I was looking for a $500 pc that could maybe run source games at medium and other at medium also.And if you could include the OS in the parts and if you could make a part list/wishlist on New egg since that is where I'll be buy my parts from
If you needed Windows included in that cost, I'd go for the Pentium, and the 265.
Anyways, the top build will do best when putting the settings to the max, but may not get as high FPS in the med-high settings as the second build, because of the weaker cpu. (Well really it depends on the overclock.) The Pentium-265 option will still put out high fps at high settings BTW, in all games except a few, Crysis 3, the Witcher 2/3, Metro LL, where it'll still get ~40 fps at high settings, low AA
Wow did you really just give him a Haswell Refresh with an old board H81 board? They don't work together unless you get extremely lucky and get a board that had its bios already updated, which on these old ass boards is highly unlikely. If u cant get the H97 board or if the place where u buy from doesnt have a bios update service just get the pentium.