Budget building

[Jeo96x]

My first post in the forum's so sorry if I miss anything crucial out, I'm from the UK as a heads up!

 

Here's my dilemma, I'm trying to build a pc again but hitting my head against the table trying to figure out what to do, I have seen various old 'office' computers on eBay with i5-3470's and it-2500 for around £200 with those I was just going to stick a new psu and buy a second hand older card from CEX like a 780ti or a 690 

 

But I'm very conscious of the upgradability of the system as obviously there's only so far I can go with that mobo,

 

Now my other idea was to get something like a new ryzen Apu for now and get a graphics card later on but my worry with that is what would the performance difference be with the Apu version of ryzen with say a 780 compared to an equivalent ryzen CPU with said graphics card 

And obviously ddr4 is a lot more expensive in he last year.

 

I have hard drives, keyboard, mouse, screens etc just need everything else! I hope someone can lead me into the correct decision

[Ckdota]

Shouldnt have to explain this but its budget time!

 

How much are you committed to spending now?

 

How much are you willing to spend later?

 

 

Imagine a slider with one end being "I need now and has to be cheap" and the other end being "I need now but I am ok with consistently upgrading over time" where do you sit on that slider?

 

Are you on the far left? Get a dell/hp desktop and slap in a new graphics card/psu and you should be good to go.

 

Are you in the center? Get the ryzen APU skimp out on the ram by only getting 8gb and work from there

 

Are you in the far right? get more money and try to do a ryzen 7 build with x370 again only getting 8gb of ram and find a cheapo gpu to hold you off for now. 

 

Also what do you plan on doing? Do you play a lot of esports titles like league/dota2/cs:go? you should be fine with that sandy bridge i7 build. These are the considerations you are going to need to factor in.