$800 Gaming Desktop for modding games like Skyrim and GTA V, and playing future releases well. Also recording/editing/streaming.

Oh god please don't go AMD right now. This is the i5 I'd recommend to anyone planning on buying new right now, and there is no exception here.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Type Item Price
CPU Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor $189.99 @ Amazon
Motherboard Biostar Hi-Fi H81S2 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard $49.99 @ Amazon
Memory Crucial Ballistix Sport XT 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory $59.99 @ Amazon
Storage Transcend SSD370 128GB 2.5" Solid State Drive $0.00
Storage Hitachi Deskstar 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive $44.00 @ Amazon
Video Card XFX Radeon R9 290 4GB Black Edition Double Dissipation Video Card $289.99 @ Amazon
Power Supply EVGA 600B 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply $54.99 @ Amazon
Operating System Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) $15.00
Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
Total $703.95
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-03-07 02:52 EST-0500

I included an SDD as an optional buy if you felt like that sort of thing would benefit you personally for an extra 60 bucks. I also included Windows as 15 bucks, because you should definitely get it here on reddit from /r/microsoftsoftwareswap

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