There is no pink color case in the local market currently, even if there is, it is quite hard to find one, unless you order from overseas and get it shipped to here but cost might be an issue.

Intel Core i5 6400 - RM 796
MSI B150M Bazooka (D4) - RM 409
Corsair 8GB DDR4 2133MHz Value RAM - RM 168
Palit GTX950 2GB GDDR5 StormX - RM 699
Kingston HyperX Fury 120GB SSD - RM 209
WD Blue 1TB HDD - RM 215
Seasonic S12II 520W - RM 283
Thermaltake Versa H25 - RM 185

Total: RM 2964 (ETech price inclusive of GST)

If you are planning to play other games especially triple A titles, then you can consider upgrade the GPU to GTX960/GTX970/R9 380/R9 380X for better performance.

3.5 - 4k would be more ideal as you need monitor and peripherals which aren't cheap nowadays. But anyway I suggest a rig based on 3k for the time being.

Intel Core i3 6100 - RM 496
Gigabyte H110M-DS2 (D4) - RM 289
Corsair 8GB DDR4 2133MHz Value RAM - RM 168
Asus GTX960 4GB GDDR5 Turbo - RM 927
WD Blue 1TB HDD - RM 215
FSP Hexa+ 550W - RM 188
Bitfenix Nova - RM 149
BenQ GL2460 - RM 510
Logitech MK200 Wired Combo - RM 63

Total: RM 3005 (ETech price inclusive of GST)

No problem with i3 + GTX960, even GTX970 also no issue.

In average locked i3 vs locked i7 during max load, i7 draws extra 30W from the wall so it is still feasible.

If budget allows, go for Seasonic M12II EVO 620W, RM 363 from ETech, if no then just stick with FSP Hexa+ for the time being.

For 1080p video, 2GB is fine, unless you are talking about serious 4K content, focus more on system RAM, get 16GB if possible, some rendering software will take all your memory during rendering process and leave you behind with a laggy PC which you cannot even use browser normally.

Monitor required?

Intel Core i5 6400 - RM 785
Gigabyte H170N-WiFi - RM 569
Kingston 8GB DDR4 2133MHz Value RAM - RM 165
Zotac GTX970 4GB GDDR5 Reference - RM 1450
Kingston HyperX Fury 120GB SSD - RM 229
WD Blue 1TB HDD - RM 225
FSP Hexa+ 550W - RM 189
Phanteks Enthoo Evolv ITX - RM 369

Total: RM 3981 (Techview price inclusive of GST)

Alternative build with R9 390 8GB but no SSD.

Intel Core i5 6400 - RM 785
Gigabyte H170N-WiFi - RM 569
Kingston 8GB DDR4 2133MHz Value RAM - RM 165
MSI R9 390 8GB GDDR5 Gaming - RM 1550
WD Blue 1TB HDD - RM 225
Seasonic M12II EVO 620W - RM 409
Phanteks Enthoo Evolv ITX - RM 369

Total: RM 4072 (Techview price inclusive of GST)

Not recommended to do so as R9 390 is high in power consumption and Hexa series is a low-to-mid end grade PSU only, even though it will work on your system but not worth to risk it, if anything goes wrong, prepare to

It is actually not an upgrade, they are performing neck to neck and are considered as same tier GPU.

GTX970 has much lower power consumption and this allows you to run it on a cheaper PSU, the drawback is its VRAM which is 4GB vs R9 390's 8GB, but for 1080p, 4GB is more than enough nowadays, only some games are using > 4GB VRAM if you turn all the graphics settings to max especially texture and environment quality, it also outperforms R9 390 in GameWorks enabled games.

While R9 390 is considered more "future proof" due to the extra 4GB VRAM but consumes more power and you need to spend more money to get a decent PSU to run it, if you compare the raw performance between them, R9 390 will have slight edge.

VRAM is like your system RAM, but it is for GPU to store framebuffer and necessary info to render/display on the monitor.

It is noticeable in some games, i.e. Far Cry Primal, R9 390 produces around 20% more frame rates than GTX970 on 1080p (but GTX970 is still managed to hit 60 FPS in average so that's not really a big deal if you are playing this game on 1080p 60Hz screen), this happens only if the game is unbiased to any camp and is well optimized for all GPU, like the recently released Gears of War: Ultimate Edition on Windows Store, it runs badly on AMD card, some reports saying it is due to Nvidia GameWorks (HBAO+) settings which is not disclosed or stated clearly in the games description, this is the time when GTX970 shines.

This post has been edited by terence_nwb: Mar 8 2016, 05:26 PM

What settings you can run is depend on the optimization from the games developers, there is no guarantee it will run well at ultra settings even you own the strongest GPU in the world if the game is badly coded.

Intel Core i7 6700K - RM 1530
Asus Z170 Pro Gaming - RM 779
GSKill TridentZ 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4 3200MHz RAM - RM 459
Asus R9 390 8GB GDDR5 Strix - RM 1749
Samsung 750 EVO 120GB SSD - RM 249
WD Blue 1TB HDD - RM 219
Seasonic M12II EVO 620W - RM 409
Cryorig H5 Ultimate - RM 229
NZXT S340 - RM 320
BenQ GW2470H - RM 599

Total: RM 6542 (Idealtech price inclusive of GST)

Office usage? MS Office only? Just light usage right?

Intel Core i3 6100 - RM 496
Gigabyte H110M-DS2 (D4) - RM 289
Corsair 8GB DDR4 2133MHz Value RAM - RM 168
WD Blue 1TB HDD - RM 215
FSP Hexa+ 400W - RM 145
Armaggeddon Hectotron T3X - RM 129
BenQ GW2270 - RM 429

Total: RM 1871 (ETech price inclusive of GST)

You can include SSD if needed.

I have dealt with them many times already, they are definitely legit, they have a physical shop in Kepong, you can pay a visit to them if you want.

Most of the parts of my main rig are bought from them.

No compability issue there, everything is alright.

As for RAM, you can consider getting a higher frequency one (i.e > 3000MHz), jumping from base clock of 2133MHz to 2400MHz gives you a very tiny difference only FYI, too hard to notice in real life usage.

Normally for low & mid budget build (< 4k), I won't recommend choosing Asus mobo due to their pricing issue, it is better to dump the money onto other parts for best price/performance ratio.

Is your Excel sheet very large? If yes then stay with at least i3, if not then Pentium will do.

Low end Quadro or FirePro isn't as strong as normal consumer grade (GeForce/Radeon) GPU, since you are budget doesn't allow high end workstation GPU so just go for consumer grade GPU now.

Skylake Xeon requires C232 chipset workstation mobo at which its price isn't cheap, so i7 + H110 combo is more worth.

Intel Core i7 6700 - RM 1324
Gigabyte H110M-DS2 (D4) - RM 289
Corsair 16GB (8GB x 2) DDR4 2133MHz Value RAM - RM 336
Zotac GTX750Ti 2GB GDDR5 ZT-70605-10M - RM 509
Kingston HyperX Fury 120GB SSD - RM 209
WD Blue 1TB HDD - RM 215
FSP Hexa+ 550W - RM 188
Asus DVD-RW SATA ODD - RM 69
Logitech MK200 Wired Combo - RM 63
Bitfenix Nova - RM 149
Dell S2316H IPS - RM 657

Total: RM 4008 (ETech price inclusive of GST)

i7 build but without dedicated GPU (iGPU is quite powerful, GT740/R7 250 equivalent).

Intel Core i7 6700 - RM 1324
ASRock H110M-ITX - RM 338
Corsair 8GB DDR4 2133MHz Value RAM - RM 168
Kingston HyperX Fury 120GB SSD - RM 209
WD Blue 1TB HDD - RM 215
FSP Hexa+ 400W - RM 145
CM Elite 110 - RM 159

Total: RM 2558 (ETech price inclusive of GST)

This is a more balanced build.

Intel Core i5 6500 - RM 854
Gigabyte H170N-WiFi - RM 569
Corsair 8GB DDR4 2133MHz Value RAM - RM 168
Sapphire R7 260X 1GB GDDR5 OC - RM 382
WD Blue 1TB HDD - RM 215
FSP Hexa+ 400W - RM 145
CM Elite 110 - RM 159

Total: RM 2492 (ETech price inclusive of GST)

Mind to provide full system spec?

Your PSU has 42A on 12V rail (504W), conclusion is yes, can support R9 390.