Ace died, so he's building a new PC

[sindroms]

So this is something I threw together within the hour I had to spare. http://i.imgur.com/0Ou9Ill.png

Basing it off the still used 1151 LGA socket, get a Z170 motherboard to go with the processor, an unlocked Intel Core i5-6600K. Since this is only a 91w CPU to begin with, a 212 EVO or similar will cover it well enough. The socket also will allow you to go up to a Core i7-7700K if you want to upgrade in the future. You can upgrade to an all in one Corsair 100 series liquid cooler if you really want to, but mostly for esthetics rather than anything outright useful.

The i7-7700K synthetic benchmark score is a 12,179 in comparison to the 8,005 of the i5-6600K and the 4,186 of your suggested G4560.

The ram should be a 2400 DDR4 (at least 16gb, games like Andromeda and Witcher 3 already requiring more than 8gb on the highest preset) to max out the capabilities of your chipset/CPU combo. The i5 supports only a range of 2133, but if you plan to upgrade, the extra headroom will not hurt.
The choice of your graphics card is a 1070 GTX, this is where half of your budget will go. You can decrease this by dropping down to a 1060TI but with a 1000USD budget you might as well go for the 1070.

Depending on your mobo, you can opt for a M.2 solution for your boot drive, but you can also cheapen it by going with either a 500gb or 250gb SSD and a 1-2tb hybrid/regular mechanical WD Blue harddrive.

The power supply for this rig should not need to exceed 650W, either Gold or Platinum for bonus brownie points.

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PSA: If you have been having stutter/FPS lag on Disco where it does not run as smoothly as other games, please look at the fix here: https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthrea...pid2306502
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