I didn't want to run ethernet up to my room so I needed wifi. Its fast enough and I'm happy. I also don't have audio on my monitor and so my only decent way of getting sound is bluetooth headphones. I could use cables but it gets weird since the port is on the left side of my headphones and the case is to the right of me, plus the cable is too short.
As for price here it is(with tax and "shipping")
Wifi+Bluetooth = $23.11
SSD = $143.43
RAM = $95.61 (a second kit of this will be bought sometime in the new year)
Case = $74.36
Power Supply = $30.68
MotherBoard = $164.99
CPU = $260.30
GPU = $195.55
Adding it all up we get a total of $988.03, which was under my goal of $1,000(though I was thinking 1k pre tax so considering I was below budget with tax and shipping I'm happy). If you add in the prime I bought($6.49) we are still below. Normally I'd use my cousin's prime but because I was ordering a lot of things which could potentially be DOA, I didn't want to have to bother him too much.
I didn't want to run ethernet up to my room so I needed wifi. Its fast enough and I'm happy. I also don't have audio on my monitor and so my only decent way of getting sound is bluetooth headphones. I could use cables but it gets weird since the port is on the left side of my headphones and the case is to the right of me, plus the cable is too short.
As for price here it is(with tax and "shipping")
Wifi+Bluetooth = $23.11
SSD = $143.43
RAM = $95.61 (a second kit of this will be bought sometime in the new year)
Case = $74.36
Power Supply = $30.68
MotherBoard = $164.99
CPU = $260.30
GPU = $195.55
Adding it all up we get a total of $988.03, which was under my goal of $1,000(though I was thinking 1k pre tax so considering I was below budget with tax and shipping I'm happy). If you add in the prime I bought($6.49) we are still below. Normally I'd use my cousin's prime but because I was ordering a lot of things which could potentially be DOA, I didn't want to have to bother him too much.
You should go straight to Linux, I use ubuntu 20.04 desktop myself. You can always run Windows in a VM. 16GB would allow you to run that.
PS. I thought you were a MAC guy 🙃
Who knows, I might do that :) For now though I'm going to stick to a OS I'm more familiar with using with a GUI.
It depends, apple does some things well and sucks elsewhere, same with Microsoft.