First build help

[unkindstatistic]

Hello all! So after some time I am officially ready to pull the trigger this weekend with the Presidents' Day deals going on, I don't have a massive budget (would prefer to stay at the $500-$600 us range) but my old gaming laptop just won't run anything anymore. Any chance you could help me with parts? I was thinking the 1060 but it seems everyone says the 480 is much better. I would also like to go intel for the CPU preferably the i5. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[deleted_member_030719]

Probably be better to wait for Ryzen to launch.

[unkindstatistic]

Side note I should've added, I'm only doing 1080 gaming and maybe some recording.

[Guest]

4 minutes ago, unkindstatistic said:

Hello all! So after some time I am officially ready to pull the trigger this weekend with the Presidents' Day deals going on, I don't have a massive budget (would prefer to stay at the $500-$600 us range) but my old gaming laptop just won't run anything anymore. Any chance you could help me with parts? I was thinking the 1060 but it seems everyone says the 480 is much better. I would also like to go intel for the CPU preferably the i5. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($189.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Motherboard: ASRock H110M-HDS Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($46.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  ($47.60 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($48.88 @ OutletPC) 
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon RX 480 4GB NITRO D5 OC Video Card  ($184.98 @ Newegg) 
Case: BitFenix Nova ATX Mid Tower Case  ($22.99 @ NCIX US) 
Power Supply: SeaSonic S12II 620W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($49.90 @ Amazon) 
Total: $591.33
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-02-17 21:08 EST-0500

[shadowbyte]

wait for ryzen

[unkindstatistic]

3 minutes ago, Jed M said:

Probably be better to wait for Ryzen to launch.

Isn't the cheapest Ryzen going to be $300+?

[acl-ny]

2 minutes ago, unkindstatistic said:

Isn't the cheapest Ryzen going to be $300+?

Nope, they are going to be offering R3 series chips starting at around $120.  I'd wait.

[deleted_member_030719]

5 minutes ago, unkindstatistic said:

Isn't the cheapest Ryzen going to be $300+?

[CatXice]

49 minutes ago, unkindstatistic said:

Hello all! So after some time I am officially ready to pull the trigger this weekend with the Presidents' Day deals going on, I don't have a massive budget (would prefer to stay at the $500-$600 us range) but my old gaming laptop just won't run anything anymore. Any chance you could help me with parts? I was thinking the 1060 but it seems everyone says the 480 is much better. I would also like to go intel for the CPU preferably the i5. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

480 with a i5-6600k or 7600k (which ever is cheaper) or just wait for ryzen as its meant to lunch start of march or as a leak has posted 28th of feb and there once again leaked pricing is like half intels price just need to see some benchmarks first 

[Preston builds]

id probably wait for ryzen, its worth it