Dilemma: PS4 with games or a better PC Build

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So I've had this dilemma for a while and I'm pretty unsure whether what would be the best option. I know nobody can decide for me, but I want to see which would be more worthwhile since X-mas is drawing nearer. And my budget is up to £400 max.

This is my build which needs a great improvement:
3rd Party Galaxy case
AMD A4 5300 dual core
Gigabyte FM2+ Mobo (forgotten the full name)
8gb RAM
EVGA GTX 750ti SC (re-using)
Generic 400W PSU
1TB Toshiba HDD (re-using)
Thermalright True Spirit 90mm CPU Cooler (re-using)

This is the build I have come up with:
Fractal Design Define R4
i5 6400 Quad Core Skylake CPU
MSI Z170M Mortar Mobo
HyperX Fury Black 8GB (4x2) 2400Ghz DDR4 RAM
Seasonic M12ii 620W PSU
+ A game or two/FUNC KB-460 mechanical keyboard
£395.94 - total

Or:
PS4 console 500GB (cuh-1200)
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Bloodborne: Game of The Year Ed.
Fallout 4
DVI cable for my PC (since I'm currently using an HDMI cable and there's only one socket in my monitor)
£396.78 - total

Any insight or reccommendations would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
-Thorogrimm.

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I would go with the computer build you can do more with it and games will run faster the only reason I wold go with a console is for the exclusives but I would much rather invest that money into a computer and beside thanksgiving and xmas steam sales will be killer so you can save a lot of money from those.

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Go for the computer.

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Definitely the computer. You might save some money if you went Z97 since you can transfer that RAM over, and the hardware is generally a little cheaper. You'd be getting about the same performance as the skylake CPU.

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Cool.

So Instead on my list I've got a an i5 4460, an MSI Z97 SLI Krait Edition motherboard and some DDR3 HyperX Fury White 8GB (4x2). I really didn't want to stick with my current 8GB single stick.

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Why don't you just upgrade your CPU and grab a 380? It'll game better overall than an i5+750ti

Also threw in a new PSU to avoid possible fire hazzards

You could also use the SSD money to get a 390
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CPU: AMD Athlon X4 860K 3.7GHz Quad-Core Processor (£55.94 @ Aria PC)
Storage: A-Data Premier SP550 480GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£117.86 @ More Computers)
Video Card: XFX Radeon R9 380 4GB Double Dissipation Video Card (£159.98 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£51.36 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £385.14
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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That should set you up nicely for a while, also check out Streetguru's builds. If you want to go AMD you could probably get a little more bang for your buck.

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Main thing is he already has an FM2+ board and 8GBs of DDR3

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Won't the R9 380 be bottlenecked, though?

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a 860k+380 will crush a 750ti + anything

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Here's a basically the same CPU with a 290x

An 860k is only going to hold you back in very CPU intensive games like Company of Heros or Total War

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Well I mostly play games like Dark Souls, Skyrim and I'm planning on getting Fallout 4.

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Ya...Betheda's engine really likes CPUs, though I'm not sure why the FX 8 cores are faster than the FM2+ CPUs, I guess it takes advantage of multi-threading, much better than skyrim did anyways

Skyrim
FX 4 and 8 cores pretty much on par
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-processor-frame-rate-performance,3427-6.html

But in every other game besides fallout 4 the 380 + 860k is going to beat out the i5 + 750ti

Plus you get the 480gb SSD

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So what am I better off going with?
Sticking to my GTX 750ti + i5 4460-- or an R9 380 + X4 860k
I mean it's less expensive to go for an i5 4460 with other stuff and stick with my GTX 750ti, but what would be better performance?

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Depends on how much you care about your fallout 4 performance really, the 380 is going to do better in pretty much every other game

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Well, I mean it's a game I want pretty bad but is an i5 4460 and a GTX 750ti going to be sufficient for most stuff?

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1080p lower settings mostly, should be fine until you can upgrade to something

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Hm, I'll have a look around for a bit. I do pretty much only game at 1080p and I'd only be worried if I could only run some newer games at Medium settings for 30 FPS.

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I think either way you're going to be hovering around 40fps 1080p low-medium in fallout 4

So, ya, maybe get the 860k so you can get the giant SSD

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Will an SSD be worth sacrificing an i5, though?