Submitting Two Budget Performance PCs For Review ($1000 / $1500) [Final]

This is what I ended up making:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Type Item Price
CPU Intel - Core i5-8400 2.8GHz 6-Core Processor $178.89 @ OutletPC
Motherboard Gigabyte - Z370 AORUS GAMING WIFI (rev. 1.0) ATX LGA1151 Motherboard $129.99 @ Newegg
Memory Team - Vulcan 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory $149.99 @ Newegg
Storage Samsung - 970 Evo 250GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive $109.99 @ Amazon
Storage Hitachi - Ultrastar 7K3000 3TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive $58.10 @ Amazon
Video Card EVGA - GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB SC GAMING ACX 2.0 Video Card $199.99 @ B&H
Case Thermaltake - Versa C22 RGB Snow Edition ATX Mid Tower Case $49.99 @ Amazon
Power Supply EVGA - BQ 500W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply $39.99 @ Amazon
Monitor Acer - H236HLbid 23.0" 1920x1080 60Hz Monitor $109.99 @ Best Buy
Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
Total $1026.92
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-05-24 08:04 EDT-0400
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