Im thinking of a new build/first build. I want it sort of a little of everything. I dont really game probably will never do much of that, i do want to do some very light video/photo editing and mostly music recording/production. Sort of an all around hobby machine.
I would skip a graphics card for now with an option to add onto it later. My ultimate goal here is to keep it as cheap as possible to start so that i am able to start. Sort of 500-600$ canadian would reasonable. I imagine getting a decent motherboard with pci e and run operating software on that and then have hdd for mass storage, something like an 8-9th gen intel i5 or amd equivalent (sides dont matter as much as results and future proofing.
I will have very very minimal web exposure to prolong the pc life and i will probably not upgrade it for at least 6-7 years (only components as needed)
If anyone could give me some pointers as to what to look for in a motherboard i think thats the biggest thing i understand the least.