"Lizzychicago;c-16899941" wrote:
And it's just as expensive. My son was going to do this and had to stop because it was getting upwards of 1000 dollars and he still needed a few things. A few costly things. You can buy a prebuilt PC for your price range that will work, you just gotta shop around.
I don't think he understands how to do that. My machine is pretty much for work (program development) and I spent less than 1k bucks on it (I think about $800 or less, most of it was spent on GPU because I also wanted to play games). Chances are salesman wasn't competent enough or wanted to get more money.
The most expensive parts are CPU with GPU and that's where people losing themselves and don't know what to get. For example, people often tend to buy the latest CPUs which are overpriced and a waste of money, especially if they play video games.
You can buy good enough PC for Sims 4 for less than 1000 bucks easily. The video card I mentioned in my first post is good enough and is very cheap plus you can get intel CPU for very cheap too (i5 3470 would do the job perfectly) or you can get GTX 1050 2G instead of GTX 660, 1050 cost on Amazon 110 bucks. As an example, PC with 8 GB of RAM, i5 3470 and GTX 1050 isn't expensive and is able run pretty much a lot of modern games, including Sims 4 on ultra. Shouldn't worry about the rest parts since prices on them aren't insane and you can rely on salesman if you don't have enough knowledge.
Actually, here is my recommendation to you, OP: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/cYX7Ft
I added even SSD to this list along with 2 TB hdd, but it's up to you if you want it or not. This site is very useful for choosing hardware parts and it doesn't take too much time to setup a PC you need. You can add screen to it as well if necessary or you can remove something you don't need (just click on Edit This List). As you can see, the price isn't too bad (motherboard has no price tag on the list but it should cost around 90 bucks) and this machine can handle the game on ultra no problem.
Edit it how ever you want, you might not even need some of these parts. This is just building the box itself from scratch since obviously I have no idea what you currently have.
