Dell, HP, Gateway, and anything generic.
Use PC partpicker for both checking for compatibility and comparison shopping for the best prices.
@Darksakul is correct here, the reason he mentioned those brands is that they wonāt use ATX standards for power/connectors/et al. You probably could take the processor out, and presuming it works; probably could drop it into a Z370 board with a few things updated; saving you some money in the process @autogenxboxname.
Dell is only an option if you need a monitor. Everything else is a big fat nope.
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I also would avoid
Razer, Diablotek, Raidmax, Beats by Dre, Transcend, Enermax
Not the best rule of thumb, but one I used is avoid brands you never heard of (unless they get good reviews on sites like New egg or Toms hardware, Amazon reviews are kinda hard to get a good reading on as their customers arenāt as knowledgeable) .
Good Known Brands, No Way a complete list
These have a very low failure rate
AMD (both CPU and Graphics), Intel (Intel stock coolers stuck) & Nvidia
Good Known Brands (Read reviews first for a particular product)
ASUS
Gigabyte
MSI
ASRock
BenQ (decent low price monitors)
Corsair
G.Skill
Cooler Master
Thermaltake
Seagate
Samsung (they also make drives, they make some of the best SSDs on the market)
Western Digital
Sapphire
XFX (good for budget AMD Graphic cards, Avoid their PSUs).
EVGA
Antec (baseline standard for PSUs, Mostly no frills but A+ Tier Quality)
NZXT
Rosewill (they are a Budget brand, but they have consistently high quality products for their price).
Zalman
Silverstone
Super Flower
Fractal Designs
Seasonic
OCZ
Andyson
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Iāll add to the list as well from above.
Phanteks - this company has done right by me time and time again since I switched out of my Define R5 into a P350X. Great US-based support as well. I would actually take Fractal Design off the list solely for the lack of a US-Based parts store. To get replacement parts from FD, you better have deep fucking pockets because of the Euro to USD conversion.
Another company Iād whole-heartedly recommend is ADATA. In January, I bought a NVME SSD from them, and itās been a fucking champ. Itās a little slower than the Samsung Evo NVME drives, but itās more than enough for me.
I was able to get replacement parts from Amazon, FD now uses Amazon as itās US distributor
What I take off the List is ADATA, I had there SSDs die on me suddenly
Guessing no Lenovoā¦
You go Lenovo if you want a plain boring workstation.
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Yeah Lenovo is a good brand, but all they make are office workstations and office laptops.
Recently Lenovo has been moving into the gaming market with their Legion sub brand. I wish they made standalone cases because the one for their ITX legion desktop looks awesome.
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This video is guaranteed to make you either laugh or cringe in some form or fashion.
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Appreciate the advice gentlemen. 
has anyone here ever fucked around with a AndroidThings kit from google?
Nope. Never had.
Topic change.
After 4 days of trouble shooting what went wrong with my Skyrim SE game, it turns out it was my antivirus that was at fault. Some reason it felt that the Nexus mod manager was ransomware and the antivirus started to ransom parts of my Skyrim install.
dude, what kind of antivirus are you using that itās doing THAT?
Bitdefender, it thought mods trying to encrypt their own internal files was ransomware so they tried to quarantine my Skyrim mods breaking Skyrim.
A Complete uninstall of my Skyrim game and all the mods didnāt work.
Only going into my antivirus and putting an exception rule for Nexus Mod manager
lol figures. Iāve had more than my fair share of issues with that.