So... I'm looking to upgrade my PC later this year (I'm thinking late summer, or August range). I've been eyeing #System76, because their cases look amazing, and I can put together a reasonable configuration. The big downside is that - since I'm not in the US - I have to pay the full price up front, can't slice 'em up. Also, they don't have 4k monitors, which is something I set my eyes on for the upgrade.

So I'm looking for some help in figuring out what to buy/build.

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The PC will be mainly used for work, but I will want to play games on it from time to time (but no dual booting, I only play either native games, or that run under wine). So a GPU that can handle the games I play is required. But any GPU that supports 4k will suffice, my games are light on GPU. Talking about GPUs, I'd prefer ATI/AMD over nVidia. I suppose that works best with an AMD CPU & motherboard too - which is fine by me, because I'd prefer AMD over Intel anyway.

@algernon I don't know nothing about PC hardware anymore, but I've used https://pcpartpicker.com/ successfully to pick out parts that a friend helped assemble.

First thing to choose is probably the CPU/RAM/GPU combo, since that determines motherboard choices. Case, storage, etc, are less constrained.

Do you need fast cores? Many cores? Lots of RAM?

@liw Any modern CPU should be fine, I guess. I have an i5-4590 @ 3.3Ghz with 4 cores, and that's fine. Anything today will be faster than that.

RAM, now that's something I'd prefer a "lot" of. My current 24Gb is okay-ish, but 32+ would be lovely.