Thanks for responding and giving me advice. This is very new to me and I may have overloaded myself with information from different sources.
Money is an obstacle, but $800 CAD shouldn't be terrible for what I need.
I'll be using it to run my AutoCAD like software off of it as well as the...
I've been getting back into electronics projects and I'm building a workstation to run the software I would need for 3D printing, simulations, graphics and the like.
My GF's mom gave me her old desktop computer a Dell Inspiron 545. I'll be using that as the case and most likely the power source...