Dota 2, CS:GO (and other heavy single core application or single threaded application) runs faster on a CPU with higher core clock speed, i.e. i3 7100's 3.9GHz will beat i5 7400's 3.5GHz in those games, but when it comes with multicore or multithreaded application, i5 7400 will lead once again.

Rise of the Tomb Raider favors Nvidia GPU, even in DX12 mode, with the recent driver update (378.78), performance is boosted even more for this games in DX12 mode (they claim to have 20%+ for 10 series GPU).

Intel Core i5 7400 - RM 835
Asus H110I-PLUS - RM 380
G.SKill Aegis 8GB DDR4 2133MHz RAM - RM 289
Gigabyte RX470 4GB GDDR5 G1 Gaming - RM 989 <Cheapest GTX1060 3GB is 1.2k at Idealtech so I will have to use RX470 to replace it>
WD Blue 1TB HDD - RM 219
FSP Hexa+ 550W - RM 219
Shark Zone C10 - RM 199

Total: RM 3130 (Idealtech price inclusive of GST)

Another build with GTX1060 3GB from ETECH:

Intel Core i5 7400 - RM 854
ASRock H110M-ITX - RM 283
G.SKill Aegis 8GB DDR4 2133MHz RAM - RM 255
Zotac GTX1060 3GB GDDR5 Mini - RM 989
WD Blue 1TB HDD - RM 219
FSP Hexa+ 550W - RM 195
CM Elite 110 - RM 158

Total: RM 2953 (ETECH price inclusive of GST)

Intel CPU dominates in terms of single threaded performance and comes with much higher IPC (Instruction per cycle) than AMD FX CPU.

Even an Core i3 is able to perform the same as the highest end FX9590 in Doom 2016, check out the benchmark here.

If you prefer AMD, wait for their upcoming Ryzen 5 or 3, those are worth to wait (and invest if performance is good).

Yup

For RM 500 budget, the best that you can get is Intel 600P 256GB PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD, not the fastest out there but is one of the best entry level PCIe NVMe SSD's that you can buy now. Samsung 850 EVO is a better choice if read speed isn't too important (especially large chunk of files) to you as it is faster in terms 4kB random read/write (most of the real case scenario).

Do you accept this size?

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It is hard to predict what is going to happen in the PC gaming industry in 5 years time, if DX12 and Vulkan are able to take over DX11/OpenCL as the main graphics API successfully in 5 years time then according to the current card performance, AMD will take the lead again, their Polaris GPUs are showing better performance than Nvidia's similar offering at the moment in few DX12/Vulkan titles.

If you want something more stable (in terms of current games support and frame rates) then Nvidia is more preferred as they are having a very solid DX11 driver support base now.

Both brands are equally good actually

1440p monitor is not cheap, the cheapest one will cost you 1.2k, ViewSonic VX3209 and that's an entry level IPS monitor, if you are looking for fast response time and high refresh rate monitor, then you gonna pay more for a TN panel like Dell S2417DG GSYNC. Please take note that there is an pixel inversion issue in some early batches of this monitor, check properly before you make the final purchase.

Intel Core i7 7700 - RM 1424
ASRock FATAL1TY H270 PERFORMANCE - RM 589
G.SKill Aegis 16GB (8GB x 2) DDR4 2400MHz RAM - RM 550
Gigabyte GTX1070 8GB GDDR5 G1 Gaming - RM 2168
WD Blue 250GB SSD - RM 413
WD Blue 1TB HDD - RM 219
Superflower Leadex Gold 550W - RM 429
Tecware Alpha - RM 219
Dell S2417DG GSYNC - RM 2029

Total: RM 8040 (ETECH price inclusive of GST)

Oh too bad then, it is quite small actually, should be able to put in normal school bag.

Depends on which model you are going to get, the PSU itself is fine to support low and mid end card, even Pascal GTX1060 can be powered on with that PSU.

My preference will always be IPS > high refresh rate TN.

I rarely play fast pace games like Overwatch, BF1, CS:GO etc so 144Hz isn't important to me, IPS 144Hz do exist, but they are expensive (3k+). Since you do photo editing, it is better to get a good color gamut IPS monitor (those with 99% sRGB and wide color gamut support), the color of TN panel is not as accurate as IPS and the viewing angle sucks

There is a phrase "once you go for 144Hz, you can never go back", if you haven't tried out 144Hz display yet then you are probably still "safe", but high refresh rate really helps a lot in fast pace games.

I wouldn't say it is overkill to run GTX1070 on a 1080p 60Hz monitor, it depends on how you use it and extract the most out of it, don't forget you can always use DSR to get a sharper graphics output and you are likely to have a more stable frame rate when running the latest titles on the highest settings.

Intel Core i7 7700 - RM 1424
Gigabyte H270-HD3 - RM 519
G.SKill Aegis 8GB DDR4 2400MHz RAM - RM 275
Zotac GTX1060 6GB GDDR5 AMP! SE - RM 1348
WD Blue 250GB SSD - RM 413
WD Blue 1TB HDD - RM 219
Superflower Leadex Gold 550W - RM 429
Tecware Alpha - RM 219
Dell S2316H IPS - RM 665

Total: RM 5511 (ETECH price inclusive of GST)

There are many possible builds for your budget and yes your budget is more than enough to run GTA V.

Other possible builds:
1. i5 and bump the monitor to 144Hz panel
2. 16GB RAM
3. Other casing model (mobo/SSD/PSU as well)

etc.

It's refresh rate difference, hard to describe with words, you will get the meaning when you try it out yourself on a demo unit. 60Hz means your screen refreshes/changes the image/frame by 60 times per second, 144Hz means 144 times so it is much smoother than 60Hz in general, very useful for fast pace games.

If you only want to switch to i5, you can just change the i7 to i5 directly, other parts can remain, total cost will reduce by around RM 500+/- (if you get i5 7500).

Take a chill pill, no need to type in CAPS

The cheapest 1080p 144Hz monitor costs around 1k.

1. Acer KG240A (around 900 - 1k)
2. BenQ Zowie XL2411 (around 1.1k)
3. Acer XB240H (around 1.1k)
4. XF240H FreeSync (around 1.2k)
5. AOC G2460PF FreeSync (around 1.2k)
6. AOC G2460PQU (around 1.1k)

Please take note that all these monitors listed above are using TN panel, the build that I have listed down for you initially comes with an Dell IPS monitor, the differences between them are mostly viewing angle and color reproduction, TN has bad viewing angle and color reproduction but comes with a much higher refresh rate (144 vs 60) and faster response time (1ms vs 6ms), this is the sacrifice that you need to make if you switch from 60Hz to 144Hz, then you might ask why don't go for IPS 144Hz? Yes you can but the cheapest model costs more than 3k, your budget cannot fit it yet.

i5 is not overkill, some MMORPG use a lot of CPU resources and the i5 will help a bit here.

No official price drop yet from Intel, at least in Malaysia. Don't get your hope too high here, we might not see any price drop after all

Erm, lightweight and small casing contradict with ATX mobo

Did a quick online search, K242HL is using TN panel, not IPS.

The cheapest Acer IPS monitor is R221Q, 21.5", around RM 500.

AOC I2280SWD, 21.5" - around RM 400
ViewSonic VA-2259-SH, 21.5", around RM 450
ViewSonic VA2419-SH, 24" - around RM 500

Depends on your other requirements, like casing, storage, brand etc.

Based on my calculation, 4.5k can mostly fit i5 CPU, a non-K i5 is known to create CPU bottleneck when pairing with GTX1070, the GTX1070 won't be able to fully utilize/unleash its full power/potential in CPU demanding titles like Watch Dogs 2, TC: GR Wildlands, Hitman 2016 etc.

This is because Edifier MY (distributor) has stopped bringing in Seasonic PSU into Malaysia since Q3 last year.

AFAIK there is no new distributor for Seasonic in Malaysia yet, Seasonic HQ in Taiwan will be in charge of RMA/warranty and it will take longer time to complete the claim.

Er wait, you are talking about CPU right? If yes then it depends on the games, if it is heavy in CPU then you will benefit from a faster CPU, K or non-K don't matter if you don't overclock it but K series CPU is generally faster than non-K due to higher stock core clock speed.

Yes you can, just have to make sure the seller/retailer got carry this specific casing.

In order to go for overclocking path, you need to prepare some "extra" budget for the components, an overclocked mobo (Z270 for latest Intel chipset or X370/X300/B350 for AMD AM4), a decent after market CPU cooler (new K CPU doesn't come with stock cooler anymore, even if it does include a stock cooler, it still couldn't cope with the amount of heat dissipated), a supported PSU (just make sure it is stable when you overclock) and etc.

If you're limited on budget, don't ever think of overclocking, the performance/price ratio is bad generally.

Yes quite significant and worth the extra RM 100+ for 7700K, the stock speed difference is 0.6GHz when turbo boost is off (4.2G vs 3.6G) and the most important thing is quad core turbo boost on 7700K can stay at 4.4G while 7700 can only manage to do 4.0G, but bear in mind you will need to spend extra for an after market CPU cooler too because 7700K doesn't come with stock cooler.

You need to look for previous generation chipset (namely H110/B150/H170/Z170) with DDR3 RAM slot to use DDR3 RAM with i7 7700.

CM 212 series, TX3 EVO etc. Due to different CPU cooler clearance of each casing, you need to choose the one which can fit in your casing.

And answer to your previous question, yes any B250/H270 will do unless you are looking for specific feature like USB-C, 3.1, RAID etc.

Z170 is slightly cheaper than Z270 here, this is because most of the Z170 in our local market are still based on old price (before our currency become 1 USD to RM 4.5).

If you don't need the new features offered by Z270 then you can just go for Z170.

Plenty of stores carry it already, if you are not looking for SFF (X300/A300/B300) mobo then you can buy it now as stocks have arrived tentatively since last week.

I have seen Viewnet/DotaTech/ETECH selling the 1800X @ RM 2599.

Not worth, the performance is almost the same.

As mentioned earlier, SFF AM4 mobo is still not released yet so if you are aiming for mITX build, you will have to postpone your idea now or switch to Intel.