The price of a material component can change a lot depending on the beach to which it belongs, most of the time, the beach to which it belongs is defined by the performance it is capable of offering. This implies that an entry range will have the lowest performance we can find, it will be a fairly basic model that will help us to use applications that do not require too much power, a dietary configuration will be balanced in Price / power and finally, that of the high range will be the means to literally obtain power at any cost.
Basic plate
To start configuring a computer, one of the things we have to be clear basic plate It is quite important for several aspects, but in this case, we will focus on a fairly basic point, the fact that it defines the size of the computer. There are several types of plates, EATX, ATX, Micro Atx … This will define the type of computer that we have since dependent on size, certain aspects such as the number of pcie slots that it will also have changed, Then that, we can decide which one we need.
In addition to the format itself, the price of a motherboard is allocated by the chipset you have, so we must look at what we need:
- Entrance range: between 90 and 140 $
- Middle: between 110 and 220 $
- High Range: between 200 and 500 $+
Processor
The processor is one of the most important components that a PC can have, but if we have a good quality motherboard, it is likely that we can take advantage of it for several generations of processors, so many times it is important to invest a little more in the plate if we plan to change Processor Later. But even if we want to change it, we must take into account that it is one of the most expensive components that we can find on the market, so we must know exactly what we want to spend in this case.
As with the motherboard, we must take into account the generation to which it belongs will make it more or less expensive, if for example we choose an AMD model for an AM4 plate, there are input processors which are much cheaper than those of AM5:
- Entrance range: between $ 64 and 150 $
- Middle: between 170 and 350 $
- High Range: between $ 380 and $ 700+
According to the processor that we choose directly, we will also have to think about the type of refrigeration that we want to use, so we will include the prices of the various dissipators that you can find here, whether it is air cooling or AIO liquid:
- Entrance range: between 30 and 50 $
- Average range: between 70 and 130 $
- High Range: Between 170 and 250 $+
Graphics card
Las Graphics cards They are quite similar to the processor if we refer to the way their prices work, the different ranges are quite easy to differentiate and we will see that what they can cost us can become much more than we think. Here, we must take into account the bottlenecks that would cause with the processor with the technologies they incorporate, so we must be clear that that combines a high graphic with a processor with an entrance range is not the Best idea, and that we will not be able to make the most of the GPU potential:
- Entrance range: between 300 and 440 $
- Middle: between 500 and 700 $
- High Range: Between 750 $ and 1400 $+
RAM
The price of memory RAM It is mainly linked to four key aspects that we must always take into account when we buy one and which are the type; latency; The speed and size of the modules. If we have a motherboard with a CPU that supports DDR5, the configuration of each ranges will be more expensive than the DDR4 because they have much higher speeds in addition to new technology.
- Entrance range: between $ 34 and $ 65
- Average range: between 70 and 120 $
- High Range: between 170 and 300 $+
Storage
If we are talking about storage that our computer We must be clear that this is one of the components in which the price changes most, mainly because contrary to the rest, in this case, we can speak of three different types divided into technologies and connectors that they use. The hard drives are the cheapest but in turn the slowest, SSD by SATA is a median point in terms of price and finally the SSD M.2 are the most expensive, but also the fastest. Given the fact that the objective is to set up a new PC and that the majority of motherboards are already incorporating a port for M.2, we will only talk about these models:
- Entrance range: between 26 and 40 $
- Average range: between 60 and 90 $
- High Range: Between 120 and 200 $+
Psu
One of the advice that we always give Hardzone is not to save in the Power supply Mainly because it is in charge of the rest of the components is safe, so in most cases, we recommend that you avoid the ones you can find with the prices of the entry ranges, because they do not offer too much reliability.
- Entrance range: between 26 and 55 $
- Middle: between 70 and 110 $
- High Range: Between 130 $ and 300 $+
Box
Finally we have the box of the PcIn this aspect, we must take into account the type of motherboard that we have chosen, although most of the semi-oligo settorre formats are compatible with ATX or smaller models, it's always a good idea to check with What formats it is compatible. The beach of the box depends mainly on the resistance it has, as well as the flow of air it can offer.
- Entrance range: between 40 and 60 $
- Average range: between 80 and 140 $
- High Range: Between 170 and 230 $+
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