my budget is now $800 to $900 i dont need a monitor....i dont need software or OS. i do need a wireless capability to connect to internet
I think many of the builds that you’re considering are much more expensive than you need to spend for what you want to do with the PC.
For the wireless networking, you don’t need to buy an expensive motherboard with built-in WiFi. You can get a very decent USB network adapter for $10 or a PCIe WiFi card for $15 or so.
The PC I’m writing this on has a Ryzen 3400g and it’s quite fast. I’ve also built PCs for a number of friends using the Ryzen 3200g and everybody has been quite happy with them too. The Radeon graphics built into the 3200g and 3400g are more than enough for light gaming and can even play many AA games if you turn down the resolution and detail. You don’t need to spend money on a graphics card for what you want to do.
Unfortunately, the chances of getting a good price on a Ryzen cpu before Christmas are slim. The decent prices that Amazon had this morning on the 3200g and 3400g are gone and the prices tonight are higher.
One thing you could do would be to order an AMD Athlon 3000g for $49 from Amazon. You won’t be able to receive it until just before Christmas, but you can order it now to be sure that you get one and it’s a very capable little cpu. Even though it’s called an Athlon, it actually has 2 Ryzen cpu cores and 4 threads, fast Radeon graphics, is quite capable of light gaming and video and might well be all you need for your PC. At any rate, at $49 it would get you a working PC and you could always replace it with a faster Ryzen cpu at a later date, if you need to. I’ve built a PC with the Athlon 3000g and it’s amazingly fast for $49. It’s unlocked and you can overclock it if you want.
I think that you’ll be much better off with an AMD Ryzen cpu than an Intel cpu. AMD offers you a better upgrade path, much faster graphics if you’re using a cpu with integrated graphics, and generally much better performance per dollar when prices aren’t inflated. Intel has had to drop their prices because very few people are buying them these days. In several markets in build-it-yourself PCs during the past year, AMD has been outselling Intel 9 to 1 and there are good reasons why 6 out of the top 10 best selling cpus at Amazon currently are Ryzens. A week or two ago, 9 out of the top 10 selling cpus at Amazon were all AMD Ryzens. The reason there are more Intel cpus in the current listing is because it’s getting harder to get a Ryzen cpu before Christmas because everybody wants to buy them and Intel has had to drop their prices to get people to buy their cpus.
Prices will come back to normal after Christmas, so if you can wait a little more than a month, you’ll have lower prices and a wider choice of components. I would wait for a month or so, so you can get an AMD Ryzen.
I probably shouldn’t tempt you, but there are rumors that AMD will announce a new generation of even faster Ryzen 5000 series cpus with integrated graphics with 6 cores/12 threads and 8 cores/16 threads at the CES show in January. I’m personally planning to buy one of those cpus, but they may not be available until March or April of 2021 or even later, and you may not be able to wait until then.
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