Advice needed on buying/building a PC

Keep in mind something about laptops, you're paying almost double for essentially inferior hardware and mobility. If you decided to go laptop, look at lenova, I think it's the only 'gaming' level laptop that you can actually change parts out of it, like a desktop. There was one on newegg for a grand that I was thinking about getting, but I decided to wait until next year's cyber monday.

Yeah I'm aware of that. Laptops are just so much more convenient, it's hard to resist.