A desktop can usually provide much more performance than your laptop. A laptop's design has to take its weight and durability into consideration, whereas a desktop doesn't. Such as a laptop cannot use too much power, or else the battery will die too soon. This will force the laptop to compromise with its performance. That means there will be better performance on a desktop than a laptop. More perfomrance? Why Not?

All in all, it would be cheaper to have a desktop than a laptop. Almost any components in a desktop can be easily replaced or upgraded. This is because there are global standards in every plugs and attachments in a desktop. What this means is that you can replace any damaged componenets in a desktop with any other third party company parts, comparing with laptops that are usually required to be sent back to the factory.

You can pick every components of a desktop by yourself, instead of pre-decided by the manufacturer. You want a small case? Shure. A gigantic case? Not a problem. You want it pink? Or you want some flashy LED? As you wanted. You can even have a huge 40" 8K display attached to it. A desktop has such flexibility on everything that it completely crushes the laptop, which comes in limited design and specs.

Intel produces reliable consumer CPUs. Currently it has i3, i5, i7, and i9 line ups in its mainstream products. i3 as its low-end processors, to i9 for its extreme users. To distinguish between these 4 series, the more complex of your computer's tasks are, the better you choose. To recommend, i5 cores are fair in price and performance, giving us 6 cores and 12 threads with good price. i3 only comes with 4 cores and 8 threads, and its low power consumption design means that the performance will be quite poor. Currently in 2020 and 2021, we are seeing Intel's 11th gen and 12th gen cores on the market. It is mainly targeting on complex 3d video games.

AMD is well known by people as the company that produces "cheap and good" CPUs. The company is well known for producing CPUs with a lot cores such as 8 cores to 16 cores, or even 32 cores. Unfortunately, the core numbers of CPU cannot be compared between two companies since two compnay had completely different designs on their processors. AMD provides us its Ryzen-3, Ryzen-5, Ryzen-7, and Ryzen-9 series in its mainstream products. Just like Intel, Ryzen-5 is most well balanced between performance and price. In average, AMD gives magnificant performance on mainly advanced productive programs such as video editing and 3d modeling.

The most recent GPU from team green are its RTX-30 series. It has stable drivers and can produce beautiful lighting effects by emulating the trace of the light with their Ray Tracing technology. Though it is the more expensive choice.

AMD also sells GPUs. Its RX-6000 series us many more cheaper but also good options. Comparing with Nvidia, it is well more able to afford, but AMD has a bad reputation on its graphics drivers, the performance usually unstable or worse than competitors.

There's no big difference between power supply. Just keep in mind to keep a margin between the highest possible power consumption of your hardware and the wattage given by your power supply. The margin left will keep the power supply works under a safe and stable state all the time. For example, if your computer eats 500 watts maxium, you may choose a 650 watts power supply to make shure it won't overdrive itself and caught fire (it literally will burn).

When choosing the chassis, two things to reminder. Apart from how beautiful your chassis is, make sure ALL COMPONENTS CAN FITS INTO YOUR CHASSIS. Some chassis can only fits smaller motherboards or shorter GPUs, as these two components are often the largest parts in all of the computer hardware. Some chassis, as the photo shows,a has a tempered glass side, you might want to tidy your wires up to make the view into your chassis nice and clean.