New desktop build.

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I'm not much of a gamer and I got off of the Windows train pre-10 - so the only advice I can offer is to assess your needs and try and decide whether or not you really need a desktop in the first place.

I use one every day at work, but even though I have a leftover hp sitting on a desk at home running Linux I seldom turn it on.
FOR ME.....it's kinda like the 55" 4k TV that I insisted would look great in our living room.
It does....
BUT...I almost never watch it.
In fact....the last 2 movies I watched were on my phone......IN THE living room.

I'll be interested to see what you come up.
You may want to put a linux distro on the old box just to tinker with.....you know....for the day when you don't want to have to pay to upgrade windows again.

 

I use to built my own desktop windows box from individual components. Did even do CPU cooling mod using Peltier plate for overclocking but stopped doing that when OS became basically always connected machine, I think around Windows 7 or 8 OS. It just made no sense to spend money on retail OS when you can buy a cheap system with OS for less money. I now moved to mostly Chromebook use, I have less need for Windows OS.

Although I don't know much about specs on each components in BYO PC today, in general depending on what you are going to use it, your choice would change vastly. If you are a gamer, you could spend hundreds of $$$ just on video card, but for non-gamer, that would be an overkill. For mainly browsing and some office apps, on-board video chip set is good enough.

 

Except for the SuperMicro server motherboard I bought for my FreeNAS machine, I've bought nothing but Asus motherboards for the past 20+ years. Sometimes AMD CPUs, but most recently back to Intel. The onboard video is fine for my needs. GSkill memory (used to like Kingston until they took the memory that they had recommended for that SuperMicro board off their recommended list shortly after I had bought it, and then discontinued it altogether). Antec cases, and if a PSU is not included, SeaSonic. Optical drive: Samsung or LiteOn. (I wouldn't dream of laughing about your floppy drive: I still have at least one combination 5.25/3.5 one.) The case fans I bought most recently are various sizes of Noctua. Most of my hard disks are Seagate, plus a couple of HGST. You might want to think about an SSD for the system drive, plus maybe a hard disk for backups. Bitdefender for security, and maybe even a Bitdefender Box.

You *may* even still be able to get a free upgrade from Win7 to Win10 -- although I prefer Linux and use Windows only for must-have things which do not have a Linux version.

 

I haven't built a PC since roughly 1997. Mostly because I need to rent workstation-grade machines that aren't economical to own; they get old too quickly and the tax advantages of rental better suit my business model.

I favor the workstations that HP has been turning out. Over the past few years they have been outstanding. Excellent build quality, very good expandability & parts support, great engineering, and remarkably few (if any) proprietary devices/drivers/B.S.

To be clear I'm not talking about their home/small-office machines, I mean the Z series.

Best of luck!

 

I suggest you pick your CPU (which it looks like you have done already), then get a good motherboard to match it. I've been building since back in the day! Most boards today will fire right up, recognize your Windows version and help you along. Did the AMD route and yes, I am back to Intel as they run consistantly cooler that AMD processors. I still buy separate video cards outside of what the motherboard offers. I just like the extra memory and streaming capabilities. Speaking af memory, its so cheap nowadays! Went ahead and plunked down 4 gigs of crucial memory for the mother board on my last build.

My laptop is my next move. Gonna put in a 1 terabyte solid state drive. Had one in my other laptop. Very fast, quite and cooler running. Anyway, probably didn't answer your question from my rambling on! Best of luck!

 

Every time I buy I go to a local clone builder, look over what they're offering in pre-built and pick one in the middle of the "office" pack. The one tweak I do is to get an additional internal drive, same size as C: typically, and use it as a back-up drive (using RoboCopy in a script file).

Last time was 2011, they're still going strong. Well I've worn the nubs off the home keys.

About once a year, or whenever the vents are looking pretty dusty, I take them out in the driveway, open them up and blow out the dust.