At this point in time, I am job searching, and unemployed. I have No income. I manage to scrape up 3 $5 amazon gift cards every 11 days through reward programs though, so I can buy some parts. In about a year, I'll have around $500 (and hopefully a job by then)
So what I am looking for:
Decent rendering speed on videos (I do some youtube stuff)
ability to handle physics rich games (Space engineers, BeamNG, etc)
Ability to handle resource hogs (I'm looking at you Minecraft and Chrome)
Decent performance when streaming (Hitbox, and not as much anymore Twitch)
to go along with ^, decent graphics.
Also to go along with ^^, Decently Quiet so i don't have to install sound batting under the desk
Decent handling of 3D modeling software (I don't want to have to wait 3 hours for a model to render)
Needs to be able to handle 3 Monitors (15' non-widescreen VGA ATM, hope to be able to upgrade to widescreen someday)
Need at least 1 USB3.0 port
At least 2 USB2.0 Root hubs (4 ports total)
Gigabit Ethernet (will be switching to a 1gig connection soon and running cat6 to my room)
Any recommendations you all have would be appreciated. Where I can, I'd like to be able to transition towards enthusiast tier equipment in the future.