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The RX 480 is a potent mid range card but I'll recommend an partner card over the AMD reference model for better acoustics and factory tuning. The Sapphire 480 Nitro is the first custom card in the retail market. But it's currently on back order at Amazon.

This is a single chamber windowed case, but the chassis has a PSU cover to hide excess cables so a non-modular power supply is fine. But if you'd like a decent power supply that has a passive cooling (fans completely off unless the load is high) mode for acoustics, the fully modular EVGA Supernova G2 is a good alternative.

You'll probably want to purchase some sleeved cable extensions and cable combs for aesthetics. Silverstone does produce some reasonably priced extension cables. The Logisys LDXRM12C is a basic LED strip that's can be powered by the power supply with the use of a SATA hard drive power connector.

Though if you aren't actually concerned with dressing up the the innards on your windowed chassis, you can opt for a non-windowed case. Corsair, Fractal Design and NZXT do hold a number of compelling alternatives.

Otherwise, you're pretty well covered with the list you mentioned.
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GTX 1060 is around $300 as far as I'm aware? So a whole $70 above an 8gb RX 480, or $100 over a 4gb RX 480. (numbers not entirely accurate, just going by what I recall hearing)

GTX 1060 is around 12% faster from what I've seen, so I think the RX 480 would definitely be the better choice if you are towards the top end of your budget.
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On DX11 the GTX 1060 has a performance lead of 9-12% on average. But they're competing neck to neck with DX12 titles but they're leaning slightly to the RX 480.

The pricing difference between these competing system becomes close to a whopping $200 difference if you considered the cost of obtaining the entire ecosystem (GPU+Variable refresh rate monitors). An entry level Gsync monitor begins at $360. An entry level freesync monitor went for $200 on massdrop and is now priced at $240 on average (Nixeus VUE24).

GSync is proprietary, Freesync has been adopted as a VESA standard. There is no chance a GSync will work on an AMD card, but there's always a slim chance Nvidia decides to adopt Freesync in the future because it is an industry standard. (Similar to Nvidia's adoption of OpenCL which is a competing solution to CUDA).
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