It beats your spec from what I can tell. He'd buy it again. After we got it we cloned the HDD to SSD for speed.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01578ZKPO/
My budget is $800-$1000. Main concern are i7, 8GB ram and 1gb Graphics card. Any suggestion will be much appreciated.

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