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    Recommended Pre-built Office PC?

    Thank you for your help. Walmart had the recommended PC right there on the shelf. We snatched it up, got it installed, and kept a small construction business moving. Thank you @Carl224 and @Dangman for sharing your smarts.
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    Recommended Pre-built Office PC?

    The construction business down the street is owned by a friend of ours and we help them with IT stuff when they have an emergency. A guy mowing the lawn hit the power pole, knocked out the electricity for a day and now that it is back up, their Sony PC purchased in November of 2005 won't boot...
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    PC for 14-year-old to Create Blender Animations

    Thank you, gentlemen. All of this good stuff has now been ordered as per the exact list in this thread. My boy told me 3 days ago that a rendering he was doing in Blender took 10 minutes to render 1 frame. He also figured out how to salvage at least part of his video when Blender crashes his...
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    PC for 14-year-old to Create Blender Animations

    Is this the one you suggest? SAMSUNG 840 Pro Series MZ-7PD256BW 2.5" 256GB
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    PC for 14-year-old to Create Blender Animations

    I see there are a few different versions of this SSD. Which one do you suggest?
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    PC for 14-year-old to Create Blender Animations

    I'm going to tell my son as much. I have no doubt that he appreciates the system he's getting. He's been asking me questions for a long time about what kind of PC he could get for $400. When I told him I'd match his funds, he was pretty overwhelmed and told me I was awesome. He doesn't yet...
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    PC for 14-year-old to Create Blender Animations

    UPDATE! My mother, who is an artist, just called and asked if my Blender boy wouldn't be better off with a Mac. I told her it would be like 2x the cost. Even though she was willing to significantly underwrite an Apple system, we're back to a PC (I guess I could have done the Boot Camp thing...
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    PC for 14-year-old to Create Blender Animations

    Thanks for the question, Danny. $1200 budget for everything, including monitor and Windows 8.
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    PC for 14-year-old to Create Blender Animations

    I see that Haswell is out so it is time to finally pull the trigger on my son's Blender/gaming system. Now, I just need to figure out - pull the trigger on what? After talking about it, we would like to go the desktop route (vs. a laptop). Given the present lay of the land and our...
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    Solution for RDP Only (2 monitors)

    1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc The only thing this computer will be used for is for using RDP over a VPN to get on our terminal services server. This workstation uses two monitors that we already have (Samsung 723N). 2) What's your budget? Are...
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    PC for 14-year-old to Create Blender Animations

    That means I don't have to try and find it.
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    PC for 14-year-old to Create Blender Animations

    Thanks, Stoly. Aside from having more room to upgrade on the new platform, I don't know why we would want to pay more for a performance increase that isn't worth the babysitting money we'd spend on it. Somewhere, I have an old Fire GL card. Would that be of any value? It was expensive when...
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    PC for 14-year-old to Create Blender Animations

    I have an alert on my calendar to check Haswell and mobo availability July 26. Appreciate it, guys. My son is stoked upon hearing that I'll match his savings and build this together.
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    PC for 14-year-old to Create Blender Animations

    The cost of the OS is included in the budget but if the cost was the difference between "nice" system and "holy crap!" system, I'll pay more. The listed resolution is from a monitor I have at work. Perhaps I'll buy him a new monitor and up the budget. What do you think? I completely...
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    PC for 14-year-old to Create Blender Animations

    My boy has created several animations using Blender and has saved $400 in babysitting money to buy a PC. He was looking at Best Buy and I told him to wait till I talked to smart people (you) first. He has a $400 laptop he purchased last year but he can't play the games he wants and he said it...
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