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Hyper 212 cooler is on a good offer. https://www.scan.co.uk/products/cooler-master-hyper-212-single-tower-cpu-cooler-4-heatpipes-1x-120mm-fan-red-leds-aluminium
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Thanks for the info – I'll look in to other cases and PSUs but just trying to get a rough idea.
I perhaps used the term workstation mistakenly (ie, not looking at Xeons or anything) and honestly, this thing will probably 90% be used for gaming anyway and I'm just trying to make excuses for myself. Most of the work I do is IO and memory constrained – large InDesign documents, Photoshop, Lightroom, bit of Illustrator – so fast SSDs have always been more helpful than processing power. At the office, I use an i5 iMac with integrated graphics and only 8GB ram + SSD so anything that's "good enough" for gaming will be miles faster than that.
Probably an i5 in that case to keep the costs down. i3 would also be fine, really.
Other option is just get a 13" MacBook Pro and an external GPU but that's already way more expensive than a very fast desktop.