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Total cost was 36,906/- Core i3-10100 - 9.9k MSI H410-M Pro-VH - 5.6k Crucial Basics 8GB DDR4 2666 MHz - 2.3k (Amazon) Kingston A2000 M.2 256 GB - 3,450 (3,250 @ Vedant et al, didn't remember to negotiate) Cooler Master MWE450 Bronze V2 - 2,750 Deepcool Matrexx 30 - 3142 (2500 + 642 shipping...

I went through the Motherboard Manual, and using a M.2 NVMe ssd would disable only one sata port (SATA4). This is what it says: "4x SATA 6Gb/s ports* ∙∙ 1x M.2 slot (Key M) ▪▪M2_1 supports up to PCIe 3.0 x4 and SATA 6Gb/s, 2242/ 2260/ 2280 storage devices* * SATA4 will be unavailable when...

Pulled the trigger on this today. Core i3-10100 MSI H410-M Pro-VH Crucial Basics 8GB DDR4 2666 MHz Kingston A2000 M.2 256 GB Cooler Master MWE450 Bronze V2 Deepcool Matrexx 30 Benq - GW2283 Logitech Keyboard/Mouse MK 220 Last minute change to Cooler Master over Corsair based on that PSU...

Just checked - both the Gigabyte B460M Gaming HD (approx. 7k) and the MSI H410M Pro-VH (approx. 5500-6,000) are micro ATX board. Thank you again for the cabinet suggestion.

Thanks a lot! I have finalised the following and should be placing the order today or tomorrow. Intel i3-10100 MSI H410M Pro-VH Crucial Basics 8GB DDR4 1.2v 2666Mhz Kingston M.2 250 GB Corsair CV450 Benq – GW2283 (Black) With speaker Dell K/B & Mouse combo Only left to make up my mind on the...

Thank you! Any suggestions for a UPS?

Thank you. And yes, I am planning to have someone in the US get a SSD as there were some good deals for BF, which is likely to recur for Cyber Monday. Going by your explanation, I gather that I can use the A2000 256 GB M.2 NVMe SSD and add another SATA III SSD without any issues.

Thank you Omega, whitestar and nac for the quick responses. I'll go for the CV450, Crucial RAM, and the BenQ monitor. That Cooler Master cabinet is beautiful, but a bit overpriced (for me) for this pc build. I think I will go with the Corsair Carbide 100R CC or the Zebronics Zeb-Mars. I am...

Would this be a good build for an office desktop? (Word, Excel, PDF, browsing, video-conferencing, printing, collating scanned docs etc). Can I replace the above suggestions with the following? 1. Corsair CV450 instead of CX450 (or an even cheaper alternative?) 2. Kingston 250GB A2000 M.2 2280...