I have a ASUS GeForce GT 1030 2GB GDDR5 and 4x8gb Corsair Dominators and I’m hoping to fill in the gaps to build my mother a PC for strictly home office use and her only ask is that it loads quickly

Posted by Remote-Canary-2676@reddit | buildapc | View on Reddit | 4 comments

I’ve replaced parts in computers before but never built one from the ground up. I’m perfectly happy buying a mostly built PC and just inserting these parts if that’s even an option and if they will work well together to do what I need the PC to do. If it’s going to be much much cheaper to buy everything individually I’m willing to take a crack at that. I guess my biggest question is what motherboard works with what I have. Then CPU and a power supply that jives with everything. I don think my mom would need anything more then USB ports but if it’s pretty much the same price for an ss card reader that might come in handy once in a blue moon. Thanks for any advice you can provide. I’m hoping the first response won’t be to kick the GPU to the curb but I wouldn’t be surprised.

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aragorn18@reddit

Get a mini PC from a company like Beelink.

kmkm2op@reddit

For an office pc, the only thing that matters is having an ssd for fast boot times, general responsiveness and fast navigation, a cpu with fast single threaded performance for loading apps and webpages faster and then connecting it to ethernet for fast networking. My choices here prioritises recency for longer support and to better support windows 12, speed to get work done quickly and price to not overspend too much.

If you want to save as much money as possible a b760 ddr4 mobo with 4 ram slots, a 512gb nvme tlc ssd and an i3 14100f will do the job (drive can be gen 3 as h610 is limited to gen 3). If you are willing to go used, you might be able to snag a cpu and motherboard cheaper and depending on risk tolerance a used ssd might be decent as well. It would likely be a different cpu though like an i5 12400f or ryzen 5 5600 as an example.

I am assuming that you already have ddr4 ram because that's the likeliest one. Feel free to ask more questions.

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/ZwXTJw

But if the home office use doesn't really need 32gb of ram, there may be better options by selling that ram. Like a used m1 mac mini or decent used mini pc would likely get the job done and will be very compact. Also there's the macbook neo, if you're not using an external multi monitor setup or require alot of ports. There's probably more options others can suggest as well

RepresentativeIcy922@reddit

Depends on whether the RAM is DDR4 or DDR5. If you want stuff to load quickly you'll need to use a SSD and not HDD.