First Purchase

     This week, a lot of progress was made. Instead of following our old schedule which limited us to researching and deciding one part each weekend, we spent a lot of time looking at many core computer parts. We put this build on a Google doc and had our friends Albert, Sida, Fayaz, and Jack look at it. They revised it and told us what changes they would make and we finally came up with  and came up with a build that included everything except for an operating system, mouse, keyboard, monitor, speakers, and other peripherals. It only cost 730 dollars in total so we have plenty of money left to spend on these peripheral parts. Here is the build on pcpartpickers.com

     We decided to compile a build on pcpartpicker.com because we realized that stores would start jacking up prices before black friday and that would be bad for us. Also, some deals are hard to come by and it would be best to claim them as they come. The deal Albert showed us this week was a Radeon R9 290 graphics card shown here:

We decided to order this immediately because it was too good to be true. It gave us a really good graphics card, with 20 dollars mail-in rebate, a 100 dollar headset, and an AMD game card that came with 3 free games on newegg.com.
     Overall, we got a lot of work done this week. We realized that it was probably best to start ordering parts now instead of waiting till black friday and have finalized a basic computer build. Also, we have split up the peripherals and are each doing research on one thing at a time. For instance, I am looking at keyboards while Josh is looking at monitors and Ivan is browsing monitors. We also need to find speakers. This project is finally coming together.