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$700 (with OS) Price-Performance build with an OVERCLOCKED i3 courtesy of Skylake.
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Note: this price is rebate free and only from Amazon/Newegg. You can get a slightly better SSD and GPU if you're willing to hassle with shipping and rebates.

I got pretty hype when I figured out you could do something this powerful for this cheap. The i3 has the same TDP as a Pentium so you can push the Vcore if you need to and the CPU cooler will keep it nice and chill.

On the GPU side: PCS R9 380. Badass card, and cheaper than every 960 on the market right now.

Also featuring a nicely cheap 240GB SSD (and room to add an HDD/ODD), a Z170 motherboard (room to upgrade to an i5 or i7, also provides the i3 OC capability), 8GB of RAM as usual, a Cooler Master N200 case (lovely little thing) and finally a semi-modular PSU for nice cable management. And an OS!

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Type Item Price
CPU Intel Core i3-6100 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor $129.02 @ Amazon
CPU Cooler CRYORIG H7 49.0 CFM CPU Cooler $34.50 @ Newegg
Motherboard ASRock Z170M Pro4S Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard $79.99 @ Amazon
Memory G.Skill NT Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory $38.99 @ Newegg
Storage Crucial BX200 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive $53.99 @ Amazon
Video Card PowerColor Radeon R9 380 2GB PCS Video Card $169.99 @ Newegg
Case Cooler Master N200 MicroATX Mid Tower Case $47.06 @ Amazon
Power Supply Rosewill 550W 80 Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply $58.99 @ Amazon
Operating System Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM (64-bit) $93.99 @ Amazon
Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
Total $706.52
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-01-26 21:41 EST-0500

Whatcha think? Nice build? Gonna be using it or recommending it to a friend, or did I mess up?

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