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do you need to budget in a case and power supply?
monitor? speakers/mouse/keyboard?
I’ll throw something together as well. I’ve built well over 400 new machines in the last 4 years 
I think I’m pretty savvy…
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Power supply yes! Forgot about that.
Everything else we have, she has a nice new LCD, keybord and mouse already she bought recently for an old computer I wasnt using.
As far as the case, she’s a girl, and will probably want something “pretty”. SO we’ll go by whatever form factor the motherboard and PS turns out to be