Holiday '16 Hardware Priorities

[Chazore]

Teeqoz said:

1070 with an intel i7/i5 (I know I only need an i5 for gaming, but I plan on doing som recording, and I want my CPU to last at least 5 years because upgrading your CPU can be a bit of a hassle because you risk having to change your motherboard as well.) and 16 Gb of DDR4 RAM. Fractal Design Define R5 case. Don't have the specifics nailed down, but I'm fairly certain about the things I listed. And also, since this will be my first gaming PC, I have to buy stuff like the OS, a monitor and a keyboard (already have a mouse).

EDIT: Oh ya and a 240-256 GB SSD for the OS and important programs and games, and a 1-2 TB HDD for other stuff.

Sounds like a good choice for a first build. My one next year will hopefully be sporting an i7 since I'm wanting to record and edit footage myself (Streaming won't be often since my upload sucks). DDR4 I'm not so keen on since it's only giving that bit more perf rather than a bigger gap like it was between DDR2 to 3 (options will still be there though). Probably going to keep my PSU since it's more than enough as well as my Corsair Vengeance C70 and SSD. The new build will basically consist of a new mobo, CPU, GPU while being paired with a new SSD and HDD, possibly DDR4, though I might just stick with DDR 3 16gb kit.

Gaming wise I'd probably go for the Western Digital Black series 2TB. So far it's served me well with it's space and performance.

Almost forgot to add that I might go for a Geforce G-sync monitor at some point, though that's entirely dependent on the models and their price ranges next year.