Help! 250$ component combo?

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My power supply died and took my motherboard & cpu with it. I was looking for a combo of PSU+CPU+mobo for $250? I have a GTX 950 and 1600 MHz RAM.
 
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ok that last one you said you should really not buy if you have the money spend 60$ for a evga bronze 500/600W psu it would be the best psu for you with that build.
do get the cpu and mobo that was reccomended
 


i put that just in case he doesn't have the money for the first one, but the first one is much much better and i would highly reccomend spending the extra money on it
 


no dont get ether unless you HAVE to spend 5-15 dollars more for a evga bronze 500/600W it does not compare to the performance of the two you showed
 


so he should drop his CPU to get a better PSU if he cant afford it?
I totally agree with him getting the 80+ bronze it is significantly better than the other one and is much safer but if he absolutely doesn't have the extra $14 for some reason (considering this is already over budget) or if he wanted a 500 watt http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139027 which would cost almost 30$ more.
If he wanted to upgrade his GPU then yes he would have to buy another PSU no matter what he got
 
Not knowing your old parts I can only take a guess here... I'll post one over budget but with better parts and one at budget with lower performance. You can shave off dollars but I'm not going to recommend you lower quality components.

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/h4vVJx
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/h4vVJx/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($174.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: MSI H81M-P33 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($45.75 @ OutletPC)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G2 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($59.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $280.73
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-02-25 20:18 EST-0500

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/6CVYnQ
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/6CVYnQ/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i3-4170 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor ($114.89 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: MSI H81M-P33 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($45.75 @ OutletPC)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G2 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($59.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $220.63
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-02-25 20:28 EST-0500
 
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