need to upgrade with little cash

[grayblizzard]

so I have really good parts of my pc and bad parts

 

GOOD:

gtx 970

240 gb ssd

Thermaltake 550 watt psu

 

BAD:

amd fx6300 and cheaper mobo

rosewill challenger case

 

NEUTRAL:

8gb of memory

 

i want to upgrade to around a $200 cpu and $100 mobo so i can have a better system for gaming and already own 8gb of ddr4 memory.

 

this means that i will have a cpu, mobo and memory also laying around( I want to make a second rendering/nas/streaming pc)

 

I will be lucky if i can scrounge enough money in the coming months to buy a locked skylake cpu and a cheap mobo which will mean that then over the course of the next year i will have to buy a cheap case, cheaper psu and cheap gpu to shove into the second build for probably less than $125.

 

is this idea worth it or should i sell the memory and scrap the other stuff?
 

[EunSoo]

I think it is worth it. Here are my thoughts:

 

Get an i5-6400 and spend the rest of your CPU on a z170 Mobo (such as the "MSI Enthusiast Gaming Intel Z170A" so you can upgrade, if you want, in the future to an i7 or something.

 

But if you don't plan on upgrading in the future then I would get an i5 6500 and an MSI Gaming Intel Skylake B150