Background

Built this PC for my gal. She likes to play a few games like The Sims 4, Mortal Kombat and other titles. She would game on her Lenovo u430 laptop with a i7 haswell processor - integrated graphics so those games were barely playable even on very low settings. The games would take forever to load, very laggy with bad graphics.

She's going away to college and dorming there so she finally wanted a pc that could play her games flawlessly and would be good for school work as well. I decided to build a small pc that doesn't take up a lot of space, portable and something she actually could game-on without breaking the bank.

Components

• Case = I wanted a small and slim itx case so I went with the RVZ02, simple and effective, also I don't plan on OC so components should not get too hot. Makes sense, the case doesnt have much from room for any case fans.
• Motherboard = I went with an Asus B360 itx Mobo since I don't plan on overclocking, good board with some unnecessary RGB on the side.
• Processor = I went with the i3-8100 4 cores, works good for productivity without the need to OC.
• Graphic Card = I got a GTX1050 Ti so she could play her games with high or ultra setting on 1080p.
• Ram = I got a 8GB Vengeance DDR4 stick, good enough for gaming, the board has room a spare DIMM slot for upgrading to 16GB if needed.
• PSU = went with Corsair's 450W SFX Gold Certified, a little pricey but reliable.
• Hard drives = went with a 128GB SSD for boot drive and OS, and 1TB 3.5" HDD for mass storage.

Side note: The SSD, HDD, 1050 Ti, DDR4 were used and purchased for very good prices at Facebook Marketplace and Craiglist. Monitor was free, seller was trying to get rid of it when selling me the 1050 Ti. The rest of the components were bought brand new. I used the stock cooler, its good enough for the i3 but if my gal needs a better CPU, I would get a better 3rd party air cooler. Also, I'll see in the future if I could fit a couple case fans next to the GPU.

$$$ spent for the build = ~$600