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@thrasher_565 Update, I am going with the NZXT H6 Flow, Small Size and top of charts for GPU cooling.

PCPartPicker Part List
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor  ($174.99 @ B&H) 
Motherboard: MSI B450 Gaming Plus MAX ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($104.99 @ B&H) 
Memory: Team T-FORCE VULCAN Z 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory  ($69.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Crucial P1 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  ($109.99 @ B&H) 
Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon RX 5700 XT 8 GB GAMING OC Video Card  ($409.99 @ Newegg) 
Case: Cougar MX330-G ATX Mid Tower Case  ($45.98 @ Newegg) 
Power Supply: Corsair CX (2017) 550 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($69.29 @ Newegg) 
Total: $985.22
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-03-23 07:36 EDT-0400
 
case is good airflow, tho i suggest waiting untill you can afford some propper fans. 

I feel like the question's been answered and people are just nitpicking ?

Check out the below
 
https://www.moddiy.com/products/6%2dPin-PSU-Modular-Power-Cable-to-PCI%2dE-(30cm).html
 
http://www.shakmods.com/shop&#!/6-Pin-PCIE-GPU-Sleeved-PSU-Cable-with-Cable-Combs/p/53781129/category=5711378

Oh not bad at all. Looking around for used hardware is pretty fun, I've been poking around for specifically older hardware for my WinXP system. Sadly no PCIe x16 Gen 1 cards, but I do have a friend that can give me their old GT 620 and some spare memory for free so that's fun.

I bought it within the hour of seeing it.

GG Mate.

Thanks for the input, but no Hackintosh will be discussed on this thread.
Thanks. I have a pretty good idea of what is considered good hardware.
 
I'm seeing mainly Duo Cores within the price range I set. (Not too big of a surprise.) Also 4gb of ram... with small hard drives.
 
Probably gonna need at least 250gb of space. 120gb might be pushing it, guess I could use some flash drives I have lying around for storage.
 
Gonna be using it to edit, record, and share some music in Garage Band.
 
Nothing too serious for the time being, just feel like having some fun with it.
 
( Garage Band is the must use program, because a friend of mine and I are going to share songs with each other and play with them for fun, so just trying to get compatible stuff. While suggestions are fine, I will not be using this thread to try and find out other ways to achieve what we are trying to do. )
 
Here's something I found, bit over budget, and looks like a store so I probably can't talk them down...
https://dallas.craigslist.org/dal/sys/5988468237.html

Thermaltake Core G3 Slim
http://www.thermaltake.com/products-model.aspx?id=C_00002936

If you want small and ATX, look for HTPC cases. I'll post a couple of my favorites in a minute when I find a link and the names of them. 

I agree, that's cheaper than buying a new Motherboard and Case.
 
I was even thinking about giving up the overclock ability of my CPU just to go smaller. Getting a H97 board, but like I said, checking my options before going any other way.

I'd go for 400$, maybe even a little more. Trick is, start higher than you expect to sell it for, so you can let the seller "haggle" you down and they think they're cutting a big hog in the ass.

See what stuff is going for in your area. You can ask 400, but most people probably won't need the keyboard or the monitor.

Maybe, who knows. guy seemed legit though.

No. The 1080 can barely do it.
Btw if you get a 144Hz monitor you should be getting 144fps.
60fps is useless on a 144Hz monitor.

Definitely clean the fans, heatsink, and replace the TIM.
 
If this doesn't fix it, then consider updating the BIOS.

Fans are all clean, no dust or anything.
 
Thanks, I was just wanting to make sure to do the right things, and see if there wasn't anything else I was missing.

Yup Yup, all clean.
 

Thanks guys! Yea, that was my original choice, but they came out with newer, so I got jumbled up.

Thanks!, those are much better.
 
But my friend was impulse buying and he was looking for a local store to buy something from. His first computer.
 
I didn't have time to explain before, because ... well we already bought one.
 
We went with the Second Choice.
 
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At first he bought an iBuyPower machine for $929+tax
i5-6402p - 2.8ghz base w/3.4ghz turbo
8GB Ram
1TB HDD + 120GB SSD
GTX 960 4GB
 
He also bought some Dell monitor with it for $179+tax
23"
1920 x 1080p
6ms Response Time
60hz
 
When he told me, I told him to immediately return it, and that I found something better for the same price...
 
So we went with option 2 there, and we also got him an Asus VP247H-P 24" monitor for $125+tax
23.6"
1920 x 1080
1ms Response time
60hz
 
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Overall, I just wanted to help with a slightly educated impulse buy.
 
Obviously there's better stuff out there, but I hope everything serves him well now.

Sounds like I should just get the Speed Switches and add some O-Rings.

i supposed.. The performance from it isn't really worth that price jump imo, but yeah. It'll make a difference.
 
He could drop 50 bucks off the build if he just ordered from other places. 
 
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant   CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1231 V3 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($232.99 @ SuperBiiz)  Motherboard: ASRock H97M-ITX/AC Mini ITX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($86.99 @ SuperBiiz)  Memory: Mushkin Stealth 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($65.98 @ Newegg)  Storage: A-Data Premier Pro SP600 128GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($44.99 @ Amazon)  Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($49.98 @ OutletPC)  Video Card: XFX Radeon R9 380X 4GB DD XXX OC Video Card  ($209.99 @ Newegg)  Case: Thermaltake Core V1 Mini ITX Tower Case  ($42.99 @ NCIX US)  Power Supply: EVGA 650W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($69.99 @ Newegg)  Total: $803.90 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-12-31 10:45 EST-0500

Found a 380X for $209, not bad.
 
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1231 V3 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($257.98 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: ASRock H97M-ITX/AC Mini ITX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($98.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: Mushkin Stealth 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($65.98 @ Newegg)
Storage: A-Data Premier Pro SP600 128GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($44.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($54.99 @ Newegg)
Video Card: XFX Radeon R9 380X 4GB DD XXX OC Video Card  ($209.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Thermaltake Core V1 Mini ITX Tower Case  ($52.98 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: EVGA 650W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($69.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $855.88
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-12-31 10:33 EST-0500

@Letin Follow  your own topics, also when replying to others make sure to "quote" them or @ (their name) so they get a notification.
 
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($191.98 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: ASRock H97M-ITX/AC Mini ITX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($98.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($34.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: A-Data Premier Pro SP600 128GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($44.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($54.99 @ Newegg)
Video Card: XFX Radeon R9 380 2GB Double Dissipation Video Card  ($193.98 @ Newegg)
Case: Silverstone RVZ02B HTPC Case  ($75.98 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Silverstone Strider Gold 450W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular SFX Power Supply  ($100.98 @ Newegg)
Total: $796.87
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-12-30 12:19 EST-0500
 
And here is an alternate option, it requires less power and has a smaller gpu, so it might be easier for cable management. It's going to be less powerful than the 380 (not by much), but it will still get the job done.
 
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($191.98 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: ASRock H97M-ITX/AC Mini ITX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($98.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($34.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: A-Data Premier Pro SP600 128GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($44.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($54.99 @ Newegg)
Video Card: Zotac GeForce GTX 960 4GB Video Card  ($202.98 @ Newegg)
Case: Silverstone RVZ02B HTPC Case  ($75.98 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Silverstone Strider Gold 450W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular SFX Power Supply  ($100.98 @ Newegg)
Total: $805.87
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-12-30 12:24 EST-0500
 
I probably coulda done better on the price, but you said all from Newegg, so i did that instead.
 
If I had the option of using whatever vendors I wanted, I would go with this.
 
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($174.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: ASRock H97M-ITX/AC Mini ITX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($86.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($66.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($81.49 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($49.98 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 960 2GB Superclocked Video Card  ($184.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Case: Silverstone RVZ02B HTPC Case  ($64.99 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: Silverstone Strider Gold 450W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular SFX Power Supply  ($88.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $799.41
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-12-30 12:32 EST-0500

Ok, I'm back. Here's what I recommend.
 
@cluelessgenius
 
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  (€179.90 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Motherboard: ASRock H97M Anniversary Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (€75.89 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  (€46.40 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Storage: OCZ Trion 100 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (€71.30 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Video Card: XFX Radeon R9 380 4GB Double Dissipation Video Card  (€209.96 @ Mindfactory)
Case: BitFenix Neos Black ATX Mid Tower Case  (€43.65 @ Mindfactory)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (€68.43 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Total: €695.53
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-12-29 23:56 CET+0100