Under $500 workstation

[slay english]

This will be used for multitasking,work and light gaming.

 

Things I have already that I will be reusing. 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

Storage: Kingston HyperX 3K 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (Purchased For $0.00) 

Video Card: Sapphire Radeon HD 7870 2GB Video Card  (Purchased For $0.00) 

Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional SP1 OEM (64-bit)  (Purchased For $0.00) 

Monitor: Asus VS248H-P 24.0" Monitor  (Purchased For $0.00) 

Total: $0.00

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-09-14 05:55 EDT-0400

[RevoltTrain]

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/yRM8t6

[IMPERIUS]

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/dpWXwP

[Streetguru]

Well what kind of work? What Form Factor, and do you care about silence?

The answer is probably going to involve a Xeon 1231v3 or an 8320e about half the price, bit less single threaded performance, but in multi-threaded workloads it'll keep up when overclocked.