So just to hop in here on this topic if I may....
I've done some testing on my own. I decided to build my 9 year old a budget gaming rig in the last two years or so, and I had some hardware lying around that I figured would be plenty, but found out it was absolutely not.... I started off with a GTX 970 by the way, which to me seemed like plenty of HP for a 9 year old at 1080p.... But I decided last minute to put it on ebay to see what it would sell for and it sold for $215. So I turned around and bought a 6GB GTX 1060 the same day for $230 shipped, and so it cost like $15 to upgrade the GPU. (hopefully pricing gets back to this norm at some point)
As for the CPU I had an FX-8320, gigabyte 970 mobo and 8GB 1600Mhz DDR3 lying around (which I understand is quite different to the hardware you guys are currently talking about). But when I paired it with the GTX 1060 it gave me the same type of performance that @DarkSmith2 is talking about. At 1080p60, even though it could fairly easily hit 60fps+ in most games there was very often some stuttering, or such horrible framerate fluctuation as to never give a smooth experience in almost any games.
So, keeping budget in mind I was able to get an H110 motherboard, an i5 6500 and 8GB of 2133Mhz DDR4 for super cheap. (See- Super cheap)
This immediately showed drastically different results, it easily way outperformed the FX-8320 in everything. Not necessarily min/max framerates, but more importantly in stability of framerates.
Having said this, the i5 6500 isn't enough in all games now days, and I would really suggest getting a 6 core whether you choose AMD or Intel, and if you can swing it get one with hyperthreading or SMT. I would suggest Intel personally, since you are trying to reach high framerates on a high refresh rate monitor. Ryzen 2 does seem better at this, but Intel is still ahead for max framerates.
Anyway, if I were to do this budget build again right now, this would be what I buy right this second, and it costs $328.11 TOTAL -
Motherboard and ram - $133
i5 8600 - $195
That hardware with a GTX 1060 should make for a decent gaming rig at 1080p for quite a while to come. It's too bad you don't have the 6GB 1060 though...
(also faster memory would be worth it if you can swing it, if not the above will do the job)
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As a side note I would disagree that Steve removing the outlier frametimes being "lying." They are outliers, meaning they don't represent what you're really actually seeing while playing, and would only serve to skew the benchmark results.
