Very solid rig, but it has two moderate flaws and one minor flaw:
1. The 960 is a capable GPU that would run most games well at medium/high settings, but is a generation old. This most recent generation of GPUs are not only better in the usual incremental advancements, but the price to performance ratio is also larger than I've ever seen it.
No question your GPU should be either a Geforce 1060 6gb, or a Radeon 470/480 (4 or 8GB), depending on your budget. The the 480 and 1060 are relatively equal. The 470 is about 10-13% slower than the 480, but can overclock (
easily done via driver software) to essentially match the 480's performance. They retail for ~200 but I just picked one up for 150. All three models go on sale regularly.
2. Your main drive should now be an solid state drive instead of a hard disk drive. Minimum of 250GB, IMO. The Samsum EVO line is the sweet spot for price and quality/performance. The ideal budget setup is a SSD that your OS runs on with a 1-2 TB HDD as a secondary drive, but a single 500GB SSD is perfectly fine. SSD prices are currently silly low but they're supposedly going to increase due to manufacturer shortages.
3. I'd recommend 16GB of RAM for anybody buying/building a gaming PC. This one isn't as big a deal right now, but RAM is cheap and 8 gig won't be enough in a few years anyways.
If you can remove the GPU and HDD from the table and get it at a lower price, go for it. If not, I'd suggest getting basically that same PC elsewhere with the upgraded GPU, RAM and drive. If the budget doesn't these upgrades, that rig as it stands is still a fine option. You can always upgrade the GPU and RAM easily, and the drive as well (more annoying, though, since it would require a re-installation of Windows).
Keep an eye out on
https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapcsales/ for sales. It's the single best resource for building a computer, IMO.
EDIT:
This deal is killer. If you can, jump on it.
Last edited by Thug Bubbles; 12-12-2016 at 12:32 PM.