A friend of mine wants me to build a system for her son for his birthday, I have roughly a $1200 budget to meet and need everything including monitor, What he wants is a gaming system but plans to do video editing, He's young but very advanced on what he likes to do and a VERY smart 13 yr old LOL but this is what he wants in a nut shell
Video editing (He has a passion with this)
Gaming
Up-gradable (Could SLI this build down the road and add more ram)
GTX660 (Hoping to get him the TI but not sure that will make the budget)
and mild over clocking (He's still learning) But I don't give him long to master this.
This is what I put together for a fast list but hope to refine it with what I get from this forum. What I would like from you is what would you change and why, He will be watching this forum too and he will also be building it for his first build with my help so all input is appreciated.
OH one other thing is he wants a case that is easiely portable because it will be moved between two houses so handles will be good (Thus the Tower I put on the list)
List so far
Tower
COOLER MASTER Storm Scout SGC-2000-KKN1-GP Black Steel / Plastic ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Newegg.com
Mother board
ASUS P8H77-V LE Intel Motherboard - Newegg.com
GPU Hoping to upgrade to the TI though)
EVGA 02G-P4-2660-KR GeForce GTX 660 Video Card - Newegg.com
Power supply
CORSAIR CX750M 750W ATX12V v2.3 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply - Newegg.com
CPU
Intel Core i7-3770 Ivy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.9GHz Turbo) LGA 1155 77W Quad-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 4000 BX80637I73770 - Newegg.com
Ram
Kingston HyperX Blu 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model KHX1600C9D3B1K2/8GX - Newegg.com
HD
Western Digital WD Black WD1002FAEX Internal Hard Drive - Newegg.com
optical
LG Model GH24NS95 24X DVD Burner - Bare Drive Black - Newegg.com
and Monitor
Acer G245HQLbd Black 23.6" 5ms Widescreen LED Monitor 300 cd/m2 ACM 100,000,000:1 (1000:1) - Newegg.com
This comes out to $1182.90 and it hasn't been decided if we will use win 7 or 8 yet but his birthday is in August so there is time to decide.
Dauntae
Video editing (He has a passion with this)
Gaming
Up-gradable (Could SLI this build down the road and add more ram)
GTX660 (Hoping to get him the TI but not sure that will make the budget)
and mild over clocking (He's still learning) But I don't give him long to master this.
This is what I put together for a fast list but hope to refine it with what I get from this forum. What I would like from you is what would you change and why, He will be watching this forum too and he will also be building it for his first build with my help so all input is appreciated.
OH one other thing is he wants a case that is easiely portable because it will be moved between two houses so handles will be good (Thus the Tower I put on the list)
List so far
Tower
COOLER MASTER Storm Scout SGC-2000-KKN1-GP Black Steel / Plastic ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Newegg.com
Mother board
ASUS P8H77-V LE Intel Motherboard - Newegg.com
GPU Hoping to upgrade to the TI though)
EVGA 02G-P4-2660-KR GeForce GTX 660 Video Card - Newegg.com
Power supply
CORSAIR CX750M 750W ATX12V v2.3 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply - Newegg.com
CPU
Intel Core i7-3770 Ivy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.9GHz Turbo) LGA 1155 77W Quad-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 4000 BX80637I73770 - Newegg.com
Ram
Kingston HyperX Blu 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model KHX1600C9D3B1K2/8GX - Newegg.com
HD
Western Digital WD Black WD1002FAEX Internal Hard Drive - Newegg.com
optical
LG Model GH24NS95 24X DVD Burner - Bare Drive Black - Newegg.com
and Monitor
Acer G245HQLbd Black 23.6" 5ms Widescreen LED Monitor 300 cd/m2 ACM 100,000,000:1 (1000:1) - Newegg.com
This comes out to $1182.90 and it hasn't been decided if we will use win 7 or 8 yet but his birthday is in August so there is time to decide.
Dauntae