Console peasant looking for tips to ascend into the master race.

This would be a good first build if you have around an $1000 budget PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Type Item Price
CPU Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor $194.99 @ B&H
Motherboard MSI Z170A PC MATE ATX LGA1151 Motherboard $102.98 @ Newegg
Memory Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory $34.99 @ Newegg
Storage Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive $85.49 @ OutletPC
Storage Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive $48.73 @ OutletPC
Video Card MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GB Twin Frozr V Video Card $329.99 @ Newegg
Case NZXT S340 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case $63.95 @ Directron
Power Supply EVGA SuperNOVA NEX 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply $69.99 @ NCIX US
Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
Total (before mail-in rebates) $981.11
Mail-in rebates -$50.00
Total $931.11
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-04-03 15:13 EDT-0400

If you have a smaller budget around $500 PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Type Item Price
CPU Intel Core i3-6100 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor $112.99 @ SuperBiiz
Motherboard ASRock Z170 Pro4S ATX LGA1151 Motherboard $82.98 @ Newegg
Memory Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory $34.99 @ Newegg
Storage Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive $48.73 @ OutletPC
Video Card EVGA GeForce GTX 960 4GB Superclocked Video Card $179.99 @ Newegg
Case NZXT S340 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case $63.95 @ Directron
Power Supply EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply $29.98 @ Newegg
Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
Total (before mail-in rebates) $578.61
Mail-in rebates -$25.00
Total $553.61
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-04-03 15:15 EDT-0400
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