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Pick Parts & Build Your PC
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2014 · pangoly.com
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Hey HN! You know when you wanna build a new PC, and need to watch a bunch of videos to find the best parts, and then tweak your shopping cart to fit your budget? Well, this new app can help you. It recommends the best hardware for your usage (gaming or work), and considers your budget. It's really helpful, even when you got expertise on hardware. Check it out, and feel free to suggest stuff! Hope you like it! https://www.pcbuilderai.com/
2023 · pcbuilderai.com
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2019 · workstation.is
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I've been building hi-fi stereo setups for years with all sorts different budgets, different rooms, helping friends spec out systems. I even worked at a hi-fi shop for several months before I came scurrying back to tech (a good story, but, uh, out of scope here). I kept wishing for something like PCPartPicker.com but for stereo gear. A place to design and save my systems, check compatibility, and see exactly how everything works. So I built it. No sign-in required to create builds: just hit "Start Your Build" and add parts. The signal chain diagram updates in real-time as you build and you…
Mar 2026 · buildhifi.com
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2018 · nandgame.com
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AI PC builder that creates the best build for your budget
Nov 2025 · buildmate-brown.vercel.app
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The overall idea is to chart out the thousands of Mini PCs by benchmark and reveal the Pareto Front so you can get the most Compute per Dollar. Definitely a labor of love as I have a number of Mini PCs for my "homelab" (TrueNAS, piHole, Plex, basic stuff). It uses Gemini to extract specs from listings (since they're not often strongly categorized). Quick blog post here: https://luke.zip/posts/pareto-pcs/
Jun 2026 · minipcs.zip
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2017 · pc-kombo.de
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http://stackparts.com/ so, when i worked at google there was a great internal webpage that listed all the various parts and systems one could use to build something. i've always wanted something like that for the real world, so here it is. the idea is basically to index widely used and good stack parts so that people can figure out what they need to build their applications. this is still very rough. we're still working on figuring out the metadata, how to display it, and how to link it. in addition, some of the metadata is wrong as we evolve how to describe things. how it works: tornado,…
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