Approximate Purchase Date: After the GTX 1070 releases
Budget Range: $1000-$1200
System Usage from Most to Least Important: Gaming (high FPS at a max of 1080p)
Are you buying a monitor: No
Parts to Upgrade (What I am thinking of getting at least):
CPU: Intel I5-6600K
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 3200MHz
Motherboard: MSI Z170A Gaming M3
PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA 750 G2 80+ GOLD
Do you need to buy OS: No
Preferred Website(s) for Parts: Amazon
Location: Virginia Beach
Parts Preferences: Intel, Nvidia
Overclocking: Yes
SLI or Crossfire: No
Your Monitor Resolution: 1920x1080
Additional Comments: For my GPU I plan on waiting for the GTX 1070 since I was already planning on getting a GTX 970. My main concerns are with the Motherboard. I don't plan on doing much OCing with this build (I will save that for when I get my degree and get a decent job), so I doubt I need some beefy board, but there are so many more boards than there are GPUs and CPUs, and the reviews are often impossible to go by (only people who have issues seem to rate), so I would like some advice here. I mainly went with the MSI because my current board was an old AMD MSI, and I haven't had any issues with it.
Why Are You Upgrading: I plan on buying a new PC over the summer with some of the money from a part time job I am taking (No summer classes available at my college, so I have a summer free) and I would like some opinions on my upgrade. My current $500 budget build from a few years ago is great, but it was a hastily thrown together build after my old clunker of a build finally bit the bullet (MoBo failure), and so it struggles with the games I want to play (Fallout and Skyrim once I actually starting playing around with mods)
The parts I plan on keeping from my old PC are my CPU fan: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO , my case a Cooler Master Elite 431 Plus , and my HDDs etc.
Budget Range: $1000-$1200
System Usage from Most to Least Important: Gaming (high FPS at a max of 1080p)
Are you buying a monitor: No
Parts to Upgrade (What I am thinking of getting at least):
CPU: Intel I5-6600K
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 3200MHz
Motherboard: MSI Z170A Gaming M3
PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA 750 G2 80+ GOLD
Do you need to buy OS: No
Preferred Website(s) for Parts: Amazon
Location: Virginia Beach
Parts Preferences: Intel, Nvidia
Overclocking: Yes
SLI or Crossfire: No
Your Monitor Resolution: 1920x1080
Additional Comments: For my GPU I plan on waiting for the GTX 1070 since I was already planning on getting a GTX 970. My main concerns are with the Motherboard. I don't plan on doing much OCing with this build (I will save that for when I get my degree and get a decent job), so I doubt I need some beefy board, but there are so many more boards than there are GPUs and CPUs, and the reviews are often impossible to go by (only people who have issues seem to rate), so I would like some advice here. I mainly went with the MSI because my current board was an old AMD MSI, and I haven't had any issues with it.
Why Are You Upgrading: I plan on buying a new PC over the summer with some of the money from a part time job I am taking (No summer classes available at my college, so I have a summer free) and I would like some opinions on my upgrade. My current $500 budget build from a few years ago is great, but it was a hastily thrown together build after my old clunker of a build finally bit the bullet (MoBo failure), and so it struggles with the games I want to play (Fallout and Skyrim once I actually starting playing around with mods)
The parts I plan on keeping from my old PC are my CPU fan: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO , my case a Cooler Master Elite 431 Plus , and my HDDs etc.
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