Budget PC building for gaming December 2016

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Hey guys, my old 8320 just died after about almost 4 years of being OC'd and so am looking at a slight upgrade.
I'd be using it pretty much just for gaming and want to be able to run BF1 decently.
Have given myself about $850 AUD (Australian) to play with.
Parts I have and are working tested and fine:
EVGA 750watt PSU
Corsair Vengeance 1600 DDR3 RAM (only 1 month old) 16GB (2x8Gb sticks)
1 x Samgsung 850 EVO 240Gb SSD
1 x WD 2.5" 1Tb HDD
Old GPU's I have are 2 x GTX 670s in SLI but don't really seem to cut it anymore in modern games.


Am wondering if it's worth getting the following:
GPU: 1060
CPU: FX 8350
MSI 970 Gaming Motherboard


I'm not an AMD fanboy at all and have had Intel a long time ago so also open to equivelant etc however from looking around they seem to be far more expensive? Am wondering if that's worth the trade off in gaming.

Any help would be appreciated thanks!
Jon.
 
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BF1 players are facing a lot of heating issues with AMD chips as its a massively cpu heavy game. Use the Storage and PSU from your old build and upgrade to a better quality PSU when you can, unless its a supernova.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($267.00 @ Shopping Express)
Motherboard: Asus H110M-E Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($76.00 @ Shopping Express)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory ($119.00 @ Scorptec)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB WINDFORCE OC 6G Video Card ($349.00 @ PLE Computers)
Case: Zalman ZM-T1 PLUS MicroATX Mini...

bwinzey

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Right now, AMD's CPU's are over 4 years old. You could wait for Zen to come out in a few months and get massive performance/dollar or get a skylake i5. Even the i3 beats the FX-8320 in gaming benchmarks.
 
BF1 players are facing a lot of heating issues with AMD chips as its a massively cpu heavy game. Use the Storage and PSU from your old build and upgrade to a better quality PSU when you can, unless its a supernova.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($267.00 @ Shopping Express)
Motherboard: Asus H110M-E Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($76.00 @ Shopping Express)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory ($119.00 @ Scorptec)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB WINDFORCE OC 6G Video Card ($349.00 @ PLE Computers)
Case: Zalman ZM-T1 PLUS MicroATX Mini Tower Case ($39.00 @ Mwave Australia)
Total: $850.00
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-12-09 14:20 AEDT+1100
 
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