Kind of wrestling with the idea about a build I'm helping with. It's a my first pc build for someone wanting to game on pc. I'm like awesome lets do this.
He put together this kind of build on amazon wish list: https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/zQrKD8
Pretty normal looking right. I was thinking this morning though since this is a gen older than whats out now would it be better to spring for a ryzen setup or even a used zeon from maybe the haswell kinda gen?
get a dell 390 or something similar with an i5-2500 for around 50 bucks on ebay and get rid of water cooling setup and you will be cheaper and have just as much fun gaming.
IIRC 2500 should be sandy or ivy 1155. That would be fine. Not worth going new when old can get by ya know. I'll probably post the build and see if we can cram everything in that CM case I have.
Agreed, find an off lease business i5 (Sandy, or Ivy Bridge) for cheap and stick a GPU into it.
@wendell recently posted a vid on this strategy. Best possible bang for the buck!
Old parts still holds up pretty well like Ivy or Sandy CPU's like and others have said can be obtain really cheaply if you know where to look for i.e Facebook Buy Sell Swap Groups or Craigslist, Free Geek since I watch LTT for fun. If going for the Dell, HP, Acer, ASUS used parts, be careful of the motherboard connectors and form factor which they will use more of the uncommon types that are our there such as BTX that was
If going for new parts, don't go for the AMD FX CPU's right now even a Pentium G4560 which is cheaper, more power efficient and performs the same or even better in some games compared to the FX. Just insert G4560 vs FX (Insert model here) on YouTube and see the results. Although your going to be forking out cash for DDR4 memory since its currently through the roof now and you only have DDR3 laying around. Pentium G4560 tweaked build
As for the Cooler Master N200 case. I have that case and have used to use it before I jumped to my laptop. It will fit everything fine in there with what you are going to put in. The parts that I had in there was a R9 290 Tri X OC which is very long and fits perfectly fine, Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO, EVGA 750G2 PSU, Xeon E3 1231v3 and a compatible motherboard to top it all off. Crit Video/Tek Syndicate of the Cooler Master N200 with a high endish.