I’m half-way through buying all of my parts.
Pretend that my selected graphics card is the Lisuan G100. Because fuck AMD and NVIDIA.
My usecases are playing around with DaVinci Resolve and GIMP, small-time Godot game dev’ing, playing indie games, self-hosting (e.g. a Jellyfin instance for my movie/tv show for my LAN streaming needs) and just general browsing lol. I don’t intend to overclock, so 600-650W seems fairly plenty.
I had previously struggled with H.265 video formats, my previous setup with the i5 4670k and NVIDIA 750ti were barely keeping up with anything new, never mind newer standards (somehow runs Ghostrunner 2 @ 1080p 40fps in most terrains!). They held their weight pretty nicely over the years though.
I use my ATX case I have had since 1998 and an ATX mother board. I generally go AMD and use one of their best lower power processors. Last was an 8 core. I added SATA hot swap bays.