Hey all. I built a pc back in 2014, needless to say tech has changed alot ! Now i find that my good ol windows 7 will not run some apps on my pc and some websites wont fully work with my W7.

Ive tried the whole rufus/windows ISO workaround but doesnt work for me. It always goes back to an "enter prod key" screen with no option to continue without entering a number. I even managed to put in a key that it accepted but ended up at a hardware incompatible screen.

Rufus 4.13 doesnt work on W7. I had to use Rufus 3.22 as it was the last version to be able to run with W7 with results being as just mentioned. So unless anyone has any ideas on how i could do the workaround successfully, I succumb to starting all over again.

Having said that...

Im used to intel and would like to build on that from the good experience ive had with intel. I'm thinking of going with the i5 14600k, not sure if thats overkill but what the hey...advice welcome.

Im not a gamer so i dont need any kind of GPU, integrated graphics will be just fine. This will basically be a home use only. I do use Libre office docs and very basic excel sheets for my rental business, but thats the extent of that as far as 'office' work goes. Almost forgot to mention, i used to daytrade and this ol machine never hicupped when using 2 monitors and while running a trade chat at the same time. This old machine runs an i5 4690 with 16 gigs of RAM. Which i upgraded to 24 after i stopped daytrading.

The only peripheral that i would want is a card reader which my current build has, as well as cd rom that doesnt get used anymore. Not sure if it would one day come in handy or not but i kind of doubt it will. I ablsolutely want it to have bluetooth in order to run a headset.

It would be great if i could just swap out some parts ie Mobo, cpu, ram and a larger SSD storage? and just use my current mid tower atx case with card reader and cd rom peripherals that are already installed. I realize thats basically the whole build lol.

If that is not the case what do you all recommend for a mostly "home use" PC with intel CPU build that wont break the bank? I would like equipment to somewhat futureproof this new build. As a side note, i hear AMD has really come up in the CPU world and that there are now alot of intel haters. But i just dont know if i could trust AMD.

How would you build me a PC? TIA