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.
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
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
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.
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.
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)