Reddit mentions of Ballistix Sport 8GB Single DDR4 2400 MT/s (PC4-19200) DIMM 288-Pin Memory - BLS8G4D240FSA

a couple things. why did you opt for a z370 board with a locked processor when a h370 is about $70 less? (gigabyte h370n-wifi or asus h370i). the platform also supports 2666 ram so you could replace your current ram stick with the equivalent at the same price, assuming they stop being perpetually "temporarily" OOS. as for the cooler, it isn't overkill or underkill, it's pretty adequate.

Power supply is overpriced, get this instead ($865):

http://www.amazon.com.mx/EVGA-SuperNOVA-750-Fuente-poder/dp/B00K85X23O/

you should get 8GB of RAM ($760).

http://www.amazon.com.mx/Crucial-Ballistix-Sport-Memoria-registrar/dp/B00MTSWG30/

Cheaper GTX 970, different brand but still good ($6659):

http://www.amazon.com.mx/Gigabyte-GeForce-Tarjeta-gr%C3%A1fica-video/dp/B00NH5T1UA/

Cheaper motherboard, different brand but still good, supports SLI ($2999):

http://www.amazon.com.mx/Gigabyte-GA-Z170XP-SLI-DDR4-SDRAM-Celeron-Pentium/dp/B012AQGL4A/

That gets your price down to $22,395. To go lower than that, I think you need to switch to a Haswell DDR3 system instead. Right now Skylake (intel 6000 series) is still very expensive.

well my friend you just won the golden ticket by living by a micro center. there are so many deals and combinations I can put together for you. here's the first one. get this cpu
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.aspx?sku=804831

with this mother board
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.aspx?sku=804831

this is the ram that is cheapest
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MTSWG30/?tag=pcpapi-20

Here's the psu
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00H33SFJU/?tag=pcpapi-20

here's the gpu
https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapcsales/comments/5r63tu/gpu_asus_rx_470_strix_oc_edition_11490_16863_pay/

here's a decent budget case
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811517027&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-PCPartPicker,%20LLC-_-na-_-na-_-na&cm_sp=&AID=10446076&PID=3938566&SID=

all that parts should cost 550 before taxes and rebates, and that's without a windows key.

but you could also just buy a pre-built and put a 470 in it along with a new psu.

http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.aspx?sku=139808

https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapcsales/comments/5r63tu/gpu_asus_rx_470_strix_oc_edition_11490_16863_pay/

this build is 600 before taxes but that includes the windows key. but if you have to wait to get a windows key you can use windows 10 without a key and just deal with the watermark until you can get one but it;s not even that bad. as long as you play in full screen it won't be there.

If you can deal with just one stick, Amazon has a 8GB Crucial Ballistix Sport DDR4-2400 stick for $84, although I just checked and its temporarily out of stock.

The stuttering, not sure if it's fixed or not. Blacklight retribution stuttered like crazy, dx11 fixed stutter but broke the game(google search confirmed dx11 is broke for that game), jumped in planetside 2 later and seemed to not stutter and looked smoother, but could just be random luck and will be back next time I play :/ As far as Ryzen, was looking at it but kinda questioning it though. The leaked benchmarks look to be between the i7 6800k and i7 6900k, but for gaming looked to fall between the i5 6500 and the i5 6600(the difference was only a couple percent between both the i5's and the Ryzen). Also seems all the Ryzen versions are overclockable, as long as you have one of the boards they allow you to overclock on(which was like 3).The price is unknown at this point, so who knows if the Ryzen or an i5 would be better for the price, and for all we know the benchmarks might look good but then the Ryzen could just fall on it's face when thrown in with different systems once released.

> Alternatively you could pick up a new mobo and an Intel i3

I'm thinking of just doing this after what you said, getting a new motherboard and an i3, though not sure which version to get. Looked around and kinda settled on the i3 6100 for $117 on amazon, take it this would be okay? As far as motherboards, looks like im probably going to need to buy new ram which is another $50-60 as looks like the i3 only supports DDR4(though I found DDR3 mobo that supports the 1151 socket). Looking at this Gigabyte board and this DDR4 ram which are hopefully okay.

> As a side-note, additional RAM wont make your system faster unless you're constantly running out of RAM either by browsing the net with a ridiculous number of tabs open, or audio/video editing

Yeah kinda figured, just was thinking of upgrading the ram because in planetside 2 my ram usage goes up to 88%(that's without ultra textures, that says uses more ram. Got similar usage when on all low even). Guess im basically running out of ram though. Game itself is eating up almost 6gb of ram(as my system idles around 1.80-2.30gb, not sure why it jumps around so much from start up to start up though)

Also thank you for your help so far, think this is probably the most help i've gotten so far

I mean, this is on sale on Amazon right now. Its not top tier, but its not bad by any means.

Should look a bit like this:

pc-kombo shared list

Type|Item|Price

----|:----|:----
CPU | Intel Core i5-6500 | $199.99 @ Amazon.com
Motherboard | MSI B150 PC Mate | $88.92 @ Amazon.com
Memory | Crucial Ballistix Sport DDR4 2400 (1x8) (8 GB) | $31.69 @ Amazon.com
SSD | SanDisk Ultra II (512 GB) | $112.99 @ Amazon.com
Video Card | Radeon R9 390 | $329.99 @ Amazon.com
Case | Silverstone PS10B | $66.95 @ Amazon.com
Power Supply | EVGA SuperNOVA G2 (550 W) | $79.98 @ Amazon.com
| Total | €910.51
| Generated by pc-kombo 08.05.2016 |

You should keep your eyes out for deals making that cheaper, but it's the same idea: i5-6500 on a B150 board with a R9 390 in a middle class case.

Oh okay. Should I get this one instead then?
https://www.amazon.ca/Ballistix-PC4-19200-Unbuffered-288-Pin-BLS8G4D240FSA/dp/B00MTSWG30/ref=sr_1_4?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1511442429&sr=1-4&keywords=8gb+ddr4