Ugh, are you people kidding? Who brought up a 9590? Intel "mostly" beats the 9590? You're seriously recommending a 4790k for a $1,500 PC?! WHY?

Do not buy an AMD FX processor. They are 5 years old at this point and a Skylake i3-6100 will obliterate even the expensive, power wasting 9590 (spoiler: it's an overclocked 8350, you can save yourself $100 by buying an 8350 and overclocking it yourself) in essentially every gaming situation.

If you buy an i3 skylake, buy fast ram. It helps. DDR4-2666 or higher.

Don't buy less than 8gb of RAM. For any of these builds. Don't buy a single stick of ram, buy a kit of 2 sticks. All RAM today is designed to run in dual channel mode (or quad channel, for the X99 processors, meaning 4 sticks) and you're going to gimp your PC if you buy a single stick. 8gb of ram costs roughly the same whether it's 1 8gb stick or 2 4gb sticks.

If you're getting an i7, GET X99, NOT Z170. The Skylake i7-6700k is a 4 core 8 thread CPU and currently costs $400 everywhere but microcenter. The i7-5820k is a 6 core 12 thread CPU that, clock for clock, is within 3% of Skylake's single thread performance. The 5820k is cheaper than the 6700k everywhere, even microcenter (where it is currently $320). The difference here is the 5820k smashes the 6700k in multithreaded workloads. PC games are moving towards better multithreaded support in part because the PS4/Xbone are crappy 8 core AMD APU's and because clock speeds have been stagnant for years. 5820k is a much better investment, period.
Agree.

If you spend on a 5820k, keep in mind they DO NOT have integrated graphics at all. You WILL have to have a graphics card just to get it to display. For a gaming PC, this is a non-issue.

Lastly, if you are buying a PC specifically for PC-Dust (either solely or mostly for), you should WAIT to buy your graphics cards. New offerings from AMD and nVidia are ~6 months out, even if you don't buy one of the new cards, the current crop will be on sale frequently for 1-3 months before the new stuff is released. Broadwell-E CPU's will also be out this year, probably around the same time frame as the new graphics cards, meaning Haswell-E's (the 5820k and its more expensive siblings) will likely be discounted shortly before those arrive as well, though this doesn't matter as much if you have a microcenter near you.

To the 1999 comment: you're fine. Same logic and general layout but with different cable standards and access points. It may give you pause for a minute or two, but you'll find the changes are cleaner and easier. Oh. And for some reason, fashion is now a thing. Lights, form design, plastic windows,....blah blah. That might **** you off but that's probably the worst of the changes. IMHO of course.

To the save and wait: tech changes FAST. If you're only building for the DUST replacement, wait till you know sys requirements. If it's 2 years out, current components will be older, cheaper, and replaceable in 2 years.

it isnt misinformation it's my opinion on good pcs for the budget and they are good