Building a desktop PC

[DeletedAccount53]

Our little sister wants to build a desktop PC. She loves gaming, but also writing which is a talent of hers, so will want a computer in which to put her school studies up (she wants to become a lawyer), so this would be an all-rounder PC - I suppose. I have no idea what to do! Tommy describes herself 'nerdish', but she's finding her way forward much better now, so building a PC to her spec would, I think, be awesome.

Has anyone suggestions please? Or maybe I go and scout for a Mac?

[Astro04]

That's a coincidence!
I finished to build one last day!
Feel free to PM me if you want some specific informations. It will be long.

[DeletedAccount53]

Originally Posted by Astro04

That's a coincidence!
I finished to build one last day!
Feel free to PM me if you want some specific informations. It will be long.

It doesn't matter if the info is long thanks, I'm very grateful anyway. Actually, it'll be a pleasure building it myself!

For Tommy's school work I'll be giving her this laptop of mine. These days I hardly use it except for the forum and general browsing, which is a waste. She'll love it for school work. It's an HP Envy 13 touch-screen laptop with an i7-8565U quad core, 8 gigs ram and nvidia geforce mx250 graphics card. I couldn't increase the RAM, so got a higher capacity M2 Samsung 970 evo plus.

Again, many thanks. I'll be PMing you in a mo.

[Silvan]

I wouldn't recommend building a PC right now because the prices of components have gone up by 200-300% recently.
If you want to go for it anyway, everything really depends on your budget. It's key because a $500 PC is very different from a $2000 one. If you're going to try to build a PC yourself, without any help, I would suggest using this site: https://pcpartpicker.com/.
And watch some YT tutorials - it's way easier to connect everything together after watching a vid rather than reading stuff on the web

[DeletedAccount53]

Originally Posted by Matter

I wouldn't recommend building a PC right now because the prices of components have gone up by 200-300% recently.
If you want to go for it anyway, everything really depends on your budget. It's key because a $500 PC is very different from a $2000 one. If you're going to try to build a PC yourself, without any help, I would suggest using this site: https://pcpartpicker.com/.
And watch some YT tutorials - it's way easier to connect everything together after watching a vid rather than reading stuff on the web

Thank you very much! I'll have a look at that after lunch, which is due any minute.


Actually, Tommy was asking about a Mac Pro 13, the 2020 version with the recently reintroduced Magic keyboard, and that looks every bit as good. Anyway, again thanks for that link and I agree that component prices are deathly high - you're right!