i7 - 2600 CPU

[Catsmack]

I am a 60 + year old man stationed in Japan with the Army.  I want to build a gaming computer that I can also use for vector graphics and video editing using Adobe Creative Cloud Photoshop, Illusrator, and Adobe Premiere which I have access to. Computer resources are hard to come by and computer stores in Japan are confusing. I plan to use Amazon or eBay.  My budget is about $1500 but I dont want to spend needlessly.

 

Yesterday I  harvested two i7 - 2700 “Sandy Lake” chips and 32 gigs of RAM from two Dell PCs.  I want to try building a gaming PC around this.  I have a 520 watt power supply (from a different machine) and a Dell Optiplex video card I pulled from the rig with the chip.  I also have several SSD’s and several internal 1TB hard drives and an external 1 Tb hard drive.  Most parts come from the two Dell Optiplex towers and an old Newtek Tricaster being tossed aside.

 

Can someone answer the following questions?  

(1) Should I buy a gaming graphics card and if so can some one recommend a good one).  

(2) Can someone suggest a good motherboard?  I know the chip requires an LGA 1155 socket.

(3) Is the power supply big enough?

(4) Can someone recomend a decent computer case?

(5). Would I be better off selling the stuff on eBay and getting newer hardware? I will be in the States this summer and can buy locally then.

 

Thankyou in advance for your help.  Sorry for the long posting too.

 

Very respectfully,

Catsmack

 

[Oalei]

maybe a RX 580/590 or Vega if you care about free games.

 

Z68 Extreme4 if its cheap idk any other ones

 

well it will, but if the brand is unknown i will say otherwise

 

case is about personal taste In my opinion

 

yeah you can get a ryzen 3000 or just chance into that with spending as little as possible

[Catsmack]

Thank you Oalei for your quick reply.  The power supply came out of a $14000 Newtek TCXD300 Tricaster video editing machine that worked until I was told to scrap it several years ago (it was a Windows Vista machine).

[Oalei]

3 hours ago, Catsmack said:

Thank you Oalei for your quick reply.  The power supply came out of a $14000 Newtek TCXD300 Tricaster video editing machine that worked until I was told to scrap it several years ago (it was a Windows Vista machine).

Toss it away.  OK I'm just going to assume you have a 720p monitor and don't play triple AAA games,  or just playing with your grandkids. Get a RX 570 for some free games for you or your grandkids that they probably will play. Get a H61 mobo, maybe.