Planning for a web-development future-proof desktop. Thoughts inside.

[ContraHacker]

Budget (including currency): 50k INR at most.

Country: India (INR)

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Web Development, Adobe Illustrator, Figma, NodeJS Server Development. (Win 11)

Desired Display Output: 2x 1080p (secondary monitors) + 1x high refresh rate 1440p / 4k (primary monitor)

 

I have all the peripherals minus a primary monitor. This is not included in the budget.

 

Hi, super excited to build a web-development PC for office. Please advice the best bang-for-buck while keeping future-proofing in mind. Here's what I have been thinking:

 

• Opt. 1: 12100k with no dGPU
• Opt. 2: 3300x + GT1030
• Opt. 3: 12100F + GT1030
• Opt. 4: Ryzen 4650G

       > Please ignore these options if they don't make sense. Idk how will I connect 3 monitors without a dGPU. 

 

• 16 GB RAM will be sufficient for now. DDR4 or DDR5? (I am not a monster, I open at most 5 tabs of chrome at a time)
• Suggestion for a motherboard & PSU? Case suggestions?
• For storage: Going with intel gives me the option to use Optane. I don't need much storage. I'll prefer speed over capacity.
• 2.5G LAN will be a nice to have. Not necessary at all.
• Will my workload benefit from more cores? Any full-stack developers?

 

Thank you.

[Dr0idGh0sT]

17 minutes ago, ContraHacker said:

GT1030

GT1030 is garbage, You'll be better of with any iGPU. 

19 minutes ago, ContraHacker said:

Opt. 4: Ryzen 4650G

This is best option. Tho, If it'll be possible, Get 5600G. 

[ContraHacker]

17 minutes ago, Dr0idGh0sT said:

GT1030 is garbage, You'll be better of with any iGPU. 

This is best option. Tho, If it'll be possible, Get 5600G. 

5600G, 16GB DDR4 3200, 500W PSU, B550 Motherboard. How does this work? Also, what is my upgrade path here? 5900x + a dGPU?

[Master Disaster]

You don't need anything substantial for simple language development (HTTP, PHP, Python etc etc). Heck you can do it on pretty much anything.

[ContraHacker]

10 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

You don't need anything substantial for simple language development (HTTP, PHP, Python etc etc). Heck you can do it on pretty much anything.

Should I then use my sister's Q6600? /s

 

Jokes aside, I develop multi-threaded backends in nodeJS. I have worked on a 6100, then on a 3300x. The improvement was noticeable. Just want to get something modern with an upgrade path in case I want to bring it back home for some gaming.

[CT854]

1 hour ago, ContraHacker said:

Desired Display Output: 2x 1080p (secondary monitors) + 1x high refresh rate 1440p / 4k (primary monitor)

Using an IGP is possible, but make sure you choose a motherboard with 3 display outs. It isn't exactly a given, since some boards only have 1 or 2.

 

DDR4 is 100% the way to go. DDR5 is not worth the money unless you're doing something you know is intensive on the memory.

 

My suggestion from your picks is a i3-12100 with no dGPU, but getting a specific board that supports 3 displays. This also depends on whether a dGPU with 3 video out ports is cheap enough to justify pairing it with a chip without an IGP, especially since the 12100 is pretty price-competitive. The ASUS B660M-A D4 should be a good pairing, especially if you want to leave the door open to games. Any NVMe drive (Gen3 is honestly fine) should be good for your use case.

[ContraHacker]

38 minutes ago, CT854 said:

Using an IGP is possible, but make sure you choose a motherboard with 3 display outs. It isn't exactly a given, since some boards only have 1 or 2.

 

DDR4 is 100% the way to go. DDR5 is not worth the money unless you're doing something you know is intensive on the memory.

 

My suggestion from your picks is a i3-12100 with no dGPU, but getting a specific board that supports 3 displays. This also depends on whether a dGPU with 3 video out ports is cheap enough to justify pairing it with a chip without an IGP, especially since the 12100 is pretty price-competitive. The ASUS B660M-A D4 should be a good pairing, especially if you want to leave the door open to games. Any NVMe drive (Gen3 is honestly fine) should be good for your use case.

Really appreciate your reply. Here, please comment on this: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/mjNBbK

 

Also let me know if there are latency advantages to be had by getting Optane + a HDD or is a regular Gen 3 SSD sufficient. I do a significant amount of tiny reads from the disk.

[Dr0idGh0sT]

1 hour ago, ContraHacker said:

5600G, 16GB DDR4 3200, 500W PSU, B550 Motherboard. How does this work? Also, what is my upgrade path here? 5900x + a dGPU?

Yes, That would be my recommendation, If you get decent board, U can upgrade to 5950X and dGPU. Also, 5800X3D will be on this platform and it'll be good CPU as well. 

[Dr0idGh0sT]

1 minute ago, ContraHacker said:

Really appreciate your reply. Here, please comment on this: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/mjNBbK

 

Also let me know if there are latency advantages to be had by getting Optane + a HDD or is a regular Gen 3 SSD sufficient. I do a significant amount of tiny reads from the disk.

You can use https://pcpricetracker.in/

Gen 3 SSD will be absolutely enough, But not 660p. U should try to avoid QLC drives and get TLC instead. 

[ContraHacker]

1 minute ago, Dr0idGh0sT said:

Yes, That would be my recommendation, If you get decent board, U can upgrade to 5950X and dGPU. Also, 5800X3D will be on this platform and it'll be good CPU as well. 

Ah! Almost forgot about the X3D line! Great! I have some viable options now. Just waiting on some comments on this: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/mjNBbK I think this can work.

[ContraHacker]

17 minutes ago, Dr0idGh0sT said:

You can use https://pcpricetracker.in/

Gen 3 SSD will be absolutely enough, But not 660p. U should try to avoid QLC drives and get TLC instead. 

Thanks for sharing the price tracker. Also, could you suggest an SSD as an example? You've been of great help!

[Dr0idGh0sT]

19 minutes ago, ContraHacker said:

Ah! Almost forgot about the X3D line! Great! I have some viable options now. Just waiting on some comments on this: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/mjNBbK I think this can work.

5600G has significantly better performance, Both as a CPU and as an iGPU. So if price difference isnt too much, I would definitely recommend 5600G. But if I3 is cheaper by a good amount (Including motherboard price), Then that could also be good option.

This should be good: https://elitehubs.com/adata-xpg-gammix-s5-512gb-m-2-nvme-ssd/

Second option would be this: https://www.theitdepot.com/details-Kingston+A2000+500GB+M.2+2280+NVMe+PCIe+SSD+(SA2000M8-500G)_C93P33449.html

It's more expensie, But benefits from having Dram cache. 

 

[ContraHacker]

2 minutes ago, Dr0idGh0sT said:

5600G has significantly better performance, Both as a CPU and as an iGPU. So if price difference isnt too much, I would definitely recommend 5600G. But if I3 is cheaper by a good amount (Including motherboard price), Then that could also be good option.

This should be good: https://elitehubs.com/adata-xpg-gammix-s5-512gb-m-2-nvme-ssd/

Second option would be this: https://www.theitdepot.com/details-Kingston+A2000+500GB+M.2+2280+NVMe+PCIe+SSD+(SA2000M8-500G)_C93P33449.html

It's more expensie, But benefits from having Dram cache. 

 

Thank you for the SSD recommendations. Any idea on what motherboard should I pair with the 5600G that has 3 display outs?

[ContraHacker]

5 minutes ago, ContraHacker said:

Thank you for the SSD recommendations. Any idea on what motherboard should I pair with the 5600G that has 3 display outs?

https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/B550I-AORUS-PRO-AX-rev-10#kf

Found this on LTT forums. Only two RAM slots tho.

[Dr0idGh0sT]

27 minutes ago, ContraHacker said:

https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/B550I-AORUS-PRO-AX-rev-10#kf

Found this on LTT forums. Only two RAM slots tho.

You don't really need expensive ITX motherboard.

You can simply get something with USB C and use it as display out, Or use VGA to DVI or HDMI adapter.