Building a desktop for home purpose - Need specs

[mohankumar101]

Hi Cofo,

First of all, my greetings to everyone who contribute to this super tech forum :good:. I am thinking of building a desktop PC for my home. I am not an active gamer and don't expect my machine to run highly interactive games as well.

But I am a person who is highly dependent on heavy applications such as multiple browsers, outlook email client, eclipse server and probably some more applications. I would like to build my desktop myself, and I am all ears to hear your valuable suggestions. Here are my requirements. I do not wish to do a cost cutting anywhere as well. I prefer to use a well known manufactured product just so that I can live with my hassle free work environment .
So I am not exactly trying to build a budget PC, rather a highly functional one

1. Need a processor like Intel Core i3 or i5, so that I dont have to worry about system performance while running heavy applications simultaneously.
2. Need a suitable motherboard for the processor. If possible, the motherboard model numbers.
3. RAM module that is of a branded company that can support the above two.
4. Power supply unit (SMPS) which can offer enough power supply.
5. I can live with a very limited HDD space, and I presume HDDs are coming mostly of size 500Gig. If there is one less, I would like to know about that too.

I appreciate any valuable guidelines that you can offer, as well as assistance in assembling my desktop tower.

 

[Cisco001]

Assuming you are not overclocking.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($176.95 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: ASRock Z97M Anniversary Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($74.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($52.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($97.57 @ Amazon)
Case: Fractal Design Define R3 Titanium Grey ATX Mid Tower Case ($54.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Corsair CX 500W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($34.00 @ Newegg)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 OEM (64-bit) ($86.98 @ OutletPC)
Total: $578.47
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-06-22 07:34 EDT-0400

 

[spirit]

The build above would definitely be powerful enough for your needs. I know you want to build it yourself which is great but it might also be worth having a look and seeing what you can buy from a manufacturer since they may be better value for money and if you're not too fussy about what components you're using then buying off the shelf isn't a bad option.

These days it's not worth buying a HDD less than 1TB in size since a 500GB will only be slightly cheaper and anything less than 500GB really isn't worth your money since a 500GB or even 1TB will only be a little bit more expensive but offer a lot more space. An SSD, like suggested above, would probably a good option for you. Smaller capacity but much faster speed.