PC Build

[Mark Komarinski]

Put me down as agreeing with the off-lease/refurb systems.  Really inexpensive but still fast enough to do what you (he) wants.

-Mark

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From: "Greg Rundlett (freephile)" <greg at freephile.com> 
Date: 06/02/2015  10:01 AM  (GMT-05:00) 
To: blu <discuss at blu.org>, GNHLUG <gnhlug-discuss at mail.gnhlug.org> 
Subject: PC Build 

My 13-yr-old wants to build a PC and came up with a parts list.   https://freephile.org/wiki/PC_Build

He's big into playing and hosting Minecraft, plus creating Minecraft graphics customizations with blender and gimp.  He currently uses a chromebook, plus crouton for a chrooted Ubuntu.  (The minecraft _server_ is on another host in a VM -- not on the chromebook.)  Although the chromebook is good for portability, it's not very powerful when it comes to 3d rendering in blender.  And actually, he broke it (he is a 13 yo boy).  So he wants to upgrade to a "entry-level" gamer system using his own money.

I put his list at https://freephile.org/wiki/PC_Build and also referenced a system build that the blogger "Canton Matt" (Peteris Krumins) put together.  There are also a short list of the resources I've found for compatibility checking.

I hardly know anything about hardware and mostly buy from newegg or tigerdirect.  It's been years since I built my first linux box from scratch.  Any comments, advice from regular or recent builders? 

Thanks

Greg Rundlett
https://eQuality-Tech.com
https://freephile.org
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