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Get a better PSU.

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Just now, Himommies said:

You can't run windows on a 64gb ssd

You can, I've got a computer that has a 32gb SSD and it works fine. Windows only needs 20Gb. You will need more than just the SSD, obviously, but if it's just for Windows, it's fine

Bow down to me humans.

I can't help if you don't quote me. How am I supposed to know if you need my premium support? Now starting at £399.99 a year.

Also, be a sport and mark the correct answer as the correct answer. It will help pour souls in the future when they are stuck and need guidance.

"If it works, proceed to take it apart and 'make it work better.' Then cry for help when it breaks." - Me, about five minutes ago when my train of thought wandered.

Remember kids, A janky solution is still a solution.

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Official Windows 10 specs:

16 GB for 32-bit OS 20 GB for 64-bit OS

Bow down to me humans.

I can't help if you don't quote me. How am I supposed to know if you need my premium support? Now starting at £399.99 a year.

Also, be a sport and mark the correct answer as the correct answer. It will help pour souls in the future when they are stuck and need guidance.

"If it works, proceed to take it apart and 'make it work better.' Then cry for help when it breaks." - Me, about five minutes ago when my train of thought wandered.

Remember kids, A janky solution is still a solution.

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Just now, liamdoyle27 said:

You can, I've got a computer that has a 32gb SSD and it works fine. Windows only needs 20Gb. You will need more than just the SSD, obviously, but if it's just for Windows, it's fine

On paper it only needs 20gb sure but when you actullay boot up windows(Unless it's compactOS).It will work but you need to diable caching and indexing and some unwanted apps

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Just now, Himommies said:

On paper it only needs 20gb sure but when you actullay boot up windows(Unless it's compactOS).It will work but you need to diable caching and indexing and some unwanted apps

True. Also you would need to reroute all media folders like music and downloads to the main HDD

Bow down to me humans.

I can't help if you don't quote me. How am I supposed to know if you need my premium support? Now starting at £399.99 a year.

Also, be a sport and mark the correct answer as the correct answer. It will help pour souls in the future when they are stuck and need guidance.

"If it works, proceed to take it apart and 'make it work better.' Then cry for help when it breaks." - Me, about five minutes ago when my train of thought wandered.

Remember kids, A janky solution is still a solution.

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Just now, Himommies said:

Quite a hassle

Not really. Just right click on the folders and redirect them to a different one.

Bow down to me humans.

I can't help if you don't quote me. How am I supposed to know if you need my premium support? Now starting at £399.99 a year.

Also, be a sport and mark the correct answer as the correct answer. It will help pour souls in the future when they are stuck and need guidance.

"If it works, proceed to take it apart and 'make it work better.' Then cry for help when it breaks." - Me, about five minutes ago when my train of thought wandered.

Remember kids, A janky solution is still a solution.

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Just now, liamdoyle27 said:

Not really. Just right click on the folders and redirect them to a different one.

But the cahcing and Indexing thing is also pretty painful.If you would I would say put chrome on the ssd and windows on the HDD.You probably only boot your computer once a day

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