120/144hz > resolution
Can not stress this enough, holy shit fps, even on the desktop, makes SO big a fucking difference on feel, it is night and day.
freesync/gsync > resolution. Having frames put up the moment your monitor is read, apposed to whenever the fuck it wants is FAR FAR more important than resolution, as you will never push a game at 1440 144 or 120 all the time regardless of hardware.
Now, lets be honest, 1440p 1600p is going to die, as its not a 'normie' resolution, and 4k isn't quite ready yet, so price premium on something that is useless currently for games isn't really worth it, that and there is only 1 4k monitor worth a damn and its 800$, by the time 4k really gets going, oleds will probably come down to the sub 1000$ range and be worlds better then ips or tn.
different person retard, I have a 280x and a 955 black, amd is not good on low end cpus because they will hold the card back more often then not, nvidia would be a better choice but seriously fuck nvidia, for a plethora of reasons.
at this point i would say hold out for zen as it has enough potential to upset cpu cost across the board.
that said, looked up the cpus... fuck me i didn't know intel still sold sub 3.00ghz cpus.
I would still recommend the i5 over the i3 because when a game uses more then 2 cores, the i5 will be better overall, but i would at least tell them to get a 3.0ghz version, and highly recommend getting a 6600k and try to oc it to 4.0ghz, if they knew what they were doing, 4.5.