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Hey guys, im in the U.S and building a PC for my dad's birthday. Right now he has a really old PC that was built in 2010. My budget is 600$ for him. I have a case for him, a HHD, an optical drive, WiFi adapter, and a CPU cooler, and case fans I also have a 450 watt PSU but depending on what parts I get I might need to get a bigger one. I need everything else, I would pick the parts for him but I only know some about gaming PC parts and not a lot about business computers. He dose a lot of label printing, website multitasking (so maybe a lot of RAM), website editing, and he plays Farming Simulator 2017, and Sim City 5 occasionally. Your guys suggestions would be greatly appreciated, the parts don't have to look a certain way there is no tempered glass window. Thank you for reading!     

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Just go with a pentium and 1050ti i reckon, only rly needs 8gb of ram, hopefully can get an SSD to go with it :P

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Just now, DisguisedDemise said:

Just go with a pentium and 1050ti i reckon, only rly needs 8gb of ram, hopefully can get an SSD to go with it :P

I was thinking something like that, but I thought more ram would help with multitasking on the internet or am I wrong?

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5 minutes ago, TheRedEyedTerror said:

I was thinking something like that, but I thought more ram would help with multitasking on the internet or am I wrong?

To be honest, I have a 4GB system with a Pentinum and a GTX 750ti as a fallback should my main system fail. that runs multitasking with MANY windows open some 4k streaming and... *cough.... videos playing :) and it runs fine.

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4 minutes ago, TheRedEyedTerror said:

I was thinking something like that, but I thought more ram would help with multitasking on the internet or am I wrong?

8gb is more than enough, unless your dad is using 100+ tabs with chrome. 

 

 

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1 minute ago, Abdul201588 said:

8gb is more than enough, unless your dad is using 100+ tabs with chrome. 

 

 

 

1 minute ago, liamdoyle27 said:

To be honest, I have a 4GB system with a Pentinum and a GTX 750ti as a fallback should my main system fail. that runs multitasking with MANY windows open some 4k streaming and... *cough.... videos playing :) and it runs fine.

Oh I never knew that thanks.

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1 hour ago, TheRedEyedTerror said:

Hey guys, im in the U.S and building a PC for my dad's birthday. Right now he has a really old PC that was built in 2010. My budget is 600$ for him. I have a case for him, a HHD, an optical drive, WiFi adapter, and a CPU cooler, and case fans I also have a 450 watt PSU but depending on what parts I get I might need to get a bigger one. I need everything else, I would pick the parts for him but I only know some about gaming PC parts and not a lot about business computers. He dose a lot of label printing, website multitasking (so maybe a lot of RAM), website editing, and he plays Farming Simulator 2017, and Sim City 5 occasionally. Your guys suggestions would be greatly appreciated, the parts don't have to look a certain way there is no tempered glass window. Thank you for reading!     

 

A 450W psu is more than enough. No need to use the hdd unless he needs a great deal of storage. The cpu comes with a cpu cooler.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Core i5-7500 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($188.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Motherboard: Asus - PRIME B250M-A Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($65.99 @ Amazon) 
Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws 4 series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  ($59.92 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Crucial - MX300 525GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($159.88 @ OutletPC) 
Video Card: EVGA - GeForce GTX 1050 2GB ACX 2.0 Video Card  ($109.88 @ OutletPC) 
Total: $584.66
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