Are you in need of a new PC? If no, then you consider to wait for the newly announced GTX1050/GTX1050Ti to reach Malaysia first before making the final decision.

You mean the price of GTX1050/GTX1050Ti?

If yes then RM 650 is quite possible with Palit/Zotac brand (maybe), that's for GTX1050.

Both of them are due to launch on 25 Oct, by looking at the past few trends in Malaysia, we are likely to get it by end of this month (or even on the exact launch date).

RM 650 is quite wishful thinking

My personal guess would be RM 750 for GTX1050Ti and RM 650 for GTX1050 (starting price).

What is your budget?

Intel Core i3 6098P - RM 453
ASRock H110M-HDV - RM 245
Corsair 8GB DDR4 2133MHz Value RAM - RM 171
Palit GTX950 2GB GDDR5 StormX - RM 609
Corsair VS450 - RM 162
Armageddon T1x - RM 95

Total: RM 1735 (ETech price inclusive of GST)

Another build with slightly weaker GPU and CPU (your min budget).

Intel Pentium G4400 - RM 225
ASRock H110M-HDV - RM 245
Corsair 8GB DDR4 2133MHz Value RAM - RM 171
Palit GTX750Ti 2GB GDDR5 StormX - RM 488
Corsair VS450 - RM 162
Armageddon T1x - RM 95

Total: RM 1386 (ETech price inclusive of GST)

First build provides a more solid performance in gaming, you can expect to get a stable 60 FPS in Dota 2 and CS:GO.

4k budget can get i5 + GTX1060 6GB already (GTX1070 is possible too if you aren't too picky on parts and casing).

I noticed you wrote to reuse your current R7 265 or upgrade to GTX1050Ti, that's just the entry level Pascal card, may I know which genre of games do you play? Light weight games like Dota 2 and CS:GO only?

As for CPU cooler, you can just stick with the stock cooler since the i5 you picked cannot be overclocked on a non Z170 mobo.

Intel Core i5 6402P - RM 732
ASRock H110M-HDV - RM 245
Corsair 8GB DDR4 2133MHz Value RAM - RM 171
Palit GTX1060 3GB GDDR5 Dual - RM 938
WD Blue 1TB HDD - RM 209
Tecware F3 - RM 119

Total: RM 2420 (ETech price inclusive of GST)

I assume PSU and monitor aren't required since you said the description is the same.

Please consider increasing your budget as the price of Windows 10 Home OEM and MS Office Home & Students 2016 is RM 349 and RM 419 respectively (according to Viewnet pricelist), both of them will take half of your available budget.

Since your budget is able to fit GTX1060/RX480 then it would be better to get either of them straightaway, unless you plan not to use up all your available budget.

When you buy the CPU, it comes with a stock Intel HSF which is totally a new cooler for you, you don't have to reuse your current CPU cooler at all.

Well the answer is pretty straight forward, if can wait then just wait, if cannot then you go for whatever the market is available.

Yea I know but they won't cause massive temperature issue to a locked i5 anyway, unless you are in a super hot environment where airflow is limited.

But of course if you want to spend more on a cooler, go ahead, it's good for whole rig too

Intel Core i5 6500 - RM 865
Gigabyte H170-HD3 (D4) - RM 446
Corsair 8GB DDR4 2133MHz Value RAM - RM 171
Palit GTX1070 8GB GDDR5 Jetstream - RM 1848
Tecware Alpha - RM 199

Total: RM 3529 (ETech price inclusive of GST)

Sell off your old parts (CPU, mobo and RAM) at Garage Sales section and add the funds into your budget.

You might be able to find some cheap GTX1070 with discount code/voucher on Lazada/GemFive, have a search and look before making the final decision.

Intel Core i3 6100 - RM 469
Gigabyte H110M-DS2 (D4) - RM 299
Kingston 8GB DDR4 2133MHz Value RAM - RM 189
WD Blue 1TB HDD - RM 199
CM Elite Power 350W - RM 129
Chassis of your own choice ~ RM 100
Windows 10 Home OEM - RM 349
MS Office Home & Students 2016 - RM 419

Total: RM 2153 (Viewnet price inclusive of GST)

There are many ways to reduce the cost:

1. Get Pentium G4400 (with iGPU of HD510) if you workload is light.
2. Search for cheaper OS and MS Office key in Garage Sales section
3. Get cheap chassis with PSU included (be careful of cap ayam PSU though)

You can adjust the build if you need more memory or storage drive, the iGPU (HD530) of the i3 6100 can run Dota 2 at decent frame rate on a 1080p screen FYI.

Intel Core i3 6100 - RM 469
Gigabyte H110M-DS2 (D4) - RM 299
Kingston 8GB DDR4 2133MHz Value RAM - RM 189

Total: RM 957 (Viewnet price inclusive of GST)

Depends on the item condition, if they are still in good condition then you can put on sales for ~RM 500 (more or less).

The best combination for your budget would be i5 + GTX1070, but the i5 may struggle a bit in GTA V, especially in city area where population/traffic density is high, causing massive CPU load and potentially some FPS drops throughout the gameplay, not really a problem if you are willing to tune down the settings a bit (those CPU demanding one). This applies to other CPU demanding titles as well.

Intel Core i5 6500 - RM 865
Gigabyte H170-HD3 (D4) - RM 446
Corsair 8GB DDR4 2133MHz Value RAM - RM 171
Palit GTX1070 8GB GDDR5 Super Jetstream - RM 1988
Kingston SSDNow UV400 240GB SSD - RM 487
WD Blue 1TB HDD - RM 209
Superflower Leadex Silver 550W - RM 339
Tecware Alpha - RM 199

Total: RM 4504 (ETech price inclusive of GST)

To keep below 4k, you can:
1. Downgrade to mATX mobo
2. Downgrade to GTX1060 6GB/RX480 8GB (around 60% of the performance of GTX1070)
3. Remove the SSD for now
4. Downgrade the PSU

New GTX750Ti is just around RM 500+, it might drop further with the arrival of new GTX1050/GTX1050Ti, so I assume all of the items listed by you can get you an extra of RM 850.

By adding RM 850 to your existing budget, it would become RM 1600 (with your initial max available budget), this can get you the following.

Intel Core i3 6100 ~ RM 480
Cheap H110 mATX mobo ~ RM 250
8GB DDR4 RAM ~ RM 200
GTX1050 ~ RM 650 (estimation)

Price of GTX1050/GTX1050Ti is unknown yet, I don't put my hope too high for a good introduction price for these 2 cards due to many reasons (you know it ), so I estimate the non-Ti 1050 will cost at least RM 650.

Remember to x5 instead of x3, you can use x4.5 too but that's normally won't be the final price here

1. ETech is located in Kepong, you can find their Lelong store here or visit their physical store in Kepong.

2. i5 + GTX1070 yields more frame rates than i7 + GTX1060 in most of the cases (provided CPU is not bottlenecking).

3. GTX1060 outperforms RX480 in DX11 games (most of them now) while RX480 excels in DX12/Vulkan titles (only few currently and will become mainstream in few years time). This little "rule" doesn't apply to all games, some games tend to favor either one of the camps and have one sided performance on it regardless of the graphics API used (DX11/DX12/Vulkan/OpenGL etc). More VRAM is certainly better, but 6GB is enough for 1080p for now, about the age (I assume you are referring to lifespan?), it is very hard to have a chipset failed on you, but artifact is something that is very hard to avoid (depends on your luck).

4. H170 > B150, I am pretty sure that Asus B150 will be more expensive than Gigabyte H170 due to brand name difference, unless you need the specific features of that mobo (or aesthetic purpose), I wouldn't recommend you to go for it.

Main purpose/usage isn't gaming right? I tried to look for the previous posts and couldn't find any info regarding the purpose provided by you

Technology is evolving rapidly and it is very hard to cope with latest requirements, I am not aware of either camp in getting a lengthier age than the other.

But what you get from AMD GPU is a better DX12/Vulkan performance (from what we can see now), but things might change in the future when Nvidia starts to pump in some of their secret recipes in optimizing their driver for better DX12/Vulkan performance, just like what they have in DX11/OpenGL era currently.

Intel Core i5 6500 - RM 865
ASRock H110M-HDV - RM 245
Kingston 8GB DDR4 2133MHz Value RAM - RM 198
Zotac GTX1060 6GB GDDR5 Mini - RM 1169
WD Blue 1TB HDD - RM 209
FSP Hexa+ 550W - RM 188
Tecware F3 - RM 125

Total: RM 2999 (ETech price inclusive of GST)

No wonder cannot find in this thread

144Hz is optional, triple A titles are very hard to achieve high frame rate due to many factors and the results vary from games to games, 144Hz monitor will cost you around 1k, which left you 4k for the rig, I wouldn't recommend you to go for 144Hz monitor first if you are building from scratch, 144Hz is more towards "premium" quality gaming, luxurious yet expensive and doesn't always guarantee you can take full advantage out of it if you prefer graphics quality over frame rate. Why I said so? If you prefer to run games on the best available graphics settings (a.k.a ultra settings) then you probably won't be able to hit 144Hz in triple A titles and vice versa.

Intel Core i5 6500 - RM 865
Gigabyte B150M-D3H (D4) - RM 379
Kingston 8GB DDR4 2133MHz Value RAM - RM 198
Palit GTX1070 8GB GDDR5 Jetstream - RM 1848
Kingston SSDNow UV400 240GB SSD - RM 287
WD Blue 1TB HDD - RM 209
Superflower Leadex Gold 550W - RM 409
Tecware Alpha - RM 199
Acer R241Y IPS - RM 622

Total: RM 5016 (ETech price inclusive of GST)

But here is a build with 144Hz monitor, you can swap it with a normal 60Hz monitor to reduce the total cost.

Intel Core i5 6500 - RM 865
Gigabyte B150M-D3H (D4) - RM 379
Kingston 8GB DDR4 2133MHz Value RAM - RM 198
Palit GTX1060 6GB GDDR5 Dual - RM 1238
Kingston SSDNow UV400 240GB SSD - RM 287
WD Blue 1TB HDD - RM 209
Superflower Leadex Gold 550W - RM 409
Tecware Alpha - RM 199
Acer XB240H - RM 952

Total: RM 4736 (ETech price inclusive of GST)

May I know how much you can top up? 3k is enough to build something for Dota but if you plan to get on board with latest triple A titles, you are advised to go for a better specs unless you are ok with slightly lowered graphics settings and frame rate

Price is the main concern, all of them are using similar chipset, so the performance isn't too far ahead for either brand. The differences are just the brand name, warranty (if any), design, clock speed (can be adjusted manually so it isn't a main problem), the performance difference is negligible but you have to fork out extra few hundred for it, worth or not?

Can fit a 4K UHD monitor but you also need the hardware required to drive it.

Casing is included.