Comment on Need advice for buying first hardware
dan@upvote.au 2 weeks ago
Do you mean 12600K, or do you really mean 2600K? These days, I wouldn’t use anything older than 9th gen.
See if there’s any e-waste recyclers in your area. A lot of companies are throwing out systems that don’t officially run Windows 11, so you can sometimes find systems with 8th and 9th gen Intel Core processors for very cheap.