Mini PC or another workstation

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I currently have a Dell Precision T3600, Intel Xeon E5-1650 3.20GHz, 16.0 GB, GTX 1080 (8 GB).
I use it for Plex, Lightroom/Photoshop, occasional Davinci Resolve and some light gaming (at most Football Manager, L4D, DayZ).
It's still serving me well considering how old it is but it's creaking a little with all the Adobe updates and although I game infrequently, low settings is a must (apart from L4D).
Is it worth considering a Mini PC as a replacement or try another HP/Dell/Lenovo workstation with an newer GPU?
Budget is up to £500.

nb. I do have a far beefier work PC that I use for Davinci Resolve and can use for graphics but IT at work have locked down using my own HDDs that I have my personal footage and photographs on.

Cheers
 
I don't really have time so start building something (in the middle of house renovations) - I do have another unit I put together with the following but I'm pretty certain the MB is fried so don't want to go down that road of trying to test things out
Intel Core i7 4930K @ 3.40GHz
ASUS P9X79 (LGA2011)
64gb Corsair Vengeance DDR3
Corsair AX 760 PSU
Zalman CNPS11X Extreme CPU Cooler

I think the easiest thing would be to try and find a decent spec used workstation - any suggestions?
 
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