whats a good gaming PC from best buy?

My mom wants to buy gaming desktop to play sims 3 and 4 along along with minecraft. She wants to play with settings maxed out on a 60 inch hdtv. I know nothing of computers and do not want to build one or deal with online stores. I've looked at the desktop gaming section on the website and see them from 500 to 1200 dollars. Not sure what one to get, if someone could help me out and link the one I should buy with a little details why that would really help me out, thx.

Probably the most expensive way to buy one... But too each there own. Also no one here knows where you live. So no one can help you.

Best buy isnt the place to get a capable gaming PC, not for a reasonable price anyway.

Going online is your best bet.

I would post an example but its on hard on my mobile, im sure someone else will soon.

Don't buy one from bestbuy

@thehig1: same here my Sony Xperia can't type worth shit.

you could order these parts, once they all arrive take it to a PC shop and ask them to build it for you, its about an hours work for them at most a decent PC shop wont charge that much.

That comes to a total of $612, then add on potential cost for someone to build it for you if you don't fancy doing it yourself.

That will max out Sims 3 and 4 and minecraft.

I will agree with everyone else, stay away from this shop.

If you insist no matter what, the only "gaming" PC I found below $1000 at Bestbuy with somewhat good speccs is this $849 (i5 4590+8GB+R9 270X).

But in the end you should buy it from somewhere else and keep these $200 to your pocket...

If you want to buy a gaming pc and not have to go through the process of putting parts together yourself, you can try

websites like ibuypower or cyberpower.

Whatever you do, don't buy a "gaming" pc from popular brick & Mortar retail unless you're okay spending a lot of money for an underpowered computer.

Edit: if you're still adverse to online stores, try to look for a microcenter near you. if you find one, you can buy their pre-built computers there or, if you feel you want to save some money and decide to build it yourself, then buy the parts from them (they tend to price match sites like newegg if you do that, sometimes they may even match amazon but this depends on the store manager)

Get her a mac mini or something like it in terms of design. If your mom only play's sims/minecraft, and wants to plug it to her tv; than the mini would be the best option imo. Would look fine next to the tv unlike a regular desktop that isn't a htpc.

edit: Or maybe buy a htpc that has a better gpu. Doesn't look like the apple mini graphics could even able to handle the sims/ minecraft at the highest settings.

You can get both small cases and/or good looking ones for normal computers as well.

As others have said, best buy is a horrible place to buy a prebuilt PC. I took a brief look and not only are their "gaming" desktops woefully underpowered for the price, they're barely more powerful or even weaker than some equivalently priced laptopsyou can buy online.

Wherever you do decide to buy one though, a few things to keep in mind for the Sims (3 especially):

- they're heavily CPU bound but not multithreaded (so anything more than an i5 will see little benefit, but the higher that i5 is clocked the better)

- the gpu isn't that important for these titles (so something like a gtx 750 ti or r7 260x would be fine)

- Sims 3 greatly benefits from being installed on an SSD. In fact I'd put an SSD big enough for both games to be installed as a higher priority than the GPU. Sims 3 is over 30gb with all major expansions and saves included, Sims 4 is still growing in size via expansions, keep that in mind if wanting enough space to fit on one SSD drive.

Get her an XBox. Problem solved.

If you don't want to put one together then order one (ibuypower). But all pre-builts are way overpriced.

If you are looking for a pretty good pre-built.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883229620&cm_re=5820k-_-83-229-620-_-Product

if im not mistaken newegg will put them together wont they if you asl them (costs extra ofcourse.)

you'll probably have to go to another store other then Bestbuy, they are famous for selling "gaming" pcs with shitty graphics cards.