Normal use but high spec PC (1200$)

Obviously you'll have to wait for the GTX 1070 to become available at this price, which would be around late June, but here you go.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Type Item Price
CPU Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor $179.99
Motherboard Gigabyte GA-B150M-DS3H Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard $39.99
Memory Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory $49.98 @ Newegg
Storage Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive $85.79 @ OutletPC
Storage Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive $62.09 @ Amazon
Case NZXT Phantom 240 ATX Mid Tower Case $65.99 @ Newegg
Power Supply EVGA SuperNOVA GS 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply $79.99 @ Amazon
Operating System Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM (64-bit) $82.93 @ Amazon
Keyboard Razer Blackwidow 2014 Stealth Edition Wired Gaming Keyboard $74.99 @ Other World Computing
Mouse Logitech G502 Wired Optical Mouse $75.53 @ Amazon
Other Micro Center sales tax $13.20
Other GTX 1070 $379.00
Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
Total $1189.47
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-05-24 23:45 EDT-0400

Get the CPU and motherboard at Microcenter for the bundle discount. I included the discount towards the motherboard pricing.

I have no idea what aesthetics you'd prefer for the case, so I guessed. It's a good case though.

Things to possibly change:

  • Instead of getting the 850 EVO SSD, you can get the PNY CS1311 for $26 less and not lose much performance.

  • Go for the 1TB Seagate ST1000DM003 HDD and save $20 there.

Either of those choices would allow you to get the i5-6600K CPU instead, which has a decent bump up in clock speed.

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