Help building a new PC - 500€ budget

[guzacon]

Hi all,

I'd like to upgrade my desktop PC. I live in Italy and my budget is 500€. Components I already own:

- Case
- Mouse & keyboard
- Samsung B2430H Monitor
- Speakers
- OS
- A 120Gb SSD for the OS.
- I have a 2 years old 650W PowerSupply, I don't know if I need to change it as well... Will it be enough?

Apart from working with it (so mainly Office + CAT tools), I'll use it to play games, no video encoding whatsoever. I would like a very silent PC, I'd prefer that over a 2% increased performance.


Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[Deleted]

Which country is it?

[Cyrops]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor (€214.29 @ Amazon Italia)
Motherboard: ASRock H97M Anniversary Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (€76.99 @ Amazon Italia)
Memory: GeIL EVO Leggara Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (€54.00 @ Amazon Italia)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (€58.35 @ Amazon Italia)
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 750 1GB Video Card (€105.00 @ Amazon Italia)
Total: €508.63
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-06-25 12:53 CEST+0200

If you are really tight on budget, honestly you could go for slower CPU like i5-4590 or even i5-4460 which would be like 20-40e less, maybe more. Parpicker doesn't show them so. I would honestly want a GPU with at least 2GB of VRAM at this point, like http://it.pcpartpicker.com/part/evga...rd-02gp42754kr but it's 30e more than the 1GB one.

[guzacon]

Thanks, that's really helpful! I self-imposed the budget, but if you confirm the fact I can use the power supply I already have, we could set the budget to 600 euros.

Also, do you think this is a good moment to buy new parts, or would it be wiser to wait for the new sockets?

Thanks again.

[Deleted]

If you gave us a specific country we might be able to help you even more.

Skylake, next generation Intel CPU is coming in August, but that also means DDR4 which is a little more expensive.

[guzacon]

Hi Notarget, in the OP I specified I live in Italy Thank you in advance.

[Blackmist]

You can use this calculator to work out how much power you need.

http://www.extreme.outervision.com/PSUEngine

Spoiler: 650W will be more than enough for just about anything you can afford. We're talking a pair of GTX 980 Ti before you'd need to upgrade it. You're not doing anything like that.

[guzacon]

Thank you Blackmist! Then, 600€ budget it is

[Deleted]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor (€214.21 @ Amazon Italia)
Motherboard: ASRock Z97M Anniversary Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (€85.92 @ Amazon Italia)
Memory: Kingston Savage 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (€58.00 @ Amazon Italia)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (€58.35 @ Amazon Italia)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 270X 2GB Dual-X Video Card (€170.10 @ Amazon Italia)
Total: €586.58
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-06-26 11:34 CEST+0200

[guzacon]

Thank you, everyone. Looking forward to building this baby

Cheers!

[Deleted]

Hi Notarget, in the OP I specified I live in Italy Thank you in advance.

Hehe my bad, I must be getting blind