Not if you know what to purchase and where to get it. I can build a tower for around $500. That is a good price to pay.
“Not if you know what to purchase and where to get it. I can build a tower for around $500. That is a good price to pay.”
The HP desktop + monitor deal I mentioned above....
It cost me $237 last Christmas
Added 500GB Western Digital Blue NVMe drive + 8GB more RAM for $73.
So total was $410 not including taxes + included a 24” IPS monitor
The CPU is i3-10100 with 4 Cores/ 8 Threads -— which gets a Passmark score of 8803, which will easily push through Windows 10 and 11. Especially with 16GB RAM.
What this $410 system will not do is gaming. You need a real graphics card for this.