Ryzen looks promising, especially if you need multi threading. For gaming it appears to be not as good as an intel chip, but only by a small margin. It wins with productivity. That being said, if you need a build now. Here is a fairly meaty PC. PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: Intel Core i7-7700 3.6GHz Quad-Core Processor ($314.99 @ Newegg) Motherboard: *Gigabyte GA-B250M-DS3H Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($73.98 @ Newegg) Memory: *G.Skill Ripjaws Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($169.99 @ Newegg) Storage: *OCZ TRION 150 960GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($239.99 @ Newegg) Storage: *Toshiba X300 5TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($134.99 @ Newegg) Video Card: *Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1070 8GB Windforce OC Video Card ($394.98 @ Newegg) Case: Phanteks ECLIPSE P400S ATX Mid Tower Case ($79.99 @ Newegg) Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA NEX 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($95.98 @ Newegg) Total: $1504.89 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-03-02 11:44 EST-0500 If you have money to burn you could upgrade the GPU, but that is probably not that necessary especially at a 1920x1200 resolution. You can also probably change out the 3.5 inch drives to something else, whatever size/ config is your preference.
Also. US prices on PC parts are amazing. Very jealous Edit: My formatting will not work on blog comments.