I've finally saved up enough to splurge on a new pc so I can fulfill my quest to play the witcher 3 on bearable settings.

Here's the gist of it: http://pcpartpicker.com/list/w4qd9W

Only problem is it doesn't go with DDR4 ram, but I can't find any reasonably priced motherboards that support it, I'd also have to settle for another CPU too. Would this setup last 3-4 years or is DDR4 going to be a standard in the next years?

Ditch the i7, go for an i5-6600K. That should free up enough budget for the DDR4 option.

The i5 is the better choice anyway if it's a gaming build.

I don't think they sell Dance Dance Revolution on PC. :P

Randalator is right, you don't currently really need an i7.

@WBGhiro: Do you plan to overclock your CPU?

Nah, I don't think I will

I'd get either I5 6500 (very similar performance to I5 6600, but about 10% less expensive) or I5 6600K (it has unlocked ratio multiplier so it's easy to overclock).

Hope the OP doesn't mind me asking in his thread but I'm about to upgrade my graphics card and the guy at the store reccommended a GTX 9600 4GB DDR5 (I have no idea what this means). Is that any good?

It's GTX 960. You can see here how it fares here: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gpu-hierarchy,4388.html

There are new generations of video cards on the market (GTX 1080, 1070 and 1060 from Nvidia and RX 480 from AMD).
Prices are high because there is a large demand, but I'd wait a month or two and get either GTX 1060 or RX 480.

Not to mention the AMD Radeons RX460/470 which should be the better cards compared to the Nvidia GTX 960. The 960 is quite old and Nvidia does not yet offer their latest graphics chipsets (10XX-series) in this price segment. The currently best price to performance ratio is offered by the GTX1060 and the RX480 with a slight advantage on the RX480 (especially looking at the graphic memory and DX12 performance, depending on the games of course).

As for DDR4, I would not buy a DDR3 system at this point. At the end of the year AMD will bring their new Zen-CPUs and they will run on DDR4 as well. So in the near future, DDR4 market presence should be higher than DDR3 which should increase DDR3 prices and lower DDR4 prices, due to the shift of production focus to DDR4.

Personally I plan to wait until the end of the year to see what AMD will offer with Zen and then decide which way to go. So far the new AMD architecture looks very promising.

I see, I finally managed to find a decent board that fits what I need too, guess i'll rethink the build a bit. Thanks for the help, guys.

Made some changes comparing to your list to make DDR4 config with the same budget but if you decide to go i5 and not plan to overclock it can be even cheaper.

http://pcpartpicker.com/list/LzFPXH

Thanks, the budget isn't really an issue I'd just like to get something worthwhile with the money.

In that case i would make some changes - like adding more RAM (32 GB) since it has never been this cheap before and picking other motherboard and cooler. What pc do you have now? Maybe you can upgrade some parts and you don't have to spend money in new pc.

Only thing that I'll salvage out of the old computer is the optical drive, I considered saving the cooler too but I'm not really satisfied with it. All the other parts have 4+ years and are out of warranty, otherwise I'd reuse the psu too.

I actually already considered another motherboard, as for the cooler i'm still eyeing the one from the original list.

I dunno for the ram, I think 16 is plenty now and even if it's going to slightly increase in the next years it's easy to get and install.

It's all a matter of what you're going to do with the RAM you have installed and how it will be used.

If you're a person who does movie editing using something like Adobe Production or After Effects, or even using Blender to render animation, I'd say go for the faster option. You really will notice the difference in the end.

Most people say 32GB is overkill, sure, 16GB is enough for most applications, but create a nice RAM drive in the extra 16MB for production applications to work with and you have a speed demon.

If it's just for games, you don't necessarily need it, but if you work with media, it's a bonus.