I'm looking to build a reliable, basic, no-frills computer primarily for Internet browsing and watching movies. Not sure if it matters, but it would be running Linux Mint. I may also look to do some amount of photo and/or video editing on it at some point too, but i don't have any real needs for gaming with it. There's a million choices when it comes down to the mobo and cpu and all the rest of it, though i think i know which case i want to get so i think that may help narrow my options. (Fwiw, it's a Fractal Designs North model case I'm considering)
Any advice, please?
Edit: thank you all so much for your responses, I'm really glad i posted here! I have a much better sense of which way to go now. I really appreciate the time y'all took to help me out. ๐
Thank you for the detailed response! I'm starting to think it might make sense for me to try microcenter. I'm not building anything powerful or particularly specific to any high-demand needs so it probably would make the most sense for my time and budget to simply take my core specs down there and see what they can recommend.
Thanks again for your helpful response!!
Happy to help! Oh one more thing: Microcenter price matches, so look at competing sites the day before you go.