Some pictures I took while on vacation:
http://i.imgur.com/vmEn9ui.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/EYiXmm5.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/YH5BXXH.jpg
Quality is bad because phone camera

P L ; ' movement instead of W A S D? Then use RShift and RCtrl.
I'm lefty and use right handed mouse and wasd but you can try this.

Maybe this will make 144hz monitors cheaper?
Like it probably won't but I can hope

#1653
You can get a RX470 right now for around $170 if you want a better card. Sometimes the R9 380 goes on sale for less than $150 though so you could get that like Setsul said. 470 is about 20% more powerful than the 380x
https://jet.com/product/AMD-RADEON-RX-470-VIDEO-CARD/e63f1e7cb1b645c6ad7b36c9dba862e2 under $170 with code TRIPLE15

no not the bonus duck D:

These changes should be interesting. I'm excited to see what happens/how fast some things are banned.

I finally ordered everything. Here's what I ended up with:

CPU: Intel i5-6500 3.2GHz - $192.60
GPU: XFX Radeon R9 380 2GB - $140.40
MoBo: Gigabyte H170M-D3H - $64.20
RAM: G.SKILL NT Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 2400 - $35
HDD: Toshiba 1TB 7200rpm - $42.80
SSD: Samsung EVO 850 120GB - $65.68
PSU: Corsair CX-M series CX450 450W - $45
Case: Thermaltake Versa H22 Plus - $42.80
Total: $628.48

Thanks for the help everyone!

It's still in the box lmao. I bought it 2 hours ago. It's going to take a few weeks for me to get all the parts so I don't have any benchmarks.
Here's one from the benchmarks thread:

2639 frames 18.604 seconds 141.85 fps ( 7.05 ms/f) 11.984 fps variability

The 1050 hasn't even been announced yet (sounds like it will in October maybe?) so you'll have to wait to know how good it is compared to the 380. The 1060 is about 80% faster than the 960 and 55% faster than the 380. Personally I got a 380 because it was all that I needed and $141 (including tax). You can save for a 1060 if you want though.

@Setsul or whoever else knows things

I've checked and all these combos work and the parts are purchasable.

Microcenter stuff:
CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz LGA 1151 Boxed Processor - $180
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0451887

MoBo: Gigabyte GA-H170M-D3H LGA 1151 mATX Intel Motherboard - $60 (after combo promo)
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0454324

GPU: XFX Radeon R9 380 2GB GDDR5 PCIe Video Card - $146
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0451824

HDD: Toshiba P300 1TB 7,200 RPM SATA III 6Gb/s 3.5" - $40
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0454560

Case: Thermaltake Versa H22 Special Edition Mid Tower Case - $40
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0432417

antistatic wrist strap for like 4 bucks

you were right about the spending 10 billion dollars more at microcenter than you expected thing

Amazon stuff:
PSU: CORSAIR CXM series CX450M 450W 80 PLUS BRONZE - $45
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01B72VXE6/

Newegg stuff:
RAM: G.SKILL NT Series 8GB 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 2133 (PC4 17000) Intel Z170 Platform - $33
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231959&ignorebbr=1

SSD: OCZ Vector 180 2.5" 120GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) VTR180-25SAT3-120G - $50
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820228127&ignorebbr=1

Based on userbenchmark this is better than the other 50-60$ SSDs. It's not as good as the 850 EVO but it is $20 cheaper http://ssd.userbenchmark.com/Compare/OCZ-Vector-180-120GB-vs-Samsung-850-Evo-120GB/3495vs3484

Just thought I'd run this by to make sure there are no major issues and that I can, in fact, assemble a computer out of these parts. Let me know if you have any final advice. Thanks a bunch! Setsul in particular has given me a ton of great advice.

1 last thing: should I get this r9 380 gpu instead?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121978
It's $10 cheaper after rebate because no tax and is 4gb instead of 2. Does this mean I would need a different PSU? It suggests 650w and in the q&a someone said it uses 1x8pin (though I would assume it's still 2x6pin) but I can't find the actual specs anywhere.

I mainly want a solid balanced build to support the r9 380 + i5 6500 but if I had to put a price I would say $620 (without tax included), but budget doesn't really need to be a focus. I don't want to overpay for pieces that are better than they need to be. I don't plan on upgrading/OCing this after building.

I made some revisions:

Why didn't you like the old mobo and psu?

PC

CPU:
http://www.microcenter.com/product/451887/Core_i5-6500_32GHz_LGA_1151_Boxed_Processor ($180)
Memory: http://www.microcenter.com/product/466885/HyperX_Fury_Black_8GB_DDR4-2133_PC4-17000_CL14_Dual_Channel_Desktop_Memory_Module ($35)
PSU: 2x6 pin, should work with gpu http://pcpartpicker.com/product/XCjG3C/evga-power-supply-100w10500kr ($37)
Case: http://www.microcenter.com/product/417220/Elite_130_mini-ITX_Computer_Case_-_Black ($33)
Graphics: http://www.microcenter.com/product/451824/Radeon_R9_380_2GB_GDDR5_PCIe_Video_Card ($128)
Drive: http://www.microcenter.com/product/454560/P300_1TB_7,200_RPM_SATA_III_6Gb-s_35_Desktop_Internal_Hard_Drive_-_HDWD110XZSTA ($40)
Motherboard:
http://www.microcenter.com/product/461948/GA-H110N_LGA_1151_Mini_ITX_Intel_Motherboard ($75)
SSD:
http://www.microcenter.com/product/460177/Trion_150_Series_120GB_SATA_III_6Gb-s_25_Solid_State_Drive_-_TRN150-25SAT3-1 ($45)

Total: $573
+6.5% tax -> $610

So it's worth dropping some extra money for this instead (compared to combo)? The mobo is better. I think the case is big enough for everything but I'm not sure. I'm basically just trying to get a solid midrange (run CSGO, tf2 at 150+, GTAV at 60+) build for as cheap as I can.

Would buying a parts bundle make sense?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboBundleDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.3104092
Obviously I need a hard drive as well but it seems like a decent deal. I already have a list of individual parts but this seems to save money.

u cant get off mr fortress' wild ride

I've been thinking about this a bit and I think it requires a somewhat complex solution as just changing cap/respawn times seems like it will just encourage turtling on either the offensive or defensive side. There almost needs to be an imbalance in power, as if you promote pushing on both sides, you also encourage not attacking because teams would just wait for one team to make a mistake (or get a pick, etc) to create an easy low-risk push scenario.

Actual idea:
-After losing a point, a team gets a time (3 minutes?) of respawn advantage which would encourage them to try to retake the point. With a respawn advantage, they would not be punished as much for making aggressive pushes because they can get back to their point faster to defend if their push fails.
-After the 3(?) minutes is up, if the team still hasn't recapped the point, the advantage is given to the other team (without any pause in gameplay) as a reward for holding their point successfully. This means the team has a reason to push aggressively to the next point and so on. If neither team ends up capping the round resets.

The main problem that this would cause is a relatively flat meta of defending until you have the respawn advantage and then attacking (basically a series of attack/defense), but there would be no complete stalemates as there is always a reason for one team to be pushing the other. If the respawn advantage isn't too large I could see some risky surprise pushes working by one team when they "should" have been defending.

Hildreth and Sideshow also make good points about letting the meta form on its own through use of new unlocks and strategies, so this may not be necessary if the game ends up being fine.

If anyone has a reason why my idea is bad let me know and I'll think more. Or perhaps I could leave the thinking to people that understand the game better.

muma to be cut