Tips How to Build Your Dream PC Cheaper In 2023

2023 feels like the best time of building a PC, especially after the bitcoin marked crashed that make all the GPU prices way lower than the last few years. So today were going to give you few tips that can help you in the long way on how to build your dream PC.

There’s a lot to consider when you’re building a PC, either it’s a gaming PC, workstations, desktop computer etc. specially nowadays when term like Intel 13th gen, Ryzen 7000 series and that’s just the CPU, there’s GPU to consider, there’s ram, hard drive, ssd and everything else that’ll overwhelm you if you didn’t do research first. So, here’s our tips to build your PC:

1.Determine Your Purposes

Before do anything, determine the purposes of the build, why are you building this PC? What are you looking for? Beast gaming PC? A work stations? Or PC for creative work? The answer of any of these questions will influence your decisions when you’re shopping for the component.

2.Ask The Community

When you’re a beginner, being active in a community will help you in a long way, building a PC is one of them. Asking a community what’s a good build for let’s say a gaming PC will save you some time instead of totally research it from the beginning, but we’re not saying don’t do a research, always double check with any information you get from the community, there’s always the case that the information might be outdated, misleading or is just wrong. Some of the well-known PC community is PC Master Race which focuses on glorious gaming PC build, buildaPC more of a general purposes PC, you can find both of them on Reddit.

3.Intel or AMD? Pick a side

When you’re asking the community or even do your own research, in the end you’ll ended up to this question, should I go with AMD build or Intel build? Or hybrid build? Do your research. Intel is known for its high-speed performance processor but it’s pricey while AMD is known for offering a good balance of price and performance and it’s favorable for gaming since you don’t use that much of processing power so it can save you some money for other component.

4.Market Research

Of course, you want get the best possible PC out of your budget, right? That’s why do market research is a must. Each e-commerce will set a different price, moreover, it's not just one or two e-commerce out there, so it would be better if you do some research first to get the best price that suits your wallet. What this will do it will make your budget more even balance, so you don't just have components that are not balanced like for example you buy a GPU at a high price and in the end, you have cheap out your keyboard, with market research you can get a GPU price that is it's cheaper with the same performance and the rest of the money you can allocate to buy a better keyboard. There’s a lot of trusted e-commerce out there such as Amazon, Best Buy, Gamestop.

Use PCPartPicker as a guiding tool to set an expectation for the price of your build. PCPartPicker is a website that allows users to build and compare computer systems using a wide range of components from various manufacturers. It allows users to select the parts they want to use, such as processors, motherboards, memory, storage, and more, and then generate a list of compatible components.

5.Do not go cheap with critical component.

I repeat, do not go cheap with critical component especially PSU. Some people really do underestimate how important the PSU is. Just because it didn’t do anything to you doesn’t mean it didn’t do anything to your whole PC, PSU is a crucial unit as it provides power to all other component. A good PSU ensures that all the component receive the power they need to run properly and efficiently, on the other hand a bad PSU could literally damage your component, so choose carefully. There’s a lot of top brands PSU out there such as Corsair, Seasonic, Be Quiet, their basic series PSU is already better than an unknown brand PSU . Just as we said before, do your research on these.

6.Prepare a time to build your PC.

What we mean is do not rush with it, especially when it’s time to build it. Watch videos how to build a PC properly, what should be prepared and whatnot because especially a beginner building a PC will take times, it’s better to fully prepared about it. Read the manual will also help you with it, every component usually comes with a manual that listing what should and should not do with it, what is and isn’t compatible with it and a warranty condition.

7.It must fit with your need.

Lastly, build a PC that fit your need, you do not need an overpower PC to handle your daily task, especially if you didn’t do any heavy gaming or heavy editing with it, it’s just overkill and you’re wasting your money. Save your money to upgrade your component later on, if all you need is an entry level processor then that’s just fine. Why waste your money if you’re not going to use it?

For an example, the author here only uses old Ryzen 5 1600 from 2017. If you’re asking why? Because I don’t do any heavy computational task on it, just your daily task and light gaming, that’s why I don’t do any upgrade with it. When it fit with your need then it just fine. 

With all that tips, we hope than it will help you someday when you’re ready to build your dream PC. I also need to mention that avoid upgrading in the near future, just because there’s a new component just released doesn’t mean you need it right away, if you are happy with it then just keep using it. Something being x years old is not a good enough reason to upgrade. When a part stop meeting your needs, that's when you look at upgrading.