Updating Hardware advice?

Aright so you may have seen my other post awhile back where my current computer just like took a shit on itself, and nothing was working right. With that being said and established, I took this a sign to go ahead and update the thing so I could get to playing games again.

I am only updating it, not building and entirely new computer, so I will be reusing some parts from what I have here. I am going to be using it primarily for gaming, not rendering or multi-function. I mainly play CPU Intensive games Armored Warfare, Arma III, The problem for me now is I don't want to overkill on the CPU because I want to play games like Rainbow Six Siege, or the upcoming WildLands. which I'm guessing are more on the GPU side of things.

I use two monitors a 24" 60Hrz, and a 42" 60Hrz, both at 1920x1080p. I am really begging for 60fps, However I completely understand if that's unreachable with my budget. Speaking of budget I am at $600 with not much wiggle room, max I could go to is maybe $610-$620. I would really prefer it not to go higher than $600

Like I said earlier I won't be needing some parts because I will be reusing some of the parts from my current build, I'll list the parts I will be using again.

-NZXT X41 CPU AIO
-Thermaltalk TRX-750W Semi.
-NZXT H440 Mid-tower
-RipJaws 8GB 1330Mhrz Ram
-WD Blue 1TB HDD (x3)

Lastly this is all out of preference but anything that would match the Red/Black theme on the case would be amazing. I am still debating if I should go Skylake, but buying DDR4 ram is what is worrying me. I wen't ahead and did a rough build of what I was looking to get.

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/dqGBxr

I want to say thank you in advance for helping me indecisive self figure out what rout I should take.

If you want to upgrade now I'd suggest going for R9 r390 instead of 970.
Unless you have some quirk against AMD.

Your build is totally alright.

I wouldn't say I have a quirk with AMD, more like paranoia, both my HD4870 and my R7770 failed on me :/ So im kinda like worried the same will happen if I buy another AMD card.

I would get an SSD in there as soon as possible also if you want better raw performance in your CPU (for the same price) go for a Xeon, that Hyper threading alone is reason enough to buy
And maybe my preference but I'd go for a R9 390 for the additional VRAM

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3V7Xgs

a good idea might be to find maybe something in the i5 quad core area with a h-series board and a r9 390 and that will serve you well at 1080p

an SSD would be a great investment but its not vital

A 380 is going to be more than enough for 1080p gaming, and a 390 would be a better choice than the 970

Paying all the extra for overclocking really isn't going to be worth it

and skylake is finally a more attractive option, just take out what you don't need I suppose, would be about $120 cheaper, suppose you could just go for a 390 with that, but I'd just save that $120 for a display upgrade to 4k then to whatever next gen GPU is good, though a free-sync 4k IPS display is only around $500 right now

upgrading the i5 here to a 6700 would be a decent option as well

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/Kw2vgs
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/Kw2vgs/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($199.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H110M-S2HP Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($68.99 @ Amazon)
Memory: G.Skill NT Series 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($31.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($49.89 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: PowerColor Radeon R9 380 4GB PCS+ Video Card ($188.89 @ OutletPC)
Case: Fractal Design Core 1000 USB 3.0 MicroATX Mid Tower Case ($29.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($43.57 @ Mac Mall)
Total: $613.31
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-02-26 21:36 EST-0500

what would be the big difference between the I series and the Xeon? would it even make a noticeable difference?

Basically the Xeon isn't overclockable but has the performance that of an i7 4790 without the iGPU so no onboard graphics, but that doesn't matter if you have a Graphics card because you won't use the iGPU anyway

AMD and Nvidia don't have any difference in the manufacturing quality, the same fabs make the silicon and the card assembly is pretty much top notch for both parties.
Mostly AMD and Nvidia supply vendors with the chips and licences and a reference layout.

If either card's failed all the time they would loose money from RMAs obviously.
Though generally a rule of thumb is that the worse a card is cooled the higher chance that it dies, gtx 480 and 290X reference being good examples.

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You said It has hyper Threading right? so its a Quad core with eight Threads? or a Dual core with four Threads?

4 cores 8 threads myfriend ;)
(performance of an i7)

How would the single core performance compare to the I7 4790? Better by a lot or slightly worse?

Slightly lower power consumption and performance.
It is clocked slightly lower but is the same CPU pretty much.

Within margin of error, but maybe slightly worse. From my research they are the same chip, one with an iGPU (The i7) and one without (Xeon)

Alright, I have a question switching from the 970 to the R390 would it be much a difference? and if so where does it do better or worse?

More VRAM, slightly higher performance, higher power consumption though that isn't really a issue with one card.
390 is the most bang4buck you can get right now.

Another quick question, would the SSD make a huge difference? I Really don't mind boot times, or relatively long loading screens, I am rather patient.

how are the Crimson drivers compared to those of Nividia?

Again within margin of error and also dependent on the game's engine. There is Nvidia Game works to keep in mind

Then there's no reason to go for it right now. But keep in mind, most websites and online games leave things cached on your machine to make things go faster (you'd have to ask @DeusQain how all that works)