What should you buy first when building a computer?

dj_excitation2014-10-04 14:25:49

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dj_excitation, 2014-10-04 14:25:49

Hello. I have an old computer and I want to upgrade it, but I don’t know where to start. Since the budget is limited, I can’t buy everything for it at once and I need to assemble it step by step. What do you recommend to start with?

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Sali_cat, 2014-10-04
@dj_excitation

Collect right away, it makes sense to collect if the budget is from 26k. What is less .. it's easier to buy like that!
Don't buy like that.. I bought the processor a week ago.. after 3 months something else.. It's stupid and so on.
A normal computer will be released in 35k. Well, it depends on the tasks.
Maybe it will suit you and for 12k or 100k it will be rather weak ..

ya-squ1rrel, 2014-10-04
@ya-squ1rrel

If you want to spend money right now, you can buy some things - a monitor, a case, a power supply. And it is better to buy components at once all together.

oia, 2014-10-04
@oia

A good case, PSU, ssd screws and then the mother of percents and video memory, but this must already be taken en masse

Alex Chistyakov, 2014-10-04
@alexclear

A good case almost does not become outdated - I bought mine six years ago and I don’t feel any need to buy another one. True, at the time of purchase it cost 15 thousand rubles, and in the future the price for it even grew for some time.
Hard drives are also unlikely to become obsolete - I still have SATA hard drives taken in 2007.
But it makes sense to take the processor, memory and motherboard immediately assembled.

Alexander Taratin, 2014-10-04
@Taraflex

Take a loan.

Kater-auf-Dach, 2014-10-04
@Kater-auf-Dach

There is a similar problem.
And I even have 3 options: upgrade a laptop + buy a monitor, assemble a PC, buy a MacMini with a subsequent upgrade (+ memory and SSD). And each next option is more expensive than the previous one :)
On your question.
You can buy a monitor first and (if you have a lot of work with text) peripherals. You can add screws to this - HDD and SSD. This is what will give you immediate results. When assembling, first decide on the case - based on this, you will already select components.
There is no point in waiting for components to become cheaper, especially with the current exchange rate. Just look at the price tag of Intel's 3rd generation processes. Yes, and the price of a good computer is unchanged ... I
looked, over the past 1.5 weeks, the price of my config has increased by 5.5% (1500 rubles) o_O

tsarevfs, 2014-10-05
@tsarevfs

The i3 and i5 processors contain a relatively good video subsystem. You can postpone the purchase of a video card. You can also take one chip of RAM, and buy a second one (preferably the same one) later. Most likely you can leave the old case (check that the motherboard is the right size). The old PSU might suffice.

SSidelev, 2014-10-25
@SSidelev

Start with the motherboard.
Next, the system unit (if it does not fit into the old one) and the processor.
If there is a good "base" - further modernization of the computer will be reduced mainly to buying new components, and not to replacing them, that is, less wasted money.