Girlfriend has played games for years from her laptop, enduring medium to low settings and 30-40 FPS. She just gave me the go ahead that she wants me to finally build her a kickass desktop, she said she doesn't want to spend a dime over $1300, so I went to work working out a system that I figured she might like.
I asked her if she would like a theme or something and she didn't really care. Her favorite color is Orange so I went with that. No OS installed yet, just finished installing all the hardware last night and fired it up to make sure it works, and so she could see it.
Parts list:
CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus
Motherboard: ASRock Z87 Extreme3
Memory: G.SKILL Sniper 8GB 2x4GB DDR3 1866
Storage: 120GB Samsung 840 EVO Solid State Drive
Storage: 1TB Western Digital Caviar Black
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 760 2GB Superclocked
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE
Case: Cooler Master HAF XB
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA 750W 80 PLUS Certified
OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
Fans are Xigmatek XLF series, 2x 140mm, 2x 120mm, and to my surprise whisper quiet at 100%. Cables are sleeved in orange and black individual sleeving.
Total cost was just under $1200, within budget. Looks great in my opinion and best of all, she is super pumped and very happy.
