My mom has been stuck with a 7 year old dell laptop. I grow grey hairs every time i walk by and see 80 or so tabs in chrome open for her work on her 6GB of ram. I have finally convinced her to let me build her a desktop that will last her for a very long time. However i am not so experienced with workstation PCs so i do not know what the best specs would be for a lower budged or if i would even need a graphics card. I am here to request a part list on pcpartpicker (just a list of specs would be fine too) with these standards:
USE: as i said, could be looking at 100 tabs open at the same time, with music playing from spotify and different programs such as adobe pdf or word. Will be left on up to a week without restarting.
BUDGET: 300-500$
SPECS: 16GB ddr4 ram or higher, speed does not matter
Ok with either amd or intel, i5-i7, a10-ryzen 5
again, no idea whether a gpu is even necessary for a workstation. Whatever is used must have HDMI port either on Mobo or GPU
SSD just for windows and programs (space will not be top priority for SSD), HHD for everything else 1TB at least
PSU whatever is cheapest but still quality that will have sufficient wattage
CASE/MOBO any will do, don't care about form factor, fans in front preferred, no RGB, no cube or test bench shape, just normal rectangular prism shape.
do not worry about peripherals/monitor we have them covered
USE: as i said, could be looking at 100 tabs open at the same time, with music playing from spotify and different programs such as adobe pdf or word. Will be left on up to a week without restarting.
BUDGET: 300-500$
SPECS: 16GB ddr4 ram or higher, speed does not matter
Ok with either amd or intel, i5-i7, a10-ryzen 5
again, no idea whether a gpu is even necessary for a workstation. Whatever is used must have HDMI port either on Mobo or GPU
SSD just for windows and programs (space will not be top priority for SSD), HHD for everything else 1TB at least
PSU whatever is cheapest but still quality that will have sufficient wattage
CASE/MOBO any will do, don't care about form factor, fans in front preferred, no RGB, no cube or test bench shape, just normal rectangular prism shape.
do not worry about peripherals/monitor we have them covered