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Hi everyone!

New in the community.

I’d like to know your opinion about my situation.

 

Budget (including currency): 400€ most, but negotiable (I feel I’m being too optimistic)


Country: Spain


Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: 

As a programmer, I want to be able to do some medium/big projects with high workload. I plan it also to work as a starting server with multiple docker containers. Moreover, I would like to do twitch streaming of them, and rarely some gaming but low workload (Balatro enjoyer here).


Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): 

For watching movies I would like to not be worried for 4k with fluent fps if possible (gpu aside from budget), and streaming them to my TV as a Plex server. Finally, as my first PC I would like to reuse it in the future as a home server or at least as a NAS.

 

Context:

  • I’ve been wishing to build my own PC and I’ve been doing some research for long time. But as soon as I try find the best components, I end up in a chaos of benchmarks and specs comparisons that I’m not sure I’m understanding properly how they affect in what I want. 
  • As I said, I’d like a PC as a workstation for my programming projects, to do some server stuff and do some basic streaming; and as future home server or NAS at least.
  • I’d like to know if a simple and cheap cpu will do the work, or if the spec differences are truly remarkable on my tasks.

 

Thanks in advance!

 

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2 hours ago, JD Rubio said:

I feel I’m being too optimistic

Uh yeah, especially for the workloads you want to do. For webservers this is enough but games and projects on the side too? I would check used market first to be honest.

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5 hours ago, SorryBella said:

Uh yeah, especially for the workloads you want to do. For webservers this is enough but games and projects on the side too? I would check used market first to be honest.

Thanks for the quick answer!

 

I understand, then I’ll change my budget, I prefer to avoid used market for now.

 

Which budget would you say it’s more realistic? I want something mid, not the best but also not the worst/cheapest.

 

Thanks in advance!

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13 hours ago, JD Rubio said:

Thanks for the quick answer!

 

I understand, then I’ll change my budget, I prefer to avoid used market for now.

 

Which budget would you say it’s more realistic? I want something mid, not the best but also not the worst/cheapest.

 

Thanks in advance!

Double it and we could get something thats all new but not going to be dumpstered in less than 2.5 years. But 1000-1200 Euro is where we can make something sustainable, basically. But at sub 500 euro the META now is to buy used. Price increased across the board.

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To start I tried to find a good CPU.

I found an Intel i5 10600T for 65€ used (+ shipping).

Idk if this is good deal, it feels like.

 

I like this CPU because:

- Low TDP (35W)

- 6 cores

- with iGPU and Quick Sync (to stream media through Plex)

Specs here: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/199279/intel-core-i510600t-processor-12m-cache-up-to-4-00-ghz/specifications.html

 

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