Desktop building

Hey lainons, I wanted to set up this thread to maybe help others to find advice on building desktop computers. I'll start: What is a good Mainboard for with an AM4-socket, B450 or X470 chipset, preferably with 2 RAM-slots, not overloaded with different ports and features, but good quality (it should hold up for 5-6 years at least). Thank you in advance!

ASRock B450M Pro 4 ASUS Strix B450 Gaming Gigabyte B450M DS3H I'd be content to own whatever so long as I know that none of them are soy. As for X470 I never even looked into them. You have to remember that anything AM4 has AMD's equivalent of Intel's Management Engine. As long as you're not after cutting edge specifications or a gluttony of SATA channels, you can get away with using the old FX series and avoid computers that are intentionally borked out of the factory

>>6814 Jesus is the board.

Fewer ports sounds like a crazy criteria to me. The chipset is the chipset regardless of how many $0.10 bits are soldered on. Start by listing the features that you want and then make a list of the cheapest boards that meet your needs. If you want it to last a long time without flaking out then you probably don't want the absolute cheapest one you can find. >>6816 To be clear that's the older FX CPUs.

https://it.pcpartpicker.com/list/phHrj2 Which will be the cheapest gpu to choose if I have a double 1440p monitor setup? Usecase: only study/work. Also post your pc specs, any advice is welcome.

>>6841 I think most people in your situation are buying a GT 1030 or 710, both pretty old cards. If you want to buy used, I would say that any AMD or NVidia card from the past 10 years that you can find with two display ports will work. DVI-D ports should also work up to 1440p75 but older HDMI won't. I'm also seeing some Matrox cards which is intriguing but I don't know anything about them other than they were used for signage and not desktops.