Honestly, Anandtech's linked "Best X" articles are one of the best resources for this on the web. Compare their "Best CPUs for Workstations" and "Best CPUs for

Honestly, Anandtech's linked "Best X" articles are one of the best resources for this on the web. Compare their "Best CPUs for Workstations" and "Best CPUs for Gaming" articles, and choose a platform. Probably going to be Ryzen 7 vs. X299, and you'll probably get at least one more CPU upgrade from either of these motherboards. Get an NVMe Samsung 960 Evo or Pro because fast storage is super important and these are currently blowing everything else out of the water. Get enough RAM for now, and leave a slot or two free for when the prices for DDR4 drop. Pick your graphics card from the spectrum, or honestly, just keep using whatever you have right now because cryptocurrency is currently severely distorting the market and limiting availability. I don't see a "Best graphics card" summary article right now, but I think this chart is somewhat current: AMD Price NVIDIA RX Vega 64 $500 GeForce GTX 1080 $450 GeForce GTX 1070 RX Vega 56 $400 RX 580 (8GB) $300 GeForce GTX 1060 (6GB) RX 580 (4GB) $200 RX 570 $170/$180 GeForce GTX 1060 3GB $130 GeForce GTX 1050 Ti RX 460 $100/$105 GeForce GTX 1050 The most important thing to understand is that getting the exact ideal processor doesn't really matter. The difference between competing processors will only be discernible with a stopwatch and carefully controlled tests.