Hey /g/, its been a while since im not in the tech world and

>>56005172
Get something used. It will be much cheaper than a new PC, and you might actually get something decent. My suggestion: Get a cheap decommissioned workstation desktop from the x58 era. ThinkStation S20, Dell Precision T3500+T5500 are good names, and usually around $100-$150 on ebay. Stick a $100 500GB SSD in there and you will beat any APU on the street and have a nice time doing it.

>>56005172
Pretty much. You can make a decent A8-7600 APU build for like $250. It will be more than enough for playing most vydia in low 1080p settings. In addition you can jam in a $240 Rx 480 dedicated graphics card later on to be able to play most vydia in max 1080p settings and get 60FPS+ most of the time.

The intel vs AMD thing kinda died with DX12 so using an AMD processor is not really a problem anymore. The A8-7600 is actually pretty decent despite it's ~$70 price tag, it has about the same multi-core processing power of a ~$130 skylake i3-6100 so you'll have more than enough juice for most tasks.

Finally just make sure to get 2 sticks of 4GB 1866 Mhz DDR3 RAM and make sure they are in dual channel mode and running at 1866 MHz.

Here is the build I was talking about

http://pcpartpicker.com/list/JbkXbj

It includes a 500W PSU which is more than enough for an Rx 480. It's like $240 right now but will go down in price over time especially as the Rx 490 is released.

>>56006214
That HDD is really sorry, but like I said if that your budget you can get something really nice on the used market. Talking Craigslist or eBay here.

>>56006214
I got a Dell t3600 with a Sandy bridge Xeon e5 1650 for that amount of money. (Single core performance is on pair with a 4470 but with 6 cores.)

>>56006062
Yeah thats what i was considering, however since im really unlucky when it comes to used stuff (ive bought 2 used laptops on ebay, both died after 3 and 6 months)
Thanks about the workstation models, ill check them out.

>>56006214
I should've said i already have HDs + RAM so i guess the price tag would be even lower.
Thank you too, ill consider both choices, would you say a workstation would be more powerful than an APU based rig? i know they are more powerful CPU wise, but not sure about GPU.

>>56007961
In most workstations there are probably business gpus like old firepros or quadros which are mediocre for gaming purpose. I'll try to get something better used.