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About $2000 will build you a truly monster box that will last years. You can get damn good for less.

My sys is a couple years old. It screams with the new vodeo card. Anything rated higher than this is great but overkill to play F4 type games

I would build at least this today from scratch.

Z97 mobo with 4GHz or better CPU
BIG air cooler or a smaller liquid prefab/bolt in sys (I have a small LC setup and no heat issues)
8GB of the fastest ram you can afford to match the mobo
GTX970 or R9390 with 4GB of VRAM or better (more is always better)
SSD drives. Big is good. Two smaller ones id better IMO. One for games, one for system.

And your standard Bluray etc stuff. Big case is better than small.

If you hve the cash to spend, more is better. IF you don’t, you can get some great deals on things close to the above and they will serve well for a while. Once you get a solid base of great mobo/ram, the rest is all upgradable from there as needed (video cards mostly)