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After recieving a $350 gift card to dell for buying a TV my plan was to buy a prebuilt computer thru them. 2 months later watching youtube videos and going thru forums ive decided to build a PC ive researched hard and have madeup my mind on everything I want except GPU still undecided & a little overwhelmed.
Im looking to upgrade from PS4 get into PC gaming I wont use it heavily for about anything else but dont want to buy something I will need to replace immediately.
Ive decided on 16gbs of ram; ryzen 1600 for CPU down to 3 options on the GPU. I will be buying my GPU thru dell, I kno there overpriced but have that gift card everything else thru PC Part Picker. Any helpful advice appreciated
Option 1 - $350 my cost $0 Visiontek Rx 580 OC 8GB http://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/accessories/apd/a9875800?c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19&sku=A9875800

Option 2 - $338 my cost $0 PNY Geforce GTX XLR8 1060 OC 6GB
http://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/accessories/apd/a9365545?c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19&sku=A9365545

Option 3 - $450 my cost $100 PNY GTX 1070 8GB
http://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/accessories/apd/490-bdnl?c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19&sku=490-BDNL
 
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If you can afford the 1070 got with that 100%. You'll love it.
Go nvidia and intel over amd for gaming.
You could also go with the new i5 8400 . It's pretty cheap and is probably the best price/performance cpu ever made.
 
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lol don't listen to this fan boy hahaha. A quick google search will prove him wrong lol. Any benchmark will show intel crushing amd in pretty much every game.
 
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I want to build the PC by end of november, i8400 may be better than Ryzen 1600 but with me having to pay so much more for the motherboard(2-3x) and the fact that I would have to buy a motherboard for overclocking where the 8400 is locked makes me think the 1600 is just better value. Also dont kno about the longevity of that motherboard being that allegedly they could have made coffee Lake compatible with other motherboards and have chosen not to. I kno Ryzen is suppose to keep AM4 for the next 4 years. Please correct me if im wrong as I am new to PC building just trying to think(probably over thinking) things thru
 
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You are right. If you think Ryzen FPS is good enough, I suggest getting Ryzen 1600 for better upgrade path and potential on the extra 6 threads. Modern games may start utilizing hypertheading in the near future. For 1080p gaming, I5-8400 will be better, just weird mb choice right now. Some may argue Z370 can allow you to upgrade to unlocked CPU, thus still worth it. Ryzen should have pretty good FPS, despite behind coffee lake.
 
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