Hi, I'm in the US and intend on buying a Geforce. I don't care much for 4k, so I'll mainly shoot for 1080p. What are the better options at 500$ tops? And what brand of ram memory do you recommend? Finally, what CPU should I get, on the not so expensive side of the available i7 ones? Thanks in advance for all the help.

$500 just for the GPU? You can get a GTX 1080 for that money.

I suggest Asus Strix or Evga ACX 3.0 or MSI twin Frozer/Seahawk.

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Although for 1080p. You don't need that much horse power. A 1070 or 1060 6GB will do just fine.

As for the CPU, you can get an i7 but that is pretty overkill generally but you will get really crazy performance with an i7 + 1080.

If you are looking to spend less though, getting a Ryzen 5 1600X + 1070 would be a more value friendly option.

No need for an i7 or a $500 GPU for 1080p.

i5 7600k, GTX 1070, done deal. G.skill RAM is my RAM of choice - never let me down.

I7 processors as well as GTX 1060/1070 are a bit overkill if you are primarily wanting 1080p 60FPS gaming. An i5 6400 processor as well as a GTX 1050 ti with at least 8 gigs of RAM would do fine with at least 100 bucks left over.

For Full HD, you could also opt for an RX 580 8GB instead of a GeForce. Both Sapphire and Powercolor have great cards here. If you don't want to upgrade for several years then you could go with an GeForce 1080, but for 1080p that's pretty much overkill right now, even for Ultra settings.

As for the CPU, an RS5 1500X or 1600X should do fine, an i7 doesn't change much here except the pricetag. If you're overclocking then a 1600 would be perfect. I wouldn't pick an i5 anymore since more and more games can handle more than 4 cores and frametimes suffer increasingly much when you only have 4 threads.

RAM is more tricky with Ryzen. 2x8GiB DDR4 3200 G.Skill Ripjaws V with a CAS Latency of 14 (there's also a version with a latency of 15 and even 16) would be my choice and hope the board accepts them.

Best "bang for buck" is something like:

Nvidia Geforce 1060 (~220$)

AMD Ryzen 1600X (~230$) (6c/12threads max turbo 4ghz)   (almost as good as a i7 4790k (stock) ~395$ cpu)

The 1600x is crazy good value, also for gaming. Just pair it with fast ram, they love fast ram.

With that you should be able to play any game 1080p.

The problem is Cryptomineing again became popular and all the 570/580 cards are sold out, and/or over priced, because people buy them and make server farms that cryptomine.

Back when they where like 200$ they where amasing value though.

Don't get an i7. Get an overclockable i5, because an i7's hyper-threading really isn't going to help much with the overwhelming majority of games, but a higher clock-rate will, especially if you become interested in emulation. 

The newest overclockable i5 is about $220-240, while the cheapest i7 (non-overclockable) is $290. 

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vs. 

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yeah, I hope the price drops again when Vega finally releases. At 300+€, it's simply too expensive. At 230€ it would be fine, but now ain't the right time, that's true.

I prefer to go with Gigabyte GTX. A 1060 6gig Vram is a good card for 1080p gaming with Corsair 16gigs DDR4. There good for the price. i5 would be suited good for the GPU. However ill always go the i7 CPU since most PC games are CPU heavy.