awesome post, djinn. Painted a pretty good picture of the different purposes of each part and their future capabilites.
Atm it kind of stands between two different setups, both tips from a friend of mine (one which he customized himself. They both profit from black-friday-sale so ought to buy one today).
First up is a prebuilt computer from komplett.se with these specifications:
Problem with this one is likely the 500w PSU. Friend mentions that it will most definitely make quite a bit of noise as it will need to run at its maximum. However I could exchange that for a 750w I presume?
The upside with this one (all this is what he says) is that it is quite powerful indeed. AND it includes the OS.
My friends customized computer for me:
(Fri montering means free assembly. An offer on black friday).
This one is a bit weaker than the previous one. It does have a less nosiy-tower and PSU though. The noise is indeed very important to me (more so than the power in fact. Been playing games at 20fps or lower for many years).
Also, it doesn't include an OS. and I'm not too keen to "loan" an OS from online.
The price is basically the same. 20€ difference. So no idea where to go.
Monitor I will get second hand probably.