If you are in a situation where 10% more damage from scouts make a difference you're out of position.
If you are in a situation where 2x cap time makes a difference you are capping a point (most likely last) which means you are winning the game.

Pain train is the only reasonable choice.
Or is someone going to argue that there's such a thing as too much backcaps on last?

So how much fps are you getting on your old pc? To make sure it's not just TF2 updates killing fps again.

Do what #14 said, it's one of the numerous weird things windows 10 does.

Also check temps because depending on how high you set the voltage, how well you applied the thermal paste and how fast the case fans are running you might've managed to make the 6700K throttle down to lower clocks.

#16
I don't think that analogy works that well.

My own analogy:
You want steaks.
They usually take 3 minutes.
You want them to be done faster this time.
You put more charcoal on the grill.
You leave the steaks on it for 3 minutes anyway.
Now you have burnt steaks.

I'm hungry, send steaks.

Could do something like this then:
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor ($214.99 @ B&H)
Motherboard: ASRock B150M Pro4S Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($64.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: Mushkin Blackline 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($45.98 @ Newegg)
Storage: SK hynix SL308 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($69.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($48.60 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: PowerColor Radeon RX 460 2GB Red Dragon Video Card ($79.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Fractal Design Core 1100 MicroATX Mini Tower Case ($29.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($43.89 @ OutletPC)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit ($88.58 @ OutletPC)
Total: $686.99
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-12-14 13:12 EST-0500

That complicates things a bit.
Just TF2 or other games as well? Might be able to go with a cheaper GPU.

When are you going to build it?

That's not how it works, depending on how much you upped the voltage you're either just producing useless heat or killing your CPU.

There are just too many things wrong with this build to list right now.
I have no idea what else you've done wrong.

The only thing I can recommend is checking how many fps you're getting now with your old pc.

#1938
What are you going to use it for?

But general idea of what I'd be going for for gaming:
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-6100 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor ($109.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: ASRock B150M Pro4S Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($64.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: Mushkin Blackline 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($45.98 @ Newegg)
Storage: SK hynix SL308 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($69.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($48.60 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: PowerColor Radeon RX 470 4GB Red Dragon Video Card ($159.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Fractal Design Core 1100 MicroATX Mini Tower Case ($29.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($43.89 @ OutletPC)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit ($88.58 @ OutletPC)
Total: $661.99
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-12-14 07:22 EST-0500

#1939
February is good, Kaby Lake should be out by then.

Overclocking would be linear performance gains with clockrate increase. We'll see how well Kaby Lake overclocks and how it's priced. Not really worth it if it costs 100$ more than the 4.1 GHz i3 and only gets up to 4.5. If it ends up being <200$ and getting closer to 5 GHz then yes please.
There's two ways to kill a CPU: heat and voltage. It'll just throttle or even shut off if it overheats so you'd have to disable the safe voltage limits in BIOS and then mess up and put in something too high. So I'd say it's fairly difficult to mess up.

With closed source drivers both AMD and nVidia should work fine.

#1940
Please don't quote userbenchmark ratings.
It's fine to get a general idea but it's better to look at actual game benchmarks.

To clarify: There are enough videos out there how to assemble a pc, a huge wall of text won't be better than that. Maybe a few notes at the end about typical mistakes (e.g. forgetting motherboard standoffs).
This is about the partlist so that you can get for 1000$ what would cost 2000$ as a prebuilt or 3000$ from Alienware.

Decent 144Hz monitor: http://pcpartpicker.com/product/f3tWGX/nixeus-monitor-nxvue24a

144Hz FreeSync monitor: http://pcpartpicker.com/product/ZBZ2FT/aoc-monitor-g2460pf
But you can't use FreeSync because nVidia wants you to buy this one instead:
http://pcpartpicker.com/product/R998TW/aoc-monitor-g2460pg

Your choice.

For Lightboost the BenQ XL2411Z now rebranded as BenQ Zowie XL2411 (more brand names = better) is still the way to go.

Windows 10 can do weird things.

Maybe your capture card is shit. (Hint: all capture cards are shit)

Very good choice of thermal paste, it's worse than the one the NH-U12S comes with. Wouldn't want the CPU to run too cool.

I also congratulate you on overclocking a CPU that runs at 4.2 GHz to 4.2 GHz.

480/1060 would be maybe 10% faster, that's basically a sidegrade, not an upgrade. Definitely not a "worth 200$"-upgrade.

Want Lightboost or G-Sync or both?

#1935
These are the days when I don't mind paying a little more than the Americans, because in Germany 2 year mandatory warranty actually means at least 2 year warranty. Oh and no restocking fee. Fuck that bullshit.

Well, just post whenever you figured out if you can delay it or not.

EDIT: AMD event just happened, Zen is looking pretty good so far.

#1936
Dolphin and TF2 love single threaded performance. So the question is overclocking yes or no?
When do you want to build it? There's supposedly an overclockable i3 coming with Kaby Lake which would be perfect for this.

Linux driver support is complicated. I mean apart from some weird custom fan control chips *cough* ASUS *cough* I'm not too concerned about the mobo so this is just about the GPU. Then it depends on which driver you use. Not sure how keen you are on open source. You know most games won't work on Linux (WINE can work but it's dodgy and I wouldn't count on it for anything but the most popular games) so dualbooting anyway might be a good idea.

I thought about doing one for a long time, but here's the problem:
I might not update it regularly or at all. I just don't know if I'll have enough for it and should I quit TF2 then I'll probably not be on tf.tv much. Sure, if I end up doing the same on a different forum I'll copy the updates but if not then the whole thing would become outdated fairly quickly.

So basically I'm concerned that I'd put way too much work into it without it being useful for long.
The other thing is that it might become another comanglia's cfg where everyone and their mother posts 3 "improved versions" every day which are worse but are somewhat legitimized by being based on something actually decent.

Also there might be other good guides out there, I haven't looked yet.

Just to clarify, guide as in "how to pick the right parts" not as in "here's a list and this the absolute best partlist ever".

That's it, what do you guys think?

#1933
1. That shouldn't happen. I mean if the mobo is broken why haven't you RMA'd it? You could still get 32GB though.
Unless you are on e.g. Windows 7 Home Premium because that only allows 16GB.
2. Still possible, just need a new mobo.
3. I still think you'd be better off with a new case for now and then a new build at earliest in January, maybe later in the year (Kaby Lake X / Skylake X in Q3).

Zen is complicated, we pretty much know when it's going to be announced but that doesn't mean it'll be available everywhere instantly. A paper launch seems unlikely, but if it turns out to be absolutely fantastic then it might be out of stock 90% of the time for months to come.
The Intel 6 core on the same socket as all the other consumer CPUs is coming in 2018.
They do have 6/8/10 cores on LGA2011-3 though (mobos are more expensive), those were the ones I mentioned that aren't clocked as high as the 4790K/6700K/7700K. There will be new ones, faster and probably higher clocked in Q3. New sockets -> new mobos though.

If you can hold off on the purchase for at least a month or two and just need a small form factor pc by Jan 20th then a new case, if you absolutely have to buy everything until then I can put something together now. Not ideal with all the new stuff coming out so soon after but better than no PC I guess.

#1931
Yeah but why would you want DDR4 RAM? Also your current CPU doesn't support DDR4 so you'd have to replace the CPU either way.
Forward compatibility doesn't really matter. I mean if you upgrade in a few years RAM probably isn't going to be the main point. If you replace CPU and mobo and possibly even more then RAM is really a drop in the bucket.

What you're trying to do is future proofing and it doesn't work. It never does and especially not now.
1. You're trying to replace a 3 year old mobo with a 1.5 year old one with new ones being released next month.
2. Anything gamechanging isn't supported yet on new mobos or we'd know about it so you'd have to upgrade again if something truly gamechanging happens.
3. There's exactly 2 things your current mobo does not offer that you could use on newer mobo: DDR4 RAM (doesn't do anything different than DDR3 RAM) and M.2 SSDs (which are really just small PCIe SSDs and you've got a 2nd PCIe slot should you want one).

W'e're talking 4 cores with 4.0-4.5GHz vs 6-8 cores with 3.5-4.0GHz. Not that much slower.

Anyway, main point, which is what I already suspected

That's a micro ATX motherboard.
The only thing you need to make your pc smaller is a new case. Not 2000$.

That's what I'd do. New case now, big upgrade later when interesting things are available that actually are an upgrade (Zen 8 Cores, Intel 6 cores on desktop socket).

#1928
It's not only about clockrates, but yeah, if you want to stick with 4 cores / highest clockrate there is no significant upgrade. The 7700K should be 4.5GHz, but we're still talking +10% single threaded at best.
Whether or not Hyperthreading works better on Skylake than on Haswell is rather irrelevant, because that would require something that scales well with more cores and in that case a 6 core or even 8 core will win easily.

What's your current motherboard?

What programs are you using for editing / rendering? I can pretty much guarantee you would benefit from more cores, but they'd be lower clocked so it'd be worse for TF2.
If you don't want that then basically the only thing that would be an upgrade and even then still barely noticeable (10%) would be the 7700K in January and that's it.

#1929
For newer games GPU.
For TF2 CPU.