[SOLVED] [Important] For Intel Cpu's Do I Need To Buy New Motherboard's Every Generational Upgrade? And Any Build Suggestions For A Life time PC!

[Arnob77]

My Friend is Trying To Build His First PC . He Is Not Too Familiar With This Kind of Stuff. So I Am Trying To Guide Him A Little ((With Best Upgrade Ability And Best Value For Money))(it is Around 900$ Build. Monitor Not Included ) ( He is Going To Use It For Everything For Gaming To Graphics D Stuff , Video Editing, for Drawing Etc Basically His One And Only PC For Maybe 5 Years or Lifetime. With Upgrades Here and there.🖖🖖🖖

 

[USAFRet]

There is no "lifetime", either AMD or Intel. Capabilities change, sockets change.
AMD is a bit better than Intel, but nowhere near "forever".
And "upgrades" are not needed all the time.

Buy and build the best PC that fits within the budget. Use it until it no longer fits the needs, then look into upgrading.

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[Why_Me]

My Friend is Trying To Build His First PC . He Is Not Too Familiar With This Kind of Stuff. So I Am Trying To Guide Him A Little ((With Best Upgrade Ability And Best Value For Money))(it is Around 900$ Build. Monitor Not Included ) ( He is Going To Use It For Everything For Gaming To Graphics D Stuff , Video Editing, for Drawing Etc Basically His One And Only PC For Maybe 5 Years or Lifetime. With Upgrades Here and there.🖖🖖🖖

Intel socket Z490 boards will be compatible with the new Rocket Lake chips but with your budget I'd look at an AMD build with a B550 board.

 

[Why_Me]

Add a psu and gpu to this build and you're good to go.

https://www.newegg.com/black-corsair-carbide-series-atx-mid-tower/p/N82E16811139057
Corsair Carbide Series 100R CC-9011075-WW $53.99

https://www.newegg.com/asrock-b550m-phantom-gaming-4/p/N82E16813157966
ASRock B550M Phantom Gaming 4 $89.99

https://www.newegg.com/amd-ryzen-5-3600/p/N82E16819113569
AMD RYZEN 5 3600 6-Core 3.6 GHz $199.99

https://www.newegg.com/g-skill-16gb-288-pin-ddr4-sdram/p/N82E16820232884
G.SKILL Aegis 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3200 (PC4 25600) CL16 $69.99

https://www.newegg.com/team-group-1tb-cx2/p/N82E16820331561
Team Group CX2 2.5" 1TB SATA III 3D NAND Internal SSD $78.99

Total: $493