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My budget is ~500 Euro.

I haven't built a PC in 10 years, I gave no idea where to start.

It will mostly be used to run Nextcloud, Minecraft Server and some future homelab projects.

I'm thinking of using this for the case https://www.the-diy-life.com/introducing-lab-rax-a-3d-printable-modular-10-rack-system

Where do I start? What CPU or motherboard would you recommend? I want it to be somewhat future proof and also act as a NAS

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 4 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

I haven’t built a PC in 10 years, I gave no idea where to start.

The only really notable change I remember being surprised by on my last build over the past decade was the shift to NVMe for desktop machines. I thought of it as laptop storage media, hadn't realized that the desktop had shifted as well.

If you're thinking about any used parts, I'd avoid buying any used Intel desktop CPUs from the 13th or 14th generations, since Intel had some serious problems, especially with the high-end models, that led to some of them suffering irreparable damage over time, and I don't know if there's any way to determine whether a CPU that someone's selling has already been damaged.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raptor_Lake#Instability_and_degradation_issue