600-ish dollar PC

[TheGhzGuy]

Hello all!

A friend of mine wanted to build a computer, for around 600 dollars. I have a Plextor SSD I can give him, so there's that. I do need Windows. He is in the USA. He plans to use this for gaming, photo editing, and 3D rendering.

 

Thank you for your help!

[TheRandomness]

Let me fit a Xeon in there...

[TheGhzGuy]

1 minute ago, TheRandomness said:

Let me fit a Xeon in there...

Hey, if it's a better value, I can't complain.

[TheRandomness]

1 minute ago, TheGhzGuy said:

Hey, if it's a better value, I can't complain.

If he can fit a little bit more into the budget ($650 total):

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1230 V3 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($242.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Motherboard: Asus H81M-D PLUS Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($51.98 @ Newegg) 
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($29.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Hitachi Ultrastar 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($41.99 @ Amazon) 
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 380 4GB NITRO Dual-X OC Video Card  ($179.99 @ Newegg) 
Case: Xion XON-310_BK MicroATX Mid Tower Case  ($22.98 @ Newegg) 
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA GS 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($54.99 @ Newegg) 
Total: $624.91
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-02-01 11:12 EST-0500

Windows from G2A or /r/microsoftsoftwareswap. If he can't: 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($174.89 @ OutletPC) 
Motherboard: Asus H81M-D PLUS Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($51.98 @ Newegg) 
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($29.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Hitachi Ultrastar 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($41.99 @ Amazon) 
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 380 4GB NITRO Dual-X OC Video Card  ($179.99 @ Newegg) 
Case: Xion XON-310_BK MicroATX Mid Tower Case  ($22.98 @ Newegg) 
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA GS 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($54.99 @ Newegg) 
Total: $556.81
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-02-01 11:12 EST-0500

[Djole123]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4440 3.1GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($179.89 @ OutletPC) 
Motherboard: ECS B85H3-M9 (1.0) Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($27.98 @ Newegg) 
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($29.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($46.89 @ OutletPC) 
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 380 4GB NITRO Dual-X OC Video Card  ($179.99 @ Newegg) 
Case: Raidmax ATX-249B (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($19.99 @ Newegg) 
Power Supply: Thermaltake TR2 500W ATX Power Supply  ($22.99 @ Newegg) 
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 OEM (64-bit)  ($85.89 @ OutletPC) 
Total: $593.61
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-02-01 11:26 EST-0500

[Redicat]

If you're going to the 700 ish budget your options would be alot more and architecture & efficiency matters to this point and sure if you start to begin video editing you'll feel alot of improvements.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1230 V5 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($247.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Memory: G.Skill NT Series 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($34.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($46.89 @ OutletPC) 
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 380 4GB NITRO Dual-X OC Video Card  ($179.99 @ Newegg) 
Case: Corsair SPEC-01 RED ATX Mid Tower Case  ($39.99 @ Micro Center) 
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA GS 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($54.99 @ Newegg) 
Other: ASRock Micro ATX DDR4 LGA 1151 Motherboard Q170M VPRO ($122.99)
Total: $727.83
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-02-01 14:58 EST-0500

And than the MIR ehh even than i still tell this is worth upgradeing to Skylake.

Uh and watch for that Hitachi it has 50% less cache 30MB instead of 60MB...