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Hi everyone! I will be building a new PC for my fiancee in a month or two and I'd like to ask you for help. It's been a while since I built a PC last time and I'm not sure if I have correct judgement anymore. The computer will be used mainly for heavy internet browsing (>200 tabs in her Firefox ), playing media (Full HD videos) and basic video editing. I know that it is nothing extreme, but I also know, that I want this PC to last for at least 5 years and provide a smooth experience all the time. The machine should be solid but at reasonable price. So far, my plans are: Use an old graphics card from the previous computer (some old GeForce, capable of playing 1080p videos), because video editing will be handled by CPU anyway and there won't be any games played. At least 8Gb of DDR4 RAM. I want to support AMD, so maybe one of the new Ryzen CPUs? I was thinking about Ryzen 5 with 6 cores. Brand new SSD drive for the C: partition and HDD taken from current PC for storage. DVD drive from old PC. Now I'd like to hear your opinions on following questions: How to balance my finances between SSD drive, CPU and RAM? Do SSD speeds have a noticable impact for casual users? Motherboards have a quite broad price range. Are there any significant benefits when buying more expensive models? (I know some allow overclocking while others don't. Any other differences?) Any other things I should consider? Please don't recommend any specific components as prices and availability in Poland can be very different. I need a bit more general suggestions.