PC Gaming/Twitch streaming Build: Budget $1,300

[rcald2000]

My friend lives in the US and wants to play & stream:

Overwatch, Fortnite, Conan Exiles and the upcoming title "Jurassic World Evolution".

He already possesses two 1080p monitors, mouse and keyboard. He only needs the build.

 

[King Dranzer]

Here is the list:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 7 2700 3.2GHz 8-Core Processor ($289.89 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: Gigabyte - X470 AORUS ULTRA GAMING ATX AM4 Motherboard ($137.45 @ Amazon)
Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory ($164.99 @ Newegg Business)
Storage: Crucial - MX500 250GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive ($72.27 @ Amazon)
Storage: Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($42.99 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: Gigabyte - GeForce GTX 1080 8GB WINDFORCE OC 8G Video Card ($519.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Corsair - 200R ATX Mid Tower Case ($39.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: EVGA - SuperNOVA G3 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($53.98 @ Newegg)
Total: $1321.55
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-05-25 03:44 EDT-0400

The best you can get for that budget.

 

[rcald2000]

Thank you King Dranzer.

And other recommended builds?

 

[King Dranzer]

One recommendation is to hold down on the GPU for now as GTX1180 is gonna launch soon. On paper it is 50% more powerful than GTX1080 which is a huge improvement. I strongly recommend waiting for it. Get the PC but hold down on GPU.

 

[logainofhades]

The GTX 1080 is kinda overkill for 1080p gaming, but should last quite awhile.

 

[rcald2000]

Community, please make more build suggestions...

Also, what would budget have to be raised to in order to justify a i7-8700K and Z370 chipset motherboard? Part of me wants him to wait for i7-9700k, but I don't know the release date.

 

[King Dranzer]

Intel i7-9700K of Ice lake series will release in 2019. That is a long wait. NVIDIA Turing is launching in few months I recommend waiting for instead and not having expectations on launch of Ice lake any soon.

 

[King Dranzer]

Here is the list:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Core i7-8700K 3.7GHz 6-Core Processor ($347.00 @ SuperBiiz)
CPU Cooler: CRYORIG - H5 Universal 65.0 CFM CPU Cooler ($46.89 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Asus - TUF Z370 Plus Gaming ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($104.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: Team - Vulcan 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($139.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Crucial - MX500 250GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive ($72.27 @ Amazon)
Storage: Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($42.99 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: Zotac - GeForce GTX 1080 8GB Mini Video Card ($499.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Corsair - 200R ATX Mid Tower Case ($39.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: EVGA - SuperNOVA G3 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($69.99 @ Amazon)
Total: $1364.10
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-05-27 00:38 EDT-0400

This PC will definitely perform better for gaming than the Ryzen build. But can loose bit of gaming performance while steaming compared to Ryzen build. Ryzen build is more consistent with Fps while Streaming. Intel build is better in gaming performance.
If he games most of time and rarely Streams it go for Intel. But if he regularly Streams go for Ryzen.

 

[rcald2000]

King Dranzer Thank you for the sound counsel on the i7-9700k, as well as the build.

 

[King Dranzer]

You are welcome