Right now I play on an Asus x75a laptop (i5 3230m, intel hd graphics 4000, etc) which I've had since 2013ish. Basically I finally got fed up with playing everything on minimum/being slow/not being able to play things (pubg runs at about 10 fps) and am looking to upgrade. https://pcpartpicker.com/list/cjZQpb is what I'm looking at right now.
Some notes:
I do plan on picking another stick of ram in a month or two when I have some more money
I don't intend to overclock
a friend has recommended a 144hz monitor but I'm not entirely sold on whether it's worth the extra cost. I