Looking For A Few Recommendations & Advice For A New Build PC

[Elliot-Harrop]

Hi All,
Back in 2014 I built myself a nice PC and have used it for a couple of hours daily, 4 hours a day max and primarily for website design and Get iPlayer.

It has never let me down so I've had no reason to stay in the loop with PC hardware development etc, last week I decided that I would like to build a new PC and move onto Windows 11 but it seems there's a hell of a lot more options out there to choose from now than back in 2014.

In a nutshell, I'm looking for something that runs Windows 11, can be used for web design, Get iPlayer and probably the Any Video Converter program as I would like to convert some of my iPlayer recordings into a format that can be put on to a DVD/Blu-ray disc.

I think the AMD Ryzen 3 3100 or it's Intel equivalent which Google says is the Core i5-9400F should be decent enough for what I need? but I would like to go a little bit better than them I think as I'm not intending to upgrade it again until 2034

Any suggestions?

Once a year I totally strip the PC down, clean the fans, change the thermal pace, get rid of any dust, open the PSU, get rid of dust and inspect the capacitors etc - that probably hasn't contributed to it being so reliable but I just like to look after it.

Also any idea on whether I'd be better sticking with a normal hard drive or getting an SSD? or an M2?

A few posts online say SSD's are not recommended for small files that are being edited regularly (I'm assuming that includes HTML files) my Get Iplayer files are 400mb - 600mb and when I convert them they go down to 200mb, are SSD's suitable for converting video files?

Any recommendation and advice would be greatly appreciated

 

[Elliot-Harrop]

@sx_turbo thanks for taking the time to put together the AMD and Intel alternatives, I think I'd like to get a new case too but I notice a lot of them are M-ATX and some don't have space for a DVD drive, I like the idea of an external disc drive but at least with the internal I won't accidental knock it off or drop it.

I just want something smart and preferably with buttons on the front rather than on the top, even basic cases seem to have a big window these days

I have only ever personally had AMD PCs so it would be nice to try an Intel.
Are PSU's not as important these days? I remember when I built my PC everyone seemed to have PSU's that were 750-850w, I've seen some nice looking Corsair 600w which look decent

@Tetras, You've woken me up, I thought the Ryzen 3 3100 was the latest socket,
I have always gone for motherboards without graphics as I thought that way it's one less thing that could go wrong, my current graphics card is 4GB and was about £80 back in the day, what would be equivalent to that in 2024?

I appreciate the time you've both taken, there's so many options to choose and different review sites have totally conflicting ratings on products so I thought asking on a forum would be the best way to get some real input on what I need for my use case