Best Performance Gaming Rig $700-$800

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thefrobel

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Considering getting a new gaming rig.
Been reading through the forums at all the suggestions for this price range.

Looking for input regarding AMD vs. Intel. I know, generally, you can't get the intels high-performance chips (i7's) into budget builds, but is there a good pricepoint / tradeoff for FX 8 series vs i5's ? I've Been a long time user of AMD (currently at 1intel / 23 computer systems, since I started building my own), so I have some bias on it, and I'd like some other perspective.

2ndly, GPU: Best bang for the buck currently? non-partial to nVida vs Radeon.

Also, I already have a decent AMD rig (although it's not working 100% right now, which is why I'm considering the upgrade), so building off that is an option (maybe just up'ing GPU and MB).

Current System:
AMD FX-8350
ASUS M5A97 LE 2.0 (replacement has been suggested as fix for current issues)
2x Team DDR3 1600 8g
Sapphire Radeon R9 270
Samsung 850 Pro 125g OS SSD
700w generic PSU
W10 x64

Thanks.


 
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VR PC-BUILD

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Here is the build:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($194.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: MSI H110M Pro-VD Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($49.99 @ Micro Center)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($53.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($46.98 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 980 4GB Classified ACX 2.0 Video Card ($349.99 @ NCIX US)
Case: NZXT Source 220 ATX Mid Tower Case ($32.49 @ NZXT)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA NEX 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($64.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $793.42
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-05-20 09:52 EDT-0400

If you have already have a HDD or Case then leave it out from the above list and go for GTX1070 instead of GTX980 as it is a beast and costs only $50 more making it $400 for GPU. Even if you don't have HDD or Case just push your budget $50 up and get that GTX1070 as it can handle any game at high settings with ease. Please increase your budget and go for GTX1070 there will be huge performance boost with it.
 
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CV_Taihou

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Here's what I'd suggest going with. The Intel i5 will perform better in a pure gaming application since it's single core performance is leaps and bounds ahead of AMD. I threw this together as something you could look at. It's not able to be overclocked, but the performance will still beat out AMD offerings. H170 is probably the best budget chipset you can get for Skylake. Only has 8gigs of RAM, but it'd be pretty easy to toss in a 16gig kit if you wanted for not too much more money. I didn't include an SSD, HDD or GPU because I'm gathering you'd probably carry over the storage from your current machine, and you'd easily be able to get a GTX1070 with this budget. Power supply is also leaps and bounds better than the NEX unit that VR suggested.

i5-6500
 
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