PC Building Sugguestions?

[mrahmat]

Hey,

 

I always bought pre-built PC's and my current PC got too old so I decided to build my first ever desktop. I will mainly use this PC for programming out of which android studio will probably be the heaviest IDE including minor photoshop editing. Besides that I game casually but I am not really a hardcore gamer I usually just play a round or 2 of league of legends (sometimes a few RPG games but not a fan of ultra settings) and continue on with my coding stuff.

 

I don't really want to spend too much on the PC but something that can be easily upgraded in the future would be nice. I estimate 500-700 bucks as a budget idk if thats good enough or too low. I am really interested in the 8400 cpu with a good motherboard but idk if thats too much for my budget.

 

Any sugguestions would be appreciated

[NelizMastr]

500 bucks won't get you much in the current PC market. For 700 you can get something like this:

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor  ($175.77 @ OutletPC) 
Motherboard: MSI - B350 PC MATE ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($69.99 @ Newegg) 
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  ($109.89 @ OutletPC) 
Storage: Kingston - A400 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($44.94 @ Newegg Marketplace) 
Storage: Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($43.21 @ OutletPC) 
Video Card: Gigabyte - GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB Video Card  ($199.99 @ Newegg) 
Case: Deepcool - TESSERACT SW RED ATX Mid Tower Case  ($19.99 @ Newegg) 
Power Supply: Corsair - CX (2017) 450W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($43.98 @ Newegg) 
Total: $707.76
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-04-03 08:16 EDT-0400

 

Which should leave you with plenty of upgrade options down the road.

[reniat]

you typically need very little in the way of hardware to program. Even android studio is not super resource intensive all things considered, and AFAIK the vast majority of professionals code on laptops (at least in the enterprise space). Sure more power could mean less compile time, but usually it's not going to be significant. 

 

Build your computer to play the games you want cost efficiently, and don't worry about programming unless you have a niche need (like you need to crunch through tons of data on the same machine you write the code on, but that's less of a programming use case and more of a data processing use case).

[mrahmat]

24 minutes ago, reniat said:

you typically need very little in the way of hardware to program. Even android studio is not super resource intensive all things considered, and AFAIK the vast majority of professionals code on laptops (at least in the enterprise space). Sure more power could mean less compile time, but usually it's not going to be significant. 

 

Build your computer to play the games you want cost efficiently, and don't worry about programming unless you have a niche need (like you need to crunch through tons of data on the same machine you write the code on, but that's less of a programming use case and more of a data processing use case).

 I do have a laptop that I use for my professional work. The PC, i would use for my personal coding interests like trying out new stuff at home without mixing up stuff in my work laptop. Also it would be for the bit of gaming that I do on weekends. I see the gpu and ram are quite expensive right now rest of them dont seem much as far a I have researched.

The thing i'm concerned most about right now is the motherboard model as I want to be able to upgrade in the future in case I had the budget to go for a big upgrade

[reniat]

1 hour ago, mrahmat said:

 I do have a laptop that I use for my professional work. The PC, i would use for my personal coding interests like trying out new stuff at home without mixing up stuff in my work laptop. Also it would be for the bit of gaming that I do on weekends. I see the gpu and ram are quite expensive right now rest of them dont seem much as far a I have researched.

The thing i'm concerned most about right now is the motherboard model as I want to be able to upgrade in the future in case I had the budget to go for a big upgrade

I totally get that. Separating them is a great idea since most of the time any IP you create on a work laptop becomes property of the company, so you wouldn't want to develop an entire personal project on that computer. My point however, is that if you have even a budget gaming PC it's already plenty powerful for the vast majority of software development.

If you're asking for specific part advice we could help with that, but you'd likely get far more helpful traffic in the New Builds and Planning subforum instead of the programming one.

[mrahmat]

2 hours ago, reniat said:

I totally get that. Separating them is a great idea since most of the time any IP you create on a work laptop becomes property of the company, so you wouldn't want to develop an entire personal project on that computer. My point however, is that if you have even a budget gaming PC it's already plenty powerful for the vast majority of software development.

If you're asking for specific part advice we could help with that, but you'd likely get far more helpful traffic in the New Builds and Planning subforum instead of the programming one.

oh I didn't know about that section tyvm !