Home PC build

[Vectoras]

Budget (including currency): 700 - 1000 euros

Country: Belgium

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Internet browsing, films, MSOffice, general use

Other details 

Building it for my parents, something blew up inside the old one and they don't want to fix it anymore.

I want it fast for their use and capabale to handle the ocational heavier task I might throw at it sometimes if ever.

I intend to get a 1440p monitor for it because I am a software developer and will likely end up using it sometimes. I will welcome suggestions for this.

Very unlikely it will ever see any gaming, certainly not anything close to serious. If that becomes a necessity I will get a GPU then.

 

I will appreciate feedback on what I have put together in the list bellow. As somebody inexperienced I am interested in ending with a balanced build, in the sense of not getting a super motherboard and a crap CPU etc.

 

https://be.pcpartpicker.com/user/Vectoras/saved/#view=y6JZFT

 

[strange13930]

23 minutes ago, Vectoras said:

Budget (including currency): 700 - 1000 euros

Country: Belgium

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Internet browsing, films, MSOffice, general use

Other details 

Building it for my parents, something blew up inside the old one and they don't want to fix it anymore.

I want it fast for their use and capabale to handle the ocational heavier task I might throw at it sometimes if ever.

I intend to get a 1440p monitor for it because I am a software developer and will likely end up using it sometimes. I will welcome suggestions for this.

Very unlikely it will ever see any gaming, certainly not anything close to serious. If that becomes a necessity I will get a GPU then.

 

I will appreciate feedback on what I have put together in the list bellow. As somebody inexperienced I am interested in ending with a balanced build, in the sense of not getting a super motherboard and a crap CPU etc.

 

https://be.pcpartpicker.com/user/Vectoras/saved/#view=y6JZFT

 

looks good, try and find a used gpu it will be better than the integrated graphics. and get a ram kit with 6000MHz speed and CL30

[Why_Me]

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: *Intel Core i5-12400F 2.5 GHz 6-Core Processor  (€115.39 @ Amazon Belgium) 
CPU Cooler: *Deepcool AG400 75.89 CFM CPU Cooler  (€29.99 @ Alternate Belgium) 
Motherboard: *Gigabyte B760 GAMING X DDR4 ATX LGA1700 Motherboard  (€119.69 @ Amazon Belgium) 
Memory: *Corsair Vengeance LPX 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory  (€52.90 @ Amazon Belgium) 
Storage: *Patriot P400 Lite 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  (€104.95 @ Amazon Belgium) 
Video Card: *Asus DUAL OC GeForce RTX 3050 6GB 6 GB Video Card  (€189.00 @ Amazon Belgium) 
Case: *Montech AIR 903 BASE ATX Mid Tower Case  (€71.90 @ Megekko) 
Power Supply: *MSI MAG A650BN 650 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (€59.90 @ Amazon Belgium) 
Total: €743.72
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2025-03-27 20:53 CET+0100

[LOST TALE]

totally overkill for things 20 year old computers can do. A used 100-200$ computer should be able to do all these tasks super fast. I have a computer and a laptop both with potato sub 20W cpus. albeit the 5$ cpu fo the laptop is weaker than desired but no complaints from the haswell pentium machine.

[KidKid]

2 hours ago, Vectoras said:

Budget (including currency): 700 - 1000 euros

Country: Belgium

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Internet browsing, films, MSOffice, general use

Other details 

Building it for my parents, something blew up inside the old one and they don't want to fix it anymore.

I want it fast for their use and capabale to handle the ocational heavier task I might throw at it sometimes if ever.

I intend to get a 1440p monitor for it because I am a software developer and will likely end up using it sometimes. I will welcome suggestions for this.

Very unlikely it will ever see any gaming, certainly not anything close to serious. If that becomes a necessity I will get a GPU then.

 

I will appreciate feedback on what I have put together in the list bellow. As somebody inexperienced I am interested in ending with a balanced build, in the sense of not getting a super motherboard and a crap CPU etc.

 

https://be.pcpartpicker.com/user/Vectoras/saved/#view=y6JZFT

 

Motherboard is unnecessarily expensive for what your parents (and even you) will be doing. Get a B series, or maybe even A series chipset motherboard.

[Vectoras]

On 3/27/2025 at 9:33 PM, KidKid said:

Motherboard is unnecessarily expensive for what your parents (and even you) will be doing. Get a B series, or maybe even A series chipset motherboard.

What do you think about the ones bellow? Will they work well with the CPU I got and with an eventual GPU? Which one would be better?

https://be.pcpartpicker.com/product/TxcgXL/msi-b760-gaming-plus-wifi-atx-lga1700-motherboard-b760-gaming-plus-wifi
https://be.pcpartpicker.com/product/44t9TW/gigabyte-b760-gaming-x-ddr4-atx-lga1700-motherboard-b760-gaming-x-ddr4

[Vectoras]

On 3/27/2025 at 7:23 PM, strange13930 said:

looks good, try and find a used gpu it will be better than the integrated graphics. and get a ram kit with 6000MHz speed and CL30

Could you please recommend any 2x8GB 6000MHz speed and CL30 RAM?

[Vectoras]

On 3/27/2025 at 8:06 PM, LOST TALE said:

totally overkill for things 20 year old computers can do. A used 100-200$ computer should be able to do all these tasks super fast. I have a computer and a laptop both with potato sub 20W cpus. albeit the 5$ cpu fo the laptop is weaker than desired but no complaints from the haswell pentium machine.

That kind of is true but the previous comp got very slow and frustrating + we have the budget.

[LOST TALE]

8 hours ago, Vectoras said:

That kind of is true but the previous comp got very slow and frustrating + we have the budget.

I use to run one with a hard drive and 4 gb of ram. When I added another 4gb and an ssd it was fine. It just needs to not be too cheap in any given part but cheap it can be. the old PSU was also loud so I gave it a burnt out psu that is quiet. The fans are all turned off (incl. the gpu's lol) because bios doesn't understand what quiet means. gpu temps are cooking in the blower at 70c but it's fine for a 5$ dvi port station.

[KidKid]

10 hours ago, Vectoras said:

What do you think about the ones bellow? Will they work well with the CPU I got and with an eventual GPU? Which one would be better?

https://be.pcpartpicker.com/product/TxcgXL/msi-b760-gaming-plus-wifi-atx-lga1700-motherboard-b760-gaming-plus-wifi
https://be.pcpartpicker.com/product/44t9TW/gigabyte-b760-gaming-x-ddr4-atx-lga1700-motherboard-b760-gaming-x-ddr4

Get the MSI B760 GAMING PLUS WIFI ATX LGA1700 Motherboard, because it supports DDR5 RAM (if it fits in your budget). DDR4 is still fine today.

[KidKid]

On 3/27/2025 at 3:23 PM, strange13930 said:

looks good, try and find a used gpu it will be better than the integrated graphics. and get a ram kit with 6000MHz speed and CL30

A Ryzen 8000G series will be good enough (no dGPU needed), but @Vectoras is going Intel.

[Vectoras]

On 3/30/2025 at 2:16 AM, KidKid said:

A Ryzen 8000G series will be good enough (no dGPU needed), but @Vectoras is going Intel.

Thank you for suggesting the Ryzen 8000G series, I didn't know about them.

I have rethought the whole system based on this and I also went with faster RAM.

https://be.pcpartpicker.com/list/

 

Any suggestions for a good 1440p monitor for writing code?

[KidKid]

1 hour ago, Vectoras said:

Thank you for suggesting the Ryzen 8000G series, I didn't know about them.

I have rethought the whole system based on this and I also went with faster RAM.

https://be.pcpartpicker.com/list/

 

Any suggestions for a good 1440p monitor for writing code?

Sorry, that's an empty PC part list.   Good choice for faster RAM, because iGPUs highly benefit from it. No suggestions for a monitor at the moment. I might be able to build a PC Partpicker build for you if you don't already have one.

[Vectoras]

20 hours ago, KidKid said:

Sorry, that's an empty PC part list.   Good choice for faster RAM, because iGPUs highly benefit from it. No suggestions for a monitor at the moment. I might be able to build a PC Partpicker build for you if you don't already have one.

https://be.pcpartpicker.com/list/64Wjsp

This is the correct lis, appologies

[KidKid]

1 hour ago, Vectoras said:

https://be.pcpartpicker.com/list/64Wjsp

This is the correct lis, appologies

Good build! Motherboard is a bit expensive, and so is the RAM. Use the saved money from mobo and RAM for a better (maybe with DRAM cache) SSD. 

[Vectoras]

2 hours ago, KidKid said:

Good build! Motherboard is a bit expensive, and so is the RAM. Use the saved money from mobo and RAM for a better (maybe with DRAM cache) SSD. 

Thank you.

When looking at the build after I have finished it my thoughts were exactly on the same lines: RAM and MOBO look expensive compared with everything else. But I have a hard time choosing something else because finding a 2x8GB that is CL30 is impossible and I don't know anything about mobos. I will have another try in the morning and I will appreciate suggestions if there are any.

[KidKid]

3 hours ago, Vectoras said:

Thank you.

When looking at the build after I have finished it my thoughts were exactly on the same lines: RAM and MOBO look expensive compared with everything else. But I have a hard time choosing something else because finding a 2x8GB that is CL30 is impossible and I don't know anything about mobos. I will have another try in the morning and I will appreciate suggestions if there are any.

I already have an improved version of your build - Choose Your Parts - PCPartPicker at $100 cheaper. I hope this helps!

[Vectoras]

6 hours ago, KidKid said:

I already have an improved version of your build - Choose Your Parts - PCPartPicker at $100 cheaper. I hope this helps!

Sorry, I that link takes me to an empty list. But I am very interested to see the version of this build that you optimised.

[KidKid]

6 hours ago, Vectoras said:

Sorry, I that link takes me to an empty list. But I am very interested to see the version of this build that you optimised.

Whoops! I made the mistake now. I believe this link will work - https://pcpartpicker.com/user/Likid-Computers/saved/xf83Hx Tell me what you think!

[Vectoras]

4 hours ago, KidKid said:

Whoops! I made the mistake now. I believe this link will work - https://pcpartpicker.com/user/Likid-Computers/saved/xf83Hx Tell me what you think!

Thank you, I have picked up the MOBO and SSD from that.
I have also added 2 monitors, intending to get one of them. I am not sold on either, just need to pick something.

 

https://be.pcpartpicker.com/user/Vectoras/saved/dLJWf7

[KidKid]

8 minutes ago, Vectoras said:

Thank you, I have picked up the MOBO and SSD from that.
I have also added 2 monitors, intending to get one of them. I am not sold on either, just need to pick something.

 

https://be.pcpartpicker.com/user/Vectoras/saved/dLJWf7

Looks good!