Prebuilt - Best for 650$

[iParanormalx]

One of my friends has been shopping for a prebuilt (he doesn't want to assemble and no one he knows wants to either.) He's mainly going to hook it up to his TV and use it as a Home Theater PC. Netflix, watching DVDs, (maybe upgrade to bluray), editing his and his wifes photos and just every-day use. He doesn't think he will use it for gaming and tbh they're both not really into gaming so I wouldnt look toward anything heavy on video processing. I told him how I have a wireless kb/m in my living room and he really liked the idea of a recliner/bigscreen PC experience. I did however recommend that he get a dedicated GPU because I believe it will improve overall visual fidelity. He's wanting to keep it at or under 650 - so I wanted to see what other products you all maybe had seen or recommend.

I saw this one which is pretty good for 600$
iBUYPOWER Desktop PC SOURCE SERIES NE641FX AMD FX-Series FX-8320 (3.50 GHz) 8 GB DDR3 1 TB HDD NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 2 GB Windows 10 Home 64-Bit - Newegg.com

 

[carnageX]

Would recommend piecing together a system on NCIXUS, and taking advantage of their build option - meaning they'll build it for you for an added fee from whatever parts you pick from them.

 

[PP Mguire]

If your friend lives in the US or Canada the parts can be purchased from NCIX and they will assemble it for a 50 dollar fee and ship the machine with the boxes for warranty purposes after testing it for stability. If you live in either of these countries there's 100% 0 reason to buy a pre-built.

If that's still a no go, the PC linked is pretty puke inducing for the money and the usage.
The 950 is basically a huge waste since it's a gaming GPU and won't help with anything that something a GT 930 or 740 would do. For instance, due to the i5 and the user wanting to photo edit the i5 in this prebuilt would be better.

In terms of pre-built though, this is probably the best option. It has a Skylake i5 and comes with an empty PCI-E slot for a dedicated GPU if/when needed for 4k later. A low end Maxwell chip for 50 bucks or less will easily run on the PSU in the box. Also comes with wifi and an M.2 slot for an SSD later.

 

[MadmanRB]

Holy crud that HP does look good, amazing specs too for a prebuilt for its price point.
The only weakspot is probably going to be the PSU, but considering the integrated GPU it would do many a good job even if getting a better GPU is not in the cards.

 

[PP Mguire]

Yea I was quite surprised when I clicked on it and saw a Skylake i5 sitting in it. THe IGP in Skylake is rather decent so I don't think a dedicated GPU will be necessary for a while but the 180w PSU in it will push something like a GT 740 (or whatever later) in it easily.