re: New Desktop Build Recs

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look at gaming quality components, keyboards, mice,

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Many companies will attach the word "gaming" to something subpar to get sheep to buy. So, no, don't do that. There are plenty of quality components out there that don't say "gaming" on them.

As for your actual PC, there is really no difference between a "gaming" power supply or "gaming" RAM vs just RAM ( or a PSU). Actually, for productivity, you'll want to go multi-core, multi-thread on the CPU. Gaming is mostly single thread processing.

That i5-2500K is a quad core, with an LGA1155 chipset that only supports DDR3 RAM. You don't want to try to replace any of these components and you certainly can't resale them.

You can still buy LGA1155 motherboards but the best CPU you can buy for it is 3rd Gen.i7-3770k, which you may find used out there, but new would be a niche buy and would probably cost more than worth. (someone on Newegg has one for $540. Yeah, don't do that).

You would be better off looking at a Z690 MB (LGA1700) and a 12th gen Intel CPU. If you don't game or do video processing, an i5 would probably be great (a 12600k is under $200 right now) and some DDR4 RAM. Would be a super huge upgrade from your current.

If you want something future proof, you'll want to go AM5 with PCIE 5.0 support which will be a little pricey, but AM5 could be around a few more years. Hell, AMD just announced some new AM5 CPUs that will be 40% faster than the current ones.

Anyway, if you want some good feedback, seriously go post a question on the gaming board. Even if you aren't using it for gaming.