Indeed , evey stops slagging off and wishing death on BL posters and she will be left alone . <| sep |> If the snow is white , it ' s all right . Yellow or green , it ' s just not clean . <| sep |> As others have said , an i 5 will save you a significant chunk of change with almost no performance loss . At this time , the 1070 is the sweet spot card , where returns for money really start to drop off . With the other components in your case , I ' d go with that one . PCs are not hard to put together . Assembling the components can be done in an afternoon . Avoid doing things like leaving unused standoffs installed , forcing the RAM or processor in backwards , or overtorquing screws and you should be fine . Installing the heatsink is the only really worrisome part , and even that is trivial as long as you do not use too much thermal paste . Videos are available online . Your monitor is just fine for 2 k gaming , and both the 1060 and 1070 are good matches for it in terms of output versus display resolution .