Hi everyone! I’ve never built a desktop and I was wondering what type of things I should take into consideration. I also have some mains questions on how wattage works, the CPU sockets and Graphics card (do motherboards come with integrated graphics like laptops?) and what about cooling?
If its a general build computer what would you recommend as specs?

Thank you in advance!

  • lps
    2·
    3 years ago

    Before you go building you need to price things out to see if there’s an advantage to doing it. Currently there’s a worldwide shortage of graphics cards due to the crypto mining frenzy. You may be better off getting something prebuilt. For parts and compatibility, go to pcpartspicker

    • pinknoise
      2·
      3 years ago

      He asked about integrated graphics so he probably doesn’t need a dedicated card. Pcpartspicker will help with obvious compatibility problems, but often doesn’t know about case size and ram clearance so that should be looked out for.