Looking For A New Desktop

[ScottW10]

I'm looking for a desktop, preferably Windows 10, but I'll have to deal with it if you don't have any.

I'm looking for a desktop PC to search the web, email, AND especially burn music on blank CDs. A tech guy told me to get a low video card, nothing more than 16GB, and with a Solid State Drive.

Could you send me a couple of options (links) that I could choose from? Thanks, Scott

[OneThriftyMan]

Most every consumer or soho pc should do fine.

Some workstations like the Z240 workstations are 6th Gen / 7th Gen, Socket H4 [LGA-1151] and have support for ECC ram, Xeon E3-12xx v5 cpu's and Xeon E3-12xx v6 cpu's.
---Those Xeon E3 cpu's are dropping for super cheap on ebay.
---A Xeon E3-1240 v5 has similar performance to a i7-6700 but is 1/2 the cost on ebay.

For example, if you only need Windows 10 and a cheap pc, then getting a 7th Gen or 8th Gen Intel based office pc made in 2017-2018 in the best way to go.

So your ProDesk xxx (G3 / G4), EliteDesk xxx (G3/G4), HP 280 (G3 / G4), Slimline 290, Pavilion 59x, and etc would do.

The TG01, TE01, and M01 models are more of a house pc.

The G1 versions aren't worth it because they use 4th Gen Intel and DDR3.

The G2 versions are a weird middle ground of 6th Gen Intel only.

I would stay away from anything that has hardcore cpu exploits like Zen 1 and Zen 2 based Ryzen. Only Zen 3 class Ryzen 5000 series AMD chips are secure on Socket AM4.

[ScottW10]

This is all foreign to me.   I'm a little computer illiterate but I'm kind of figuring it out appreciate it thank you very much.