I'm building my friend a under 500 budget pc
I put this parts list together and am looking for some advice.
https://www.microcenter.com/site/content/custom-pc-builder-intel.aspx?load=275dd81c-ca08-46a8-a03b-46ebd75dace1
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Greetings. Everything there looks good for a $500 PC, the only thing to note is you may see some bottlenecking from the processor with the video card selected, so if you were able to put any more money towards the PC, I'd look into something like an i3-9100f for about $20 more.
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ok thanks
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