1. Budget & Location
~$420 USD or ~2100PLN
(Accounted for price premium during conversion, since I live in Poland)
2. Aim
I'm mainly going to use it to play games, preferably some newer ones.
My daily driver is still going to be my laptop, so I won't use my PC for much else.
3. Monitors
At the time I'm using a single 1440x900 monitor, and while I'm not planning on getting another one, I may upgrade to a 1080p display in the future. If it matters, my current monitor has a VGA input.
4. Peripherals
Don't need any, already have a new windows 10 license for it.
5. Why are you upgrading?
I've managed to land a programming job at a game company for summer vacation and want to spend the money on a new PC. My current rig has an Intel Q8300 and a GeForce GT 220, along with some no-name 300W PSU. I will keep the hard drive from it for storage for as long as it will last as well as an optical drive.
I pre-picked the parts looking at some recommendations, although I'd like your opinion on them.
Personally, I'm not really sure if getting a Skylake cpu and DDR4 memory is really worth it.
http://pcpartpicker.com/list/Hvdqm8
In addiiton to what's on the list, I'm also going to buy a case I couldn't find on there for about $18 / 90PLN.
I'd also like to know if there are some parts I could get a much better deal on buying used and if it's a risk worth taking.
Thank you for reading and if you have some questions I'll be in this thread for quite a while.