This is what I would build based on what you said you're looking for. [url]http://pcpartpicker.com/p/4cGJsY[/url] All you really need for gaming as far as a CPU goes is an i5; having an i7 is nice, but at the end of the day most games still only use 4 threads. So something like the i5 6600k should last for a while. There are still people using the 2500k as IPC hasn't seen a significant increase since 2011, and we probably won't see a jump for quite some time still. 16 Gigs of ram is more than enough for now as games still aren't even using 8 yet, so you're pretty future proofed here. As for the GPU; most people are going to tell you that the 980ti is the best flagship card for the money right now, but I actually disagree with this statement. While it is a top of the line card and does perform phenomenally in current DX11 games; the R9 Fury X performs just as well trading blows on a game to game basis. But the main reason I would recommend a Fury X over a 980ti is because of DX12, and what we have seen thus far in all the benchmarks that have come out. AMD/ATI's GCN architecture is fine tuned for the features of DX12, namely asynchronous shading or asynchronous compute, whatever you want to call it. Nvidia's Maxwell architecture on the other hand cannot do it natively; it can only be emulated. And since you want as much future proofing as possible, I would recommend the Fury X.